matman4444
Well-Known Member
It all started on a rainy afternoon in December. My roommate came home with a big bag of weed of supposedly 'good shit' I don't smoke weed mind you, so I'll take his word for it. The weed had a lot of seeds in it, which obviously means somebody did not know what they were doing, or didn't take all the proper cautions.
But whatever, my friend picked the seeds out so he could smoke the rest, I took two seeds and started germination, my friend took the rest and did the same, we were going to have a little competition of who could grow the best.
This was before I had joined this wonderful site, before I read up any of the guides, I didn't know anything.
I used the paper towel in saran wrap method, and 1 of the 2 sprouted.
From there we had unused potting mix on the side of the house so I filled a dixie cup with it and planted this little sprout.
When it popped out of the ground I put it stacked up on some cans under my cfl in my room.
My friend had 3 of 6 or so sprout, he put them all in one cup, on the windowsill which gets a very sparse amount of light, kitchen lights which are very far away, and light from outside which isnt much since its winter.
I decided to take his over for him and see if I can make something magical happen.
Thats when I joined this site and read up so many threads and guides, even watched that damn full length movie with the green dude.
My first set up
Cleared out my tv stand, put in these two dual 12" fluorescents that I estimate are about 10 watts, just guessing compared to what my new fluoros are.
Look at that, lined with aluminum foil, how noob and naive I was.
Here we are at day 10, my plant looks to be doing very well, the other three, are doing somewhat shitty.
One is a bit stretched, one is a late bloomer and quite small. Most of them have a little discoloration or something bad on a leaf or two.
After a noob post and some good replies, I found out I needed a lot more light.
Added a 20watt 24" fluoro with a plant/aquarium gro light. And a 15watt 24" fluoro which said for plant growth, weird though, both lights say they are for growing plants, both have a different tint of color to them.
And for later on I have a twisty type cfl that is, I think 40 watt but looks like 150. 2700 Lumens.
After even more research I decided to paint the inside of the house with flat white paint. I cut out cardboard and painted it for the doors, since I didn't want them to be permanently messed up.
I also bought MG African Violet soil, and Perlite with a 4-1 mixture.
Transplanted my best plant. Hopefully I can get 2 of the other 3 plants to make it and ill be able to transplant them too. In my next growing spot I only have room for 3 plants anyways so even it they dont make it, I suppose I can try cloning.
Even added my little laptop lap fan to get some air circulation and hopefully make the bases stronger.
And day 14 since sprout, my plant.
I know MG has some nutes already in it, but I wanted to know what kinds of additives will I or can I start giving it in very small doses when the time comes? I need something that I can get at Home Depot and similar. They have African Violet ferts and I dont know since the soil is good, the ferts too?
Or since the soil has stuff in it already, should I just supplement with the super thrive stuff?
And also if I'm doing anything wrong, or things I should look out for coming up, I'm like a sponge soaking up any and all good information presented to me
Thanks!!
But whatever, my friend picked the seeds out so he could smoke the rest, I took two seeds and started germination, my friend took the rest and did the same, we were going to have a little competition of who could grow the best.
This was before I had joined this wonderful site, before I read up any of the guides, I didn't know anything.
I used the paper towel in saran wrap method, and 1 of the 2 sprouted.
From there we had unused potting mix on the side of the house so I filled a dixie cup with it and planted this little sprout.
When it popped out of the ground I put it stacked up on some cans under my cfl in my room.
My friend had 3 of 6 or so sprout, he put them all in one cup, on the windowsill which gets a very sparse amount of light, kitchen lights which are very far away, and light from outside which isnt much since its winter.
I decided to take his over for him and see if I can make something magical happen.
Thats when I joined this site and read up so many threads and guides, even watched that damn full length movie with the green dude.
My first set up
Cleared out my tv stand, put in these two dual 12" fluorescents that I estimate are about 10 watts, just guessing compared to what my new fluoros are.
Look at that, lined with aluminum foil, how noob and naive I was.
Here we are at day 10, my plant looks to be doing very well, the other three, are doing somewhat shitty.
One is a bit stretched, one is a late bloomer and quite small. Most of them have a little discoloration or something bad on a leaf or two.
After a noob post and some good replies, I found out I needed a lot more light.
Added a 20watt 24" fluoro with a plant/aquarium gro light. And a 15watt 24" fluoro which said for plant growth, weird though, both lights say they are for growing plants, both have a different tint of color to them.
And for later on I have a twisty type cfl that is, I think 40 watt but looks like 150. 2700 Lumens.
After even more research I decided to paint the inside of the house with flat white paint. I cut out cardboard and painted it for the doors, since I didn't want them to be permanently messed up.
I also bought MG African Violet soil, and Perlite with a 4-1 mixture.
Transplanted my best plant. Hopefully I can get 2 of the other 3 plants to make it and ill be able to transplant them too. In my next growing spot I only have room for 3 plants anyways so even it they dont make it, I suppose I can try cloning.
Even added my little laptop lap fan to get some air circulation and hopefully make the bases stronger.
And day 14 since sprout, my plant.
I know MG has some nutes already in it, but I wanted to know what kinds of additives will I or can I start giving it in very small doses when the time comes? I need something that I can get at Home Depot and similar. They have African Violet ferts and I dont know since the soil is good, the ferts too?
Or since the soil has stuff in it already, should I just supplement with the super thrive stuff?
And also if I'm doing anything wrong, or things I should look out for coming up, I'm like a sponge soaking up any and all good information presented to me
Thanks!!
