New Grower First auto grow: Northern Lights, Berry Bomb, & Vertigo

[Ozone69]

Planted my first little auto beans tonight under the new LED's (details on the setup in my intro thread). Royal Queen Northern Lights, Bomb Seeds Auto Berry Bomb, and Paradise Seeds Vertigo. Germinating in rockwool sitting in PH adjusted water in tray with dome on a warming mat. Only running one of the LED's in veg mode with the side T5's off. Excited to be giving the remodeled closet it's maiden grow finally. WOO HOO!!! "Bailers Booya"

 

[armanidog]

It's going to be a long few days for you waiting on those seeds to pop. You really do not need lights while they germinate. Six weeks from now, a sea of green!

 

[Ozone69]

Yep..for sure in the patience testing phase of the whole deal right now. Mostly just had the light on as I'm still testing out temperature management with the new setup in the closet. Ran into my first little minor thing. I had already noticed a more distinct chill in the closet in the morning with the tile floor as opposed to the old carpet. And I guess that the manufacture is serious when they put "Avoid cold surfaces, and they will counteract the heating ability of the mat" (and they will?? a little Engrish slipping in there?? ) right on the thing in big, white letters. So temp in the tray is a little cooler that I was looking for, though I don't think dangerously so (around 68F or so). I've added a towel folded up under the mat to give it a little more insulation against the tile and temp is looking have climbed to the mid 70's now. So back to waiting for the first little signs of sprouts.

 

[Ozone69]

Quick update now that the site's back up. Norther Lights and Berry Bomb both doing well as far as I can see. Unfortunately the Vertigo didn't germinate. Looks like it popped, small tap started to grow, then just stalled out. Haven't completely given up on it yet, but not looking good. Bad luck happens, I suppose. Like Meatloaf once sang, two out of three ain't bad.

No pic at this point, but then really not much to see yet as they're just seedlings still. Will probably be moving them out of the seedling tray and into the hydroton tomorrow evening, so may try and get a update pic then.

 

[Guerrilla]

I grew Vertigo and it was a awesome little plant. No complaints here. Good luck!

 

[Ozone69]

So now just looking at Norther Lights and Berry Bomb. The Vertigo seed just didn't want to go. I got the two that sprouted into the hydroton this evening and turned on the second LED. So right now one light per plant running with just the veg LED's on. Running half strength Lucas formula with Jungle Juice nutes and shooting for a 5.8 PH in the reservoirs.

 

[Ozone69]

So in my newness to working with hydroton, after moving the seedlings to the buckets, I found the next night that the drip rings were splashing on the plants, so the leaves got a bad nutrient solution bath and were pretty burned. I've rearranged the pebbles to stop the splashes and rinsed the leaves with a foliar wash. Trimmed off some of the worst of it.

The Berry Bomb is not looking too bad:


The Northern Lights got hit bad:


Hoping it was just burn from the splashing of the solution on the leaves, but there is always the chance that it's also too much in the solution for current plant conditions, so I'm trying to keep an eye out for new signs. Also thinking I'm going to change up the system next time to get rid of the possibility of the splashing and go with a bubble bucket type setup. Also will allow to go with the five or six inch net pot lids instead of the current ten inch, so less hydroton to deal with having to clean/rinse/etc as well (yay!). To that end, I've also changed up my original plan a bit, and started germinating two more seeds a week sooner than I originally planned. Well, for that reason and just for the heck of it really.

So started a Royal Queen Amnesia Auto and a Grass-O-Matic mystery seed. The GOM seed came in a mixed pack, and they don't individually label the seeds to know which is what. So there is that little bit of mystery for a little added excitement. First time with any kind of journaling on the forums, so not sure if I should just expand this thread or start another on the two new plants.

 

[Ozone69]

Been a few weeks since I updated. Warned y'all in my intro that I can be forgetful about keeping journals and the like. But wanted to go ahead and update with the latest.

The Berry Bomb plant looks to be coming along nicely:


The Northern Lights still looks a bit smaller than the other, but looks to be doing nicely as well:


Since both are starting on week 7 and starting to look like they're getting close to if not starting to bloom, I've switched out half the side lights from 6K spectrum to 3K, and kicked in the bloom leds (so now all on) for the overheads



Of the two newer seed I started, the Grass-O-Matic mystery strain did not make it. I've done a bit of reading and found a couple things I'm going to change up in my germination procedure to see if I can't cut down on the failures.

As for the Royal Queen Amnesia seed, I got impatient and moved it to the bucket and onto light strength nutes too quickly, and burned it pretty bad. I had just about given up on it recovering, but yesterday patience paid off and I found the first little root poking out the bottom of the net pot, and saw definite noticable change in the leaves. So looks like it may make it back after all. Nudged it up to half strength today, and going to keep a close eye on it to back off again if it starts looking like it's too much to handle.



Liking the bubble bucket for sure over the drip ring setup. Much easier to work with overall. So thinking I'll get good usage of my space by going to a bubble tote setup next. Debating on just letting the three going now complete before starting anything new, and wanting to try out the changes and get a tote going. Decisions....decisions.... :smoking:

 

[Ozone69]

Did a mid week reservoir change out tonight on the two big girls. Both are going through a good amount of water each day, and the PPM's were dropping a bit low. The Berry Bomb in particular is drinking up nearly 2 quarts of water per day. Throwing in a couple root ball pics as well this time

Northern Lights:


Berry Bomb:


The little Amnesia seedling hasn't changed much, but still growing nicely. Waiting for the normal change on Friday evening for it. Think it may be ready to go full strength, but want to observe for a couple more days before deciding.

 

[h0w1tw0rk5]

Nice guide. I'm having a 77 days old berry bomb myself in a LED coco grow, still got atleast 2 more weeks before I'll even consider flushing it.
It says 70 days from seed to weed aswell, bullshit.

How is your plant doing and how old is it ?