Please some advises

Kushash

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Green Camel said:
You suggest to change my lights since I’m growing 2-3 planets?
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There are some reputable LED sellers in the LED section and a lot to learn about LED over there. LED light are often misleading when describing the power of their lights. You can only judge an LED by watts drawn at the outlet. Yours is 130W at the outlet. To grow 2 or 3 plants the minimum needed for decent size buds would be about 230 watts or more. Hope that helps.
You can probably find some threads related to the topic here in the LED Section.
https://www.rollitup.org/f/led-and-other-lighting.124/
 
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bankheadstoner

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Green Camel said:
You suggest to change my lights since I’m growing 2-3 planets?
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He right about the led light. So basically the light will be great for 3/4 seedlings and for veg but for flowering you will either need another 300w which only pulls 130w power or get a bigger light that can cover more sq footage . I don't recommend 24" in seedling stage I recommend at least 28-32" and in about 3weeks gradually dropping the light to 24" in veg . But 24" may be ok but you'll have to determine that as plants grow but it could cause heat stress it depends on the strain tho. But for now you have way more than enough help light to get plants into flowering stage. I cant help you on soil because I don't recommend the brand only because you growing auto-flowering seeds and you already have to add things to soil to make it work. If you have experience with that soil go for it. Or take other guy advice but if you had regular seeds or feminized seeds I would say go for it. Also don't think epsoma nutrients is a good idea but Amazon deliver pretty much anywhere in states and have cheap options for nutrients like general hydroponics regular nutrients and their organic ,(gobox) nutrient line
 
Tfunk0704

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Green Camel said:
What's up guys...


This is gonna be my first time growing Marijuana and I've read about how to grow lots, but there're some points I'm confuse about cuz I live in country that the weather gets over 100 degree and the humidity below 20%.

I decided to grow mine in tent and just bought all requirements, here what I have now:

80x80 cm (2.6'x2.6') grow tent

Espoma Potting mix for soil

Espoma Organic Start!

Ph down & Ph tester, because the ph on the water I'm using 7.5

Proper Substratum Potting soil and here is the product declaration (local product)

FoxFarm nutrient (I think, I made mistake here and I got the hydro not the soil


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Roleadro 300w LED Grow Light Galaxyhydro Series Full Spectrum


My seeds are:

White Widow Auto Feminized

Blackberry Auto Feminized

Mama Mia Feminized


So, today I planted my seeds and I'm using peat pellets to germinate it, I set my light 14" above the greenhouse and the temperature inside about 77 and the humidity between 26% - 45%, sometimes around noon it gets too hot inside about 88 degree in the tent and I'm trying to maintenance the environment.

I don't know what potting soil I'm gonna use when I move my plants for the peat pellets to the pot because these the only 2 soil that we have in the stores.

I will use 6" pots in the beginning the I will transplant to bigger pots.

Please guys any advises for next stages (vegetative, flowering..etc), I don't want my plants die!

And I'd like to know when to use the nutrients and which one I should use first.

how to keep the humidity stable and the temperature.

what's the distances for he light in all stages

when should I transplant to bigger pot? I don' want to go too tall my tent's highest is about 5.25'


Thanks,
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Sounds like you’ll run out of room brotha, this pic is a white widow at 8 weeks. Real bulky and almost 3 ft tall. Good luck bud.
 

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These are my plants.

Should I move it to a pot now?

I’m getting my second light in next 2 weeks.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find and seller on amazon that sell foxfarm ocean forest and ship to my country. I found it on ebay but the shipping cost was about triple the price of the product.
 

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bankheadstoner said:
He right about the led light. So basically the light will be great for 3/4 seedlings and for veg but for flowering you will either need another 300w which only pulls 130w power or get a bigger light that can cover more sq footage . I don't recommend 24" in seedling stage I recommend at least 28-32" and in about 3weeks gradually dropping the light to 24" in veg . But 24" may be ok but you'll have to determine that as plants grow but it could cause heat stress it depends on the strain tho. But for now you have way more than enough help light to get plants into flowering stage. I cant help you on soil because I don't recommend the brand only because you growing auto-flowering seeds and you already have to add things to soil to make it work. If you have experience with that soil go for it. Or take other guy advice but if you had regular seeds or feminized seeds I would say go for it. Also don't think epsoma nutrients is a good idea but Amazon deliver pretty much anywhere in states and have cheap options for nutrients like general hydroponics regular nutrients and their organic ,(gobox) nutrient line
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I bought foxfarm’s nutrients, the issue is with grow big. It can can be used on hydro only, and I read a comment for this guy growing with epsoma and he uses tiger bloom with thier soil and it worked well.
 
