1st grow. Need check ups

[Ace of Buds]

hey guys. im doin ma 1st grow. its bag seed. im just experimenting but i want to be good at it to where i could teach others. wit dat said let me explain my current set up. plz b patient wit me.

lights: 3 28watt cfls - 6500K 1600Lumens

time - 24/0

Age - 3 weeks

height - 4in

# of nodes - 6

Leaf sizes - smallest = 3in(at bottom) - largest = 5in

Most blades - 9

Order of blades - 1, 3, 5, 9, 9, 9

soil - MG(nutrients alrdy present)

Pot - 10" tall, 8" wide

uhm if you have any more questions PLZ ask.

 

[growalater]

Might want to add a couple more cfls. You will for sure need a lot more when you flower.

 

[ilcattivo]

if you have one plant only , I think the cfls are enough for now, although growalater is right, you will need more and different spectrum cfl if you plan of flowering.

also I don't think 24/0 is that good...no one's out there fighting for it...I think 18/6 is great and you'll save .6kwph every day, I know, like 10 cents, but whatever, save the earth. Most people don't like the MG, I don't know... If your plant is okay, I say it's okay. It might be nice to have a high P nute on hand for flowering. Pot size seems okay, you might want to go bigger in flowering, lots of people use those 5g buckets which I'm guessing are 10-12" by 12-14"?
However, I'll give you that you got 6 nodes in 4", that's damn good, damn good. In my inexperienced opinion tight nodes are one of the best things you can try to create as a grower. I got a tight node plant flowering right now...she's having other problems, but big tight buds is NOT one of them.

 

[sixstring2112]

sounds good, throw up some pics.

 

[Ace of Buds]

how many cfls should i have for flowering? im waiting fo my beauty to hav 10-15 nodes or 2months of age b4 converting. also when i put it in flowring should i lower the bulb Kelvin level to somewhere in red or should i keep it in the blue?

 

[robbzilla]

Well for one plant you can flower with 3-6 CFL but more is always better if you can keep the heat down. When you flower you want to convert the blubs to the 2700k or soft white bulbs. The 6500k is for flowering. If you have like 6 CFLs going you can always mix up the spectrums too. Just keep the color that your supposed to be in more dominant.

Say you have 6 23w CFLs and your flowering youd prob want and 4-2 or even 5-1 ratio of 2700k bulbs to 6500k bulbs. Or you can do like one 42w 6500k and 5 23w 7200k mix. CFLs are easy to play around with like that though.

 

[Stay@homeGROWER]

I would ditch the cfl's for flower and get at least a 400W HID lamp. Waiting is good to flower, the more roots you have the more fruits you'll get. I use 24/0, I agree that plants need a dark cycle so than can process the energy that they just collected and plan onswitching to 21/3...18/6 is just not enough for me.

You are going to want to switch to the Red part of the lighting scale for flower, you can flip with blue but you'll get tighter, dankier nugs with red. And you are going to want to have a bloom additive on hand... something in the 0-6-5 area for the first couple of weeks and get something with a 0-52-36 for your bloom booster during the last 2 weeks. you also want to give a half dose to your plants the first week you flip them and it helps get them ready to do biznazzzz.....good luck

 

[Ace of Buds]

alright. one problem. its in MG so adding nutes id hav to flush it ALOT nd it mite get nute burnt : /

 

[TweedleD]

I could also do with a little check up if i can be a little cheeky!
KiloMix with 150w CFL, 4 inches from tops, water twice a day.
Skip to page two if you want to see the latest photo and tell me if it looks healthy!

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/346109-first-grow-deisel-l-s.html

Thanks!

 

[Stay@homeGROWER]

alright. one problem. its in MG so adding nutes id hav to flush it ALOT nd it mite get nute burnt : /

I've never worked with MG?!?! ssorry, but there is a product called "drip clean" that won't allow the build up of salts and stuff in the roots and reduces the need to do a major flush at the end....3 days rather than 10

And since that's the case don't use any bloom fertz, but I would still recommend adding the bloom booster at the end, even if you have to do it at 60% or something, because the abundance of P-K at the end of the cycle signals to the plant that it is dying and the plants reaction is a carpet of trichromes over the bud...which is what we want! YOu could have the largest buds in the world and they wouldn't mean sh*t if they wouldn't get you high? Make sense?

 

[robbzilla]

alright. one problem. its in MG so adding nutes id hav to flush it ALOT nd it mite get nute burnt : /

How long have you had them in MG soil? The time released nutes in MG only last like 1-2 months I think.

 

[Ace of Buds]

its been in der for... 3weeks nd 2days. it turns 1month dis tuesday coming up.

Update - growth spurt:
height: 6.4in
nodes: 8
othrs: i pruned both 1 bladed leaves nd both 3 bladed leaves. they were diein nd i figured it cud focus dat wasted energy toward da top nd it seemed to wrk. noticed waterin in da morning helped da plant absorb da water, nd less chance of da watr gettin evaporated. da leaves tend to b a nice green tone nd perky leaves.

 

[Ace of Buds]

i have anothr problem. i put the cfls about 1-2in to da top of da plant nd da plant grows like .5 to 1in a day now. it keeps gettin to close nd gettin burnt. wat cud i do to prevent dis?