New Grower First Grow - Northern Lights/Pineapple Express/Sweet Tooth (Autos)
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Here's my Dark Devil on Day 11 - I count from the seedling popping through the soil surface
looks almost exactly where yours is....
and my plant got pretty big....
I sure can't complain about that. Your plant turned into a monster. Maybe I'm just stressing for nothing lol. First grow is so nerve racking.
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What sized pots are you guys using? I thought these 2 gallon airpots were big as hell haha. I can't even imagine having the 4 or 5 gallon ones.
Still wishing my tent was a little taller though. I want to start some LST at around day 19 or so. I'm assuming that's not too late to start.
Hey Freiya, nice grow and nice choice of plants. The NL is the only one I have grown and it takes a while, its the longest plant i have grown, will be 95+ days to be ready. The early growth for the first two weeks is slower on autos.
As for your water I found it to be better for us to NOT use a schedule. Only ever water them when they need it. Lift your pots and see how much they weigh, only water when they are light( I use very light as my measurement). At the start of my grows I pre water to runoff, with cannazym and rhizotonic 3 days before planting the seeds. This means the seedling will not get watered till about day 5. Then We will only use approx 100mls water per plant for the next week, probably 2 waters.. Thats about half a coffee cup, every 3 or so days. Sounds way to dry I know, it was hard to get my head around it too. Obviously keep an eye on them at the start, dont let them wilt, but after a while you can lift the pot and know its two days from needing water, or whatever. We also, after that initial water, never water to runoff in veg. At 3 weeks of age they are probably getting 2 litres( half gallon) at most per watering, making sure they are very dry between. Our plants are in 5 gallon pots btw.
LST, on your first grow, who would attempt that??????? thats right we did, and it turned out well for one and brilliant for the other, go for it (carefully lmfao, yep i broke a branch off). day 19 should be ok, not much later to start tho.
Hope this helps its just our method and works for us. Your plants look good enjoy more stress less, have a good one
As for your water I found it to be better for us to NOT use a schedule. Only ever water them when they need it. Lift your pots and see how much they weigh, only water when they are light( I use very light as my measurement). At the start of my grows I pre water to runoff, with cannazym and rhizotonic 3 days before planting the seeds. This means the seedling will not get watered till about day 5. Then We will only use approx 100mls water per plant for the next week, probably 2 waters.. Thats about half a coffee cup, every 3 or so days. Sounds way to dry I know, it was hard to get my head around it too. Obviously keep an eye on them at the start, dont let them wilt, but after a while you can lift the pot and know its two days from needing water, or whatever. We also, after that initial water, never water to runoff in veg. At 3 weeks of age they are probably getting 2 litres( half gallon) at most per watering, making sure they are very dry between. Our plants are in 5 gallon pots btw.
LST, on your first grow, who would attempt that??????? thats right we did, and it turned out well for one and brilliant for the other, go for it (carefully lmfao, yep i broke a branch off). day 19 should be ok, not much later to start tho.
Hope this helps its just our method and works for us. Your plants look good enjoy more stress less, have a good one
Kylie, how high do your plants get and what is your average yield per plant with NL? Thanks.
Thanks for the great info and words guys.
Kylie which NL do you have? and what about you Darkowl? I'm assuming even though they are called Nothern Lights it's a bit different depending on where it came from. I have Nothern Lights from Vision
http://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Northern_Lights_Autoflowering/Vision_Seeds/
Kylie which NL do you have? and what about you Darkowl? I'm assuming even though they are called Nothern Lights it's a bit different depending on where it came from. I have Nothern Lights from Vision
http://en.seedfinder.eu/strain-info/Northern_Lights_Autoflowering/Vision_Seeds/
Lookin good so far freiya! And I have to echo what Kylie said about no water schedule. I'm still pretty new to this, only been through about 3 harvests, about half way through my first, I realized a set water schedule was not going to work. I lift the pot, if she's light, I water until I see a little running out the holes around the bottom. I don't water again until the pot is light again. Sometimes it's 3 days, sometimes 4 or 5.
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Lookin good so far freiya! And I have to echo what Kylie said about no water schedule. I'm still pretty new to this, only been through about 3 harvests, about half way through my first, I realized a set water schedule was not going to work. I lift the pot, if she's light, I water until I see a little running out the holes around the bottom. I don't water again until the pot is light again. Sometimes it's 3 days, sometimes 4 or 5.
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Lookin good so far freiya! And I have to echo what Kylie said about no water schedule. I'm still pretty new to this, only been through about 3 harvests, about half way through my first, I realized a set water schedule was not going to work. I lift the pot, if she's light, I water until I see a little running out the holes around the bottom. I don't water again until the pot is light again. Sometimes it's 3 days, sometimes 4 or 5.
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