TheSovietOnion

I posted this about a month ago asking you guys for help, and I got so much more than I expected! Since then, I changed the soil, the lighting 'strategy' and the watering regime/practice.

And it worked 😀

I have a bunch of cannabis seeds laying around, so I'm practicing with them. Most of them died, but I'm adjusting something every new try and this new batch is doing great. The older ones in the pic are ~15 days old

Thanks to everyone who helped!! I didn't know I would get so happy just by seeing these little guys thrive hahaha

This one looks like it's flowering although it's still so young. I've read a bit about them, and it has something to do with the proportion of dark/light hours that they get in a day.

Edit: no other lavender seeds germinated after that post, so no update on them. Maybe in another month

Learning about the USSR is so damn depressing

Welcome to our new exercise check thread for the week!

Here, we set our individual goals and share our progress with each other 😸

Identifying obstacles and tracing plans to overcome them at my own pace, without judgements.

Welcome to our new exercise check thread for the week!

Here, we set our individual goals and share our progress with each other 😸

Trying to keep my plants alive and failing

All my plants die after they start growing and I don't know why. I've tried controlling every factor that I can although without a thermometer, higrometer, pH measuring etc. I even have a shitty microscope that I try to analyse the sick parts, but I can't find any reliable resources on how to actually interpret what I'm seeing. I want to know how to use this kind of data so that I can raise my plants right.

Where can I learn about this? I mean diagnosing problems, monitoring variables, finding solutions to each situation etc. google obviously sucks and gives nothing of substance

I will say that I recently got a new substrate, maybe the old one was the problem. But then there's my mother-in-law, who raises beautiful lavenders and all that using the exact same soil I'm getting shitty results with. I'm literally not doing anything different to her, so maybe it's the water? I really don't know.

Edit: in fact, the lush lavender 🪻 she is currently flexing is a piece of the one my partner bought. Same plant, same soil.

Edit 2: also, the roots always look alright when I dig their cadavers to analyze. No parasites, insects, obvious fungi etc in any part of any plant so far.

Welcome to our new exercise check thread for the week!

Here, we set our individual goals and register our progress.

I have one less tooth now btw

Welcome to our new exercise check thread for the week!

Here, we set our individual goals and register our progress throughout the week.

Updating this post from 4 days ago, showing my first seedling 🌱 and asking for help

While transferring the other 3 seeds to individual little pots, I noticed one of them was cracking open 👐, with a root poking on the other side. I left that one undisturbed, took away another one, and couldn't find the other.

After about a day, that little cracking seed turned into another seedling (left in the pic) and the missing seed is also cracking open 😺 (green dot to the right of the taller seedling). The older one has two very tiny white leaves, starting to turn green.

I'm being much more careful with watering (I tend to overwater my plants) and also made this makeshift grow tent due to not enough light exposure time in my apartment. It's this shitty lamp I bought online that is very weak (using two lux-measuring apps, it gives about 10k when less than half an inch away from it), so I wrapped my pot close to the lamp using foil paper.

I have no idea how I'll keep them alive once they grow more, but at least I think I've got this initial phase down. Next I guess is to look for a better/bigger lamp and to make a larger grow box, maybe with some cardboard for structure. That and nutrients.

After three years of spending the whole day sitting and eating, I'm back at the gym since yesterday, and I plan on going 5 days a week for a while, lest I have a heart attack.

I've thought of doing a diary-like thread to give myself some sort of responsibility tied to exercising, and maybe getting someone else in the mood for joining me.

I'll post a thread a week, and you can "check-in" with whether or not you did any exercise today.

Did you exercise today? Tell us about it and let's get moving 💪😎🤳

Not a skilled plant-owner here.

A friend got some buds with seeds on them, and I'm trying to grow some. Tried two first, but both died right after sprouting. Now there's this other one in the pic, planted last week and sprouted yesterday. Theres three other seeds next to it, too. I think they were either orange haze or godzilla cookies, if that matters.

It's hot where I live, and there's a good range of sunlight I can expose it to, from direct, harsh sunlight all day to partial, indirect sunlight, depending on where I place it in the apartment. I also got a cheap yellow+blue+red growlight that I can adjust the intensity of and set timers.

Other stuff I have lying around: a rooting agent, bokashi, and a substrate made of spaghnum, perlite and rice hulls.

What should I know about watering, light schedules, wind, temperature, budding care etc?

E: I should add, I'm not interested in a super-optimized,industrial scale high-yield techniques, this is just for hobby