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bankheadstoner

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Green Camel said:
What about black gold soil any good idea?
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If I couldnt get fox farm soil I'll try to get promix and if I couldn't get either of those soils the only other option I'll do is coco coir and using coco coir you can pick it up a some home Depot and Walmarts and Walmart (blurpee) coco coir is great but you have to understand watering coco is different from soil .
I'm not sure what you exactly trying to say about nutrients but if you made a mistake a brought hydro version of grow big you may be able to use it but I'll use it in very small doses . The difference in the soil version and hydro version is they add more of certain nutrients so hydro plants can take nutes directly inn
But yea seedlings looking good
Also since you have hydro grow big that might be a sign that you should use a small hydro system
 
Green Camel

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bankheadstoner said:
If I couldnt get fox farm soil I'll try to get promix and if I couldn't get either of those soils the only other option I'll do is coco coir and using coco coir you can pick it up a some home Depot and Walmarts and Walmart (blurpee) coco coir is great but you have to understand watering coco is different from soil .
I'm not sure what you exactly trying to say about nutrients but if you made a mistake a brought hydro version of grow big you may be able to use it but I'll use it in very small doses . The difference in the soil version and hydro version is they add more of certain nutrients so hydro plants can take nutes directly inn
But yea seedlings looking good
Also since you have hydro grow big that might be a sign that you should use a small hydro system
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Couldn’t buy any of these here or even on amazon. No seller at amazon ship to my country or else I’d buy foxfarm.
I’m kinda disappointed about my growing, they still look small and it has been 10 days since the seedlings. I tried to measure my pH in the soil with three way meter and it shows its lvl at 8 which makes me worried about my growing.
I water my plants at 6.2 - 6.4, about 250 ml everyday and I’m going 18/6 for the light. Tent’s temperature and humidity are 66 low & 80 highest degree and humidity 45% up 80% sometimes.
I’m attaching pictures of them here.
For real tho, I’m thinking to go DWC but I’m worried about root rot and the water temperature.
I need to read from A to Z about how to grow DWC. I thought growing in soil will be much easier but I couldn’t find all the supplies I need.
My question about the nutrients is when do I use it? I took the ppm today for my filtered water and it was 27, feels like I’m not feeding my plants.
Btw, I didn’t spot any drop off from the pots, should I ran the water the manage the pH lvl?
 

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bankheadstoner

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Green Camel said:
Couldn’t buy any of these here or even on amazon. No seller at amazon ship to my country or else I’d buy foxfarm.
I’m kinda disappointed about my growing, they still look small and it has been 10 days since the seedlings. I tried to measure my pH in the soil with three way meter and it shows its lvl at 8 which makes me worried about my growing.
I water my plants at 6.2 - 6.4, about 250 ml everyday and I’m going 18/6 for the light. Tent’s temperature and humidity are 66 low & 80 highest degree and humidity 45% up 80% sometimes.
I’m attaching pictures of them here.
For real tho, I’m thinking to go DWC but I’m worried about root rot and the water temperature.
I need to read from A to Z about how to grow DWC. I thought growing in soil will be much easier but I couldn’t find all the supplies I need.
My question about the nutrients is when do I use it? I took the ppm today for my filtered water and it was 27, feels like I’m not feeding my plants.
Btw, I didn’t spot any drop off from the pots, should I ran the water the manage the pH lvl?
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Don't worry about nutrients right now because when you start feeding depends on the medium you use dwc earlier than soil and some soils later than others but one thing for sure is the seed has enough nutrients to carry a seedling alittle ways. So are you saying you can't find coco coir because coco is fairly easy to find and is cosidered a hydroponics medium .next step research a few of the brands of soil you do have available and let's pick the best one from your options . don't post soils that says it release nitrogen up to 3months or at all just find organic soils and tell me the brands . And post a few nutrient brands near you also. And wth medium are you growing them in now
P.S don't worry about feeding plants because you don't have plants they are seedlings . But when they grow into plants then yes you feed but not now and no time soon
 
