1st grow..

Do you have a pic? Must be a fairly large fan? My fans about 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet and it doesnt move any of my lights. Either way yes the plant will still benefit from the light. As long as its not blowing it like a foot away.

If the plant looks to be doing fine with the wind on it now I would not worry about breakage or bending.

What else you adding to it?

 

Looks squat and bushy but very healthy!

If the fan is small I would put it on high setting, just not directly onto the plants for the first week or so. Looks great so far!

 

squat is short!

Yeah the stems will get a little thicker but the main thing is they get BUFF! and actually firm.

Nah short plants arnt a problem, I wish I had that problem! My problem is my plants always outgrow the 4 feet I give them to grow in! Id rather have short than tall

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Depending on the strain it wouldnt matter what you used for lights. A short plant with CFLs will just be shorter, a tall plant will CFLs usually is just more lanky and stretched out between its nodes. The HID lights get you that perfect in between, but also cost more and create a boatload of more heat to deal with.

 

cityofevil86, I like what you got goin on with your grow so far, the plants look awesome man. I'm a noob too and will start a grow for the 1st time ever after the holidays and you've asked and figured out a lot of ??'s that I've had. I think I'm gonna tag along for the ride bro and see how those babies turn out. Hopefully I can learn a few things while I'm here lol

 

yeah, dude I've been reading forums, researching, reading grow journals start to finish...lol i've been reading for about 2 months now. so excited to start my own, but everyday its like there are new ??'s that pop into my head...anyway man good luck and i'll be keeping an eye on the progress.

 

are nutes even necessary? Im using potting soil with the pre added nutes (the white pieces)

 

Well this is my first grow so this is why I was asking if nutes are necessary

 

The time release nutes are ok. Not good or bad. Problems are they are time release You cant control how much or how little is being given, you just sprinkle the balls all over the soil and hope its working right. With liquid nutrients you know exactly how much your giving your plants and you can adjust accordingly. With time release you set it and cant do much to increase or decrease unless you add more time release or dig through your soil to remove them.

That being said, i use time release nutes, the miracle grow that everyone says is horrible. It works for me, I add in flowering liquid nutrients once it hits flower. The time release balls work for me through veg and I have never had a problem. (I do think you can get a better yield using liquid nutrients through veg and flower, but I am lazy, and time release works in veg for me)

If your not getting runoff your not watering enough. For my plants 4 litres of water goes in and stays in, no runoff. But if I add 5 probably half of the last one or more comes out the bottom. (Its about right) What I do is water normally, add 1 cup wait 2 minutes, add 1 cup wait and so on. Once you see it coming out the bottom you know how much to water next time to get the runoff which means youve soaked most if not all of the soil.

When you dont get runoff you arnt always getting the sides or the very bottom of the pot wet so the root system isnt as good. If theres no water, the roots wont go that way.

My first grow I used no nutes except what was in the potting soil I had. It worked out ok, my yield was small but then again it was my first grow using minimum of CFLs. I probably got enough for 20 bowls or so, potency was there, flavor was great and the smell (papaya) was amazing. Had I used nutrients I would of gotten a much better yield.
Some plants are ok with no nutes they just dont produce as much. Some strains almost HAVE to have nutes or they will go deficient at some point during the flowering stage because of all the nutrients that strain needs.

Nutrients for flowering I would just do a forum search, I see bio bloom, fox farm, ashes, high P bat guano (if available), molasses and so on. (for flowering) I am using I think its Bio Bloom 1-0-6 and molasses for flowering plus my time release miracle grow balls. Its Bio something! It mostly depends if you want to go regular chemical nutrients or organic. One will cost more (organic) But that one also produces better imho. Basically for nutrients I just look for what the plant needs most for that stage and find a type that fits what I need. The NPK values.

Sorry if I rambled, I tried to answer all questions

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another big thing, start your nutes off at 1/4th recommended strength or less! You could also go the route of just watering until you notice your plant is lacking in some nutrients, than look it up to diagnose and give it just the nutrients it needs.

In all honesty which alot of people will disagree with, I have had a plant flower, I did not harvest but I put it back into veg and then into flower again with no added nutrients other than the time release miracle grow. Its had no major problems and is doing fine. It mostly depends on what you want for your yield. The more money you put in, the more yield your going to harvest.

I cant wait for 2 weeks My current single plant is going to produce 2 to 4x as much as the last crop I had which was 3 plants!! Its my little holiday present to myself

 

Can you get a picture? Silver specs could be from dust from the soil maybe?

Yellowing patches could be many things, hows the heat and all that? pictures would work best