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39x39 tent started, Bruce Banner germinating
  • I would like to thank @Marshydro for hosting a giveaway in which I won a 39”x39” tent. Perfect fit for my Mars Hydro FCe3000! Finally got around to setting the tent up properly with insulation foam underneath leveled and supported by cement board on my gravel basement floor
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    Excited to start this adventure with an awesome new tent and set up the way I wished I had with previous grows.
    The plan for this grow is to follow Coast of Maine’s autoflower schedule and use their soils and additives exclusively. Their recommendations are to use 15g of their Stonington blend soil to feed a plant seed to harvest(with a few optional top dressings of dry amendments). I used about 1 3/4 bags and filled them into a 20g fabric pot. We will be growing a seed stockers Bruce banner as it states it’s an easy plant and gets XL harvests. I used CoM sprout island blend to start the seedling in and will transplant as soon as I dare right into its final pot.
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    I had four seed to choose from and I chose the largest one with the most coloration
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    A seedling heat mat was placed on top of the 20g pot, this should preheat the pot for the eventual transfer as the basement is a chilly 55. Extra seedling tray is my California wonder peppers for my garden this year
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    Still need to organize the wires but this gives you an idea of setup, the light driver is mounted up on the ceiling, left it in the tent for the added heat and so I could access the controls but up so it’s safe from wetness
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    And now we wait
     
    Day 1 SS Bruce Banner
  • As the seed was germinating I made the decision to put the seed directly into the final pot. Looks pretty silly. Need to get a riser rigged up today for the pot, maybe check the local hydro store for a mega sized drip pan. 20g pot almost needs a baby pool
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    Day 3 Bruce Banner
  • Smooth sailing, first true leaves are bigger than the cotyledons and second set just visible. Tent conditions are on point hoping to ensure this seedling’s second set of leafs are the same or bigger than its first set by day 10
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    Day 8 Bruce Banner
  • Two days ahead of schedule the secondary set of true leaves is equal to or greater than the first set! Really strong genetics in this one and so far near perfect tent conditions. Seedling is getting around 35 DLI and I can’t seem to find a good autoflower chart for timeframe to follow on when to ramp up. Any one have one they use? Really want to be on point this grow
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    Day 11 Bruce Banner
  • Finally got around to raising the pot up. Local hydro store didn’t have any fancy setups so I rigged it with some hydroton filled to the top. Hopefully it works and I can always shop vac water out by shoveling it to the side if it gets to that point.
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    f*****g pot is massive
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    just watered another 1.5 liters again about 75% of the water went onto the outer edges
     
    Day 13 Bruce Banner
  • Some discoloration occurring, honestly typical of CoM so I am not taking any corrective course. Two days until the first fertilizer application, though based on growth I’m also about two days from topping her. Not sure if it would be bad to overlap the two so perhaps I’ll top her and fertilize a day later? Thoughts?
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    already pruned a sucker that was growing out of the cotyledon, never amounts to a viable branch.good growth on node 1 branches but sometimes I trim those off too, maybe if they keep it up I’ll let them live as on my 3BOG node 1 branches produced the most grams per branch.
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    FCe3000 killing it 75% intensity 12” from canopy
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    Day 14
  • Temped to snip her above node 5 as I could easily top her there today which would be 1 node further than I’ve topped before and 4 days earlier. I might wait until tomorrow or even Sunday to get topped above node 6 as I want her to fill the tent and who knows when I’ll be able to push it like that next this seedling might be a success fluke
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