theonetitty
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update: check my post on page 2 for pics
Okay, first let me start off by saying this is my first attempt at growing. Im working with half a closet that i have partitioned off into its own section...
I have been reading as much info and googling everything i can think of. I've even been trolling these forums for the the better part of a month...but have finally decided to ask for help...
I guess for you guys to help me out, i should give you as much info as i can about my grow so far...but i know some of you may be too high to stayed tuned in for too long so i'll try to keep it kind of short.
I germinated my seeds in a folded up paper towel that i put in a glass mason jar with a little bit of water in the bottom.
I used about 10-15 seeds. Bag seed, but hand picked over about a month's time. i only chose the biggest ones. Most of which were from a botched dank grow from my friend. he had some really good plants growing, but forgot to kill his males....there were plenty of seeds to choose from...
After sprouting I planted 4 of the best looking sprouts in a long planter. About a foot and a half long and 6-8 inches wide. 8-10 inches deep. I placed them outside in the natural light until they started to grow. One of them never unfolded its embryo leaves...it died just as they appeared...idk why.
The other three were moved inside and placed under a lamp. Only had a 75W bulb, but it was a sylvania reveal (full light spectrum). They loved that bulb, after being outside for nearly a week and only growing about 2 inches, they shot up to about 4 1/2 inches in just a couple days. Maybe 3 days...
By then I had sectioned off my closet (ghetto rigged it pretty much) and i used clorox to disinfect the walls, and vacuumed the carpet really really well. I have Foil on the walls all around the plants.
I have a light with a 150 replacement CFL ( so like 42 watts i think?) hanging about an inch or so above them, and i have another bulb on the floor next to them. I am running a full 24 hrs right now. But plan to cut back to 6 or 8 hours of dark soon, and stay that way until i decide to flower them.
Only two remain. One died because i tried to transplant it to another planter and messed up its roots i think...
So two remain.
Plant #1 is about 9 inches tall. It's embryo leaves are died and almost totally gone. It has one node with just one leaf on either side half way up the stalk, and 1 node with 3 leaves, 1 with 5 leaves and is working on sprouting another node now.
Plant #2 is only about 7 inches tall. The stalk is not as thick, and it does not have the number or size leaves as the larger one.
plant 1 has been the one thats always been a tad bit closer tot he light than ther others...i guess thats why its bigger...or just different types of seeds?
And now i give you my problem...
When i first put the plants in my closet, the bulb that was in their was still the 75W Reveal. I knew that 75W was almost a waste of time once they get past seedlings...so i went and got the CFL bulb that is in there now.
The same day my room mate (who started his first grow at the same time, his plants have more branches than mine but are not as thick and have leaves half the size of mine, his are really lanky) had gotten some miracle grow plant food? I put a few drops in their water later that day.
The next morning when i woke up, i was horrified!!! Plant #1 was drooped over, almost touching the ground!!!!! and Plant #2 was turning YELLOW!!!!
I staked plant #1 and just hoped they would pull through. When i got home from work they were still like that...but i had felt the stem on plant #1 and it was really soft in the spot it had drooped over, but was now much stiffer...
The next morning Plant #1 was upright again and growing a new node. Leaves are all still very droopy, but they are pretty big too.
Plant #2 has never drooped. its leaves still nice a broad, and its still growing, but its bottom leaves (the first node after embryo leaves) are almost totally yellow now...
And the same node on plant #1 is starting to curl at the tips...
are these nodes supposed to die off?
Will plant #1's leaves spread back out? They feel stiff, like they are just taking the drooped over shape and getting stiff there. They were very soft when they first drooped...
Did they start to droop and yellow naturally or do you guys think it was just shock from the change of light and the new plant food on the water?
Noob in need of help! Please! ( sorry that ended up not being short AT ALL lol)
I have tried to keep from taking pictures of them, but i can if i really need to. I dont trust verizon's privacy enough to use my blackberry to take pictures, and i dont have a digital camera, just a video camera...
