Indoor 1st Dwc autoflower grow

[NorthernLights_420]

1st time switching from phenotypes to autoflower strains. I ordered a northern lights auto by royal queen seeds and also a pineapple express auto by barneys farm. My next 2 seeds will be from Dutch passion. Auto Ultimate and Think Big auto. My first 2 seeds I ordered hit the US from overseas today so should be soon and I'll be germinating in rapid rooter plugs in a Tupperware on top of the Wi-Fi internet modem. Thanks at&t for the free seedling heating mat. Lol I will be starting my seedlings in single 5 gallon buckets deep water culture. Single buckets as I like to do multiple strains in my garden if my buckets were all connected I couldn't feed plants differently as needed. So I do single 5 gallon buckets with net pots and hydroton clay pebbles as median. T5 light for early veg. 1000 watt mh once roots are established until preflowers start showing, once budding hits I will switch to hps. Using 1000 watt old school reliable magnetic ballast with an air cooled hood. General hydroponics Flora trio. Micro grow and bloom. Ro water 0ppm. Calimagic before base nutes. Floralicious plus in veg and bloom. Liquid koolbloom in flower. Ph up an down. All general hydroponics nutrients and additives and ph up and down. I do use hydroguard also to prevent root rot. Had it and defeated it and it literally stinks like nasty and is a pain in the ass. Using bluelab meter to test ph and water temps and ppm or ec. I have fans and dehumidifiers if needed to control humidity . Grow room is in my upper Michigan basement which is dry in the winter and humid when it's not winter. My third grow. My first grow by myself without any friends or partner teaching me. I bought my partners equipment off him so now I'm riding solo. He was a drunk and never helped me so wish me luck. My 1st run was horrible, 2nd run was worse. Now I learned from all my dumb ass mistakes I plan to nail this grow and not get seeds or low yields. Will post pics when set up.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Some of my previous grow mistakes. First grow in attic middle of winter, freezing cold temps. 2ounces per plant on 4 plants but the plants were huge and should of yielded much more under better grow conditions. I don't know how they finished and still clueless as to how they didn't die. Lol. My 2nd grow started off with root rot, battled for 2 weeks and saved some plants and lost some. The ones I saved I mixed the seeds up at the beginning so had no idea what was what. Had 8 strains at the end. Yielded less than a quarter pound. 3 weeks in flower I defoliated all the fan leaves like a moron, taking bad advice online. My buds didn't swell at all at 8 weeks when I chopped them all, trichs were clear and they clearly weren't ready. But a few weeks before that I found nanners which pollinated everything. I chopped at 8 weeks pissed I had seedy weed and just hoped for the best and called it a loss. I knew I could do better so I said fuck it. I'm gonna start over. I had accidentally unplugged my power cord a few times and screwed up light cycle by stepping on the damn cord leaving my room into my house. Mid I taped that with duct tape so no more issues. Also had flash floods and almost lost everything on my basement floor due to my basement flooding. Was problem after problem. Then high humidity problems and high temps so I had to get dehumidifiers and only run my 1000, had to shut the 400 watt off.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Just started germinating pineapple express Auto by barneys farm and Northern lights auto by royal queen seeds. Ordered from the single seed center. Germinating in rapid rooter plugs inside of Tupperware containers on top of the Wi-Fi internet modem. Will post pics once they sprout then more pics when I transplant to 5 gallon dwc buckets and set up the room again.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Both seeds have cracked open and the process has begun. Little white root popping out the seeds. Working on cleaning my grow room and setting it back up on my 2 days off. Will post pics when I transplant the rapid rooter plugs into there dwc buckets as soon as I am able too.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

Got my room set up. Pineapple express is stuck in the shell, it cracked but it's not really doing anything. Just waiting and hoping. The northern lights sprouted above the rapid rooter plug and the first two little leaves are out and I removed the shell so it doesn't break my stem like I had happen my first grow on some strains. Northern lights auto by royal queen seeds is transplanted into my 5 gallon bucket under the t5 light. Will post pics tomorrow of my set up.

 

[Unit Farm]

any pictures?

 

[NorthernLights_420]

any pictures?

 

[NorthernLights_420]

The plant is so small you can't even see it yet. It just popped above my rooter plug yesterday. Here's a couple more pics of equipment. Will take more pics after work.

 

[NorthernLights_420]

More pics. Stuff in my room. I have 3 dehumidifiers total to keep my basement in check. Plants too small to hook the fan up yet. There will be a fan when it gets bigger

 

[Unit Farm]

cute, happy growing~~