First time grower - Comments welcomed.

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Smexyfawn

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Ok so this is my first venture into indoor growing. Luckily I live in a Medical MJ friendly state and being a patient I decided to give it a go.

In the pics you can see my grow room and my 3 vegging plants. They are about 3 weeks old and when I first started I was growing in a cut open pop cans under a common house lamp. The plants became sickly and started turning yellow.

I was able to setup the grow room you see now and rescue my babies from complete death. I did cut off the bottom 3 branches on each one which is why they look a bit stretched but all is good as they have regained color and perkiness. I'm thinking this isn't so bad because the plants will regrow the branches I trimmed. Correct?

Anyways. Any comments on obvious "problems" would be greatly appreciated.
 

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You can bury them deep enough in the soil so that you're covering the trimmed branch areas with soil...then those spots will sprout roots.
 
That's something I didn't think of.

However, I'm worried that they've suffered enough stress as it is because they are just now starting to show new life on top. They've already been transplanted TWICE and if I tried to pull them out and sink them lower do I run a risk of stressing them more?
 
They were over watered when I first moved them and are just now perking back up from the drooping curly leaves. I've adjusted my watering problem.

Feeding. Well, Nothing. I can't afford any nutrients at the moment and was hoping that I would still grow semi successful ladies without nutes. Are there home alternatives to nutrients that I may have sitting in my kitchen or something? Something requiring little cash?
 
a box of tomato food from walmart is like 5 bucks. other than that your limited to free dirt under a rotton log or something like that.
 
I wish I had pictures from a week ago. They looked like death and I nearly scrapped them and gave up. I left them alone and watered uh, twice I think in a week, trimmed off the dying leaves on the bottom branches and more or less left them alone. They are looking substantially better now although to you guys they probably look pretty sickly.

See I had these three bag seeds that I germinated then realized I had no way to grow them. So I cut open some pop cans and went out into the snow. Dug under the snow until I found dirt and scooped up a large amount. Heated it up in the microwave so I could break it up and put my three little popcan plants under my living room lamp which happened to have a CFL. I quickly realized this wasn't going to cut it and luckily had a friend with an extra light and pots and actual soil.

In the pots on the floor are 6 more seedlings just starting to break the surface. Hopefully they will turn out better then the three vegging now.
 
Smexyfawn said:
They were over watered when I first moved them and are just now perking back up from the drooping curly leaves. I've adjusted my watering problem.

Feeding. Well, Nothing. I can't afford any nutrients at the moment and was hoping that I would still grow semi successful ladies without nutes. Are there home alternatives to nutrients that I may have sitting in my kitchen or something? Something requiring little cash?
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Cut back on watering. Good luck, I would start doing some reading if I were you.
 
All in all. If they live then wonderful! If not then I've gained some important information to make the other seedlings that much stronger.
 
Maximus cannabis said:
Cut back on watering. Good luck, I would start doing some reading if I were you.
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It's funny that you would post in my thread while I was looking over your T-5 grow journal. Is it the strain or the light's that make them seem so lanky? I was pretty happy with the free light in the pics. Even if it's not ideal I should be able to produce something successful. Yes?
 
Smexyfawn said:
It's funny that you would post in my thread while I was looking over your T-5 grow journal. Is it the strain or the light's that make them seem so lanky? I was pretty happy with the free light in the pics. Even if it's not ideal I should be able to produce something successful. Yes?
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Both are a factor. The light needs to be the right spectrum at the right time, and just any old light won't yield very much. Neither will no nutes. You can try cheap stuff, but you're vaporizing it and putting it in your lungs, so you may want to just be careful about what you put in there.
 
Maximus cannabis said:
Both are a factor. The light needs to be the right spectrum at the right time, and just any old light won't yield very much. Neither will no nutes. You can try cheap stuff, but you're vaporizing it and putting it in your lungs, so you may want to just be careful about what you put in there.
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Well the light in my pics is a light intended for growing. Has red / blue spectrums in it. Much better then a common household lamp sitting in my living room. When it comes time to flower I'll figure something out light-wise.

I will be able to afford nutes here in a few weeks. Think they can survive on water / light / soil alone until then?

Thanks for the tip on harmful nutes. Scary to think about inhaling something dangerous.
 
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