Our First

[MacMota]

High guys!

Okay so it's day 19. The Mazar-Afghan is starting to take shape. It's even looking like a genuine pot plant. I did like IRIE said and I held off, for the most part, on doing anything to it. It was given a little water 2 days ago, but that was it. I've got a couple of pics below.

The Strawberry Cough is on day 18 and I'm a little worried. It's really started to yellow and I'm concerned about nutrients. Should I give it some? Maybe just a little taste and see if that helps? I don't want to burn it but it looks like it's already burnt. The tips of the leaves have turned brown and look like they do when it's supposed to be flowering and it's really yellow. Anyway, there's pics of that below too.

Also, I updated my fan and got a carbon filter put together. I forgot to take pics when I was out there getting shots of the plants but I'll get some and throw them up here later today or tomorrow.

Now for the pics. First up, Mazar-Afghan:

There's still a little yellowing but it looks loads better.

And now, Strawberry Cough:

The second shot I was messing with the camera but it turns out you can really see the yellowing with that light filter on.

As always, thank you everyone for all your help and for letting this newb get his hands dirty and his thumbs green.

 

[LiveTour]

Well a couple concerns here. Do you have a fan on them? If not get a smal amount of wind on them first to get those stems buit up. Secondly I feel your main issue is that your medium is preventing growth at this point, and needs to be addressed, again my opinion only you might want to wait for some additional comments so this will also help bumb the thread up too!

 

[MacMota]

Thanks DeadTour. I do have a fan on them. It's on the side that the Mazar-Afghan is on and it blows across to the Strawberry Cough.

I've been thinking about the soil for over a week now and I agree. I need to get some perlite and mix it in. I'm nervous about replanting because of what happened last time but I think if I'm careful, I won't tear up the plant again.

 

[MacMota]

Okay, so per the urging of many peeps on here, I went to my local hardware-giant and got two 8-quart bags of perlite. I gently removed the plants and mixed a bag of each into my current soil. This should put the mix at around 32-33%. I know that the ideal is 30% but I figured that 2 or 3% wasn't going to make that big of a difference.

After replacing the plants, I gave them a little water and let them sit outside for about an hour to get some fresh air.

Here's some pics:

The MA

The SC

Group shot

 

[Dan K]

Good Start!

Keep them CFLs LOW. Your past germination now so they can take it.

 

[LiveTour]

Now that looks livable for those lil babes!

 

[MacMota]

Thanks for the advice Dan, and thank you DeadTour. I know it's probably my imagination but it seemed that they had already starting greening up some just a few hours after I mixed in the perlite.

 

[KannabisKid]

Looking good MacMota. Keep up the good work. Before ya know it, they will be flourishing. Keep those ladies healthy.
So far, of the 4 seeds I germed, 1 didn't make it (MA), 1 questionable WW, and 1 WW and 1 MA are confirmed females. I'm impressed with either the quality or the luck o the draw with my ratio so far. Sending some positive energy your way.

 

[Bud stankalot]

I wish I could get some good seeds like that. The grow is looking pretty good so far. I can't offer much advice right now, only encouragment. Keep it up!!

 

[DEAN420]

Looking good

 

[Ms.Fox]

Any updates?

 

[MacMota]

Thanks guys, for the encouragement. We really appreciate it.

Right now we're half way through week 3. The MA is looking good with several three pronged leaves and is looking really green. The SC not so much. Mrs. MacMota keeps saying that it looks sick. I don't really know what's going on with it but it's really yellow on the lower 2 leaves and there's some browning near the tips. I'll have some pictures up tomorrow, they're sleeping right now. I'll post more in the A.M. when I can get some pictures on here.

 

[MacMota]

Alright! Pictures...

This is day 24 for the SC and day 25 for the MA. The SC looks rough but it's coming back around, I think. Mrs. MacMota moved the plants around so the SC is closer to the fan. The Mazar still gets plenty of air on it cause it's bigger and the Strawberry Cough looks to be greening up some. We started a very very diluted nutrient solution on them on Thursday, the MA took it like a champ. It appears the SC liked it too.

Starwberry Cough, Day 24:

I still haven't figured out how to get the camera to focus on the plants and not the soil. Knowing my luck, I'll figure it out when the plants are harvested and drying.

Mazar-Afghan, Day 25:

Look at the purple in the leaves...yeah buddy. This one's going to be a great smoke. I can feel it.

Thanks everyone for all the help and encouragement. We appreciate you all sticking around.

 

[Ms.Fox]

Looking perfect! Great job! Thanks for the update. ;-)

 

[LiveTour]

Hey any updates??

 

[MacMota]

Today is day 30. For one month we have been growing and have learned a lot. From all the help of you guys here, we have 2 viable marijuana plants.

We're on a feeding schedule now and they get water every couple of days. It seems the heat from being inside the outside storage unit causes the soil to dry fairly quickly. We're planning on vegging for another 3 or 4 weeks and then on to flowering. I'm still a little concerned about the Strawberry Cough though. It appears that there is some manner of lockout and I'm thinking that it's an acidic pH issue. I don't have a tester though so I can't be for certain. I'll probably run by the pet store later and get one. I'll get some pics up in little while too.

Hey any updates??

My apologies that you all have to prod for updates. My work schedule is hectic (48 hours in 4 days) and so most nights I come home and crash. I'll do my best to get more regular updates on here for ye faithful few.

Thanks again everyone!

 

[MacMota]

Aaaaaaand, here's the pics.

MA, Day 30:

SC, Day 29:

Here's group shot of them under the lights:

I still see some yellowing on the SC and the tips are still looking dead on the lower 4 leaves but the top is coming in nice and green (though not as green as the MA) and I think it'll recover. I tried to get some really close shots of the leaves so you could see the coloring and tell me if it's a nutrient lockout but alas, I still haven't figured out this stoopid camera. I actually have the product manual pulled up from Sony's website while I type this.

 

[MacMota]

I finally figured it out! Okay, so apparently, you have to put your camera in Macro mode to get close-ups. Here's some pics:

MA:

Okay, now here's the Strawberry Cough. You can finally see what I've been babbling on about. The lower leaves are noticeably more yellow and the tips are brown and dead:

Yay! I'm retarded, but yay!

 

[MacMota]

Time for a quick update.

The plants love the nutrients. Both have almost doubled in size since the watering. I can't believe it. The yellowing is almost completely gone on the Strawberry Cough. When can I sex them? How do you tell? I know there's a thread somewhere on here that shows but I'm having issues finding it. Maybe I'll look a little harder tomorrow. Also, I'll put some pics up tomorrow.

That's all for now. I'll post again tomorrow.

 

[KannabisKid]

Good to hear everything is going well. Here is the link for preflowers - What are preflowers?
I couldn't tell up until about a a week and a half ago. Roughly 2 months since germination. Now I have to run and get some red spectrum lights to get them blooming