First Grow Looking For Input

[GrowNE420]

Hi Everyone!!!!

This will be my first grow. I am actually 29 days in from seed, so far so good I believe. Keeping everything as simple as possible since it is my first time, its already overwhelming enough with all the research there is on just soil growing, with overwatering, pests issues, nutrients, etc...

I am writing this so the veterans out there can give some input on how I have been doing and some things you recommend I can add or do in the process, so other newbies like my self can read this and learn from it!!!!
I have done tons and tons of research and there is still tons I need to learn so please be easy on the negativity..... thanks :)




What I am using

1. Strawberry kush
2. Og kush
3. Fox farm trio nutrients
4. Fox farm happy frog
5. Fox farm ocean forest
6. 2x4x5 veg tent 4ft 4bulb T5
7. 4x4x6 grow tent soon to have mars hydro epistar 320 since that's all I can afford for led.. if you recommend a different light in the same price range please let me know.. I do realize it's not a American made Cobb or higher end kind led and you get what you pay for.


The process

I started germination with dropping the seed in a cup of distilled water for 24 hrs. then transferred over to paper towel method for another 24hrs..
I then transplanted them in to solo cups filled with just Fox Farm Happy Frog and started 18/6. with temps avg 77-81 degrees humidity at 33-40%. seeds sprouted out of soil 48hrs later, which they got there first watering (light watering). They grew in these cups for a total of 22 days with watering ever other day or once soil dried more than 2inches deep. I used big bloom twice about a quarter strength just because I wanted to...it is on the schedule but plants didn't seem like they needed anything felt like I had to do something haha.

Transplant to 1 gal pots FFOF 1/4 handful or worm castings......

I transplanted around day 22 because I saw a little bit of a nutrient deficiency so I panicked... I was nervous to add anything so instead of adding a little bit of grow big and big bloom which could have fixed the problem?? Not sure.. I transplanted which turned out to be early I did water 24 hours before, but when I tipped the cup upside down everything fell apart the roots weren't big enough to hold the dirt together, there was still roots at the bottom so I kept going and kinda just guided it in the 1 gallon pot, and loaded with soil quick to hold the plant upright... ehh was that scary!!!!! Now on day 29 everything is looking good I want to try LST is it to late? As well as topping.... I will try to upload the pictures.

 

[One drop]

There looking ok but not sure why you used bloom nutes ? Anyway if you can get you pots up off floor so air can pass around them will help cold roots are no good , start your veg nutes a little at a time . Best of luck .

 

[iKharon]

Don't need any feed that early.. onedrop is right, too.. I'd throw them in fabric pots.

 

[GrowNE420]

Thanks for the reply ONE DROP!

I used big bloom which stated on the fox farm feeding schedule that you can use the whole grow cycle. So I tried it didn't do anything negative to the plant nor did it do anything positive, IMO.
The pots have been raised thanks

 

[GrowNE420]

Ikharon thanks for stopping by!

I will be transplanting them in 5 gallon fabric pots

 

[One drop]

Now your cooking with gass mate .

 

[iKharon]

Good work :) they will be much happier

 

[GrowNE420]

The one plant in the front left got a little droopy over night so I did water it this morning. Should pop back up.
So now that I am using soil my question is. I have these in the gallon pots which I'm not giving them any nutes for the first 3-4 weeks and once I transplant again I should be good for another 3-4 weeks? And after the last 3-4 weeks in the there final pots where on the fox Farm trio schedule should you start? Would it be week 1 or week 7 confused with this schedule they recommend

 

[iKharon]

Don't go by recommended schedules.. they ain't robots. Lol.. think of it this way, are you going to be happy if full and I force you to eat a large pizza? Only feed when they need it. You'll know when they use all the nutes in the soil.. then feed. But if they are raging and healthy, no need to feed

 

[GrowNE420]

Cool exactly what I wanted to hear thanks!!
Is right now a good time to start topping and LSTing? or should I do one not the other I am planning on a scrog in a 4x4 setup thanks!!

 

[One drop]

This is how I glut my pots lots of air flow around them no water sitting around them .

 

[GrowNE420]

Looks nice and clean!!!
Are those 1 or 3 gallon pots? Are you staying in those or transplanting into something bigger??
What's that in the middle?

 

[Irietime]

Looks like a good time for their first topping imo.

 

[Irietime]

This is how I glut my pots lots of air flow around them no water sitting around them .

Is that vegemite. Uummmm tasty, NOT. :) Do you use that some how in your grow @onedrop?

 

[One drop]

Thanks there in 1 lt pots ill transplant into 4 lt then up into 20 lt final size . The jar in middle is Vegimite a yeast extract I put on my toast for breakfast I use the left overs with a bit of water and beer to attract the few little fungus gnats around the go down into the jar attracted to the smell and drown in the soups du jour .

 

[Irietime]

Thanks there in 1 lt pots ill transplant into 4 lt then up into 20 lt final size . The jar in middle is Vegimite a yeast extract I put on my toast for breakfast I use the left overs with a bit of water and beer to attract the few little fungus gnats around the go down into the jar attracted to the smell and drown in the soups du jour .

Love it. Down home gardening. You by any good surf on your island?

 

[One drop]

Is that vegemite. Uummmm tasty, NOT. :) Do you use that some how in your grow @onedrop?

Yes I use it to feed my compost and in my veggie gardens it attract the brown and green lacewing in there my beneficial and yes I also fern myself the gardener no file in my tank I don't go far ....

 

[One drop]

Love it. Down home gardening. You by any good surf on your island?

Yes mate if I'm up on Maria island I have the channel and killer left at heart break point . Or if I'm on Bruny island I surf Iron pot or Bull bay , and we always hit the Shipsterns and the wreck , but for a great surf with my 2 boys we stay safe on our local beach at Clifftons or out to Parks beach it's got a great safe easy right handed which is perfect for my sons the other places I surf is big killer dangerous shit buddy I have 5 mates we all surf together have done for the last 12 years or so Tassie is so good for big no crowds surf . Do you surf mate

 

[Irietime]

Indeed I do. I had a feeling you were a surfer living on an island and such. Shipsterns!!! That's fucking gnarly, outta my league, I'd be a spectator:). Head high to double over and everything in between is my happy place. Love the longboard to.

 

[One drop]

Indeed I do. I had a feeling you were a surfer living on an island and such. Shipsterns!!! That's fucking gnarly, outta my league, I'd be a spectator:). Head high to double over and everything in between is my happy place. Love the longboard to.

That's great to hear that's what my youngest boy has he's 7 and jasper is 13 and is getting braver each surf we do a lot of off the boat on Shippers and Iron pot when it's over 10' then it gets fun sorts the men out from the boys I have had my fair share of accidents there , it's been a small summer season so it has been good for jasper down there he has caught it working well and 5' but still a wave that has big surprises right when you least expect it .