Balcony plant 2.5 weeks: give me advice please
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Good morning my friend, cute girl you have.Hello friendsits my second try, just 2.5 weeks old on balcony naturel growing up, give me advice please
Best regardss
She is in flower obviously so an auto? Or is it dark for 12 hrs where you live.
My only advice would be to get her some flowering nutrients.
Oh and make sure she gets lots of sun.
Great work so far.
Have a nice weekend.
Stay safe
Bill284
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Good morning my friend, cute girl you have.
She is in flower obviously so an auto? Or is it dark for 12 hrs where you live.
My only advice would be to get her some flowering nutrients.
Oh and make sure she gets lots of sun.
Great work so far.
Have a nice weekend.
Stay safe
Bill284
I live in a Mediterranean climate, these days I get 12 hours of darkness and 12 hours of daylight. It gets 25 degrees during the day and 15 degrees in the evening on the balcony.
Nice plant - so cute when they are that age!
in the future it might help to force the plant to stay in veg longer by supplementing light hours, keep it outside during the day then place under a lamp indoors for 4 hours per day and continue to veg for 4 to 6 weeks then return to balcony for flower…. longer veg should equate to bigger yield!
she is already in flower so if you monkey with her light hours now it will cause a reveg,
looking good & welcome to the team
in the future it might help to force the plant to stay in veg longer by supplementing light hours, keep it outside during the day then place under a lamp indoors for 4 hours per day and continue to veg for 4 to 6 weeks then return to balcony for flower…. longer veg should equate to bigger yield!
she is already in flower so if you monkey with her light hours now it will cause a reveg,
looking good & welcome to the team
Looking good and healthy so far. As @Bill284 mentions, do you know if the seed was for an autoflower or for a photoperiod plant?
Good temperature range. If the temperatures go a bit higher or lower every now and then it will be OK.
I thought that the Mediterranean area was closer to 10 hours of daylight this time of year. What @013 brings up about the length of time to keep the plant in a vegetative stage and supplementing with some artificial light might be helpful if that is the info you are looking for.
We have several members from the Mediterranean area. Maybe some of them will stop in and be able to help with tips and suggestions on outdoor growing in that area.
Wow, two and a half weeks and already in flower? Must be a photo that just hit sexual maturity in a long dark period environment.
Autos in your case might be a better bet at least outside at this time of year. They'll get bigger before they flower than a photo unless, as stated, you can supplement the light for a photoperiod to keep them in veg longer.
The challenge with autos is that any little issue can permanently stunt them, and improper watering is the most common issue.
I'd suggest you change the next round to autos and grow in a SIP pot. SIPs eliminate watering as an issue.
Check out the #SIP Club thread for some background.
Autos in your case might be a better bet at least outside at this time of year. They'll get bigger before they flower than a photo unless, as stated, you can supplement the light for a photoperiod to keep them in veg longer.
The challenge with autos is that any little issue can permanently stunt them, and improper watering is the most common issue.
I'd suggest you change the next round to autos and grow in a SIP pot. SIPs eliminate watering as an issue.
Check out the #SIP Club thread for some background.
Oh, and welcome to the Forums!
Lots of helpful advice to be found here from very good growers willing to share.
Lots of helpful advice to be found here from very good growers willing to share.
What is the most common watering issue that stunts them?
I would not be surprised if the answer is "over watering" and sometimes "under watering". That is probably why he mentions the SIP Club thread. The SIP pots take the guess work out of trying to figure out how much water to use.
What SmokingWings said. Watering for our plant is a bit different from most plants, in that canna likes a wet/dry cycle but that's almost impossible to learn how to do properly on a first grow. So most new growers either under water which stunts the plant because of a lack of water and nutrients for a period of time, or they water too frequently which leads to root rot and stunts it that way.
Soooo, you can try to learn how to do it properly (Emilya Green has some great tutorials on the how-to's) or skip the learning learning curve entirely by switching to SIPs which give you perfect watering every time with essentially nothing to learn.
If you want to learn proper watering it will likely take several cycles. There are some hacks you can use however. @Bill284 has a soil building method using extra perlite layers up the pot that allows for great drainage and helps prevent waterlogged soil which leads to root rot.
But the reason I suggest the SIP pot is that there's really nothing to learn, you can use whatever soil mix and nutes you like and get some pretty great results, even if it's your first grow.
And, in Hydr0's conditions, if he can't supplement the light, his 12 hours of darkness is going to throw a photoperiod into flower as soon as it is sexually mature (growing with alternating nodes). So that's why I suggested using autos.
BUT, although I know that auto's are marketed as a good 'intro to growing' option, I think you have to already be a pretty good grower to grow them well since they start to flower based on an internal clock whether you want them to or not.
If you look at the auto's grown on this site you will see mostly small plants with small yields. Why? Because somewhere in the veg stage the plant got stunted and there is no recovery time like you can get with photo's simply by extending the veg period.
There are various ways you can stunt your plant from improper nutes, light, growing environment etc., but the most common is improper watering.
Therefore, in Hydr0's case, switching to autos gets him around his long night handicap, and the SIP eliminates watering as an issue and the learning curve that will likely hold him back for a few grows. Match made in heaven, at least at this time of year for him.
It's not the only way to get a good grow on your first few attempts, but it's certainly a very good combination.
scottreid1966
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Pity! The girl never had a chance to grow. Never knew that auto's could be so tricky.Hello friends
Best regardss
I can't imagine a photo period doing this. It is all that I've grown so far. Unless it got put into dark for about 36 hours and then 12 hour lighting....... Did the power go out? Or in this case, A 36 hour solar eclipse?
I tried 3 autos this year for the first time and 2 of them stunted ridiculously. The 3rd one grew like a photo or turned out to be a photo. I did some things that could have caused the stunting. I started them in Solo cups and then transplanted them to 5 gal Smart Pots and that could have done it. I topped them and that could have done it. When I first put them outside it was unseasonably hot (in the 90's) so that could have stunted them. I think I'm pretty good at watering and doing the wet/dry cycle so I don't think my watering was a problem but you never know.
My photo plants usually come out pretty good and that one auto (00Kush) that grew like a photo turned out to be a monster with huge colas that were breaking the stems and splitting the trunk. By the time I harvested her she had so much tape and stakes around her it was ridiculous. I just tried a small bud last night after she's been curing a week and she's going to be fire!
cbdhemp808
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Hey @Hydr0gen , what strain are you growing, and is it autoflowering or photoperiod?
