New Grower First ever grow, Northern Lights auto. Wish me luck!

[FullAuto245]

720 ppm is 1.4 EC which a bit high during this stage. Looking very healthy however. The salts can build up pretty heavy over time and cause a lot of issues. Check your run off to make sure everything is in range to prevent issues in the future.

 

[MoonUnit]

My meter is a Apera which I think is Truncheon so it's a little over 1.0 EC if I have that correct. Also not watering to run off yet but I will (and be checking pH/ppm). Also read that it can be an idea to flush after seedling stage to remove any salt excess from general overwatering during that stage

Happy to be corrected tho, what EC would you recommend at this stage and what/when would you increase to?

 

[FullAuto245]

Sounds like you have it covered.

 

[Hatrick3]

....Speechless dude.....that is hands down the best first time set up I have ever seen....I wish you the best of luck....and to the forum and subbed up:smiley1:

And I thought my first time setup was pretty decent... You just blew mine out of the water dude!! Great job!!

 

[MoonUnit]

And I thought my first time setup was pretty decent... You just blew mine out of the water dude!! Great job!!

aww, thanks for the nice compliment!

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 16: little drink of around 200ml of 720ppm/pH5.8 to use up the last of my second batch.

Only had 3L in total so far but I'm noticing the soil moisture is beginning to go down a little quicker.
Time to mix the next batch of nutes. Going to go for another round of 720ppm/pH5.8 (around 1.0 EC) but around 5L this time.

She's now reached the edge of the 3 gallon pot on one side and is looking happy.
Noticed that the tops of the leaf stems are red, the bottoms are green. Is this normal/some deficiency or genetics I wonder?

Also it's the first day that I've noticed that familiar smell when I opened the tent

 

[MoonUnit]

Testing out the timelapse so thought I would share a small preview. Hopefully will get the full grow from sprout to harvest in glorious HD

 

[Hatrick3]

thats cool as hell moon!!

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 17: no water today. Coming along nicely. Going to begin some gentle LST tomorrow I think

 

[MoonUnit]

Day 18:

Upped the light dimmer today. Having thought it was adjusted to 30W at it's lowest setting, when I measured before changing, it was actually 42.6W. It's now near full at 100W draw and raised to max height in the tent. This provides around 23k lux at canopy level and around 56k around 8 inches from the light so I might not have to adjust the dimmer again to really push the max output.

Temps are around 2°C higher from the light (around 24°C), RH is around 55%

Mixed up a new 5L batch of nutes following the feeding chart on Canna's website which aims for about 780ppm. When I also add calmag it is up around 1050ppm (1.5EC) which may be a little high. I've watered with 1L to start so will see how she reacts.

	ppm		pH
Distilled water	5.5		7.0
CalMag	328	1ml/L
Canna Coco A	1010	2.3ml/L
Canna Coco B	1020	2.3ml/L
Rhizotonic	1030	0.5ml/L
Cannazym	1050	1.2ml/L	5.60
ph Up			5.76

Will give her a day or so to adjust to increased light and nutes and temp before starting any LST.