Frenchy672
Well-Known Member
So this is my first grow that I've done from seed. I've received clones and other small plants and been able to successfully grow them. I have never grown inside though, so this is my first ever grow indoors. I never really had the money to be able to get what I thought was good enough equipment to be able to do it right, but I remembered my dad used to have an old fish tank that he sold. he kept the lights and pumps and everything else. I got a 175w MH light and a 200lph [50-55gph] air pump that he no longer used. The lighting to me was the most expensive thing to get started indoors, and that was one of the cheapest things that I've gotten so far..anyways, I made a 2x2x4 box and then got the 2 sided [b/w] rolls of plastic. I have a total of 4 23W 2700k CFL and 1 16W 3700k, I need to go buy 6k, and some larger bulbs]. I've had very limited income but I feel like I've got everything I need to be able to at least make a good attempt [hopefully]; making it worth my time and money.
The seeds planted now are bag seeds I got prolly less than a year ago. I germinated them in paper towels, with a heating pad underneath the paper plates to keep them warm. then on 2/22 I put them into jiffy pellets under 19/5 lighting and they took off very nicely
I gave them a week or so in the pellets until I figured roots were about to come out. I kept them in that black container and created a mini greenhouse over it with a cut open windshield washer bottle with plastic wrap over the top with holes in it. This was taken on 2/26
I then transplanted them into some organic miracle grow into a solo cup on 3/2.
I know most people don't talk highly about MG, being carcinogenic and extended release, but this stuff has iirc .01 or .001 available nitrogen and only has peet moss and other very basic things many other people use, just with a different brand name. Since money is always in need, I found myself falling behind my plants. I couldn't find any fox farm soil at the places closest to me. they all had miracle grow, scotts, all the other things I really wouldn't want to use to grow my plant in for the whole cycle. I eventually settled on some Dr. Earth: Pot of Gold Organic Potting Soil. it has everything one could really ask for..and it has mycorrhizae and many other great things for them to start out on.
3/6: this is right before they were transplanted into their final homes. [3gal and a smaller one; I don't remember the size] the one on the right has been growing faster and stronger then the counterpart. The fact it was so speedy and healthy kind of made me want to believe it is a male, but ya never know. If you look at the stem of the right cup its so straight and green and healthy, and the other one is popping out of the soil a bit, stretching a bit, and has a purple stem. I've sadly treated the better growing one like a male, hence using less soil and putting it in a smaller pot.
I'm thinking maybe some of the neglect went to its head and it decided to revolt...I'm not sure
Shortly after getting into the new soil; the faster growing plant [the one I neglected ^_^ ] started seeing spots....
I honestly am still not sure of the issue....I'm thinking it's pH....I did a flush and it seems to have some what recovered but it's still ill. Since I built a dwc bucket I recently got the pH test and found out my tap is at 7.6-7.8 and that's what they've been getting for 2 weeks prior. weird how 1 plant reacts and the other didnt...anyways, I have ph up and down but I switched to distilled, which is at 6 when I test it. This is what it looks like now. you can see a new spot on the yellow edge of the leaf in the 1st picture. it starts like that and then goes big and brown and takes over the leaf.
The newer leaves look healthier then before and it seems to not be as stunted as it was a day or 2 ago. My other plant which has been extremely healthy and robust hasn't been effected by anything in the soil or even my tap water when I was using it.
So if anyone has any ideas about what might be wrong, even if it is a male, all lives matter, even a plant; please let me know. Now moving on to the DWC.
I still need to wrap it with the white plastic before it gets used, I plan on doing that tomorrow. the seed that is going into that is being germinated now [started at 9pm EST on 3/15] hopefully to see results in the am (now 230am 3/17). I was having a super hard time finding anything to put together a bucket, even the double sided plastic had to be bought at the only specialty store around. Luckily there is a hydro shop [somewhat] close to me, that had everything I needed. I stopped there this past weekend and bought all the nutrients, double sided plastic, the netted pot, clay pebbles, black pump hoses.
I'm super pumped that I'm able to grow this style, because I've always had a bit of a green thumb and now I get to test it out.
