Sorry posted this in wrong forum the first time. From seed to sprout Been growing this seed for 4 and a half days. Day 1 - Germinating inside a dark warm place in a moist paper towel. Day 2 - Same as day 1 till the night fall, where I stuck it in dirt. Day 3 - I wake up and its already sprouting some green leaves. Pic below. http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/47/2007102931213rl5.jpg <---Day 3---< 1am http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8254/2007102976810cu4.jpg <--Day 3--< around 6-7am Day 3, later in the day, ahhh yes natural sunlight! BUEATIFUL! 6 or 7pm Day 4, 10pm, sorry bout the bad light, its getting roughly 18-24 hours of light per day atm.... Thing is that an hour ago, i tripped over my lamp, and broke the bulb.... so I need to go out and buy a bulb in the morning, for now im going to stick it next to a cheap bulb in the kitchen, best i can do... Thats what I get for smoking up, tripped over my lamp lol....
looks good so far! Got any info on the size of your grow-area, and light wattages and type of light (incandescent, cfl, HID, flood light), etc.? Strain? Type of soil? Kind of water being used to water? Nutrients? Temperature or humidity? Ph of water being used? Plans on training or just going single cola? Got plenty more questions but that should help.
Well right now, I'm just using a 60 watt house hold bulb(lamp). Some soil I got from a friend. Jobe's plant food spikes. (I dont like using them so I only brake off small chunks at a time from 1 stick) I move it to the window when the sunlight looks good. I keep a heater on in my room. And its being set up in a card board box with tinfoil on the sides to reflect light for a few days. I'm moving to a condo in about a week or 2 or 3. We get the keys tomorow, but I'm doing some contracting work and renovations before the move, so after im done working under the contracter my mom is hiring, I will be setting up a 'mini grow room' in the closet, about 4 feet tall, flouresent lights, and the works. The strain (Unknown), I grabbed a half ounce of some shit, but their was 2 different types of bud, and I didn't bother ask the strain, all I know, is when I smoked it, it was some powerful shit, so I hope this turns out to be a female plant. It's growing really tall really fast. In about 3-4 weeks, it should be big enough to compare to other strains to figure out what it could be, should narrow it down to just 3-4 strains easily after it grows. And if I am making no sense right now, well I'm to lazy to double check what I'm typing, just blazed a nice 2g 3 pape with some guys. For water, I normaly collect rain water in a cup on the balcony, or use tap water. I don't like spending a fortune on what nature already provides. Although if I get more then 1 plant, that small fortune will be worth it, but for personal smoke, and a good strain, and 'Decent' growing conditions, it will be good for personal smoke. Edit: will be posting day 5 pictures/ or picture soon Its day 5 Edit2: Umm, ashamed to say this, but I was stupid and had my plant in its mini grow box, WHILE I was setting up the mini grow box, and had tipped the plant over, so it landed plant first, soil after, So I got to see some neat things, all the roots and shit, so I cleaned it, sprayed it down with some room tempature water, put some new soil in place, and re-planted it, the second it tipped over, I tossed everything that was in the way, first priority was to save the plant, so far it looks good again, lets hope that it didnt damage it, good thing it's still young and strong... Anyways, day 5 pictures coming in a few hours, whew my room is nice and sweaty..... so ima crack open the window for a bit, it feels like it may be getting to hot for my plant... and me too...
As far as I've ever learned, kill the males. And today, when my mom was getting ready for work, I showed her how big the plant is getting, and she said "I'm not worried about you picking that and smoking that, cause its not going to be very potent". She said it had to do with males, and that the males did something to the female plants.... I explained to her how I though the males just made the females pregnant with seeds, and didn't alter the potency at all. Either way, I need to know how the males help, how I can get more seeds out of a plant, and if the males do help, how and when do I use them in the females growth? Edit: Nothing looks different about the plant yet, it's day 6, the only thing different is that its taller.... I will update pics when it starts to change
Alright, sorry for not coming on, my buddy knocked over the plant, I have CFL now, so its awsome, I got 3 seeds sprouting as I type And about 30 set aside in a dime baggy So shits in the works now, I will get pictures after i got some soil and the seeds are planted.
Spawn28, hey man, what happens with males is that when they go into 'flowering' their pollen sacks or slang is balls, hence male plant, open up and release pollen. This pollenates the female buds (what u smoke mostly) and thusly the femal buds create seeds inside. Theres a few options here man, first, let it happen, the potency of the female goes way down, a lot of the nutrients, including THC goes into making the seeds, or just pollenate one or two buds for some seeds, do this by collecting pollen on the floor of the grow box near the males and but the branch of the female you want to pollenate in a brown paper bag with the pollen and shake it up, but my biggest suggestion is to just get a good strain goin, kill the males ASAP and just clone the females if you like the strain, high, etc . . . good luck and happy growing bro!