operation sprout

well things are going rather well, the growth is back not as much as befoure 12/12 but its there, also there are some signs of sex, but the big decision is gona be friday, want to be sure...befoure than I'm not gona wory about it...The 3 retarded plants are also sentenced to death by behading, they gona go with the rest of the males...The rest of the ladies could enjoy some more badly needed room ,those babies are squeeeezed!Does any one has any detailed advice on topping sativas? Some of them getting a little to close to the light now...

Ok just watered and fed the girls and sure enough things are defenitely not as good as they have been, here is problem #1 wich I had a feeling was coming...

and here is problem#2 which vorries me a lot more ...

Ok the1 problem is pretty simple, to top or not to top, some of theese sativas are turning int real leaners, I try to regu late this by turning the buckets, must of snoosed on this one...
The second problem is alot more serious, more and more leaves are turning in on themselves forming little tubes, Is it a fert problem? please help!

O.k. so I think I found the true cause of the first problem, not enough light ,light to far (thank you f.f.) and decided to rig up a second light and maybe some cfls on the sides, as far as the leaves I'm clueless Tryed to use the chart but affraid to misdiagnose, I'll just leave them alone for a little while and see what happens, nex watering should be around thursday and its gonna be just water...If any one has any ideas please post...

you can use the 42 watt cfl's they are 2700k red which is good for veg.
Variable thoughts on distance from plant. They do not get hot, they just put out some really red light so to close could burn. Your plants are healthy enough to have the cfl's 2" away. The more the better.
Keep us posted.
I remeber dial up. You have really must have some patience.
Nice pics.
Post more when u get a chance.

thanx midgrade, any idea on the leaves curling like that?

Hey Dude, I think we've fixed your nute problem in the PM's we've shared. I have a question though, in that 5 gallon bucket, do you have any holes drilled in the bottom on that bucket? If not why not?
Peace

sure do took a 1/2 inch drill bit to that baby and went beserk, however when I water them nothing comes out and I give them 1/3 of a gallon each, the soil has tons of perlite in it and it doesnt seem muddy, matter fact I only water them when the moisture meter reads dry red...any ideas?

havent added another light yet, it will take a little time, I'm working on it thogh...I hope it will fix her...

seems like a watering prob too much or not enough.
U might want to add peroxide to water. low percentage

hmmm, like how much? is it risky in any way? I wouldnt want to fuck them up more than I already have...

Thats what I thought too when I saw it, a watering problem.
Peace

midgradeindasouth said:

seems like a watering prob too much or not enough.
U might want to add peroxide to water. low percentage

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The peroxide helps if u have root rot.
Say a cap (perox bottle ap) per 1-2 gallons.
If the roots are rotting it will not take up nutes.

Do you have a moisture meter.
like 10.00

yeah I got one and its usually in dry red zone I check bfore I whater everytime, the problem with the meter it doesnt reach the low end of the bucket.

O.K. read video mans page on stretching and came to realize every single point, Ive done the opposite, the number of plants is too great (yes I know I'm a greedy basterd), so tonight I'm cleaning house there are some definate males in there so no use to wait till friday, second the hps is gona mouve down about 8 more inches and I'm adding a 250w mh light, (no, I'm not loaded I'm resourseful) yeah I only blew the fuse3 times trying to make it work lol. I will be sleeping with a fire extinguisher tonight... also will mouve back to veg newts and will thro in some peroxide just in case...
My MH bulb is very tempermental some times it will ignite fine but others it will let the jus flow right through it but the wapors wont ignite, wth is wrong with it? I will post some pics when things go back to normal...

Oh yeah forgot to mention the biggest fuck up, you know how I mentioned mh beeng tempermental well instead of dealing with it I switched to hps even befoure 12/12 , I hope I didnt fuck up the entire grow ,oh well this was just a bag seed trial run anyway, maybe I can still save some...I'll post some pics as soon as I'm done with disaster managment...

Well went to turn on my light today and nothing happened , so I called my boy who promissed me my light # 2 we said it up (what a piece of shit) tested it and it worked ... I hanged it my grow room and nothing...it hums just like my old one but there is no light...shit, its not my week...the plants are in the dark right now and Im too pist to do anything'bout it GOOD NIGHT AVERYONE.

USE the hps its fine. Im actually finding my hps is vegging stronger thicker plants then my mh lights. Hell even the florescent 8 buck shop lights seems to be a great veg setup if you get 2 or 3 four footers going