I think i will do this. I have been thinking of moving the pc out of the aquariums storage bay and creating an LED grow Cab in there for bigger yields . I would still keep the PC micro, just in a different area. I also have a mini fridge that is not really of use to me anymore. IDK will have to wait on all that until the future.
UPDATE: Day 5 put a sponge in a baby food jar with water to keep humidity up. Temp is a usually 75 sometimes peaking 80, humidity is at 35- 40 on a regular basis trying to boost it to 45. plant looks healthy as far as i am concerned. should i be planing on using any nutrient, considering i am only using a solo cup? this is my first grow do you guys think i can manage without nutes?
I would say you should use nutes because even if it's growing in a small amount of soil, it still needs nutes. In smaller quantities, look at the instructions on the nutes package and divide the amount to use. I am pretty sure i'm not wrong. She looks good, she hasn't streched !
Sorry I am really stoned so you might've already said this. But what is the strain and where did you get the seed?
Oh shit, hahaha. Thanks. Yeah I got pretty blasted last night since we get today (Monday) off for MLK day.
you can use nutes if the plant needs it. Wait till it uses up everything in the soil before adding any extra, you only need it when it tells you. You will start to see changes in the leaves indicating it needs nutes. But at about 3 weeks you can hit it with some light nutes just to be sure it will be ok other than that for now you are fine
Update: Day 6 so temps are averaging 80 still, and my humidity is back at 45 thanks to the sponge and baby food jar. but a bit of a problem has accured the tip of one leaf is turning kind of brownish grey i think it was just begging for water because the soil was bone dry. i watered her and we will see what happens.
thank's for the information, but can i go to lowes and buy nutes? I have been wondering about nutes for a while and need to figure out what i am using i really don't want to order them online though.
yea any nutes will do fine just make sure its for vegging not flowering. the problem with your leaf tip i wouldn't worry about unless it starts spreading to the new growth areas
UPDATE- Day 7 humidity 45 and temps 75- 80 shes doing well the bad leaf has not spread anymore, i think the water did the trick. second set of leaves coming in now!
Update- Day 8 so today temps were decent but still a little high 80 f so im going to use more frozen water bottles. also can somone tell me if my leaves are souposed to be like this ? all droopy?
You are over watering the baby. By the looks of your soil, It doesn't seem to be draining and drying fast enough. Half of the common plastic water bottles is to much even. I'd let it dry out and next time put you pink down in the soil just enough to get past the top layers of dirt and not enough to disturb root systems, Does it feel moist to the touch? If so I would wait to water. The top soil in a pot will dry out faster than the rest because its exposed to light so its not safe to water by looking at the top soil for dryness. As for nutes I would go out and buy Espoma plant or tomato tone, they sell these at lowes it doesn't matter which one you get whatever is available. The NPK is 5-3-3 and is a good dry organic fertilizer to start feeding your plant. I wouldn't feed it anything until it grows at least 5-6 sets of leafs if not more. At this stage your plant is trying to root itself into the ground and it only needs water to do so. I would wait to feed it until you find out the sex so you don't waste any money if you dont have to.
Cool and thanks for the info. The nutes were the info i needed the most because there is no more damage to the leafs anyway. What does NPK stand for? sorry for being a total noob.
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Thank you so much for all of the info ganja, Also Update Day 10 She looks not so well. i need some help can anyone give some advice? temps and humidity still the same. i think i am under watering her to be honest. i just watered her, the cup was pretty light. i dug down like an inch or 2 and it was pretty dry too so i gave her some water ill update about 4:00 pm tomorrow when lights come on.
Hows she looking? It doesn't looks stretched or stressed from lack of water so you should be alright.
My understanding is that it's better to under-water than to over-water. I think you want to let the soil dry out before you water again. But I'm inexperienced (growing my first plant currently), so check up on this yourself before taking my advice!