Hey guys,
This is my first grow. I've attached pics showing 3 of my ladies who aren't doing to well right now. I planted them on 7/16 @ 6AM. It is now day 4 and they have showed almost no growth since the 2nd day of being out of the soil and aren't looking so good...
I wasn't sure how much info was needed, this is quite a bit below but feel free to skip to the pics if you would rather just see what they look like instead of the huge read.
- I have a Agromax 2x4x6 growing tent
- My seeds I bought are called: Heavyweight Fast & Vast Auto Autoflowering Feminised Seeds
- I germinated them by placing them in pH'd 5.8 RO water for about 12 hours, checking them frequently until all 3 cracked open. After that, I removed them and placed them on layered plain white paper towels and made sure they were separated from each other and the paper towel was moist. Once I folded the paper towels over I placed them into a open plastic sandwich bag and let sit for about 20 hours in a dark warm place. Each seed sprouted about a half inch long tap root.
- I prepared my soil beforehand. I am using Promix HP w/mycorise. I filled 3 separate 3-Gallon pots up and then pH'd the soil with my 5.8 pH RO water flushing till about 15-20% run-off. I made sure before placing the seeds into each pot that the soil was moist, not soaked, moist as if you were to buy a garden bag of soil that kinda moist.
-I placed each seed w/taproot facing Down very carefully into 1/4" hole, maybe a tad bit deeper but not by much, then covered it lightly with some loose soil gently pressing down. Since the soil was still moist i only sprayed the top with 5.8 pH water around where i placed the seed, maybe like 5 sprays from the water bottle. I then put a large sandwich bag over the top of each 3 gallon bucket to create a little humidome for the tap roots to get the correct humidity needed to grow better (which i removed after 2-days of the seedlings being popping out of the soil).
- I decided after much research that I wanted to get my ladies out of the ground and into veg using CFL 6500K color temp spiral bulbs. Each pot has hanging above it 3 x 42w 2600 Lumens Spiral CFL bulbs. I wanted to make sure that they got all the light so i bought baking pans for reflectors... i know it was ghetto with the nice tent i bought but I had already purchased ext. cords and such for vertical use, later finding out horizontal is better. So i figured maybe this would direct some of the lost light downwards. Picture below.
-My lights are hanging about 2-4 inches away from the soil atm. I planned to move the lighting up little by little as they grew keeping them as close as possible to the plant without burning it.
-At the top of my Grow tent I have a GrowBright 4" Inline Fan & Carbon Filter Combo. The bottom flaps are opened to bring my house air inside which right now the house is set to 71 degrees. My digital thermometer inside the grow tent is reading 78.8F and 50% humidity.( is positioned at level with the top of the pots) with the lights and fans/carbon filter running.
-Additionally for flowering.. IF I ever make it that far
... I have hanging a 400W HPS setup attached to a 400w Ballast (Ballast is mounted outside the tent.) The HPS bulb is encased in a 4 Sided Horizontal Reflector.
- I have some clip on fan's im running that blow across the tops of the CFL lights I mentioned above. Both inline fan at the top and the fans at the bottom for the CFL bulbs run 24/7.
- From day 1 of putting them under the CFL's I chose to go with 18/6 lighting schedule.
- I haven't fed them any kind of nutes or anything weird just the pH 5.8 RO water ( I pH using a digital wand unit you swirl in the water, also i have a PPM meter the water reads 001-004 ppm that I'm using.) As far as watering I really haven't done much. Each day I just spritz around the seedling at the soil in a circle pattern, not much because i heard the roots need to search for water, i was just keeping the soil moist on the top. If i stick my finger into the bucket about 2 inches down its still somewhat moist so I haven't watered them just the spritzing once a day to make the top wet.
Phew.. hopefully your still with me after all that above. I just wanted to make sure I gave all the info so you when you look at my ladies in the pics you can tell me what I've done wrong.
I would greatly appreciate any help you guys can provide. I can upload better pics if needed just let me know.
Top and bottom views attached.
Image 1003 and 1004 are seedling ONE.
Image 1005 and 1006 seedling TWO and the next 2 are seedling THREE.
The last pic is how i have the lights above each pot. Currently they are 3-4" away from the lil ladies.
The solo cups are a non-autoflower strain I just germinated and placed in there today because I fear i messed up the Auto's.
This is my first grow. I've attached pics showing 3 of my ladies who aren't doing to well right now. I planted them on 7/16 @ 6AM. It is now day 4 and they have showed almost no growth since the 2nd day of being out of the soil and aren't looking so good...
I wasn't sure how much info was needed, this is quite a bit below but feel free to skip to the pics if you would rather just see what they look like instead of the huge read.
