Indoor First Grow 27 days in. New to AFN, wanting to share the Experience.

[loic]

Hey yas!

I m on my first serious grow, 3 weeks in. Things are looking ok i think for me.
I thought i d share it with you, so you can redirect me in (one of the many) good direction as i go, and toghether spread the knowledge and wisdom linked to pot raising.

here are the infos


Strains
-"High Density" Heavy Weight Seed
-"Stress Killer" Royal Queen Seed
-"NYC Deisel" Barney s Farm
-"White Widow" Seedsman
Materials
-HydroShoot Tent 60cm *60cm*140cm (do you guys prefer oZ and Feet ranther than litters and meters?)
- 3 12l pot ( 4gal) and 1 9l air pot (3gal)
-Small table clip ventilator 8in diameter
- 2 85Watts BloomLed lamps

Medium
-Plagron All Mix 70%
-Plagron Perlite 30%

Nutes
-Plagron alga Grow
-Aptus Start Booster
- Plagron alga Bloom
- Vaalserberg Garden Phase 4

 

[Nabzter]

Taking a seat and along for the ride. Any questions just ask

 

[loic]

1st 10 days

*I used the paper towel method, got them germinated well within 3 days.
planted White Widow WW, Stress Killer SK, and NYC Deisel NYCD in 4 gal pots previously slightly wetting the soil
And i planted High Density HD in a 1/3 gal pot planning to use the tiered method ( cutting the bottom of it and planting it into a 3 gal airpot)

*I sprayed the top soil with 24h bubbled water pH 6.4 regulary
*Day 5 all 4 emerged , both lamps at 50 cm Temp 25°-27.5° RH 55%
* Day 8 i put 4 home made humidity dome ( cut soda bottles) cause i thought humidity was a bit low for seedling

Day 10 to 15

*Temp rose up... 30° even 33° at some point, even ith door open and ventil going... That het can t do much good i suppose
*RH 40% -60% and stable
*I top-poted HD after i saw tap root coming through the 1/3 gal pot
*Leaves dents start curling up a fair bit due to heat stress
*I start feeding them 35 cl (soda can volume, dunno the oZ translation) bubbled water with 25ml/litter Aptus start Booster

Day 15 to 25

*Temps stayed to high i think, 30° to 33° day time and 27°-29° at night
*RH was between 40% and 50 % which is i think a bit low so i got a humidifacator
*WW and HD have shown brown dried up stains in the middle of a couple of leaves
*I tried a LST during 2 days with paper clips to bend them trying to get side shoots to come up
*the four plants seem a bit stunted, at day 25 they barely are higher than 12 cm... but man they are bushy between 6 ans 8 internodes each.. i dunno if it s good or bad to have such tight inernoding in arley stage
* Day 18 i started introducing Alga Grow in their feeding 1/3 of recomended dosage, along Aptus start booster 1/2 recomended dosage, 2l each plant. That was the first time they get full feeding there was no run off on Stress Killer (SK), Bubbled water pH to 6.0
*Day 21 i gave them another feed ( looking back that might have been a bit to fast) this time 2,5l each with slightly more nutes pH5.7
Big run off on each plants,

 

[loic]

Taking a seat and along for the ride. Any questions just ask

Man i love this comunity, all about helping each other out . Cheers big man, i feel gratefull!

 

[loic]

Day 26

Temps have leveled down 24° night 28° day
RH 65% (added humidificator)

I did some ponney tailing on all 4 for a few hours with some soft ties, to try to bring some of those side shoots to come up, and it seems to be going well

HD: 15cm high
* since beginning seems the weakest and more problems prone of all
*3 leaves have dried up brown stains since very early, but staining was contained and no other new leaves affected
*side shoots have a hard time coming up
*Shows very faint tips nute burn
*still shows heat stress signs, (leaf dents curling)
*Shows light clawing du to Ntox

SK: 14cm high
*looks heathy but for a light Ntox
*one leaf at the back looks strange, going all soft on the sides of one of the fingers, the main nerving of the finger looks good but around it the leaf is kinda falling soft , as if overwatering but on just one finger of one leaf, i don t know what it could be....
*i broke a fan leaf while leaf tucking to expose side shoots :-(
* 4 Main side shoot breaking through very well
* She s flowering! white pistils perking up :-D

NYCD: 12cm high

*very very bushy , shows light NTox (leaf claw)
* 5 big side shoots
*She s flowering too weeeee

WW: 15cm high
* very faint leaf claw too
*3 to 4 big side shoot


So, i m gonna dial down on the nute and probably only gonna give them 2 l feed or less since the last 2.5l created big run off
Should i start introducing flowering nute as well since they all showed sex and 2 have pistils well developped?

I realise to that four plants for a 2ftx2ft tent may be a bit much, i was planing on puting a SCROG but is it really necessary? well it s allready in place but i can take it off.
I wanted to scrog to even out the canoppy as those 4 different strains might not grow to the same height. i still thing there s some reason behind that thinking.

 

[loic]

Day 27

Temp 24°-28°
RH 40%-60%

they still all 4 show some heat stress even on new growth, i think i m gonna try to keep temp around 24° to see if the problem disappear.
Only NYCD still shows signs on NTox , the other three seems to have straightened back into place ( their leaf tips i mean)

HD: 17cm high, 27 cm wide, 8 nodes,
*shows white pistils

SK:17cm high , 34 cm wide 6 nodes
*that floppy /soft finger of the leaf doesnt seem to heal off
*flowering

NYCD: 14cm high 29cm wide , 6 nodes
*Shows first pisitls!

WW: 16cm high, 29cm wide 6 nodes
*Shows first pistils!

I have tied soft ties on the four of them, bending them slightly to expose the side shoots, hoping for the to shoot up the sky and become what every new growth relish to be: a main cola.

Alright , now et s see if i can get some pics on here...

 

[loic]

here is High density she was top potted using the tiered method i think the name is

other angle on High Density, by Heavy Weight seed

 

[loic]

here is NYCD by Barney s Farm, very bushy, and planning to get it even more so

 

[loic]

Stress Killer by Royal Queen Seeds

here we can see the `floppy finger`on the left of the leaf, i don t know why that hapens do you guys have any idea?

 

[loic]

white widow by Seeds Man

brown stained leaf on the WW , any cues on what can cause this?