New Grower Tangerine Dream auto from Growers Choice!

[BlueBison420]

So, I have been lurking on the site for a while, as I am growing my first plant ever, and she is an auto. I didn’t really record the sprout date exactly but she she sprouted the week before Christmas, I guessed December 19th from what I remember.

I’m the beginning I didn’t really have a good setup and I was going to grow her in my grow room with all my other plants but decided against it because of some spider mite and whitefly issues.

So after a few weeks I managed to save up for a tent, which I setup in my room.

It’s pretty budget. I started out on 300w (output) LEDs then switched to a 600w one maybe in the 3rd week? I’m just using budge fans to keep the air flowing from outside in and outside. I just took an air filter and modified it to make my own (but I have to maybe get a carbon one later, however I am in a legal grow state so I don’t need to worry about cops)

I use a humidifier to keep her moist as it’s pretty dry here. There is nothing automatic about my setup and I’m going the organic way.

Which is partially why I chose the pot I did. It’s a clay pot from Mexico and holds 15 gallons of soil. I put a tube in it so I could water from the bottom and get those roots stretching to the bottom of the pot. I don’t always fertilize because I’m just using organic nonspecific fertilizer. I have one for veg and one for when she starts flowering. I generally follow the rules of rotating just plain water with nutrients. (I fill the tray, when the tray is dry I fill it again, etc)

She’s in week 8 now and no signs of buds forming yet. She does have the little pistils on the node sites and it starting to have a good smell but that’s about it.

In the beginning her nodes were stacking too closely together, partially my fault for using too strong of a light and without enough night time for stretching.

After I raised the light as far away as possible and extended her night period she started stretching more. Currently she’s on a 16-8 light schedule to help improve her internode spacing.

I’m going to post the pictures as replies and try to keep them bunched together to show the growth over time (since I did document with photos!)

 

[FullAuto245]

So, I have been lurking on the site for a while, as I am growing my first plant ever, and she is an auto. I didn’t really record the sprout date exactly but she she sprouted the week before Christmas, I guessed December 19th from what I remember.

I’m the beginning I didn’t really have a good setup and I was going to grow her in my grow room with all my other plants but decided against it because of some spider mite and whitefly issues.

So after a few weeks I managed to save up for a tent, which I setup in my room.

It’s pretty budget. I started out on 300w (output) LEDs then switched to a 600w one maybe in the 3rd week? I’m just using budge fans to keep the air flowing from outside in and outside. I just took an air filter and modified it to make my own (but I have to maybe get a carbon one later, however I am in a legal grow state so I don’t need to worry about cops)

I use a humidifier to keep her moist as it’s pretty dry here. There is nothing automatic about my setup and I’m going the organic way.

Which is partially why I chose the pot I did. It’s a clay pot from Mexico and holds 15 gallons of soil. I put a tube in it so I could water from the bottom and get those roots stretching to the bottom of the pot. I don’t always fertilize because I’m just using organic nonspecific fertilizer. I have one for veg and one for when she starts flowering. I generally follow the rules of rotating just plain water with nutrients. (I fill the tray, when the tray is dry I fill it again, etc)

She’s in week 8 now and no signs of buds forming yet. She does have the little pistils on the node sites and it starting to have a good smell but that’s about it.

In the beginning her nodes were stacking too closely together, partially my fault for using too strong of a light and without enough night time for stretching.

After I raised the light as far away as possible and extended her night period she started stretching more. Currently she’s on a 16-8 light schedule to help improve her internode spacing.

I’m going to post the pictures as replies and try to keep them bunched together to show the growth over time (since I did document with photos!)

Sounds like your doing good! Watering schedule sounds good I’m in coco so it’s a bit different. Your LED’s are you using all of them? Week 8 is a long veg cycle but I bet you get good yields in the end.

 

[BlueBison420]

These are the first few weeks of growth. I potted her in the final pot after I realized they don’t like being reported quite young so I wouldn’t mess with her roots and she didn’t get bothered at all. So I got lucky there.

She might have had a slow start due to being around so many pests (she had lots of flies on her in the beginning). As soon as I brought her to her own tent she started doing a lot better because I could easily manage the few flys that managed to come with her and now if there are any left they don’t really bother her anymore.

I added some photos taken at dark cycle so you can see her true colors.

 

[BlueBison420]

These are the first few weeks of growth. I potted her in the final pot after I realized they don’t like being reported quite young so I wouldn’t mess with her roots and she didn’t get bothered at all. So I got lucky there.

She might have had a slow start due to being around so many pests (she had lots of flies on her in the beginning). As soon as I brought her to her own tent she started doing a lot better because I could

Sounds like your doing good! Watering schedule sounds good I’m in coco so it’s a bit different. Your LED’s are you using all of them? Week 8 is a long veg cycle but I bet you get good yields in the end.

No, I’m only using the 600. I’m using my 300w one for other plants (that needed more light) in my basement. I’ve got some basil, some lemon verbena, Thai basil and holy basil, aka Tulsi growing under them.

 

[FullAuto245]

nice recovery after the slow start. She looked like she had a cal mag deficiency.

 

[BlueBison420]

This is the next set of photos. As you see she started to really grow crazy after switching to the higher wattage light. (I did this after I reported her)

I had started training her quids soon after I reported her because I only have a 2x2x4 tent and since she is supposed to be sativa dominant I didn’t want her growing too large, and also, I do know that early training is a good thing. I didn’t have a lot of stretch in my girl so she has turned out to be like a carpet.

Oh and I have given her a name, forgot to mention that. I call her Divine Diva (mostly for how she really enjoys bondage sessions and how she loves all the attention haha!

 

[BlueBison420]

Sorry for any images that are upside down, I don’t know how that is happening! Haha!

 

[BlueBison420]

Ok, next photos!

You can really see how she is stacked so tightly together. She just kept producing node upon node. I believe I decided to move the light and change the light cycle not too much more after this.

 

[BlueBison420]

Another round of photos

You can just see more LST and her reaction to it which I saw was really good. I do little adjustments every day, mostly leaf tucking.

When she was really little I used little wooden sticks I had to push her leaves around and give space for her nodes to grow since she was so bushy. Well she is still bushy now but not as much.

About the RH and temps. They generally fluctuate. Sometimes in growing I would have to fill my humidifier 2 times a day, and the RH would not budge over 19%, and then some days the RH goes way into the 80s. So it’s been a challenge montering it but since I am in the same room as her it’s really easy to just open a flap or take the humidifier out temporarily. She seems to not be bothered by the flectuations. Might be I got a hardy variety.

The temperature generally stays between 60-90 degrees. Sometimes her temps get up mid 90s and I vent her to cool her down but she’s never shown any heat stress so I think I lucked out genetically. She always is very perky when it’s light time and at night she droops (which I heard is normal).

 

[BlueBison420]

This is where explosive growth really happened. I’m pretty sure around this time is when I moved my light up and you can tell a dramatic difference. She really likes having her dark period and the light further away.

In these photos I kinda show how I had been doing LST. You can also see how close to the soil she is due to not stretch at all during her seedling phase. I know now it was too bright a light in the beginning, that I should make her stretch a bit more during the seedling phase looking for light!

Also, not a great photo of it here, but she showed her pistils for the first time during this time.