Fenderman84
Member
Salutations to all!
Growing is always something i wanted to do at least once just to experience it. Now that ive got my life in good order i felt like it was finally time to give into this whim of a desire to grow cannabis. So i did as much reading as i could and after about a week i decided to give it a shot.
My grow isnt one of any real complexity and im sure is excessive in its rookie mistakes. With that said, ive gone with a set up that worked with the budget i had set to spend, and in a manner that seemed simplest for me to do and not be affected if i wasnt around for it (i.e. my first child being born and the subsequent overnights at the hospital)
I started with 5 bag seeds that i happened upon in what my guy called "berry white". I used the typical towel method to germinate them and after 48-72 hours i had tap roots ranging from 1/3 inch - 1/2 inch. I planted them in 6" clay pots ranging from 1/8" deep - 1" deep. In 50% miracle gro seedling soil : 50% miracle gro perlite. I took a 3'w,2'd,4'l box i got hockey equipment in and foil lined the inside, put a hockey stick over the top opening and strung a 300w l.e.d. light from it with (2) 45w cfl lights and a 13w blue cfl light. All 2 feet from the plants.
After a week, my "friend" with "tons of grow experience", gave me a container of miracle gro shake n feed tomato, fruit, and vegetables (9-4-12). He told me it was the best nutes to feed without worries of being tracked for what i buy and where. Normally im not so paranoid, but it was free supplements from a friend trying to help. By this point the first seed i planted wasnt looking so hot due to a small taproot and it being planted deep. So i shook a tablespoon's worth on top of each plant's soil as directed and watered.
By the end of week two my first plant died and another was starting to get nute burn. I ordered dyna-gro pro foliage 9-3-6 and dyna-gro bloom 3-12-6 from a place online as well as fox farm ocean forrest. Unfortunately ocean forrest was on back order and i plan on ordering it this coming week from a different company.
Im mixing the pro foliage at a ratio of 1 table spoon per gallon of boiled and cooled water. And watering every other / every 3 days. Ive also cleared out any of the surface nutes from the shake and feed.
Now that my remaining 4 plants are 3 weeks old they seem to be doing better but with this being my first grow and it being a budget grow... Im unsure of my total over all plants health. Everything i read says rule of thumb things with exceptions for specific strain but never tells me about which strains to look out for. I.e. i have purple stems and read that its too early for my plant to have purple stems... Unless its specific strains.
So at 3 weeks is it ok to have purple stems?
Growing is always something i wanted to do at least once just to experience it. Now that ive got my life in good order i felt like it was finally time to give into this whim of a desire to grow cannabis. So i did as much reading as i could and after about a week i decided to give it a shot.
My grow isnt one of any real complexity and im sure is excessive in its rookie mistakes. With that said, ive gone with a set up that worked with the budget i had set to spend, and in a manner that seemed simplest for me to do and not be affected if i wasnt around for it (i.e. my first child being born and the subsequent overnights at the hospital)
I started with 5 bag seeds that i happened upon in what my guy called "berry white". I used the typical towel method to germinate them and after 48-72 hours i had tap roots ranging from 1/3 inch - 1/2 inch. I planted them in 6" clay pots ranging from 1/8" deep - 1" deep. In 50% miracle gro seedling soil : 50% miracle gro perlite. I took a 3'w,2'd,4'l box i got hockey equipment in and foil lined the inside, put a hockey stick over the top opening and strung a 300w l.e.d. light from it with (2) 45w cfl lights and a 13w blue cfl light. All 2 feet from the plants.
After a week, my "friend" with "tons of grow experience", gave me a container of miracle gro shake n feed tomato, fruit, and vegetables (9-4-12). He told me it was the best nutes to feed without worries of being tracked for what i buy and where. Normally im not so paranoid, but it was free supplements from a friend trying to help. By this point the first seed i planted wasnt looking so hot due to a small taproot and it being planted deep. So i shook a tablespoon's worth on top of each plant's soil as directed and watered.
By the end of week two my first plant died and another was starting to get nute burn. I ordered dyna-gro pro foliage 9-3-6 and dyna-gro bloom 3-12-6 from a place online as well as fox farm ocean forrest. Unfortunately ocean forrest was on back order and i plan on ordering it this coming week from a different company.
Im mixing the pro foliage at a ratio of 1 table spoon per gallon of boiled and cooled water. And watering every other / every 3 days. Ive also cleared out any of the surface nutes from the shake and feed.
Now that my remaining 4 plants are 3 weeks old they seem to be doing better but with this being my first grow and it being a budget grow... Im unsure of my total over all plants health. Everything i read says rule of thumb things with exceptions for specific strain but never tells me about which strains to look out for. I.e. i have purple stems and read that its too early for my plant to have purple stems... Unless its specific strains.
So at 3 weeks is it ok to have purple stems?