- I have a Agromax 2x4x6 growing tent
- My seeds I bought are called: Heavyweight Fast & Vast Auto Autoflowering Feminised Seeds
- I germinated them by placing them in pH'd 5.8 RO water for about 12 hours, checking them frequently until all 3 cracked open. After that, I removed them and placed them on layered plain white paper towels and made sure they were separated from each other and the paper towel was moist. Once I folded the paper towels over I placed them into a open plastic sandwich bag and let sit for about 20 hours in a dark warm place. Each seed sprouted about a half inch long tap root.
- I prepared my soil beforehand. I am using Promix HP w/mycorise. I filled 3 separate 3-Gallon pots up and then pH'd the soil with my 5.8 pH RO water flushing till about 15-20% run-off. I made sure before placing the seeds into each pot that the soil was moist, not soaked, moist as if you were to buy a garden bag of soil that kinda moist.
-I placed each seed w/taproot facing Down very carefully into 1/4" hole, maybe a tad bit deeper but not by much, then covered it lightly with some loose soil gently pressing down. Since the soil was still moist i only sprayed the top with 5.8 pH water around where i placed the seed, maybe like 5 sprays from the water bottle. I then put a large sandwich bag over the top of each 3 gallon bucket to create a little humidome for the tap roots to get the correct humidity needed to grow better (which i removed after 2-days of the seedlings being popping out of the soil).
- I decided after much research that I wanted to get my ladies out of the ground and into veg using CFL 6500K color temp spiral bulbs. Each pot has hanging above it 3 x 42w 2600 Lumens Spiral CFL bulbs. I wanted to make sure that they got all the light so i bought baking pans for reflectors... i know it was ghetto with the nice tent i bought but I had already purchased ext. cords and such for vertical use, later finding out horizontal is better. So i figured maybe this would direct some of the lost light downwards. Picture below.
-My lights are hanging about 2-4 inches away from the soil atm. I planned to move the lighting up little by little as they grew keeping them as close as possible to the plant without burning it.
-At the top of my Grow tent I have a GrowBright 4" Inline Fan & Carbon Filter Combo. The bottom flaps are opened to bring my house air inside which right now the house is set to 71 degrees. My digital thermometer inside the grow tent is reading 78.8F and 50% humidity.( is positioned at level with the top of the pots) with the lights and fans/carbon filter running.
-Additionally for flowering.. IF I ever make it that far
... I have hanging a 400W HPS setup attached to a 400w Ballast (Ballast is mounted outside the tent.) The HPS bulb is encased in a 4 Sided Horizontal Reflector.- I have some clip on fan's im running that blow across the tops of the CFL lights I mentioned above. Both inline fan at the top and the fans at the bottom for the CFL bulbs run 24/7.
- From day 1 of putting them under the CFL's I chose to go with 18/6 lighting schedule.
- I haven't fed them any kind of nutes or anything weird just the pH 5.8 RO water ( I pH using a digital wand unit you swirl in the water, also i have a PPM meter the water reads 001-004 ppm that I'm using.) As far as watering I really haven't done much. Each day I just spritz around the seedling at the soil in a circle pattern, not much because i heard the roots need to search for water, i was just keeping the soil moist on the top. If i stick my finger into the bucket about 2 inches down its still somewhat moist so I haven't watered them just the spritzing once a day to make the top wet.
Phew.. hopefully your still with me after all that above. I just wanted to make sure I gave all the info so you when you look at my ladies in the pics you can tell me what I've done wrong.
I would greatly appreciate any help you guys can provide. I can upload better pics if needed just let me know.
Top and bottom views attached.
Image 1003 and 1004 are seedling ONE.
Image 1005 and 1006 seedling TWO and the next 2 are seedling THREE.
The last pic is how i have the lights above each pot. Currently they are 3-4" away from the lil ladies.
The solo cups are a non-autoflower strain I just germinated and placed in there today because I fear i messed up the Auto's.
Brownie-- I think the trouble is mostly the water and pH,.. RO has all pH buffering minerals removed from it (mainly CaCO3), so it will swing in pH wildly from even small inputs, and it's totally unstable,.. even atmospheric CO2 will acidify it! Also, pure water like that can actually pull nutrients out of the plant if there's nothing else in it (reverses the osmotic gradient across the root cells)... the water should have at least some Ca-Mg added back in, and after several days, some mild nutes, since Promix has very little in it,... can you mix in some tap water? Dechlorinated of course; this can help add some mineral content to the water,.. blending with RO is fine, if the water is really hard, high ppm's/EC... A root tonic of some sort would be fine to feed at first as well,.. 
