Should I start again?

Huckster79

Huckster79

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Yea dont give up till they are brown n crispy... im an auto virgin, but photoperiod girls stay with me till bitter end. Especially new its just time to learn. Remember weed is not a slang term.

So many make nubes, which we all once were, scared that this is a fragile little pansie, shes not, shes a tough ass hardy bitch!

Sure as you advance you may get particular about different things, but just basic care and corrections of errors will get you to finish and then improve the next round... but some folks talk if you dont use RO water ph tested with two pens to verify the ph is 6.02423 and feed precisely a recipe blended out of 23 bottles that cost hundreds of dollars (each in some cases) at a recipe that uses decimals in its ppm measurements with a certain brand or style of light placed precicely 16 3/4 inch over the canopy and when you water you water to 12.4% runoff then you cant grow weed succesfully. I say: horseshit!
 
Ablaze

Ablaze

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Huckster79 said:
Yea dont give up till they are brown n crispy... im an auto virgin, but photoperiod girls stay with me till bitter end. Especially new its just time to learn. Remember weed is not a slang term.

So many make nubes, which we all once were, scared that this is a fragile little pansie, shes not, shes a tough ass hardy bitch!

Sure as you advance you may get particular about different things, but just basic care and corrections of errors will get you to finish and then improve the next round... but some folks talk if you dont use RO water ph tested with two pens to verify the ph is 6.02423 and feed precisely a recipe blended out of 23 bottles that cost hundreds of dollars (each in some cases) at a recipe that uses decimals in its ppm measurements with a certain brand or style of light placed precicely 16 3/4 inch over the canopy and when you water you water to 12.4% runoff then you cant grow weed succesfully. I say: horseshit!
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Laugh out loud! 6.02423 ph. Everyone knows its 6.02457.
 
Huckster79

Huckster79

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Ablaze said:
Laugh out loud! 6.02423 ph. Everyone knows its 6.02457.
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Lol i know its the only right number!

A few weeks into my first microgrowmy plant was on deaths doorstep. My mentor confessed the night we smoked her, when he seen it when she was a few weeks old he had seen it and went home n told his wife i killed it. Details of my eff up not important, but im telling u this 10 inch tall plants greenest leave was only one shade away from being pure yellow at one point. Never give up and soak in all you can from your screw ups, early easy success will teach you nothing
 
dtl420

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Huckster79 said:
A few weeks into my first microgrowmy plant was on deaths doorstep. My mentor confessed the night we smoked her, when he seen it when she was a few weeks old he had seen it and went home n told his wife i killed it. Details of my eff up not important, but im telling u this 10 inch tall plants greenest leave was only one shade away from being pure yellow at one point. Never give up and soak in all you can from your screw ups, early easy success will teach you nothing
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My first was a male bag seed under 1 cfl... I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even know how to tell if it was a male or female. It was in a 5 gal bucket with holes punched in the bottom, filled with dirt dug up from the back yard and no perlite (didn't even know what perlite was). When I watered it (every day) it took about an hour for the puddles to drain.. It didn't look very good, but he stayed green till I chopped him down.

@MotherOfFups , we all started somewhere not nearly as suitable as where we're at today, and tomorrow we'll be somewhere even better.

edit: I almost forgot about the first successful clone I took. She took over a month to root. after a couple of weeks she was still green and perky, but still no roots. So instead of throwing her in the trash I just stuck her in a clay pot filled with homemade compost and recycled coco and left her in the back yard to forget about her. A few weeks after that I happened to notice she'd grown a little, so I brought her back inside and eventually pulled a QP off her. She was my 2nd heaviest yielder.
 
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Huckster79

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dtl420 said:
My first was a male bag seed under 1 cfl... I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even know how to tell if it was a male or female. It was in a 5 gal bucket with holes punched in the bottom, filled with dirt dug up from the back yard and no perlite (didn't even know what perlite was). When I watered it (every day) it took about an hour for the puddles to drain.. It didn't look very good, but he stayed green till I chopped him down.

@MotherOfFups , we all started somewhere not nearly as suitable as where we're at today, and tomorrow we'll be somewhere even better.
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Love your last line. If any of us are ever "there" and need no additional learning as we know it all, its time to quit growing. This ride is a journey not a destination.
 
Ablaze

Ablaze

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dtl420 said:
My first was a male bag seed under 1 cfl... I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even know how to tell if it was a male or female. It was in a 5 gal bucket with holes punched in the bottom, filled with dirt dug up from the back yard and no perlite (didn't even know what perlite was). When I watered it (every day) it took about an hour for the puddles to drain.. It didn't look very good, but he stayed green till I chopped him down.

