New Grower First Time Post and Grow! Review and Critique Requested! With pictures!

[Killijin]

Yah I have a 11x10x8 room for this project, we amended my tax return for lost school taxes this year and got around 1k back.. so I went ape.

 

[Noods]

Hey Killijin, nice work! Your plants are looking fine and your set-up is rockin' them in a good way! Congrats on the Grow-Money Bonus! Keep up the good work. I'm really looking forward to following this through with you!
:smokebuds:

By the way, if you add worm castings to the top of the soil, be sure to mix it in to your existing soil a little bit with a fork. Be careful and don't gouge too deep and damage the roots. (If you just cover the top of your soil with the worm poop, the water tends to just run right off of it and down the (out)side of your pots- kind of aggravating...) I use it in all my teas and it's mixed in the soil... Great stuff.

 

[growdawg30'z]

Hey i am no expert but you deff.dont look like you have nute burn bro they look awsome to me.......green thumb job

 

[Muddy]

The plant in pic 5 definitely looks over fed. I'd give that one a good flush. The leafs curling up on the edges could be low humidity or excess heat. Your light does look pretty close to the plants.

 

[Killijin]

Thanks everybody...

@Bikinni - I just took a hit financially but I am riding it out by not returning anything, I am going to get income/personal medicine, and I figure it's best to go with what is in demand at the moment. Trying to figure out how to rearrange my room to factor in a vegetative/seedling/cloning room and new light is going to be a pain and problematic.
@growdawg - thanks man, these photo plants are way more sensitive to feeding then the damn autos, it blows my mind. Both the baby plants, which are showing shiny, dark, thick green end leaves and the dealer plant got flushed today.. thanks for checking in
@noods- yah i want to make it in to a tea and I will try doing what you have described, thanks for the info man..
@ Muddy - thanks for visiting man, I know you are stretched thin, but I always appreciate it, with that said, I have taken your advice and done so.

@EVERYBODY - Most of my equipment will be in today and tomorrow, well at least everything from Amazon today, (I love prime). Today, in anticipation of my new equipment, I have started germing 5 smurfberry autos and 1 super silver haze photo to be grown in the stealth hydro bubbleponics system. I have been spraying one of the auto russians lower branches for the last 5 days trying to make a sack of female pollen. The largest of the autos is an amazing 31 inches so far from soil base to tip. After she starts to flower I am switching to HPS bulb.
Thanks again everyone for helping me out during my grow!

 

[Killijin]

So I have germed my babies and you can see I have given them a nice home, I received my new grow light and stealth hydro system along with my other stuff, everything but the ExHale c02 bags. My largest auto that has sexed is 32 inches tall as of yesterday. I forgot to measure her width unfortunately but you can see she looks pretty good, the other one is 28 1/2, I am having to raise the light every damn day slightly more on the one side then the other to accommodate her height. I have no idea how I am going to rearrange my grow room to accommodate the new light and stealth hydro yet, I am thinking i might by a 6-inch Y duct adapter to separate 2 air channels 1 for each light, instead of passively having the air be blown between both lights all the way through.

Now, I have to say easily this thing here: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-...CW9W/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1334424214&sr=8-9 The GT50 Air purifier is worth every penny and then some.. It kills bacteria and pollutants, and just one module, despite the fact I ordered two,( I figured that two would be needed for the size of the room, boy was I wrong ) has and can handle at least 10-15 plants I would imagine, possible more, easily. For $60 USD you can easily eliminate the need for a larger carbon filter, if you have some kind of cheap air filter in your duct to remove rogue pollen and other undesirables. I cannot say enough good things about this thing, I think you could put it in a morgue and you would never know there were rotting corpses. lol

Anyways, here are some pics to show, once again I am germing Super Silver Haze and 5 auto smurfberries.
Pic 1 is my dog and cat, the dog is a mini poodle.. It's my girlfriends, SO NO JOKES !!! lol just wanted to share..
pic 2 - 2nd largest auto ak48
pic 3 - top view of largest
pic 4 - largest height currently @ 32
pic 5 - tallest auto
pic 6 - 2nd at 29
pic 7 - germing new seeds @ 78 degrees
pic 8 - over nuted leaf damage from pic 5 of last photos
pic 9 - updated photo of over nuted plant
pic 10 - outside dealer plant in an 8 gallon pot
pic 11 - first and only clone of pic 12 mother, the mother of all the seeds and dealer plants shown thus far
pic 12 - the mother of the dealer plants and seeds.