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bankheadstoner

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Green Camel said:
Couldn’t buy any of these here or even on amazon. No seller at amazon ship to my country or else I’d buy foxfarm.
I’m kinda disappointed about my growing, they still look small and it has been 10 days since the seedlings. I tried to measure my pH in the soil with three way meter and it shows its lvl at 8 which makes me worried about my growing.
I water my plants at 6.2 - 6.4, about 250 ml everyday and I’m going 18/6 for the light. Tent’s temperature and humidity are 66 low & 80 highest degree and humidity 45% up 80% sometimes.
I’m attaching pictures of them here.
For real tho, I’m thinking to go DWC but I’m worried about root rot and the water temperature.
I need to read from A to Z about how to grow DWC. I thought growing in soil will be much easier but I couldn’t find all the supplies I need.
My question about the nutrients is when do I use it? I took the ppm today for my filtered water and it was 27, feels like I’m not feeding my plants.
Btw, I didn’t spot any drop off from the pots, should I ran the water the manage the pH lvl?
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The 3way meter isn't bad but its not accurate either so the best way to measure pH is to buy a pH meter and measure run off and the same with ppms but the 3way meter I found very useful for moisture to help with overwatering problems but that's about it and this is just my experience with them. But plants look ok the dirty doesn't. And you only water where you believe the roots are and not the entire pot so I would believe you should water a circle around the pot the size of a quarter . Watering the entire pot draws bugs/insects
 
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Green Camel said:
The issue here, I won't be able to find something to do any mix soil. Not many farmers around here and I think no one has grow marijuana ever in my county cuz of the law.



My light cycle now it goes on at 4 PM and it goes off at 10 AM, I kind controlled the tent environment and the humidity.
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Potting soil, bonemeal and some guano pellets from a nursery.... all you need as a basic start.
 
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Green Camel

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bankheadstoner said:
Don't worry about nutrients right now because when you start feeding depends on the medium you use dwc earlier than soil and some soils later than others but one thing for sure is the seed has enough nutrients to carry a seedling alittle ways. So are you saying you can't find coco coir because coco is fairly easy to find and is cosidered a hydroponics medium .next step research a few of the brands of soil you do have available and let's pick the best one from your options . don't post soils that says it release nitrogen up to 3months or at all just find organic soils and tell me the brands . And post a few nutrient brands near you also. And wth medium are you growing them in now
P.S don't worry about feeding plants because you don't have plants they are seedlings . But when they grow into plants then yes you feed but not now and no time soon
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After looking around local stores during the holidays here and searching online, here the brands that I can buy from amazon:
PittMoss - Price: $39.99 + $110.96 Shipping & Import Fees

Nature's Care Incredible Expanding by Mircal-Gro
$15.99+ $28.67 Shipping & Import Fees



Dr. Earth Acid Lovers Azalea - $21.97+ $169.46 Shipping & Import Fees

Botanicare Cocogro Premium Organic Soilless Grow Media - $36.06+ $131.86 Shipping & Import Fees.
I attached 2 other soils that I found here and there is no worry about nutrients I can buy them online.

as you see the shipping and the import fees are pricey, and there a chance the soils won't go through our county customs.
I found coco coir here but they mix it and not organic at all as the farmer says.
What you think about mixing the bio-tone "Tomato" or palm tone from Espoma with their organic potting soil?
I was just lil worried about feeding because when I searched for the Espoma soil, I read people use bio-tone start from seedling till flowering.

anyways, last 4 days there are some improvement on my growing and feel good about it, they start to grow more :))
but I spotted there is lil white spot on ma ma mia leaf.


 

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bankheadstoner said:
The 3way meter isn't bad but its not accurate either so the best way to measure pH is to buy a pH meter and measure run off and the same with ppms but the 3way meter I found very useful for moisture to help with overwatering problems but that's about it and this is just my experience with them. But plants look ok the dirty doesn't. And you only water where you believe the roots are and not the entire pot so I would believe you should water a circle around the pot the size of a quarter . Watering the entire pot draws bugs/insects
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Yup, I agree. the 3way meter only helps with moisture. Still there is no run off water from the pots. I water them as you said and I noticed it makes different.
 
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Green Camel said:
Yup, I agree. the 3way meter only helps with moisture. Still there is no run off water from the pots. I water them as you said and I noticed it makes different.
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Yea Good job they look good . But try not to water that entire pot next time. Just water a circle the size of a can soda and that's it but Next time you think you should water let them go without water for a extra 3days and this will not only allow for roots to breathe but the leaves stand straight up like they praying to God. But most importantly letting the soil dry between waterings will open your eyes about watering plants . When i first saw my plants in dry soil it was to keep bugs away but I noticed that's when they grow the fastest
They looking good though
 
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I hope this helps everyone out I just bought 4 square feet for $55.00 delivered from the pittmoss website. They finally have a working site.
 
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