New Grower 2nd Grow - Candy Dawg - Critical Orange Punch & Purple Haze(hopefully)

[budman1]

Hi all, 2nd Grow and first journal, been growing for about a year, about 7 months properly, tent, lights and bits.
Gonna be growing 1 x Seedstockers Candy Dawg 1 x Dutch Passion Critical Orange Punch and 1 x Original Sensible Purple Haze all autos.
Lights
250w mh and 250w hps Dual Spectrum.
Ballast
Hacienda 600w Dimmable Ballast
Reflector
Euro Barn Reflector
Length:47cm
Width:43cm (curved width approx: 37cm)
Height:13cm
Tent
80x80x160
Extractor & Filter
4in Swiftair Filter & 5in cheap crappy Inline extractor
Fans
1 x Oscillating Table Fan & 1 x Static Fan
Pots & Grow Medium
3 Gallon Fabric Pots with Coco & Perlite
Ferts
GHE Flora, Micro & Grow, Vitalink Cal/Mag & Ph Down, Tap Water
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Week 1
18/1 Started germination using paper towel method, firstly i soaked a paper towel then lightly wrung it out, then i put my seeds on and folded over twice then placed in a ziploc bag and left in boiler cupboard, all had tap roots and planted in final pots on 20/1.View attachment 1005318 View attachment 1005319
22/1 All three have popped up to say hello View attachment 1005323
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Happy Days(or so I thought) I'll post an update on that later
Thanks for looking and any advise or criticism, by all means feel free to stick yer oar in lol
As promised @St. Tom buckle up

@mugwamp looks like you have every thing set to rock good luck bro

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Thanks mate here's hoping

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Day 11 Above Ground
All looking good apart from a few leaves cupping a little on the Candy Dawg and Orange Punch, I assume it's to do with heat in my tent, temps are up and down 24c to 30c, so not ideal!!!!
Apart from that they've really taken off since I started feeding nutes.
Candy Dawg

Orange Punch

The Purple Haze is looking fairly good now, nowhere near the same growth rate as the other 2 but she's gonna make it, which is the main thing, better a small plant then no plant at all
Purple Haze

Early days for the Pineapplegum but so far ok
Pineapplegum Day 2 Above Ground

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Day 14
All looking good, for the past week I've been giving GHE Micro 0.6/l, Grow 0.9/l, Bloom 0.3/l and Vitalink Cal/mag 0.5/l ph'd to around 5.8 every feed under 250w mh which was on 24/7 for the first week and now on 20/4 and so far they seem to be enjoying it
Still got a little cupping going on with the Candy Dawg and Orange Punch but apart from that the growth has really taken off I used the hps dual spectrum bulb all the way through my first grow, and using the mh on this one I can see the difference already, they're definitely staying shorter and the nodes are spaced closer together!!!!! I'll be going back to the hps for flower.
The Purple Haze is still going, growing slowly, but growing, and the Pineapplegum is in to her fifth day and all good so far
Critical Orange Punch

Candy Dawg

Purple Haze

Pineapplegum Day 5

Cheers all

 

[FullAuto245]

Looking healthy! Short and bushy maybe?

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Looking healthy! Short and bushy maybe?

Thanks mate so far looking that way, is it better to have them short and bushy or taller or is there no difference in yields?

 

[FullAuto245]

Thanks mate so far looking that way, is it better to have them short and bushy or taller or is there no difference in yields?

I’m not sure to be honest.

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

I’m not sure to be honest.

Me neither it's early days,,,, so we'll see how it ends up!!! thanks for being honest

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Day 16
I've been reading some good things about the benefits of topping autos and have been debating doing it on this grow, as I've never topped before seemed like a good idea, so first thing this morning I got some small scissors and topped my Critical Orange Punch and Candy Dawg above the 4th node I should of got a before photo, but it was sort of a spur of the moment thing!!!! here they are after topping and a bit of leaf bending
Orange Punch

Candy Dawg

We'll see in a few days if I did good
Family pic

Till the next time cheers all and Happy Growing

 

[The Dalai Farmer]

Day 21 Above Ground
All looking good since I topped the Orange Punch and Candy Dawg
They seem to of really taken off now, growth wise, they are still on the same light/feed schedule as last week and here they are 3 days after topping
Candy Dawg

Orange Punch

And now day 21
Candy Dawg

Orange Punch

They seem to be filling out nicely, plenty of bud sites will probably start doing some lst on them tomorrow and hopefully encourage a few more.
I did a little lst on the Purple Haze today so we'll see how that goes, she's definitely not strong enough to to be topped, I wouldn't of thought!!!!!
Purple Haze Day 21
She looks quite good from above

From the side not so

And the Pineapplegum is plodding along nicely, not too much to report there I'm debating whether to top her or not when the time comes
Pineapplegum Day 13

So for now all looking good
Ttnt