My First Grow

RUBBERMAID CLOSET GROW

Lights for VEG- 3X CFL 42 WATT 6500K
Lights for FLOWER- 3X CFL 42 WATT 2700K
Ventilation- 2 PC fans 1 intake 1 exhaust
Soil- Scotts Potting Soil
Fert- Miracle Grow 30-10-10 VEG, 15/30/15 FLOWER
Water- Room temperature tap water
Seeds- From Nirvana
Strain- 3 Maroc X Afghan, 1 K-2 .......4 Plants Total
Germination Method - Clear CD case WET paper towels on top of a TV covered with a blanket.

7/10/07
germination - SEED 1 and SEED 2
7/12/07
small roots breaking from SEED 1 and 2
7/13/07
potted SEED 1 and 2
7/15/07
germinated 2 more seeds(k2 / marocxafghan) SEED 3 and 4
7/15/07 6pm-9pm
SEED 1 and 2 Broke thru soil
7/16/07
SEEDLINGS 1 and 2 lookin good
7/17/07
potted SEED 3 and 4
SEEDLING 1 and 2 are fine

(Started fertilizer on SEEDLINGS 1 and 2 - 1 week old from germination)

Total growing - FOUR. 2 maroc afghan , 1 K2, 1 Late Marocafghan

7/18/07
SEEDLINGS 1 and 2 look good
SEED 3 and 4 not yet sprouted. NOTE - SEED 1 and l took 2 days to break soil.


SORRY NO PICS YET

the only thing i think is you will need more light if you are looking for a good yield. but seems decent enough.

Yup, Matthews right. Add more lighting.

How about an update? Any pictures?

7/19/07
SEED 3 and 4 breaking thru soil 2pm
FUCKUP# 1 - Dropped SEED 4 Container
7/20/07
FUCKUP#2 - Thermometer/Hygrometer fell on SEEDLING 1
ALL PLANTS LOOK OK
+Co2 Yeast bottle
7/21/07
+Co2 Yeast bottle
Named Plants- Seed 1 - Lady Yuria , Seed 2- Lady Vox, Seed 3(K2) Lizzie, Seed 4 Jenna
Nothing New All Is Well
7/22/07
Plants look good
7/23/07
nothing nEW!@
All seeds are ok
installed aluminum foiling to container
7/24/07
Its been 2 weeks since Lady Vox and Lady Yuria were put into germination
7/25/07
nothing new
7/26/07
plants are ok except for lady yuria which is suffering from heat stress.. lady vox seems to be doing fine although is probably a male plant.
7/27/07

Last full day of Veging for all 4 plants

BEGIN FLOWER PROCESS (2 Weeks 3 Days Lady Vox Lady Yuria, 1 Week 4 days Jenna / Lizzie)

Heres a current pic of them:

Left- Vox
Right- Yuria
Top- Lizzie
Bottom- Jenna

I just picked up some Mylar today so I will be getting rid of that shitty aluminum foil.

It looks like my plant on the right (Yuria) is suffering from heat stress, although the plant which was germinated at the same time (Vox) is doing fine.

Even with my lack of experience of growing im going to call that Vox will become a male plant=( ... We'll see if I'm right within the next 2 weeks!

Edit: If anyone was wondering what those water bottles are for, they are Ice bottles infront of the intake fan that I've been changing everyday in order to lower the temps and raise humidity...

COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS/TIPS APPRECIATED

Yeah how long are you vegging for?

Peace
K-town

About 2 weeks for the first 2 seeds and 1 week for the second generation.

7/27/07
I just finished installing some mylar / switched light bulbs and photoperiod, flowering begins @ 8PM lights will be off for 12 hours and on for 12.



Questions: Anyone know when I should start giving them flowering nutrients/ how often?
Anything I can do in the Flowering Process to increases my chances of females?

wow thats a really short vegging period for plants from seed, dont expect to get much from these gals i would never veg for less than 1 mo. but good luck with that i guess lol.

7/29/07
FUCKUP#3 Tried to Top Jenna but missed, cut off one o fthe main nodes.
insectide spray beginnin
7/30/07
more insectide
7/31/07
flowering nutrients added
will start heavy watering with nutrients every other day.
8/01/07
plants lookin fine now
no pests
8/02/07
plants are tall as fuck
8/03/07
so many god damn nodes
1 week flower.
8/04/07
nothing new
8/05/07
watered with bloombooster
8/06/07
fuckup#4, lights burnt the top of lady vox, had to top it..
second feeding, more nute str.
8/07/07
no signs of sex yet
need to transplant and find a new home for jenna and lizzie, they are becomingrootbound.
8/08/07
nothin new
8/09/07
,,
8/10/07
2week flower
1month old lady vox/yuria
8/11/07
nothin new all growin
8/13/07
transplanted lady vox ,jenna and lizzie to new pots
8/14/07
ladyvox is male plant..~_~

Plants are 1 MONTH, 4 DAYS from germination

The first picture is of ladyvox/lady yuria, they are both the same strain. They were germinated/planted/fed at the same time, and given same conditions except for 1 detail... For when I had to top ladyvox(on the left) during flowering. I had to do it because it was badly burnt due to lights fallin on it.

Any suggestions on what to do with this male plant besides destroying it? I do not have another room to place it in to keep it away from my future female plants.

i got a question. why are you going to use less lumens during flower than vegging? and i would just get rid of it cuz the spores might get to the girls. theyll be having sex without you even knowing about it lol

im usin the same amount of lumens as i did for vegging, and ya dude this suxs im gonna have to kill my first plant... im thinking of letting it try to grow in the corner of my room and then collect its pollen before i trash it/

Lights for VEG- 3X CFL 42 WATT 6500K
Lights for FLOWER- 3X CFL 42 WATT 2700K

then i dont get it... less or more? lol im using the 2600k for my four plants right now for vegging i got 4 bulbs one for each plant.