New Grower, looking for tips.

[Maltball]

Originally Posted by Vicious

Maybe your lights werent strong enough before.

My previous lighting was just light coming in from a window next to the plants and a normal reading lamp ...but now changed to the flourescent (which i'm going to try to leave on 24/0) and a 150watt grow light (which will be on 13-17 hours per day, cause I gotta sleep and that light is way to bright to sleep with on!!)

I moved the largest plant into a plastic cup and the soil is filled to about the surface. Cup is just larger than the peat pots the others are in but at least 1 or 2 inches deeper. ...If that plant does enormously better than others I will move the entire "crop" quickly.

Currently letting all plants' soil dry and then will water (i'm sort of worried i have watered to much)

I'll post pictures tomorrow late-afternoon for better advice...


Thanks...




Malt




[edit] P.S. - 18 of 22 (sum couldn't fit) have heating pad to raise root temp 10-20F degrees above room temp, so to like 70-80 degrees. Is that okay to leave their still? Even with lights?

[Vicious]

Try to make whatever your plants are in lightproof and reflective.

[Maltball]

Originally Posted by Vicious

Try to make whatever your plants are in lightproof and reflective.

they are blue plastic cups, should be okay.



...I got a moisture meter today, like a metal rod that goes into the soil and a red hand moves between the numbers 1 and 10, 1 driest and 10 wettest and most of the soil is about 1.5-4.0 ...so I should def. water, correct? Except one of my plants had leaves slightly curling up and in so I added a very small amount of water and now the leaves are even more so, sign of overwatering I would assume. Now I am unsure whether or not I should water or not,

[TokingChocolate]

http://www.marijuanagirls.com/Mariju...GrowGuide.html

[Maltball]

Okay, my plants are like 12 days old and still most of them only have their intial jagged edged leaves and 50% or so have itty bitty new ones that look like they'll grow soon.

From all the pictures in the journals though, by now they should have multiple leaves not just those 2 and the original 2 from sprouting...

I used this soil and it hasn't seemed to hurt their leaves cause none of them are burned but now i'm beginning to wonder if this soil stunted their growth or what. There is no way in hell they are rootbound, i just insist that it is impossible due to their size and the pots they are in.

Soil being used:

21-7-14 (around that)

They were initially in Jiffy-7 Pellets which I can still the shape of in most of the plants, well just the tops of them obviously.

Ugh...plants are being effing wierd.

[RedTag]

ok dude i cant read that much but so far i have to say chill out. you got 22 babys growing now. just plant them with their pots in the ground maybe some of your own soil (any more and itd look wierd) and let them be xcept for nutes. mass has a good mix of clay and dead matter youll be fine. and as for flowering, when your outdoors the sun does all the work and yes youll have them before sept but the problem is curing (aka drying long time for quality)

[RedTag]

wow i just realized theres a third page well your seedlings lok leggy get the light closer and a lil mor intense with compacts but that means you have to give em more water and misting every once in a while. and miracle grow was a bad move they will prolly start to fert burn.

[Maltball]

Originally Posted by RedTag

wow i just realized theres a third page well your seedlings lok leggy get the light closer and a lil mor intense with compacts but that means you have to give em more water and misting every once in a while. and miracle grow was a bad move they will prolly start to fert burn.

lawl fuck .........will they die? :'(



10 top44 seeds on the way though from drchronic

[Vicious]

Probably not but maricale grow is not good, too early to begin adding nutes anyways. Immeaditly put them in some new soil and begin flushing. (watering with only straight water). If you already have a spot outside move some because you're starting off way too many at once. On your 44 seeds I'd recommend you take it slow and don't start until you have everything situaited. The reason I said to put your plants in a place where its light proof is because you're plants do better when it's in light, then completely no light so the plant can go through it's nocturnal process. I don't know if this is required for vegging though.

Buy a couple more CFLs and get bigger pots. When you get more light on those they're going to want to explode with growth and the roots will spread out fastest. you don't want that to happen then automaticaly go into the problem thought you had earlier. The right sized area for you plant is essential, your plant wont wait for you. With bigger pots is just means you won't be able to start as many off as once.

Also if you make something light proof for them then you wont have to worry about the parentals and can vegging em out 24/0 and you'll be pumping. You will see a huge difference in you're plants development. What is your light on btw? I don't think you mentioned.

[Maltball]

Plants are on 24/0 for past 3 days and still are.

Putting them outside soon would be very tough. We have had hard down pours & 55 mph winds all last night and part of today and heavy rain continuing till friday afternoon. Nor is it warm outside. 35-45 degrees is the temp lately.

More light is going to be hard, I have the 2 flor. tube lights right over them, probably only a few inches away from them and then a iradescent grow light to the side less than a foot away. I am running out of space behind my bed and there is no where to put them IN my house. I guess I could go get big plastic pots for my largest ones and let the smaller ones stay as is for now--grow them at diff. rates I suppose.

[Sandman40]

Yah man , loose the desk lamp, they are no good they will just promote streching which will lead to bad things in the future,( unless you can fix them intime) ..

yes very stretched... put a compact floresent light right over it

a compact floresent light, or some of those CFL's, they work good. ! they look beauty! I streched a plant one time and when I moved them into larger pots i buirred them deaper in the soil.. covered the stem and bit and from the dirt over top of some of the stem it produced a good root system from the covering stem. Good luck man!

[wwonka]

[quote=Ladll;1554334]I could sit here and type for days on end and never near tell what you can learn from reading of these forums. But 2 things will put U out of the game real quick are (1) OVERWATERING (2) OVERFERTILIZING Just remember these 2 words and read till U think U cant read any longer and read some more. I fertilize at 1/2 rate always. Then after a week, if U think they need more there will be less chance ofI

I was a Newbie last year and that was exactly what I found out.

Good Advice

Peace
wwonka

[wwonka]

First off you shouldn't grow in your parents house without permission.

2nd that soil will most surely kill your plants.

3rd when you transplant them Bury them with as much of the stem buried below
the surface. I just did it and covered it all the way to the first set of leaves.
it will grow roots.

peace
wwonka

[Maltball]

Originally Posted by wwonka

2nd that soil will most surely kill your plants.

3rd when you transplant them Bury them with as much of the stem buried below
the surface. I just did it and covered it all the way to the first set of leaves.
it will grow roots.

Replanted some of them into non-fert soil, even though only 1/22 were showing [minor] signs of fert-burn, in plastic cups. Mainly the ones that were far to tall, buying 2/3rds or so of the stem, so hopefully that buried stem will sprout roots.

I have them on 24/0 very close to the flor-tube lights, leaves are getting larger with 2 new baby ones coming out on all of them. Guess I'll keep waiting and see where they go from here.

Age of Plants: Approx 2 weeks, give or take 2 days.

Hot damn they're stretching. Like wwonka said, bury them to right under the first set of leaves, or your stem will be really weak. Think of it like this: if you chew some gum, and stretch it out, it gets flimsy, right? But if you chew it and stretch it just a tiny bit, it stays strong. Same general idea here.