Granted this is only bag seed, but the 1 seed I'm hoping will pop, and go into the DWC, was from some really good buds a few months back. I had every plan and intention on buying seeds and then doing the DWC but I spent all my money on things to get it up and running, and now I'm left with bag seed.....it's much better than nothing, I'll go with that any day...anyways this hopefully won't be my last grow, so I definitely intend on buying seeds very shortly and constantly upgrading my setup. Well, thanks for reading and I hope I don't disappoint, sometimes there comes a point and time there's just no fixing what's been done. Heres a goodnight picture from T.he H.appy C.ampers over here.
The seeds planted now are bag seeds I got prolly less than a year ago. I germinated them in paper towels, with a heating pad underneath the paper plates to keep them warm. then on 2/22 I put them into jiffy pellets under 19/5 lighting and they took off very nicely
I gave them a week or so in the pellets until I figured roots were about to come out. I kept them in that black container and created a mini greenhouse over it with a cut open windshield washer bottle with plastic wrap over the top with holes in it. This was taken on 2/26
I then transplanted them into some organic miracle grow into a solo cup on 3/2.
I know most people don't talk highly about MG, being carcinogenic and extended release, but this stuff has iirc .01 or .001 available nitrogen and only has peet moss and other very basic things many other people use, just with a different brand name. Since money is always in need, I found myself falling behind my plants. I couldn't find any fox farm soil at the places closest to me. they all had miracle grow, scotts, all the other things I really wouldn't want to use to grow my plant in for the whole cycle. I eventually settled on some Dr. Earth: Pot of Gold Organic Potting Soil. it has everything one could really ask for..and it has mycorrhizae and many other great things for them to start out on.
3/6: this is right before they were transplanted into their final homes. [3gal and a smaller one; I don't remember the size] the one on the right has been growing faster and stronger then the counterpart. The fact it was so speedy and healthy kind of made me want to believe it is a male, but ya never know. If you look at the stem of the right cup its so straight and green and healthy, and the other one is popping out of the soil a bit, stretching a bit, and has a purple stem. I've sadly treated the better growing one like a male, hence using less soil and putting it in a smaller pot.
I'm thinking maybe some of the neglect went to its head and it decided to revolt...I'm not sure
Shortly after getting into the new soil; the faster growing plant [the one I neglected ^_^ ] started seeing spots....
I honestly am still not sure of the issue....I'm thinking it's pH....I did a flush and it seems to have some what recovered but it's still ill. Since I built a dwc bucket I recently got the pH test and found out my tap is at 7.6-7.8 and that's what they've been getting for 2 weeks prior. weird how 1 plant reacts and the other didnt...anyways, I have ph up and down but I switched to distilled, which is at 6 when I test it. This is what it looks like now. you can see a new spot on the yellow edge of the leaf in the 1st picture. it starts like that and then goes big and brown and takes over the leaf.
The newer leaves look healthier then before and it seems to not be as stunted as it was a day or 2 ago. My other plant which has been extremely healthy and robust hasn't been effected by anything in the soil or even my tap water when I was using it.
So if anyone has any ideas about what might be wrong, even if it is a male, all lives matter, even a plant; please let me know. Now moving on to the DWC.
I still need to wrap it with the white plastic before it gets used, I plan on doing that tomorrow. the seed that is going into that is being germinated now [started at 9pm EST on 3/15] hopefully to see results in the am (now 230am 3/17). I was having a super hard time finding anything to put together a bucket, even the double sided plastic had to be bought at the only specialty store around. Luckily there is a hydro shop [somewhat] close to me, that had everything I needed. I stopped there this past weekend and bought all the nutrients, double sided plastic, the netted pot, clay pebbles, black pump hoses.
I'm super pumped that I'm able to grow this style, because I've always had a bit of a green thumb and now I get to test it out.
Granted this is only bag seed, but the 1 seed I'm hoping will pop, and go into the DWC, was from some really good buds a few months back. I had every plan and intention on buying seeds and then doing the DWC but I spent all my money on things to get it up and running, and now I'm left with bag seed.....it's much better than nothing, I'll go with that any day...anyways this hopefully won't be my last grow, so I definitely intend on buying seeds very shortly and constantly upgrading my setup. Well, thanks for reading and I hope I don't disappoint, sometimes there comes a point and time there's just no fixing what's been done. Heres a goodnight picture from T.he H.appy C.ampers over here.
