My first grow.. Any tips?
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bullwinkle60
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Can'r give you any tips without more info, such as what kind of lights, what soil, what nutes what size is your growing area? And the best advice I can pass along is not to panic over every little leaf discoloration.Remember your objective is to grow some dank bud nor dank leaves so unless your plant is falling over dead don't worry too much. One more thing. Overwatering is a common newbie mistake. Here's my watering schedule. I use 3 gal pots so I give them 1/2 gallon of water every 4th day counting the day I watered them. Always PH your water unless your lucky like me and my tap water is 7.0. Adjust the ph when feeding as well..
lilroach
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- Just about every new grower has or had a set-up similar to yours. Six months from now, you'll have so much growing stuff you'll wonder what the hell happened. It's call "the growing bug" and it's hard to stop once you've started.
A few suggestions to prevent you from making the same mistakes I and one million others have done when first starting growing.
1. You will want to water your plant just about every time you look at them. Don't. Not only do roots need water....they need air too. Saturate your soil, and give 'em a few days and repeat.
2. You will get informational over-load on here. Keep it simple. Between you and the plant, the plant's the smarter one about growing. It's your job not to kill it.
3. Don't give your plant nutrients for about a month, and only give 1/4 to 1/2 the recommended dosage, and then wait a few weeks before giving more.
4. Regardless of what you'll read here and elsewhere, keep all the leaves on the plant. They are the solar panels and lungs of the plant. You can learn more from watching how a plant grows on it's own the first grow, and down the road you can adjust your growing technique as you see fit.
5. Did I mention keep it simple yet?
6. Don't over analyze your grow. Sit back and enjoy what it's doing. You will want to transplant your seedlings into something bigger in about a month. If room allows, I suggest a 5 gallon container with holes at the bottom.
7. If and when you go to a hydro-store (you really don't have to), don't buy into the hype and sales pitch they'll give you. Most of what's out there is snake oil.
8. Craiglist should be your place to look first for growing equipment.
9. And finally.....keep it simple.
DigitalNomad
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More tips -
Stick with one brand of nutes, do not change up mid-stride...
Try to stick with one strain - at least til you learn to read plants. Mixing up strains will confuse you on how plants behave and react to nutes, lights, trimming.
Not all strains are the same - hybrids, sativas, indicas, autoflower, etc. Sativas can be monsters but if you learn to bend - you can great a sea of green from one massive sativa in a 10 gallon pot.
Indicas do not bend well, they bush.
Make sure you transplant - clones start in a cup, then move to 1 gallon to stasis in a closet. Few of the 1 gallon plants will move to 10 gallon pots - where I veg for almost a month. There they flower for 9-10 weeks. I harvest by trichromes - as that is the chemistry I prefer. So try harvesting early (clear to cloudy), moderate (cloudy) or late (amber) - and see which you prefer.
After you pick a strain you want to grow - get it tested, so you know what you got. I got a sweet baby with 90:1 ratio 18.7% with only .03 cbd's. A plant crossed with williams wonder and super silver haze.
Stick with one brand of nutes, do not change up mid-stride...
Try to stick with one strain - at least til you learn to read plants. Mixing up strains will confuse you on how plants behave and react to nutes, lights, trimming.
Not all strains are the same - hybrids, sativas, indicas, autoflower, etc. Sativas can be monsters but if you learn to bend - you can great a sea of green from one massive sativa in a 10 gallon pot.
Indicas do not bend well, they bush.
Make sure you transplant - clones start in a cup, then move to 1 gallon to stasis in a closet. Few of the 1 gallon plants will move to 10 gallon pots - where I veg for almost a month. There they flower for 9-10 weeks. I harvest by trichromes - as that is the chemistry I prefer. So try harvesting early (clear to cloudy), moderate (cloudy) or late (amber) - and see which you prefer.
After you pick a strain you want to grow - get it tested, so you know what you got. I got a sweet baby with 90:1 ratio 18.7% with only .03 cbd's. A plant crossed with williams wonder and super silver haze.