First grow ever (keeping it simple)

jourelemode The seedling have been placed in 5 gallon air pots. Used 3lbs kindsoil at the bottom and filled the rest with fox farms bushdoctor coco loco. I used kindsoil recommendation for measuring their soil (1lb. = 7 cups). This is day 2, I placed the germinated seeds into the soil soil last night. Regarding the watering, i've just been spraying the top of the soil with a spray bottle, just around the area where i put the seed. I only sprayed lightly last night when i put them in the soil so it was bugging me this morning since it was so little. I checked the soil this morning, didnt feel wet. Felt the same as when i took it out the soil packaging so i went ahead and sprayed the top of the soil. This time i used about 2 oz of water in each.

jourelemode Starting week two and I hope she starts to grow more this week. hopefully the increase in water will help. week 1 i've only been giving 2-3oz a day of water today I began giving 2 cups of water.

jourelemode It's day 17 for our main girl and I gave her and the other girl a watering last night. Sprayed 8 oz. of water around the base of both of them. Soil was really dry because I was out of town since Tuesday. I gave them both 8 oz. Tuesday morning before I left so I've got a pretty good idea of how much water they need now...I think I'm getting the hang of this. So they went 3.5 days without watering. Main girl had drooping leaves when I returned, so I finally saw how they look when they really need water. Our second girl on the other hand was good, no drooping leaves. This morning our main girl was perky again so I'm happy. Learning a lot from this first grow.

jourelemode its the start of week 4 for our main girl. About 2 days ago i had to add more soil because she couldn't hold herself all the way up. Used a chopstick at first which worked, but decided to add more soil as well. She's actually able to hold herself up now, since 2 days ago. I just haven't removed the chopstick...I also increase the fan speed to 2, I don't think level 1 did any good to strengthen the stem. Stems are looking much better now since I upped the fan speed. regarding the height, I covered her base with about an inch or more of soil so her height is no longer accurate from when I first planted her, if you know what i mean...So she should actually be taller if i didn't add soil. Modification I started yesterday was that I lowered the lights to 12 inches from 18 inches. I realized after checking the specs on my grow light that they probably weren't getting enough usable light according to the manufacturers diagram. So at this height, according to manufacturers diagram they should now be getting somewhere around 500 par. I don't have a meter so i'm just going by what the manufacturer shows on their site. Today I also adjusted the light schedule from 18 hr to 20 hrs. Maybe that will help them catch up a bit. I have a feeling it was the distance from the light that slowed them down, I don't know...just guessing here. I've been looking at some other lsd25 grows and some are actually around the same size as mine in correlation to age, so it can just be the strain. Here's to hoping they start a growth spurt. Our main girl is already starting to pop pistols I think :( but she so tiny

jourelemode alright, so its the start of week 5 for our main plant. She actually started flowering in the middle of week 4. A few days ago I noticed the top 2 leafs of our main girl curling inward and downward so I did some research and thought maybe it was nitrogen toxicity. I gave the kind folks at kindsoil a call because there shouldn't be any deficiencies etc. with their system. I spoke with phil over at kindsoil and he dropped some knowledge on me. basically i was over watering her. With their system you can't treat it like other grows; i was watering basically every 3 days and that was too much. With their system, they don't want you checking the top inch of the soil for dryness. Phil said the whole pot needs to be dry before watering them and depending on the grow conditions it can range from 7-10 days before needing water again. It's been 4 days now since I watered our main girl and 5 days for the 2nd plant. I checked the soil on both of them, getting my hands deep inside and its still has moisture. So i'm thinking the 7-10 days is spot on . I won't check their soil again until the 7th day. started LST couple days ago on the main plant, she's reaching upward now. I just can't wait for her top 2 leafs that were affected from the over watering to recover, it just bothers me seeing her like this lol. on the other hand our second girl is looking real good. I won't make the same mistake with her.

jourelemode start of week 6 for plant 1. nothing much to report, i gave her a watering today. last time she was watered was 11 days ago. good learning experience so far, i think I'll do much better the next go around. plant 2 is looking better than plant 1 from when plant 1 was 30 days old. i think it is because the mistakes i was making with plant 1 I was able to stop doing to plant 2. but still, on my next grow attempt there are some errors early on that i can avoid next time and hopefully have bigger girls.

jourelemode nothing much to report, you can see the colors now without the led

jourelemode start of week 8 for the main plant, nothing much to report.