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I think ive actually made it to my first feed? WOW.

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I think ive actually made it to my first feed? WOW.

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#61
CosmoGrows said:
Just ordered some promix HP, i know i should stick with soil, but ima try and give it a go gunna order some more seeds later.
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Same rules apply to pro mix. Hp has enough perlite for me and needs none added. But you have to figure out fertilizer ec and maintain it from almost the beginning. Excellent for learning how to fertilize plants.
 
#62
bunkerking said:
just saying - If you can find a cheap kitchen digital scale at goodwill. (dont spend more than a few dollars) - just weigh them. When fully wet, and when you think it needs water. You will at-least know you still have X amount of water left in the pot. and can feel more confident on letting it stay dry.
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Just thought about this tonight at work, and then you posted it reinforcing my thought. So im going to do that, thank you!

Pretty pissed, went to work with the light off, i come home and see a nice new scratch hole with light popping out in my new mars hydro 2x4 tent i just got yesterday. Nice.. Nice... i buy a new tent because of holes and now more holes. God what a day today has been.

MiMed, i got you, i appreciate the positivity as always. If anything, i can do a little side promix plant,kinda learn, i might not even jump right into the promix, i may keep it on hand.

On the bright side, i popped into the tent, every singleone is looking heck of alot better, it looks likemy big girl is taking to the transplant okay, it looks like she might be breathing again, hopefully she will continue that way. I will post pictures here in a sec to see if you guys have any recommendations.


Some days i come on here just flipping the hell out,running in circles making a bunch of dramatic drastic decisions driving my mind psycho, the positivity/help/support/advice/feedback/whatever wanna call it, it really helps keep me in check guys. I dont have anyone in real life that knows how to grow, and heck, no one in my life except my parents know i grow, so i mean i dont have anyone on the outside to go to as a resource. its pretty much me myself and thcfarmer and some books lmao. and its been a HELL of a ride thus far.
 
#63
Hopefully you don't have to use it long. That's why I said only a few dollars. But yep. You can even make a log. Track how much they "drink". Should get it down in a few weeks. Then lift to check.
 
#64
Oh yah boi. Gotta love when someone gets their ass kicked, only to get up and ask for some more. You will figure it out with time.
 
#65
Hey Cosmo, I just thought about something looking at your pic you just posted. It may have already been addressed, but something @bunkerking said brought a thought to mind. If you are picking up the fabric pots you are compressing the sides of your soil leaving gaps around the sides where your water is going straight to the bottom instead of filtering through the soil and this would compound if you did it while the soil is wet. I saw your transplant pic and the pockets of dry soil and this hypothesis about you picking up the fabric would explain the dry spots and the wet on the bottom while being dry on top. Maybe if you put your pots on a sturdier base not the clear one I saw, you can lift the base and pot together and not disturb the soil. I did not even think about, me using plastic pots that do not give like the fabric ones and us telling you to lift your pots to feel how heavy they are.

I think since you just transplanted your plants, you should maybe try what you might think is over watering, watering everyday or every other day with 500ml (which is a water bottle from any US convience store) of straight ph'd water and NOT lifting the pot. Its worth a try, you was gonna chuck them anyway. If this over waters you can always let them dry out, but if they have been under watered, or the water is going down the sides instead of through the plant this whole time it could be the remedy.

Of course this could just be the thoughts of the Village Idiot, so viewer discretion is advised.
 
#66
Hidd3nGr0w said:
Hey Cosmo, I just thought about something looking at your pic you just posted. It may have already been addressed, but something @bunkerking said brought a thought to mind. If you are picking up the fabric pots you are compressing the sides of your soil leaving gaps around the sides where your water is going straight to the bottom instead of filtering through the soil and this would compound if you did it while the soil is wet. I saw your transplant pic and the pockets of dry soil and this hypothesis about you picking up the fabric would explain the dry spots and the wet on the bottom while being dry on top. Maybe if you put your pots on a sturdier base not the clear one I saw, you can lift the base and pot together and not disturb the soil. I did not even think about, me using plastic pots that do not give like the fabric ones and us telling you to lift your pots to feel how heavy they are.

I think since you just transplanted your plants, you should maybe try what you might think is over watering, watering everyday or every other day with 500ml (which is a water bottle from any US convience store) of straight ph'd water and NOT lifting the pot. Its worth a try, you was gonna chuck them anyway. If this over waters you can always let them dry out, but if they have been under watered, or the water is going down the sides instead of through the plant this whole time it could be the remedy.

Of course this could just be the thoughts of the Village Idiot, so viewer discretion is advised.
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You know.. i thought about this too, looking over my pics again also. I had the same thoughts, and im also wondering if i was traumatized by all the overwatering, now im underwatering because im scared lol. So i took one of my baby plants in a one gallon that was looking like shit and i put her in a two gallon and REALLY soaked her, and i added aLOOOOOTTTTTTTT of perlite. im talking like 50-50 ratio between happy frog and perlite, maybe even a 60-40 ratio. It might not work, but i figured id try some more perlite for more aeration. Im going to try to step out of the boundary, and water more, i mean these girls in the one gallons get like not even a full quart of water. ive probably got to go slower, and water more. one quart of water to a one gallon pot is probably not enough water. I give the ones i have in two gallon pots about a little over a quart of water, by then it seems like the soil is completely wet and iget scared to go more. So i went out of my boundaries again this morning on one of my bad looking plants, and we will see what happens.

Im going to pick up some plastic pots today!
 
#67
Unfortunatly, my big plant is taking another turn for the worse. Shes all puffed up as if shes overwatered, and super, suppppperrrrr lime green this morning. 5 days though, and its only day 2 so i shall sit and wait and see.
 
