Thread: First Ever Grow!

ok so around 3-4 weeks ago i was havin a smoke down a mates house, he picked up some new bud and it was lovely. nice lump of chocolate chunk. anyway he had loads of seeds from the bottom of the bag and i thought id give it a go, (didnt think anythin of it) and 2 weeks later i got a nice looking plant and another bad lookin one. planted a new seed 3 days ago and its lookin much stronger than the other ones already as its had a better boost of light, i only kept the other ones on my window sill for 2 weeks. but now ive put two lights in a box. (11w and 14w) i know this is wrong and my next target is to get a 125w cfl blue spectrum bulb. then to get a 250w red for flowering. il post some pics. hope you like! and please i know im not givin it everything it needs right now. im workin on it. feel free to comment and give a brother advice, thanks for reading!

before i had any sort of lightin except the sun!



not lookin too good



fed it some nutes. using ionic grow.



thanks in advance for any help guys!

soz forgot my chronic.

Hey,

OK, first off take those straws off the plants asap. You will choke them later on. The plants need a slight wind for 15 minuts ever couple of hours to make the stems stronger. Get a fan.

Secondly, Fill the pots to the top. I dont understand why you filled the pots on half way. Fill the pots up, carefully, to the first set of leaves on the seedlings and then get the fan on them.

Thirdly, put the plants outside as much as possible to be in a real breeze and to get some sun. You should really consider planting outdoors. Your plants will thank you for it.

You will get a much, much, much larger yield if you plant outdoors.

S.L.

hey thanks for the feedback. im onto the fan thing. will have 1 up and running sometime today. i am plannin on keepin the one that aint doin to good outdoors but i want to wait till they get a little bit bigger first. if i fill the pots up with more soil they will prob be touchin the bottom leaves. is that a problem? thanks for the advice, really appreciate it.

the tips of my leaves are turnin yellow. i give it nutes the day before yday, can it be anythin else than lack of nitrogen?

ok so ive put my plants on the 12/12 as of yesterday. i know im an impatient fuck! but this is my first grow and want to get a lil smoke for myself, im not expectin much. just want to give it a go. i have more feminized pineapple chunk seeds which i will be veggin for up to 3-4 weeks before flowering. this is when im finished with these 2. here are some pics from today.

Hi there,theres no need to upgrade your bulbs stright away to so high wattage.of coarse it depends from price..i had couple grows before with 7x20w 5600k bulbs and later changed them to 23w 2700k and i still think that using good few smaller wattage bulbs is much better than using 1 big CFL cos when plant gets taller there isnt enaugh light for the bottom leafs when using couple smaller ones you can accually adjust them easily unless you wanna start tieing the plant down.

hey thanks for that mate. what spectrum did u use to veg and flower?

6500k for veg and 2700k for flower tho you can allways mix them up a bit as well.

ok so ive just been lookin on ebay. i have found 2x 65w cfl bulbs which have both spectrums. will these be any good?



and thanks for the advice. its really helpfull! thought no1 was going to help lol.

i honestly couldnt tell you.,.i accually googled that up and im geting very mixed responses. tho it seems to me they are brilliant if you go for feminised autoflowering plants but thats about it..sry that i cant help ya more atm..im no exp tho i just now thing or 2 =)

ok well thanks for helpin me out anyway pal. all is appreciated. a bit slow for replys on here ive noticed lol.

the link is of 2 x 65 watt cfl bulb with both blue 6500k spectrum and red 2700k spectrum. i might get those as they pritty cheap.

Nothin special. Just a quick lil update. these are my plants soo far. ive got another pineapple chunk seedling on its way.

Chronic!

Choco Chunk!

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What are the dimensions of your grow area? Depending on the amount of plants you are growing, you will want a minimum of 50w/ sq ft or more. Up to 100w/ sq ft.

Also 1 other thing, nutes on a plant that young is the reason why you were having yellow tips. The plant doesn't need nutes for the first 4 or 5 weeks after sprout. And then you start em at 1/4 strength.

