New Grower What seeds to choose?

[Notaclue]

Any ideas on water please? They drink like fish, I'm constantly adding water in.

I promise to upload some pictures, want some opinions. From what I can tell I am on my way now.

Can I start to LST at 3 weeks?????

Thanks

 

[Arthur]

I had issues with seeds from seedman as well, 00 nothern lights, 3 out of 5 germed, the other two, nothing... was concerned right from the start, both no shows were oddly dark compared to the 3 that popped. Will be going direct to breeder from now on, never know how long seeds sit at a distributor.

 

[Arthur]

Any ideas on water please? They drink like fish, I'm constantly adding water in.

I promise to upload some pictures, want some opinions. From what I can tell I am on my way now.

Can I start to LST at 3 weeks?????

Thanks

Am just under 3 weeks, and I've started training so I'd say go for it! Carefully!

 

[Notaclue]

Done the LST no problems, I've just messed up with the pots I used! However, after 2 days I can see its working. So good stuff. Decided to take the string off one of them and let it grow a bit more.

Guys I know I'm shit but I promise pics soon to give me more accurate advice...for 4 weeks old on Monday they are really bushy, but they are just very small - only a few 7inches tall maybe..... I did want to keep them small, but I thought I'd of seen more vertical growth even using LST (I've not LST 2 plants out of the 4)...

*worth a mention that the main stems are thickening up nicely on the 3 oldest. When should I stop using root feed in the mix?

I had kept the lights very low to the plants, much closer than recommended height although I've had no burn etc, just a slight bit of curling leaves but NOTHING to worry about, they look the healthiest plants I've grown at this stage.

There is an unbelievable amount of growth for such a small plant, there are stems and branches everywhere and I'm worried I won't be hitting it with light as the new forming fan leaves keep getting bigger....


By putting my lights higher can I encourage the plants to grow taller?

As mentioned, I'm on week 4 for 3 plants on Monday and week 3 for the other.

I'm still on 24/0 lights
Was thinking to change on Monday to 20/4?




Ah, after all the talk of soils on here initially when I opened the thread; I went with...

Bio-bizz light mix (60%)
Black magic regular mix (20%)
Pertile (20%)

Germinated all seeds and they've gone straight into pots they'll finish with, no problems apart from with one.

I actually germinated one and put it in the window (with window open) when the weather was nice and it's just so slow and small - That's the 3 week old one - put it into the tent with the others and it's growing just very slowly although this one looks the most likely to stretch



Cheers!

 

[Notaclue]

Any advice would be great thank-you!

To help make giving advice better, finally some pictures.

I have loads; so I'll upload different stages in separate posts not to confuse myself


Lights; (Vispraspectre 225w UFO LED, I've got 2 of them)

 

[Notaclue]

struggling here to upload any more images... proper difficult it keeps saying theyre too big etc

 

[Notaclue]

Here was how I started; I popped 3 seeds at the same time but the RQS Diesel took abit longer to get going..

I started with one light, I added another a week later.

I added two lights now and there is 3 pots.

I decided the light was too high up to work, so I dropped them down to get them closer...

Here I've suspended a fan and dropped the lights closer. In this pick I think they (the ones at the back) are 10/11 days old from seed. The front left is 7 days and the front right is about 3 days or so.

Heres a close up at the said days above

Here is a few pics I've taken TODAY.

I germinated the seeds on 12 June, so 4 weeks tomorrow....

Ive LST the plant at the back right.

Here are some close ups of the plants as of TODAY...

(Diesel Automatic by Royal Queen Seeds, Freebie)
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Walter White Mephisto (3 inside this tent)

 

[Notaclue]

what do people think? If you want to see any different angles etc whatever then ask me and I'll upload it.

How can I make the plants stretch more? I've only had the lights more higher for 1 day now...

 

[Notaclue]

..... Any advice from anyone, on the questions I've been asking will be a massive help.

They are 4 weeks old today (3 of them) and I need to know if I should now lower lights to 20 on 4 off?

Thanks!

 

[mohawk warrior]

..... Any advice from anyone, on the questions I've been asking will be a massive help.

They are 4 weeks old today (3 of them) and I need to know if I should now lower lights to 20 on 4 off?

Thanks!

I would... your pockets will thank you, 4 hours adds up to like 400 more hours of use per grow <- - - -guesstimate but u get the point.. look in the manual or on the unit, will tell you approx. how many hours of life the light has
as for

How can I make the plants stretch more

the lights brother... move them up a bit... they'll reach for the lights


looks great in here by the way...