First grow!! (Building Process)

as long as the leaves look healthy... and the plant is growing and looks healthy... you are fine bro...

Just watered them today has been 5 days since they last got watered so im sure they where longing for it, when i opened up my door i got a good wiff of that smell everyone loves. Are they supposed to be producing that smell already? ill post some pics tomorrow after they drink up some water.

some strains will smell very early on.. some dont... you might have yourself one skunky strain going!! my white shark girl is smells very pungent when you get close to it... cant smell anything unless your close to in it my grow room tho because of all the air circulation... be looking forward to seeing some pics of the progress...

Yeah my whole room smells of it, i get paid today so ill take a trip to walmart and make a carbon filter. it literally smells like my room is a giant bag of MJ. its funny it didnt smell until i watered it.

Alright up to 1000 views glad to see all these people interested in my grow thank you to all. As for an update today, all three look very healthy, and are thriving.The middle one seems to think that it owns the place and is taking up as much room as it can before the other plants catch up lol. And instead of just dropping by to take a look post a comment id love to hear what everyone thinks.

this is a good idea. keep posting. Contemplating growing my own and this sounds pretty legit. Let me know about the smell and the carbon filter. Thats my biggest worry.

Nice work man, Im doing the same sort of set up, diff lights and well a diff box, so its close to the same, see it here

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/211383-first-time-led-grow-2.html#post2713996

Yeah instead of buying the stuff for the carbon filter i got a tattoo haha, so next week i will try to get that done.

hell ya bro.. i love me some tats.. got around 15 or 16 myself.. i have the itch so so so bad to get more work done.. just dont have the money right now..

Haha right one man i payed $20 for mine it about 5inches big both ways the only thing was, i got it done in this autoshop by a dude with a batterey and a kneedle, pretty much prison style. But he did open a new pack of kneedles so i dont have to worry about aids n shit.

thats always good when you dont have to worry about aids and shit.. LOL as long as its good thats all that matters..

Ok plants are growing great i just have a few concerns, The leaves are starting to overlap because of the confined area that are in should i trim them so they dont overlap anymore? Also there is some browning occuring on the ends of a few leaves, first they become a little flakey in one area, then it starts to die in that area. And the leave are curling down towards the tips should i start watering them more now, i usualy give each of them a 2/3 bottle of water every 3 or 4 days.

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Ok plants are growing great i just have a few concerns, The leaves are starting to overlap because of the confined area that are in should i trim them so they dont overlap anymore? Also there is some browning occuring on the ends of a few leaves, first they become a little flakey in one area, then it starts to die in that area. And the leave are curling down towards the tips should i start watering them more now, i usualy give each of them a 2/3 bottle of water every 3 or 4 days.

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you definatly should not trim off the leaves.. you want to keep them on.. you are going to run into space issues regardless.. your best bet is to do some LST to them... tie them down a little..

do you know the PH of your water/soil?? the browning is probably related to a ph inbalance.. its a good place to start checking...

do you have a moisture meter?? if you dont you should invest in one.. it will take the guess work out of when and how much to water... otherwise you might want to set the pots in a drain tray, water them, and let them absorb the water in the tray for a couple hours.. then dump whatever water is left over.. this will make sure the plants are thoroughly watered...

I got some pool PH/Chlorine test strips, im not sure how accurate they would be with soil, maybe i should take some tap water which is whati usually use to water them and some soil and swish it around for a while, then test it and see what i get. Im really tight on money right now. When i get paid its going strait to my cell phone bill. I might check into a moisture meter once i get some extra cash.

check the ph of the water right before you feed and the runoff water after you do water.... this will give you an idea of the soil ph... if your runoff is really low ph you know the soils ph is low and has salt build ups and needs flushed.. or if its high that you need to add some dolomite lime to lower it... at any rate it will give you an idea of where your at and what you need to do...

Ok im going to water them as usual now its been about 2 days since i have watered them so i will write down and repost the PH's when im done.

The water before is between 7.2-7.6 and the runoff is about 7.2the alkalinity of the water before was 40ppm and the runoff was about 60-70ish ppm if that helps any the chlorine was 0.

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The water before is between 7.2-7.6 and the runoff is about 7.2the alkalinity of the water before was 40ppm and the runoff was about 60-70ish ppm if that helps any the chlorine was 0.

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yea.. thats all the problem is.. your soil ph is probably very close to the same as your water.. which means you need to lower it.. your best bet is to get some soil acidifiers and use.. the main problem with this is you will want a soil ph test kit to make sure you dont over do it.. your next best bet would be to get some ph up and ph down to adjust the ph of your water before you water... you can use lemon juice to lower it if you want.. but the amount you have to use will depend vary.. so you should start with a little and add as needed... this should fix your browning problem within a week or so...

Alright thanks man i wwas thinking about flowering in a week or 2 right now each plant is about 7 or 8 inches tall and in a week they should be close to 10 or so, So i was thinking that only leaves me with about another 14 or 15inches of grow space and i dont know how much taller they get once they start to flower. i just want to be sure i have enough height on them. i was thinking about LST, but i dont want to go through all that trouble.

Original420 said:

Alright thanks man i wwas thinking about flowering in a week or 2 right now each plant is about 7 or 8 inches tall and in a week they should be close to 10 or so, So i was thinking that only leaves me with about another 14 or 15inches of grow space and i dont know how much taller they get once they start to flower. i just want to be sure i have enough height on them. i was thinking about LST, but i dont want to go through all that trouble.

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its not so much the height, as much as if they have a chance to reach maturity... you want to see alternating nodes before flowering to make sure you get the most out of your plant both potency and yield wise... an immature plant will still flower just fine, but won yield as much or be as potent as if the same plant was allowed to mature... the choice is yours.. either way you'll still get some damn fine smoke!

also if you take clones off of a mature plant you can throw them straight into 12/12 once they root because they will be mature already.. just a thought..

as far as lst goes.. yea, its a pain in the ass.. but when limited on space its well worth the hassle... again its your call.. but im sure you would be happy with the results if you did choose to lst a little bit...