My First Grow -BagSeed- From some Mids ANY TIPS ARE WELCOME and ENCOURAGED! Pics

chb444220

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*** I WILL BE POSTING PICTURES UP ASAP!!! ***

ok. so this is my first Grow ever. and my 1st thread as well. ive been reading up on growing weed, especially on this website (which is by far my FAVORITE) for a couple months now.. its kinda sad how much time i spend on this computer looking at the same pictures of the same plants.. and read the same threads over and over. lol. but anywayz...

My plants are just about 2 weeks old now, 13 days old to be exact. i started out with 6 seeds which i got from a bad of some mids that i bought a while ago. i know when it grows its not going to be anything THAT good, but im still a little nervous to buy seeds online.. (if anyone has any sites theyve ordered from and recommend PLEASE let me know). so i started out with 6 seeds. only 4 made it. the other two didnt even sprout. so i threw them away. and right now i have them in my closet on top of a fold up table. they are in Dunkin Donuts cups. i cut down the cups (because they were X-Large) to about 3 1/2 inches and i poked plenty of decent size holes in the bottom for drainage.

Then i filled them with a mix of some cheap soil i bought at Family Dollar and Schultz Premium Potting Soil. The cheap soil looks like dirt.. but holds the moisture pretty well... but the Schultz soil wouldnt hold the water at all
. so i decided to just mix them together.

For plant nutrients im using the Miracle Grow Single Packets. its 24-8-16 and it sais to add 1 packet to a gallon of water. i know your supposed to start off at 1/2 strength or some people said 1/4 strength. i went with 1/2 strength. and i water them with the nutrient water once every 3 days. i have to water them every day.. but i use spring water in between using the nutrient water.

I have the cups sitting in an aluminum container that you would use for like a cookout or something like that. for lights... im kinda doin it the ghetto way because i dont have the money to buy any HPS lights..

Sooo right now i have 3 - 23 watt Daylight CFL's. and one 100 watt daylight bulb (the regular looking light bulb, not sure what you would call them) i have 2 of them hanging from a rod, 1 of them is a desk lamp that i have sitting on the table and facing down on the smaller plant, and the other is a clamp type lamp, that i have facing the plants.

They all have a few sets of leaves now. theres 3 that are about
4 inches long and the other is about 2 1/2. ummmm... ok. i think thats about it.. if anyone has any questions or tips PLEASE let me know. and again..

*****I WILL BE POSTING PICTURES ASAP!!! I SHOULD HAVE THEM UP BY THE END OF THE DAY!!!***
Thanks!!
 

chb444220

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ok. heres some pics i just took a few minutes ago.. if anyone has any questions.. or needs me to take "better" pictures or pictures of certain parts.. please just let me know. Also.. the bottom leaves.. the very 1st ones to sprout (i forget what theyre called) are starting to turn yellowish.. is this normal..?? and 1 other thing.. i have to water my plants EVERY day.. i water them the same time every day.. well between 7am and 8am.. and every morning when i check on the.. they look fine.. but the soil is dry.. to the point where the top of the soil is sometimes crusty.. but the plants look fine...? should i just keep watering them everyday?? or do you think i should transplant them cuz the roots are sucking up all the water..? or maybe its too hot?? lol. i dont know.. any help or ideas..?? Thanks **its hard to see but there is another plant behind the one on the right.. its just hidden behind the other one because i propped it up to get it closer to the light** **you can see how the little leaves on the bottom are starting to turn a yellowish color** **just a pic of a different plant** **this is my favorite pic and my favorite plant.. i hope this one turns out good.. it looks good to me.. and apparently to my cat too.. hes always tryna get in and look at my plants. lol ** **and one last picture of anotha one of them** and just so you know.. i have no idea why the hell my pics have that fish test thingy..?? dont click on that.. lol. and i dont know why they came out all scatterd over the screen.. sorry bout that. gotta work on gettin pics on here.. lol
 