Okay, first let me start off by saying this is my first attempt at growing. Im working with half a closet that i have partitioned off into its own section...
I have been reading as much info and googling everything i can think of. I've even been trolling these forums for the the better part of a month...but have finally decided to ask for help...
I guess for you guys to help me out, i should give you as much info as i can about my grow so far...but i know some of you may be too high to stayed tuned in for too long so i'll try to keep it kind of short.
I germinated my seeds in a folded up paper towel that i put in a glass mason jar with a little bit of water in the bottom.
I used about 10-15 seeds. Bag seed, but hand picked over about a month's time. i only chose the biggest ones. Most of which were from a botched dank grow from my friend. he had some really good plants growing, but forgot to kill his males....there were plenty of seeds to choose from...
After sprouting I planted 4 of the best looking sprouts in a long planter. About a foot and a half long and 6-8 inches wide. 8-10 inches deep. I placed them outside in the natural light until they started to grow. One of them never unfolded its embryo leaves...it died just as they appeared...idk why.
The other three were moved inside and placed under a lamp. Only had a 75W bulb, but it was a sylvania reveal (full light spectrum). They loved that bulb, after being outside for nearly a week and only growing about 2 inches, they shot up to about 4 1/2 inches in just a couple days. Maybe 3 days...
By then I had sectioned off my closet (ghetto rigged it pretty much) and i used clorox to disinfect the walls, and vacuumed the carpet really really well. I have Foil on the walls all around the plants.
I have a light with a 150 replacement CFL ( so like 42 watts i think?) hanging about an inch or so above them, and i have another bulb on the floor next to them. I am running a full 24 hrs right now. But plan to cut back to 6 or 8 hours of dark soon, and stay that way until i decide to flower them.
Only two remain. One died because i tried to transplant it to another planter and messed up its roots i think...
So two remain.
Plant #1 is about 9 inches tall. It's embryo leaves are died and almost totally gone. It has one node with just one leaf on either side half way up the stalk, and 1 node with 3 leaves, 1 with 5 leaves and is working on sprouting another node now.
Plant #2 is only about 7 inches tall. The stalk is not as thick, and it does not have the number or size leaves as the larger one.
plant 1 has been the one thats always been a tad bit closer tot he light than ther others...i guess thats why its bigger...or just different types of seeds?
And now i give you my problem...
When i first put the plants in my closet, the bulb that was in their was still the 75W Reveal. I knew that 75W was almost a waste of time once they get past seedlings...so i went and got the CFL bulb that is in there now.
The same day my room mate (who started his first grow at the same time, his plants have more branches than mine but are not as thick and have leaves half the size of mine, his are really lanky) had gotten some miracle grow plant food? I put a few drops in their water later that day.
The next morning when i woke up, i was horrified!!! Plant #1 was drooped over, almost touching the ground!!!!! and Plant #2 was turning YELLOW!!!!
I staked plant #1 and just hoped they would pull through. When i got home from work they were still like that...but i had felt the stem on plant #1 and it was really soft in the spot it had drooped over, but was now much stiffer...
The next morning Plant #1 was upright again and growing a new node. Leaves are all still very droopy, but they are pretty big too.
Plant #2 has never drooped. its leaves still nice a broad, and its still growing, but its bottom leaves (the first node after embryo leaves) are almost totally yellow now...
And the same node on plant #1 is starting to curl at the tips...
are these nodes supposed to die off?
Will plant #1's leaves spread back out? They feel stiff, like they are just taking the drooped over shape and getting stiff there. They were very soft when they first drooped...
Did they start to droop and yellow naturally or do you guys think it was just shock from the change of light and the new plant food on the water?
Noob in need of help! Please! ( sorry that ended up not being short AT ALL lol)
I have tried to keep from taking pictures of them, but i can if i really need to. I dont trust verizon's privacy enough to use my blackberry to take pictures, and i dont have a digital camera, just a video camera...