I've germinated 4 sweet tooth seeds with 7 or 8 more on the way. I now have them under 3 coil lamps in my basement 20 hrs a day. I plan to start them inside for a little bit of the veg cycle to get them hearty enough to plant them outside guerilla style with perhaps weekly to biweekly maintenance. I also have one seed of purple haze germinating that I have similar plans for. It is the beginning of July and I'm in around 44 degrees north latitude in the US. Will I have time for this, this late in the season? How can I speed up the veg/growth of the plant in its early stages, or "beef" it up somehow with minimal time before going outside with it? Any advice at all is much appreciated as this is my first grow. Thanks alot.
. Fluorescents up the wazzoo a couple CLFs and metal Halide, all at the right distance with the right angle and good cool air circulation, mulch it for humidity (or sticks grass etc.), I recommend Fox Farm soil. Make sure you transplant by Aug 12th-15th, start 20/4 then after the first five to six days switch to 24/7 until transplant (though before you transplant it would probably be a good idea to turn the light off on a work up to it schedule). Use fish emulsion when you transplant, I recommend the Alaska brand (as it doesn't burn)... if you use a good soil like fox farm you won't need to use nutes for 17-20 days... and even then work your way up a feeding schedule. and the secret is every three waterings, when the soil is "thirsty" give them some super thrive. But don't use it for at least 6 days before transplant, then use it again just after (this will help it deal with all the stress involved with being moved, light schedule change, and ecosystem changes, as well as promote them into flowering faster). Start your bloom nutes ten days after transplant (considering you use a 2/3 Fox Farm mix), should do you just fine
of my grow room, actually its more of a closet or bureau I retrofitted. I realize it was pretty ghetto at first, but you can see I made some upgrades. I've got 4 50W CFL's hanging apprrox 6 in above the plants. Are the one's that broke the surface underdeveloped for almost 2 weeks? They had shitty light at first but now they are under the CFL's 20/4. Also, I plan to move these all outside in about a month. My buddy and I prepped the sight the other day...clearing rocks, weeding, digging hoes, getting eaten alive by fucking bugs. Anyway, the soil out the is somewhat rocky and there is a fair amount of clay around 1 ft deep. We dug holes 2 ft in diameter by 1.5 ft deep. We plan to hike in 3 40lb bags of Fox Farm Ocean Forest and some other nutes with a soil ph tester, etc and start conditioning the soil soon...prob 2/3 Fox Farm to local soil...which isn't that horrible, the first 10 in is dark brown and black. Is there anything else I should be doing to prep the soil out there? Also, because of the rocks and clay, would it be worth it to try grow bags? Also, I'm growing sweet tooth which I guess grows somewhat low and bushy...its 90 ind 10 sat, supposedly done by mid sept... any ideas when I should be transplanting? Is it ever too early to go from my one's basement/grow room to outside? Any advice you guys could give me would help a lot as this is my first grow and any input is appreciated. Hope you like the pics.
u can tuck the leaves behind other elaves. Or just leave them,*shrugs*. I a nub too, first gro a few months in. I read all day and dont cut is the advice i read most.
