Napkins First Grow

[napkin]

Had about 7 bag seeds saved up from a while ago that I tried germinating. The first seed to germinate had a huge taproot that was starting to come out but after I planted it nothing happened. A couple days later 3 other seeds germinated and those are growing nicely. The other few didn't do anything. I started off with all 3 plants under one 26-watt CFL but yesterday I set them up so each plant has their own light. Plants are about 1.5'' from the bulb. I am giving them a little water about every other day. Comments/Suggestions are appreciated.

Here is the 3 plants on day 2:


This was what my setup was for the first 6 days.


My setup is now this:


Here are my plants on day 7:

[HiTCheR]

Hey buddy I will be pulling up a chair for this grow

Keep lots of pics posted



They look nice and healthy man, you know what your doing so far

[napkin]

Had some problems with leaves curling down. I think it was because I was using MG Moisture Control soil with time release ferts, so I re-potted them in bigger containers with regular soil. One of them seems to be recovering and the other is still about the same. I had the lights off over night because I was too lazy (too high) to redo the lighting last night but I got everything set up this morning and the lights are back on.

[napkin]

Out of the two plants that were drooping because of too much nutes, the one that was less affected has rebounded pretty quickly but the other one is still stunted.

Good luck with this! Just wondering though, isn't 26w per plant a little small?

[napkin]

Ya...once the plants grow a little bit bigger I will add more lights, but right now they are growing fast with only 1 per plant.

[napkin]

Day 12:
Both end plants have rebounded and are a ton bigger. The middle plant is still slightly stunted but is also recovering and growing. I am drying the soil out pretty good in between waterings and the plants seem to love it.

[Help_Needed]

Originally Posted by napkin

I am drying the soil out pretty good in between waterings and the plants seem to love it.

A lot of growers who use soil like to let them go until they're actually starting to wilt a little bit before they water. It helps the plants to develop a stronger root system since they have to reach for that last little bit of moisture in the bottom of the pot.

[napkin]

Plants have really taken off in the last few days. I decided to go ahead and transplant them into 12 inch pots.....should have done that in the first place. I still have 1 light per plant but I have the parts to hook up 4 more bulbs. The stems seem strong but the leaves are drooping a little.

[SmknVTEC]

Smart move getting them out of miricle grow. They look good.

[napkin]

Day 16
Plants are doing good. Don't know when I should start fertilizing them. I picked up some Miracle Gro Tomato food. I will probably add another couple lights today, and probably start to LST them.

[SmknVTEC]

New soil should have enough in it to sustain plants for a week or two. Wait until 1-2 weeks after transplant then feed them at 1/4 strength.

[napkin]

Changed my set-up but I will be changing it again soon. I have the plants under 2 42'' 40-watt 3100K fluorescent tubes and 6 26-watt 6500K CFLs. I took a 2 gallon water jug and mixed in 2.5 cups of sugar and 2.5 tablespoons of yeast and there are a ton of CO2 bubbles forming. I think the yeast CO2 generator has cause a slight improvement in growth. I haven't watered them in 3 or 4 days probably. The plants don't seem to be needing much water. I'm going to be gone tomorrow until Sunday so I am going to give them a good watering before I leave. The plants seem to be responding to the LST pretty well.

[napkin]

I watered them last Thursday gave them each about 1.5L of water with 1/4 strength MG Tomato Food and then maybe 1/4L before I left Friday. Came back today and had the tip of one leaf touching a CFL and was burnt to a crisp but other than that for the most part they seem to be doing good. The plant in the middle is still a lot smaller than the rest. I dunno how much longer I should veg them since I don't want them to get too huge and they will probably double in size during flowering. Probably another 2-3 weeks at least.

[napkin]

The plant on the left is beautiful. The middle one still has small leaves and I just fimmed it...hoping maybe it will grow out a little. The one on the right is in the middle in terms of growth. I hope the big one is a female so I can clone it. Haven't watered them since last Friday but they don't seem to mind. I gave them each about 1.5L of water today with about 1/3 strength MG Tomato Food. These things seem to be growing pretty dang fast for being under florescent lights. I hope I get at least 1 female so I can clone this fast growing strain. It will be interesting to find out what strain it is since these are from bagseed.