First Ever Grow Journal

[Magicdvdfarm]

Glad things are starting to look up for you ... I write everything down. I’ve learned so much since I started .. learning everyday. Magic

 

[Slim6969]

Glad things are starting to look up for you ... I write everything down. I’ve learned so much since I started .. learning everyday. Magic

This is what I’ve just started to do. When I water how much. The pm the Ppms and so on. It will be good to look back on so I know what not to do lol

 

[Slim6969]

Day 20. 2 out of 3 lady’s are filling out nicely

The third well it’s a sickly bean pole looking plant but she’s still growing for me.

Be it on the slower side of things Just like ppl we are all different and that’s what makes us unique.

 

[Magicdvdfarm]

Looking good. Lanky Linda will make it. She is special.

 

[Slim6969]

Looking good. Lanky Linda will make it. She is special.

She sure is lol.


So the power went out and don’t have a Jenny to keep the lights and what not on hope they don’t get mad at me lol

 

[Slim6969]

Just a quick update while checking on my lady’s for the 10th time today lol I noticed they are starting to get that classic smell to them I guess I did not realize that they would start pumping off there sweet smell so soon.

I pearsonaly love the smell My wife not so much lol so I guess I’ll have to invest in a filter soon to keep the smell down

 

[Slim6969]

Day 22 as you can see my young lady’s are doing quite well given there rough start lol

As you can also see from the pic I have a visitor to my garden I’m not sure if it’s bad or good. Honestly I did not think lady bugs would be out right now

 

[Emilya Green]

Looking a lot better! Congrats on the ladybug too! They are great beneficial bugs and they love to eat aphids and spider mites. Some people buy boxes of ladybugs just to live in their gardens.

 

[Magicdvdfarm]

They looking great. And yes checking the tent 10 times a day is normal. Lol. I have a little chair i sit in and watch them grow. Wife thinks I’m nuts. But def you will need to put a fan and filter in unless you want the smell to come out. If you walked into my garage , you would have no idea there’s a few plants in there. It does smell the garage up when I open thou. But goes away quickly. Happy growing. Magic

 

[Slim6969]

Yep they are looking good and I could not be happier.

The only issue I seem to be having right now is the water ph I set the ph at 6.4 Two days later I recheck the ph and it’s back up to where it started. Around 7.2. I’m using standard hydroponics ph up and down.

My only real consern is that is my plants don’t dry out in 2 days is the ph in the soil going to be fluctuating as much as the water is. I guess next watering I should test the ph of the run off.

 

[Emilya Green]

Yep they are looking good and I could not be happier.

The only issue I seem to be having right now is the water ph I set the ph at 6.4 Two days later I recheck the ph and it’s back up to where it started. Around 7.2. I’m using standard hydroponics ph up and down.

My only real consern is that is my plants don’t dry out in 2 days is the ph in the soil going to be fluctuating as much as the water is. I guess next watering I should test the ph of the run off.

You should always adjust your pH right before applying the mix to the soil. Adjusting the pH before adding nutes, or mixing it up the day before will not work because the solids in the water (if you are not using RO) and the nutes themselves will react against the water and the pH will change over time.
It is important to adjust your pH right before watering to 6.3 pH. At the moment you water, and saturate the soil from top to bottom, producing runoff, the pH of the water suspended in there vastly outweighs the soil, and the pH of the soil/water takes on the pH of the liquid you just applied. From that moment, the pH begins to drift, reacting to all it is in contact with, and it starts moving upward. This is why it is so important to adjust your pH to the low end of the scale, and let it drift through the entire usable range. You are thinking that you need to adjust something that does not need adjusting... the soil is designed to drift upwards. Testing your runoff pH is meaningless in soil... that measurement can not tell you anything about what is happening in the soil or what its base pH is. Just water correctly at 6.3 and the soil will take care of itself.
Now, if you had read how to properly water, you would know that the soil doesnt just dry out. The plant has to USE the water that you have applied... the vast majority does not simply evaporate. If you water correctly, to the point of runoff, you should not water again until the plant has used all of that water... all the way down to the bottom of the container. At the proper point of needing to water, your container will have no discernible water weight in it, and it will feel as light as a feather.
The pH of the soil is vastly misunderstood by many new gardeners. The soil is designed to have a base pH up near the high end of the 6.3-6.8 range. When it is dry, that is its pH. As the water level in your container begins to drop, the top part of the soil that has dried will be at that base pH, picking up nutrients that are mobile at that pH. As you go deeper into the container and the soil is just moist, the pH will be a combination of the base pH of the soil and the pH of the liquid... and since the liquid is so much heavier than the soil in that area, its pH is much more of an influence on what the actual pH in that area of the container will measure out to. Down at the bottom of the container where it is actually wet, the pH of the soil will be that of the liquid. This is physics... it can be no other way.
So, measuring the pH of the runoff tells you nothing about this varying pH from the top to the bottom of the container. The pH value of the runoff can be compared to the strength of coffee coming out of a percolator... the more grounds in the top, the stronger the coffee. The more soil your are filtering the water through to get runoff, the more solids it picks up on the way out. If you water to 2% runoff, the pH value and PPM value of that runoff will be one value, and if you water to 10% runoff, it will be another. There is no way to correlate this arbitrary value with the soil pH... it is a waste of time.

