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weeks 4
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weeks 7-8, 10, 13, 16
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Grow medium
40 L
Pot Size
0.35 L
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Week 1
Vegetation
5
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5 years ago
So, this is my very first growing experience...or at least, growing cannabis. I don't have much money and neither do any of my friends that I started this with. We are growing it in a garden house at the edge of the city, so I can't be there all the time, I can visit once a day to make sure everything is going ok. That kinda limits me. Also, the shortage of money is a real pain in the ass. We can't afford the fancy equipment like LED bulbs, humidifiers, fertilizers for cannabis, pH meters etc. so it's kind of a shot in the dark, but I am trying to do my best with the limited equipment I have. The strain we chose, Lemon Skunk by DNA Genetics, was the only one our local growing shop had in stock, everything else was sold out, but the strain actually looks good, so I am certainly not disappointed. We bought a pack of 3 seeds that came to around 23€. I chose Jiffy Coco tablets as a germinating medium...or at least the local supermarket generic brand that my mom had at home. I left the seedlings in for the whole week. I am using CFL bulbs as lighting, colder ones in veg and warmer ones for flower. I didn't buy the warmer ones yet, just the colder ones, they came to around 20€. I am using a timing wall adapter with my bulbs. I bought it for about 8€. We made our own lighting wires, we bought 3 sockets, 3 wall plugs and 6m of wire and just wired it together, that cost us about 9€. Since it's fall here rn, we are using a heater that we got for free cuz my friend's dad found it somewhere. It's kinda shit, the fan already stopped working and we had some problems with the heater core not working, but we fixed it. The fan is still not working so it's not blowing the warm air in but sort of radiating it into the room, but it's better than nothing and it was free. I am using a thermostat wall adapter that cost us about 15€, however, since it's the cheapest one that I found, you can't program the temperature based on the time of the day, so the day and night temps have to be the same. I bought three 10l bags of potting soil for herbs and spices, the closest one to cannabis soil I found. Together with a 10l bag of horse and cow manure mix and a 2,5l bag of perlite, it came to around 17€. As you can see in the Day 1 photo, I am using a transparent dome to keep the humidity high. We found it in the garden house I don't know what it is, it looks like a plastic wine glass with the leg cut off, idk who would do that but it serves it's purpose very well. The pots we will be using later were also for free since we found them in the garden house. So if you count everything up, the starting cost of this grow was around 90€ or 100$. As I said earlier, I am growing it with my friends, so we split the price with 5 people. So it was about 18€ or 20$ per person. I am liking the progress so far.
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Grow Questions
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Pricestarted grow question 5 years ago
I am noticing a weird discoloration on one of the plants. It's starting from the edges of the leaves and growing towards the middle. You can see it in the last photo. I have looked on a few guides, but I haven't been able to find this issue. Can you see what's wrong?
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Leaves. Color - Mottling
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Horticulturehobbyistsanswered grow question 5 years ago
You should check your PH levels. Unless I'm running a monocrop (an entire room of the same keeper pheno started in clone form) I like to run a fluctuating PH schedule with my grows. Different strains and different phenos from strains will feed differently and you need to maintain a propper PH level so the nutrients you're feeding can be made available to the plant. So I alternate PH with each water in soil from 6.2/6.5/6.8 and then repeat. Also make sure your lights arent too close to your little ladies. Make sure you're checking the EC/ppms of your water and nutrients before you water to ensure they're in the appropriate range for whatever stage of growth your plants are at. You should also be checking the EC/ppms of your run off when you water so you know what the levels are at in your medium. I see you keep your day time and night temps the same. You'll want to start bringing your night time temps down a couple degrees from your day time temps so the plants can transpire while they sleep. Keeping your day/night temps the same makes it hard for your plants to off gas and transpire what they up took during your lights on period. This means they wont uptake as much food or water as your grow progresses. This can slow growth, lead to deficiencies, and unnecessary stress. Hope that helps. 🤘
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Pricestarted grow question 5 years ago
So my leaves have started turning yellow and falling away. It started one by one in the lower parts of the plants, but then it spread even to some more younger leaves, some of them just turn yellow and fall, some of them started turning brown and burnt, see picture for reference.
