1 month today (w/pics)

yobo

yobo

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yeh man looking allot better, your plant is looking a bit small for its age, shows how your problems can stunt the growth. your pot size looks fine dude, dont know what everyone elce are talking about. they can go droopy from overwatering/underwatering but the finger in the pot test is all good and the weight of your pots. but looking good now man keep it up.
 
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theshape

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mared juwan said:
I like the "pot lift" test to decide when to water. I lift the pot at least once a day. A watered pot is heavy. Once it dries out it will feel like picking up an empty pot. 6 days is a long time. You might be letting it dry out a bit too much now. And keep a close eye on the tips of your leaves that are very dark green. They look great now but if you ever see little reddish brown spots forming there then you have overdone it on the nutes. Looks fine now but just be careful. But good job so far - much improved.
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Thanks mared juwan! I went ahead and watered this afternoon so I'll try the lift test on this go round. I wish I knew why it was getting so droopy at night. Was wondering if it was from the 18/6 light cycle and if I should go ahead and switch it to 12/12. Might be a little too soon for that though, plus, I still haven't picked up the correct lights to start that with.
 
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theshape

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yobo said:
yeh man looking allot better, your plant is looking a bit small for its age, shows how your problems can stunt the growth. your pot size looks fine dude, dont know what everyone elce are talking about. they can go droopy from overwatering/underwatering but the finger in the pot test is all good and the weight of your pots. but looking good now man keep it up.
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Thanks yobo! Yep, this is my first try at it so I still have alot to learn. I don't know why either, that pot seems plenty big to me.
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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You could flower it now if you want but I strongly recommend getting the strongest light you can afford first. Assuming it's a female then any money you spend on light would be paid back to you in the end if you know what I mean;-) With only one plant the longer you let it veg, the larger the plant and the bigger the reward.
 
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unity

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They get droopy cause they are sleepy, I assume they pop right up once they get some light. I would let the plant regain some umpf before I'd flower it.
Much improved, keep it up :)

Unity
 
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theshape

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I sure hope its a girl : )

I haven't had any luck finding the lights I need yet, but with the way my situation is right now, I might have to wait til after xmas before I can afford any.

Sleepy? Really? Thats the first time I've heard about that.
 
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unity

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theshape said:
I sure hope its a girl : )

I haven't had any luck finding the lights I need yet, but with the way my situation is right now, I might have to wait til after xmas before I can afford any.

Sleepy? Really? Thats the first time I've heard about that.
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Sound good though, eh. ;)
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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Looks good. You can bump up the nutes just a little but more. It's starting to get hungry again. The yellow you've identified is a lack of nitrogen. The loss of shine and luster on the lower leaves is low potassium. The dark purple stalk and stems are low phosphorous. Not that you really need to know all that but it just means you can add a bit more nutes.
 
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theshape

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Thanks mared! I do like to know all that : )

So does that mean bumping up the Grow Big or is there something else I should ad?

Thanks.
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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There should be numbers on the grow big like 4-5-4 (I don't know the actual numbers for growbig). These stand for N-P-K or nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium. These are very important to look for when choosing nute combinations. Since you are only using one nute for veg you can trust that the Fox Farms people did the proper research to get the right ratio. But later in flower you will want to combine the BigBloom and a flower booster which is high is phosphorous and potassium so the N-P-K is important to look for.
 
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carr0t

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no nutes yet!!! first check the ph of the water.. that a big pot for a small plant with top of the line soil, u are def not having a deficiency yet... well u r but prolly in the form of lockout
 
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theshape

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mared juwan said:
There should be numbers on the grow big like 4-5-4 (I don't know the actual numbers for growbig). These stand for N-P-K or nitrogen-phosphorous-potassium. These are very important to look for when choosing nute combinations. Since you are only using one nute for veg you can trust that the Fox Farms people did the proper research to get the right ratio. But later in flower you will want to combine the BigBloom and a flower booster which is high is phosphorous and potassium so the N-P-K is important to look for.
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Thanks mared! The Grow Big has 6-4-4 on the front of the bottle. So when I get to the point of flowering I guess I should switch to Tiger Bloom.
 
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theshape

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MediMaryUser said:
got any new pictures?
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Yep, just took these. Last night I noticed some kind of spot that just showed up on a couple of the leaves. It can be seen in the first pic. I screwed up and had the light too close about a week ago and it burnt the tip of that one leaf.
 

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mared juwan

mared juwan

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theshape said:
Thanks mared! The Grow Big has 6-4-4 on the front of the bottle. So when I get to the point of flowering I guess I should switch to Tiger Bloom.
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Oh right. Tiger Bloom. That's what I meant but I said Big Bloom. You're going to want to use the Tiger Bloom for all of flower but starting at week 4 you want to add a flower booster to the Tiger Bloom. A flower booster will be like 1-5-4(AN Overdrive) or 0-5-6(Ionic Boost) or the the best I've found is AN Hammerhead (0-9-18 ) but it's expensive - 3x the price of Ionic Boost. But I've used all three that I've mentioned and they will all fatten up the buds big time.
 
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