fierybong
Well-Known Member
This is going to be a LONG post. I am first time grower who has read about everything there is to read on the internet that I could easily find as far as compiled guides go... so I know about 5 different theories on everything and I am really kind of confused! I have done the best I can so far but I desperately need some guidance!
Around 1/20-1/24 or so I had 3 seedlings, and now at 4/21 I have 2 females about 2 weeks into 12/12 force which for some reason I decided to change to 10 light/14 dark to see what would happen. I am not sure if anything did. I think I got SUPER lucky, 2 females out of 3 seedlings but I don't know if I did something inadvertently to make them female, or if that's even possible? Anyway, is 14 hours too much, should I really stick with 12/12?
The attached pics are about 4 days old now. The buds are larger and the plants even more fleshy with leaves, not sure why that is happening or if it is normal.
So, I'll jump into what I really want to ask which are questions!!!! LOTS of them so here goes:
1) What sort of fertilizer should I use? Liquid in the water, or in the soil? These plants got those slow-release bead things in the top two inches and I have no idea if it helped or not but I can't think that it hurt.
2) WHY do the lowest leaves on my plants keep turning brown and falling off? Almost all of the tips of all but the top leaves are brown and the lowest leaves always look like they want to die! I've got popsicle sticks here and I am pretty sure they shouldn't be that way but I don't know what to do about it! This probably greatly impacted my yield.
3) A bit on my lighting - when I started these plants I only had about 700 lumens of florescent grow tube on them, and I think that is why it took so long for them to grow to a decent size (they are about 15-17" at the moment)or maybe I just didn't force early enough?
About 5 weeks ago I added 2x 1500 lumen "daylight 100" bulbs (3000 lumens for only 46 watts!) and the plants seemed to just come flying out of the ground when I did that. I now have about 3700 lumens of light on them in the form of actual 'grow' bulbs and 2 compact daylight bulbs.
Am I doing my lighting right? What could I change or improve without going all out?
4) How much smell will I have to deal with? Currently I have a fan running in there, I spray a bit of ONA in a bottle on a shirt the fan points at each day and it seems to be controlling it for now but I have no idea if I will come home one day and the whole place will just reek of the stuff!
5) How much longer should I let them flower? I have read until 75% of the while pistils turn brown...
6) Container size - I am pretty sure these root systems are busting out of the pots, I can spread about 1 inch of soil or less and see roots in there. I know I heard 5 gallon bucket everywhere but I thought wrongly at the time that it would mean a way huger plant (don't ask me why I thought that it seems so stupid now) so I used those little buckets you see there... is it too late to transplant? I assume I wouldn't want to do it now while they are flowering at the least.
7)re-use - should I keep my plants or kill them during harvest? If I keep them, how do I do it?
Pruning - do I need to be removing leaves from the plants, or the little leaves near the buds?
So hopefully you guys can see a closet newbie in real need of some guidance here... please forgive me if I really have no idea what I am talking about, all I know is what I have experienced myself so far and gleaned from info all around the net.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! HAVE A GOOD ONE
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Around 1/20-1/24 or so I had 3 seedlings, and now at 4/21 I have 2 females about 2 weeks into 12/12 force which for some reason I decided to change to 10 light/14 dark to see what would happen. I am not sure if anything did. I think I got SUPER lucky, 2 females out of 3 seedlings but I don't know if I did something inadvertently to make them female, or if that's even possible? Anyway, is 14 hours too much, should I really stick with 12/12?
The attached pics are about 4 days old now. The buds are larger and the plants even more fleshy with leaves, not sure why that is happening or if it is normal.
So, I'll jump into what I really want to ask which are questions!!!! LOTS of them so here goes:
1) What sort of fertilizer should I use? Liquid in the water, or in the soil? These plants got those slow-release bead things in the top two inches and I have no idea if it helped or not but I can't think that it hurt.
2) WHY do the lowest leaves on my plants keep turning brown and falling off? Almost all of the tips of all but the top leaves are brown and the lowest leaves always look like they want to die! I've got popsicle sticks here and I am pretty sure they shouldn't be that way but I don't know what to do about it! This probably greatly impacted my yield.
3) A bit on my lighting - when I started these plants I only had about 700 lumens of florescent grow tube on them, and I think that is why it took so long for them to grow to a decent size (they are about 15-17" at the moment)or maybe I just didn't force early enough?
About 5 weeks ago I added 2x 1500 lumen "daylight 100" bulbs (3000 lumens for only 46 watts!) and the plants seemed to just come flying out of the ground when I did that. I now have about 3700 lumens of light on them in the form of actual 'grow' bulbs and 2 compact daylight bulbs.
Am I doing my lighting right? What could I change or improve without going all out?
4) How much smell will I have to deal with? Currently I have a fan running in there, I spray a bit of ONA in a bottle on a shirt the fan points at each day and it seems to be controlling it for now but I have no idea if I will come home one day and the whole place will just reek of the stuff!
5) How much longer should I let them flower? I have read until 75% of the while pistils turn brown...
6) Container size - I am pretty sure these root systems are busting out of the pots, I can spread about 1 inch of soil or less and see roots in there. I know I heard 5 gallon bucket everywhere but I thought wrongly at the time that it would mean a way huger plant (don't ask me why I thought that it seems so stupid now) so I used those little buckets you see there... is it too late to transplant? I assume I wouldn't want to do it now while they are flowering at the least.
7)re-use - should I keep my plants or kill them during harvest? If I keep them, how do I do it?
Pruning - do I need to be removing leaves from the plants, or the little leaves near the buds?So hopefully you guys can see a closet newbie in real need of some guidance here... please forgive me if I really have no idea what I am talking about, all I know is what I have experienced myself so far and gleaned from info all around the net.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! HAVE A GOOD ONE
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. first off, more light,as much as possible. if i were you id finish that one off as quick as possible then start a new crop, my plants were about a 3 weeks in when i found this site, and i tore into it. i got my light set up at least half proper and im still learning, just so you know your not alone heres some pix of my early crop...
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