Samantha O'Dell
Grow4urGirl
Hey everyone, so i am 3 weeks into my first grow (21 days) from germination. I am a brand new grower, and am growing on a budget. I am not much of a smoker myself (2 puff virgin lung type haha) but i am mainly growing for my wife who medicates several times a day.
I am growing in the small space under my basement stairs. I have 2 led 75watt full spectrum grow bulbs. One for each plant, situated about 5 to 6" above each plant. I am using a 20/4 light schedule, and my feeding/ watering consist of ph'd between 6.3 and 6.8 well water, that ppms at 35 straight out of the tap. I add in cal mag and i am using 1/4 strength vegbloom nutes.
I am growing in soil (natures choice by miracle grow, organic and seemed to be full of all the right things ive read about, worm castings, bone meal etc) 25% perlite ish...in 7 gallon fabric pots.
I have been lurking around here doing lots of reading and watching others grow journals, and watching lots of grow journals on youtube to obtain basic knowledge, and compare my progress to what seems to be the typical for each day/week.
I have already begun lst, and so far have trained my plants twice, and both have responded well. I am growing one blueberry, and one Great white shark. Both plants are very different from one another, although i think they are growing at about the same rate. My blueberry plant is a much lighter color green than the shark, and shark seems a little more stout/squat and blueberry has a little more space between each node. Shark started showing sex with her pistols popping up in the middle of week 2, and blueberry has just started popping her first white hairs. And Blueberry wow... does she stink already.
Now, there has been some bumps along the way. Rookie errors for sure. Poor shark... twice she has had the light dropped on her... twice. It was bad enough the first time as i was tinkering with my initial set up, but again when i was situating the room for the final stages. Youll see in my pics what i mean. Last drop... poor girl had one of her biggest fan leaves tore from the stem. One leaf(one of the first 2 leaves to grow) got snapped and she was overall looking a little squished. I took a pipe cleaner and put her back together as much as i could, and the little leaf as the bottom, well i pinched that one off. Needless to say... she bounced right back and is thriving and looking good as ever!
Blueberry got away with no physical abuse, but she has been the one to keep me on my toes when it comes to possible definciencys/ leave discoloration. Back between week one and 2 she showed a little bit of brown spoting showing up on her two first growth leaves. I had lst the night before and i wasnt sure of those particular leaves had come in contact with the soil. Needless to say. Those spots stayed put and havent looked any different since that day. And nothing like that popped up anywhere else on the plant. But the other thing... i noticed 3 days ago that there was almost a lime green stripe on one 9f blueberrys new fan leaves. But on one side and just one the very outer edge in the middle of the leaf. so not at root or stem. I watched it... and it just went away. Possible nitrogen deficiency? Doctored up by some nutes?
Well today... i get alot of sun radiating through my patio door during the day, so i decided to bring the girls up and give them a little bath in that pure vitamin D. This is when i went ahead and did my second round of lst.
When the sun moved the the exposure was done i brought the girls back down stairs. Blueberry was looking a bit droopy... partly i think i just thought that because of her new look after lst. I gave them some food and water. Nothing different than usual... phd at 6.5 ppm at 425 ish. Runoff ph at 6.8
When i checked on them a little bit ago blueberry was showing that little stripe of bright green again but in a different spot. Also one of her newer fan leaves seemed to have just a little brindle of light and dark all through it.
Sometimes i think i am just over analyzing... a noob just wanting to have a successful grow.. (happy wife happy life haha)
Ill post some pictures now of the girls today and that bright green i was talking about. Ill also post a pic of my initial set up and my now setup. Dont laugh guys. It is what it is lol.
Hard to take good pics with those leds... let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading
I am growing in the small space under my basement stairs. I have 2 led 75watt full spectrum grow bulbs. One for each plant, situated about 5 to 6" above each plant. I am using a 20/4 light schedule, and my feeding/ watering consist of ph'd between 6.3 and 6.8 well water, that ppms at 35 straight out of the tap. I add in cal mag and i am using 1/4 strength vegbloom nutes.
I am growing in soil (natures choice by miracle grow, organic and seemed to be full of all the right things ive read about, worm castings, bone meal etc) 25% perlite ish...in 7 gallon fabric pots.
I have been lurking around here doing lots of reading and watching others grow journals, and watching lots of grow journals on youtube to obtain basic knowledge, and compare my progress to what seems to be the typical for each day/week.
I have already begun lst, and so far have trained my plants twice, and both have responded well. I am growing one blueberry, and one Great white shark. Both plants are very different from one another, although i think they are growing at about the same rate. My blueberry plant is a much lighter color green than the shark, and shark seems a little more stout/squat and blueberry has a little more space between each node. Shark started showing sex with her pistols popping up in the middle of week 2, and blueberry has just started popping her first white hairs. And Blueberry wow... does she stink already.
Now, there has been some bumps along the way. Rookie errors for sure. Poor shark... twice she has had the light dropped on her... twice. It was bad enough the first time as i was tinkering with my initial set up, but again when i was situating the room for the final stages. Youll see in my pics what i mean. Last drop... poor girl had one of her biggest fan leaves tore from the stem. One leaf(one of the first 2 leaves to grow) got snapped and she was overall looking a little squished. I took a pipe cleaner and put her back together as much as i could, and the little leaf as the bottom, well i pinched that one off. Needless to say... she bounced right back and is thriving and looking good as ever!
Blueberry got away with no physical abuse, but she has been the one to keep me on my toes when it comes to possible definciencys/ leave discoloration. Back between week one and 2 she showed a little bit of brown spoting showing up on her two first growth leaves. I had lst the night before and i wasnt sure of those particular leaves had come in contact with the soil. Needless to say. Those spots stayed put and havent looked any different since that day. And nothing like that popped up anywhere else on the plant. But the other thing... i noticed 3 days ago that there was almost a lime green stripe on one 9f blueberrys new fan leaves. But on one side and just one the very outer edge in the middle of the leaf. so not at root or stem. I watched it... and it just went away. Possible nitrogen deficiency? Doctored up by some nutes?
Well today... i get alot of sun radiating through my patio door during the day, so i decided to bring the girls up and give them a little bath in that pure vitamin D. This is when i went ahead and did my second round of lst.
When the sun moved the the exposure was done i brought the girls back down stairs. Blueberry was looking a bit droopy... partly i think i just thought that because of her new look after lst. I gave them some food and water. Nothing different than usual... phd at 6.5 ppm at 425 ish. Runoff ph at 6.8
When i checked on them a little bit ago blueberry was showing that little stripe of bright green again but in a different spot. Also one of her newer fan leaves seemed to have just a little brindle of light and dark all through it.
Sometimes i think i am just over analyzing... a noob just wanting to have a successful grow.. (happy wife happy life haha)
Ill post some pictures now of the girls today and that bright green i was talking about. Ill also post a pic of my initial set up and my now setup. Dont laugh guys. It is what it is lol.
Hard to take good pics with those leds... let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading
Hi 
and good luck with your first grow! 
first grow is just about getting a few buds 
looking happy n healthy so far 
im archie gemmill 
your butlins blue coat hi de high site rep 
a few things well worth a read.
