Hello again AFN friends!
Time to dust off the journal after a LOOONG hiatus. I normally run a grow in spring and another in late summer, but some necessary home repairs nixed my spring grow. Once I got that all taken care of, and got my summer vacation out of the way, it was time to begin my first grow of 2015. I am still using in my 3'x3' tent with a 400w HPS & air-cooled hood. My light is a Ushio enhanced spectrum HPS bulb that will go from start to finish. Building on my successful grow last time, I am using AN pH Perfect nutes with my own variation of
@TaNg's feeding schedule, and RO water in 5 gallon jugs from the local grocery store.
All plants will be grown in 3 gallon EZ Roots containers, using Sunshine Advanced #4 soil. These are the 4 strains that I am growing:
Mephisto Sour Bubbly
Short Stuff Purple Amnesia
Sweet Seeds Auto Trainwreck
Short Stuff Auto Spanish Diesel
As expected, the Mephisto SB took off like a rocket and it's the biggest by far. Mitch's gear is solid as a rock! The Purple Amnesia is a close second, while the Trainwreck has been a slow grower. The Spanish Diesel was a late addition but it's very vigorous and has caught up well despite being 4 days behind. The reason I had to add the SD late was due to all three seeds in my DP Auto Blueberry pack being duds. It's a real shame as I was hoping for a fruity strain this go around, but it wasn't meant to be.
Here are some quick shots showing how things are progressing so far:
Day 8
Day 13
All these plants had their first feeding on day 10 except the SD, which is 4 days younger so it only got water. You can see a little bit of heat stress below on the biggest two plants, and there's not a whole lot I can do about it. I have no A/C in my grow area, and the ambient temps are hanging around 80 or higher in the summer heat. Doesn't seem to be causing any other problems, though.
Sour Bubbly - Still growing like a weed and the biggest in the tent by far at over 8". Pistils were showing on day 13.
Purple Amnesia - Not quite as tall as the SB, but growing very well at around 6". Pistils also showed on day 13.
Sweet Trainwreck - A picture perfect little plant as far as leaf development goes, just not growing very tall yet. Just around 3" tall at this point. I was somewhat disappointed until I compared some past grow pics and found that I had many large plants that were this size at the same age. Just by comparison to the other fast growers, it seems small.
Spanish Diesel - Doing fine at day 9 and the same height as the Trainwreck. I've always had great grows with Short Stuff gear so I'm looking forward to this one.
Thanks for checking in folks, and I'll hopefully have another update soon. These last photos were actually taken last Friday, so I still have a bit more catching up to do.
Any questions or comments are welcome!