A little late start for this journal, I've been busy reading, searching and learning. This is might first time growing autos and first time growing Hydro as well. There's a lot to learn and I dont want to waste you guy's time with common questions google can answer.
My grow setup is as follows:
-4x Jack Herer Autos
-3'x3'×6.5' tent
-Mars II 800W LED (362W at the wall)
-rDWC with 4x 5gal buckets and control rez outside of tent. (System holds 40L total). 180GPH recirculation pump.
-Airstone in each bucket and 14L/min airpump (4 port)
-recently added 100L storage tank with its own circulation pump and 2 airstones.
-advanced nutrients ph perfect Micro/Grow/Bloom, Calmag, voodoo juice. Lots of Ph down (I have really hard water, out of the tap at ph 8.5 and 250ppm)
-carbon filter, ventilation, etc...
Some of you know a bit about my grow from some great help and advice offered by some awesome guys over in the infirmary. Thanks again!
So I started this grow at the beginning of December (seeds broke ground, or rather rockwool, Dec 5th). The first couple weeks were really slow, I think I made the mistake of watering them with 0ppm bottled water and since the rockwool has no nutrients or trace elements they were off to a slow start.
Here they are at 1 week:
I also had left the little dome on this seedling tray on a little too long, the heating mat it was on caused too much condesation and the cubes started to smell a little sour, I got some fresh air to em and they pulled through.
In hindsight, I should have got em in the hydrotron and a bit of feed sooner, but here they are planted on dec 16.
Still on water only, they took a few days for the roots to hit the water then things started to pick up.
Dec 22nd:
Apperantly this netpot is not full enough with hydrotron. I wanted to keep the cube visible while hand watering to make sure it wasn't drying out or soaking wet. I guess there were some small light leaks around the top holes of the netpot which resulted in a algea bloom that completely clogged all 4 airstones in the next couple days. I managed to get on top off it quick and after some a late night emergency water change, a good scrub down and some h202 I got it cleaned up with no obvious adverse effects other than a bit of droopyness and some stained roots (Made me panic thinking I had rot but its just dead algea)
Dec 30th:
I have one pheno that has a little broader leaves and the new growth kept coming in super yellow like an iron deficiency, but it greened up a lot when I increased the nute strength. The other three are more similar phenotypes except one is a bit of a mutant (early leaves duckfooted and some two leaf fans. It has grown out of most of that but is still growing kind of scraggly compared to the others.
The yellow one "blondie" is much hungrier than the other three as their tips are starting to burn slightly but she is still asking for more.
Jan 1st:
I did some LST on two of them to experiment, and bent and tied the main stem over. They both responded well to it. I should have done the other two as well as it opened up the plant nicely.
These girls are the bushiest plants I've ever seen, their fans are literally stacked on top of each other. I am now having to do some defoliation to let them breath as the leaves are wet from laying on each other.
Jan 5th:
Jan 8th:
Jan 10th:
Growing like weeds...
Jan 12:
Which brings me finally up to date. The girls are starting flower and growth has been exploding!
Jan 13th:
I am going to do some more defoliation to try to get some more air movement over the next few days as the small tent is filling up fast! We'll see how they do, I was almost ready to scrap them and start over due to the slow start but now they are looking like they might do alright.
My biggest concern right now is that I have to go to texas for work for possibly a couple weeks at the end of this month and I need to get things smooth enough that my wife can tend to it in my absence...
My grow setup is as follows:
-4x Jack Herer Autos
-3'x3'×6.5' tent
-Mars II 800W LED (362W at the wall)
-rDWC with 4x 5gal buckets and control rez outside of tent. (System holds 40L total). 180GPH recirculation pump.
-Airstone in each bucket and 14L/min airpump (4 port)
-recently added 100L storage tank with its own circulation pump and 2 airstones.
-advanced nutrients ph perfect Micro/Grow/Bloom, Calmag, voodoo juice. Lots of Ph down (I have really hard water, out of the tap at ph 8.5 and 250ppm)
-carbon filter, ventilation, etc...
Some of you know a bit about my grow from some great help and advice offered by some awesome guys over in the infirmary. Thanks again!
So I started this grow at the beginning of December (seeds broke ground, or rather rockwool, Dec 5th). The first couple weeks were really slow, I think I made the mistake of watering them with 0ppm bottled water and since the rockwool has no nutrients or trace elements they were off to a slow start.
Here they are at 1 week:
I also had left the little dome on this seedling tray on a little too long, the heating mat it was on caused too much condesation and the cubes started to smell a little sour, I got some fresh air to em and they pulled through.
In hindsight, I should have got em in the hydrotron and a bit of feed sooner, but here they are planted on dec 16.
Still on water only, they took a few days for the roots to hit the water then things started to pick up.
Dec 22nd:
Apperantly this netpot is not full enough with hydrotron. I wanted to keep the cube visible while hand watering to make sure it wasn't drying out or soaking wet. I guess there were some small light leaks around the top holes of the netpot which resulted in a algea bloom that completely clogged all 4 airstones in the next couple days. I managed to get on top off it quick and after some a late night emergency water change, a good scrub down and some h202 I got it cleaned up with no obvious adverse effects other than a bit of droopyness and some stained roots (Made me panic thinking I had rot but its just dead algea)
Dec 30th:
I have one pheno that has a little broader leaves and the new growth kept coming in super yellow like an iron deficiency, but it greened up a lot when I increased the nute strength. The other three are more similar phenotypes except one is a bit of a mutant (early leaves duckfooted and some two leaf fans. It has grown out of most of that but is still growing kind of scraggly compared to the others.
The yellow one "blondie" is much hungrier than the other three as their tips are starting to burn slightly but she is still asking for more.
Jan 1st:
I did some LST on two of them to experiment, and bent and tied the main stem over. They both responded well to it. I should have done the other two as well as it opened up the plant nicely.
These girls are the bushiest plants I've ever seen, their fans are literally stacked on top of each other. I am now having to do some defoliation to let them breath as the leaves are wet from laying on each other.
Jan 5th:
Jan 8th:
Jan 10th:
Growing like weeds...
Jan 12:
Which brings me finally up to date. The girls are starting flower and growth has been exploding!
Jan 13th:
I am going to do some more defoliation to try to get some more air movement over the next few days as the small tent is filling up fast! We'll see how they do, I was almost ready to scrap them and start over due to the slow start but now they are looking like they might do alright.
My biggest concern right now is that I have to go to texas for work for possibly a couple weeks at the end of this month and I need to get things smooth enough that my wife can tend to it in my absence...
everything looks wonderful
