EWC= earth worm castings
Homemade is always the best you can try municipal stuff but I feel one is rolling the dice when using everyone’s else’s trash
Feel free to hit my thread " Tinytuttle grow chronicles " I do the entire build from start to finish
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If ya feel the little ones might be getting a little top heavy and fear that they might flop over anytime take about a third length of bamboo skewer and a twist tie and do a loose wrap around stem and skewer to help support it. Little air movement , quivering of the leaves strengthens the stem in short order.
Thanks for the luck. We take all of that we can get here haha. Good luck to you as well. It’s been a while but I did stumble upon your diary one day.
Unless I’ve wrote it wrong 16 hours of light and 8 hours of dark is what I want to veg them at. I don’t know just thought keep it close to nature. I’ve heard of guys vegging at 24 hours of light and a few other combos but I like to stick to what I believe to be the norm.
@Tinytuttle I will have to give that a read sometime. I always love new bathroom material lol. Thanks for All the knowledge, much appreciated.
Anyways not much has changed in the tent. If something happens I’ll get some pics on but other than that we’re kinda in snoorsville lol. Thanks again for all the props and info.
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It’s normally 18/6 as opposed to 12/12… But you can do your “natural” method if you like but reading 10 minutes the FAQ could be good BEFORE starting to grow…(for the plants… )
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Just to be sure you are understanding what I am saying. I have almost finished my 2 weeks of 24/0 and I am going to flip them to 16/8.
Hey Katz, is this what you bought?
If so, that is amended (hot) soil and is more than likely the cause of your issues. Young cannabis plants typically don’t like hot soils like this. With your last grow, you were also dosing chemical nutes on top of this hot soil. This might explain things better than your fart theory. 
When people use Pro Mix to grow cannabis, they typically use regular Pro Mix (HP or …) which has no fertilizers in it at all. They then amend the Pro Mix with perlite, dolomite lime, and EWC. The EWC is a mild, secondary source of nutrition for the plants as they grow through veg and flower.
https://www.promixgardening.com/en/product/detail/pro-mix-hp-mycorrhizae?&
Also, those containers are pretty large for such small seedlings. If you are watering the entire container of soil, it is impossible for the little seedling to uptake enough water to rid the soil of excess water. They really hate that. Let them dry out really well, and only water them near the stems, about the size of a loonie. Barely moist is what you are going for. In the photos, the soil looks soaked to me. Solving this will not solve your hot soil issue, though.
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Thanks for all the advice. So just for clarification, a hot soil has nutrients in it already? I knew my soul had some but I didn’t think it would be enough to harm my plants. I most definitely noticed the pots were too big, but by the time I did, they were already in them. Lesson learned. And I guess I should “clear the air” before someone calls CAS (cannabis aid society)…haha the fart story was a cover up of course, but not from my hands. Let’s just leave it at happy wife, happy life…why must they know where it hurts the most lol. Anyways I don’t plan on going any bigger with the pots so as far as I know I can’t do anything about the soil. I’ll just have to wait until next round. Oh and the watering thing, I was struggling hard to keep the tall girl in the last grow hydrated. Would changing the soil help this problem as well? I premesure my water to kinda keep track and the short one was fine with 1.875 litres but it wasn’t enough for tall one. Anyways, I should probably take @Dee.S73’s advice and read a bit more of the FAQ instead of just taking shots in the dark, probably save a lot of time and pain. Thanks again everyone for stopping by. All advice is always welcome.
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Once again, that is fertilized (hot) mix. Just not organic this time.
The Pro Mix you want is posted above. I couldn’t find the right stuff at CT which is why I immediately zeroed in on your Pro Mix choice in your intro post. I had to go across town to Home Hardware to get mine. It comes in a massive, plastic packed bale, not a bag of loose mix. Might be harder to find now that it is off season for gardening in Canada.
If you can’t find it, you can always make your own by buying peat moss and mixing in a really good portion of perlite. Pro Mix already has perlite in it, but I add more to really bring up the perlite content.
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Ahhh I get it. Good to know. I will have to take some time on the next grow. I guess the makers of LIFTA need to make some concoction that unhypes you haha. Thanks for the support.
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We at LITFA tried, but they claimed that Xanax and Nyquil were not a fertilizer.
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just a quick check in. Switched the lights over last night as they are two weeks old. After previewing my post I guess I should say pic number two is not for people with a weak stomach as it might make you sick.
Here they all are.
Here is one that is having some trouble. I think I read something about light intensity but I thought I read somewhere in the faq about a nutrient deficiency or overload. Anyways comments always welcome.
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Looks like Bad genetics to me. Any other shows this?
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Yeah there’s another that looks slightly like it. Both of them care from a mendo glue a buddy had herm on him. I have been trying hard to figure this genentic thing out. I don’t remember the story in these seeds case but let’s say you had a girl stress herm on you, would that create bad genetics or is more of a shitty mom and dad thing?
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You could have great parent stock that was abused and stress induced and could pass on that trait to future generations. In the scenario with your mendo glue you know the seeds came from a hermaphrodite mother so you also know that any offspring could also exhibit.
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Well that makes sense. And the more generations you do it to the stronger those traits become? For example if I stress herm these girls the seeds would be even more likely to herm?
some pics from yesterday, I dubbed the 4 mutants and the runt x-women. They are at the front. Good times
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Well it’s been over a week better post. I am sure a lot of you are in the same boat with lots of dinners and company and gift wrapping and what not. It’s been pretty hard to get the extras done. Anyways heres a shot from last night in the tent. Not much to report. Lots of fun with more plants watching how everyone differs and stuff. Anyways hope everyone has a merry Christmas.
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Well a lot has happened in the past few days. Getting a little paranoid of vertical space, I read a while back about “supercropping”? I think that’s what it was called. Anyways thought I would give it a shot.
So this was this first try. Pretty good I thought.
Number two didn’t go quite so well. It split along the sides. But has been alright.
Week old clones. Afghani on the left. Bwitched on the right.
4 afghani’s
Number one the day after
Number two the day after
Another look at its split. Not a good look though.
So after what I took as a win I went on to try 4 more
Number 3
Number 4
Number 5
Luck ran out on number six went a little hard.
Anyways good show will keep practicing.
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