What's up RIU,
Awesome site, everyone on here is super chill and seems like they are always willing to lend a hand to someone who has put in some time in research. Well, I have done countless hours of reading on here, a few book so I promise not to waste any of your guys' time. I would love to hear any suggestions, advice, comments - anything really from any of you know what you are doing. But please, I understand everyone has their set opinions on what they think is the best method for the best bud, but this is how I am doing it, I am just doing this for some fun and of course hopefully some delicious herb, I am on a limited budget and yeah haha sorry if that was a lil harsh.
So lets get down to business. A little with what I am working with, a small closet grow in which I am planning on growing 2 plants, but I have three hopefully little girls that are currently eleven days from breaking ground, they were seeds from some pretty damn good herb my buddy had a week ago. I am running 2 - 300W equivalent daylight CFLs, 5000 lumens(which I've been told is all that matter) per bulb, so a total of 10,000 lumens for two ladies. Right now, they are running at 18/6 for lighting. They were put directly into Fox Farm Ocean Forest. Ah what else, oh they are sitting comfortably at 73 degrees, I have watered them 4 times so far in the eleven days they have broken ground with about a cup of 6.8pH tap water, misting them periodically each day with a spray bottle. I have only transplanted one of the plants so far, and am doing the other two today, The one transplanted was into a 1 gallon pot at day 8 and has shown serious growth compared to the other two. However, all three of the ladies have a leaf or two on them that have droopy characteristics, and they are kind of a little bit curly.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I think I have narrowed it down to three possible things - over/underwater, my guess would probably be underwatering being I am only doing about a cup every other day - I only water it when the top of the soil has been dry. Or possibly my lights might be too close - they are about 2'' each day away from the top.. Or I might just be thinking about things too much and worrying about every little thing..... Any thoughts anyone? How is it looking so far?
Here are some pics, sorry if they are not amazing quality they are from my phone.
The last picture, Photo0020, is the one I haven't transplanted yet and as you can tell is a bit smaller.
Thanks everyone,
Ace
Awesome site, everyone on here is super chill and seems like they are always willing to lend a hand to someone who has put in some time in research. Well, I have done countless hours of reading on here, a few book so I promise not to waste any of your guys' time. I would love to hear any suggestions, advice, comments - anything really from any of you know what you are doing. But please, I understand everyone has their set opinions on what they think is the best method for the best bud, but this is how I am doing it, I am just doing this for some fun and of course hopefully some delicious herb, I am on a limited budget and yeah haha sorry if that was a lil harsh.
So lets get down to business. A little with what I am working with, a small closet grow in which I am planning on growing 2 plants, but I have three hopefully little girls that are currently eleven days from breaking ground, they were seeds from some pretty damn good herb my buddy had a week ago. I am running 2 - 300W equivalent daylight CFLs, 5000 lumens(which I've been told is all that matter) per bulb, so a total of 10,000 lumens for two ladies. Right now, they are running at 18/6 for lighting. They were put directly into Fox Farm Ocean Forest. Ah what else, oh they are sitting comfortably at 73 degrees, I have watered them 4 times so far in the eleven days they have broken ground with about a cup of 6.8pH tap water, misting them periodically each day with a spray bottle. I have only transplanted one of the plants so far, and am doing the other two today, The one transplanted was into a 1 gallon pot at day 8 and has shown serious growth compared to the other two. However, all three of the ladies have a leaf or two on them that have droopy characteristics, and they are kind of a little bit curly.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I think I have narrowed it down to three possible things - over/underwater, my guess would probably be underwatering being I am only doing about a cup every other day - I only water it when the top of the soil has been dry. Or possibly my lights might be too close - they are about 2'' each day away from the top.. Or I might just be thinking about things too much and worrying about every little thing..... Any thoughts anyone? How is it looking so far?
Here are some pics, sorry if they are not amazing quality they are from my phone.
The last picture, Photo0020, is the one I haven't transplanted yet and as you can tell is a bit smaller.
Thanks everyone,
Ace
