ImissATARI's first grow ALL CFL

not time realeased, I have a worm farm and I used straight worm castings. In hindsight (always being 20/20) i should of got some decent potting soil and used that or just mixed it 50/50.

Ill go water the little girlies and see what we got....

RastaCourage said:

i'm using miracle gro..
the soil that A LOT of people frown upon..
i haven't came across any problems..

i don't know what to say..
she was looking really healthy your last post..
i wonder myself, what could have gone wrong..

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well to tell you the truth it may have been an angle, it always has seemed to have a bit of droop to it but seems to be growing alright.

Looked in a few other forums with similar problems and some had droopy leaves the first or second node then it did just fine.

Thanks for the tip on adding a post to the plant problems, i did so: so we can see what others think:

https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/137163-droopy-new-plant-day-12-a.html#post1709101

RastaCourage said:

i'm using miracle gro..
the soil that A LOT of people frown upon..
i haven't came across any problems..

i don't know what to say..
she was looking really healthy your last post..
i wonder myself, what could have gone wrong..

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it's not so much that miracle gro won't work as much as it is other things work much better.

Day 15:

well a little update.

As always for me, things didn't go according to plan.

I had a side job to do so while I was at Home depot i stopped and picked up some scotts potting soil (anyone know how this is?)

It said its good for two 8'' pots, which is about what I have.

When I got home, I transplanted only to find the soil is about 4 inches from the top - not exactly what I had planned. Since I have a very structured schedule with the kids and all, I don't know when I will be able to pick some more up so I transplanted them today. Boy, I couldn't believe in only 14 days how much roots it had already!

So I'm hoping that when it gets a bit taller I can put an extra 2 inches of more soil around the base? Anyone have an opinion on that?

I really really wanted fox farm but the closest place to get it is 45 min away and we just got like 8 inches of snow today so I decided to make an executive decision (maybe when i put more soil in there I can use fox farm)?

Well the ole lady will be here soon so no pics yet, but shes gotta work tommorow so I should be able to do it then.

**I also checked the seeds (really good bagseed) I'm germin, its like DAY 4 and still only cracked, this is the longest its taken me to do this so I opened up the paper towel a little bit to give it some room (it seemed pretty tight in there) and put it in my dresser to give it a little additional heat.

If you use Scott's I would suggest picking up a bag of perlite too. That stuff can get pretty heavy, and the perlite would help a lot with aeration and drainage.

ImissATARI said:

Day 15:


Well the ole lady will be here soon so no pics yet, but shes gotta work tommorow so I should be able to do it then.

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Hey how's it goin? I got a CFL grow goin too and it sounds like we are about at the same time frame- I started mine on the 17th of November- links in my Sig.......

Anyways, If you do go and get another bag of Scotts you can just put that 2 extra inches into the pot...... The extra soil around the stem will encourage it to grow more roots.........

They are lookin good so far...I'm gunna keep up with u as well........

having a big pot would making it pretty difficult to transplant wouldn't it?

i had a lot of roots circled around the bottom of the cup, I would of done it sooner i think if i realized

Time for some pics

tick tick, very soon

Still real droopy:

I left the dresser open (still no fan)

It may be because the soil is holdin too much water, and even though i only water every 3 days, I might have to go for 4 days for now.

PS: Obviously i figured out how to take better pics of the plants

Okay, so im an idiot. Tips to other first time growers, have your materials before you start! You wouldn't move someone into a house before the drywall was up, the furnace or ac working, without windows would you?

I am flying by the seat of my pants and was def overzealous in starting this grow.

On that note, I have been using my tap water (very hard, salty water) and cannot imagine that has been helping. We have drinking water in the fridge and I have no idea why I haven't filled a cup up and let it get to room temp of that before I water it rather then taking water from the tap.

So- it seems it may be a mixture of things that is causing the curling

-stagnant air (no fan)
-shitty tap water (thats hard and seemingly salty)

other then that they are still growing and looking green so I'm hoping with some further steps they may be okay.

I need a Fan ASAP. I will also let it dry more then I have been because I believe the vermiculate I have been using is much to dense and holds the water longer then I expected.

To Mr. Pacific's advice I will also get some perilite to help drainage. When I get additional potting soil I will mix it in with the additional soil I use as well as working on putting it in to the soil in the areas where the roots have not spread yet (should be fairly easy as I just transplanted).

Well lets hope for the best!

RastaCourage said:

find a goodwill near you..
they sell fans & lamps..
fans are about 5-8 bucks. for those little ones
& lamps are under 10 bucks, standing ones to clip ons..

all real cheap..

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goodwill! good lookin out, that will be my next stop