Hi guys,

First grow and first post ..... and i wish i'd found the site sooner!!

After reading a book and the internet my flatmate and i embarked on our first grow, wanting to do a small amount of plants and keep it as basic as possible. Our set up right now is:

400w HPS lamp
Mylar
Mixture of pot sizes
First plants with baby bio compost
New plants grown with proper sized pots and bio bizz all-mix soil
Recently added bio bizz nutes - bio-grow, bio-bloom and top max
9" circulating fan
Humidty tends to be 49-52% during light period and anywhere upto 70% during the dark period :-(
Temps are 27-30c during light period and anywhere down to 19c during dark period
co2 being generated by a yeast/sugar/water mixture - no co2 measurements unfortnately

Had a few problems with the grow to start with, killed our first seeds (white rhino) from moving them too close to light too soon
started again with a white rhino and some random seeds we;d been given for free.

During the grow they were left unwatered one weekend due to one incident of me going away coinciding with my flat mate locking himself out for the weekend - the plants looked pretty sorry for themselves and one withered away and died, some intensive care saved the others bar some of the branches which had to be chopped.

One has limped on to flower and has now been under the light for a very long time - unfortunately another basic error we have made is not keeping track of the weeks (lesson now learnt!) estimated that this sunday will be the 9th - 10th week of flowering and it doesnt look anything like we would be expecting (it was one of the random seeds so no clue on strain)

We have one plant that i trimmed down to the main stalk plus 6 leads which seems to be doing great since we added the nutes, and a white rhino which looks like a lost cause but we;re going to see through to completion just to see what happens. I took some clippings from the strongest plant we had and these have grown extremely well, they were given decent soil, pots and nutes from the start and we forced them to flower at around a foot tall - we dont have much height available with our set up.

What i'd really like to know is how close is our main plant to harvesting, the stigmas have started to turn brown and the plant is swelling in size but still doesnt seem very dense.

any help appreciated . . .if i;ve forgotten to mention anything let me know

Thank you

Hello,

Any photos? And do you have extraction and a carbon filter?...

Mrm

trying to get some photos online now, wont link to photobucket and not having any success uploading it, no extraction/carbon filter, its in a storage room so we've been leaving it venting into the next room.

Hello,

Upload straight to UK420 try this - How to upload photos...

You need to extract the stale air and bring in fresh new air into the grow enviroment.

Also growing without a carbon filter is asking for trouble, the smell is a security issue!.

Peace & Light

Mrm

As MrMullen has said mate get yourself a carbon filter PRONTO!!!!

managed to get a picture uploaded

point taken with the carbon filter, installation could be an issue, its up in the converted roof space, air being fed in via a window in the next room with an open door . . . will it be a total failure without better ventilation?

Hello,

Are they getting pure darkness for 12hours a day?.

Mrm

yeah they're getting 12 hours a night, pitch black in the room.

if the free seeds were from EDI then they are swiss outdoor sativas, maybe they need more time?

I think youve done really well so far especially seen as they didn't get watered for so long, a tip for germinating seeds get a glass jar make sure its

cleaned with bleach and then washed out thourughly with plain water,

get a square of toilet tissue then open it up so you get two really thin layers of tissue and put

the seeds in between the two really thin peices add luke warm water just so the tissue is damp, pop a lid on the jar fit the jar into some thick socks and

place it behind your fridge and in 3-4 days they will

be ready to go into some seedling compost, and bingo 100% germination rate, in my experience thats the best way because those seeds aren't cheap an it

aint worth putting them straight in soil and letting them accidently dry out etc, but anyway onto something else.. you need to get that humidity down to be

sure you wont sufffer from bud rot deffinatly get a carbon filter and extraction fan that should bring it down and get rid of the smell too, its really important

mate, and like ya say with the pistils turning brown wait until about 75% of them have turned, they usually pack on in thickness in the last two weeks or so, goodluck with it i wish ya all the best!

looks like its going to be a long flowering time. Looking good mate them buds will dense give it time.! prob looking at a 13 14 week flower time. all the best smoky