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Leaves. Color - Pale
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Wicked_Stix
Wicked_Stixanswered grow question 5 years ago
This could be 2 issues. First obviously could be the overwatering. It is best to water when the soil has dried out enough where it feels dry when you poke your finger into the soil up to your first knuckle. I don't see a lot of drooping that is usually associated with overwatering though. But looking back at your plants over the past couple weeks they look hungry for nitrogen. If the soil is too wet it suffocates the roots and they can't absorb nutrients. I don't see that you have any nutrients listed that you are feeding. If this is the case then give her a light dose of high nitrogen grow nutrients and she will improve pretty quick. Good luck!
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Mnammnam
Mnammnamcommentedweek 15 years ago
👽🍀
Ddcfc420
Ddcfc420commentedweek 115 years ago
Hi buddy I too have grown budget stealth grows, I see u sing cfl bulbs can get the wee full spectrum led 50watt plug into lamp instead of cfl, use cfl and led in flower, and maybe use a lighter soil mix with more perlite and that bud, props to u tho my man best way to try is chuck a seed in a let the magic happen all a learning curve, autos are easiest to grow go for them dude
Eryan
Eryancommentedweek 125 years ago
Looks like you have at least phosphorus (reddish stems / veins everywhere) + nitrogen (bottom leaves yellowing and dying) deficiencies, if not other deficiencies as well. Measuring PH is a must, as it affects the uptake of all nutrients. You need to follow @Horticulturehobbyists advice, otherwise these plants aren't going to survive. If you are trying to avoid buying fertilizers, you can try experimenting with getting phosphorus from sources like boiling banana peels or nitrogen from diluted piss (https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-how-and-why-to-create-homemade-organic-fertilizers-n764). Results will obviously be far less predictable though than with nutrients which have recommended dosages.
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Pricecommented5 years ago
@Eryan, Thanks for your advice. I'm not trying to avoid fertilizers, I just want my grow to be as organic as possible. I couldn't find any organic fertilizers when I started this growth so I had to go with manure that had NPK of 3,5/2/1,5. I have found some organic fertilizers by BioBizz that are in my budget for the next grow and flo of this grow so I will be switching to them very soon. Manure isn't really good as I found out. Also, the soil I used isn't really good for weed as well. However, I think that the plant was nutrient deficient because it was overwatered for so long. I had small leaves with weird colours for a long time and I thought that it was normal, but from the time I stopped watering I see very large and nice green leaves and stems, you can see that in the photo. But I much appreciate your comment. Thank you and good luck with your growing :)
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 15 years ago
You can look in my diaries ( cookies for me) there is a reciepe for soilmixing its cheap and very good soil. BUt it looks as you got to buy a MJ-Growing soil. I recommend Plagron/ or Biobizz allmix/or lightmix... MJ looves those mixes. And in long term you can look for your own "soil sources" . But if you want to end this grow successful you need abalanced light fertilised fluffy soilmix. Soil is the key for successful growing. If you save in this pont you most times have trouble after trouble. After this grow do your own soilmix and stay safe. But for this grow you got to invest 20 bucks more for a 15l of soilmix........ greetigs For more infos just hit the reply button
raptor65
raptor65commentedweek 15 years ago
Looks to be to a good start 👍, hope everything go smooth with your grow and good luck 👌, Have fun, a bit of patients and a lot of TLC it'll be great😉
Master_weeda
Master_weedacommentedweek 15 years ago
Good luck for your grow May the force be with you 💪
GreenHeart420
GreenHeart420commentedweek 15 years ago
Off to a great start! Cheers buddy 😊✌️
Jizzun
Jizzuncommentedweek 15 years ago
🍋🌳
Mnammnam
Mnammnamcommentedweek 15 years ago
👽🍀
Epokwan
Epokwancommentedweek 15 years ago
Those look like some happy little seedlings! You sound determined, so I'm sure you guys will do a great job with whatever you have available to you! All the best ✌️
drop_some_weed
drop_some_weedcommentedweek 25 years ago
i think your substrate drain not enough water, that causes low oxygen near roots and so many problems... you need to use some bacterias for guard, more oxygen, better root development, mychorrizae, enzymes and fulvic acids for more oxygen in molecular form ... give some life to soil clear every ph problem and overfert problem Use RO Water and let medium dry before next irrigation for example: GHE DIamond Black : fulvic , humic acid GHE Trychoderma, adv voodoo juice/ tarantula /piranha : Mychorrizae /bacterias Cannazym/sensyzim : Enzimes