ok so i have 4 plants growing all from attitude 3 Easy Ryder and 1 critical + auto. they are all 6 days old all four germinated but the only problem is one of my easy ryders isn't doing so well.. and by not so well i mean bad lol.. ill post pictures. I'm growing with a 200 watt 6500k feliz cfl 2 gallon pots. ff ocean mix soil havent used any nutes yet.. should I? and will i have to switch to a 2700k light once it begins to flower or could i add a few 100w 2700 cfl and keep the light? i plan to keep this thread up to date with the progress so let me know what i should do about my struggling plant please and thanks! By the way this is my first grow but I'm still hoping to see at least an ounce each plant wachu think? lol damn i asked a lot of questions
Easy Ryder closet grow.. need help!
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lagarrettBLUNT
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the dying one looks overwatered. the soil around it appears darker than the other soil pictures. adding more lights never hurts, if you just only have one 200W cfl it would be best to have a few because your gonna want the light in more positions than just above. no nutes yet.
carlaharris
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You are going to need a whole lot more light, Use 3 bulb splitters for starters, lowes has ones rated up to 600w home depot's are only rated to 100w(considering light from cfls has a tendency to die over 1/2 meter it doesn't hurt to have 4x 100w-300w equiv bulbs hooked up), that and i use hanging auto/shop/work lights with a higher rating too as the fixture. All that will cost you about $25-30+ a $10 timer is great. Biggest changes in growth I noticed was after I did 3 things. Followed the Lucas Formula, set my lights to 18/6, and kept the pH at 5.5-6.0. I've never played with soil so i cant help you to much with the pH management for that. I'm guessing its less labor intensive, so you should be fine not having to worry about it. If you can afford to pick up some fox farm microbebrew and some unbleached black strap molasses(any grocery store will have it) Add 1ml of molasses per gallon of purified/distilled/reverse osmosis water and whatever the microbe-brew recommends for soil. Water your plants with that as needed and they'll take off.
carlaharris
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You can use just water but at the very least i recommend the light additions and timer.
The stunted on was loosing water faster than the others at the beginning but i kept watering them with the same amount.. and the bulb I'm using puts out 14000 lumens i figured i'd add those 3 splitters and an extra 6 100w soft white bulb would work right? also I'm getting a ph meter and timer asap.. and i had it on a 20/4 hour cycle because they said it was best for the strain..