3rdCoast's Grow

[3rdCoast]

Strain:
Lighting: ColorLife 24" 50/50 (6000k, 5500k) + Three 26w CFL's
Grow Media/Soil Mix: Miracle Grow Organic (1/3), Peat Moss (1/3), Organic Humas (1/3).
Fertilizer: Terracycle All Purpose Plant Food (worm poop!)
Temperature Range: 75-80*F
Humidity: 40 +/-
Started From: Purchased Online
Start Date: Aug 20 08'

We're looking for a bit of help here! the plant came to us in fair condition for being in a box for about 4 days. Several broken branches/leaves. We got it set up in a humidity tent for about a week as we were acclimating it. Its looking good minus some black spots and various discoloration? It doesn't look to be mold as it is inside the leaf. Lights are about 6" from plant. Humidty around 40%.Tips/Pointers are much appreciated!

still figuring out this picture stuff, but they're coming!

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[JustAnotherRegularGuy]

Your close with the pictures..... You want to get the image location of the picture like this:

instead of:
http://www.salviasource.org/forum/image-gallery/2701/0/

It should be
http://www.salviasource.org/images/gallery/2701.jpg

Then just place that link inside the IMG tags and it should show up for you.

like this (without the spaces)
[ img ]http://www.salviasource.org/images/gallery/2701.jpg[ /img ]


I looked at your pictures and your plants look healthy and to be doing good. The black is just part of the leaf that has died. That is pretty typical from shipping shock. As long as the black isn't getting much worse you are on your way. you should have plenty of light.....maybe too much too soon. Are the CFL's "daylight"?

JARG

[3rdCoast]

thanks JARG. Now to edit 


Yes, the CFL's are the regular daylight ones. we hardly operate them as they are on a timer. They come on about 15mins of every hour I believe

[JustAnotherRegularGuy]

Looking good and welcome to the forums. Now it is just sit and wait time. Are you going to be harvesting the leaves or taking clones? If so you should have a look around the cultivation and other sections on here. You can get your plant to give off more leaves by selectively taking leaves and 2 will grow back in it's place.

JARG

[3rdCoast]

we're looking to use this as the mother plant for now for our cutting's and setting up some hydro setups. this website has been very helpful so far.

So I take it the curling of the leaves is 'ok'? We now have all the lights set to a timer to run for about 12hrs right now, but we plan to ramp it up to about 16-18hrs and the rest is Sleepy time for the plants

[JustAnotherRegularGuy]

Yeah it looks pretty normal. My plants get the curling leaves a lot. It usually means they don't like something about their environment, but really with the plants being that young you have to wait for new leaves to grow and see what the new leaves do. Salvia typically doesn't fix any old leaves. If anything whatsoever happens to the leaf, that leaf will always stay that way from my experience. It's a lot of waiting then changing something, waiting then changing something else. Once you get her going good though she will start to grow fast. And the bigger she gets the faster she will grow!

It sounds like you want to take cuttings for a business. I am also in that game so don't you dare step on my income..... haha just kidding. We all help each other out. I received my first mother plants a few months ago and am working on my next set of mother plants from clones now. Have a look at my grow log if you want to see mistakes I learned the hard way. It might get you going on the right foot the first time. It sucks when you have to throw away clones!

JARG

[3rdCoast]

hahaha! Oh I've got my foot in the door Mr. JARGon! jkjkjk. Yessir I had been checking all of your grow logs for a while (bout 3weeks )

Alright well she is showing signs of new leaves @ all the places where an old one was broken off @ the node(?). Other than that all the new leaves look pretty good, but not as deep spinach green as I've seen a few members. I had also read that most people using Miracle Grow Organic soil and/or peat moss have had bad return rates. Help me out on that one!

[JustAnotherRegularGuy]

Dark green leaves are hard to make happen. Also I find it a trick that if you mist your plant then take a picture the leaves "appear" to be much more lush green.... Miracle Gro soil is not very good in my opinion. I prefer to use some kind of non-organic/non-fertilized soil. i found a good soil-less mix at Home Depot called "Jiffy". It is real light and airy and works really well when mixed with a bit of perlite. I wouldn't do much with your plant right now until it gets a bit more stabilized and established. But you can always transplant it if you really want to. IMO As long as your plant is still growing and showing signs of being happy I would leave it in the soil you have.

JARG

[Jupe]

nice plants ...I think that blackish looks like they were grown outside, or under strong Halides or something.....classic alligator look, with the blackening...also  those nicefat stems which  strong light tends to promote. 

greening up is a complex realtionship between light levels and availability of Nirogen (been doing some research lately).....foliar feeding can help if plants roots are not ready yet.

60-70F is better than 70-80F in my opinion...its also a function of how much widn action you have...80F with good air circulation is OK, whereas 80F in a closed enviornment can cause troubles.

[rpt_juggla]

That plant is looking good.

Seems so familiar.....

Don't we live in the same house? haha 

[3rdCoast]

I think I know a Juggla haha. The plant is looking good so far, we need some updated pics. we now have it sitting in the window getting indirect sunlight and its looking queen. pics to come once i decide not to be lazy

[3rdCoast]

should be posting update pics by tomorrow. she dropped 3 leaves today. hopefully she is 'healthy' by yalls standards 

[3rdCoast]

Here's a picture of a cutting we took.. We've got it in a DWC bubbler w/ fish tank gravel since we couldn't find any perlite around here. That of which we eventually Did find and we are swapping it out tonight. Check her out






Hows the mother plant look by everyones standards?

[JustAnotherRegularGuy]

Looking good. It might be a little small to start taking a lot of cuttings from. I like to let mine get a little bigger each time I take a cutting so that it is constantly growing bigger. Otherwise you could really stress the plant.

JARG

[3rdCoast]

well jarg, we've been doing pinching/pruning to the momma plant. Its got tons of little shoots on it just growing bigger. We actually amended the soil yesterday w/ Perlite. previous soil + about 50% perlite. it drains Very nicely now. before it was fairly compact and just.. not what i've seen as 'ideal' for growing sally.

Now.. We are just looking for some Mycorrhyzae

Actually.. Give me a few minutes and I'll throw up some pics!