3rd try-Hopefully i wont get caught this time.SOME COMEDY

I us I had a hard time with the TDS meter.Frankly I think its a piece of shit lol…I tried calibrating the ph meter. So they had the control power that u mix witjh distilled water but it says it needs to be 24 degrees celcius.for some reason the tds meter which I used to measure the temp of the water ,seemed like it would get stuck on a temp and took 30 mins to drop a degree.I may buy a different one since they are cheap. Im pretty sure I have the same yellow ph meter as you @ktreez420.but im not sure if we have the same TDS?
**** where can I learn about ppm and how to use it to my advantage?

  • I dont think im understanding it, other than to boost it by 200 each time.And how do you bring it up?
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@ktreez420 @kushpa @hobbygardener
Thanks for that link Kushpa! That will help me exponentially. I been limpin a long trying to keep em alive without Roberts omniscient knowledge lolim gonna start reading it immediately. Ya i look up from silently reading and my wife is just sitting there ataring at me lol ya i know i have long post but its because im excited and she isnt interested in talking about this and im keeping it secret from everyone else ,except my brother in law but we dont talk about it on the phone and i dont see him but once a month,so you guys are my therapist,dont worry im sure yall are qualified, i mean look at me in this pic lol my belly looks a lil fat in that pic but my wife assures me im just “Husky”
Ya i wish i could have my plant right in the livin room and see them at all times but that just aint gonna happen.So i just go asit and look at them over and over,when i wake up,before i leave,each time when the timer is to come on i go make sure. I go look even when i know nothing could have possibly changed.lol i know i have alot of errors in my text/post but that because when im typing the message get hidden under the the page layout and i have to close the keyboard and open the post reread it and edit without being able to see what im editing once i start typing,its real fun.So now i wait until 4a.m. when the lights and fans turn on so i can see “My Ladies” when they wake up and go mist them with water and watch them glisten under the lights,checking for any problems. Nervous if they will be standing up or killed over after yesterday’s nutes and transplant.plus one thing i did not consider that when you put them in bigger pots, the size of the potst ouching each other increases the area you need to light instead of the small 1’ sqft they were squeezed in under the lights. Now its a little over 2 sqft. Which neans i had to move all the light and the"special"riggins i had them suspended by.Them Mars Leds better be here tomorrow cuz im going out of town Friday morning and i dont want them sitting outside-1 we are in the hood
2- my luck it will rain
Oh by the way i sure hope your plants grow bigger and faster than my White widow autos. Seems like all the photos and videos i see the plants are much bigger at this point than mine are

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That’s a sweet looking stash of supplies! Not only the therapy from sitting with the plants and checking every half hour to see if that new leaf grew another half a millimeter yet, but reading other posts and seeing pics is exciting too, especially when you see someone with a problem early on who then goes on to have a great harvest!

I see a can of STARTER FLUID in the first picture ? does it help :slight_smile:

Our pH meters do look similar, but I actually buy the calibration solution already pre mixed. Makes it super easy to calibrate. I bought my first one on Amazon, but my second one (both yellow) from my local hydro store. The one from the hydro store is definitely better. I would recommend just buying the 7.0 buffer solution and the 4.01 solution as well. You’ll never wonder if you’re calibrated correctly or not.

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Yep. I just ordered it. I figured out one of the reasons I was having such a hard time balancing the water because when I would use the PH down I would drop a couple drops in it and it would drop it down by 10 at a time and I couldn’t figure out how everyone was getting it so precise when it was jumping up and down so far well what I was doing wrong is I was using the squeeze dropper that came with the PH down to pull the solution PH down out of the bottle and dropping the correct amount of drops into the water but then I was stirring the water with the squeeze dropper which had residual PH down on it and some still in it so that was putting more in the water and making it dropped way more than just a couple of drops I put in it at least I know now LOL

after pacing the floor for the past couple of days waiting I’m waiting impatiently for Friday to come cuz my hydros were supposed to get here. An the UPS guy is usually here by 3 well 3 o’clock game 4 o’clock came and I finally gave up and just walked around the house pouting while sitting here reading some post I hear a knock at the door and lo and behold Heaven’s Gates opened and there’s my Mars Hydo

LEDS lights

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So like i said earlier i am way over budget so some things you see on here are not what I would choose or do if I had more money to spend on this right now so I’m improvising and taking the cheapest shortcuts I can find on some stuff such as the reflective backdrop on this girl is a reflective survival tent that I bought at Walmart for $5 LOL and I have one baby plant I put outside that I’m trying to protect and don’t want to use pesticides so I spent 2 hours trying to make this stupid wire cage and gave up at 2:30 in the morning and covered it with a $1 laundry bag keeps the bugs out I’m not sure how much light it’ll get I thought about using the two liter bottle method but I’m afraid with as hot as it is it will trap the heat in there and Fries a little !@#$er so I’m trying to use something that will shade it a little but still let it breathe a lot and keep the bugs off of it more importantly looks stupid but it works for me


Its ok u can laugh, thats why i put comedy in the title lol

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Sucks when i get all proud of my plants and i looka
And see most other people plants are 10 times bigger in the same amount of time. Oh well at least it shows yoi whats possible. Most of those grows have better lights or nutes that i cant afford yet so at leat i can take some solace in that. Any who heres my lil girls all looking happy and healthy

