borbor
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Got a quad of "magic merlin" really cheap only because the plant accidentally was seeded. seems like whoever was responsible for this took out all the seeds they could find, I only got about 10 out of it, almost all of them germinated, but only one of them sprouted. Since the sprout, I've been slowly improving my setup, while keeping a major budget in mind. At the start, I'd grown a few plants a few weeks into veg before, but hadn't done a whole lot of research. I began the project thinking "I just want to grow something easily between the ranges of bad and mediocre to cook with or make hash out of." After examining every single post on every message board and watching every single video on youtube I slowly began to think I may be capable of producing something I'll want to smoke, and hopefully learn a lot of growing techniques, it's just fascinating.
I don't normally trust strain names but I live in a big medical town in colorado and I know this dude has close ties to that scene.
When I started, I was using 2 100 watt full spectrum (5000k) clear incandescents and one of the "plant lights" with the blue coating (sorry, I just heard you all cringe!) years ago I had a plant that grew for a while under one of the "plant lights" so on that naive assumption I got another, as for the full spectrum bulbs, I wanted high wattage, and I thought full spectrum meant it would give continuous light all across the spectrum (such as 2700k, 2701k, 2702k and so on). It didn't take long for my research to lead me to CFLs as the cheapest way for a first time grower to get any good yield. slowly started adding CFLs, then started taking away the other bulbs in exchange for more CFLs, so by 10 days after sprouting it was all CFL with a decent color temperature. Now, it's 4 26 watt 6500k CFLs with 1600 lumens each, a 15 watt t8 6500k at 700 lumens, and a 23 watt 2700k with ??? lumens(don't wanna look it up)
I sprouted the seed in a jiffy pot (peat moss pellet). I think the reason so few sprouted might have been not enough heat and too much water, this one's definitely a fighter. Here's my next mistake: miracle grow soil. anybody that wasn't turned off by the lightbulbs, hope you stay past this too! luckily, I put some extra peat moss mixed in with the top of the soil, so it's not pure, unadulterated plant poison at least. Went out a couple of days ago, bought blood meal, bone meal, and perlite, and some organic miracle grow, but I'm not gonna use that soil, gonna go get some non time-release soil. any more suggestions for my soil mix when I transplant? Also so you all know, I bought that stuff but I'm not crazy enough to try to give it to the plant yet! I'd like a soil mixture that won't break the bank too much, though I know you have to pay for quality. I see blood/bone meal and perlite popping up everywhere as necessary to any mix. What else might there be that will give my plant the most benefit for the money?
moved the plant a few days ago into a south facing greenhouse room in my house so any cracks between the lights should get sun coming through them in the day. It's on 18/6, from 11 pm to 5 pm the lights are on (gotta make sure I'm awake when it's lights on/off, gonna invest in a timer soon haha).
The leaves on the very bottom (the round ones) have basically turned white. I think they've already served their purpose though. The leaves right above them (the first two serrated leaves) have been yellowing pretty badly for over a week. A little worried about that, I know the culprit must be marketed as a miracle, damn these false soil prophets. After some reading I think it ought to be able to live and overcome this adversity, though I guess you guys might know from the pictures better than I do. the camera doesn't seem to catch the color perfectly, but I think the most accurate pictures of these leaves are the third attachment and the second to last attachment. The leaves are a little droopy, it's been watered pretty recently.
the other leaves, well, I guess you guys can tell me! pretty small, I'd say the plants about 16 days old, showing me about two new "fingers" to its leaves every day when I wake up.
I'll try to give you guys daily pictures, since it seems hard to find day by day chronologies of cannabis on the internet rather than week by week, and I probably spend a combined 5 hours a day researching and watching this lil baby.
Also, a friend of my mom's said she'll bring us her entire collection of stems and bagseed from her neighbor who grows (FREE!!!), so my mom and I are planning a contest, She's gonna try and do it the way she grows all of her regular plants, and I'll grow it the way my research shows should work best. I'll try and document that one as well.
Also, just to let you guys know the plan, when it's time to flower I'm thinking either get a bunch bunch bunch more 2700k CFLs or going with an HPS.
edit:I also took a few pictures with my cell phone camera throughout the last few weeks, I can upload them if anybody's interested, they're probably not too great as far as quality though.
