First Grow Attempt

Reposting this. I didnt use thumbnails the first time, so I think it kept people from looking lol.

I actually only started growing because I ordered some Salvia Divinorum plants awhile back (hopefully they come in sometime this month), but wanted to get some practice in before they arrived.

I dont smoke pot, but my brothers do, and I got all my seeds from them. Nothing special, just standard bagseed. They were actually growing like 7 plants off of 1 60 watt incandescent in their attic rofl. Pretty much were just twigs with leaves. Anyways, they brought them over to my house after they found out I didnt care about them smoking and growing it, so I have been tending to them shortly after starting my own.

Really not doing much to them, but they seem to be doing fairly well, atleast, much better compared to my brothers' plants lol. Havent kept a real growth log, starting now though.

Week 1 (Actually about 10 days old)

Ignore the bits of clovers and such growing out of the soil, friend gave me the containers and dirt, which have been sitting outside for a few years

The one to the right of the thermometer is obviously injured, brother poked it and leaf fell off, stunted its growth very badly.

Will post Week 2, 3, and 4 in a few mins, dont want it all on one post.

Week 2 (Around 14-15 Days)

Upgraded from the 2.5" cups to 6" pots, its amazing how much roots some of them had, wish I would of took pictures, some of the bigger ones were actually getting root bound.

Pic 1: The one on the bottum left was from a very small seed, which actually tore off a leaf as the seed shell came off, I end up trashing it cause it was only around 3" tall by Week 3 (though it was only about 10 days old since it came up late)

Pic 2: The top row, second from the right is my current champ in size, is constantly staying way ahead of the others in growth. Started another seed in the 2.5" cup. I know, not being very systematic about adding plants, but whatever

Pic 3: On the far right, just to the left of the single pot, theres a small plant wrapped in plastic/papertowel. When transplanting, I accident lost hold of the cup and it snapped the stem off from the roots. I put some moist soil wrapped in a wet paper towel hoping it would reroot itself. Grew around 2 inch long roots in 7-8 days, so promptly replanted it, it actually grew quite abit while it was rerooting, which suprised me.

As you have probably noticed, the leaves are usually drupe abit, this is cause I ended up taking pics after misting them. I generally sort of tap the leaves to get the excess water off, just did that after photos.

Anyways, most of the plants are 2-3" tall right now, very short, but big leaves for their size I think (I R n00b lol). Most of their leaf spread is usually 1-2 inches more than their height, not sure if thats normal or not.

Pic 1: This one is blurry, but is the one I snapped the stem on accident.

Pic 2: Another blurry pic, sorry >.< But this is one of my smaller ones, that didnt sprout till much later than the others, but is starting to grow fast now.

Pic 3: Leaf nodes are getting closer and closer together, the bigger plants have new leaves growing out of the nodes, so going to get bushy very soon.

And you may be wondering why my thermometer has a compass on it. So my plants dont get lost, duh!

Pic 4: My champ stealing the others thunder and light in this pic, its an attention whore 6.5" tall, 8" leaf spread. Working on its 7th node, cant really tell though. The first 5 sets of nodes are sprouting a set of leaves on each. Biggest pair of those is about 1/3 an inch now. I expect this plant to be insanely bushy in about a week or so since theres 20 new leaves starting to form >

Pic 5: Not much to say here, 2.5" cup has the 8-9 day old seedling in it. Started growing slow at first, but picking up speed now.

Pic 6: Note, the WD40 Spray bottle does NOT contain WD40 lol. Also, the 1 gallon paint cans are what my light rests on

Not so much to comment on each pic, just a general idea of how big they are.

Week 3 Day 3 Stats

Plant - Height - Spread
A 6.5 9
B 4.2 - 8
C 3.5 - 8
D 3 - 6
E 3.75 - 6.5
F 3.5 - 5.5
G 3 - 5.75
H 3 - 5
I 4.75 - 6.5
J 2.5 - 4.75
K 2 - 3
L 3 - 3.5

Week 4 Day 3 Stats

Plant - Height - Spread
A 10 - 14
B 6.5 - 11
C 6 - 11
D 4.5 - 8
E 6 - 9
F 6 - 10
G 5.5 - 9
H 4 - 7.5
I 6 - 10
J 5 - 9
K 3 - 6.5
L 4 - 4.5

Looks good, welcome to RIU.

Nice details,REP+

Looking good man! What kind of light are you useing?
peace man

Lights are 2 4' 40 watt Flos, each tube is like 3000 lumens. Going to be putting another 2 4'ers in there soon.

The soil I am using is Miracle-Gro Potting soil w/ 21-7-14 ferts in it, obviously ferts are way off, but again I am not going to adjust my ferts till I get ready to flower. Seeing how little effort I can get away with, I'm not the one going to smoke it, my brothers are lol.

I am using 24:0 Light Cycle, due to my schedule always changing, dont want to shock the plants by being several hours late to turn light on or off.

Temperature usually is 80F-85F during day and 75F at night. Dont have a humidity gauge, but I just stick my hand in the area and if the air feels kind dry, I mist the plants.

I am going to start cloning soon since they are getting big, taking cuttings from the main stem at the top to keep the plants as short and bushy as possible. Also going to take a small clone from each of the plants and put them in a separate room and flower them, so I can figure out which of my plants will be female, and not risk getting seedy bud later on.

Sounds like you have a plan.