Grow Room 2.5 sf auto grow adventure

[Bigg Al]

View attachment 1085832 day 23 from seed germination
Lights on
The tied down branches have already turned up!!!

I can’t believe I’m comteplateing sticking one more auto in there!!

I wouldn't, you're forgetting the stretch!

 

[Tejasdirt]

I wouldn't, you're forgetting the stretch!

@Bigg Al
I’m comeing from a photo fem grows in this cab
I was able to stick 5-6 of them in here.
I was JUST looking in there today thinking
“Man o man I want to put another in but it just won’t fit..... “
My first auto grow so keeping with my mantra
“ first auto grow just let it go”

 

[Tejasdirt]

Happy Day 25 from seed germination !!
Today is watering.
Lowered ppm to 350ppm
(Ahhhh, make that 368ppm close as I could get)
Watered in
Still not all that crazy about perilite/vermiculite mix.
I am contemplating (probably will) going with coco next time around but that’s weeks away.
Gotta move the circulation fan up cuz the growth is covering it
@Bigg Al
I didn’t really forget about the stretch.
Kinda sorta.....
I have the plants on a milk crate.
To get them closer to the QB. They are about 10 inches away at the moment.
I’ve read somewhere in my foggy reaserch that closer the light the tighter the nodes and the less the stretch.
So I hope to keep the plants on the crate till touching the QB, or till light stress ,which ever comes first.
Please let me know if my thinking is flawed.
How are you mixing megacrop??
I only mix a gallon at a time.
I been making a concentrate
10 ml to 1 gram
So....
Do y’all think I can store 350 (368) ppm mixed megacrop for a few days till the next watering in 3-4 days???
Just hate to waste it.

 

[Bigg Al]

Yea, go ahead that's fine. I use my MC by the grams. When first starting out 1 gram per gallon then move up as the plant gets older. You'll be fine.

 

[Tejasdirt]

Day 27 from germination
I have done the last big lst to both plants
Gonna let them roll from here on out.
May have to bend a top shoot to keep canopy as even as possible.
But as Prez Dumpster says:
"We'll see what happens"
I'm surprised just how big these autos are. Running photos before, I could stuff up to five plants in this space. Now I can hardly hold two autos!
So now I'm hoping for at least 100 grams from these two plants. I
Just waiting on the stretch.

I am really not pleased with the verm/perlite Hempy original mix I'm using.
I have
To water every 2 days and when doing Hempy with photos in straight peralite
It was every 2-3 days.
So I am already thinking on next crop upgrading to 3 gallon buckets with a 1/2 gallon Rez.
With the way these autos suck up water that size would/should get me the 3-4 day watering cycle I want.
We will see.....

 

[Tejasdirt]

Day 27 last lst

 

[Tejasdirt]

Day 31 from germination
The cab is full up.
Looks like the training took well as I've got canopy wall to wall.
I'm wondering....
Have I missed the the stretch???
Neither seem to stretching as I am accustomed to seeing photos stretch.
Guess I'll wait another week.....
Watered today
Plants got 359 ppm of megacrop
With added 100 ppm of p-k booster for a total of 450ppm.
Wanted to use mega crops booster but they are sold out.
Used GT21's dry koolbloom diy liquid concentrate instead.
I'm thinking since my base is now 350-ish ppms adding 100 ppm of p-k booster can't hurt.
I know I know I know
I can use just mega crop all the way through but since I'm running lower ppms and not raising the amount of mega crop, just adding more p-k

Pax

 

[Tejasdirt]

Opinions on if 100 ppms of P-k booster is too much with the total ppms being 450-ish
Just early morning thoughts....

 

[elcoloan]

if it were Bud Explosion from green leaf nutrients... they recomend 150 ppms early bloom and 225 late bloom, so i think you should be ok with that dosage of PK you used... just a thought.

 

[Tejasdirt]

@elcoloan
Kinda My thoughts also.
Bud explosion was the one I wanted to use but sold out.
So I did the gt21 kool bloom dulution tech.
The problem is that the concentrates ppms is supposed to be 1900-2200ppms
And only 5 ml of it per gallon
But....
My ppm meter only goes to 999. Any over displays this. " - - - - ". ( without the quotations)
So I had to double up n the amount used got too complicated so just added 100ppms of it.
Anyway
Going to see if I can find Bud Explosion from another vender
Thanks!!!

**edit**

Found some BE on the zon and ordered it.
I don't have a problem with GT'21 kool bloom dilution tech.
I just want to stay with the same line.
Will put my mind at ease