 

[Slim6969]

You should always adjust your pH right before applying the mix to the soil. Adjusting the pH before adding nutes, or mixing it up the day before will not work because the solids in the water (if you are not using RO) and the nutes themselves will react against the water and the pH will change over time.
It is important to adjust your pH right before watering to 6.3 pH. At the moment you water, and saturate the soil from top to bottom, producing runoff, the pH of the water suspended in there vastly outweighs the soil, and the pH of the soil/water takes on the pH of the liquid you just applied. From that moment, the pH begins to drift, reacting to all it is in contact with, and it starts moving upward. This is why it is so important to adjust your pH to the low end of the scale, and let it drift through the entire usable range. You are thinking that you need to adjust something that does not need adjusting... the soil is designed to drift upwards. Testing your runoff pH is meaningless in soil... that measurement can not tell you anything about what is happening in the soil or what its base pH is. Just water correctly at 6.3 and the soil will take care of itself.
Now, if you had read how to properly water, you would know that the soil doesnt just dry out. The plant has to USE the water that you have applied... the vast majority does not simply evaporate. If you water correctly, to the point of runoff, you should not water again until the plant has used all of that water... all the way down to the bottom of the container. At the proper point of needing to water, your container will have no discernible water weight in it, and it will feel as light as a feather.
The pH of the soil is vastly misunderstood by many new gardeners. The soil is designed to have a base pH up near the high end of the 6.3-6.8 range. When it is dry, that is its pH. As the water level in your container begins to drop, the top part of the soil that has dried will be at that base pH, picking up nutrients that are mobile at that pH. As you go deeper into the container and the soil is just moist, the pH will be a combination of the base pH of the soil and the pH of the liquid... and since the liquid is so much heavier than the soil in that area, its pH is much more of an influence on what the actual pH in that area of the container will measure out to. Down at the bottom of the container where it is actually wet, the pH of the soil will be that of the liquid. This is physics... it can be no other way.
So, measuring the pH of the runoff tells you nothing about this varying pH from the top to the bottom of the container. The pH value of the runoff can be compared to the strength of coffee coming out of a percolator... the more grounds in the top, the stronger the coffee. The more soil your are filtering the water through to get runoff, the more solids it picks up on the way out. If you water to 2% runoff, the pH value and PPM value of that runoff will be one value, and if you water to 10% runoff, it will be another. There is no way to correlate this arbitrary value with the soil pH... it is a waste of time.

Thanks for the reply now I know.


I did in fact read your watering post but I guess some or most of the information in it was lost due to brain overwatering lol.

I am deffenitly going to give it another read or 3

 

[Slim6969]

Day 24. Today is watering day 2 out of the 3 lady’s are dried out. My blue dream is going to be another day or 2 yet


As you can see from the pix my blue dream is starting to catch up I put her through a lot so I’m happy to see she’s doing well and growing

(Blue dream is the second pic )

 

[Slim6969]

Day 27. My girls are doing well they seem to be stunted but at least there still alive.

As you can see from the pic they were in need of water today.

Also I’m the pic you might Beable to see a bit of yellowing.

The yellowing has been like that for the last few weeks it’s not getting any worse or better so I’m just going to leave well enough alone.

I added some cal-mag to the water today and the last have been feeding them nutrients for the last 1 1/2 weeks. Of course not every watering every 3rd And only 1/4 of what the bottle says next feeding I’m going to bump it up to half and see how that gos.

I also raised my lights up a bit hoping the girls might like it a bit better no burns but they are short lol

 

[Slim6969]

Day 29 not much to report today. My 3 lady’s are still alive and doing well as you can see from the pix they have grown a little bit. I still feel as though for day 29 there quite small for where they should be ( based on others grows iv seen and read about ). But there still growing so I must be doing at least something right lol

 

[Magicdvdfarm]

Are you planning on topping or fimming them. How many nodes do you have.

 

[Slim6969]

Are you planning on topping or fimming them. How many nodes do you have.

I did a fim on the 2 bigger ones then waited for them to grow a bit and toped them.

The bigger ones are on there 6th node and the other on is on her 4th

 

[Slim6969]

So tonight I took some time and did some lst-ing on my plants my plant are not very big but have quite a bit of undergroth happing maybe with doing some lst they will bush out.

 

[Magicdvdfarm]

Nicely done. Looks great. They will bush out on you. Plants looking good. Magic

 

[Slim6969]

Nicely done. Looks great. They will bush out on you. Plants looking good. Magic

Thanks.