New Grower 7 sisters - photo period bagged grow

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Bag seed (from some time ago)
7 seedlings transferred to 1 gallon fabric pots

Growing medium
Botanicare Ccco Grow perlite (50/50)
Small bag of worm castings

Amendments - organic dry
Dr Earth all purpose
Dr Earth flower girl
(75/25) - added into medium for veg cycle
will amend additional time before and during flower cycle (50/50 and 25/75) when I up pot to a 5 gallon

Additional supplements
organic unsulphered molasses - added into watering schedule starting in veg cycle
Compost tea - added into watering schedule - foliar spray - starting in veg phase

seeds sown in quart container
seedlings transferred to 1 gallon fabric root pots for veg cycle
transfer from 1 to 5 gallon fabric root pots @ 3 weeks and will LST

Water
from tap - PH in hight 8 range
Bubbled for 24 hours - PH in low 7 range
PH’ed down toward 6.5 - 2-3 eye drops of PH Down
Gringo Rasta - Fox Farm - PH Down
Blue Lab PH Pen

600W Eye Hortilux super HPS
‘The exclusive Eye Hortilux Super HPS spectrum provides 17 percent more overall spectral energy, and 25 percent more violet, blue and green spectrum than standard HPS lamps’
1 bulb full grow - veg and bloom cycles

18/6 light cycle (actually 19.25/5.75 - left it since that is what has been going from start)
will flip to 12/12 flowering cycle after week 4 or 5

using this grow to get more experience with coco substrate planning on the next grow being photo period Bubba Kush

 

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another grow how many tents ya got

 

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currently have a 2x4 that I am working with as a veg tent. it will house the auto grows for their full cycle. I will upgrade to a 4x4 for the next auto cycle and use the 2x4 for veg only. I have a 4x4 that I will move the photo period plants to for their 12/12 cycle. I don't expect too many females out of the bag seed grows so I should not have an issue on space.

 

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currently have a 2x4 that I am working with as a veg tent. it will house the auto grows for their full cycle. I will upgrade to a 4x4 for the next auto cycle and use the 2x4 for veg only. I have a 4x4 that I will move the photo period plants to for their 12/12 cycle. I don't expect too many females out of the bag seed grows so I should not have an issue on space.

And then they all go female [emoji23]

 

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Potted up to 3 gallon.
Same mix as above
Will do some tie down for canopy management and trimming for the under canopy management
Will let recover and then change the lights so we can see who is who

Some are giving off a nice bitter grapefruit smell.

 

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Fabric pot question

what do you feel is the best method to tie branches down with a fabric pot?

its a perlite / coco mix that does not seem like an option to securely hold if using the substrate medium as an anchor. So I am guessing the sides of the fabric pots is the option of where I will secure them. garden twine. punch hole in pot and thread the twine through and knot...
I used binder clips on a plant in soil. this is ok but ran out and working ok for now

 

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Fabric pot question

what do you feel is the best method to tie branches down with a fabric pot?

its a perlite / coco mix that does not seem like an option to securely hold if using the substrate medium as an anchor. So I am guessing the sides of the fabric pots is the option of where I will secure them. garden twine. punch hole in pot and thread the twine through and knot...
I used binder clips on a plant in soil. this is ok but ran out and working ok for now

I use zip ties one about every inch around the top of the pot. Then tie down to them with wire or something

 

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Equipment issue and lighting cycle problem
18/6 lightcycle
Three days ago
Timer died, when found estimated light cycle time nine hours
Replace timer back on 18/6 Light cycle
Two days ago
Timer died when found estimated light time 11 hours
Made the decision to flip the flower cycle to 1212
One day ago rookie ass mistake did not set the time of day on timer to correct time and somehow bumped timer switches and during the 1212 cycle there was a period of lights off estimated time lights were on 10 to 11 hours

Did I just stress everything into hermie or do you think I am OK since I’m still within the less12 hour photo period ?

The good news is I took clones so if any did Turn female I was able to fill the tent to replace the males

 

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It looks like from the research and reading I have been doing on the Internet that I may be OK. Interruptions with longer light cycles after the 1212 switch or stress after the first two weeks of it being put into flower when it transitions from the vegetative to the flower phase is when the plant would be at most danger.

Agree/disagree ?

 

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add a power outage into that equation 2 days later.

yesterday I topped dressed with a 50/50 mix of general and flower girl by Dr Earth and watered in with a compost tea made with molasses, worm castings, kelp, alfalfa and bat guano.

need to do another tie down.