MikeSB
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Hey how's it going everybody?
First things first, I am growing one cannabis plant outside in a 5 gallon pot along with a couple tomato plants and a rainbow chard plant.
I have been watering with water from the hose that I've usually let sit for a day or so before using on all of the plants. They are individually potted and receive a good 5-8 hours of sunlight daily. I guess the first question is should I be checking the PH of the water I hydrate my plants with? Some of the tips of the leaves had been browning and curling down and I had looked into it and thought it might have been a lack of nitrogen. I'm using a layer of organic potting soil on top of a nice mound of Dr. Earth organic soil.
I also understand plants need food so I looked into some miracle grow from the local nursery and dosed my plant for the first time.
I used the recommended doseage in the recommended amount of water and watered all of my crops. The next day only my cannabis plant had browned a lot more to where a week later I had to trim all of the fan leaves off.
I think my plant is in the flowering stage .. but it is small. And since this plant was given to me to take care of when it was weeks maybe a month or two old already, I had no clue of its age and location in it's life cycle.
It looks healthy..
and the caterpillars thought so as well, because as I was pruning some of the browned leaves off the plant today, I found not one, but TWO caterpillars living on the stem and in the developing buds.
Also found what looked like spider mites, but after further investigation found them to be caterpillar droppings because they were green like plant matter being chewed (Unless when the spider mites are squished they are green).
Now that the plant seems clean and ready to do some new growing (because the new bud growth looks great!), I think it's time to feed again..
Also the stem could be thicker so I think we should be feeding once every week or two at least right?
A friend told me to use 1/4th of the recommended miracle grow dose so that was my next go too..
What do y'all think?
Also want to get into composting.. Any thoughts?
Thanks a lot
-SB
First things first, I am growing one cannabis plant outside in a 5 gallon pot along with a couple tomato plants and a rainbow chard plant.
I have been watering with water from the hose that I've usually let sit for a day or so before using on all of the plants. They are individually potted and receive a good 5-8 hours of sunlight daily. I guess the first question is should I be checking the PH of the water I hydrate my plants with? Some of the tips of the leaves had been browning and curling down and I had looked into it and thought it might have been a lack of nitrogen. I'm using a layer of organic potting soil on top of a nice mound of Dr. Earth organic soil.
I also understand plants need food so I looked into some miracle grow from the local nursery and dosed my plant for the first time.
I used the recommended doseage in the recommended amount of water and watered all of my crops. The next day only my cannabis plant had browned a lot more to where a week later I had to trim all of the fan leaves off.
I think my plant is in the flowering stage .. but it is small. And since this plant was given to me to take care of when it was weeks maybe a month or two old already, I had no clue of its age and location in it's life cycle.
It looks healthy..
and the caterpillars thought so as well, because as I was pruning some of the browned leaves off the plant today, I found not one, but TWO caterpillars living on the stem and in the developing buds.
Also found what looked like spider mites, but after further investigation found them to be caterpillar droppings because they were green like plant matter being chewed (Unless when the spider mites are squished they are green).
Now that the plant seems clean and ready to do some new growing (because the new bud growth looks great!), I think it's time to feed again..
Also the stem could be thicker so I think we should be feeding once every week or two at least right?
A friend told me to use 1/4th of the recommended miracle grow dose so that was my next go too..
What do y'all think?
Also want to get into composting.. Any thoughts?
Thanks a lot
-SB
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