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Grow is at 23 days. Yes they are small but i think its because of me being so careful not to over water or over feed them that they starved a little.Also they havent had adequate lighting until now. @yoshi i need your insight on what nutes to use as i have been enlightened by your techniques i have bought some of what you use and need help not killin my girls but giving them as much as i can afford. I have FF trio, Roberts Trio and some cha ching, sesame and beastie blooms. Today i fed them 3 fl oz of grow booster and 2 teaspoons of grow big (1st timeon feeding grow big) mixed in 3 gal of water
Soil-perlite,seedling soil,ff of
Ph 6.1
Tds 650
Ro 5.8

I read half of posts so hope I’m not repeating anybody. Flat white paint good. Mylar emergency blanket not that good (but I used one for a while)- hotspots. Saw one cat’s grow cabinet he used something called r-tek he got from home depot. Best advice I’ve gotten would be. Don’t tell anybody. At all. First real try I’d say keep it simple. Good soil and little additives. Confusing when you get allot of advice. And hear all this use big bud, bud candy, molasses, grow, bloom. Etc. I used cheap soil. Mistake. But kept simple. Proper ph. Didn’t go overboard on nutes just a low dose of dynagrow bloom on a schedule. So don’t tell anyone, read all the tutorials, have fun. Or not. What do I know anyway. Lol

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@Jheezy good advise. I should just keep it light on the nutes and not try to do everything im learning from experienced people all on the first grow until i get a better understanding of some of the basics and then turn up. I would rather it live and have some yum yum at the end than to end up with nothing and 3 months of atarting over . I think when you start seeing other peoples reaults , hat your competitive spirit kicks in and you want to be as good or at least impressive as them .So you end up buying everything and blowing your budget trying to compete with all the bud porn you see on here. I will be replacing that safety blanket,it temporary. Thanks for twlling me about the hot spots

Don’t mean to sound like I know a lot but I’ve been reading and reading a lot probably from the guys above lol Get a good understanding of basics of plants. N-p-k etc. personally I’m not good at handling chemicals. Tend to be heavy handed oh this will help. And some of this. Research a schedule and stick to it. Prevention is the best cure especially when you are looking at sick weed leaf pics (is that nute burn, light burn, phosphorous deficiency and on…). Right now I’m looking towards “super soil” or at least buying fox farm Then just water regularly. Make sure ph is straight is a big deal. Just read read read I still haven’t finished first grow yet but it’s been a lonnnggg three months. I remember how overwhelming all the different nutrients and deficiencies were. I got stuff to do a bucket dwc but went soil seems easier Just don’t forget this is supposed to be enjoyable lol

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Oh in enjoying myself,its fun but my wife thinks im going out back doing crack lol im usually lazy and sleep alot but with the grow i go out back and check on them about 20 times a day and stay ip all night reading. The problem is retaining the knowledge lol it is too much for someone who dropped out and doesnt learn quick. Which further supports wht your sellin,and im buying it sir. Im going to keep it simple with small changes,that way it will take the stress out of thinking thwy will be dead when i open the closet each time. Also i like what one guy did,he put a sign on his grow room door that says ,“Patience,Paitence , Paitence. …” i need that lol

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I bought a cheap plastic storage cabinet off amazon for $40-50 Incognito lol. was checking all the damn time mainly to make sure not too hot as I ran outta cash before I got decent vent fans and pc fan wasn’t cutting it. But then got a better light. Led and was less hot and only check twice a day. Watched pot never boils yo. And it’s nice to see progress I went 24 hours of light for a bit but noticed when lights off plant gives off more smell. Didn’t know if dark helped growth or if it’s just a coincidence. So decided 20/4 light dark time. And back to,especially for you, lol. Best advice. Above everything. Don’t tell anybody. Never know who’s not going to be your friend some day or even a friend. Hey where’d u get that? My homey -he grew it. Not good Lol friends…what a hassle. I’m trying to be patient now. Day 900 nah -day? 94 holding out for max yield make up for stress early on prob shocked it Transplanted auto flower instead of putting seed in final pot. Get a decent loupe. I bought a cheap piece of crap off amazon for $10 and the x60 lens so tiny and the x30 I can see but have to get so close nose gets sticky when I check. Gonna try this magnifying lens x60 that clips on phone to get a good look anyway good luck

@Jheezy Ya i ordered a couple things last night.one wss a jewlers loupe the other was these glassrs with changesble magnifyin lenses of different strengths it was cheap sup probably isn’t worth that crap but it’s kind of cool we just cuz its weird I will put a link just for your Your Entertainment.let me know how that that clip on phone lens works I might try it if you think it works good. Also bought this I don’t know if it will be strong enough to see trichomes but I could still use it cuz I can’t see what this shit as a magnifying glass I was looking for a lens that was bigger too cuz I noticed the one you’re talking about is small as well<img src=“//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/growingmarijuana/original/2X/9/9a32b6060e5e50f39876a84e152e7e39046fdfbf.png

Unless they disintegrate to dust when you touch them lol those will work. Wtf where was that when I was ordering. Mine sucks shit. I’d like that just to have the goggle thing around the house. I’ve been looking at Amazon for soil. Happy frog $40. Called hydro shop $23 and a free gallon of compost tea. The tea is good but it gives me the runs. Enjoy your mad scientist head set

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Where’d you order from? Single loupe looks good too looks like Bosch&lombe one I saw for $30. However u spell that. The contact lens people. Mine super sucky x60,x90 lens so small can’t see anyway.

Ya even if they arent that great ,it will be fun to just bug the wife with them lol

Ok so today i fimmed one of my pineapple haze (at lrast that is was my intention) photo and started LST on the other one. Gonna see which one developes better. Also after seeing the leap in growth of the auto White Widow that i started LST on 1 week ago. See the difference

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