Need serious help with first time grow!!

I was just checking my plants and noticed my slower growing plant (fortunately) has a couple spots of mold on the top layer of soil!! What should i do, is there really anything i can do?

Also i noticed some hidden sacs have released pollen!!! They were only on the lower branches so i CAREFULLY removed the ones i saw. Those little naners hold a shit ton of pollen....

Dont worry about the mold. Just means that your probably watering them a bit too much or to often. I just use a spoon and scrape off the top layer of dirt with the spoon and throw it out. Then i sprinkle some new dirt on top. If you dont have any dirt to sprinkle over it then dont worry about it it wont hurt them. Now the pollen......thats not so good.

Yea i read up on how to go about controlling the mold and it just said scrap layer out with spoon and it said to spray a very little bit of a solution of half water and half vinegar on the top of soil. But then i read more and it said the mold wont hurt the plants so the vinegar solution was probably pointless but thanks for the help ninja.

I honestly dont know if my plants would be where they are now without your help man i appreciate it!!


And yea pollen not so good ha

Ninja (or anyone else who reads this) do you have any experience in outdoor grows? Im doing one this year and i have been watching videos and reading everything but everyone just kind of speeds past the soil part. I see people start them in pots then put straight into ground, seen people start in pots then dig a hole and fill with their on soil mixture and transplant into hole, i have seen people even just put straight into ground and so on. I was thinking about starting them in half gallon or a gallon pot with good potting soil(any recommendations? i was thinking MG again) then digging a hole and just transplanting straight into the dirt already there. Do you think that would workout fine or do you know a better way to go about doing this? Any advice??

Been searching for something like this... saved me a ton of time...... thank you.....

atb820 said:

Right now this is my first "stealth"(first marijuana grow EVER...) grow so that's why the box is very small and crapy looking.

Box size:
height - 21 in
depth - 9 in
width - 16 in

Lights:
i had 4 26 watt cfl's but after the possible burn
i lowered the light and now have 3 26 watts and 1 15 watt.

*Plants are 11 days old*

I am not sure why the leaves are yellowing. It started a couple days ago when i had the plants around 2 in from the lights, i thought they got burned but i was under the impression that the plants could be as close to a cfl as long as it isn't touching. To be safe i moved them down and they are about 7 to 8 inches away.

I currently water them when they start to get dry(which seems to be pretty often every other day or so).
I have no intake or exhaust fans. I do have 1 hole cut out on each side of box- one high one low -and sometimes blow a medium sized box fan into the box. I also blow fan directly on plants here and there.

Does anyone have any ideas or help!?

Thanks in advanced

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couple things, 1 glad to see ur ladies recovered! lookin real good, alot of people wouldve scrapped em n started over. the mold is most likely from over watering. i used MG soil and over watering will do that, can also cause little mushrooms to grow. happened to me but its no big deal really. 2 pollen from hermie plants will make fem seeds but it is also likely those seeds will herm out too. it is possible to force herming with a couple different stressing methods (colloidal silver n some others i cant think off of the top of my head) and use that pollen to make fem seeds that likely wont herm (unless the plant had a predisposition for herming regardless of stressing) dont quote me on that tho, im straddling the line between newb and competent no where near pro but thats my general understanding of it. i hope someone will chime in and either prove or disprove the above statement. good luck with the rest of ur grow, i'll b watching from the shadows like i usually do around here lol

have you stopped giving it nitrogen?

the plant needs nitrogen all the way up till the buds start to swell, thats how it makes the energy to make the buds.

if you went to straight flowering nutes too soon, look for paleness and yellowing on the lower leafs, if you see paleness and yellowing climbing up, thats a sign that it needs nitrogen so bad it's scavenging it from it's own leafs.

are you using a particular cannabis specific product, and if so, which one, and are you following the feeding schedule as directed?


Edit:

Derp.

im a little late on this one

see what happens when you get high? 15 pages looks like 1 page.

drugs are bad MMkay.

fuckit.

Hows the bebers? Havnt seen em in a while, how was the green beers??

i learned lots of things in this thread. well, thank you for having such problem and posting it here i hope they are doing well now..

I used to plant a lot of plants outdoors so cost was a bit of a concern. What I did was buy a 3 yard load of very good compost. A really big bag of large perilite, and about 100-10 gallon grow bags (the black ones with holes in the bottom) I would mix the compost and the perilite together and add a quarter cup of time release nutes. Then I would plant the clones in the bags once I got to the spot (typically in a swamp on top of little islands). Then I`d work my old fat ass off watering the shit every week by hand or 12v pump. I`m retired now lol.

Thank you all for the great information and ill have new pictures of the ladies in later today

I think i know why one of my plants has somewhat stopped growing. I am pretty sure it is root bound and i am going to home depot here in a few and i know its not good to transplant during flower but i am going to and i wanted to know if plants in flowering can be feed superthrive? I read a couple different articles and some said you can and some said you cant i just wanted some good RIU advice!!

Ive heard that superthrive makes flower time longer. Idk, my shiska berry went 71 days on it every watering...whatever. The plants will eventually reach the end of their stretch phase. Thats ok, they will stop growing up and just start to bulk up. Its all good. Im doing a superthrive expirement next run to see if it makes a difference, im also testing a bloom booster at the same time. Cant wait, it should be awsome. I wouldnt replant but i havent seen the ladies in a while so IDK what they look like from a side view with the container to plant ratio. Ill give ya my two cents when i get back from work if no one else hasnt already

ah my favorite part of the grow, when the stretch stops n they start puttin on weight[h=3][/h]

.....ninja tomato......

Finally was able to get some pictures off my phone.

Man, your thread inspires me! I just read through a little of it and I am having some similar issues with my CFL grow. Maybe you could hop on over and share some of the knowledge you have gained? I'd appreciate that if you could or if anyone could for that matter!

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/629043-new-rollitup-org-new-cfl.html

Your babies turned out beautiful by the way! Wow!

atb820 said:

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VERY lovely ladies!!! That's an awesome sativa you have there!

Theres great tri development for how young they are. A little leggy but theyre going to build some big nugs by the looks of it. They look great man, im smilin ear to ear, i bet you are too

I know they should be fine but i have no choice and i have to leave my girls for about a week for spring break and i was wondering if there is anything special i should do for them so i dont come home to dead plants?? Is there something you would normally make sure you do to them before you left them for a week or so? I just feel weird leaving them haha