New Grower Shady's Micro Grove: Twisted Trees, Aliens, and Nectar. First Journal, Second Grow.

[DCLXVI]

Thanks for mentioning the NFTG bible. I've now got a weekends worth of reading! I didn't even know it existed.

 

[JohnnyWeedSeed]

I am in! Hoping mine will show their faces soon, its been about 2 days in the soil now. Should be interesting seeing how different our plants grow!



Welcome aboard!

I am curious as well

I'm most interested to see the difference between your soil and my Coco with the Advanced Nutrients line.

 

[Wild Corgi]

Watching as well. 35 days in with my 3 Twisted Tree‘s

 

[ShadyGrove]

Day 1

Environment
70-72F
60-70RH
Lights @ 35% 24/0

We have life!

TM showed approximately 65 hours after being placed in the soil, AMR showed up a few hours later!

Dimmed lights to approx. 14800lux with 22.88 DLI (calculated with the Tent Buddy app). This is probably not very accurate but I imagine its close enough for my needs. Depending on how things look over the next few days, I may increase the intensity a little as the TM is stretching a bit.

Will start running 20/4 light cycle shortly. There will also be a scheduled power outage here for 6 hours on Day 5, so that will affect the environment slightly.

This light is a lot cooler than the Mars! Temps are at least 5 degrees lower than my previous run, though I may not have dimmed it as much, it was hard to tell where it was at because it was the model before they added the knob.

Here they are a few hours after they popped up:

 

[420Forever]

Day 1

Environment
70-72F
60-70RH
Lights @ 35% 24/0

We have life!

TM showed approximately 65 hours after being placed in the soil, AMR showed up a few hours later!

Dimmed lights to approx. 14800lux with 22.88 DLI (calculated with the Tent Buddy app). This is probably not very accurate but I imagine its close enough for my needs. Depending on how things look over the next few days, I may increase the intensity a little as the TM is stretching a bit.

Will start running 20/4 light cycle shortly. There will also be a scheduled power outage here for 6 hours on Day 5, so that will affect the environment slightly.

This light is a lot cooler than the Mars! Temps are at least 5 degrees lower than my previous run, though I may not have dimmed it as much, it was hard to tell where it was at because it was the model before they added the knob.

Here they are a few hours after they popped up:View attachment 1333301View attachment 1333302

into the brave new world! ppp







edit: i've looked & looked...on all two pagez....but,why are there no dog picz in this thread-?

 

[GinFizzLuv]

Nice man. I’m subbed. So is “one shot” the nutrient pack to reamend the soil? When do you start feeding with the regular nftg nutes?

 

[ShadyGrove]

Thanks for mentioning the NFTG bible. I've now got a weekends worth of reading! I didn't even know it existed.

Thanks for the rep! I've found it really helpful so far. Make sure you have a recent version! I think the newest is 5.2.

into the brave new world! ppp







edit: i've looked & looked...on all two pagez....but,why are there no dog picz in this thread-?

No dogs! but maybe if you're lucky you will see some cats

Nice man. I’m subbed. So is “one shot” the nutrient pack to reamend the soil? When do you start feeding with the regular nftg nutes?

Welcome aboard! Yeah that's basically what it is, it's an all purpose dry amendment that is essentially NFTG Medusa's Magic in granular form, I'm also planning on top dressing it along the way.
Edit: I plan on feeding about 2 weeks in, right now I'm giving them shotglasses of pHed water with a little bit of Dr. Root and SLF100.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Week 1+ (Days 4 - 9)
Environment:
72-74F
55-65rh
Lights @ 35% 24/0

I am trying out what I call a "seedling tea" this time. It is a combination of Cultured Biologix Dr. Root and SLF100, it should be gentle enough to feed seedlings and promote root growth.

Per cup of water:

pH	6.3 - 6.5
SLF100	1/8 tsp
Dr. Root	1/8 tsp

Things are going well so far, TM is praying to the light a lot, but AMR seems to be growing slightly quicker.



Day 4
9tsp each of seedling tea.
Water @ 6.5 pH

Day 6
Add about a half inch of extra soil to TM so now they are both approx 2" above the soil.

Top dress 1 tbsp of Bigfoot to both.

12tsp each of seedling tea
Water @ 6.3 pH

Day 7
Switch to 20/4 light cycle.

Day 9
1 cup each of seedling tea w/ Hygeia Hydration (yucca)
Water @ 6.2 pH

Foliar feed:
per 1 cup:
1/2 tsp Ful-power
1/4 tsp Hygeia Hydration

If things look good with the foliar feed, will continue doing it every day or two.

 

[DCLXVI]

Awesome man, glad to see the detailled plan. I'll probably try out NFTG on my next one. Once I found the "nftg bible" I realized I needed to do a lot more reading and planning.

 

[ShadyGrove]

Awesome man, glad to see the detailled plan. I'll probably try out NFTG on my next one. Once I found the "nftg bible" I realized I needed to do a lot more reading and planning.

Thanks! I am still tweaking on how exactly I plan on feeding this run, but I'll definitely keep notes as to what I'm doing and why and share everything here.