Indoor x5 Blackberry Auto Run (FastBuds)

[automan2]

You're babes are looking healthy at this point. Your ph at 5.7 seems a bit acidic and at this age, a 600w light is strong.
Personally, I'm very cautious about seedings and keep mine under 100w of T5 for 3-4 weeks, them move to the flower tent and let them have all the lights I have.
Here's a pic of my current seedling of a fastbuds girl scout cookies at 9 days. Shes in promix bx...only di water til yesterday, then a dose of biobizz algamic.
I'm conservative with feeding and always ph to 6.2-6.4 . Seems to keeps the girls healthy like this GSC at 60 days.

 

[Shrederr]

You're babes are looking healthy at this point. Your ph at 5.7 seems a bit acidic and at this age, a 600w light is strong.
Personally, I'm very cautious about seedings and keep mine under 100w of T5 for 3-4 weeks, them move to the flower tent and let them have all the lights I have.
Here's a pic of my current seedling of a fastbuds girl scout cookies at 9 days. Shes in promix bx...only di water til yesterday, then a dose of biobizz algamic.
I'm conservative with feeding and always ph to 6.2-6.4 . Seems to keeps the girls healthy like this GSC at 60 days.View attachment 1086522 View attachment 1086522

Automan thanks! Those are some nice flowers
Did I mention I grow in a Coco \ Perltie mix? Those are my PH value for Veg time for years..
And I do veg with CFLs for 2-3 weeks then go to a 400w MH usually, and I am in fact worried about the light being too strong, But I wasn't set with CFLs and ran out of budget as I had to buy a lot of new stuff.. so I'm all in right now and didn't wanna wait another 3 weeks to salary so I just went for it..

 

[Shrederr]

Day 12

Lights are on 20\4
600w Metal Halide is 90cm above plants.
Temps are 25 - 26.5c lights on and 23-4 off
RH is 55% to 75%, mostly at 60-65.
Air Conditioner Water @ 0.1 ec + 0.15 ec of Canna Coco A+B for an EC of 0.4
PH is 5.7

They seem happy, though a little pale and slow.
@automan2 I will follow your advice and up the PH to see if that helps.

 

[automan2]

I had all kinds of failures/ stunts until I realized our well water ph fluctuated the wrong way.
Bought 2 ph meters and now adjust to 6.2-6.4. My flowers are praising the change.
As I've never grown in coco, I can only speak about bio bizz or promix which help me keep it simple.
Your ladies appear healthy and may just bust a move one day and surprise you. My best plant is sometimes the one I ignored most!

 

[Shrederr]

I had all kinds of failures/ stunts until I realized our well water ph fluctuated the wrong way.
Bought 2 ph meters and now adjust to 6.2-6.4. My flowers are praising the change.
As I've never grown in coco, I can only speak about bio bizz or promix which help me keep it simple.
Your ladies appear healthy and may just bust a move one day and surprise you. My best plant is sometimes the one I ignored most!

A-ah
So you didnt realize i grow in coco..!
Because i do 5.7ph for years and up it to 6.2 in flower.

They do go a bit faster now than first week though

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[Shrederr]

Day 15

Growth has gotten better over the last 48 hours so I felt a need to update.

Third nodes are starting to appear.

Today I fed them tap water with 0.1 ml per liter of Canna Coco A+B to an EC of 0.6 and PH of 6.0. Til now it was aircon water and ph 5.7. wanna see if theres any major differences in growth and leaves color.

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[Shrederr]

It's the 20th Day since the beans have popped.

I was able to maintain 25-6c and 60-70% RH throughout the week with lights on 20\4, lights go on when I wake up and it's about 24.5c and 70-80% RH so that's fine kind of.

I brought feeding up slowly, 10% at a time, feeding every other day to a very decent runoff. Got to 0.7 EC last night with PH at 6.0 exactly. (0.75 ml per liter of Cana Coco A+B)
They all seem to want more and are a bit pale in color. so next time I'll give them 1ml per liter of AB, this should get them to around 1.0 EC. I am using tap water right now with an EC of 0.3.
(Maybe I'll have the time to grab Cal Mag from the store and give a dose of that as well, with a tiny bit less A+B, won't be exceeding 1.0 EC anyway.)

600w MH gives me the most compact growth I've ever had, though feels like they really struggled with the intensity of the lights until 4-5 days ago. The lamp is 70-100cm above plants depending on temperature, and they're all at 5 centimeters height at most, 2 of the 5 revealed their 4th node, the other 3 are getting there.

Hope they'll get bigger this next week, and get their 5th node topped, then mainline.

I thought a video might be nice instead of pics..

 

[Shrederr]

Day 22

Fed them 0.9 EC (1ml\l Canna A+B) yesterday and they already react.
Growth was fast last 24h, leaves color is coming back.
Side branches are appearing.
Big 2 showed 5th nodes, I want to wait and top them all at the same time.

They are incredibly compact, I had to take pics.

 

[Shrederr]

Day 26

Fed cal mag @ 1ml p/ litre on day 24
I topped 2 girls on that day and the other 3 were topped last night.

They all started sexing 48-24 hrs ago but I still decided to top. I had to FIM some because new growth was so small.

Hope it works out... Now Im thinking bout either starting another 5 quick (8-9 weeks from seed) autos as they wont fill the tent... Or veg 1 month some photos... Will decide after stretch is done..

Hope i get 300g dry buds from this current run.

Cheers..

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[Shrederr]

Day 30 from sprout

They didn't like the 1.0 ec feed and showed some burnt tips. 48hrs later I fed just 0.85 ec, didnt feel like a wash will do any good at this size with the slight calcium deficiency.

PH is now 5.8 and I plan on sticking with that until buds will start to form. then up to 6.0

Spotted some leafminer trails on a couple of leaves, and an adult leafminer-looking bug trapped in the sticky trap. Funny thing my parents came to visit today and mama spotted a leafminer in the dining room... so probably they come from somewhere.. any suggestions? im gona get neem oil on Sunday anyway..

On a side note.. I really hope they veg longer cuz they seem quite small for this stage and I'd love to harvest 250-300g this run.. I lowered the 600w MH to ~85cm from plants, hope this will help growth. Temps are ~26c and RH is 65-75%. Humid days here but can't complain it's a nice VPD range..