hello peoplebigbod;1526511 said:Hello people!!
I am writing this as a newbee and am currently having a nightmare. I know being new to all this there will be a lot of ups and downs but I am having my fair share of downs already. First I bought my ph tester and ec tester and these both worked once then broke. Second I thought I would try hydroponics so bought oxi pots and could not keep ph or ec stable so decided on soil. Only realising that it was my testers that were broken in the first place. Thirdly I started my grow in soil when my timer decided to break and not turn on my light for 48 hours. Now I have realised that my babys have not grown at all in the last week which I think is because I was using miracle grow on the advice of a friend. Forthly I have now made the drastic decision to change the soil and when taking my babies out of the miracle grow there has been no growth in the roots at all (they are still in the jiffys) I really wanted to try this out and tasting my own grown at the end would have been the icing on the cake but i'm now getting a bit down about the whole thing. Is this a normal start or am I just not cut out for this?
I am coming to the end of my third week as a horticulturist. I have had so many ups and downs in these last couple of weeks I think I may have lost a bit more hair. I would like to thank everyone for there help and would like to say that the information here has helped out a lot over the last few weeks. I am gonna put pictures of my babies on here and would like any comments please. I have two blue cheese that have been grown in miracle grow the rest are in canna proffesional they are all under a hps 600w cool tube for 18/6. i had thrips thats why i have covered the surface of the soil in perlite to stop them laying any more eggs and sprayed the crop once and not seen another since.
