Common Growing mistakes made by the new marijuana grower

Originally Posted by freeskier

are nutrients and fertilizerss the same. i have a fertilizer and it says to put the fertilizer on new seedlings and then apply 2 weeks after that.

Fertilizers usually are stuff you put in the soil before you start growing. Nutes are stuff you add later. But yes basically they are the same thing, you can use the words interchangeably. Never really put nutes on new seedlings, you usually want to wait about 2 weeks or so and start out with 1/4 nutes.

Originally Posted by Anonymous

my plants tend to grow to fast and fall over

to much light?
not enough room for roots?

any help is appreciated

if you find that your plant is growing too tall too fast then the answer might be lack of light, or your light might not be close enough. plants grow tall quickly like that when they are seeking light.

thanks helped me alot

btw, any ideas for organic ferts?

Yea, tie it up, hemp cord works beautifully for this, alsoi suppose a tomato cage wouldn't hurt.

Have you tried home-made compost to help you out?

This is a question on watering or reservoir temperature. I am running one jumbo rock wool with a flood to drain. Flooding 2X/day for 2 minutes. One plant in Fox farm dirt watered once a day. 15 clones in a home made Aeroponics setup watered 10 sec every 270 sec. I vegged on Technaflora then changed to Advanced Nutrients Sensi Perfect pH with their Hobbyist Bundle at the 5 week of flowering. (I could not keep the Technaflora pH from going acid.). My lights are a mixture of LED's and CFL's. I also inject the room with CO2 three times a day. My room runs at 87F and (here's the problem and question) my reservoirs are running at 78F. I do not want to vent my room because I do not want to loose my CO2. Am I going to loose my plants to root root because my water is too hot? I seem to be loosing all my lower fan leaves so I am beginning to panic.

I am a first time grower and have a question on my leaf coloring. My plant is about 2-1/2 weeks old. As the new leaves come in they look healthy, but the older leaves start to turn a darker green starting at the tip and then throughout the leaf. At first I thought my lighting was too close (CFL bulbs) so I moved them farther, but the problem persists. I have only used potting soil that is premixed with a 3 mo. supply of ferts and water at this point. The first pic is at 2 weeks and the second pic is at 18 days. In the second pic you notice the main leaves at 9 and 3 o clock are darker as well. Thanks in advance.