hi everyone this will be my first post up on the forum and I'm looking forward to receiving some advice here. this is an extreme ghetto grow lol little background I've been traveling in an RV and my engine blew in a town where I don't know anyone so I've decided to grow my own. this is a tiny town it doesn't even have a Walmart and considering I have no transportation it is hard to get supplies so this is what has happened so far.I went to the hardware store to get supplies and the only soil they had was a miracle grow organic and Miracle Grow potting soil I bought all that they had left in the store two bags of each. I started with 6 pots.
Three days later the temperature got to be about 85 and I looked in my pots and there were millions of tiny bugs they looked like mites to me but I'm not really sure. I thought about trying to use pesticides and because I just wasn't sure what I was dealing with and being a brand new grower I decided it would be best to just scrap it all and start over so I lost 6 seeds.
I was so freaked out with these bugs I itched for days..lol I found a supply store that carried black gold seedling soil and I bought a bottle of big bloom nutes.
I decided to only plant 3 seeds this time so I planted them directly in soil in 3 gallon pots. a white widow, LSD, & a KC 45.the LSD sprouted with the seed on it which caused more panic lol I gently rub it off and the plant looked so white I thought I ruined it so I planted a delicious la musa in the same pot however the seedling recovered nicely and now I have two plants growing in one pot which I know is going to stunt the growth on both of them. no signs of any bugs thank God and I was reading one night about ladybugs and I woke up the next morning to this. I am taking this as a good sign from the ganja gods.
ok so some questions I'm using 12 CFLs I have 8 26 watt daylight and 4 cool white. I noticed that they were really pulling towards the daylight bulbs so I replaced the cool whites with some daylight during the veg stage. I am battling big temperature swings from night time until daytime but I have basically kept it between 70 and 85 degrees with a space heater and an oscillating fan. This is what they look like at 11 days. they seem small to me but what do I know that's where you come in how do they look?
My next question will the seedling soil be ok? I thought perhaps because of the short lifespan that I could get away with using the seedling soil.I was thinking of adding a quarter strength of the nutes but I think it's too early? if they are done did could this be caused from my temperature getting too
Three days later the temperature got to be about 85 and I looked in my pots and there were millions of tiny bugs they looked like mites to me but I'm not really sure. I thought about trying to use pesticides and because I just wasn't sure what I was dealing with and being a brand new grower I decided it would be best to just scrap it all and start over so I lost 6 seeds.
I was so freaked out with these bugs I itched for days..lol I found a supply store that carried black gold seedling soil and I bought a bottle of big bloom nutes.
I decided to only plant 3 seeds this time so I planted them directly in soil in 3 gallon pots. a white widow, LSD, & a KC 45.the LSD sprouted with the seed on it which caused more panic lol I gently rub it off and the plant looked so white I thought I ruined it so I planted a delicious la musa in the same pot however the seedling recovered nicely and now I have two plants growing in one pot which I know is going to stunt the growth on both of them. no signs of any bugs thank God and I was reading one night about ladybugs and I woke up the next morning to this. I am taking this as a good sign from the ganja gods.
ok so some questions I'm using 12 CFLs I have 8 26 watt daylight and 4 cool white. I noticed that they were really pulling towards the daylight bulbs so I replaced the cool whites with some daylight during the veg stage. I am battling big temperature swings from night time until daytime but I have basically kept it between 70 and 85 degrees with a space heater and an oscillating fan. This is what they look like at 11 days. they seem small to me but what do I know that's where you come in how do they look?
My next question will the seedling soil be ok? I thought perhaps because of the short lifespan that I could get away with using the seedling soil.I was thinking of adding a quarter strength of the nutes but I think it's too early? if they are done did could this be caused from my temperature getting too
