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Im Lauren, Im 26, and I love weed. lol
So let me start off by saying, this is my first ACTUAL attempt at a grow. So please. Don't flame me, or i'll be sad lol.
To the nitty gritty -
I've done essentially everything wrong,I'm aware and am not hoping for great results here. Just as an FYI.
1- So of course, me being impatient thinking 'i can do this, it wont be hard', germinated 6 bag seeds I found in some pretty decent nug..(still wondering how in the hell they got there to begin with) and had saved in a baggie and tossed in a drawer. Not exactly the best storage solution. Never-the-less, I put them in some damp paper towels, covered them with plates, stuck em in a kitchen cabinet and sure enough, there they were.
2- So here I am, 2 days later, the seeds have popped and are ready to be planted into a medium. So for SOME reason (I smoke a lot of weed, lol) I decided to plant them, sprout down, in organic soil with organic material seed starter cup things..... and put them under a plain old regular desk lamp light bulb .... in a pie plate with some tap water in them. D-U-M-B
These mother fuckers were DRENCHED and STRETCHED like you wouldnt believe. But me being the stoner I am, Im like, awww man look how much theyre growing, getting all excited..until they were barely a week old and already 3-4" tall. So of course, because they didnt have the light they needed the stems grew ultra fast, and started to fall.
I took the pie plates up to a closet, propped a floor lamp up in the corner where the plants were, covered the walls in tinfoil and let them sit. We (my boyfriend and I live together) kept them on 18-6, but they were still stretching, and not to mention, still sitting, drenched in tap water containers and starting to grow mold on the outside of the containers. Not good.
They continued to stretch a tad, and after 2 and a half weeks passed and there was very little leaf production we decided to transplant to bigger containers. my bf ripped the soaked containers and shook/tapped the dirt off with his finger (dumb) and we put them into larger pots. he had found his brothers grow lights from college randomly in his garage, so we'd ended up having one 6 inch florescent light, 1 large (idk how big it is) HPS light, and 1 random CFL bulb. We took em to the closet and decided we just didnt have enough light to go around for 6 seedlings. so we downsized to 3, and put two in one pot (not entirely sure if thats a good or a bad idea at this point in their life) and one in another.
The lone plant (well call it plant no.1) started to look better within a few hours under the CFL. The two under the florescent didnt show nearly the amount of progress as no.1 did. (I personally think he planted them too close to the sides of the pot) so more googling I did.
Thats when it hit me. Like a sack of brick weed (dun dun chhh).
Its not just about lights.
temperature, air flow, nutrients, humidity, the growing medium...every SINGLE thing counts when it comes to growing your own weed.
so i shared all of my new-found knowledge with the boyfriend and we decided to get better....equipment, if you will, and if one by some random act of god ends up female, then great. but we dont expect any to, and are going to continue growing the plants we've got now and chalk it up as a learningexperience and just .... try try again.
only with better seeds
So currently, my babies are about...mmm, i wanna say 2 months (give or take a week or two) old. For the last 4 days, they've each had their own full spectrum CFL eco bulb with a round dome tent thingy. got a small self regulating space heater set up to turn on/off once the room hits 80. Its set up behind a basin thing full of water and 2 negative ion filters to add humidity (and also the negative ions are supposedly a good thing when growing). we're still running them on 18-6, only now life is a lot less stressful as they're now on a timer. Temp has been about 76-80F during the 'day' with 70% humidity. And to be honest - I really dont know what it ends up being at 'night', i've never checked...and i suppose a part of me doesnt particularly care as i'm not expecting much of anything to come from this, other than experience.
I would however, like to know what you think of the way the plants are turning out...given all that they've been put through lol, what im doing wrong, what im doing right, so forth and so on.
Thank you everyone in advance
^this was after 24 hours.
Im Lauren, Im 26, and I love weed. lol
So let me start off by saying, this is my first ACTUAL attempt at a grow. So please. Don't flame me, or i'll be sad lol.
To the nitty gritty -
I've done essentially everything wrong,I'm aware and am not hoping for great results here. Just as an FYI.
