Starting another thread by request.
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I am a beginner,Sprout is 3 in. tall 3 little leaves and now they are starting to yellow,idknow what section im supposed to find the answer
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That’s a happy-looking plant. Good job!
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I have 4 , 12in pots used miracle grow potting soil,just replaced with an organic potting soil,white widow,blue dream,ak 47,not sure which made it,have 3 out of 6 have sprouted first 3 leaves then died
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We would like to help you out,
We all will ask questions to do so. For instance I cannot see what is in that fixture.
What kind of bulb and what wattage is it.
Guessing from the size of the pots I will venture a guess that you have about 4 square feet of space. It takes about 40 watts per square foot of quality LED lighting to grow cannabis. It LOVES and NEEDS lots of light. Another way to figure is 150 watts per plant.
I have a 3x4 space 450 watts (actual wattage drawn from the wall)
So in that hood you may have a 100W Led bulb according to the box it came in, however it is actually only a 13 watt bulb in actual energy usage. To grow cannabis you will need a good quality grow light. Lots of scammers out there so beware. Most of the Amazon lights are not what they advertise them to be.
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Thanks,i understand,i freeked cause they sprouted and died,got this bulb from homedepot says burns 9w full spectrum grow light,i had them in miracle grow potting soil,just got new soil 3rd time,this is jungle grow from lowes,has all the worm stuff all homemade things
You can start a single plant under that for a week or two maybe.
Should be about 3 inches from the top of the plant.
Further away and the seedlings will stretch out fall over and die.
To grow a plant to maturity will take lots more and better light.
What would you like to accomplish?
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I had similar problems in 1980 and currently.
Seedlings pop tall and without super strong lighting or gentle breeze on stalk from ground emergence, they always popped and died at 3 inches.
Seeds were easy to obtain, in 1980.
2022 grow was for seed inventory stocking.
Bag seeds, not cheap, but the do grow.
Not necessarily the MG soil, many can argue either way.
I have grown in MG and others.
Getting a soil that you and your plants like with the feeding and growing cycle is the trick.
Clones would enjoy the 13 watt light (mine do).
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Basics grow weed. Can be grown using all types of styles. The ONLY thing no plant will grow with properly is bad lighting. Always start there. Budget that as 70% of startup at least. Can go dig up dirt in the yard and grow plants. Bad light you cant grow with the very BEST of everything else. The light is the lynchpin. Always is and always will be till they are bred to grow in the dark. Just my thoughts. Grab a decent light. Used/new no matter. If only a year or 2 on a good led you still have 3-5years life left. The difference will show within hours at times. ANYTHING that fits your space with a dimmer is cool. High power for expanding. The dimmer will allow adjusting for all stages. The extra juice will allow expansion or just real heavy light in flower where we want it.
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Agree
Unfortunately I bought the China Cheapies.
Replaced with HLG lighting and getting better results.
Dimmer and possibly removable driver for locating out of tent, good choices.
Then AC-Infinity controllers for grow tent control.
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I thought I knew growing (1980-84).
Whole new world 2024.
The support ticket gives a framework of variables, all can have influence on grow.
New terms, new practices, YouTube, Dr BB, and so much more.
All different and all capable of influencing the grow.
Worst news yet for you,
After grow,
Hang, dry, cure routine is 2-4 months of caretaking required.
Hell, we always smoked it after a week of drying.
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This plant is not hard to grow. But they do need specific things for a decent harvest. I am going to recap in a nutshell and try not to freak you out with facts. 
- Already stated. A good grow light is #1. Also given was wattage. 150w per plant. Now light makers lie, mislead and mislabel their products and make you think you are buying a 1000w light when in reality it is only a 100w light. Alot of us here will help and if you are thinking about buying a light, run it past the growmies here and we can help you to make the best decsioin.
- Soil. Cannabis needs a particuler type of soil to be fruitful. MG will grow plants. Some people on here use it with success but most of us would never use it as it is time released and tanks your pH each time you water. Some soil options are Happy Frog/Ocean Forest, Coast of Maine, Roots Organic, Indicanja etc… google cannabis freindly soils
- Nutrients. To keep it simple, I would just recommend Jacks for RO water - RO water I will get to. Our girls need higher Nitrogen during veg and higher P & K during flower.
- RO water is blank. No ppm’s and is neutral at 7.0 pH but since it is ppm void, you have to give it a ppm base of about 150-300 for the water to hold the pH you give it when mixing the nutes. pH up/down would be the last thing you add to get the pH to the sweet spot of 6.5 (6.2-6.8 is the range for cannabis in soil.
- Need just a few tools to make sure everything you are doing is in agreement with our girls. A pH pen and PPM/TDS pen will tell you what you need to know.
I think that is it. Again if you have a specific question, make a journal by simply clicking on “Create new topic”. It will be your home for us to pop in and if you need assistance quickly, tag a person you think can help like @Richfase and it will send us a ping that we have a new notification and we can hop in. We can also mark your thread as following and any new post will also pop up.
I hope all of this helps and sorry it got longer than I wanted.
and as a side note, we completely hijacked @keepitblazed thread. He created this with the topic Beginner needs help. I am gonna check if you have created a thread and pop in if so.
Nope no topics created yet. I would start there. Create a thread for us to follow you and help out.
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@keepitblazed
Your plant looks great.
The advantage of the support ticket is that gives everybody a common language for dialog. I good starting place and a good template for required leaning or reading.
As a member of the “Hijackers”, I apologize for the intrusion and hope you enjoy the shared information above. Most shared better and more knowledge than me.
We all can learn, more, faster, with sharing.
@Bonjoyle and @Spiney_norman
great adds to dialog.
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Lets have a Mod just move it to its own Topic. Just continue here and perhaps @Myfriendis410 can split it off/out when he logs in again.
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Done. Thanks for watching out for folks.
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Happy birthday @Myfriendis410 !!!
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