New Grower First Indoor Grow: Jock Horror Auto

[Franchise]

Day seventeen update:
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[Franchise]

Woke up for the day and she is looking mighty fine, I will take pictures right before lights out (7am) and post them.

 

[Taviddude]

Yeah, she's coming along nice. Still a bit of nute burn going on on the tips. Still need to lower the feed some, but she's looking great!

 

[Franchise]

She showed me her goods today, beautiful white pistols coming from her joints.

I am pretty excited, my Jock Horror just sexed female. I update with new pictures, I am having trouble figuring out when and how much I should bump up my nutrients :-///

I have to change the water out tomorrow but I have ZERO idea if I should bump the nutes up... this will be week 3


DAY TWENTY:
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[Taviddude]

DEFINITELY would NOT up the nutes any. Remember, this is an auto and it doesn't need as much nutrients as regular plants. You've still got some nute burn going on there meaning your PPM's are still too high which will only slow growth, and reduce yields. I would keep the PPM's right where they are (preferably lower) and let the plant grow into it. When you start to get a good bit of new growth without any burnt tips whatsoever, and the leaves start to look a bit paler than normal, then up the nutes. Less is ALWAYS better. Try not to get too eager, lol. Patience. You will have plenty of good bud. Less is more right now.

 

[Franchise]

Lights just cut off on the girl, so I will wait until later today to snap the new pictures. I have to change the nutes and what not I will make sure I keep the ppm low, I will try to get it around 200-250 it raised from Day 1 of this week (280ish) to Day 7 of this week (443) so needless to say my ppm is rising at a pretty quick pace on it's own during the week... is that normal? Also, I am fighting my pH every day... I have to use pH down at least twice a day to keep it at the right level.


I am using a Grow, Micro, and Bloom should I focus on Grow nute?

Here, I am using 3 Gallons.... how much of each nute would you recommend at this stage? I apologize for repetitive questions but I am still confused a bit at this point....

ALSO, is my growth normal for the 21 day mark? or is my plant A LOT smaller than it should be?

Thank you so so so much for sticking around Taviddude!

 

[low_and_slow]

I just changed my nutes today, I did 3ml each of the 3 part, 1ml of CaliMagic, .5ml of Floralicious plus, pH to 5.45 (it drifts up over the day to around 6.3). EC was .88 approximately...previous to that she'd basically been on water with a tiny little dab of nutrients, less than a milliliter of each. If I see any signs of nute burn within the next 36 hours, I'm going to flush her hydroton and start over with a lower dose. I think we're at identical stages of our grows...I wouldn't be above 1.0 EC, I'd try to aim for .8 or .9, I think you really need to let her stretch out before you push the nutes hard, that's more for mid to late flowering. Also remember this is different than DWC, so if you're following guys like Seymour-Buds and trying to replicate his results, I think you (or I for that matter) will have worse results. Hydro is all about "less" since there's no buffer, you can go a little crazier in soil and the inert material and micro-herd will save your ass.

 

[Franchise]

Sounds fair enough, so today is Day 21... I am flushing they Hyrdroton and replacing the water... this is what I was going to work with this time to see how it worked:

.5ml Micro
.5ml Bloom
1ml Grow

I should actually be in bed right now, but I am waiting for her to wake up so I can flush and get her ready for the full day.

 

[Franchise]

Ok, she is tucked in and ready to absorb the day!
Lights came on around 11am and I started working....

I ran 7 Gallons of water through the Hydroton. I had the Water Farm set-up so the water ran through the Hydroton and straight into the tub to drain out.
I took the girl back to the room and set her up in the bucket and started pouring this weeks 3 gallons through the hydroton and into the bucket below.

I already had the nutrients placed in the water waiting to be put into the container.
.5 Micro in one of the gallons.
.5 Bloom in the second gallon.
1.0 Grow in the third gallon.

I checked the pH and ppm just now (2 hours after changing water) and I have the following:
pH- 5.7
ppm- 181 (Do I need to leave it like that? or add something?)

 

[Franchise]

DAY TWENTY-ONE!!!!
The pictures that are NOT under the LED were taken at 11am this morning.... the pictures under the LED are 12 hours later.... pretty decent growth.
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