First Grow Island Sweet Skunk

Like the title says this is my first time growing. Friend gave me 3 Sweet Island Skunk seeds to help me out on my little adventure, the plants are now 4 days from 6 weeks old and would like to Flower once they get there to see what i got, had a few problems from the start 1) started nutes day 1 didnt know and was following Hesi schedule 2) straight tap water, i now have a hanna PH meter and have been giving them around 6.6 PH 3) Ace hardware potting soil, no added nutes but just really shitty soil, i recently found a Hydro store just afew mile away and went and purchased some Fox Farm soil. Well those were the major problems, my setup is in a hallway closet 3x4.5x6 roughly,400watt mh/hps,Hesi starter kit for nutes, and 3 fans pretty basic stuff....
anyway here are some pics i took today 5 weeks and 3 days i think after i adjusted the PH the plants started taking in all the nutes that had set in the soil thats why i have yellowing, plant #2 i have already removed some lower leaves that were yellow, brown, and im sure dead or almost. They are still in the cheap soil and since im gonna flower soon should i leach then replant in the fox farm?

*also i have a bag of perlite and a bag of vermiculite that iwas gonna add to the fox farm soil is that a good idea??

I would like to change the soil today since im starting flowering this thursday, some input would be helpful, thank you

well today i changed the soil in my plants, a few of the smaller roots broke off while i was removing them from the pots but i got most of it i hope

Let me just say i love sweet ilsand sjkunk, sweet, and great high. I will be keeping an eye on this grow. +rep

Awesome!! good to know, thanx man! hope i get a female out of it, but if not at least ill have an idea for the next grow

Here some pics after i changed the soil and some others of the room im using

looking real nice, how old did you say they are?

5 weeks from seed 6 weeks on thursday 16th, i would like to start flowering then but i might wait 1 more week since i just transplanted

i think the small one got fucked up cause of wrong PH and nutes to early but not sure cause it didnt effect the others as much

Also how far should i keep my light? right now its like 20" from the tops of the 2 larger plants

You do not want to put the hps/mh to close cuz it might burn, unless you have some type of cool tube.

so is 20" to close or is that good?

also i noticed that 1 has shown some female pre-flowers, the other i think is also female it has little sacks like the other just no pistils yet

i wanted to start flowering today but do i think i should wait since i just transplanted a few days ago??

well the plants look awesome since i changed the soil its wednesday the 22nd of october and tonight at 12:00 midnight im gonna put them in dark until saturday at noon then switch to 12/12 with my 400watt hps, and the Hesi flowering nutes......


here some new pics










comments or suggestions greatly appreciated!!

looking good. Why are you going to put the in the for so long for?

that plant looks great, cant wait to see the flowers it will produce

ive read that giving them a couple days darkness helps boost the flowering

damn didn't know that. does it have to be before flowering? mines been in flowering for 5 days, can i do it to them?

im new to this but i would think you would only do it right before flowering to kinda boost it

Oh ok. thanx.

4th day flowering, switched to 400watt HPS after 60 hrs. of darkness. soil still a little damp so will start nutes for flowering tomorrow, also added a ceramic heater so i can keep the temps above 70f after the lights go out. besides that i have a rooted clone which was an accident broke a branch off during soil change cut it the right way no root hormone planted in jiffy pellet and fully rooted in 10 days, now in a 6" pot with FF soil. also started 4 new 4way bag seeds i got from a friend, soaked them in water for 24hrs seeds split paper towel for a day and taproot now in jiffy pellets

**Keeping temps from 70-82 degrees at all times not sure humidity have a gallon jug of water in there ( best i can do for now )
**PH right around 6.5
**3 Gallon pots
**FF ocean forest soil w/ added perlite and vermiculite



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