Day 32 of flowering!!! Pics on page 2!!!! ok guys this is my very first grow. im going to be honest when i started this all i really knew was that i needed lights, ventallation, pots,soil,10-10-10 nutes, and a timer for 12/12 flowering, and thats about it, i didnt know how to grow only what i basically needed. thus i have messed up a lot in this grow and am thankfull that my plants are looking this good. that being said i have learned a lot reading this site. much thanks to everyone who posts here. on my next grow i am going to do it right and get the right ferts and im going to add more lights. i will talk more about that later. now to the good stuff. ok so i have my old mini fridge from college laying around and im like fuck it i want some weed......couple months later here i am..... currently at day 39 from seed, day 36 from soil. ok so i have a 75w HPS and about 50W of led lighting. (going to be installing 4 cfls into the next grow as well as these lights as we have no issue with heat supprisingly) one custom made 4" in line exhaust fan. made from one of their cheap $7 4" desktop fans. this thing will suck some serious air. had to drill many holes into the top of the fridge so that it could pull enough air ir else it was putting strain onto the fan. temps were around 78-85 at all times with that..... well that was untill last night... i installed a 80mm comp fan on the top in a custom made cardboard box holder to cover all my holes as an intake fan. works rather well to my supprise and am awaiting to see the new temps. lookin around 75 or so. but i will be rebuilding the box and relocating everything. using miracle grow organic soil (i know now baaaadddd idea) used some shultz 10-10-10 for veg fed at full strength weekly. 1 week before flower i gave them double (2 feeds in 1 week). ok just started flowering yesterday. bought some chults 19-31-17 fert cause it was cheap and we really dont care this grow. fed it a little bit of that the day it started flowering but havent given any more yet. going to wait till next watering. i am watering about every 3-4 days. just did a ph test yesterday and it is about 7 or so. wasnt an accurate test but it was about neutral. i measured the ph of the larger plant which is the one i have some questions about later. ok now for the pics and can you tell me what is wrong with my larger plant? sorry these were taken with my cell phone. ill try to get a better camera for better pics. it couldnt handle the hps being on. the leaves are curling under bad but there isnt any discoloration or any spots. no burn marks anywhere. it has been given that same as the other plan and both plants were from the same bud. this plant has been completely different that the other one. it is a lot taller. its overall complexion is a lot lighter than the other one. the other one is much more bushy and looks more healthy(crossin our fingers and hoping that it is a female.)
ok the rest of the pics. these first 2 pics are of the taller plant and the pics i need help with. why is my plant curling down like that????
Your plants are looking very healthy. I would not be terribly concerned with the dropping leaves just yet. Pay close attention to your watering schedule. Offhand, I would guess that it's probably being over-watered. Two questions: How often do you water the plants in question and how much time elapsed between the last watering and the photo you took?
i water the plants ever 2-3 days. usually when i feel the top inch or 2 of soil is dry. i water them both about the same ammount. i watered the plants on saturday and the pics were taken on monday. they were both given just a little bit of the budding nutes on sat as well since it was the first night of 12/12. thanks for the help. any other suggestions?
Your plants actually look great. Droopy leaves are almost always a result of either overwatering or underwatering. If you feel like your watering them properly, ensure that your plant isn't rootbound in its current pot. A rootbound plant will often initially show droopy leaves. I'd still bank on slight overwatering. Couple questions for you: How often are the droopy plants curling down? Do they curl down within 24 hours of watering or do they tend to curl before they are ready for a watering? Or are they perpetually curled down?
ok they have been curling for some time. maybe 2 weeks. when i water i try to make sure the soil is dry at least 2" down. my pots are 7" tall i think maybe 8. i watered on sat and they were dry. im gonna let it go n not water it for a few more days. seein if it bein dry will help. started lst on the tall one last night as well. all suggestions are greatly welcome. cant wait to see them tonight hehe.
i only have 2 plants. the tall one is drooping. ill measure it tonight. its almost too tall for the box. i would say prob over 1 foot tall just guessin.
Ah, I see. Looks like you have 2 different strains there. But yeah, if it is over 1 foot tall, you're ready to move to a bigger container. You may want to bury the stem a bit more for better support. Keep in mind that plant will stretch quite a bit when you go to 12/12, so make sure you have plenty of vertical space.
thats why i am starrting it on lst now there isnt a bigger box unfortunatelly. these seeds came from the same bag of nyc diesel supposedly but yea its odd that they look like this..... maybe they got polinated by annother strain . i can only hope.....
ok today was day 40 since seed. day 4 since 12/12. this is day 2 of LST on my larger plant. here are the pics of how it is doing. it is actually doing better than i thought =) still letting the soil dry out hoping that will cure my curl problems on the plant. lemme know what you guys think so far of the lst.
They're pretty small, which I suppose you can expect with that lighting setup, but they do look healthy. If you started flowering already, I wouldn't expect much in the way of a yield, but you should get some decent bud if you stay on track.
yea they are kinda small but its my first grow. going to put 4 cfls into the box next time around. and tomorrow night im putting in 2 for this grow =) so thats gona help with budding. we are guessing that if they are both female we will be lucky to get a 1/4 from them. just cant wait!!! should i be spraying the leaves down with anything? regular water? nutes? the temp in the box sems to be around 85 for the max and last night it got down to 63 with the fans on for the first time over night. so temps arent too bad. ventallation system is going to be redesigned and will be better so it can hold the more lights after this grow. i also want to get some co2 into there next time.... for this type of a set up what would you guys recommend? the sugar & yeast or a system thru like a paintball canister or something else? still trying to figure out where to get some activated carbon. does like lowes or home depot have it? also what do you guys think of having the leds like we have them? they are across all walls of the box except the door. then the main lights are at the top of the box. in my pics you can see how much they light up the box. i think there is only like 35-40 leds in there. would have to count again to be sure. also do you guys think a reflector around the hps would help? its a small area and enclosed so i was thinking that it would be fine w/o one. also easier to cool w/o one. 1/2" to 1" away from the light it is the ambient temp of the box. heat isnt an issue atm. we will see what happens with the new ventallation system..... may upgrade to a 100w or 150w =)
ok guys this is 1 week into flowering. still waiting to see the sex of the plants. i see what may be small hairs on the one that im training but still to early to tell for sure. these pics were taken just after watering them and misting them with some distilled water. also i have added a 3rd cfl into the box hehehehe. checking temps right now. doesnt seem to be raising the temp too much. going to have to wait and see when it started getting warmer outside at night. still needing some answers on the questions i asked in my previous post so if anyone has any insight it would be greatly apriceated. how does everying look?
ok guys i am soooo happy right now. i come home tonight and open my fridge and upon inspections both plants are females!!!!!!!!!! YAY this is day 14 of flowering
ok guys ran into a prob. last night i was setting up some bottles of frozen water around my intake fan to cool the air going in an a bottle fell. i didnt think anything of it but today i go down there too see what my temps got to and my light were on! they went bout 3 hours of extra light. i readjusted my light schedule since this happened. i was going 7pm to 7am. i caught the lights at 10 ish. i have them set to go from 8 to 8 now.... is the extra 2 hrs of night that they are gonna get today affect them adversly at all or should they be fine?
ok guys ran into a prob. last night i was setting up some bottles of frozen water around my intake fan to cool the air going in an a bottle fell. i didnt think anything of it but today i go down there too see what my temps got to and my lights were on! they went bout 3 hours of extra light. i readjusted my light schedule since this happened. i was going 7pm to 7am. i caught the lights at 10 ish. i have them set to go from 8 to 8 now.... is the extra 2 hrs of night that they are gonna get today affect them adversly at all or should they be fine?