Like the title says this is my first time growing. Friend gave me 3 Sweet Island Skunk seeds to help me out on my little adventure, the plants are now 4 days from 6 weeks old and would like to Flower once they get there to see what i got, had a few problems from the start 1) started nutes day 1 didnt know and was following Hesi schedule 2) straight tap water, i now have a hanna PH meter and have been giving them around 6.6 PH 3) Ace hardware potting soil, no added nutes but just really shitty soil, i recently found a Hydro store just afew mile away and went and purchased some Fox Farm soil. Well those were the major problems, my setup is in a hallway closet 3x4.5x6 roughly,400watt mh/hps,Hesi starter kit for nutes, and 3 fans pretty basic stuff....
anyway here are some pics i took today 5 weeks and 3 days i think after i adjusted the PH the plants started taking in all the nutes that had set in the soil thats why i have yellowing, plant #2 i have already removed some lower leaves that were yellow, brown, and im sure dead or almost. They are still in the cheap soil and since im gonna flower soon should i leach then replant in the fox farm?

*also i have a bag of perlite and a bag of vermiculite that iwas gonna add to the fox farm soil is that a good idea??Plant #1 (3).jpg

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I would like to change the soil today since im starting flowering this thursday, some input would be helpful, thank you

well today i changed the soil in my plants, a few of the smaller roots broke off while i was removing them from the pots but i got most of it i hope

Let me just say i love sweet ilsand sjkunk, sweet, and great high. I will be keeping an eye on this grow. +rep

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Awesome!! good to know, thanx man! hope i get a female out of it, but if not at least ill have an idea for the next grow

Here some pics after i changed the soil and some others of the room im using
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looking real nice, how old did you say they are?

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5 weeks from seed 6 weeks on thursday 16th, i would like to start flowering then but i might wait 1 more week since i just transplanted

i think the small one got fucked up cause of wrong PH and nutes to early but not sure cause it didnt effect the others as much

Also how far should i keep my light? right now its like 20" from the tops of the 2 larger plants

You do not want to put the hps/mh to close cuz it might burn, unless you have some type of cool tube.

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