First attempt SOOO EXCITED

[BudToker]

I toked with a friend abotu 2 weeks ago and found a few seeds in his ganj. So i decided to go ahead and take them with me and plant them, jsut for fun. I did it just as an experiment, I never thought the seeds would actually sprout! Now I am so damn excited! Even if the plants don't make it, turn out to be crappy weed (likely), or are all male, it is still awsome. It is a great break from the boring life I have right now...and I might not be needing to rely on crappy dealers in the future!!!! :jester:

Anyway, i am 8 days into the experiment and here is what I got:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7780/sproutdi1.th.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sproutdi1.jpg)

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/233/sprout1iy6.th.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sprout1iy6.jpg)

I started them out on the windowsill, but I can't do that anymore for many reasons, so i moved them to the closet. I have a 24W flourescent (= to a 100W incandescent) bulb placed 3" above the sprouts. I am going to leave the light on for about 18 hours a day and i am going to transfer the sprouts into seperate, larger pots soon (I just need to get potting soil first). Wish me luck! :jester:

Note: sorry about imageshack if it doesn't work...my first time using it

[T.H. Cammo]

Seperate them, quick, before the roots get all tangled up!!! One pot - one plant! Read, read - study, study - learn, learn!

[TheGanjaKing]

Most importantly get a couple more of those cfl's. You are going to need all the light you can get

[BudBill]

Sweet my man, keep us posted.

[BudToker]

They are now in seperate, bigger pots. Each has its own light, plus I have a larger flourescent tube light on the cieling of the closet for when they get bigger. I've read up on growing and I was wondering when the earliest is that they can be sexed and how to sex them acuratly. All the stuff I have read has giant confusing words and give crappy pictures, anyone know a way to explain it easily?

[T.H. Cammo]

By BudToker:
"All the stuff I have read has giant confusing words and give crappy pictures, anyone know a way to explain it easily?"

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153269


No giant confusing words - just two good pictures. This is the "Sticky" on identifying males and females, from the "techniques" section. You should read all the stickies - that's were all the good information is!

[BudToker]

By BudToker:
"All the stuff I have read has giant confusing words and give crappy pictures, anyone know a way to explain it easily?"

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153269


No giant confusing words - just two good pictures. This is the "Sticky" on identifying males and females, from the "techniques" section. You should read all the stickies - that's were all the good information is!thanks, I actually searched the forums and didn't find anything, and I musthave overlooked that thread when I looked in the growers section.

Also, those pictures look like very mature plants. I need to know how to sex them way before that so I can kill the male plants and keep the female. Anyone have pics of plants in the earliest stages that you can tell if they are male or female?

[BudBill]

Hmmmm. Off the top of my head I would say 6 weeks - maybe. Females tend to show first, males may not. The best way is to either pinch the tops, after about 4 nodes, or bend the tops over via twist ties. Grow the side branches out 3 nodes, clone and then sex them with the ole 12/12.

[BudToker]

Thanks, I actually found a good site with good pics that says to wait till they have 6-7 pairs of leaves and then cover one of the lower branches with black paper so it only gets 12/12 light. This way the rest of the plant can grow normally and the growing process won't take as long. Anyone else do this?

[BudToker]

The first in my weekly update, Week 2:

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5259/week2ol5.th.jpg (http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=week2ol5.jpg)

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9666/week21yn5.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=week21yn5.jpg)

They are between 3-4" tall and are growing their 2nd set of serrated leaves.

[BudBill]

Sweet my man.
I love watching the leaves as if they want to hug the light :)

[BudToker]

Sweet my man.
I love watching the leaves as if they want to hug the light :)
U saying I should lower the lights?

