GROWIN UP. My first grow.

Hey sup guys,

I'm doing a vertical grow with 5 plants trying to find a suitable mother plant for my grows to come.

Strains I'm useing are
1x delicious cotton candy feminized
2x Hawaiian skunk haze regular
2x strawberry blue feminized.

A friend sent them, they came free with his herbies order.

My set up is a 250w 16/8 MH for vedg and 12/12 600w HPS for flower.

I have all my plants in 5 L pots with MG herb and vegtable potting mix, have mixed in one third coco coir for drainage, water retention and airation and all that good stuff.

I will be useing canna PK13/14 for nutes about a week into flower (mixed real week due to nutes already in soil)

Vedge time will be short this grow because 5 plants will fill the screen ill be useing real quick, not exactly sure when ill switch them to flower yet other then when they are about a third up the screen.

The screen is 2 and a half foot tall and diameter is about 2 foot 3 inches.
I have a modified bathroom fan blowing cold air up past the light and exhaust fan sucking hot air from the top of the room above the light.
They arnt in this set up just yet because they are only 12 days old from sprout.

At the moment they are under 250w MH and reflector.

This is at 11 days old from sprout.

Does any one have experience with these 3 strains so i know what I'm in for??

Lookin good , never grown those strains though.

Watching seedlings on your first grow seems like it goes for months haha goodluck

Only thing I can tell you is mabe put your light a little closer 12" away. When I started my strawberry blue and Hawaiian I used cfl for a while then switched to hps I have 2 400w. I also didntt fill my pots all the way up with dirt and every time it sstretched I added a layer of dirt this made them get fat and branches basically started right after dirt. I started June 5th im in my second week of flower and they are about 23-28 inches long. Watch out the Hawaiians will get tall. Im still learning and basically my first grow as well. Good luck

you got a polyploid seedling there, well done, i think................

you need some fertiliser as that soil you have will only go so far, pk13/14 is a good booster but you only use it for a week or two and it has no nitrogen which the plants will no doubt need, as well as other things.

personally i would go and get 1l of canna coco A+B to go with your pk 13/14 and use nothing but coco for the grow (mg soil has mixed reviews)you will have better results no question about it.

ghb said:

you need some fertiliser as that soil you have will only go so far, pk13/14 is a good booster but you only use it for a week or two and it has no nitrogen which the plants will no doubt need, as well as other things.

personally i would go and get 1l of canna coco A+B to go with your pk 13/14 and use nothing but coco for the grow (mg soil has mixed reviews)you will have better results no question about it.

Click to expand...

It looks like hes allready got them in 4L pots , but coco would be a good move for future grows

Hey sorry for no reply for a while, I wasnt getting alerts for this thread for some reason.

Day 19. And I have some problems.


They are my 2 biggest plants. The smaller 3 aren't showing any problems.

I have looked around and have put it down to nutrient burn or light burn.

I have moved my light 10cm further away. ( a bit over elbow to tip of fingers.) other then that I won't water for a while and when I do it will only be a tiny amount at the base of the plant because the soil where I put the seeds is a seedling raising mix and at the bottom and around the edges of the pot is the nutrient rich soil (MG vegtable and herb mix).

Hoping they pull through, get a bit older where they can handle the nutrients in the soil and shoot up.

Next time i will be using smaller pots and reporting once plants mature.


I will give an update of all the plants in a couple of days when I get home.

Thanks for the interest guys, thought no one was bothered with this thread

corbin5754 said:

Only thing I can tell you is mabe put your light a little closer 12" away. When I started my strawberry blue and Hawaiian I used cfl for a while then switched to hps I have 2 400w. I also didntt fill my pots all the way up with dirt and every time it sstretched I added a layer of dirt this made them get fat and branches basically started right after dirt. I started June 5th im in my second week of flower and they are about 23-28 inches long. Watch out the Hawaiians will get tall. Im still learning and basically my first grow as well. Good luck

Click to expand...

Hey bro do you have a thread of your plants so i can check them out?

ghb said:

you need some fertiliser as that soil you have will only go so far, pk13/14 is a good booster but you only use it for a week or two and it has no nitrogen which the plants will no doubt need, as well as other things.

personally i would go and get 1l of canna coco A+B to go with your pk 13/14 and use nothing but coco for the grow (mg soil has mixed reviews)you will have better results no question about it.

Click to expand...

Yeah had been told recently by a friend exactly what you have said about the nutrients and coco.
He explained y as well for example the plants will get more food and oxygen more regularly.... Along with a lot more, I will make the switch to coco in the future but soil seems a lot more forgiving for now since I'm still learning.

ghb said:

you need some fertiliser as that soil you have will only go so far, pk13/14 is a good booster but you only use it for a week or two and it has no nitrogen which the plants will no doubt need, as well as other things.

personally i would go and get 1l of canna coco A+B to go with your pk 13/14 and use nothing but coco for the grow (mg soil has mixed reviews)you will have better results no question about it.

Click to expand...

Also you say use coco A+B with my PK13/14, since I will be using them both what ratio would u recommend i mix it as and when should i start and stop this nutrient plan taking into concern that I'm already in soil thats burning my plants

the plants looks hungry to me, possibly over watered too but hard to say exactly, certainly doesn't look over fertilised.

in pure coco i would be using anywhere from 1-4ml per litre depending on growth stage, pk 13/14 i use at 1ml/l for 2 weeks max and believe me coco is a LOT more forgiving than soil, you know exactly what the plants are getting every day

Ok so I'm back home.

These plants are 24 days from sprout.

I feel like they are quite stunted due to some over watering and over nute problems.

1. Now looking the most promising although a small brown spot appeared on one of the leaves like the larger two, number 2 and number 5.

2. New growth looks healthy. No new spots, Bottom 2 leaves dying off and some other leaves drooping (over or under watering) need some advise on this one.

3. My little genetic mutation, must stress little tho. Hasn't shown any signs of stress at all, just seems like a bit of a runt.

4. Runt of the litter, hasn't shown any signs of stress. Looks healthy and sprouting new leaves. Tiny compared to the others.

5. Largest of my plants.
Was first to show over watering and nute burn signs, guessing because it has a larger root system. Bottom leaves seem to of stopped getting worse although a new brow spot emerged on one of the leaves in the new growth.

I haven't watered in 5 days. The leaves seem less droopy especially on number 5, (number 2 still drooping tho).

ghb said:

you got a polyploid seedling there, well done, i think................

Click to expand...

Tricot, not polyploid.

hungry either way, feed with nutes.....

ghb said:

hungry either way, feed with nutes.....

Click to expand...

Hungry either way??

I think I will get some A and B nutes and water 2 of them with it. One small and one large and see what happens,

I just don't think it could be hungry with a plant this small in soil that is notorious for being to hot.

Ether way, I'm taking your advise. These I'll keep these plants to see what they do but I have new seeds getting sent by a mate and I'm starting in canna coco.

how much soil are they in though? in the pics it looks like pure coco.

once in coco you'll know what they are eating and won't have such problems, good luck man