can some PLEASE help me out!?

Well, hello everyone I am new to RIU and growing as well and i have a few questions...

This is my first season attempting to grow ( outdoors ) and i think that my plant may be over watered... sorry for lack of pics cause i do not have a camera right now but i live in ct and it is already late august and my plant is only about 2 ft tall has a very skinny stem its like skinny as a chopstick and i have a a bunch of yellow spots on the lower leaves of it but the upper leaves appear very green and healthy, i have also yet to check the ph of the soil but i am using scotts hyponex potting soil which i believe already has a good ph for marijuana and, i also think that my plants may be growing slow cause they are only getting around 3-4 hours of direct sunlight each day sooooooooooo.... to sum it up

1) it rains a real lot where i live, what can i do to avoid my plants growth being stunted from being overwatered

2) is 3-4 hours of DIRECT sunlight a day enough?

3) what could be the cause of yellowing and yellow spots on my lower leaves as well as a few of them withering and dieing, too much water?

and finally...

4) seeing as it is my first grow i am using regular bagseeds i got out of some regs/mids could it just be the seeds genetics causing all of the problems

ty & 1 love

i hate to be a pain in the ass and double post this thread with different titles its just im eager to learn lol

1. Can't really answer that for you. Its up to you to be creative and figure that out.

2. Is 3-4 hours of sunlight enough? Not in my opinion, no.

3. Could be a lot of things. Pics would help answer that question.

4. Nah I'm pretty sure that the conditions are causing the problems.

Raise the plant. If you don't want to transplant it to higher ground, at least dig away some surrounding dirt or make an irrigation ditch to take the water away from the plant.

i think the yellow dots on your lower leaves could be nute burn, have u ferted?

nah i haven't used any nutes what so ever, i have a feeling it might be from foliar feeding now that i think of it but i do not know how to prevent that

Yellow dots . . . not enough light . . . are they lower leaves. Are they on the least sunned side? Could be over-watering?
To maybe avoid this outdoors, next time try pre-digging your hole out and filling the bottom with rocks and stones. Be sure to loosen surrounding soil so water has somewhere else to settle.

well im actually growing in 5 gallon buckets i drilled out the bottom of them but i didn't put any stone or gravel on the bottom to help drain and i think the soil i am using has little perlite compared to what is suitable for growing marijuana, im using scott's hyponex potting soil

and yea^^^ there on the lower leaves only the top look very healthy and green

roidy said:

well im actually growing in 5 gallon buckets i drilled out the bottom of them but i didn't put any stone or gravel on the bottom to help drain and i think the soil i am using has little perlite compared to what is suitable for growing marijuana, im using scott's hyponex potting soil

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I'm using the same soil and mine are doing fine. Although, I have ONE that isn't doing so great and I think its because I packed the soil down. The soil isn't draining very well due to that.

yea but you can't really help that can you, because doesn't the rain naturally pack down the soil? and i was also thinking about adding around 10%-20% perlite by volume i think that would help a really lot

roidy said:

yea but you can't really help that can you, because doesn't the rain naturally pack down the soil? and i was also thinking about adding around 10%-20% perlite by volume i think that would help a really lot

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Rain may pack it down a bit... but not as much as HANDS can. I wasn't thinking.

Yes, perlite will probably help. I'm guessing that Hyponex doesn't contain enough of it. Like i said though, I have another plant (bagseed) thats in Hyponex and its doing GREAT. I didn't pack the soil down for that one.

haha lucky you youd probably laugh your ass off if you saw what mine looks like its central stem has probably about a half inch diamete tops and is about a foot and a half tall LOL but i planted it in the woods with a bunch of trees surrounding it so it only gets like 3 hours of direct sunlight a day and it has a lot of shadows casted on it

roidy said:

haha lucky you youd probably laugh your ass off if you saw what mine looks like its central stem has probably about a half inch diamete tops and is about a foot and a half tall LOL but i planted it in the woods with a bunch of trees surrounding it so it only gets like 3 hours of direct sunlight a day and it has a lot of shadows casted on it

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Its not getting enough light.

GrowSpecialist said:

Its not getting enough light.

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will a few extra hours of light really make the difference of a foot and half puny plant that yields an eigth to a plant that gets around 6-8 hours of direct light that yields over a pound?

roidy said:

will a few extra hours of light really make the difference of a foot and half puny plant that yields an eigth to a plant that gets around 6-8 hours of direct light that yields over a pound?

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3-5 hours does make a big difference... but not a POUND of difference. Some plants just do much better than others.

ahh i c, well my plant can barely even support itself without leaning a very lot to one side, could it be that the genes of my plant make it so that it was meant to be grown indoors and despite the conditions its under it wouldn't grow good anyways?

So lets take a look at your first ?......if there outside and they get rained on all the time COVER THEM UP!!!

if there getting to much water from the rain cover them.

No 3 to 4 hours is not enough lite try more like 12/12 during flowering and 24 hr or 18/6 18 on 6 off

watch your ph level it may be to high or too low..also watch for pests.

And to your last ? if i would have known you were using mid grade seeds i would have said be happy with what ya got....