Can anyone help: In a span of half a day everything is going wrong!!! I found small redish/brown bugs in my pots. There are only a few and they are too big to be mites, but I have no clue what they are. Also, there is some greenish thing on the surface of the pots. I bought organic insecticide/fungicide in one and I sprayed it on a little bit ago. The first pair of the serrated leaves are curling upward on the edges. I thought it might be because they are too hot so I bought a small fan (even though the websites i read up on said that a fan wasn't needed if you open the closet door a bunch and it is a small closet) and its on right now. When I went to the local hardware store and went to their garden dept. I told the guy i was growing indoor veggies. He said the reason they were probablly curling is that I am over watering them (he also said that is probablly the reason for the green stuff). So I got a little soil humidity tester and he said to make sure to keep the plants between "dry" and "moist" but not too far on either side. Right now they are a little on the moist side, but not too bad. I also went ahead and got a PH tester and the PH is around 6.75 (the things I have read say keep it between 6.5 and 7.5). Any suggestions for me?

[T.H. Cammo]

Different plants have different water needs - marijuana likes a "dry" cycle in between waterings. Hold off on watering untill the leaves become soft and just begin to show signs of wilting - then feel how light the pot is when it's dry. It should almost be light as a feather - that's too dry! The trick is to water just before the plant begins to wilt. You can do this by judging the weight of the pot, a little practice and you will get used to it. When you do water, add the water slowly - a bit at a time - give it time to soak in, then add a little more. When watered properly the whole pot is evenly saturated (heavy) and just a few drops trickle out the drain holes at the bottom.

Flourescent lights can be kept as close to the plant as you can get them without actually touching, 2-3 inches is reasonable. They lose a lot of power as the distance increases. From a theoretical optimum distance of (let's say 1"); every time you double the distance, you divide the light energy by 4. So at 2" the light energy is 1/4, at 4" it is 1/16 and at 8" the light energy is only 1/64 as strong.

[BudBill]

^ Hey Buddy missed ya for a bit! :)

When you get a bit more of an "eye" for the girls you will be able to watch the lower part of the plant and they will tell you when to water. The lower leaves will droop telling you "water me!"

Light diminishes to the square of the distance.

Remember try not to mother them too much - they only need small amounts of nutes until they get larger.

[BudToker]

lol thanks everyone

[BudToker]

OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD! NOOOOOO! HELP PLEASE OH GOD HELP!!


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/267/sickplanthx9.th.jpg (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sickplanthx9.jpg)

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/494/sickplant1ww2.th.jpg (http://img49.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sickplant1ww2.jpg)

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/6091/sickplant2js5.th.jpg (http://img239.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sickplant2js5.jpg)

This plant is wilting, has a brown long scar on one of the leaves and has dark green spots on the top and bottom of the leaves and it is losing color. Another plant is wilting worse and curling on the sides and is also losing color. And another plant has a red rash-type thing on the underside of the leaves. All the plants seem flimsy and weak. I sprayed the fungi/pesticide thing but it has done nothing so far. HELP! PLEASE RESPOND ASAP!

[cheeky1]

theres an easier way if you have a little room ... keep vegging then when there a month old you take one clone from each of them and put the clones under 12-12 light
12-on-12-off they will show there sex clearly in a few weeks in the mean time the rest of you plants are still puting on size and when you know what they are you just remove the males then flower the rest

[420fuchs]

Jeez man good luck with your grow, and take a breath man don't panic so much about them!

[BudToker]

Jeez man good luck with your grow, and take a breath man don't panic so much about them!Lol they are becoming like my babies! They are doing a litle better though, so hopefully I killed whatever was plauging them.

[BudBill]

Lol they are becoming like my babies! They are doing a litle better though, so hopefully I killed whatever was plauging them.
It is an excellent hobby. Gardening in general does it for me.

BTW everytime I read your sig I keep thinking of Star Trek "Jim, I'm just a doctor!"

[BudToker]

It is an excellent hobby. Gardening in general does it for me.

BTW everytime I read your sig I keep thinking of Star Trek "Jim, I'm just a doctor!"
lol

[Myrmidon]

Good luck, I hope they live long and prosper. I'm hoping to do the same thing when I get the money.

[BudToker]

Thanks. They are growing well even though they still have the problems. As long as they live till they give me bud then I'm happy.

[420fuchs]

Any updates, how are the kids?

[BudToker]

They're hangin in! The smallest one and the biggest one are doing good, getting color back and growing the serrated leaves like crazy. The other one isn't getting any worse, which is good, and it's growing steadily. I think it might have been a nute problem like people were saying because the plant food spikes I put in are gone now and the plants are responding well.