#70
bunker it just blows, i came to THC farmer AFTER my first harvest about a year and a half ago. i mean, ive only been here a couple months, but i harvested my first four plants about a year and a half ago. since then i have not gotten a plant more than 16 inches in height. my first grow, i put some seeds in a pot and watered and i harvested just fine. sure, they were smaller plants, i didnt even need nutrients thats how small, they finished at about roughly 3 feet. but i still harvested. i had alot of bud, i pressed some into hash, i had a good time.

Now im at plant death number 50. i mean rough guess, but thats a realistic number. Im a young guy, 24 years old who works part time. I cant afford to buy 50 pots, or 7bags of soil to kill 50 plants. i have nutrients and stuff that will probably expire before i get to even use them. Ive gone through a whole bottle of nuke em on plants to just throw them away.
Just going through alot of money, infact, the plastic pots are on hold as i dont even have the funds for those currently. Its just alot of money to be going through right now.
Part of why i have dropped to 2 plants from 6. Less soil being used, less of everything, less space.


Unfortunatly, i do invision about a stress free life just packing all this shit up and selling it. Not having to watch temperatures,humidity. Etc. sounds pretty amazing as i do have an alarm set every 2 hours over night to watch temperatures. So there we go with the plants now cutting into a sleep schedule, because i cant afford reliable timers. i could when i first started, but it was like 400 bucks in just soil. Im pretty low now. Fuck, i was even an idiot and pulled out a credit card for this.

I just need something.
Hopefully people can realize why i am highly, highly demotivated.
 
#71
On my first grow, i killed alot of things too, i even ended up throwing my plants away taking everything down after getting really pissed. After calming down, i went and got my plants out of the garbage, repotted them put them back in the tent, and they grew into nice plants. I was at the breaking point of saying fuck it all, and i gave it one last chance and got success. Im almost at that point again lol.
 
#73
Once its going right.. I hand feed twice a day and only spend around 15 minutes daily in the garden. I also smoke down there, so always in there lol.

Yep - i wasted a ton of money buying 250 CFL bulbs, those massive ones lol. Buying a second 250hps thinking my tent could handle the extra heat. I lost the 1st set of 4 seeds. I know it sucks. I almost gave up this year as well.

This is just life mate. nothing goes right the 1st time, and sometimes not till the 10th time. If its something you truly want, you will put up with this pain.. and will become a good grower. ( i bet 90% of people here were in ur spot once)
 
#74
bunkerking said:
Once its going right.. I hand feed twice a day and only spend around 15 minutes daily in the garden. I also smoke down there, so always in there lol.

Yep - i wasted a ton of money buying 250 CFL bulbs, those massive ones lol. Buying a second 250hps thinking my tent could handle the extra heat. I lost the 1st set of 4 seeds. I know it sucks. I almost gave up this year as well.

This is just life mate. nothing goes right the 1st time, and sometimes not till the 10th time. If its something you truly want, you will put up with this pain.. and will become a good grower. ( i bet 90% of people here were in ur spot once)
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Still fighting the fight. No plans to give up yet, the thought does ponder. But im better than that. I know that.

Like i say on every post that i do post, i will get this.
 
#75
Got my promix shipped today, im going to run to lowes or something and see if i can find the plastic pots cheap, if i can find them for the right price i can grab a couple, i still have some seeds sitting around. I know everyone says to stick with soil. But im pretty much about done with soil FOR right now, i think i really want to try coco/promix, maybe get that down, and then come back to the soil.

bad idea????? Its like, starting a maze from a different entry. ill eventually get back to the soil and learn that, but maybe ill atleast have better luck at growing in a different medium for now?
 
#77
pick the path of least resistance imo.

whatever you know best, had success with.


the going back and foward between medias will get you.
pick one and make it work.


man.. i had to relearn so many things/new things switching to coco. (its not soil, thats for sure lol) Lets skip those issues for you, and just get a plant into flower.
 
#78
bunkerking said:
pick the path of least resistance imo.

whatever you know best, had success with.


the going back and foward between medias will get you.
pick one and make it work.


man.. i had to relearn so many things/new things switching to coco. (its not soil, thats for sure lol) Lets skip those issues for you, and just get a plant into flower.
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Good idea, got you. I do have the promix on the way, but if anything i will keep that on stock for when i do feel like stepping out of the boundary.

Honestly, now that i already ordered the promix, i think i should have just went with roots organics. I had good results with them, ever since i switched to fox farm i havent gotten anywhere. Not blaming the soil, obviously user error to the extreme, but maybe if i go back it might help.
 
#79
im having a hard time on google, if anyone has any pictures, or can find some pics of a healthy transplanted rootball, and could post them, that would be dope. im not talking a healthy seedling rootball, i know what that looks like.

But you have my rootball
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And then a healthy rootball right?
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I just dont understand why mine never look healthy like that, they always compact up, and get super hard. i compress the pots back and forth like fluffing a pillow. they stilled compress right up
 
#80
CosmoGrows said:
im having a hard time on google, if anyone has any pictures, or can find some pics of a healthy transplanted rootball, and could post them, that would be dope. im not talking a healthy seedling rootball, i know what that looks like.

But you have my rootball
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And then a healthy rootball right?
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I just dont understand why mine never look healthy like that, they always compact up, and get super hard. i compress the pots back and forth like fluffing a pillow. they stilled compress right up
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Over watering is why. The roots need a good dry cycle to grow and search for nutrients and moisture.

This is from a little one gallon pot to a three gallon. I like to up pot before the roots start circling the outside too much for best results. The roots are dense through the whole ball.

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