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My first time growing, now that it's finally legal here.
Planted the seed on April 22, 2024, and it sprouted on April 24, 2024. It's pretty warm since the grow box is up in the attic. I'm curious how it will handle the heat.
I water it whenever the top 2.5cm of soil feels dry. With these temperatures and fabric pots, it's about every 2 days. Right now, I give it about 0.5 liters of water each time.
So far, it's looking good.
It's amazing how much the plant has grown in the past 7 days! It's now about 13cm tall. I'm still watering it every 2 days with 0.5 liters of water. Do you think it needs more now?
I've adjusted the fertilizer according to the feeding schedule.
The plant is doing great with the temperatures. I thought it might struggle, but it seems fine. I'm still curious about how it will handle the summer since it can get really hot up here in the attic, sometimes over 30°C.
All 3 plants now have 3 nodes, and i can see more growth every day.
Wow, the plants have grown a lot in the past week! I'm excited to open the tent every day and see what's new. I didn't have time to take photos this week, so I'll have to make do with the beginning and end of the week.
The plants have grown about 12-15cm. I've been watering them every two days with 0.75 liters of water each time. I've also been using BioHeaven and BioGrow according to the feeding schedule. In the latest photos, you can see that flowers are starting to form. I think they're entering the pre-flowering stage. Should I start using the flowering feeding schedule now?
I'm thinking of increasing the amount of water to 1 liter each time since the soil is already dry after about 1.5 days.
It looks like the plants are entering the pre-flowering stage. Should I switch to the flowering feeding schedule or should I continue with the vegetative feeding plan for a little while longer?
More recent studies show a lot of the beliefs about this are most likely false.
It all depends on how much you fed over time so far... since people do such drastically different things at times, it can mean drastically different needs at this point.
the plant uses roughly the same amount of p and k during vege and flower. You may need a bit less N in flower, but nothing like a lot of rhetoric recommends.. for example, zero or near zero is just stupid. There is reputable, repeatable quantitative data that shows this is false. It responds well to N in flower. By taper off i mean i go from 120-130ppm to 110 or so. A 10-15% drop? give or take.
I taper off N down to 110ppm after a couple weeks of bloom, but i've had a bit of darkness creep in last couple weeks of flower on 1-2 plants out of 10. I will attempt a slightly different path next time and hopefully avoid the rare plant showing this issue. This is about what you do over 2-3 months and not last night or the last week. It's simple, but not that simple. I probably feed a bit too much N in vege, but it takes a long time to be an issue later on.
read and react.. always do what the plant says... take and course corrections and adjust feeding habits next time to avoid it. If you do that, you'll have a formula that works for 99% of plants with zero issues seed to harvest... a very reasonable goal for anyone. People make WAY too much out of growing healthy plants. The plant does all the work.
For an example of what happens when you switch too early, scroll down a few questions and look at the plant in the panel "can I still finish?" posted by adkguerilla.
Too early to switch, pre-flowers is not flowering.
"Pre-flower" as the name suggest, is just an indication that flowering is about to start, it is not actual flowering yet.
Flowering will start properly in 2-3 weeks and this is when to start with flowering nutrients.
Plants still need adequate nitrogen at this stage to help with the "stretch".
I generally wait until there are small "budlets" starting to form before switching.
In fact, at this stage that you are at, I keep going with grow nutes for the next two weeks, then go to half grow and half bloom for the following two weeks, then finally change to just bloom nutrients.
I have been doing this for thirty years and it works for me.
This method seems to give the plants the best start to flowering and helps prevent the plants from starving themselves towards the end of flowering and ending up a sickly yellow colour when mature.
CptBanana
