Can i get a little help please
OK first off i'm old so bare with me and honestly i suck with a PC and spelling.
Ok i have grown long ago back in the 80s. and i see ALOT has changed and how i found this place i don't know but i'm glad i did because i could use some help with all this new stuff out there.
ok i have read up on how to grow autos here on the forms and it has help a lot so this is what i need help with.
switching between fertilizer the growing kind and flowering kind. is there stuff i can buy at lows to keep a low profile like for growing i use this box of stuff and for flowering i switch to another?
last time i grew i. well throw some seeds in the back yard and wait a few months ha-ha.
can i use the potting soil they have there as well ?
the lighting i have.
honestly i forgot how to tell when there ready for just plane water at the end of the 65-75 days?
and lighting do i keep the lights on them for 13hr at a time or 20 or keep them on 24hrs?
And sorry if i'm troubling but i suck at looking up stuff that's why i'm just asking
thank you for your time
High oldtimer. welcome aboard
You can get away with any old garden fertilizer as long as you know what to look for in it. It's the NPK values on the bottles. So if you look at a proper canna grow and bloom nutes, write down the NPK values then goto the Garden centre and buy something that matches for the grow stage and then the bloom stage. Follow the instructions on the bottle for strength, best to go half strength at first to avoid chemical burns to the plants.
You can use compost from the garden centre too, try and pick up something that has no added fertiliser, slow release nutrients or anything like that, to avoid chemical burns to young plants. Buy a bag of perlite to mix in to help with drainage, lighten the soil. Avoid fox farm soil (ffof) and promix.
You keep the light on them for either 18 hours, 20hours or 24 hours. Up to you, try this one at 20 n see how ye get on. Doesn't matter with auto's, just don;t go less than 18 hours if ye can help it.
You can tell when its getting close to harvest when the little white hairs have mostly turned to orange, if ye have a good camera you'll see the crystals on the leaves start to go from clear to cloudy amber and if you have a microscope you can examine them properly and crop when you get a 50/50 ratio of amber/cloudy.
Avoid the fancy composts and don't worry about PH'ing just now, just don't add anything other than perlite to the compost and make sure its a general purpose compost and it's a piece of cake.
Can you link me to the bulbs you are using, if it's the ones i think then they are designed for flower shops to show off their wares in a nice light, not for making things grow to their full potential.
holla!
