It's nice to find a spot where I can talk to real people about questions about my grow and not worry about them telling other people and then getting busted. As with most of the older group (I'm 3
I have took the time to create an endless trail through cyberspace and am picking up a wireless signal from a neighbor so as to be almost untracable.
I bought some very good one hit wonder 4 years ago. I found only 12 seeds in three ounces and kept them. I put them in a baggie in a drawer and forgot about them. I have been struggling with supply because I don't tell my friends or co workers that I smoke so the low profile has left me with very few sources from which to buy.
I started researching seed banks and grow lights then read as many grow guides as I could find. All great info and if your thinking about growing: You need to read, or you'll never succeed, at growing your weed.
I read that I didn't store my seeds correctly and they should have been in an air tight container in the freezer. I was very sad, but I thought I'd see if they would sprout anyway so I soaked a couple paper towles and waited. In 2 days three grerminated, then 4,5,and 6. the next thing I knew all 12! but I wasn't perpared for any of them. I made a few phone calls and found an indoor grow shop where the tatooed 20 something owner and I talked about the tomatoe plants my father had given me seeds form and that I accidentally germinated them. He was a welth of knowledge. I left with $650 in lights, nutes, mylar, and soil.
I transfered the sprouts to the soil but only 8 made it. The plants really took off under the florecent lights. I waited til the third set of leaves started to show and pinched the tops. I waited til each of the new sprouts had their third leaf and pinched them. I did this one more time before I stopped. Now I have very low and very bushy plants. I started adding nutes after the second pinch and the plants seemed to be doing great.
When they got 8 inches or so tall I moved them to the grow room under a 400w MH bulb. Within a few days some of the leaves started to turn yellow. I used the premixed water and nutes in a ph tester but couldn't get the color to match the chart so I added up, then down, and used alot of solution. Finally I gave up and gave it to the plants anyway, big mistake! I should have thrown it out.
I have 2 plants that turned completely yellow and almost all the others got some sort of yellow on the leaves. First on the lower ones and then the new growth. The 2 that are the worst the top leaves curled up and browned, panic set in and I started searching the web for answers, that's when I found when I typed my question in to google most of the links brought me here so I said fuck it and signed up so I could interact with people and not just go off what others are talking about.
I found that if I ph the water first then add nutes it will stay near the same ph as the water. I also found that the amount of up and down I used was 100 times what I needed. I hope that flushing them will bring them out of their present state. The ph kit didn't give any clues on ratio to bring a certian amount of water up or down. It turned out that only a few drops were enough to change a whole gallon of water. I had used almost a 1/4 cup!
Anyway, I still have 6 good plants and have transplanted them to 2 gallon pots and they seem to be florishing. I will try to get some pic's to post so anyone who may have a similar problem might see the resemblance and know what their doing wrong. Hope this was a lesson I won't ever repeat.