Edit#2:for anybody interested, the seeds were germinated in a plate between two wet squares of paper towels, covered the top with saran wrap, then with foil, then put it on a heating pad for about 36 hours. excellent method IMO, I just messed up planting the seeds.
I don't normally trust strain names but I live in a big medical town in colorado and I know this dude has close ties to that scene.
When I started, I was using 2 100 watt full spectrum (5000k) clear incandescents and one of the "plant lights" with the blue coating (sorry, I just heard you all cringe!) years ago I had a plant that grew for a while under one of the "plant lights" so on that naive assumption I got another, as for the full spectrum bulbs, I wanted high wattage, and I thought full spectrum meant it would give continuous light all across the spectrum (such as 2700k, 2701k, 2702k and so on). It didn't take long for my research to lead me to CFLs as the cheapest way for a first time grower to get any good yield. slowly started adding CFLs, then started taking away the other bulbs in exchange for more CFLs, so by 10 days after sprouting it was all CFL with a decent color temperature. Now, it's 4 26 watt 6500k CFLs with 1600 lumens each, a 15 watt t8 6500k at 700 lumens, and a 23 watt 2700k with ??? lumens(don't wanna look it up)
I sprouted the seed in a jiffy pot (peat moss pellet). I think the reason so few sprouted might have been not enough heat and too much water, this one's definitely a fighter. Here's my next mistake: miracle grow soil. anybody that wasn't turned off by the lightbulbs, hope you stay past this too! luckily, I put some extra peat moss mixed in with the top of the soil, so it's not pure, unadulterated plant poison at least. Went out a couple of days ago, bought blood meal, bone meal, and perlite, and some organic miracle grow, but I'm not gonna use that soil, gonna go get some non time-release soil. any more suggestions for my soil mix when I transplant? Also so you all know, I bought that stuff but I'm not crazy enough to try to give it to the plant yet! I'd like a soil mixture that won't break the bank too much, though I know you have to pay for quality. I see blood/bone meal and perlite popping up everywhere as necessary to any mix. What else might there be that will give my plant the most benefit for the money?
moved the plant a few days ago into a south facing greenhouse room in my house so any cracks between the lights should get sun coming through them in the day. It's on 18/6, from 11 pm to 5 pm the lights are on (gotta make sure I'm awake when it's lights on/off, gonna invest in a timer soon haha).
The leaves on the very bottom (the round ones) have basically turned white. I think they've already served their purpose though. The leaves right above them (the first two serrated leaves) have been yellowing pretty badly for over a week. A little worried about that, I know the culprit must be marketed as a miracle, damn these false soil prophets. After some reading I think it ought to be able to live and overcome this adversity, though I guess you guys might know from the pictures better than I do. the camera doesn't seem to catch the color perfectly, but I think the most accurate pictures of these leaves are the third attachment and the second to last attachment. The leaves are a little droopy, it's been watered pretty recently.
the other leaves, well, I guess you guys can tell me! pretty small, I'd say the plants about 16 days old, showing me about two new "fingers" to its leaves every day when I wake up.
I'll try to give you guys daily pictures, since it seems hard to find day by day chronologies of cannabis on the internet rather than week by week, and I probably spend a combined 5 hours a day researching and watching this lil baby.
Also, a friend of my mom's said she'll bring us her entire collection of stems and bagseed from her neighbor who grows (FREE!!!), so my mom and I are planning a contest, She's gonna try and do it the way she grows all of her regular plants, and I'll grow it the way my research shows should work best. I'll try and document that one as well.
Also, just to let you guys know the plan, when it's time to flower I'm thinking either get a bunch bunch bunch more 2700k CFLs or going with an HPS.
edit:I also took a few pictures with my cell phone camera throughout the last few weeks, I can upload them if anybody's interested, they're probably not too great as far as quality though.
Edit#2:for anybody interested, the seeds were germinated in a plate between two wet squares of paper towels, covered the top with saran wrap, then with foil, then put it on a heating pad for about 36 hours. excellent method IMO, I just messed up planting the seeds.
. Sounds like a good setup for veg. For flower deff mostly 2700k or hps. I have been using 7 26watt 2700k's only 12/12 from seed. Check it!
