so i'm new here, and i've browsed many grows in forums that have turned out great with the help of others. that's why i'm here. to share my newbie experience.
accidentally posted in journals and got no response, and the plants are going slightly worse, so i hope to get some new ideas.
technically this isn't my first grow. last year a friend and i went out and planted a random seed in the backyard garden. it was just for fun, little did we know 3 weeks later a small plant with a few leaves coming from it had emerged, we dug it up carefully with a spoon and put it in a cup. we put it in the window watered it and it grew for a few days, but then i went on vacation and my cat had knocked it over. it was too late when i'd arrived home.
So spring is here once again, and for a year i've been collecting seeds from my best stuff, buds that i would consider kush tasting but with fewer seeds. I did not collect seeds from buds that were loaded in seeds, as i feared they may have a high hermie rate?(something i know little about) plus, generally speaking i find that buds loaded in seeds don't seem to be very potent(from what i've experienced).. Turns out i had collected 50 or so seeds. I heard somewhere that you should do a press-test, in which you press gently on each seed in an attempt to dispose of the dormant/dead, dried up ones. 30 seeds were kept, and after discarding the lime green ones that seemed premature, i ended up with 25 seeds.
I did no research, but knew of a friend that had tried the 'paper towel method' with little success. I decided to just drop all the seeds in a cup half full of room temperature water and put a card on the lid. Time went by, i lost track of the time. I actually forgot about the germination altogether, until i went to clean my room one day. I would have dumped the same cup down the sink if there hadn't been a card on it. To my surprise, each and every seed had white tails roughly 2cm long attached to them. I would guess i had left them to germinate for maybe 10 days or 2 weeks at most. I hoped that none of them had 'drowned' so to speak by being left in the water for too long.
So i went to the dollar store and picked up some 'dirt-cheap' dirt (not the best idea) called magic potting soil, some plastic potters of different sizes, a spray bottle, plant food sticks, 3 fluorescent lights (the spiral eco-efficient ones), and a small watering can. it cost me around 10$
I got home and set up a closet with reflective dome light fixtures, and hung them from the closet pole. i used an old desk lamp as my 3rd light.
I began to set out the smaller potters, put dirt in one and retrieved a seed sprout. And to my amazement, didn't have any idea which way to plant them.
The tail up or the tail down? Luckily, i decided to plant them root down, and within a few days they broke through the dirt and their emb. leaves began to show.
I began to water them each day when the soil became dry with water that had been set open for 24 hours. I used both tap and bottled because i wasn't sure, and didn't want to go out and buy distilled water. It seemed to work fine. Within a few more days this was the result.
Next, i replanted them delicately into new soil and bigger pots. They seemed to like it. It has been a week since they broke dirt.
more days pass.. instead of adding an entire stick of plant food into each plant, i decided on cutting them into quarter inch bits and placing them in 10 randomly chosen plants. After several more waters they've seemed fine but the embryonic leaves are beginning to yellow/brown already is this normal?
I've been keeping the plants on 24/0. They seem to like it, I gave them a good drought then and soak, as well as another misting.
I learned today that misting plants causes the pores of the plants leaves to clog, as well as burn holes in them and cause them to become paper dry and wilted.
this is the worst leaf, the very next day it was dry to touch and cracked when i pressed on it gently
Tonight i used the watering can, will not be misting anymore and i hope the effects can be reversed. I also noticed that i've been leaving the doors to my closet shut which may be causing them to overheat and suffocate. I plan to purchase a small desk fan soon but until then made sure to leave the doors ajar.
I am hoping the problems will be resolved soon. Let me know what you think and i'll keep you updated.
until then, Stonamofs!
accidentally posted in journals and got no response, and the plants are going slightly worse, so i hope to get some new ideas.
technically this isn't my first grow. last year a friend and i went out and planted a random seed in the backyard garden. it was just for fun, little did we know 3 weeks later a small plant with a few leaves coming from it had emerged, we dug it up carefully with a spoon and put it in a cup. we put it in the window watered it and it grew for a few days, but then i went on vacation and my cat had knocked it over. it was too late when i'd arrived home.
So spring is here once again, and for a year i've been collecting seeds from my best stuff, buds that i would consider kush tasting but with fewer seeds. I did not collect seeds from buds that were loaded in seeds, as i feared they may have a high hermie rate?(something i know little about) plus, generally speaking i find that buds loaded in seeds don't seem to be very potent(from what i've experienced).. Turns out i had collected 50 or so seeds. I heard somewhere that you should do a press-test, in which you press gently on each seed in an attempt to dispose of the dormant/dead, dried up ones. 30 seeds were kept, and after discarding the lime green ones that seemed premature, i ended up with 25 seeds.
I did no research, but knew of a friend that had tried the 'paper towel method' with little success. I decided to just drop all the seeds in a cup half full of room temperature water and put a card on the lid. Time went by, i lost track of the time. I actually forgot about the germination altogether, until i went to clean my room one day. I would have dumped the same cup down the sink if there hadn't been a card on it. To my surprise, each and every seed had white tails roughly 2cm long attached to them. I would guess i had left them to germinate for maybe 10 days or 2 weeks at most. I hoped that none of them had 'drowned' so to speak by being left in the water for too long.
So i went to the dollar store and picked up some 'dirt-cheap' dirt (not the best idea) called magic potting soil, some plastic potters of different sizes, a spray bottle, plant food sticks, 3 fluorescent lights (the spiral eco-efficient ones), and a small watering can. it cost me around 10$
I got home and set up a closet with reflective dome light fixtures, and hung them from the closet pole. i used an old desk lamp as my 3rd light.
I began to set out the smaller potters, put dirt in one and retrieved a seed sprout. And to my amazement, didn't have any idea which way to plant them.
The tail up or the tail down? Luckily, i decided to plant them root down, and within a few days they broke through the dirt and their emb. leaves began to show.
I began to water them each day when the soil became dry with water that had been set open for 24 hours. I used both tap and bottled because i wasn't sure, and didn't want to go out and buy distilled water. It seemed to work fine. Within a few more days this was the result.
Next, i replanted them delicately into new soil and bigger pots. They seemed to like it. It has been a week since they broke dirt.
more days pass.. instead of adding an entire stick of plant food into each plant, i decided on cutting them into quarter inch bits and placing them in 10 randomly chosen plants. After several more waters they've seemed fine but the embryonic leaves are beginning to yellow/brown already is this normal?
I've been keeping the plants on 24/0. They seem to like it, I gave them a good drought then and soak, as well as another misting.
I learned today that misting plants causes the pores of the plants leaves to clog, as well as burn holes in them and cause them to become paper dry and wilted.
this is the worst leaf, the very next day it was dry to touch and cracked when i pressed on it gently
Tonight i used the watering can, will not be misting anymore and i hope the effects can be reversed. I also noticed that i've been leaving the doors to my closet shut which may be causing them to overheat and suffocate. I plan to purchase a small desk fan soon but until then made sure to leave the doors ajar.
I am hoping the problems will be resolved soon. Let me know what you think and i'll keep you updated.
until then, Stonamofs!
I really need some ideas/feedback on what could be causing this??
