WELCOME!! bkbbudz 1st grow 2012. MG soil, 80w of fluoro tube, bagseed. Let's Party!!

bkbbudz

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Greetings all! Welcome too my journal. Let's party!!!

So when I started these seeds it was sometime in the 1st week of December. I had no money thanks to the holidays, but my buddy had some MG potting soil and perlite. I have always grown in FF Happy Frog but when times are tough you gotta go with what you got. Also my tent is full and will be for another 7-10 days so, they have been under only 2 regular 4' 40w tubes from seedling through veg.

Anyway, I have been watering them very sparingly due to the MG medium. In total I have prolly given them less than 1 gallon of water combined in the time they have been growing. A few days ago they began to lighten in green and show small shades of yellow. I gave them each about 1/2 qt of water to activate more nutes. But, not enough to over water or feed. The issue cleared right up. I am letting these girls go several days to dry. IMHO this generates root growth by forcing them to seek out moisture. I have added no nutes of any kind. Since the LST in my last grow was a great success. I have decided to use this method on all my grows. The only thing different you may notice about my LST method is rather than tying them down I put babmboo skewers 'straddleing' the branches to push them down. This is personal preference to having something possibly constricting, or cutting as it pulls on them.

If you like what you see and/or are interested too know if MG is truly the 'black parriah' of growing some claim it to be. And if regular low cost lights can grow good budz, please sub. Thanks and here they are at roughly 6-7 weeks...:peace:

The strain is unknown as they are from some dank bagseed I bought about a year ago. I am 99% sure they are indica dominant though as per the leaf shape. Picture 033.jpg
 

bkbbudz

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I gave the girls about 1 1/2 cups of water today. Looking very healthy. I am seeing 9 fingered leaves on them and that I think is a decent INDICAtion that healthy cannabis and MG can come hand in hand...2012 1st 021.jpg
 

bkbbudz

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The new growth on the girls where I last topped is kind of stunted and I am seeing some signs of frailty in the branches. I am sure they are maxed out as far as what 80w of fluoro can accomplish.

Thanks to some good timing, my tent will be available in about 36 hours. My other girls are ready for harvest, just keeping them asleep for a while longer. I pretty much planned this grow perfectly except the $ issue that put my new girls in the MG. But I am still psyched too see how they do.

I am going to veg them another 2 weeks or so under my 250w MH and 8 cfls. Then put them into flowering with the cfls and 250w HPS
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You can see from todays pics that they are maxed under that light.
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Stay tuned, I will be sharing some harvest pics soon from my last grow.
 

Grumpy'

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Subbed by default. :)
i use MG as well, and as you are seeing, it's all about reading the plant, as with any soil. Another member here, DrFever, did a large grow using mg. he has recently left though. If you can grow in MG with time release, and grow them healthy, you can probably grow in anything.
 

bkbbudz

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Subbed by default. :)
i use MG as well, and as you are seeing, it's all about reading the plant, as with any soil. Another member here, DrFever, did a large grow using mg. he has recently left though. If you can grow in MG with time release, and grow them healthy, you can probably grow in anything.
Absolutely agree! IMHO MG is the perfect soil for a first time grower. It teaches proper watering and feeding techiniques. If problems come up there is plenty of time to research and correct before it is too late. Not to mention it is cheap, always a good thing. A grower can always tweak things and change soils, mediums etc. But it is a great feeling to get the 1st successful grow under your belt. What better high is there than the first hit on the budz we grow ourselves?
 
i just wanted to say that i've used the mg potting soil, but i like the cactus mix....you get virtually the same properties and it's easy to get...i live in the country, 30 mi to walmart so thats important lol anyway, just wanted to add that .. you prolly already knew :)
 

bkbbudz

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i just wanted to say that i've used the mg potting soil, but i like the cactus mix....you get virtually the same properties and it's easy to get...i live in the country, 30 mi to walmart so thats important lol anyway, just wanted to add that .. you prolly already knew :)
Thanks for stopping bye!
 
subbed....believe i see u around alot :) always watchin new posts....never know what a pothead might say hehe anyway, i too subscribe to the kiss regimen. my gardening mentor was the mr. miyagi of homegrown, he had an easy approach....it's a weed, give it as much light as possible without burning it, feed it fish shit (emulsion) and plenty of water but let her feet dry one hour every day. 24/0 til 8 inches, 12/12 til the hairs turn brown. simple right? :) i have learned soooooo much up here, it's almost like a science exeriment now. but when in doubt i always go back to basics
 
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