My First Grow Journal

Sparkey224 · Feb 6, 2020

I think your color of your plants looks good. Plus, they are still small for the container, meaning there still alot of soil for them to use. I would just stick with waterings and recharge until they get a little bigger and turning a little more lighter green.
Then add a top dress of ewc, stonneton blend when they get bigger. Looks like you still have plenty of room in those containers.
Just my opinion and I'm not always right with this plant..lol..hope this helps buddy

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

@Sparkey224 thanks I guess my mind just runs I just seen a little brown on the tips and started worrying

Sparkey224 · Feb 6, 2020

Fastass419 said:
@Sparkey224 thanks I guess my mind just runs I just seen a little brown on the tips and started worrying

With the burn tips, I'm assuming the soil still has a good amount of nutrients in it.
So, just rotate waterings and recharge until next week.
That sould be around 30 days right? Then add a top dress after that.

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

Sounds good

Sparkey224 · Feb 6, 2020

Fastass419 said:
Sounds good

I would really focus buddy this week not to over water the plants. Give them less water, per watering and you should see some good results by next week.
Cheers..I quit rambling..lol

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

@Sparkey224 your good ya that's what I was thinking I'll cut it back so I can water about every 4 days I think that will help alot

MrSauga · Feb 6, 2020

PCaddict said:
LOS MrSauga and Emilya are your best resources.

Nope, not me. I'm no whiz with LOS. I've never grown organically.

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

I think my problem was my floral spray. I think I sprayed to much on them to often. So I'll stop for a little to see how they recover. I'll do alot of research on feterlizer and figure out what I need. I know they have stuff out there to make it easy for me. I have bought songs of this and trying to figure out how to make it work. I really think I got some good stuff just not sure how to put it all together

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

Checked on my seeds they have little white tails started very little but they are there going to wait I seen were someone said at least a half inch long tail then you can plant it

Backyardigan · Feb 6, 2020

Fastass419 said:
Checked on my seeds they have little white tails started very little but they are there going to wait I seen were someone said at least a half inch long tail then you can plant it

And they said ½" wouldn't please anybody! Psssh! More like love at first sight!

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

@Backyardigan yes love at first sight. I put five in and all five have very small tails. I so happy about these seeds from @SeedsMan. It did take a little to get here but good seeds. Now if I can plant them and they all grow I'm going to be excited. This is the first time I have grown from seeds

Backyardigan · Feb 6, 2020

Fastass419 said:
@Backyardigan yes love at first sight. I put five in and all five have very small tails. I so happy about these seeds from @SeedsMan. It did take a little to get here but good seeds. Now if I can plant them and they all grow I'm going to be excited. This is the first time I have grown from seeds

If you're excited now just you wait till the first seedling pokes outta the ground! Fricken game changer, just remember no deeper than an inch (that's what she said) when dropping them in... Hehe *pause for effect* soil.

Fastass419 · Feb 6, 2020

@Backyardigan every bit of growing this plant has me excited. It's all I think about :goof:

Besides maybe my wife :snowboating:

Backyardigan · Feb 6, 2020

Fastass419 said:
@Backyardigan every bit of growing this plant has me excited. It's all I think about
Besides maybe my wife

I hear you, got me rooted in farming since day 1. Now I got a mother about to flower hard, clones, another seedling... I'm outta control! All I wanted was one house plant (haha)!

Fastass419 · Feb 7, 2020

Ok I got home to and checked on my seeds and found this
Green diamond

white widow

forgot to get pics of girl scout cookies

Ok question I have is how much water do I give them now? Do I turn my light on now or when they top the soil?

Emilya Green · Feb 7, 2020

Fastass419 said:
Ok I got home to and checked on my seeds and found this
Green diamond white widow forgot to get pics of girl scout cookies

Ok question I have is how much water do I give them now? Do I turn my light on now or when they top the soil?

Congratulations! Put them pointy end down about an inch deep and put just a bit of water around that area.... there is no reason to saturate the soil at this point. Lightly water that seed area a couple of times a day, with just enough water to soak down to that seed. Also turn on the light... the heat and the bit of light that filters through the soil will help the seedling find the top, although gravity is actually enough to do the job.
When they hit the surface, continue watering a couple of times a day, extending your watering area to 3x the current diameter of the plant. Now give a little bit more water, imagining you are giving enough to reach all the way to the bottom with just a bit of that water as it soaks in along the way. Keep doing this twice a day. If you are in a solo cup, by this time 3x the diameter of the plant is almost reaching the edge of the cup, and it is time to water the cup slowly and completely like a sponge, until the soil can hold no more water and any additional flows out of the bottom holes as runoff.
Now the plant has plenty of water for 5-7 days, and you don't want to give large amounts of water again until the plant has grown some more roots and been able to use ALL of that water. There are two sets of roots that are developing right now... the top spreader roots and the bottom feeder/tap roots. The top spreader roots extend across the surface of the container and will go as deep as you can entice them to grow, laterally filling the container with a fine mesh of very specialized roots. The physics of the container means that as the water in the saturated soil is being used up, because of gravity it forms a lake in the container that steadily drops in level, and by about day 3 or so, the top of the water table is below the top spreader roots, and they go dormant for a while waiting for the next rain shower while the bottom roots continue to work on the lake below.
You can take advantage of knowing this by never going more than 3 or 4 days between a light watering of the top... just enough to soak in about 3 or 4 inches, and trying really really hard to make the outer edges the wettest places, so that the roots are enticed to spread out in those directions. If you need to, do this a couple of times while waiting for the bottom to get dry.
Then when the plant finally uses all of the water and the entire container feels as light as air, it is time to properly water again, soaking the soil to saturation. Then sit on your hands for at least 3 or 4 days to do a top watering, but you will notice that the bottom roots must have gotten much stronger, because the time to drain the container will greatly shorten in just that first wet/dry cycle, if you actually let the plant dry out all the way the first time. (it is hard for new growers of weeds to do this, very hard) Each time you go through a wet/dry cycle, more roots will be enticed to grow, and the speed that the plant can use water will steadily increase. It won't be long before the top and bottom cycles sync up, and from then on you will be properly watering the entire container.
When your wet/dry cycle gets down to 24-48 hours, it is time to uppot, to a container at least 3x as large, and repeat this process again, but starting immediately with the transplant with a complete and proper watering to merge the old and new soil regions.

Fastass419 · Feb 7, 2020

@Emilya thanks for taking the time to stop by and help me out. Solo cup to 1 gallon ok? I had plan to go solo cup,1gallon pot ,then a 5 gallon finishing pot will that work

Emilya Green · Feb 7, 2020

Fastass419 said:
@Emilya thanks for taking the time to stop by and help me out. Solo cup to 1 gallon ok? I had plan to go solo cup,1gallon pot ,then a 5 gallon finishing pot will that work

perfect! Good Luck!

Fastass419 · Feb 7, 2020

Ok here is an update the girls look great no more burnt looking tips haven't sprayed with floral in a couple days here are some pics third week in new pots. Top view then side view
Grape ape #1 top view