chb444220

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Hmmmmm... i got alotta people looking at my thread.. but no replies yet beside my own. ok. Well i decided transplant my Baby's into bigger pots, because watering them EVERYDAY was getting annoying.. and i felt like the pots... well cups i had them in were a little to small anyways.. and i was thinking that was why i had to water them everyday.. and yesterday i actually had to water them twice!! soo i just finished doing that.. and i took some more pictures.. 3 of them had a really good rooting system.. the other one.. =-/ not soo good. lol. but i took a few pics of the roots.. and you guys can tell me how they look.. and as far as the yellow leaves on the bottom.. they're still there.. not quite sure what to do with them yet.. i'm gonna upload some more pics in a couple minutes and show you guys what they look like so maybe someone could help me out and let me know what i should do. and there were a few leaves that had yellowish brown tips.. and it seems as if they were getting worse and worse each day.. soooo i snipped JUST the brown/yellow part off.. it was'nt much of the leaf.. you can hardly tell i cut a couple of them.. but i saw that in a video today.. so i just figured id cut the tips too... also. i was thinking about LST'ing a couple of my plants.. has anyone done this and had any success?? is it really worth doing? ok well i'm going to go upload those pics and put them up now.and PS. i think the pics will show up better now.. because yesterday the atatchment option was'nt working.. but i just tried it out now. and its working fine.
 

chb444220

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OK Heres a bunch of pics i just took..


The Yellowish Bottom leaves

The Brownish Tip (Before I Cut It Off)

My Roots (from when I transplanted it)

All of them after the Transplant

Just a pic i took that i liked

showing how big they are next to my hand

the soil im using (i mix this with some other cheap soil i got at walgreens for a dollar cuz this stuff is WAY too dry)

The info on the back of the bag

A closeup of the Vitamins

The vitamin/nutes im using

another close up of the nutes/vitamins

heres the bottom leaves that are yellow.. i dont know what to do about this!! :wall:
 

"SICC"

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Evey thing is going good man, dont worry about those lil leave, they die off anyways, if you want to order seed, take a look here, attitude is good, but take a look for yourself

https://www.rollitup.org/seedbank-reviews/

take a look at my journal, i have a party cup going, so the pots there in now will do fine, LST would be great, and you can top them as well

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/151706-uncle-bens-topping-technique-get.html

you will need more CFL's once flower time comes, i would top the plants after they grow some, let them recover then check them into flower

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/13820-fimming-topping-101-a-12.html

http://forum.grasscity.com/absolute-beginners/122936-how-lst-low-stress-training.html
 

micro.grower

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lets start off with the fact that the incandescent bulbs arent doing shit for the plant... replace tose with more cfl's... the heat may be the cause of the browning and the yellowing of the cotyledons ... the lowest lil round leaves... ther is also the fact that you have given them a good dose of nute burn... the burnt tips could be caused from this... how much did you actually look into growing before you started this? also, you mite not wanna check the roots like that very often, unless you want a shim, but there is a reason transplanting shox them and if ya dont wanna shock them, let them be...
i dont mean to come off as a dick if i did, but these are things tat should be fixed pretty promptly... you can fix all the above probs pretty simply... change your lights... put in some more cfl's... flush the shit outta them... make sure they can drain and pour about 3x the volume of your grow containers worth of ph'd water... make sure it fully drains... to the point of not dripping... that should fix the nute burn issue...
 

micro.grower

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also what sicc says.. he's a pretty smart dude...lol... he grows succesfully, so thats smart enough imho... any more questions... ask around until you find out.. i'll scribe to your thread to help you out with what i can homie... stay green and good luck muh fuccah...
 

micro.grower

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i just read you took the root pik when you transplanted... didnt really read that part before... sorry... stoned...
 

chb444220

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i just read you took the root pik when you transplanted... didnt really read that part before... sorry... stoned...
lol.. nah its ok. lol. i was thinking that tho wen u said that.. i was like i only took the pics cuz i transplanted them.. lol. and i only have 1 incandescent bulb.... and its one of the "daylight" bulbs.. not sure if that matters or not. i had taken that bulb out before.. and put another one of the daylight CFL's in its place.. but the plants seemed to start drooping a bit.. and it didnt feel like it was warm enough in there..? maybe i should still switch that one out for another CFL.. and then put another lamp in there somewhere.. and put an incandescent bulb in it but just keep it kinda far away from my plants.. just so i can get the heat from it..? and i know i probly should have waited to transplant them too.. because of the whole "shock" thing.. but i was wateriing them every day. and towards the last feww days before i transplanted them. i was watering them twice a day.. and whenever i read other peoples threads they all say they water their plants once every 2 or 3 days. so i figured something was wrong.. just figured they were out growing the cups.. but thanks again for all the help and ti[s. adn i think im going to top ONE of the plants.. and LST another one.. adn leave the other two alone.. and just compare results and see if its worth it.. also.. the next grow i do after these.. i was thing about doing a SOG.. i just feel like it would work faster.. idk. just an idea for now. kk. well im going to go check on them now... ill be back on here in a lil bit
 

