My First CFL Grow

resincough

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I have 3 Plants all Looking beautiful Big green leaves, Wonderful Smell. I'm using hyponex Potting Soil and Organic fertilizer "Worm Castings" I have two 42 WAtt CFL's The Plants are all about 4 inches tall.... the only problem is ther almost 2 months old?? are they Growing slow or am I being inpatient
 

GreenHog

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Yeah, they are a little short.
How big are the containers?
If you're an inpatient thats ok too. lol
 

Bigol'Bong

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i had the same problem, my plants were about a month old and basiclaly stopped growing. I would recommend that u transplant them into bigger pots as they are probobly rootbound to the containers. Once i transplanted my plants i noticed an improvement in growth
 

resincough

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the container are pretty Big I did a Transplant today and my biggest Fears were confirmed. Rotten Roots brought on by overwatering and to much Worm castings. The Plants have been moved to Moisture Control Soil. I hope the Roots can recover. only a few plants are wilting
 

lexterian

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I hope they get better!
But just out of curiousity and from wanting to learn from mistakes,how many times were you watering and fertelizing?
You shouldnt use fertilizer from the first 2 weeks and the 2 weeks after that only use 50%.After that 100%.
 

kushmonster

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pending on the soil, you said you moved to moisture control right??well that already has nutes in it , im using MG moiture control and just fed after 30 days using a 24-8-16 nutes, used 1/4 recomended strenth, fed 2 cups and reg. water and seen signs of to much nutes on my leaves, yellow tips, to much N I think, I've read that when your first set of leaves( lil round petals)start to turn yellow and die, you can feed nutes, start slow 1/4 strenth and build a tolerance to the plant, then move to 1/2 and so on, not to many people go over 3/4 strenth, all depends on the strain I guess:peace:
 

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resincough

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pending on the soil, you said you moved to moisture control right??well that already has nutes in it , im using MG moiture control and just fed after 30 days using a 24-8-16 nutes, used 1/4 recomended strenth, fed 2 cups and reg. water and seen signs of to much nutes on my leaves, yellow tips, to much N I think, I've read that when your first set of leaves( lil round petals)start to turn yellow and die, you can feed nutes, start slow 1/4 strenth and build a tolerance to the plant, then move to 1/2 and so on, not to many people go over 3/4 strenth, all depends on the strain I guess:peace:
Thats Exactly Right!! I was watering Everyday untill the soil didn't seem that heavy and it was still filtering out the bottom. as far as Fertilazer almost 3/4 more then the recomend dosage (MiracleGrow All purpose) uh big mistake.

It's Ok the PLants have been Pruned and Re-potted they are making a amazing recover!! I'll have some Pics soon. This is My first real "educated" Grow. I live in a Central USA and I'm sick of swack weed and High Prices. I hate Drug Dealers..I'm just done.
 
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