Lighting Oxossi- third time lucky_ 5 x autopounders with grownorthern ms-006 & others

[ograndeviado]

well after a disastrous xmas where being stranded bed bound in London for 4 days with a bad back and 6 of my plants shrivelled away to nothing. I decided on a rethink. Having carefully read AFN forums and bought an MS-006 in addition to 2xCFL 1R/1B and a quantum LED 240w which i already own, I decided that i am going to simplify things. Grow 2 or 3 plants in the main area and use the blue CFL under the reflector as a nursery area where every 6 weeks 2 or 3 seeds can be brought to the flowering stage.
I have a DR90 and use basic AN grow and bloom, B-52, and am trying out some green planet Medi One and W8 and growing light bio-bizz mix soil.
The pictures show the 5 auto pounders ar day 10 and the cheeses and hijacks that i am waiting to harvest
The red CFL will be used for sidelighting and the main growing light will be LED and if the MS-006 is half the light it is supposed to be I will be getting another

 

[The Squid]

Sweet setup. Good luck dude! :smokebuds:

And sorry about your other plants.

 

[Red eyed c]

Nice set up and good luck with your grow mate :group:

 

[ograndeviado]

I had previously tried a perpetual grow system planting 3 seeds every month, but it became very congested and hard to manage. At first it was Ok and for about 6months i was planting different seeds and and enjoying the fruits of my labour. I would get about an ounce a plant so I was happy but I now realise I was overfeeding them, so another lesson learnt. It was the demise of the plants that really brought things home to me and that things had to change. I realised that an automatic watering system would be very complicated with 3 or 4 different feeding regimes in one tent. Also instead of planting lots of different breeds I would just plant one (which is where the auto-pounder comes in, I chose Auto seeds as I have always had good luck with them, but now I have 5 so I am not sure whether to just grow the 3 largest and pull the smaller two, OR let the smaller ones grow but flower them early and hope that they can still yield something to keep me going till the big 3 are harvested.
Although with the MS-006 will pull an extra 200w, the fact that the blue CFL will only be in use for half the time will mean that the increase in electricity costs will not be too large and that I can cut down the growing season to approx 9 weeks instead of 12 and with hopefully larger and more potent harvests I should have the best of both worlds.

 

[ograndeviado]

Also with only two different feeding regimes and less plants it should mean that a simple gravity feed watering system could bre rigged up for when I am away.

 

[ograndeviado]

this is a picture of two of the 3 bigger autopounders at day 10 both 6" across and looking good on just a couple of light feedings of Medi-one and one recent one of Canna Root Juice

 

[ograndeviado]

here is a picture (not a very good one) of one of the 2 Auto Seeds Hijack (an AK47- Jack herer cross, a sativa dominant strain and Auto's highest yeilder behind the Autopounder) with the most budsites I have seen on any plant ever. This one will be getting about a month under the MS006 when it comes

 

[ograndeviado]

day 14




a few photos of the autopounders, which are shooting up now, the biggest two are now well over 7" in diameter and almost as tall.
The other one is of a cheese auto that has a few more weeks to go

 

[chronic smoker 89]

nice plants bro.

 

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