chb444220

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[QUOTE="SICC";3407329]Evey thing is going good man, dont worry about those lil leave, they die off anyways, if you want to order seed, take a look here, attitude is good, but take a look for yourself

https://www.rollitup.org/seedbank-reviews/

take a look at my journal, i have a party cup going, so the pots there in now will do fine, LST would be great, and you can top them as well

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/151706-uncle-bens-topping-technique-get.html

you will need more CFL's once flower time comes, i would top the plants after they grow some, let them recover then check them into flower

https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/13820-fimming-topping-101-a-12.html

http://forum.grasscity.com/absolute-beginners/122936-how-lst-low-stress-training.html[/QUOTE]

hey SICC.. thanks for all the help with the links and stuff. and its such a relief to hear that the little leave just fall off... lol. i was like oooo shit.. im killing my plants!! :wall: but yeaa after i finish this grow.. i might try one more grow.. depending on how good this grow comes out.. and then i want to order some seeds.. cuz the weed around here... is fucking gross.. and its never what people say it is... and its just annoying.. its like the better they say the weed is... the worse it ends up being.. lol. soo id love to have something good for once.. and espeacially something I grew myself. well im gonna check out all those links when i get back.. thanks again!!
 

chb444220

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ok. i waqs checking out a few of the seed-bank websites.. (theres sooo many to choose from) adn im just tryna figure out when i do order them.. which type should i order?? theres soo many different kinds of seeds to buy. lol. does anyone know what would be something EASY to grow?? but worth growing tho. i dont wanna spend the money and time growing something thats gonna taste like ass.. i was debating between... White Widow...... Bubblelicous BubbleGum... AK-47.. Jack Herer.... Skunk.. BlueBerry.. ummm.. ok. well maybe i havent really narrowed it down yet. lol. i just looked at a lot of different pictures.. i had to clean off the drool from my keyboard after looking at all those pics. lol.
 

blaze1camp

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When ordering seed i think you need to consider time and space or i should say that those are 2 of the decieding factors for me. From what i see attitude is the shit. I was going through the order proccess ordered 3 lowrider stains and they gave me 4 others for free. But anyways good luck on your grow...
 

*SD*

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i dont wanna spend the money and time growing something thats gonna taste like ass.. i was debating between... White Widow...... Bubblelicous BubbleGum... AK-47.. Jack Herer.... Skunk.. BlueBerry..
Jack Herrer for sure! At least it's my favorite sativa... it smells real nice too. real fruity... good luck on ur grow man! :leaf:
 

micro.grower

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i would suggest a indica... from what i have heard, not read, they are easier to grow... also sativas seem like they take a good while to flower... if you want a short bushy short flowering plant, go indica or indica dom... if you want the opposite, go sativa or sativa dom... if neither one of those are a factor pick out whatever strain you think it would be awesome to smoke... i still havet ordered seeds and prolly wont for awhile... not until i can do it legally.. for the gro i will be doing after this current 7 plant grow, i will prolly use some strain seeds my homie kicked me down from the west coast of some legends ultimate indica, "the purps", and some granddaddy purp... i really want some fems outta those seeds.. i am going to wait till i can get some better grow equipment before i sprout those... actually in about a month and a half or so, when my current grow goes into flowering, i will prolly start them then.. i am really undecisive, so i guess we will see when it happens...
 

