Indoor Aero | LED | 36 Cream Caramel | *First Grow* | *First Journal*

[Sauce Boss]

Final Fert flush is done. Added the following -

150ml Con. A
150ml Con. B
150ml Overdrive
200ml Bud Candy
125ml Bud Factor X

10 Days of this then a final phase flush, then straight water till harvest.

Stats -

Air temp - 75
Water temp - 72
PH - 5.9
PPM- 875
EC - 1.25
Humidity -73% (Need to get this down asap!)
Light Cycle - 18 on / 6 off
Light Height - 10-18" (smaller plants are further away)

These ladies are getting a lil purple and I am also smelling the blueberry genetics shining through! Amazing scents that I can't even begin to describe!

I am gonna keep an eye on them to see how they tolerate the added 75ppms over last week. If necessary I will add some water to the res to dilute.

 

[littlebopeep]

yeah the scent is very subtle quite refined very good ill post another pic if you like to show you what you should be looking at when they are ready just before chop I have two one I will take down one in about 4 days and the other in about 7-10 hope this will help give you some kind of idea they are 84 days old today so you will be looking at the min between 85-90 days I think

 

[Sauce Boss]

Yea, that'd be awesome, lets check her out!

So my harvest will be anywhere between Jan 30th-Feb 4th.

 

[PhammyDavis]

So I didn't read through all pages but I did skim through and looked at most pics and some posts. seems like u have a lot of deficiencies. This is why I was always nervous about doing large number of auto in hydro. DWC works great but u dont ever see people having 36 dwc plant. So the only option for big number of autos is flood/tray or like aero setup. There are also resivor expansion setup that are basically like flood/tray style.

The main problem with hydro with large number of plants is that we can only grow autos from seeds. Thus making different phenos that require different amount of nutes/ppms. With this aero setup your feeding all the platnts the same amount of nutes. The same goes for Ebb&Flow/Flood&tray style hydro.

I've been growing in soil for 4 years but after seeing Addski's Maxi Ggom grow I wanna switch to perlite and coco 50/50. (https://www.autoflower.org/f5/maxi-goms-week-3-4-a-4947.html)
It's Like hydro but u have the ability to feed each plant the right amount of nutes. Yes u have to hand water but hey, I really think its the only way to do large scale auto grows in hydro style. From what I hear, hydro tends to grow a little faster and buds seem to look better.

Also it seems that the plants are wayyy to close. Also those Aero setups are wayyy overpriced. IDK if you made it yourself (Hope you did) but I know that aero setup alone is atleast $1000 retail. I think its made for SOG grows with photo strains. Are autos are a lot nigger than photo sog grows.

BUT ARE AUTOS ARE FASTER AND BIGGER!!! :booya:

This is just my opinion from what I've seen and growing experience. I am not trying to be rude or talk down on you personally or anything like that. Just giving people info on large scale auto grows in hyrdo. Since your the only person i've seen with 36 plants in hydro. Thought it would the perfect place to talk about this. Hope your plants turn out well =) Try placing some cfls on the side of the plants if you have any extra laying around.
6 bulb bathroom fixture from Home Depot or Lowes

 

[Sauce Boss]

A lot nigger? Hey now! haha, I know what you meant. I def just pulled the trigger on this, bought everything and threw it up, though will be making subtle refinements in the near future.

Will be running some tubie style cfls once I do more reading on them to be able to choose the most feasible option for me. Was thinking of running one in between each of the 6 rows as well as on the sides when possible.

I actually bought the aero unit, General Hydroponics brand. Retails for around $8-900, picked it up brand new for $600 shipped.

As far as deficiencies, it was between the fact that my hanna pen was busted, resetting all my conversions and calibrations while I was in Spain. I had my roommate doing reading and I gave him all the specs to keep everything in accordingly. Well when the pen freaked out and screwed up, it was showing that he had roughly 500 or so ppm, so he added nutes to bring it up near 800. Well with the conversion being off, he was actually loading them up with around 1100-1200ppm of nutes, along with foliar spraying them during the lights on cycle (which I recently just found out), therefore, we were seeing a toxicity of nutes along with the high power LED's shining light through those water droplets on the leaves, causing burn.

 

[littlebopeep]

sounds like you summed it up sauce boss did you enjoy your time in spain its where I live
I think phammy has a point when he talks autos and hydro ....its why I opted for co-co perlite mix as well but keep it up

 

[Sauce Boss]

Day 72

6 days left to go till straight water, unless anyone can advise that they need more than 2 more weeks till chop chop.

Things are looking eh. Not much going on really. Fan leaves are starting to dry up and get brittle. Had to put an air freshener in the room finally. Buds are swelling, slowly. Really though, not sure what to say.....blah.

Stats -

Air temp - 77-79
Water temp - 72-74
PH - 5.7-6.1
PPM- 960 (They are taking well to the added nutes)
EC - 1.3
Humidity -49%
Light Cycle - 18 on / 6 off

Tossed in a pic of my carbon scrubber and inline fan that's been hiding in the corner behind boxes filled with pillows.

 

[lykaboss]

Impressive indeed, i am really curious as to total dry weight, i wonder if you will end up with alot of popcorn bud since everything is so jammed in there

 

[Sauce Boss]

sounds like you summed it up sauce boss did you enjoy your time in spain its where I live
I think phammy has a point when he talks autos and hydro ....its why I opted for co-co perlite mix as well but keep it up

Heck yea, Spain was awesome. It was short spent but def an adventure. I wanna go to Ibiza next time. Drop 3g's of B+ and dance my face off. haha.

 

[Sauce Boss]

Impressive indeed, i am really curious as to total dry weight, i wonder if you will end up with alot of popcorn bud since everything is so jammed in there

My personal goal is at least 20oz, shooting too high you think?

Also, check out the cup. The tight growth has caused some of them to pop out of place.