All looks well so far though. Good Luck!

hey yeah im aware of the link posting. want happen again. my grow box im making at the moment is 1ft by 1 1/2ft and 2ft tall. do you think a 200w cfl bulb blue spectrum would be anough to veg 2-3 plants in? shortly il be makin my flower box but as of yet im workin out what my veg box needs. thanks.

Originally Posted by adiitaff

hey yeah im aware of the link posting. want happen again. my grow box im making at the moment is 1ft by 1 1/2ft and 2ft tall. do you think a 200w cfl bulb blue spectrum would be anough to veg 2-3 plants in? shortly il be makin my flower box but as of yet im workin out what my veg box needs. thanks.

That sounds just fine for veg. Keep in mind when building the Flower box, the plant doubles in height and the plants canopy should be 10 to 18 inches from the HID lighting. So if you take a plant that is 2 ft tall in veg, expect it to reach almost 5ft by the end of flower. CFL's aren't a heat issue.

ok thanks for replyin to my questions. you dont realise how much it helps when Some1 answers a question lol. if i were to get a 250w cfl red spectrum whats the limit on the amount of plants i can flower under it? im not lookin to go nuts and grow plants 3ft tall ect.. im just lookin to grow autoflowers and possibly flower 2 plants at a time? im only growing for my own smoke. not fussed on sellin it and whatever. and thanks again .

as my veg room is soo small would i need 2x 12v fans as i was thinkin of puttin one to blow out and one to blow in. would it be too much?

Originally Posted by adiitaff

ok thanks for replyin to my questions. you dont realise how much it helps when Some1 answers a question lol. if i were to get a 250w cfl red spectrum whats the limit on the amount of plants i can flower under it? im not lookin to go nuts and grow plants 3ft tall ect.. im just lookin to grow autoflowers and possibly flower 2 plants at a time? im only growing for my own smoke. not fussed on sellin it and whatever. and thanks again .

Id say 1 per plant. Maybe 2 plants under 1 light. You'd be best to go with 1 light per plant. In an area that size Id do 4 plants under 2 or 3 lights of that wattage should be fine.

I run 3x150w cfl bulbs for 4 plants. The bulbs are really cheap, and you can run them through splitters on a light chord. I always get great results and only put about $75 into my growbox. With cfl bulbs, you can get those seedlings about 2 inches from the bulbs and it keps them short and branchy. My plants usually have about 3-4 nodes with branches forming on each node by 3 weeks.

It's way too soon for 12/12 man. Let those girls get some arms to hold their goods. You want your plants to branch out, or you just get one big bud with a dense tip and fluffy bottom from the immature bud sites. Give them some time, a good grow requires it. You can use some light nutes, like a 2-4-1 fish emulsion at around 2 weeks, assuming you aren't using MiracleGro. I start mine on the light nutes at 1/4 strength at about the size yours are now. Don't worry about the burn you have, feed them just water for a week or two and let them use up/wash out any extra nutes. Then you can start your nute regiment. And don't freak out when the cotelydons turn yellow and brown, and the first leaves dry up, it happens.

aw thanks for that pal, thats what i was lookin for really. whats the max you have had of 1 plant under cfl's? im not in it to start dealin, just for a smoke.

It all depends on the plant. I grow from bag seed, start off 4 seeds to germinate and kill off males after I sex them. I never get less than 3oz per plan, and that's growing in a box that is 2 feet high by 1 foot wide. Less than 2 feet of grow space, but I keep em short and bushy. That's why you want to veg them until you get some good branches going. Every node will turn into a bud site, so the more nodes and branches you have, the more bud you get. Try Neptune's fish emulsion 2-4-1 @ 1/4 strength, it's a good starter at two weeks or so until they really get going. Once I see them really growing I start them on Organic 5 5-7-3 @ 1/4 strength every other watering till I flower and then I usebloom booster.

wow u get 3oz or more from cfls? thats more than enough for me lol. as for the plant i stuck into flower. would it be ok to change the light back to 18-6 or shall i keep it on 12/12 now incase i stress it an change it to male?

yea switch light to 18-6