Growing In Hell

Hello, avid comsumptionist. I've never grown before. Trying to keep the grow to an 18-6 light cycle for veg. This plant is exactly a week old from first green shown. I've been keeping it outside starting around 6am (when the sun in my town in Arizona starts shining down. I did a full water today and don't plan on watering anymore until the top feels dry and/or planter feels light. Sometimes around 6pm I check topsoil and bring in under the 300w blurple (25 inches away) until about 10pm. I also have a 3 speed fan blowing generally at first or second fastest speed while it's inside. It's still growing so I'm satisfied for the time being. Just throwing this out to see what y'all thought. Light cycle change or amount or hours or something. Feel free to ask any questions as I'd like to see this be a success. Thanks y'all!

I am a new producer. Can you help me how to grow this plant? When can I start putting plants on the side?How many moisture should be at night and day?What should be the temperature of the night and day? And the other things...thanks for your helping.

What soil are you using? It doesn't look ideal and your plant is pretty small for its age.

Also why are you bringing it in at night instead of just letting it go outdoors? This time of year you shouldn't need too.

Also welcome to RIU and the wonderful world of cannabis cultivation!

I haven't started doing anything yet. I'm doing research on how I should do it before. And I'm probably going to use a light mix. How should I follow the growth period and flowering? How much moisture should be in growth and flowering to be perfect?

Baronessa said:

I haven't started doing anything yet. I'm doing research on how I should do it before. And I'm probably going to use a light mix. How should I follow the growth period and flowering? How much moisture should be in growth and flowering to be perfect?

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Would be better to start your own thread.

Baronessa said:

I haven't started doing anything yet. I'm doing research on how I should do it before. And I'm probably going to use a light mix. How should I follow the growth period and flowering? How much moisture should be in growth and flowering to be perfect?

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Yeah, I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the original poster. Bad etiquette to hijack someone else's thread, as suggested, start your own

Baronessa said:

I haven't started doing anything yet. I'm doing research on how I should do it before. And I'm probably going to use a light mix. How should I follow the growth period and flowering? How much moisture should be in growth and flowering to be perfect?

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Also all of your questions are easily answered at www.growweedeasy.com or by doing a tiny bit of research on the forum

Gentlemencorpse said:

Yeah, I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the original poster. Bad etiquette to hijack someone else's thread, as suggested, start your own

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Okay thank you so much

Hello thank you

Gentlemencorpse said:

What soil are you using? It doesn't look ideal and your plant is pretty small for its age.

Also why are you bringing it in at night instead of just letting it go outdoors? This time of year you shouldn't need too.

Also welcome to RIU and the wonderful world of cannabis cultivation!

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Thank you for responding. It's a Vigoro all purpose that I had.
The setting for the plant has been one of my biggest things because it's will direct what lighting to use.
I'm trying to get it natural light all day which we have plenty, but my concerns were the 110°+ days we have here and birds honestly. I was less worried about the water and more worried about just baking the plant. The soil does seem to hold water well all day as I work 5am-2pm.
I'm fairly experienced at just naturally growing stuff with no lights or anything, but when the plant starts to get into flowering I'll probably need to keep it inside somehow. I don't really have anyone around that would tamper during it's early stages, but would prefer to keep inside during flowering.
Any more questions or suggestions would be great. Thank you.

Also, this is it's current environment around this time 9am.

Also, looking better at that soil outside it looks more mulchy than soil which is good for my outdoors plants. Should I attempt a careful transplant into some better soil?

I would go in or out not both........less stress the better. And you won't bring in bugs.

Transplanted to Mother Earth Garden Soil. Gave light mist of water as soil did not feel dry. Placed in direct sunlight.

DarkWeb said:

And you won't bring in bugs.

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That ^^. Years ago I had two infestations. Both began after my indoor plants went outside, then back in again. I didn't correlate the problem to what I was doing until after the second occurrence. After I stopped taking plants out, I haven't had another infestation since then (about 5 years ago or so).

Outdoor plants should remain outdoors even if they've just sat on the patio for a couple of hours (IMHO).

DarkWeb said:

I would go in or out not both........less stress the better. And you won't bring in bugs.

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So as this was essentially a free see I'm trying to slowly obtain as much knowledge and resources for my particular situation as after this I would like to have an actual small grow.

Prescott480 said:

Transplanted to Mother Earth Garden Soil. Gave light mist of water as soil did not feel dry. Placed in direct sunlight.

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Careful on how hot the container gets you can cook the roots to bud. LOL I know that metal table can get hot! Sat on a metal chair in phoenix at 6am and burned my ass!

spek9 said:

That ^^. Years ago I had two infestations. Both began after my indoor plants went outside, then back in again. I didn't correlate the problem to what I was doing until after the second occurrence. After I stopped taking plants out, I haven't had another infestation since then (about 5 years ago or so).

Outdoor plants should remain outdoors even if they've just sat on the patio for a couple of hours (IMHO).

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At this particular time I am only growing one plant. Thankfully there aren't too many natural pests over here as I'm growing a legitimate garden outside. I understand the risks to a point, but would still like to try to accommodate flowering inside, even at a lower yield, as outside at this moment would not be a great option.
What I don't mind doing, if it okay for the plant, would be to leave it outside for veg for the foreseeable future and just cover it for the dark cycle. The actual heat at this time hasn't seemed to hard on it even with my inexperienced self. I've seen numbers all across the board and am currently running an 18-6 light cycle. Does this seem adequate or should I just keep an eye on the water and let nature do it's thing?

DarkWeb said:

Careful on how hot the container gets you can cook the roots to bud. LOL I know that metal table can get hot! Sat on a metal chair in phoenix at 6am and burned my ass!

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Ohhhhh great point! That's why I'm trying to mention location. Thanks for the good look bud.

Yeah, I'm with these guys, I'd keep it outdoors full time. Maybe find it some partial shade at the hottest part of the day while its still small. Also definitely a good move with the transplant, that vigoro stuff isn't very good for cannabis, too mulchy.

Your outdoor plants have outdoor predators. You bring a bug in and nothing can stop it.

Man thank you boys for the info. It's different when you get it from the people. Here's to success and I'll probably just keep updating in here unless I upgrade from newbie. Thank y'all for being a great community!