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Hi all,
I'm a newb and have just come across this amazing forum.
I currently have a grow in progress, 2 x Critical Mass Auto and 2 Turbo Diesel Auto (NYC Diesel x Blueberry).
My set-up is as follows:-
1 X Cabinet lined with flat white plastic reflective sheeting approximately 3FT Wide by 1 1/2 Deep and 5 high. The cabinet has an air intake at the bottom and small exit at the top, a small carbon filter ducted out of the top and powered by a 4inch inline fan to the rear.
The lighting consists of 1 x 250W red spectrum CFL and 1 x 125W dual red and blue spectrum CFL.
The air is circulated via a 6 inch clip-on fan.
I am using Biobizz Grow and Bloom base nutes with Algamic. Biobizz light mix medium and tap water left for 24 hours then PH'd down to 6.8.
Now this only my second grow, the previous being relatively unsuccessful but purely down to inexperience, impatience and maybe too much interference. I'm sure everybody has been there though eh?
I've decided to go organic this time being interested more in quality than quantity and also having had issues previously with overdosing and burning some plants I thought organic may be little more forgiving.
The TD's were germinated via shot glass and paper towel method and placed in 6 1/2 litre pots on 1st November making them 18 days old today. The critical mass auto were germinated via the same method and placed into 11 litre pots on 10th November making them 9 days old today. I count their age from the day they are placed in pots and not when they appear above soil as I believe they have begun life as soon as the tap root appears from the seed. I then left a slight gap to the top of the pots with the soil level and cling-filmed the top until signs of life appeared above soil. I started them separately as I wanted to stagger them slightly in order to give the TD's a head start under the blue side of the 125W CFL before moving them to under the 250W red.
I will take exact measurements and post pictures later but they are all thriving at the moment under a constant 18/6 light regime, temps of an average of 75 - 80 degrees and humidity of 40-50%. The seeds were germinated with a very weak mix of water and Hesi root stimulator. I have found this helps the germination process and enables me to transplant the seeds into their pots a lot quicker.
At present the TD's are being fed a mix of water, algamic and biogrow. They are now upto 2ml per litre of biogrow and 1ml per litre of algamic and ph'd to 6.8.
The critical mass have just had their first feed of 1ml of biogrow per litre and 1/2 ml of algamic. I forgot to mention for the first 7 days or so I just give them PH'd water at 6.8 due to the light mix of nutes in the medium.
I am going to conduct an experiment from the next feed. I am going to use just on one of the TD's and Critical Mass, Biogrow, Biobloom and then additional Topmax and on others Biobizz grow and bloom and a range of Aptus boosters at very little amount. .2 ml per litre as they are super concentrated and I will keep this thread updated regularly with the progress.
Anyway, sorry to blab on a little. I'm off to grow.
Cheers for looking.
Peace
I'm a newb and have just come across this amazing forum.
I currently have a grow in progress, 2 x Critical Mass Auto and 2 Turbo Diesel Auto (NYC Diesel x Blueberry).
My set-up is as follows:-
1 X Cabinet lined with flat white plastic reflective sheeting approximately 3FT Wide by 1 1/2 Deep and 5 high. The cabinet has an air intake at the bottom and small exit at the top, a small carbon filter ducted out of the top and powered by a 4inch inline fan to the rear.
The lighting consists of 1 x 250W red spectrum CFL and 1 x 125W dual red and blue spectrum CFL.
The air is circulated via a 6 inch clip-on fan.
I am using Biobizz Grow and Bloom base nutes with Algamic. Biobizz light mix medium and tap water left for 24 hours then PH'd down to 6.8.
Now this only my second grow, the previous being relatively unsuccessful but purely down to inexperience, impatience and maybe too much interference. I'm sure everybody has been there though eh?
I've decided to go organic this time being interested more in quality than quantity and also having had issues previously with overdosing and burning some plants I thought organic may be little more forgiving.
The TD's were germinated via shot glass and paper towel method and placed in 6 1/2 litre pots on 1st November making them 18 days old today. The critical mass auto were germinated via the same method and placed into 11 litre pots on 10th November making them 9 days old today. I count their age from the day they are placed in pots and not when they appear above soil as I believe they have begun life as soon as the tap root appears from the seed. I then left a slight gap to the top of the pots with the soil level and cling-filmed the top until signs of life appeared above soil. I started them separately as I wanted to stagger them slightly in order to give the TD's a head start under the blue side of the 125W CFL before moving them to under the 250W red.
I will take exact measurements and post pictures later but they are all thriving at the moment under a constant 18/6 light regime, temps of an average of 75 - 80 degrees and humidity of 40-50%. The seeds were germinated with a very weak mix of water and Hesi root stimulator. I have found this helps the germination process and enables me to transplant the seeds into their pots a lot quicker.
At present the TD's are being fed a mix of water, algamic and biogrow. They are now upto 2ml per litre of biogrow and 1ml per litre of algamic and ph'd to 6.8.
The critical mass have just had their first feed of 1ml of biogrow per litre and 1/2 ml of algamic. I forgot to mention for the first 7 days or so I just give them PH'd water at 6.8 due to the light mix of nutes in the medium.
I am going to conduct an experiment from the next feed. I am going to use just on one of the TD's and Critical Mass, Biogrow, Biobloom and then additional Topmax and on others Biobizz grow and bloom and a range of Aptus boosters at very little amount. .2 ml per litre as they are super concentrated and I will keep this thread updated regularly with the progress.
Anyway, sorry to blab on a little. I'm off to grow.
Cheers for looking.
Peace
