Indoor Booey's NL Auto Fem Grow Journal

[babab00ey]

I wanted to add a grow journal for my autoflowering (female) northern lights.
Heres my setup:
Lighthouse Hydro small tent
90w ufo LED and a 500w blackstar 2011 flowering model
yoyo pulleys for the lights
a cheapo inline exhaust fan, some tubing, clamps, and a carbon filter
(im attaching the hosing and filter once the smell hits)
Im using 2 5 gallon and 1 3 gallon smart pot, for a total of 3 plants
I filled those suckers with Oceanforest soil. I have all 6 nutes, and some kelp seaweed water.
Small fan inside the tent to circulate the air
Im using a mix of distilled RO and tap water with a little kelp in every watering.
I adjust the water with a milwaukee martini PH meter. I calibrate it very often.
I test the water and soil every day and make adjustments.
My plants are currently 13 days old, from sprout

 

[babab00ey]

Germ:
All 3 germed in the paper towel in 2-3 days

Sprout:
All 3 sprouted an 2-3 days

Week 1:
Once sprouted I had them under 24 hr ufo 90w led light
Had to pull a seed shell off 1 and a membrane off another
The membrane was tricky and I winded up stunting her
Shes still a few days behind her sisters
My ph meter came a little late and found my soil was in the high 8's!
I adjusted and flushed to a 6.5
Baby was stunted until week 2

Week 2:
In comes the 500w blackstar led, out goes the 90w
soil was a little high on day 7 from sprout
my #1 plant looks droopy!
I started them on very lite grow big nutes
my#2 plant I named pheno...only because she looks very different from her sisters
I thought #1 was under watered because she was droopy...I added more water.
Big mistake..she was droopy from overwatering!
Shes almost dead now and had been drying out for 3 days now.
Today I removed some of her top soil to let the rest dry up.
Shes looking a little better today.
Pheno is growing great! Baby is picking up speed no finally!
All soil was around 6.1 today, so tomorrow im adding some 6.9 water
I adjust up and down with vinegar, and kelp extract
My ph meter is so good to have because its always changing!
Im working on pics, but cant easily upload them?

 

[Griever]

sweet as bro
imageshack.us is great 640x480 is best

 

[ripster]

Your doing great babab00ey. Very informative... Like to see how the LED grow goes. Site is back up to speed, so uploading pics is a breeze now thanks to Bailer...

 

[Scott817]

I will be following along. I want to see how the 500W blackstar does as well.

 

[babab00ey]

Cool..sorry for the bad camera phone pics
These pics are from day 7
heres baby

heres #1

Shot at 2011-07-16

and heres pheno

Shot at 2011-07-16

 

[Griever]

all good bro

 

[babab00ey]

Here they are at day 14

By mamamonkey at 2011-07-17[/IMG]

By mamamonkey at 2011-07-17[/IMG]

---------- Post added 07-19-2011 at 08:08 PM ----------

My #1 died from overwatering! Lesson learned. Im replacing it with 2, 2gallon pots. Hopefully them being 3 weeks behind the others in my tent wont cause problems? These NL's like it dry I guess. I usually water every 3 days and mist them 2x a day. I hope having them on 24hr light is ok too.
I dont want to adjust the 18/6 until theyre 1 month old.

 

[Northern Grower]

Hey mate!

Thanks for sharing the pics. I know how much work it is having a journal!

They are looking nice and green. :thumbs:

The twisted leaves make wonder if some thing is going on with PH. What do you know about your PH?

Cheers!

 

[realcarlos]

Nice journel where did you purchase your 500w blackstar ? also how much did it come to?