New Grower Vegasbear's Noob Growing Adventures

[Nosias]

I'm considering culling the stunted one because it's just screwed and throwing the plants into their own fresh clean bubble buckets and seeing where that gets me.

I believe your ladies are really little, correct? If yes then it just maybe better to start new ones. Mine were three weeks old went they succumbed to my swinging PH. Yet still all I got out of 3 little ladies was a total of 4 oz. For me now I have enough with eyeing the near future harvest. There is no wrong call here. But for me I might start two grows from scratch. Have a great Holiday and stay safe.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 9

Relocated the veg tent and set up the feed system. Two major mistakes:
-The floraflex yellow insert is 2 GPM, not 2 GPH. Thank goodness I waswatching and tested it. All plants got around a half gallon soaking so no more feed today.
-The plants were lower than the water level, so even though the pump shut off, it turned into a siphon. I have elevated them above the top of the res and hopefully that fixes it.

Will go to the hardware store Monday and grab some 1gph pressure compensating drippers to install at the hose ends. Hand feed until then.

Current feed:

5ml/gal CalMag
4ml/gal AN Connoisseur A&B
0.4 ml/gal DripClean

PH 5.75

 

[Vegasbear87]

I believe your ladies are really little, correct? If yes then it just maybe better to start new ones. Mine were three weeks old went they succumbed to my swinging PH. Yet still all I got out of 3 little ladies was a total of 4 oz. For me now I have enough with eyeing the near future harvest. There is no wrong call here. But for me I might start two grows from scratch. Have a great Holiday and stay safe.

Ive decided that once the new babies hit Wk4, if the Grape Ape isn't doing well I will nix it and move on.

 

[Nosias]

Ive decided that once the new babies hit Wk4, if the Grape Ape isn't doing well I will nix it and move on.

I can say that week 4-6 for an auto is stretch time. So that is when they grow taller. It is all up to you. This for me is the fun part.

 

[Vegasbear87]

I can say that week 4-6 for an auto is stretch time. So that is when they grow taller. It is all up to you. This for me is the fun part.

Yeah. Have pretty much decided I'm going to cull the front and back left side plants, plop the other two in bubble buckets and switch them to the 2x4. Then I can build a stand for the drain table and put the new stuff in the big tent.

 

[Nosias]

Yeah. Have pretty much decided I'm going to cull the front and back left side plants, plop the other two in bubble buckets and switch them to the 2x4. Then I can build a stand for the drain table and put the new stuff in the big tent.

Sounds like a right decision. Enjoy the journey.

 

[Vegasbear87]

 

[Vegasbear87]

Sounds like a right decision. Enjoy the journey.

So, two days of just calmag and HTH Shock at 4ppm. Added nutrients, and the res has just been rock steady at 6.0. It seems that either the hydroguard or great white was causing the PH swings. Bizarre.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 11

Got the feed schedule figured out, and have a second pump in the res set to circulate for 15 min every two hours to keep it mixed up.

 

[Vegasbear87]

Day 13

First set of leaves showing some yuck, but appears to be clearing up on the new growth. I'm not sure if maybe this occurred because I refrained from any watering in the first nine days or what but I will be keeping an eye on it. New growth looks OK and started coming in after feed began.

@Mañ'O'Green any input ?

Currently feeding approximately 0.6gal per plant per day using 1gph drippers across multiple feedings. I plan to work this up slowly as I go along.

Overall very pleased so far.