New Grower My 1st Grow, A journey...

[wwwillie]

12/02
6:00AM
CC Day 38 BK day 28 BDM Day 12
Temp 76 RH 58

8:00 AM and all is well. The humidity is up nicely to 59% let's see how it fares through the day. BDM still no sign of over feeding, CC and BK look fine too.
Spent some time search images on the internet last night, those are definitely female preflowers whoohoo. They showed up at about the right age too; from what I read they show up right about now. She may be small and a bit frail, but she's on schedule!!

 

[wwwillie]

12/02
8:00 PM
Temp 79 RH 49
The humidifier is working, looks like the low setting gives me about 15-20 points of additional humidity. This will probably help things a bit. The RH controller came today too. If I have time I'll hook everything up tomorrow and see how it all works. If it works well I case them up into an official device. I still have a strong desire to do the Arduino thing, at least for measuring moisture levels in the pots.
I don't know, is it the nutrients, or what, have I passed the danger zone of seedling? They are growing very nicely. CC and BK look really nice, but one of the BDM is really great and looks to me like what other, more experienced folk, post!
Wouldn't be my journal with out a few pics, so here they are.
BDM... dang!

BK my photo girl.

CC my fragile beauty...

 

[Panic]

looks solid man. I'm not expert i would definitely say seedling you are not. Mine just cleared the soil, I am hoping i follow your foot steps.

 

[wwwillie]

12/03
6:00AM
CC Day 39 BK Day 29 BDM Day 13
Temp 78 RH 54
Another day dawns at the farm in the basement. It's another fine morning the girls are growing rapidly now (to my eyes). They don't need water yet, so the full water to run-off worked well giving more time between watering. It is my hope that the water is also in the right place, lower in the pot so the roots seek it out building a strong root structure.

@Panic, hey thanks man! Been watching your journal, sounds great!! With such a great grow room they will flourish and grow for sure!!!

 

[DetroitHaze]

Looking good man...looking good!

 

[natwasere]

Looking good man, quite impressed from the panic watering to now maturing girls well done bruv.

 

[wwwillie]

Looking good man...looking good!

Hey thanks man! Means a lot, really.
I starting to notice a bit of a lighter green in the center of the leaves and was thinking cal/mag. with my LED use and all. I noticed calcium and magnesium in the fusion grow. Any recommendations? I'll prolly supplement a little tomorrow when I water (they should need a drink by then). Otherwise as you can see they are exploding pretty much. I strongly believe it is the Rock and perhaps a bit more maturity as a grower too...

 

[DetroitHaze]

Hey thanks man! Means a lot, really.
I starting to notice a bit of a lighter green in the center of the leaves and was thinking cal/mag. with my LED use and all. I noticed calcium and magnesium in the fusion grow. Any recommendations? I'll prolly supplement a little tomorrow when I water (they should need a drink by then). Otherwise as you can see they are exploding pretty much. I strongly believe it is the Rock and perhaps a bit more maturity as a grower too...

Led light, at least what I have seen...speeds up the metabolism of the plant. A lot of people report having cal mag issues because of that. Def add 100-150 ppm of calmag before adding in your nutes. The neon green is probably the brand new growth. As it grows out it will get a darker green, but that is the first sign that you need some more cal mag (the neon green growth). Also as weird as this sounds, people tend to have issues with LED's because they don't put out enough heat to have some sort of heat hit the leaf surface. A little radiant heat hitting the leaf tissue will help with transpiration/respiration. If they aren't getting any heat to the leaf tissue...a simple and cheap way of fixing that is just put some household CFL on em...nothing fancy...more light and a splash of radiant heat. If they are gettin sufficient radiant heat from the led's...ignore everything i just said regarding that...haha.

 

[wwwillie]

9:30 PM
Temp 77 RH 54
Had to work late, short entry tonight and did not have time for pics. They look good, but... On the BDM especially the first leaves, the ones just after the cotyledons are drooping and actually cupping under a bit. They are a lighter color green almost yellow, CC and BK are showing this tendency but not quite as much. Any ideas? I'll take the time to grab a picture in the morning. The rest of the plant on all of them looks pretty darn good and the growth was strong today.
Arghh... Never easy, like life, it's from one thing and then on to the next.

 

[wwwillie]

12/04
6:00AM
CC Day 40 BK Day 30 BDM Day 14
Temp 79 RH 54
When I put them to be last night I was not happy to see the beginning of something happening. Not knowing enough about what it may be is frustrating. I am proceeding with my initial thought that it is cal/mag deficiency. To that end I watered with 500ml each a solution of aftw, 200ppm supercharger, and 160ppm cal/mag at pH5.9. They also received a spray of Absorbalight. Although they really did not need a watering hence the 500ml, but they are far from wet either so I am hoping it is a good amount and enough to give them what they need. Will post some pics this evening.
Overall things are looking very nice and growing well, I hope I am reading them correctly and providing what is needed to prevent further degradation.
@Detroithaze, thanks again, There are 8 23w CFLs in the tent now. Mostly over the babies, but close enough to the others.