 

[Killijin]

So I have learned a hard lesson today about Nitrogen, some of my plants were demonstrating growth on the upper nodes, but I noticed it didn't seem as vigorous and strong has it has been, especially since they are in the vegetative stage, so I kinda neglected about looking all the way down, as I could see most, but not all, vegetative growth. Well, it seems all my plants were starting to yellow on the bottom and some were having brown necrosis, so I did a full pull and inspection, all but the two large flowering ak-48's were demonstrating this, especially the photos. The largest photo plant, to which I have been bragging about thus far, has seemed to suffer the most from this and has lost 30% of her lower fan leaves. I have been partially confused on how to read and judge deficiencies, the top part of the one large female that I just mentioned, had really deep and dark leaves, and the bottom was yellowing and dying. STUPID PH PROBLEMS.. So I did a ph flush, as I honestly had no choice, it has been really hard to keep the soilless mix at 6.0. I am letting them recover for a few days before I do a full feeding, or at least that is my intention unless someone suggests otherwise.. really sucks. The auto white russians are either much slower than the ak-48's or I have done something differently inhibiting their growth. All of them were planted at the same time.

Good news is, every plant so far has been female, hurray! Also the largest auto is 34 inches and the second place is now at 30. The 30 inch has much thicker pistol areas though. I guess there is a trade-off.

Please Muddy, or some other pro, give me insight. I hate watching this yellowing happen. Should I feed light or hard?

I have received my new grow light and I have not put it up yet, I am trying to decided lay out and making changes to the intake fan, one 6 inch fan @ 240 cfm may not be enough. I am considering doing one of these ideas:
1. Connect a Y adapter to use the intake to cool off both lights, on separate intake air channels.
2. Exhaust through one light and intake through the one already connected.
3. Connect duct to the other light and connect the other making one long intake air duct, connected to both lights.

Suggestions?

So in other news, 5/6 are now up and out of the rockwool in the propagation tent. As you can see here:
That cord is the the thermostat control.

But you know what's annoying? When you have that damn one seed who wants to be different and not sprout up with everyone else.. women always want to be fashionably late I guess.

Anyone else hate that?

Opinions? How's my driving? Please call 1-800-420-weed ( come to think of it, why don't I register that number lol) and tell me? By which I mean leave a reply here.

 

[Killijin]

Exhausting one light seems to make more sense to me, that way it will take away the excessive heat that the other light produces along with its own heat.. but please someone chime in.. what is the best remedy to heal a nitrogen deficient plant? I have chem and 12-0-0 blood meal.. Should I blood meal tea? or chemical feed? It seems slightly severe, I hate losing the bottom fan leaves. 5 plants have done so thus far.

 

[Noods]

Hi Killijin, I know you asked for a profi, but I can maybe help a little. You can use the blood meal as a tea, or you can add it too the soil. I would add it to the soil, really mixing it in good with the top inch or so of existing soil, then watering. It doesn't dissolve that good in water, so you'd have to bubble it for a time, maybe twelve hrs, if you want to make a tea. But you seem to want it fast, then add it to the soil. It's slow releasing, but it's there where you want it now. I don't know about chem nutes, so no comment there.
Pics would help a lot. :smoke:

:smokebuds:

 

[Killijin]

Thanks Noods, here is my help requested thread: https://www.autoflower.org/f44/need-help-please-thank-you-8105.html#post150452 This shows all the problems and pictures of what is currently going on, and is part of this grow thread.


Here are the 5 smurfberries and 1 super silver as of today:

I have decided to use the exhaust for one light and intake vents for the other, seems that it would be balanced like that.. any other suggestions??


Here is how the canopy looks as of today: the first photo shows the second largest plant that I believe is in flowering mode, there is trichomes showing predominantly on top and I have no idea why, I guess different seeds results in different size grows? The second pic is the canopy, but you cannot see the damage going on down below, the third shows the 2 babies in the foreground, the 2 preflowering/flowering the back ground, and another auto in between them.. The last picture shows some upper leave curl, curling upwards, on the less-tall autoflower.

Please refer to the help wanted thread up top on this post if you want to see more pictures and concerns about this grow.
Thanks for looking and your replies, I love AFN and I hate not having internet to be more involved.
Killijin