First Ever for GardensGrow - Page 9

GardensGrow · #81 07-12-2008, 01:39 PM

Update: Fourth seedling has been established and is playing catch up. Lights are still at 2' above the plants for their seedling safety. I will be moving the light to about 1' (or closer?) from the plants tomorrow since all of them have shown to be well established and healthy.

GardensGrow · #82 07-15-2008, 07:07 PM

Plants have been happily sun bathing under the MH (which is about 1' above the plants). Getting stronger and stronger each day!

Also, I thought that maybe if I named them all with female names then it would encourage them to go that way

Also, there is a small population of mayflies or something so I sprayed down "Sally" with this. If it doesn't hurt her then I'll use it on the rest.

RaulFarquhar · #83 07-16-2008, 08:47 AM

Looking good. Growth is exponential now. That nice leaf development in the last 3 days will lead to a lot more growth coming in the next 3 days.

GardensGrow · #84 07-16-2008, 10:31 PM

Thank Raul. Sally definitely didn't like the spray. It burned her tender leafs a little bit. I sprayed off the leaves with a lot of water so hopefully they can recover.

Turns out also that the flies are just general "fungus flies" and it's indicating that I'm probably over watering. Some of the leaves on the plants are looking a little sickly so I'm sure this is the case. To fix I'm going to let them get a little dry before the next watering.

GardensGrow · #85 07-17-2008, 07:56 PM

Apparently Jessica got a little overspray from the 3-in-1 cuz she's a little burnt too. Doesn't help that I had the lights too close as well.

So Sally is looking dismal and Jessica will probably pull through. Michelle and Cindy are chugging along looking a little better after I lifted the light back to about 1' above.

I'm thinking about starting another seedling or two... Although if Sally dies I'm sure out of three I can get one female, which would be enough for me, but I'd prefer more.

I'll post the sad pictures tomorrow when the "sun" comes up

Hawk · #86 07-17-2008, 11:26 PM

Yeah, too bad seeds aren't things most of us can "waste". Especially for a first grow, it'd be nice to start a couple times more than you actually want to finish. Then you could experiment through the germinating, sprouting, and seedling stages without fear of killing off all the plants. Seems like mine were the most fragile when they were young.

Here's what you can look forward to in the coming weeks though. I'm midway through week 6 of 12/12.

GardensGrow · #87 07-18-2008, 10:37 AM

No kidding. I thought a light spraying with lights off would be okay; apparently not once the lights came back on. Oh well here are some pics (btw Hawk I can't see your picture)

Sally

Jessica

Cindy

Michelle

labey87 · #88 07-18-2008, 12:31 PM

looking good for the most part. except for poor old sally, but hopefully she'll pull through for ya!

RaulFarquhar · #89 07-18-2008, 01:48 PM

GG - I think Sally will recover. Just keep misting her with fresh water for a few days. I am guessing in 1 week that she will look no worse off for the experience.

I must confess that my first 20 high dollar seeds from 2 separate grows were wasted due to errors on my part. I had a few good outdoor grows after that, but from bagseed only. Now we have RIU and we have educated ourselves.

Keep up the good work!

GardensGrow · #90 07-19-2008, 06:23 PM

labey and Raul, thanks for the encouraging words. Definitely with RIU, and screwing things up a little, one can learn the ropes fairly quickly.

As of today it looks like the new leaves coming from Sally's middle stem (is there a term for that area?) are be viable. So I think she'll make it, but with all the stress it might turn out that Sally is a dude!

At least that's what I've heard stress can do to the plants. Let's hope not though