Bekay
Never too old to start
Strain: Mephisto Genetics Deep Blue C
Soil: Promix BX straight from the bag
Pots: 5.5 Gal Oxy Pots (Airpot knockoff from HTG Supply)
Tent: 2.5' x 2' x 6'7" Gorilla Lite Line
Light: 400w MH & HPS in vented sealed reflector
Water: Filtered town tap water, 6.5 pH, 129 ppm (no chlorine taste or smell, Culligan FM-15A)
Nutrients: per the following schedule.
Tools: pH meter, TDS meter, Accurate 8 soil pH meter, soil moisture meter, Min-Max RH and Temp meter
Adapted from TaNg's "simple plan" and complicated by me personally to use various left overs and gifts.
The idea was to not water-feed-water-feed but to feed lower dosages frequently at less than run-off causing amounts. My last grow in this medium I didn't feed enough and had stunted plants. By watering to run-off it took 5+ days to dry out in 5 gal fabric pots and alternating water and feeding I only fed them two times in the grow cycle after waiting 2 weeks. Starved my little girls.
Can I plead ignorance?
Germinated seeds by soaking in distilled water for 6 hours and planting directly. I had posted this in another thread "150% Germination! Just started DBC seeds and 2 of the 4 seeds generated a second smaller stalk, ha!" in the Mephisto Genetics Customer Service/Feedback thread.
At this point one pot has twins and the other is dominated by a Big Sister so I have 5 plants in 4 pots. Here's what they look like on Day 18:
I pulled one plant out to get a daylight shot and notices several roots poking out the bottom.
I have been bothered by the light green color (as seen under MH bulb) but when I brought her into the daylight she doesn't look too bad. The spotted leaves are from my pitcher dripping nutes onto the front plant's leaves while feeding the rear plants.
Question: What should I do when this happens? Spray with water to rinse? Wipe with a tissue? I tried both but, meh, didn't work so much.
I have started to wipe off the pitcher before entering the tent but an old fart like me can still make it happen without really trying.
Environmental Data:
I heat with wood and the air is bone dry. By adding the soda bottle wicks I have kept RH to 38%-43% and venting the light's exhaust heat into the closed room the temps have remained 67 F to 82 F so far.
I started with the light 30" above the pots and since Day 8 I have lowered the light a bit at a time. Now at 20" above the tallest plant on Day 18.
Nutrients but No Water Only:
I had the RapidStart and gave the first watering with only 0.2 ml/gal concentration just give'em a bit of a taste of N on Day 3. The ppm was just 147 (18 pts. above the filtered water @ 129 ppm). I got some Voodoo Juice and Carboload and added that in the second week. As you can see in the feeding schedule all feedings so far have been very mild. I have not alternated water/feed and have shared 1 gal of solution among the four plants up until Day 12 when I was trying to respond to a yellowing of the first set of serrated leaves. I upped the solution to the >15 Days concentration and fed with 2 gal. among the four plants - 2 qt.'s each which produced just little bit of run-off.
They were last fed 3 days ago and it looks like they won't be dry enough to feed again for at least a couple more days.
Questions:
What do think of this approach to feeding and the proposed nutrient schedule?
Why hasn't the soil pH come down from the 6.8 that I got when I first watered the soil when planting the seeds?
I will next shoot for a 5.6 pH in the feeding solution and see if that helps get it down some next time but to what number should I be looking for in the soil pH?
Cheers from the Northwoods friends. Peace.
Soil: Promix BX straight from the bag
Pots: 5.5 Gal Oxy Pots (Airpot knockoff from HTG Supply)
Tent: 2.5' x 2' x 6'7" Gorilla Lite Line
Light: 400w MH & HPS in vented sealed reflector
Water: Filtered town tap water, 6.5 pH, 129 ppm (no chlorine taste or smell, Culligan FM-15A)
Nutrients: per the following schedule.
Tools: pH meter, TDS meter, Accurate 8 soil pH meter, soil moisture meter, Min-Max RH and Temp meter
Adapted from TaNg's "simple plan" and complicated by me personally to use various left overs and gifts.
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Germinated seeds by soaking in distilled water for 6 hours and planting directly. I had posted this in another thread "150% Germination! Just started DBC seeds and 2 of the 4 seeds generated a second smaller stalk, ha!" in the Mephisto Genetics Customer Service/Feedback thread.
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At this point one pot has twins and the other is dominated by a Big Sister so I have 5 plants in 4 pots. Here's what they look like on Day 18:
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I pulled one plant out to get a daylight shot and notices several roots poking out the bottom.
![IMG_0015.JPG IMG_0015.JPG](https://www.autoflower.org/data/attachments/337/337063-281954ecb8d9dc8ee3755f429ab2d1c8.jpg)
I have been bothered by the light green color (as seen under MH bulb) but when I brought her into the daylight she doesn't look too bad. The spotted leaves are from my pitcher dripping nutes onto the front plant's leaves while feeding the rear plants.
Question: What should I do when this happens? Spray with water to rinse? Wipe with a tissue? I tried both but, meh, didn't work so much.
I have started to wipe off the pitcher before entering the tent but an old fart like me can still make it happen without really trying.
Environmental Data:
I heat with wood and the air is bone dry. By adding the soda bottle wicks I have kept RH to 38%-43% and venting the light's exhaust heat into the closed room the temps have remained 67 F to 82 F so far.
I started with the light 30" above the pots and since Day 8 I have lowered the light a bit at a time. Now at 20" above the tallest plant on Day 18.
Nutrients but No Water Only:
I had the RapidStart and gave the first watering with only 0.2 ml/gal concentration just give'em a bit of a taste of N on Day 3. The ppm was just 147 (18 pts. above the filtered water @ 129 ppm). I got some Voodoo Juice and Carboload and added that in the second week. As you can see in the feeding schedule all feedings so far have been very mild. I have not alternated water/feed and have shared 1 gal of solution among the four plants up until Day 12 when I was trying to respond to a yellowing of the first set of serrated leaves. I upped the solution to the >15 Days concentration and fed with 2 gal. among the four plants - 2 qt.'s each which produced just little bit of run-off.
They were last fed 3 days ago and it looks like they won't be dry enough to feed again for at least a couple more days.
Questions:
What do think of this approach to feeding and the proposed nutrient schedule?
Why hasn't the soil pH come down from the 6.8 that I got when I first watered the soil when planting the seeds?
I will next shoot for a 5.6 pH in the feeding solution and see if that helps get it down some next time but to what number should I be looking for in the soil pH?
Cheers from the Northwoods friends. Peace.