[M4N14C42O]

definately nute burn......but as long as they are turning around then just keep on doing what your doing. Remember flush em' once a month to keep em clear of any buildups. Good luck.

[BudToker]

So I'm 21 days into the growing. They are growing mad crazy now and have 9-10 pairs of the serrated leaves. The tallest one is 6" tall, followed by a 5 1/2" and a 5" (the 5" used to be the tallest which doesn't make much sense to me...but awell). So my question is...is it too early to tell the sex? About 3 nodes up there are straight green thingies (that look like the female part of the plants, but not white) on one plant, and those same things are curled up into tiny balls on another. One plant doesn't have anything in the nodes. I wish I could give pics of the nodes, but my camera sucks too much. I was thinking that the balls are male and the straight things are female, but the sites I looked at say you can't tell until you put them under 12/12 (they are under 18/6) and until they get around 8" tall. Is it possible my plants are just growing super fast?

[BudToker]

I've kicked them outside cause they were being bad plants! lol they were reaking to high heaven and I know people in the dorm are suspiscious...so now I must sneak out at night into the woods! lol Luckily no one goes back there and there is heavy growth so people will continue not to go back there. Plus if they are found they have no connection to me.

[-beatnick]

check out the sticky to find out if its a male or female dude.

[BudToker]

check out the sticky to find out if its a male or female dude.
I know HOW to, I just want to know if it could happen so early.

[-beatnick]

3 weeks is usually too early. but some cases it isnt, depending on the strain being grown and other stuff.

[farmer dylan]

yo Budtoker whats the word on those plants?

[BudToker]

Sorry y'all I've been away for 3 weeks and a few days. Suprisingly the plants are alive and well! :) I will take pics when I can.

When I went out yesterday I could only take a glance for a quick second. Next time I go out I am going to sex them (I really hope none of them got pollinated!) and get rid of the males.

[BudToker]

Good news on the ganja front: I couldn't take a picture so I will just tell y'all whats up. 2 of the 3 plants are growing well. The other is still like sprout size which is really wierd so I abondonded it. Luckily, I am pretty sure the 2 others are female. They are 3-4 feet tall and pretty thickly stemmed with lots of leaves. No problems with bugs, fungi, moss, etc. I thougth they would have been budding by now but I guess I can think of 2 reasons they aren't: 1. before I left for 3 1/2 weeks there was about a week of no rain 2. they are outside and its sunny, definetly not 12/12 light.

I'm going on vacation for a week starting next friday and I was thinking about starting to bud them when I get back. Anyone else think I should start budding them now? How would you suggest doing so outside?

[VolcomStoner420]

When I had plants outside, they just budded by themselves, all at the same time too.

[BudToker]

When I had plants outside, they just budded by themselves, all at the same time too.Yeah but I need my plants to bud before August and I don't think they will with the sunny days ahead.

[VolcomStoner420]

Oh

[posedat]

requires alot of trips outside... you can do that by covering them up with black trash bags... orrr.... if you have the resources.. you can use a car battery, a timer and a little motor.. you build a fence out of sticks which you cover with black plstic... the motor takes off the lid during day time...for the neede amount of time.. but this could be a little hard to figure out...

[BudToker]

requires alot of trips outside... you can do that by covering them up with black trash bags... orrr.... if you have the resources.. you can use a car battery, a timer and a little motor.. you build a fence out of sticks which you cover with black plstic... the motor takes off the lid during day time...for the neede amount of time.. but this could be a little hard to figure out...It will only take one short trip a day. I will be keeping them by the tree line since it is overgrown and you can't see in the woods now anyway.

[posedat]

and how do you plan on covering them back up at night?? cause the next morning if they aren't covered up...they're damn sure to get light...

[BudToker]

and how do you plan on covering them back up at night?? cause the next morning if they aren't covered up...they're damn sure to get light...
I will use a trashcan to put over the plants so they get 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark. I will put it on at 8pm and take it off at 8am. Simple.

[canaboy]

update?

[/jumanji]

probly dead