Druid's little grow thread

[Rapha El]

Heya, I've taken a few years break but now I'm back. Currently still getting everything set up and shipped.. couldn't help myself but already start a seed. Uuuuunfortunately I don't have any hno3 atm so my darling little widow there does look a little ragged. Might have forgotten a few things.

Today is her 2 week birthday. I call her April

I'm using:
2x4 tent
sanlight evo 4-120 (adaptered into the aci controller) (3-60 for early veg)
2x aci t/s 4 (in/out)
50/50 coco/perlite
canna coco nutes
no ph control and 7.5 tap water..

oh yeah totally forgot.. she's an impostor. my auto seeds are still on their way.

 

[Rapha El]

alright, alright, alright. now we're cooking with gas:

here's april one day before her 3rd week, I took off more than is left now. not to worry tho

here she is one day later, looking nice again.. but more importantly, on the left there we've got ourselves a little auto. it's a rqs epsilon f1. I was curious of their 60 day lifecycle claim, so here we go.

she doesn't have a name yet. ideas?

 

[Rapha El]

Today is Day 10 for the little Epsilon auto, time for her to move into her new pyramid. Old lady widow is now on day 19 and freshly connected to the reservoir. Getting the ph in the pot back to normal levels did take 2 flushes of 10L at 5.8ph 1.6ec but now she seems to be happy again.
That's a good reminder not to water with ph 7 for weeks

 

[Rapha El]

Here's yesterdays update, days 11 and 20 respectively. I topped the Epsilon with 4 sides.. looking at the other one I may have a favorite pattern.

Speaking of, I also removed some branches from the insides and only left what I want to become a main later. Since it's a photo I plan to veg it until I harvest the Epsilon. Should become a nice bush. Really curious how that'll work out in the small Autopot.

Oh and you really have to water these pyramids daily. I'm thinking of hanging up an IV bag or something for it.

 

[Rapha El]

Days 13 and 22, today I redid my fans and hung a different light. The Epsilon was starting to grow and bend towards the light, so now there's more.

It's spectacular how much water the little white widow, on the right there, transpires. It took a few days to get going but now she's really truckin. So far I like autopots.

 

[Rapha El]

April is starting to bush out nicely, i took away a few shoots today in order to not crowd here too much later. The deficiency signs on the older leaves do hurt a bit but they're not doing anything so, on they stay. They are however showing different signs of something. It looks like fertilizer burn.. so might have to go down with the concentration even more. Might also be because it's the only one of my old seeds to have germinated. We'll see

I also did my best to start training the little epsilon a bit. Had to get creative, seing as the pyramid doesn't offer any tiedown points. This should be just enough to get the lower two branches to come up a bit.

 

[Rapha El]

Well here's something I didn't expect to see today, the little Epsilon is on day 18 and getting ready to flower. Crazy.

My light is currently set to 300µmol, gotta ramp that up to 500 soon if I want her to fill out nicely.

 

[Rapha El]

Here's our ladies on days 22 and 31.

April is still a bit of a fussy eater but she's improving.

Epi on the other hand is loving what's put in front of her, she is getting a bit bushy, sure. But I wanted to let her get a little headwind first.

In the next few days I'll have to get in there and pick which branches I wanna develop and which go in the bin

But until then I'm just enjoying the green.

 

[Rapha El]

Uuuuh boy, that was a lot of foliage

I also got myself a little tray again. It's surprisingly hard to find a 2x4 flex tray. This weekend I'm gonna put some grass in it, make the tent a little nicer.

The light is currently at around 420µmol because of the little one on the right. They all get the same feed: 1/2 strength Canna Coco A+B.

 

[Rapha El]

Well, today I finalized my decision to let the White Widow photo on the left go. Unfortunately I put her into unbuffered coco and she is again showing signs of problems despite repeated flushings with 1.6ec and 5.8ph -ed water. She did serve one purpose quite well, helping me to get back into growing and spot my biggest mistakes on a plant that could just veg forever.
So today I turned off her valve to the reservoir. Feels terrible but has to be.

On to happier things; little Epi has decided to pout after getting a haircut and stretch all over the place:

The pyramid really dries out too fast for hand watering normally so I've started to just let her sit in her tray full of water and by the next day it's gone again. The plugs and blocks are nice tho.
She is getting bushy again but this time in a much more organized way

And just because it looks nice, a bit of greenery