Indoor 1st time Indoor, 8 strains, 600w hps, soil, organic

[Africut]

Greetings everyone,


I am new here and this is my first time growing indoor.
This is a caregiver project and final goal is growing a nice crop and making RSO for my muse who suffers from chronic disease that is incurable by allopathic medicine.


Few days ago I started my little operation, to keep thing short let me tell you what is in the 4' x 8' box:

- Sylvania Agro Grolux 600w HPS running on magnetic ballast
- Adjust-A-Wing Avenger medium with Super Spreader
- custom fitted Cool Tube (6"x 16")
- exhaust fan PrimaKlima 160TC (max 8 m3)
- intake fan VK 150 (max 3 m3)
- oscillating 45w fan
- Adwa Ad11 pH meter
- in/out thermo/hygro meter
( AC if necessary )

I hope I haven't forgot about anything, I' m missing an adequate carbon filter and that is it. (will get it by day 20-30? any advice?)

Soil is my own mix composed of:

- 30% coco
- 30% vermiculite
- 20% BioBizz All-Mix
- 10% worm castings
- 10% sand

Instead of plastic or other types of pots I will be using custom made Jute bags (made from used coffee bags), volume is around 5 gallons (4.5-6 depending).


And last but not the least, genetics:

Dinafem: Critical Jack x2
Fruit x2
Blue Cheese x1

Dutch Passion: Think Different x2
Blue Automazar x2

CBD Crew: Med Gom 1.0 x3

World of Seeds: BigBud x NL x2

Pyramid Seeds: White Widow x1

In total 15 beans, 8 strains.
All Autos of course.


I hope this is enough for first time, I'll continue soon and with some pictures of course.


Jah bless all.

 

[Waximus]

Hello, Africut That sounds like an ambitious, and Nobel, setup! And, your list of strains is pretty great, too
If you've not already mixed your soil, consider using less vermiculite and subbing perlite- maybe 10%v/20%p- as, vermiculite will break down and could compact your soil. The perlite will hold up better, methinks. Digging that you're using recycled coffee sacks! I use root pouches, very similar, and love them. Make sure the coffee sacks are well rinsed, so any tannins that might have leached into the material are washed out. I could see that causing some weirdness once you have plants in soil.
Wishing you the best in your grow! I'd love to follow along
Best to you!

 

[Africut]

Waximus thank you for the welcome.
I am hoping that I am not being too ambitious and that I will be able to light all of these with just one light.
I plan to mount a curved Scrog net after first 15-20 days.
About vermiculite, unfortunately mix is done, it's in the bags, I can just hope that there won't be enough time for mix to get too compact.

I wasn't clear enough about progress of the grow, or I am just slow ,
now it's day 4 (or 3 for some), all plants are above surface having a pair of leaves and showing next one.

I thought that it would be boring to write reports about soaking, germination and popping of seeds, maybe I wrong.
To sum it up, some of the beans where older than 2 or 3 years so I gave them a 24h soak (1/1 mix of distilled and bottled water balanced to pH 6.2).
After 24h of soak many cracked and there where moved to wet cotton pads (again pH 6.2), kept warm but with lots of air (20-24'C).
After little more than 24h there were planted under 600w.
During planting I introduced them with Mycorrhiza.

Light was at about 80cm from surface, in a day or two I noticed some stretch so I lowered the light little under 50cm (20").
I refilled the pots with some extra mix to give support to stretchy plants, and now it looks like stretch has stopped or I just don't notice it.

Yesterday (day 3) I watered all pots with compost extract that I made.

My light is running 24/0, temps are 22-24'C, RH is 50-60%.

 

[Trapper]

Hey, Welcome

Whether or not it ends up being too ambitious, I'm of the opinion that a Scrog gives
you the highest potential for success/control with one light.

You could always augment spot coverage with a couple CFL's...if you can control
the extra heat. The fixtures and bulbs are pretty cheap. My 2 cents....

 

[Africut]

Thanks Trapper for the welcome,
I tought it's a time for a photo update..


Inside of a grow room:











Photos are kind a different in color but
I'm still fighting on way to edit shots made under hps.
I think I like first one the most.

 

[Africut]

Girls on day 5, some doing just great,
some not so much. That is my fault, I was a little too
keen in germination/planting phase and gave them
too much water.

so

View attachment 425639
Blue AutoMazar


BigBud x NL


Think Different

Critical Jack



Med Gom 1.0


Fruit.


Blue Cheese

and last but not least..



White Widow ( maybe I overdid it with editing


That's it, maybe not so great but they make me happy.

(water only pH6.2-6.5, T 22-25'C, RH 40-60%)



Jah bless!

 

[Africut]

Hey everyone,

some of my girls have purple stems, some purplish underleaf and on one I can see some redish pigment on the "next to be" pair of leaves.
I've been reading and personally I don't think that a 7 day old plant can have P deficiency.

Too cold, overwatering?

Help?

 

[Africut]

Anybody?

 

[jackmc]

Africut, Don't worry about deficiencies yet, Those little plants have everything they need for the time being. Is you grow space cold? Mine has gotten down to the low 60sF and I've never seen any reddening of the plants. Although I've seen it on house plants on a three season porch during the Winter. I'd guess the color your seeing is specific to the strain you're seeing it on. I know how you feel but don't worry too much you'll grow some if not all of those plants to fruition and learn a ton doing it. Woops

 

[Africut]

Hey Jackmc, thanks for your advice.
I run 24/0 so temperature is more or less stable,
it was never under 70'F and now I am keeping it at 75'F.
After 24h of slightly higher temperatures girls are looking even better then
usual.