Memoirs of a Diesel

yeah it's probably too late unless you plan on repotting. Perlite helps keep a fluffy mix and retains water.

Well that is something I have been thinking about lately, is that I might need to re-pot my plant. Like I said I want about a 4-foot plant and I am not sure if my pot will be big enough to handle the roots.

Your nutes you got will work fine, generally for vegetative growth your mix has higher ratio of nitrogen (N) than phosphorus(P) or potassium(K) like 15-5-10 or something similar then flowering you want more phosphorous 5-15-10 using the same basic ratio. It will take a few weeks for your plant to start growing properly again since you switched her out of flower, remember when you do flower your space needs to be light proof or it will delay flowering and potentially cause hermies and other problems. When it comes to watering most strains enjoy going from moist soil to dry soil, its pretty hard to underwater your plant but overwatering is ir-reversable, learning the difference with weight of the pot is a good idea until you get a good idea of whats going on. Overall your setup looks pretty good, your gonna want to invest in some more lights down the road for flowering, its well worth the money to get a low wattage hps setup, but more light is always good. Right now just be patient its gonna take sometime to recover, if you replant then go get some good soil, you can order it if you have to, not sure what state your but we have hydroponic stores that have everything you would ever need, fox farm ocean forest is a good nutrient rich soil that would probably last you awhile considering your only running 1 plant, feel free to hit me up, Im fairly new to indoor growing but I'll help all I can, peace

Sweet deal man, I looked into it and there is a Hydroponics store in the next city over, which I will be visiting soon. As far as the light goes, I have a second 27w CFL on back up with a 10" reflector for when needed. I need to finish the design for my grow box, I will put up more pictures when that project is done. Are there points in the day where your leaves seem to droop, I know I have not over watered and I know I have not under watered but they droop at certain points in the day.

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Sweet deal man, I looked into it and there is a Hydroponics store in the next city over, which I will be visiting soon. As far as the light goes, I have a second 27w CFL on back up with a 10" reflector for when needed. I need to finish the design for my grow box, I will put up more pictures when that project is done. Are there points in the day where your leaves seem to droop, I know I have not over watered and I know I have not under watered but they droop at certain points in the day.

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Why not use the other 27w cfl now? Would that make it too hot? If not i would hook it up. Plus i read earlier that you have other friends involved, that violates the no one should know rule.. LOL

Yeah leaves droop and its usually a sign that it wants some water, but if your for sure good on the water it probably means your light needs to be closer, cfl's dont get to hot and should probably be a foot away, maybe even closer if you have some good air movement. By all means get that other light on asap, the little cfl's dont hardly use any power, literally a few dollars a month. I recently purchased another 125w cfl with 16" reflector and it cost total of $69 so thats always an option. The 125 wt bulb was 35 and the hood 30 bucks, they had 250w bulb that was $87 but I opted for the 125w, Im farther along and have slowly built up more and more equipment, so just add on according to your budget and expectations. Peace!

Cool man. Thanks for all the help, the other friend involved is my Girlfriends brother, and my best friend of like 12 yrs now. It's the only reason he knows LOL

Just keep in mind what might happen if you two break up and he get's pissy 'cause you broke his sister's heart.

Thought that through already. Been going over a year and 6 months with no major melt downs or threats of break ups. I would say I got two great bitches in my life LoL!

Picked up different plant food today, its a 24-8-12 mix of miracle grow. Waiting until next monday to water again. Haven't had any drooping the last few days and she is really showing off her sex right now. There is some funky grow, a little off balance growing and some four finger leaves, but she is growing rapidly. Went to the store today and bought some perlite for when I have to transplant her into a bigger pot. I am thinking just a home depot 5-gal will work but not sure. Scored some afghan and I am hoping to find a seed, highly unlikely but luck has shined before. That would be a good end to the day.

Yeah 5gl will work just fine, thats what I almost always use.

My baby seems to be doing alright, I am just concerned about why she is still only growing 3 finger leaves, I even got some 4 finger ones. Is this a side effect of the time switch, and also I have it under the two CFL and I read some where that CFLs are slow growing lights, is this true?

You answered the question yourself. Switching the light cycle around is what caused the leaves to grow weird, kinda like a regenerated plant does.

Alright, had some roots showin' so i transplanted her. She had quite a nice looking root system going on so I feel good about the transfer. I got some perlite to mix into the potting mix and also gave it a half gallon shower with a 24-8-16 mix. For a while I had the lights on the sides of the plant and I put one back on top after realizing that it wouldn't grow taller if there wasnt a light above it. Anyway, just hopin' and praying for the best for girl. Let you guys know what the results are.

alright, so one of my lights kinda lowered itself onto the top of the plant and burned the top little bit of growth, it was only on there for maybe a minute, but she seems to have survived the transplant. I have some small brown spots on the lower leaves and it doesn't look like nute burn cause its not on the edges and I am pretty sure that I didn't get any water on the leaves. All my bottom leaves are turning a lighter green almost yellow color, but I heard that the lower leaves will usually die off because the top foliage is taking the water for itself, anyone confirm?

Never heard of tops taking all the water. Most likely they would yellow from N deficiency, not getting enough light or nute lockup, usually caused by over watering.

I think its nut lock up. I did try that new mix out and, but I mixed like half of what it called for, oh well. Got some new growth coming in, some five finger leaves and what not. I will get some pics up soon

I need ti have some feedback from those who have bought a Stealth Pc from the internet; which companies should I contact and why.

I am not electrician thus I really do not want to take the chance and build one myself only to have it burn down my house.

You should seek out some of the forums over that. There is a lot of information here if you just look for it.
P.s. it is uncouth to try and post a new topic on someones' thread.

Alright, So through many trials and tribulations my plant is back on a set track, after a lighting disaster, Nute lock up and a transfer, she seems to be growing quite well again. I am at a point where I think I need to prune some, but I need the opinions of the pioneers before me. I will have pictures up around 5' o clock today!