first time grower(12 days into flower w pics)

[Cornelius]

make sure your plant food has trace minerals, and check ph

[Fr33kMan]

Hi,

You're doing pretty well for the first grow. A few tips you'd want to consider are:

1) Next time you grow in soil you want to use a 50:50 mixture of soil and perlite. Yep, 50%:50%. In growing weed you want to keep as much oxygen in the soil as you can and want to have a light fluffy soil mixture so that you get rapid and explosive root formation.

2) Next time you want to buy a few products such as; a part A nutrient, part B nutrient, a root stimulator, a flowering booster, some acid for adjusting pH, and a micronutrient solution. Cannabis is not like other plants and you SHOULD NOT really use ferts that you can buy at your local supermarket. The ferts you use with weed are not the X:X:X type. B'cuzz is one brand name (what I use) but there are many more and you should use what you find works for you.

3) Get a pH meter and an EC meter. EC means the amount of disolved solids in your water and pH is the acidity/alkalinity of the watering solution.

4) Feed from bottom and let the top of the soil remain dry. This encourages roots to dive down and out from the stem.

5) Buy a flushing solution and during the last 10-14 days before harvest flush with pure water for the first 3-4 days and then with the flushing solution for the rest.

Now I know that this sounds like a lot of kit to purchase, but the solutions are only used in quantities of 1-2ml per litre anyways so a $15 bottle of A & B & Boost will last you a couple of harvests with the amount you're growing. And it should be noted that it will pay for itself the first harvest after you buy them (you'd get twice or three times the harvest!!!) Also remember that you've done a good job so far but that there's always room for improvement and that this will pay BIG dividands later.

DO NOT use Miracle Gro (sorry all those who are, but you should all know better by now if you've been reading the posts on this board and other weed sites.) It might work wonders on Roses and such flowers but then you're not really wanting to smoke those are you and apart from the fact that the nutrients are in the TOTAL WRONG quantities for weed, they are all chemical and not natural products at all and you're smoking that shit!!!)

Don't worry about the fan blade for now but you should get a new fan for next time. We use fans (oscillating) for two reasons; 1) it keeps the air moving, 2) it keeps the plants moving which forces them to grow big and strong.

Listen to people like Zander and also to experienced growers.

Keep up the good work, don't tell ANYONE that you're growing (just show up with pot for them 'out of the blue' and tell them you got it from someone else)

Well done!


Peace,

The Fr33kMan

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[Fr33kMan]

PS: The reason that your top leaves are looking like that is that you are using the wrong nutes (dispite comments to the contrary) and that you missing nutes. Don't panic too much at the moment but now (during this growing) would be the time to stop what you're feeding them with and go and buy a part A, part B and an S.A (micronutrients). Flush the soil for a week first and then start to feed in the amounts on the bottles and you should be fine.

Many people like to talk about nutrients and don't really know what they're doing with them but growers like myself who grow commercially know better.

Caio,

Fr33kMan

[sweetcandy]

Doing the veg. stages nitrogen should be used in higher doses, but doing flowering its best to use less nitrogen in more Phosphate for a super bloom. I will be using "Green Light" superbloom 12/55/6. If anyone disagree let me know what you think

[budnums]

hey fr33kman, thanks for all the comments and advice. I have read a lot and I am still confused as shit about nutrients. I can never find a straight answer about where to get good nutes and names of organic kinds. I will def. do 50/50 soil/perlite next time. can you elaborate on part a, part b nutrients? Sorry, I am a nutridiot. I will check on B'cuzz. What is the best way to water from the bottom? Thanks sweet candy I am using a 16-35-16, and that is going well. I need to find out what these part a, part b, and the micronutrients. Is a hydroponic store a good place to find nutrients for a soil grow, because I can't find too many good garden stores in my area. Thanks for all the advice and talk!

budnums

[budnums]

here are a couple pictures of the one female with the trace mineral defficiency. I need to find better ferts but I don't know where. I can't find anything that sounds good. Lowes, Walmart, Home Depot all suck ass. I can't find a garden shop anywhere that isn't horrible. Someone please help!@#!@$

Thanks
Budnums

[smokybear]

here are a couple pictures of the one female with the trace mineral defficiency. I need to find better ferts but I don't know where. I can't find anything that sounds good. Lowes, Walmart, Home Depot all suck ass. I can't find a garden shop anywhere that isn't horrible. Someone please help!@#!@$

Thanks
Budnums

your plant is better then mine looks ok now

[budnums]

here is a picture of one of the ladies. she is the healthiest thus far.

[budnums]

Here are some pictures of my ladies. I circled the 2nd and 4th pictures of the leaves. They are growing like stubs almost. Is this normal. It looks as if one of my lights is producing more heat than the other. I adjusted the light today. could it be something else?

Thanks!

[smokybear]

Hey everyone. I have been posting questions on this site for a couple months during my first ever grow. I finally got a camera, so I decided to put up a few shots of my ladies. In the setup, there are 3 definate females and 3 younger plants we decided to start flowering as well. Let me know what you think of the plants. They are under 300w of HPS with reflectix and good ventilation. I'll post more later especially as things really start to change.

are you sure u on 12 days of flowering,because im like on my 10th day of 12/12 and my plant isn't close to how urs budding why is that