Check it out. My first grow thanks to RIU community

[armartin421]

Nirvana White Widow Feminized. I started one in november but had a fucked up stem and had bugs.

This one was planted in ground Dec 1 and didnt break the surface til 18th. Watered .5gal with Big bloom 4 days ago, and i watered this morning with Big bloom and Grow Big.

What do you think? Also how old would you say it is? Ive been going by... seedlings is the first week after breaks surface, then the next week woud be veg1, and so on. Is that correct?

How many of you water every time with your nutes? or every other time? Or maybe everytime with big bloom and every other time with grow big....
Lets get some feedback from some soil growers..

Thanks

 

[brownbearclan]

Looking good! Looks about 2 weeks old or so.

-I think you would have seen it break ground sooner if you had germinated the seed in paper towels first then gone into soil but either way works.
-The first month they don't really need much of anything except what's in the soil but after 2 weeks you can start them with some 1/4 or 1/2 strength of your veg nute, the 'grow big' I think. (Whatever is closer to an even balance like 20/20/20.)
-Hold off on the bloom stuff till you switch to 12/12 then use that alone or a little of the veg stuff too.
-I water about every other day (whenever the soil is dry about 2 inches down) and only feed nutes once a week. I like Friday or Saturday so the plants think they are partying too.
-Also if you don't have a water and or soil PH test/tester get one. You can use a fish tank PH kit like $5 for the water. (Make sure it ranges from at least 6.0-7.0) Then a soil PH meter is about $15 off Amazon or whatever. OR you could get all fancy and get a nice digital PH meter.

=)

 

[armartin421]

Looking good! Looks about 2 weeks old or so.

-I think you would have seen it break ground sooner if you had germinated the seed in paper towels first then gone into soil but either way works.
-The first month they don't really need much of anything except what's in the soil but after 2 weeks you can start them with some 1/4 or 1/2 strength of your veg nute, the 'grow big' I think. (Whatever is closer to an even balance like 20/20/20.)
-Hold off on the bloom stuff till you switch to 12/12 then use that alone or a little of the veg stuff too.
-I water about every other day (whenever the soil is dry about 2 inches down) and only feed nutes once a week. I like Friday or Saturday so the plants think they are partying too.
-Also if you don't have a water and or soil PH test/tester get one. You can use a fish tank PH kit like $5 for the water. (Make sure it ranges from at least 6.0-7.0) Then a soil PH meter is about $15 off Amazon or whatever. OR you could get all fancy and get a nice digital PH meter.

=)

About that, i did germinate in a paper towel but only for a 24hr period and straight to the large bucket so no need to transplate. All using fox farm ocean forest.

Actually the nute that i am going to be using for the flowering is tiger bloom. Fox farm actually recommends, according to the feeding schedule that you actually use big bloom starting from a seedlings. The grow big is more like a soil conditioner it seems cause of it low contents..01-0.3-0.7.

I also have been checking the ph balances of the nutes and water before i water. Earlier this morning there was alot of runoff out the bottom of the bucket, so i tested that and it was aroung 6 as well.