Hey I'm new to the forum and to growing, this is my first time.
Right now I am about 5 weeks in, probably 3 weeks of good veg, with ~8" plants.
My first plant showed signs of gender, and it was a male. Luckily it was a shorter one and it also has discolored pigmentation on the leaves so I am not sad to see it go. Unfortunately, however, I repotted it right before noticing the gender.... so waste of my time doing that.
Been using the following equipments:
schultz fertilizer
vf11 formula fertilizer
generic potting soil
miracle grow
1 gallon food containers from cafeteria
3 and 5 gallon pots from local nursery
started with two 13w desk lamp flourescents and a few 42 watt energy saver flourescents
1000w HPS kit now, homemade
mylar, black plastic tarp, space heater, distilled in a bucket water,
and a cheap thermometer.
One of the pitfalls of my grow is the number of casualties. 14/15 germinated. 13/14 made it out of the soil. 1 became a male. 3 are stunted to being like 1/8 the size of the good ones. 2 died. I remain with 6 good plants, and 1 skinny one that I am doing a LST bending treatment on.
Recently ordered a 1000w MH convertible, hopefully it will be here in a week and I can get it up for the last 2 wks of veg. This is going to result in a long veg phase of about 2 wk.s. Can't wait for the MH to blue it up.
I also have a 26W coil UVB 10.0 light, but am going to return it tomorrow for a 24in UV-B tube light. This will come in handy for flowering.
Recap my methods/errors:
germinated in a wet paper towel
planted in qt or gallon containers
transferred to 3-5 gallon containes
lost half of the plants in the process
use a lot of electricity - get a big electricity bill
no pH meter - not sure of the pH. hopefully I don't run into problems
HPS light only ( and flouros ). Next time around I will have my metal halide bulb handy for vegetative phase
topped a little early - impatient
foliar feeding - frequent
and some pictures
Right now I am about 5 weeks in, probably 3 weeks of good veg, with ~8" plants.
My first plant showed signs of gender, and it was a male. Luckily it was a shorter one and it also has discolored pigmentation on the leaves so I am not sad to see it go. Unfortunately, however, I repotted it right before noticing the gender.... so waste of my time doing that.
Been using the following equipments:
schultz fertilizer
vf11 formula fertilizer
generic potting soil
miracle grow
1 gallon food containers from cafeteria
3 and 5 gallon pots from local nursery
started with two 13w desk lamp flourescents and a few 42 watt energy saver flourescents
1000w HPS kit now, homemade
mylar, black plastic tarp, space heater, distilled in a bucket water,
and a cheap thermometer.
One of the pitfalls of my grow is the number of casualties. 14/15 germinated. 13/14 made it out of the soil. 1 became a male. 3 are stunted to being like 1/8 the size of the good ones. 2 died. I remain with 6 good plants, and 1 skinny one that I am doing a LST bending treatment on.
Recently ordered a 1000w MH convertible, hopefully it will be here in a week and I can get it up for the last 2 wks of veg. This is going to result in a long veg phase of about 2 wk.s. Can't wait for the MH to blue it up.
I also have a 26W coil UVB 10.0 light, but am going to return it tomorrow for a 24in UV-B tube light. This will come in handy for flowering.
Recap my methods/errors:
germinated in a wet paper towel
planted in qt or gallon containers
transferred to 3-5 gallon containes
lost half of the plants in the process
use a lot of electricity - get a big electricity bill
no pH meter - not sure of the pH. hopefully I don't run into problems
HPS light only ( and flouros ). Next time around I will have my metal halide bulb handy for vegetative phase
topped a little early - impatient
foliar feeding - frequent
and some pictures
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