1- So of course, me being impatient thinking 'i can do this, it wont be hard', germinated 6 bag seeds I found in some pretty decent nug..(still wondering how in the hell they got there to begin with) and had saved in a baggie and tossed in a drawer. Not exactly the best storage solution. Never-the-less, I put them in some damp paper towels, covered them with plates, stuck em in a kitchen cabinet and sure enough, there they were.
2- So here I am, 2 days later, the seeds have popped and are ready to be planted into a medium. So for SOME reason (I smoke a lot of weed, lol) I decided to plant them, sprout down, in organic soil with organic material seed starter cup things..... and put them under a plain old regular desk lamp light bulb .... in a pie plate with some tap water in them. D-U-M-B
These mother fuckers were DRENCHED and STRETCHED like you wouldnt believe. But me being the stoner I am, Im like, awww man look how much theyre growing, getting all excited..until they were barely a week old and already 3-4" tall. So of course, because they didnt have the light they needed the stems grew ultra fast, and started to fall.
I took the pie plates up to a closet, propped a floor lamp up in the corner where the plants were, covered the walls in tinfoil and let them sit. We (my boyfriend and I live together) kept them on 18-6, but they were still stretching, and not to mention, still sitting, drenched in tap water containers and starting to grow mold on the outside of the containers. Not good.
They continued to stretch a tad, and after 2 and a half weeks passed and there was very little leaf production we decided to transplant to bigger containers. my bf ripped the soaked containers and shook/tapped the dirt off with his finger (dumb) and we put them into larger pots. he had found his brothers grow lights from college randomly in his garage, so we'd ended up having one 6 inch florescent light, 1 large (idk how big it is) HPS light, and 1 random CFL bulb. We took em to the closet and decided we just didnt have enough light to go around for 6 seedlings. so we downsized to 3, and put two in one pot (not entirely sure if thats a good or a bad idea at this point in their life) and one in another.
The lone plant (well call it plant no.1) started to look better within a few hours under the CFL. The two under the florescent didnt show nearly the amount of progress as no.1 did. (I personally think he planted them too close to the sides of the pot) so more googling I did.
Thats when it hit me. Like a sack of brick weed (dun dun chhh).
Its not just about lights.
temperature, air flow, nutrients, humidity, the growing medium...every SINGLE thing counts when it comes to growing your own weed.
so i shared all of my new-found knowledge with the boyfriend and we decided to get better....equipment, if you will, and if one by some random act of god ends up female, then great. but we dont expect any to, and are going to continue growing the plants we've got now and chalk it up as a learningexperience and just .... try try again.
only with better seeds
So currently, my babies are about...mmm, i wanna say 2 months (give or take a week or two) old. For the last 4 days, they've each had their own full spectrum CFL eco bulb with a round dome tent thingy. got a small self regulating space heater set up to turn on/off once the room hits 80. Its set up behind a basin thing full of water and 2 negative ion filters to add humidity (and also the negative ions are supposedly a good thing when growing). we're still running them on 18-6, only now life is a lot less stressful as they're now on a timer. Temp has been about 76-80F during the 'day' with 70% humidity. And to be honest - I really dont know what it ends up being at 'night', i've never checked...and i suppose a part of me doesnt particularly care as i'm not expecting much of anything to come from this, other than experience.
I would however, like to know what you think of the way the plants are turning out...given all that they've been put through lol, what im doing wrong, what im doing right, so forth and so on.
Thank you everyone in advance
^this was after 24 hours.
) are 8 weeks old you probably should put them out of their misery and start over with a proven strain. They should be huge by now .... sorry! I just planted some Critical Kush (not a recommendation BTW) and they are are 15 days old with 4-5 sets of nodes. I am also fairly new to hydro but a long time outdoorsy guy and like someone else said over mothering them can be a bad thing re: nutes and water. Also turn the heat down a bit if you want to save on electric bill 75 is fine. Good luck but in all honesty I really think its a waste of time and energy to keep going with those plants ...... Again sorry but an A for effort!!!
