First Grow

[CannabisAK]

It all started with a coworker who inspired me to grow. I germinated my first seeds (2 banana diesel, 1 pink panther) on may 15th, 2020. Ill upload photos with stories of my progress and problem solving. I hope you guys enjoy my journey of teaching myself how to grow.

 

[CannabisAK]

So my first seeds popped may 15th, and I planted them in some small plastic pots. I got a humidifier to raise my humidity up to 75%. I am using a like I got from home depot, its an ETI 250w grow light, its not very known, but as of today I am very happy with it being I have the tremote that can control the output. At this time I have no ventilation and no fans moving air around.

 

[CannabisAK]

This is about 2 weeks in, to this point, I have not had any issues and everything seems to be going smoothly. I unfortunetly lost 1 of the banana diesels because i dropped a fan I was installing onto it, growth stopped and I ended up tossing it.

 

[LittleDabbie]

Stop over watering.

 

[CannabisAK]

So this is about 1 month in. I started playing woth adding nutrients. I really stunted the growth of the pink panther as I over watered it, and was adding too much nutrients. The banana diesel got some nutrient burn but seemed to take the amount of water I was giving it just fine. Also note that I am using black gold seedling soil, I now know that it is way too dense of a soil.

 

[CannabisAK]

So here is about a month and a half in. My buddy that inspired me gave me a couple clones of Citridelic Sunset. As of now, I have 2 clip on fans and a cheap inline fan used as an exhaust fan. I have also stopped using a humidifer. I had a really bad habit of over watering the clones that were given to me. I ended up only keeping one of the clones as my tent is only a 2x2 and dont want to crowd too much. (Youll see in next post).

 

[CannabisAK]

Here is as of today/ this week. My buddy ended up having too much plants and didnt have enough room, so he ended up giving me 3 CiSun plants (in back). As of now I am using a dehumidifier in the room im growing in to keep humidity down. Its not working too well as the ventilation system I have setup kind of sucks. I have some cheap inline fans that arent moving enough air (1 inlet, 1 exhaust) and my carbon filter restricts the glow on exhaust side even more. I have a good exhaust fan on the way thatll fix my humidity issue (seeing 65% sometimes). Plants as of now have been in flower for about 2 weeks.

 

[CannabisAK]

Also with my final transplant into 2 gallon fabric pots, I used fox farm ocean forrest for the dirt.

 

[CannabisAK]

Stop over watering.

Ive got watering down pretty good. Took many days of trial and error to understand how to water properly.

 

[CannabisAK]

Watered my plants this morning. I use my tap water, which usually runs 80ppm. For nutrients, im only using botanicares cns17. I have it mixed to 1150 ppm. I use 1 gallon every 2 days to water all 6 plants. They all get about 20 oz of water. I am getting some nut burn and some discoloration on of my smaller plants. The strain of it is pink panther. I have had many issues with this plant, as its the one that really taught me to not over water. I learned that over watering can severly stunt growth.

 

[CannabisAK]

Budding nicely (I think).

 

[growsince79]

Ive got watering down pretty good. Took many days of trial and error to understand how to water properly.

Imo you don't have your watering down. Plants do better with less frequent watering. My 2g pots get 2.5q each water. That's over 5 pounds it has to lose between watering.

 

[CannabisAK]

Imo you don't have your watering down. Plants do better with less frequent watering. My 2g pots get 2.5q each water. That's over 5 pounds it has to lose between watering.

So are you saying I should use more water but stretch it out a day or 2 longer?

 

[growsince79]

So are you saying I should use more water but stretch it out a day or 2 longer?

Im saying you not letting pots dry enough, Constantly soaked roots lead to slow growth root rot and bugs.

 

[CannabisAK]

Im saying you not letting pots dry enough, Constantly soaked roots lead to slow growth root rot and bugs.

Im not rewatering until the soil is quite dry. Which is about 2 days.

 

[growsince79]

How many pounds does it loses untill you think it's dry? Do you use a scale? Are you watering to runoff?

 

[CannabisAK]

Ordered a marshydro ts1000 after measuring my current light (ETI 250w light) lux output and realized it would be better suited for veg in a 2x2 tent. I have a considerable boost in lux throughout the canopy with the ts1000, plants should really like the extra light. Today also marks the end of week 3 in flower.

 

[CannabisAK]

I have encountered a nutrient excess issue. I transplanted my plants into fox farm ocean forrest before I switched to bloom and I was giving near full strength nutes. What started out as light tip burn here and there starting growing into yellowing across leaves. My small plant got nitrogen burn pretty bad. I did a g9od watering of the plants with just plain phed water to flush the excess nutrients out. Im going to water with plain water a couple more times and then will give nutrients again for a week at half dose before I start flushing at week 6. Hope my plan works, we shall see.

 

[Beachwalker]

I agree your watering practices look much better, but unfortunately you've learned a hard lesson to never feed fresh Fox Farm ocean Forest nutrients, and never feed at manufacturer's recommendations; assuming you've flushed and are watching New Growth it should work itself out

Can you get a close-up of this Bud right here..

 

[CannabisAK]

I agree your watering practices look much better, but unfortunately you've learned a hard lesson to never feed fresh Fox Farm ocean Forest nutrients, and never feed at manufacturer's recommendations; assuming you've flushed and are watching New Growth it should work itself out

Can you get a close-up of this Bud right here..

What are you seeing with that bud? And I can get one in a but for you.