chb444220

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Heyyy. Thanks everyone for the input. just got back from wal-mart..i went and bought two more 100 watt Daylight CFL's (or 23 REAL watts or w.e it is) and while i was there i found one of the "under the cabinet" lights.. its 24 inches long.. it said right on it for plants and flowers.. but for some reason. i think the bulb that it came with (its a 24 in. long flourescent tube) is the type i want to use for flowering... not for Vegging. soo i bought a 24 inch tube DAYLIGHT flourescent bulb. its 75 watts... and so i just switched out the incandescent bulb with the 100 watt Daylight CFL. and put in the Tube Daylight thingy.. and also when i was there i found this metal type lamp.... its like the ones you usually see on the tops of turtle cages or snake cages.. its like a cone shape kinda (ill put pics up either later tonight or tomorrow morning) but it has a clamp on it.. well anyways.. i put that in there too.. but i placed it away from my plants... toward the top of my close.. but its facing down towards the place.. and i put the 100 watt daylight incandescent bulb in there.. just to give off some heat.. cuz mr room gets clod at night.. and i know the CFL's dont give off much heat.. especially the daylight ones.. soo yeaa.. that added at least a couple hundred more watts of light in there. =) also i bought a digital thermometer and humidity thing too. it was like 7 bucks.. not bad.. I LOVE WAL-MART!! soo yea. just thought id update u guys.. im gonna put pics up wen i get a chance. i had a question tho.. while i was at wal-mart.... i was looking at all the bulbs they had... and they have this bulb there in all different types (Type A.. Type F etc..) and it sais plant light. and on the box it said helps plants look healthier and greener....?? has anyone ever heard of these. i think the color of the lightbulb is actually bluish. like a grayish/blueish.. not sure if it actually helps the plants.. or just makes them "LOOK" healthier and greener..?
 

"SICC"

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Sounds good man, cant wait for the pics, i want to see how the set up looks, Definitely get those clamp lights, thats what i have now, they work great if you actually clamp them on something, but good too if you make your own lil light holder, not too sure on the lights that make the plants look "greener" as that isnt really something you need for cannabis, i mean im sure its good for veg, but what you have is good

here is how i took those clamp holds and made a lil light holder



 

micro.grower

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yeah man... cant wait to see the pics like sicc said... my theory on lights is that if i cant find good info about growing bud with them, then i dont fuck with them... do you have your plants on a box, or just growing on a desk or something?
 

chb444220

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ok. heres some of th epics of the new set up.. and just to pre-warn you... if you havent figured it out yet.. my set up is VERY GHETTO!! lol. and i have my plants sitting in an aluminum pan-type thing. you can see it in the pic... it slike something u would use at a cook-out or something.. i had a question referring to that..? ca i just fill the bottom of the pan up with water....?? and would the plants just suck it up from the bottom?? i was wondering if that would be good/better.. and also wondered if it would help create some humidity?? and one last thing too... do you think my plants are TOO close to the lights...? i dont think they are but readin through other peoples threads.. i see people saying to keep the CFL's like 2-4 inches away from the plants..? mine are pretty close.. like an inch or 2...? the daylight bulbs dont get hot at all tho... soo idk.. ok. well heres the pics..
just an idea of what it looks like

another look at it the long way (so u can see the clamp light up top too

heres a pic of JUST the clamp light.. it was only $6.50 at walmart and has a 150 watt max.. not bad at all

just a pic of them all together

anotha pic

and another

anotha

more

i thought this looked cooooool

anotha random pic

this stem looks pretty stong for 2 weeks and 2 days old i think

anotha

this was where the lil burnt tip was... guess i didnt get all of it.. im gonna cut this off too tho.

they dying yeelow leaf on the bottom

random pic



alrighty.. thats it for now... thanks again guys for all the input.. this is probly gonna be the longest grow journal ever.. because sadly i have no life right now.. well no job. lol. soo i stay hope.. and take care of the babies.. then go and slep at my girlfriends house for the night.. then same routine the next day.. and i like to record my progress.. for my own personal use too.. but i like hearing other peoples thoughts and input along the way.. makes the process of growin much more fun.. kk. well off to wal-mart again. gonna see if i can find any thing else useful there.. what about a humidifier......?? would that be ok to buy and stick in my closet..?? obviously i wouldnt keep it on ALL day.. but maybe just periodicly put it on here and there...?? idk. just an idea. k. be back laterrrrrr.
 

chb444220

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i just realized too that if u click on my pic that it brings you to my photobucket album.. and you guys can look at other pics i have on there that i didnt feel like puting up..iight. im outta here. Laterrrr
 
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