Quick newbie question

I hate starting new threads, but I just need some quick advice.

This is the first time I've grown my own plant. I have my plant in the middle of my backyard where I think it will get the most light. I've given it a cup, or half cup of water every couple days when the soil seems dry (I dig into it with my finger).

Based on the pictures, is there anything I'm doing wrong?


I transplanted into the square pot because I got the plant from a friend and couldn't confirm the quality of soil he used. The soil mixture I used is approx. 4 parts garden/lawn top soil, 1 part peat moss.


Here's 2 pictures from opposite corners of my backyard. You can see the pot the plant is in, in the middle of the picture. These pictures were taken around 4am

The picture below is the direction sunset light comes from:

Don't mind the disgusting looking pool. We can't afford to fix it, so now it's a pool shaped pond with hundreds of fish in it, and the fire hydrant is a working water pump.

it looks good, keep it up.

How old is it>? and what strain? lol are those real ducks.

It's either Butterscotch or Hawaiin. It's about 3 weeks old now. It was grown indoors under a CFL for the first week of its life before I had it. There's 2 decoy ducks, and a huge decoy "Bruce" the goose.

The bottom 2 leaves are very slowly turning yellow, and it has me wondering.

Lol nice on the decoy ducks sweet name bruce the goose, Have you used any nutes on the plant? If so you may wanna consider giving it a flush

I used a little bit of 10-15-10 when it was in the other planter.

Again, I would've edited but I couldn't.

So, update is the bottom 2 leaves have practically died. I think it's from the nutes, so I used a screwdriver to aerate the soil at the bottom, then flushed the soil with pure water.

It also hasn't gained any height since the decay of those 2 leaves started. It's also only those 2 leaves.

If there dead you might as well just pull them off,... hmm i wouldnt of used a screwdriver not realy the cleanest/strelilzed tool to use,

Well if the leaves have no future, I'm sure the plant will let go of them when its ready. As for the screwdriver, I wasn't really thinking about material at the time, I could've used a stick.

I mostly did it because when I put soil in the planter, I packed the bottom inch so the soil wouldn't fall out. Now that there's holes, the water can drain when it's out of range of the plant roots.

There's about 4" between the end of the aeration holes, and the bottom of the roots. We'll see how things work out.