First grow, looking for advice and feedback from more experienced growers

guianous

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Im in Brazil in a small town where the weather is hot.
My grow is a small underground room with 3 x 2 meters. Im still setting up the place, i already set like a "grow box" with wood plastic and reflective paper measuring about 1,7m x 0,35m and height of about 1,3m. Im using 4 cfls in it, 2 x 44w and 2 x 20w. I also have a 400w and a 150w sodium vapor bulbs that Im not using. The plants were growing so well with the cfls that I still didnt bother. The "grow box" i actually call a nursery I intend to used until the plants reach a certain size (still undecided) and then transplanted to bigger fabric pots and taken out of the box.
I have 4 plants right now(in the pictures p1 p2 p3 p4), 2 I germinated myself (p1 germinated about september 1st and p2 germinated on sep 15th) and 2 of them a friend of mine gave them to me 1 week after germinated so i dont know the exact date of germination but they were the same size as mine so I imagine about sep 1st too.
All the 4 were germinated from seeds, so i still dont know if I got males (and this would be my first cry for help), the way they are, can I determine the sex?
All 4 seeds are from unknown plants, the one we smoke here in my town, they may or may not be the same type, I have no clue, and this is my second question, what can I find out about this plants by looking at them?
I started in a small coffee plastic cup, then to a 600ml plastic cup and then to the vase it is now, I dont know how many liters they hold, they are about 27cm in diameter on top and about 35cm high.
The soil is a mixture I found at the local farmer shop (its really hard to get specific products here), its soil (unknown by me) and 10% worm castings and some coconut pieces.
I just started with ferts last week, I got ferts for tomatoes, its hard to buy things for cannabis when you cant really say what you are looking for.
I have been watering each 2 days in average and spray water on the leaves almost daily.
Some of the plants are showing leaves lighter spots on the leaves, nothing too much but as Im a beginner im a little worried.
My friend who is my "partner" on the plants says that he thinks its time to flower (he's a little in a hurry to get real weed to smoke too), I sais they are too small yet, what do you think?
I took 3 pics of each plant p1 p2 p3 p4 a (front) b (top) and c (closeup) for each, they didn´t fit here, so i will try to post them in a msg later. here are p1 and p2.
 

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Sweeve

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they all look healthy, and good. Looks like a sativa/indica hybrid of some sorts. u wont kno the sex until u 12 them. u could get all females, prob not, but hey ill throw some good karma ur way. I would hold off a little more until u flower, maybe like 2 weeks...let the roots develop and even if u did flower right now, ur probably looking at maybe a quarter when finished....so let them grow some more....watch ur ferts, they a little small to really smash them so be gentle...other than that, good luck brother
 

sunny747

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Looks good. Bigger pots and a few weeks of veg would really increase the yield. Transplant to at least 2 gallon pots. 150 watts of light per plant... Good luck
 

guianous

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2 gallon is about 7.5 liters, and those pots are about 9 liters, the next which will be the last will probably triple in size. About the 150w per plant, I dont think I can right now, electricity here is very expensive, lots of taxes on it, but I will increase the wattage I have now for sure. Is there a way for me to know if my lights are being enough, because I didnt think what I have now would be enough but they are growing so fast that it seems to me a waste of energy (which as I said is expensive here).
What about the so called pre flowers, can I discover by those? when do they appear? Do I have to 12-12 them to get these pre flowers?
 
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fandango

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Im in Brazil in a small town where the weather is hot.
My grow is a small underground room with 3 x 2 meters. Im still setting up the place, i already set like a "grow box" with wood plastic and reflective paper measuring about 1,7m x 0,35m and height of about 1,3m. Im using 4 cfls in it, 2 x 44w and 2 x 20w. I also have a 400w and a 150w sodium vapor bulbs that Im not using. The plants were growing so well with the cfls that I still didnt bother. The "grow box" i actually call a nursery I intend to used until the plants reach a certain size (still undecided) and then transplanted to bigger fabric pots and taken out of the box.
I have 4 plants right now(in the pictures p1 p2 p3 p4), 2 I germinated myself (p1 germinated about september 1st and p2 germinated on sep 15th) and 2 of them a friend of mine gave them to me 1 week after germinated so i dont know the exact date of germination but they were the same size as mine so I imagine about sep 1st too.
All the 4 were germinated from seeds, so i still dont know if I got males (and this would be my first cry for help), the way they are, can I determine the sex?
All 4 seeds are from unknown plants, the one we smoke here in my town, they may or may not be the same type, I have no clue, and this is my second question, what can I find out about this plants by looking at them?
I started in a small coffee plastic cup, then to a 600ml plastic cup and then to the vase it is now, I dont know how many liters they hold, they are about 27cm in diameter on top and about 35cm high.
The soil is a mixture I found at the local farmer shop (its really hard to get specific products here), its soil (unknown by me) and 10% worm castings and some coconut pieces.
I just started with ferts last week, I got ferts for tomatoes, its hard to buy things for cannabis when you cant really say what you are looking for.
I have been watering each 2 days in average and spray water on the leaves almost daily.
Some of the plants are showing leaves lighter spots on the leaves, nothing too much but as Im a beginner im a little worried.
My friend who is my "partner" on the plants says that he thinks its time to flower (he's a little in a hurry to get real weed to smoke too), I sais they are too small yet, what do you think?
I took 3 pics of each plant p1 p2 p3 p4 a (front) b (top) and c (closeup) for each, they didn´t fit here, so i will try to post them in a msg later. here are p1 and p2.
If you like these starter plants...save them as mothers plants...now take a cut from each mother plant(mothers are under 18hr fl)put the cut under 12/12...if it has nuts so does the mother...
 

guianous

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If you like these starter plants...save them as mothers plants...now take a cut from each mother plant(mothers are under 18hr fl)put the cut under 12/12...if it has nuts so does the mother...
To make this mother plant, can I flower them, harvest the buds and then keep her alive? or will I have to avoid flowering forever?
Because here the weed we smoke is all squeezed blocks with conservatives (who knows whats in it), I wont know when I get bad weed, anything that comes straight from a plant will be great smoke for me.
 

fandango

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To make this mother plant, can I flower them, harvest the buds and then keep her alive? or will I have to avoid flowering forever?
Because here the weed we smoke is all squeezed blocks with conservatives (who knows whats in it), I wont know when I get bad weed, anything that comes straight from a plant will be great smoke for me.
The purpose of the mother plant is solely to produce offspring...you buy your favorite seed from DNA seeds...and take cuts...for ever
 

fandango

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But can I flower, harvest the buds and keep her alive to get cuts?
I did...this season in fact(northern california)My girls had to move out on short notice...they had a wonderful life for 30 days after rooted clones...sitting pretty under a 600w MH...flood and drain hydro...medium 6x6" RW cubes...nutes...GH...micro,grow,bloom.
PH 6.0-6.2...ppm700-1200.
I took them to the GH and smack them into 7 gallon Geopots,filled with verma soil....did a black out and put 1 harvest early july but only clipped the best top buds of size...the rest of the plant did a re-veg....I did another harvest and collect some seeds.
 
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