Flower Child
Well-Known Member
Hi All and welcome to my first journal. I decided to join this website as it seems to have a lot of mature growers near my own age and everyone here is so nice and helpful. I was first introduced to this wonderful plant in 1972 but never grew it till now. I'm lucky to live in Colorado and it is legal to have 3 flowering plants per person. Three adults in my house means I can have 9 plants for my garden, which must be indoors. Anyway on to the basics:
Strains- are Pineapple Chunk and THC Bomb- all feminized.
Soil- was Light Warrior for seedlings, then FFOF in 3.4 gal Air Pots.
Lights- they are under a 400 MH 18-6 ;soon to be a 600 HPS for 12-12.
Room- a 4x4 tent with exhaust fan, oscillating fan, and humidifier- temps 68-79 and 26-60% humidity.
Nutrients- so far have been Age Old Grow and water is city tap- ph'ed down to a 7.
Pests- Fungus Gnats are in houseplants in other area of house due to new soil- so far only a couple made it into the tent which the sticky traps caught.
I had bad luck with seedlings- over fertilized and killed a batch in March. I decided to try again and these sprouted on April 3. They did ok for a week and a half but then almost died from starvation and lost their cotyledons and first set of leaves before I finally fed them at 2 weeks. They spent the next 4 weeks as sickly seedlings. Each plant had multiple problems including wilting leaves, praying leaves, curled up edges, clawed down edges, puffy looking areas, pale leaves, yellow leaves, striped leaves, red stems, purple stems, purple striped stems, yellow spots, brown spots, and pointy dark green jagged irregular edges on some leaves. I wanted to transplant them into their permanent pots but they always looked too droopy to touch. I gave them seaweed then watered in some azomite dust to help with the deficiencies but it did nothing. Out of desperation I retested their tap water and discovered after it sits a couple days the ph rises to 8.5. I used PH Down to get their water down to a 7 and within 2 days they recovered enough I could transplant them. A week later and their weird symptoms are all but gone and they have nearly tripled in size. WOW ph really matters even with organic soil. I am not fertilizing them at the moment because the Fox Farm soil is supposed to have enough nutes for a few weeks. Will post some pics shortly.
Strains- are Pineapple Chunk and THC Bomb- all feminized.
Soil- was Light Warrior for seedlings, then FFOF in 3.4 gal Air Pots.
Lights- they are under a 400 MH 18-6 ;soon to be a 600 HPS for 12-12.
Room- a 4x4 tent with exhaust fan, oscillating fan, and humidifier- temps 68-79 and 26-60% humidity.
Nutrients- so far have been Age Old Grow and water is city tap- ph'ed down to a 7.
Pests- Fungus Gnats are in houseplants in other area of house due to new soil- so far only a couple made it into the tent which the sticky traps caught.
I had bad luck with seedlings- over fertilized and killed a batch in March. I decided to try again and these sprouted on April 3. They did ok for a week and a half but then almost died from starvation and lost their cotyledons and first set of leaves before I finally fed them at 2 weeks. They spent the next 4 weeks as sickly seedlings. Each plant had multiple problems including wilting leaves, praying leaves, curled up edges, clawed down edges, puffy looking areas, pale leaves, yellow leaves, striped leaves, red stems, purple stems, purple striped stems, yellow spots, brown spots, and pointy dark green jagged irregular edges on some leaves. I wanted to transplant them into their permanent pots but they always looked too droopy to touch. I gave them seaweed then watered in some azomite dust to help with the deficiencies but it did nothing. Out of desperation I retested their tap water and discovered after it sits a couple days the ph rises to 8.5. I used PH Down to get their water down to a 7 and within 2 days they recovered enough I could transplant them. A week later and their weird symptoms are all but gone and they have nearly tripled in size. WOW ph really matters even with organic soil. I am not fertilizing them at the moment because the Fox Farm soil is supposed to have enough nutes for a few weeks. Will post some pics shortly.
