My First Grow Log

[kindprincess]

GE daylight tubes... they are the total shit...

love, kp

[2MC5]

reddish stem is no prob it happens all the time
good luck:}

[Firebloom]

Heya all !

Been a while since I updated in my log here.

My babies have been doing very well for me
I think they know I love them


I kicked the lights down to 18/6 after running 24/0 for a month straight.

Plant #1 showed preflowers a couple days ago, and has been confirmed as a female ! Shes showing little tiny pistils now after only 1 month in veg. (Pic 1)

My other babies are doing pretty good too.

No signs of pre-flowers on any of the others, but they are about a week behind plant #1.


Plant #2 grew into the light last night and got little burned a little bit on one of the fan leaves. Poor thing is growing too big for its britches. Its been skyrocketing upwards the last couple days after receiving its first dose of nutes. Its actually taller than plant #1 is now, but it hasn't been staying quite as compact as plant #1 has been. Seems to be doing pretty well though overall.
I hope it doesn't decide to get ballsy on me... because I would be forced to show it who the man of the house really is! :chainsaw: LOL (Pic 3)



Plant #3 is also doing pretty well.
No problems that I have noticed, other than a little yellowish striping in-between the veins of the fan leaves last week. I gave it some water with epsom salts mixed in because I figured it was a Mg deficiency, and I think it was, because its gone back to its original greenness over the past week. It received its first real dose of nutes along with my other babies 3 days ago. (Pic 3)

Plant #4 seems to be a little bit stunted, its growing a bit slower than the others are. Maybe this one will just stay smaller. Since its from bagseed it might just be a shorter growing strain. (Pic 4)

I also have my first mutant seedling !
Plant #5 is my little mutant who decided to only grow one 3 leaved fan leave for its first one. (Pic 5)

Soil ph levels are normal (been staying around 6.5) and I've been watering all my plants with water ph'd at 6.5.



I also took in a friend of mines plant which is a couple weeks into flowering, but looking pretty scrawny
I felt bad for it so I figured I would see what I could do with it to make it yield a little better, and just be a happier plant overall than it has been. Happy plants make us happier at harvest time

Since I haven't been having all to many problems with my own plants I figured taking this one in would be a good learning experience for me.

She's been growing on a window ledge, so it hasnt been getting too much light lately. I put it into a new small cab that I quickly rigged up with a hacked up emergency blanket for relfective material, and 8, 25w cfls at 1600 lumens each (2700k) The cab isnt all that great honestly because I built it so quickly, but its still allot more light than it was getting previously.

Hopefully I can make it bud up a bit better than it has been. It has nice long white hairs all over her bud sites, but the buds are pretty small, thin, and not too dense. Hopefully now that its getting allot more light, it will improve over the next few weeks. It hasnt been getting any nutes until I took it in 2 nights ago and gave her the first dose of nutes.

I gave it some Schultz 10-15-10 mixed at half strength. Once its time to water again in a couple more days I will most likely bump it up to full strength as long as it doesnt show any signs of nute burn.

I really need to head out and get some better nutes for flowering, but for now I think the 10-15-10 will be ok since it hasnt been too happy of a plant. The the nitrogren will hopefully let it strengthen up and fill out a bit more. In the next 2 weeks I'm gonna try and find some higher P nutes with a lower N and start giving it that once I see some growth improvement.

Heres is a link to the thread I started for my friends plant if you wanna check it out.
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=91009
I have a bunch of pics of it in there, so I wont be posting those in my log here.


All in all things have been going pretty well so far, and my babies seem to be happy


Pic 1 is Plant #1 (confirmed female)

Pic 2 is Plant #3

Pic 3 is Plant #2

Pic 4 is Plant #4 AKA Stumpy (the stunted one)

Pic 5 is Plant #5 My new mutant seedling

[Firebloom]

Some more pics... :greenthumb:


Pic 1
Pre-flowers on Plant #1

Pic 2
My little cabinet jungle (complete with my Were-Pimp jungle monster bobble head) Mylar sheets removed from walls for pictures.


And Pic 3 and Pic 4 are what I'm going to go burn right now



:stoned:

[DamianLucifer]

Cheapest light is build your own buy a ballast kit bulb and socket I put my 400w hps together for about $135