Currently 19 days into my first grow from seed. I decided to wager/hope I wouldn't run into any issues before I was completely setup, but such is life right? At the moment I have 6 plants going. Three are 19 days old and the other three are 10 days old. They're in a 4x4 tent under a 400w MH with two oscillating fans (one for the hood and one for moving air). My setup is definitely not ideal or complete right now but I cant be the only one trying to ball on a budget right and you gotta make the best with what you got.
So I just got back from the hydroponics store and received a reality check of sorts but am not sure if it should be taken with a grain of salt or not. I explained my issue which is that I have been noticing intermittent white specks on the top of my leaves which I am able to brush off by hand. After eyeballing the plants last night with a jewelers loop for over and hour, I have a hard time speculating that its some sort of pest or mite. The hydro store said its most likely powdery mildew and because its a systemic issue that it wont go away and I may as well toss the plants and start over. I have no problem doing that, but he also didn't get eyes on the plants and I had no pictures. So before dropping the guillotine on them I'd like to get a second opinion.
Lastly, I went into the hydro store to get more supplies but ended up leaving empty handed. My goal is to be able to
yield between a half pound to pound (some day) and I don't expect to hit those number by any means on my first grow. If this is PM or something just as bad I realize repeating the process with the same inputs is futile. But the reality is I don't have the means to spend $600-$800 on a tent kit that could help me get there like the guy at the hydro store recommended. Was I naive in trying to pick things up piecemeal? Do I table this dream for another time when I am able to have everything? Does my plant even have PM? Do I just trash the plants and carry on picking stuff up? I don't really know at the moment, but I have a light and a tent. Was planning on picking up the exhaust fan, booster fan, ducting, and speed controller Monday.
As you can tell I'm somewhat directionless right now so any comments or input would be much obliged. Ive lurked around this forum for quite sometime and tried my best to approach asking for support correctly. Hope I did, but if not let me know. Again, thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Tokem0n
Strain - White Widow
# of Plants - 6 total (only three with issues currently)
Grow Type - Soil
Grow Stage - Late Seedling/Early Vegetative
Bucket Size - 2 Gallon
Lights - (1) 400w MH
Nutrients - None so far
Medium - Fox Farm Ocean Forest
PPM - Unkown
PH - 6.5
RH - 80%
Room Temperature - 68-75
Solution Temperature - Unknown
Room Square Footage - 16 square-foot (4x4 tent)
Pests - None Known
So I just got back from the hydroponics store and received a reality check of sorts but am not sure if it should be taken with a grain of salt or not. I explained my issue which is that I have been noticing intermittent white specks on the top of my leaves which I am able to brush off by hand. After eyeballing the plants last night with a jewelers loop for over and hour, I have a hard time speculating that its some sort of pest or mite. The hydro store said its most likely powdery mildew and because its a systemic issue that it wont go away and I may as well toss the plants and start over. I have no problem doing that, but he also didn't get eyes on the plants and I had no pictures. So before dropping the guillotine on them I'd like to get a second opinion.
Lastly, I went into the hydro store to get more supplies but ended up leaving empty handed. My goal is to be able to
yield between a half pound to pound (some day) and I don't expect to hit those number by any means on my first grow. If this is PM or something just as bad I realize repeating the process with the same inputs is futile. But the reality is I don't have the means to spend $600-$800 on a tent kit that could help me get there like the guy at the hydro store recommended. Was I naive in trying to pick things up piecemeal? Do I table this dream for another time when I am able to have everything? Does my plant even have PM? Do I just trash the plants and carry on picking stuff up? I don't really know at the moment, but I have a light and a tent. Was planning on picking up the exhaust fan, booster fan, ducting, and speed controller Monday.
As you can tell I'm somewhat directionless right now so any comments or input would be much obliged. Ive lurked around this forum for quite sometime and tried my best to approach asking for support correctly. Hope I did, but if not let me know. Again, thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Tokem0n
Strain - White Widow
# of Plants - 6 total (only three with issues currently)
Grow Type - Soil
Grow Stage - Late Seedling/Early Vegetative
Bucket Size - 2 Gallon
Lights - (1) 400w MH
Nutrients - None so far
Medium - Fox Farm Ocean Forest
PPM - Unkown
PH - 6.5
RH - 80%
Room Temperature - 68-75
Solution Temperature - Unknown
Room Square Footage - 16 square-foot (4x4 tent)
Pests - None Known