New Grower Mephisto Strawberry Nuggets, 4 Assed Monkey & Fantasmo Express x Sour Stomper

[Slater]

Seems like a good journal to watch so will sub when you drop it

here you go @Medimadness we are up and running - https://www.autoflower.org/threads/slater-grows-healing-path.68047/#post-1925841

 

[NiceOption]

I know what you mean there's definitely less control, I guess coz soil is some diverse ecosystem (or at least should be) and its really easy to make feeding mistakes and get the consistency wrong when you switch brand but theres something about plants in soil that is a little more instinctive to me yanno but that's probably coz I grew up in the country working for the golden oldies doing their gardens so it's what I know. Is why I'm switching to coco tho as for horticulture you need experience with soilless and coco seems a good cross over to hydro system maintenence from soil

Yeah, it just seemed to add a lot more unknowns to the grow, actually I'd like to graduate to soil with some cover one day but coco seems to offer the most control without going full hydro which appeals to me the least. That said, I keep lurking on the DWC grows on here so maybe my mind will be changed... I was given a couple of DWC buckets so I should probably give them a go one day but coco's been doing it for me so far.

 

[Medimadness]

Yeah, it just seemed to add a lot more unknowns to the grow, actually I'd like to graduate to soil with some cover one day but coco seems to offer the most control without going full hydro which appeals to me the least. That said, I keep lurking on the DWC grows on here so maybe my mind will be changed... I was given a couple of DWC buckets so I should probably give them a go one day but coco's been doing it for me so far.

Yeah totally get what you mean, but as soon as I get below 10l of soil in the bag I will be switching to coco for sure, it's the cleanliness with coco I'm looking for. I have carpet in my room (I sleep with the tents so they can have my CO2 in the winter nights) and soils a bit of a pain to get out lol where a vacuum would work on coco

 

[Froot n Fuel]

soils a bit of a pain to get out lol where a vacuum would work on coco

so much this bro!

can’t believe the missus hasn’t strung me up yet, bits of soil and perlite everywhere

 

[NiceOption]

Well, I'm not sure that it's much cleaner in that respect but I've got nothing to compare it to. It can get pretty messy when mixing it and make sure you cover your face when your mixing the perlite, you'll fill the room with a white dust that I'm pretty sure has got to be terrible on the lungs.

It's harvest day that things get messy in our place, i'll take a bath and it looks like a vat of pho afterwards.

 

[Medimadness]

so much this bro!

can’t believe the missus hasn’t strung me up yet, bits of soil and perlite everywhere

LOL I'm a little OTT with cleaning so I do all my mixing outside and my place is spotless usually but it's how the soil works into the carpet and makes brown stains. It's a good thing I'm getting vinyl flooring put in soon!

Well, I'm not sure that it's much cleaner in that respect but I've got nothing to compare it to. It can get pretty messy when mixing it and make sure you cover your face when your mixing the perlite, you'll fill the room with a white dust that I'm pretty sure has got to be terrible on the lungs.

It's harvest day that things get messy in our place, i'll take a bath and it looks like a vat of pho afterwards.

Does it do this though?

 

[NiceOption]

Does it do this though?

Oooooh dude! I see what you mean... Yep, hop on board the coco train buddy!

 

[Medimadness]

Oooooh dude! I see what you mean... Yep, hop on board the coco train buddy!

Im just lucky I have no girlfriend to worry about aha ha *sad laugh*

 

[NiceOption]

Hey guys,
Not the most exciting update but here are the lil' gals at day 10. A little bit of growth and they seem to have stopped stretching a bit since the light was turned up to 400w. When do you think it's OK to whack it up to 600w?

Both Strawberry Nuggets looking pretty happy.

Slightly odd growth on the 4 Assed Monkey but I'm hoping it's just being a difficult toddler and she'll grow out of it.

I gave them all 1/4 strength nutes but have reverted back to plain PHd water. Do you think it's worth adding calmag at this stage or just keep it plain for now until there's some true leaves showing?

 

[Medimadness]

Looking good man, yeah it could have been the light, or simply the distance. I mean I grow using 300w led full spec. The plants love it, its enough for 2 smallish plants but I have to make sure to get the distance just right.
I mean really during the veg phase plants don't need such huge amounts of light, basically for the first month or so depending on the strain I would keep it at 400w until they're a little more mature and then you could start increasing it slowly as she begins to show early signs of flower but also bearing in mind that on autos its still a bit of a mixed veg/flower time so I wouldn't be too aggressive. Smaller adjustments allow for plants to become accustomed to changes in environment. Going slower can also limit damage if you give her too much light too soon.
Also if you give her too much light in the early days you could stunt growth, and LEDs don't produce loads of heat, but as you know they are damn powerful. I've had to do quite a bit of reading on LEDs since they're great all round but a little more tricky in my opinion. ill try to find the reference and have some quotes for you specific to 600w LED panels since I can post outside urls here
Im smoking a lovely blunt for the first time in a long time (I normally avoid tobacco) to celebrate my 2nd tent and got nothing better to do right now haha