Dutch Passion Groff Labs: AutoMazar - GN LEDs - Airpots - Coco vs Biobizz

[insert name here]

Awwwwww, So cute!!!!!! Soon to be a monster blowing up your cab!!!!

 

[Groff]

And we have liftoff on AutoMazar number 4 !! Will be renamed to AM2-biobizz on transplant.

Now, yesterday evening I scratched the surface of the coco to see what was going on as I saw no signs of her, and I noticed that the cotyledons were trying to get out of the shell but were struggling. She was starting to grow bulging out. A careful pluck and the shell came off, today I woke to her shooting out off the ground.

But there seems to be something funky going on the tip... What do you think?

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Here is AM2-coco... slightly paler today :joint: triple checked, pH is bang on 5.7, EC 1.0. AM1-coco is not complaining at all. Also, AM2-coco seems to be getting bigger than AM1... what do you suggest, up the EC on AM2? Wait another day to see if it was a pH imbalance?

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[Groff]

news flash... !!

Automazar number 4 did have left over shell over her. It took quite the (gentle) fight to get it off, but the cotyledons finally snapped open. Looking good!

EC has been 1.0 for both the coco mazars. Nº1 keeps burning ever so slightly on the new growth, but it doesn't develop from there. Mazar 2 is the opposite. New growth is pale from the veins, but as soon as the newer growth shows up, the previous set of leaves become healthy green. pH has been 5.7, and I also think I'm keeping it at EC 1.0+ for now... pics soon.

 

[Groff]

Day 19 AM 1&2 Coco | Day 2 AM1&2 Biobizz

My new grow room is amazing! The way I set it up, and thanks to LED, I can pretty much dial in exactly the temperature I want, with very little fluctuation. I'm aiming at 25ºC max and 19ºC min. RH has been extremely outside-weather dependent. A cold nordic front brought it down to 40% which I am not happy about, but you work with what you have I guess... It usually sits between 50 and 65%

Here is today's morning hours transplant. Yesterday I gave them their first EC 0.6+ pH 5.7 feed, again today on transplant. Tomorrow I will introduce a weak biobizz root juice and bioheaven mix to transition.

AM 1 Biobizz - looks a little funky doesn't it? Seems to be growing ok though...

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AM 2 Biobizz

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Am 1 Coco ... leaves are curling down today... comments? (EC 1.0, pH 5.7/5.8). The mix has been 1ml/L Canna A&B, 2ml Rhizo & 2ml Cannazym. This last batch was just under a little so I added 0.5ml/L of Sensi Cal Mag Veg to bring the EC up from 0.8 to 1.0. Could it be that? Not using Liquid Silicon is making my life a heck of a lot easier getting the pH right fairly quickly. Shame though, it's good stuff! I may bring it in again in future experiments...

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AM 2 Coco - looking better!

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I also raised the lights a little, didn't measure but around 75cm. As I inspect the plants, maaan! Are those internodes packed tight!

 

[User K]

I found the same thing on my grow. Internodes are so tight under the GN led. I had my 250w HPS in with the diesel and ints internode spacing was much bigger.

 

[Groff]

I found the same thing on my grow. Internodes are so tight under the GN led. I had my 250w HPS in with the diesel and ints internode spacing was much bigger.

True that! Check this out!! (AM2 Coco)

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Day 22 (AM 1&2 Coco) | Day 5 (AM 1&2 Biobizz)

So I lowered the EC to 0.7, pH steady at 5.7 showed clear signs of improvement with the pale new growth, which seems to suggest there was a pH lockout. Lowering of EC, yet early signs of tip burn showed up. But at the same time growth is just WOW !! It is bigger that AM1 already!

AM1... still clawing down, ever so slight tip burn... overfeeding, but I've been lowering gradually to 0.7. Hope the next few day it stops burning the girls.

Seems the pH lockout actually protected them. As soon as it got corrected, wham! Tip burn in the newer leaves. Nothing major though, and I am glad coco is almost (if not as) fast as DWC to correct.

AM 1 Coco

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AM 2 Coco

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AM 1 Biobizz

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AM 2 Biobizz

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Biobizz seems a little behind, but they had a much rougher start to life than the coco mazars. Because they took off a little later plus the shells sticking on and all that, they started going yellow before yesterday, so I gave them a nice strongish feed of formulex. Next day much better, today clear signs of growth. So I introduced them to 2ml Bioheaven and 2ml of Root Juice.

Also, I was kinda getting pissed at the low humidity level, so I re-built my DIY humidifier...

Basically you'll need a very loose woven cloth with generous air holes, an a zip tie...

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Tie the cloth up and above a fan. This can either be an active intake port like mine, or a regular clip-on 6" fan like I had before. You'll want the fan blowing into the cloth that sits in a bucket of water. Notice the two chop-sticks stuck into the fan's mounting holes to prevent the wet cloth touching the fans or electrics. Immediately after putting the cloth into water you will see it rise up the cloth (capillary attraction). You can help by previously damping the cloth, or later pouring water over it.

The fan will blow air through the holes and force evaporation, then simple old-school wick capillary attraction will suck the water up to the level evaporation.

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Give it a few days before judging, its not straight away you will notice any difference. Went from RH 40% to 57%. It is very natural to see no change as the temperature reading is inversely correlated to RH, so as the RH rises, temperature lowers, the lights (and my heater on hermostat) will compensate this decrease by pumping heat into the system, thus lowering the RELATIVE H reading, but not the ACTUAL H level... so RH will again slowly rise, temps decrease, and so on... until it stabilizes. So give it time! As a control, put another bucket of water with the same quantity next to it and compare evaporation rates.

In my tent it's sucking 2.5L a day! More than most mini ultrasonic humidifiers can hold at any given time :cough:

Groff out.

 

[bam-bam]

see them better now

:smokebuds:

 

[dex]

Hi Groff nice idea putting the fan behind the towel mate, nice to see some coco on the go. good luck whth your girls mate will tag along for the ride if you dont mind

 

[Groff]

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see them better now

:smokebuds:

Actually no bam-bam, still small.. I dont get it, but I will eventually!

Hi Groff nice idea putting the fan behind the towel mate, nice to see some coco on the go. good luck whth your girls mate will tag along for the ride if you dont mind

The more the merrier! And a fellow coco grower too!! :smokebuds:

 

[Groff]

This post is dedicated to a girl that shall be leaving us. She's the Surprise Mix bean that I've managed to find a very nice home for. Along with about 20 Northern Lights, she'll be well taken care of by a veteran grower under a nice old school lamp-post setup. I need the space for... shhhhhh! :hot:

Look at how beautiful she is!

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For the life of me I still cannot understand how to post pictures at their actual sizes instead of of the thumbnail to click on... bam-bam, I cannot find the yellow pens you speak of... when I hover over the picture while uploading, there is only a cross and a question mark.... I'll do a screenshot...

EDIT: hmmm... on my laptop these pictures are 415kb and 968 × 1296... when it uploads the size goes down to 62kb... more to investigate, but I don't see any option to resize and shrink.

EDIT 2: yeah, dont get it... it autoshrinks the pictures and have no clue how to stop it. All my pics are below the maximum allowed 488kb. Anyone?