hello so this is my very first time ever trying to grow my own plant. the way im doing it is kinda ghetto but the plant SEEMS happy but i wouldnt know so much. i got this seedling of some strawberry gg from my brother in law and he told me to leave it outside because thats where he has all of his plants and this plant was originally from outside. i listened to him and left it outside for about a week but i could tell that it wasnt happy at all. she was weeping and her leaves were yellowing then browning. im already botany inclined and so i knew that if i cut the dead leaves off cleanly the plant wouldnt waste life force trying to bring itself back to life. anyways, i cut off the dead leaves and i put it inside and decided to put it on 24 hour light in the corner of my spare room and put her under close monitoration. im using a simple 75 watt lightbulb but she seems much happier inside now and shes already grown a good 3-4 inches in the last few days. she isnt wilting anymore but instead she is standing straight up towards the light. and non of the leavess are yellowing or dying. im thinking maybe i got her under control but any advice is always usefull. im kinda poor so i dont have the recourses to really grow this plant the way it probably should be grown. any who, i would sure love any tips i could get. also i was wondering if somebody could explain how to tell wether my plant is indica or sativa. thanks.
so im new at this
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iblazetoomuch
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It's stretching for light as opposed to healthy growing if its a incandescent room light (normal lightbulb), it will continue to stretch until it can no longer support its own weight unless you supply it with the correct light spectrum and better intensity, meaning a grow light of veg spectrum like 6500k for Compact fluorescent, Metal hallide, or high pressure sodium even though it is more of a flower spectrum it would still promote better growth then a incandescent room light.
The plant was better off outside if that is the only lighting you plan on using is a normal room light, as the sun gives the correct spectrum of light to promote photosynthesis, and at a much high lumen intensity then a bedroom light bulb. A 75 watt incandescent can't really yield you anything, and certainly not going to be comparable to a grow under the sun outside.
Upload pics for better idea, but even with 100w rated(23w actual) CFL you would probably want more then one bulb if your going to plan on getting anything to smoke off the plant.
The risk of dieing outside where your brother in law suggested is worth the potential outcome yield and harvest, as opposed to keeping it alive for a week but having it stretch until it falls over then die with no potential for yielding anything as the light is not intense enough to flower much on a cannabis plant or veg for that matter, also you would need plant food at some point, and if you were going to use a non natural water source (not rain), you would have to pH and watch ppm of the water as to not cause pH lockout of nutrients by using high pH water from faucet ect.
The plant was better off outside if that is the only lighting you plan on using is a normal room light, as the sun gives the correct spectrum of light to promote photosynthesis, and at a much high lumen intensity then a bedroom light bulb. A 75 watt incandescent can't really yield you anything, and certainly not going to be comparable to a grow under the sun outside.
Upload pics for better idea, but even with 100w rated(23w actual) CFL you would probably want more then one bulb if your going to plan on getting anything to smoke off the plant.
The risk of dieing outside where your brother in law suggested is worth the potential outcome yield and harvest, as opposed to keeping it alive for a week but having it stretch until it falls over then die with no potential for yielding anything as the light is not intense enough to flower much on a cannabis plant or veg for that matter, also you would need plant food at some point, and if you were going to use a non natural water source (not rain), you would have to pH and watch ppm of the water as to not cause pH lockout of nutrients by using high pH water from faucet ect.
thanks alot for the advice. im gonna postt some pictures. the dieing leaves in the bottom are the leaves that were already there before i brought the plant inside.
after i brought it inside the leaves stopped curling and dying and the leaves that were already half dead even turned as green as they could. and there are as i can see, many new leaves and some good growth to me. but here are the pictures,
its still only a few weeks old
after i brought it inside the leaves stopped curling and dying and the leaves that were already half dead even turned as green as they could. and there are as i can see, many new leaves and some good growth to me. but here are the pictures,
its still only a few weeks old
iblazetoomuch
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Motherhugger
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it sounds like your approach to wait and see how things are going is working for you. I would continue this wait and see strategy, since it tends to work better than any other technology I've seen. Plants will tell you what they need you to know.
iblazetoomuch
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It looks good on the new growth, the bottom leaves are lookn rough and her node distance wasn't as bad as I had pictured in my head reading your original post, anyway to get it going right get it more lumens in the correct spectrum, since new growth looks ok I would say most likely your pH isn't too far off, but if you intend on keeping indoors, monitor pH and you will need to feed her eventually.
Lights will need more then one 75 bulb I'd assume, if thats a incandescent bedroom light its not going to do much for the older growth, you will just keep doing what your doing now, lower leaves dieing and plant stretch with new growth although I'm surprised she didn't fall over from a 75w incandescent, I've seen alot of examples where wrong lighting or not intense enough lighting is used and the plant will stretch till it can't support itsself, but your plant doesn't look like its falling to far into that category tbh. You will need pH checks, plant food, water, and light. Other then that for essentials for the plant to thrive, you just want to control environment, not let it get too cold or too hot ect.
I think you will be caring mostly for new growth but if you wanted to eventually grow for a harvest I'd check into a HPS setup and how practical it is for your desires. I personally was a little drawn back from HPS not wanting to get in too deep, but the 150w version is really inexpensive (80$ or something), and it uses little electricity; seen decent grows under it so I was happy with the choice to use 150w as first HPS. It wasn't too long before I picked up 400w HPS to add into the grow.