@MotherOfFups , we all started somewhere not nearly as suitable as where we're at today, and tomorrow we'll be somewhere even better.
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You understand that they'll put you in jail for that kind of abuse now. Right? Wow. Secret: I probably killed my first 3 grows from things I've read.
 
MotherOfFups

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Nice to meet you @Huckster79 and thank you for the wonderful words of wisdom. I feel like I've landed in with a good crowd!

My first grow was 2 x NL plants as a *wedding gift from a friend I hadn't seen since I was 17. I thought I'd do the same cheat that I pulled off when in competition against my kids and wife with sunflowers. A big secret squeeze of Baby-Bio (maybe a UK thing) and hey presto, loads of growth and heads. I win. But I read on the internet that weed was in the same family as tomatoes, so I bought some tomato food and gave it a big squeeze into the dirt. It took them 3 days to fully perish.

*This was 16 years ago.
 
dtl420

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MotherOfFups said:
Nice to meet you @Huckster79 and thank you for the wonderful words of wisdom. I feel like I've landed in with a good crowd!

My first grow was 2 x NL plants as a *wedding gift from a friend I hadn't seen since I was 17. I thought I'd do the same cheat that I pulled off when in competition against my kids and wife with sunflowers. A big secret squeeze of Baby-Bio (maybe a UK thing) and hey presto, loads of growth and heads. I win. But I read on the internet that weed was in the same family as tomatoes, so I bought some tomato food and gave it a big squeeze into the dirt. It took them 3 days to fully perish.

*This was 16 years ago.
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They have very similar nutrient requirements to tomatoes, but they don't require nearly as much potassium during bloom. Potassium is used for seed production, among other things. If you watch a tomato plant grow in a container, without fertilizer applications, you'll see it look healthy and bushy during vegetative growth. But once it's been producing fruit for a bit it starts to stretch. Stretching, supposing the plant is receiving optimal light, is a sign of K deficiency.

You started on the right track, just probably over did it. Marijuana is very closely related to hops.
 
MotherOfFups

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dtl420 said:
Marijuana is very closely related to hops.
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Ah! I didn't know that. I used to [successfully] grow hops on my allotment, and yes I can see the similarities.

I am great at learning, but generally only after a mistake. Squeezing straight fertiliser in soil is a ridiculous thing to do, I do feel shame, but in a healthy dose!
 
MotherOfFups

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MotherOfFups said:
Lovely new colour just 36 hours
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Doh! 36 hours is not 3 days, I meant 72 hours there.

I have a Think Different patient who is showing much more favourably too. She was yellow and had stopped growing, at 40 days she was 2 inches tall.
Just 4 days ago:
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And now she has started growing again and the green coming through is promising.
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I read on here that transplanting an autoflower will stunt it for 2 weeks, aaaaand I neglected to mention that I had also transplanted these, on top of the pH lockout. I had made my own net pots which were a tad shit, with holes big enough to let the smaller clay balls into the res. My local hydro shop sells the net pots for £3 each, so a no-brainer and a transplant seemed necessary, at the time. But now I can check the roots without seeing clay balls in the res, which is a little reassuring as I'm recirculating.
 
Ablaze

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Autos. Here's the thing. With photo period plants, everything is done on our schedule. With autos, it's a race.

A kind transplant doesn't stunt. It's when things have gotten out of hand and then transplanted, that exacerbates stress.
 
MotherOfFups

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I tried to be gentle with the plugs but I know now so much more than then, just 4 weeks ago. I can see where I have made many mistakes. Next time this won't happen :)
 
Huckster79

Huckster79

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Nope youll make different ones! Lol. But im not lying.

Ever thought of photoperiod? I just cant imagine growing in a race type mindset... slow n steady wins the race in my opinion... idk a damn thing about autos so i could be missing a lot of great reasons to do autos. I just cant imagine not having that control to assist crisis management myself..
 
MotherOfFups

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I have grown photoperiods in soil a number of years, and this happens to be my first auto journey. And for me, it's one mistake after another throughout! But I learn and expect to make plenty more, I recon I could actually make a business out of my failures; I have learned to be positive about failure so it's cool.

I also did a NFT SOG with clones with my uni housemates a number of years ago. That experience went wrong because of trust and loose lips.

I will get back to photoperiod as I prefer sativa, though I really want to try the Think Different.
 
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