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.

[aesop12]

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.