My Fem Lowryder 2 Grow

[TexRx]

I'm growing some Fem Lowryder #2. Starting indoors and moving to outdoors when odor becomes an issue.
I'm using Fox Farm Light Warrior soil to start w/ Age Old Organics grow and bloom nutrients and Earth Juice catalyst. Also adding a few drops of superthrive to all waterings.
Lighting indoors is 2 96watt Daylight CFL's - one is 10,000k and the other is 6,700k.

Here's my second seedling at a few days old- the first didn't germinate.
I'm going to start w/ just one plant but plan on planting the other 3 this season.
Not sure what to expect, it's my first grow. Just gonna go with the flow.
                                                                                                                                                           
               

My seed package
   

my nutes         
 

[J R Puffnstuff]

awesome pics---man are you a photographer?

Looks like something out of Grow magazine.

[Muddy Waters]

Looking good.  K+. My diesel ryders and Low Life Hindu Kush will be ready to move outdoors this weekend at about 20 days.  I'm figuring a week outdoors during the day, inside at night, then they should be ready to be out doors permanently.  Unless you get a runt, which is common with LRs, expect a plant about 2' tall and a yield of 1 to 1 1/2 oz.  But even the runts produce a decent amount of bud.

[TexRx]

I'm not a photographer but I've taken some classes before. It's the lighting that makes the seedling look like that. My lights are great for taking pics like that.


I was unsure what kind of yeild I could get from L2's. If I can get an ounce, that would be great. Would that be an ounce dry?


 

[Muddy Waters]

I was unsure what kind of yeild I could get from L2's. If I can get an ounce, that would be great. Would that be an ounce dry?

Yes, that's dry weight.  I've got 17 plants started.  If I get 12 females I'm hoping for around 12 ounces, maybe more.  Diesel Ryders should yield over an ounce each and about an ounce, or maybe a little less, from the Hindu Kush.

[TexRx]

5 more days of growth.



 

[blueharvest]

That's an obvious box that it came in.

[TexRx]

The box came like that with no attempt at concealing it.

Here's a quick update with pics.

Here's a few days ago



Here's where it's at today


The growth is not elongated, it's very tight so far. I assume that means I have enough light.
I'll be giving a 1/2 strength feeding tomorrow.

[Muddy Waters]

Looking good Tex, K+.

[TexRx]

Looking good Tex, K+.

Thanks!
I've got a little problem, though. The bottom most set of leaves look like this:


I thought at first it was nute burn and went to water only. When it continued to happen after I had already cut off 2 leaves I thought maybe it's too much water and scaled back on watering.
But it still is happening. My growth has slowed so I fed it today w/ a 3.2.4 nute instead of the 12.6.6 nute I was previously using to avoid creating more burn.

Anybody seen this sort of thing before?
I'm not sure exactly what to do about it. Once the leaf goes all yellow I'm gonna cut it off.
It's only happening on the oldest growth of the plant - the lowest set of leaves.
Any ideas or tips would be helpful.
 

[Muddy Waters]

I'm sure others may have some ideas but in my experience that's pretty common.  I've had the same thing happen on my LRs.  Mine are now outdoors full time and I've lost the bottom two sets of leaves on all of them.  They are otherwise healthy and starting to bud.  As they grow and start to shade those leaves, especially the early ones that aren't full sets, they tend to die off.  I think if it was nute burn you would see it on the other leaves as well.

[TexRx]

^^^^
That's kind of what I was thinking and I'm not that concerned about it since it's only the bottom leaves.

I gave it a full watering last night, too, and this morning the most affected leaves perked up some.
The Fox Farms light warrior soil I'm using dries out really fast so maybe I was not getting enough water to the lowest roots.
 

[Muddy Waters]

You might try bottom watering.  I keep mine in plastic trays and put the water/nutes in the tray and let the plants soak it up through the bottom of the pots.  It encourages deep root growth.

[TexRx]

^^^^ I actually did water it from the bottom w/ plain water last night for a little bit but was unsure if I should leave it that way.
Do you think it can be left soaking up water from the bottom all the time? Or should it only be left to soak for a limited amount of time?

 

[Muddy Waters]

I've got mine in plastic trays that are about 15" x 22" with 8 pots in each one.  I've found that if I put about 1/2 gallon in each tray it's enough for all of them to soak up and be well watered without being over watered.  I just put the water in and leave them.  It does take several hours for them to soak all the water up.  I don't leave water in there all the time because they do like to dry out between waterings.  Indoors I end up watering every 3-4 days.  Outdoors it's more like every 2-3 days.