Indoor FIRST 600w hps organic multistrain tent grow (AKR, NLxBB, ER)

[fredtweenlegs]

Plants are looking good but IMO you're switched your lighting and nutes too soon. More info on that here: https://www.autoflower.org/f44/life-cycle-auto-flowering-cannabis-5113.html

I also think you're got your lights too low. At this point you still want to encourage vertical growth and should shoot for node spacing of around 1". I doubt you'll achieve that with the lights that low.

This is exactly the feedback I am looking for, thank you (and great post you linked). I have not been concerned with things like node spacing yet (obviously) and was just told to lower my lamp to a foot above the canopy at all times after week 1 (I did dim my ballast to 250w for the first 2 weeks). I'll make note of this for my next grow. I guess the bonus is an earlier harvest (and that is ideal since its the first grow) but after this grow I will be very concerned with yield

EDIT: tried to rep everyone but I dont have rep power yet

 

[fredtweenlegs]

Update: Day 24 from seed:
now things are starting to get interesting.

tent temps look good just about 74 at canopy top, 40% RH with dry pots

Watered today until runoff with a full dosage of liquid karma nutes only (10mL per gallon), worked out to about 80ppm (210ppm including my crappy water)

Pics!



Afghan Kush Ryder


Easy Ryder (now with good pics of the canoeing)


Another Afghan Kush Ryder, about a day ahead it seems:

 

[ThePoolGuy1990]

i'l be watching along dude as were at the same number of days on the same strain!

they look really happy man , as muddy said tho the light is real low and you can see the latest and somewhat most important growth is curling as a result, i keep a 250w at around 15- 18 inch

 

[insert name here]

Fred,

Cheers on the grow it is looking great, I have a 400W HPS in my tent and noticed the same type of thing with my leaves, I had a cool tube in the beginning and was following instructions that I got off of another forum that said get the light as close as possible. I used the back of the hand method and a thermometer to check and everything checked out fine. I raised the light, and noticed two things, 1 the leaves started to canoe less, and there was more light getting to the edges of the canopy, I have three plants, you have more, lift that light up a bit and I'll think you'll be pleased with the results. I want to get the most out my ladies as they can offer and believe that they need as much light as possible, but I have raised the light and seen the light!

 

[fredtweenlegs]

Sweet! Loving the tips. Before & After pics (sorry about the hps tint, ugh)... I'll evaluate the change in a couple days at next water, thanks everyone

Group Shot:

Before & After (about 8 inches raise):

 

[ThePoolGuy1990]

looking good. Do you have a fan blowing/oscilating on the girls? now they are in flower good air flow and circulation is vital

 

[fredtweenlegs]

looking good. Do you have a fan blowing/oscilating on the girls? now they are in flower good air flow and circulation is vital

Ah yes! I actually have a tower oscillating fan in there, it's about 1m tall and has 10 inches to a foot (roughly how tall the pots are) before any air hits the plants, does that make sense? You can see it in the back of the tent in some of the pics. I was worried it was WAY too strong of a breeze (worried it was creating the canoeing effect on the fan leaves) but I'm going to keep it throughout this grow and if it works, it works!

 

[ThePoolGuy1990]

ahrite i see, i used one very similar on my 1st auto run and it seemed to do the trick, wish i had my leaves as green as yours are ! nice work

 

[fredtweenlegs]

ahrite i see, i used one very similar on my 1st auto run and it seemed to do the trick, wish i had my leaves as green as yours are ! nice work

dude yours will come back for sure. me, i dont know what the hell I'm doing haha, I honestly think it's the happy frog doing the trick so far, but I can't say for sure. They also seem to really like this liquid karma, perk right up after feeding. Got a free sample of it when I bought the other botanicare nutes and I think I'll pick up a quart of it later when I cash this bottle. I read some more about it and saw someone do a side by side comparison with a control (same strain) just getting pH'd water and the liquid karma test was amazing to see the difference

 

[fredtweenlegs]

Crazy growth today... morning shots of the group. Will have better pics next watering/feeding. Gonna let the ladies run dry before next watering, hopefully they'll tell me what they need, was planning on plain water next time around... I think there's still a lot left in this soil (but then again, what do i know?) but if they are asking for something I'll hook em up. Gonna be packed like sardines in there just the way i like em