My 1st and 2nd grow - Page 3

Baz · #21 10-08-2008, 12:17 PM

And heres an update on my seedlings, now mature plants

about 4 week old and 10 days into flowering, I only have 4 now as i had to give 3 away due to lack of space, hope they were not my ladys lol. The one pictured last needs repotting shortly.

Londoner · #22 10-08-2008, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Baz

And heres an update on my seedlings, now mature plants

about 4 week old and 10 days into flowering, I only have 4 now as i had to give 3 away due to lack of space, hope they were not my ladys lol. The one pictured last needs repotting shortly.

Lookin ok baz, theyre lookin a bit hungry though, definately pot-on soon, what soil/compost are they in?

Baz · #23 10-08-2008, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Londoner

Lookin ok baz, theyre lookin a bit hungry though, definately pot-on soon, what soil/compost are they in?

Erm the compost was just some bog standard stuff not too sure to be honest as i dont have the bag anymore, they had there first 1/4 strength of the stated dose of feed of mg 15-30-15 just over a week ago, gonna give em another feed in the next few days, prob the full dose. Ive just repotted 3 of em and am gonna repot the little 1 tomorrow, then the lot in a week or so, should be ok till then yea?

Londoner · #24 10-08-2008, 02:56 PM

Yea but if your repotting into fresh compost and the compost contains ferts theres no need to feed mate, i dont feed at all in veg, just straight water and pot on everytime i see roots at the drainage holes, you can do this all the way through veg and not need to feed until your well into flower.

Baz · #25 10-08-2008, 03:11 PM

Thats good to know, i did think that they would get extra feeds from the new soil, they have had 1 feed if i hault the next feed of ferts will that efect em at all, id rather nut F arround with ferts if i dont have to, do you recommend i dont feed untill about about a couple of week after the next repot? which will be there final pot? btw they are 10 days into flowering
TIA

Londoner · #26 10-08-2008, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Baz

Thats good to know, i did think that they would get extra feeds from the new soil, they have had 1 feed if i hault the next feed of ferts will that efect em at all, id rather nut F arround with ferts if i dont have to, do you recommend i dont feed untill about about a couple of week after the next repot? which will be there final pot? btw they are 10 days into flowering
TIA

Ah i didnt know you was already in flower, teach me for not reading the whole thread. you ideally dont wanna be potting on in flower, any transplant stress can slow flowering. Carry on feedintg mate.

This is what i do on the average six week veg'd plant.

Start my seed in a jiffy pellet.

Once root/s show out the pellet i pot up into a 1ltr pot of B&Q specialist sowing and cutting compost, its important that you dont use a pot bigger than 1ltr because this compo will not feed an established plant adaquately.

When roots show out of the 1ltr pots drainage holes (2wks approx) i re-pot into a 6ltr pot of west+ multipurpose with John Innes.

After another 2wks i start to see roots at the 6ltr pots drainage holes, i then re-pot into their final 10ltr pots of west+ again, then wait another 2wks for the plant to fill the 10ltr pot with roots, then move them into the flower room.

Then after approx 2wks after they went into 12/12 (4wks since the final pot up) the soils fert reserves will start to become depleted, i then start my feeding program.

Baz · #27 10-08-2008, 03:50 PM

Thanks for that m8, once im done with my stretched monster aka my first plant lol, then done with my second grow wich i flowered way too early ( due to lack of lights and spaces) and get my next seeds to grow i will follow that entire regieme, as i always get confused buying compost and end up buying some inferior shit. I never gave my first plant ferts until about 2 week of flowering and i vegged her for about 7 weeks, and she had no probs, infact her probs came arround one week after first ferts. Thanks for that

h8popo · #28 10-10-2008, 06:39 PM

nice setup man... shit i wish my staircase was partitioned off like that with a door. plants look good too. what brand cfls are those? they look huge to what im using.

Baz · #29 10-11-2008, 06:48 AM

Thanks, they are not that great to be honest, but seem to be doing the job

Pazzo · #30 10-12-2008, 08:21 PM

Hey, I just read through your grow and it looks like you're off to a good start. I don't know if I just missed it or what but how big is the space you're growing in? I know with me i'm very limited in a cabinet that is only 24"Wx15"Dx70ish"H.. and it seems like thats your case too.

I grow using the SOG method and it works great, I hope to get it down to either a 2 month harvest cycle or harvest a few plants every couple weeks soon. I just need to redo my cabinet and put in a shelf so I can get my mom/clone chamber going. So far i'm growing in 6L pots and have 4 plants averaging 3/4oz each going in my space, but I hope to reduce the pot size to 1L and have up to 15 plants going with up to 1/4-1/2 oz. each. If I only had 12 plants and got a 1/4oz. off each one that would still be the exact same I average now.. and i'm sure I can get more.

I only suggest this too you because it looks like you were already forced into doing it and at least for me.. I can't see me doing anything else. I've grown in 1, 3, & 5 gallon pots, done LST, just let em grow out like you and I would still say SOG is my fav.. maybe it's just cause i've generally been space limited though.

Oh and by the way if you need some help with LST just let me know. I think I still got some pics of when I did my LST grows too. Oh, here's a pic of my cab btw..