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LeastExpectedGrower LeastExpectedGrower
3 years ago
Week 3! (updated my 'days' since I lost a few along the way). Day 1 was 'seed in the moist soil.' Veg Week 1 was 3 days later. Each additional week starts on a Wednesday. Day 18: Wednesday is week change day. Technically only 2.5 weeks of actual time since germination week was 3 days. These lil' ladies are staying squat. I may lift the light a bit to see if I can get them to add a few inches. I'd love to top at least one of them, and they're going to be a pain to LST since they're ground-huggers. Last night I watered and upped the nutrients a little according to schedule. Since they'd only been in the big bags for a day, I didn't water all the soil down, but stayed within a few inches. Still using the 'rapid start' to promote roots & added molasses to the mix as well since the soil does feature compost. Smell IS becoming more prominent. I don't have a filter up yet, but that'll happen next paycheck...We're venting outside and eventually the neighbors will be asking if we have a pet skunk. Day 18 Evening: Had a handful of stuff delivered by Amazon, so 14" saucers, 10.5" baking racks, wire to LST, etc. That will mostly complete the grow tent, besides the carbon filter, which I won't need or order until next week. Last night's nutrients have kicked in, and the plants all look happy. I know they warn 'first timers' against topping...I don't follow advice well. πŸ˜› So, I topped 3 and FIM'ed the 4th. At 3ish weeks, and just past the 3rd node, I figured it's sort of now or never since they're all autos. Even the Tangerine Dream has perked right up! Day 19: No water today, no other fussing. Did add some small fans for air movement, but they seem to have been fine with the transplant earlier this week, the upped nutrients on Tuesday & the topping/FIM on Wednesday. A little residual droop happening but it's definitely not overwatering at this point. The Most likely haven't fully grown out of the soil they were originally cupped in. You can see if you look at the one side shot there's action happening along the leaf nodes now too. Day 20: Disappointed to find the single Blueberry Auto got some kind of leaf burn. From my question, it appears to be nutrient related. I'll drop back a bit next week on that. I did water this morning, as the soil was dry. They do seem to get a little water-sad day of watering but then that gets better in the next couple days. I did water further out on the pots than before because I'd like the roots to grow/spread a bit and I don't think they'll do that with dry soil. Used straight tap/well water with a pH of 7...the soil measures at 6.2pH and the very little bit of runoff hit right at 6.5pH. Day 21: In an effort to get the best lighting DL'ed Photone and paid for the LED setting. Showed that my lighting was too low/intense. I backed it up to 19" and ended up with a more reasonable PPFD of ~650 and a Lux in the 39K-42K range. Definitely watered a bit too much back on Day 20 though...will wait a few more days, like 22 or 23. Day 22: Took all plants out to get better pictures waiting a few more days to water as they're mildly droopy & the leaves have taken a minor yellow cast. The Tangerine Dream that got FIM'ed seems to be the winner right now, but the others are holding in. Day 23: This morning's check in shows that overwatering droops are gone and now 2 out of 4 don't have yellowing. The Blueberry & Tangerweenie Dream are coming along and the two Northern Lights are still a hint yellowed. Soil near the stem is still damp below the surface so it will be tomorrow or Wednesday before a watering. Temps this week here are mid 80's to 90, but since the tent is basement level it's been maintaining 81-83f. It only really heats up if I push our dehumidifiers (not in tent, but in the lower level of our house). Day 24: No new pics, growth continues but slowly. Foliage is no longer droopy but the yellowing is still subsiding...Will be a few days before watering again. No new leaf-burn or other such things. Deep diving on information about PPFD & DLI for all phases of growth, Definitely have been bombing them out with light both in length and intensity. Now I have a better handle on balancing PPFD with amount of time and getting a reasonable DLI for the plants. As such, while I haven't watered or touched the lil' ladies in a few days, I have fussed with the lights and timing. They're now up at 24" and I'm down to about 580-620 PPFD at plant-top, still maybe a bit more than autos want. I've pulled my schedule back to 17.5/6.5 and may trim that a little more too.
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Grow Questions
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 3 years ago
Are these on track or slow/low? 1st time grow, 3 auto varieties. Today is the 14th day since seeds hit the soil. They look healthy, but they're all only 1.5" to 2" tall. Do I need to raise my lights? They're currently @ 14" above the leaves with 1x225wLED & 2x 32wLED.
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 3 years ago
They may be a bit over watered. Can't really comment on light hight ad unformiliar with it. With my lights it's about 18 inch above in veg, also your going need to pot up to your final container.
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 3 years ago
Brown spots on my Auto Blueberry...What's causing this? They weren't there yesterday. Haven't moved my lights. Fed (GH Trio,CALiMAGic) Tuesday, watered today (Fri). pH runoff = 6.5 Temp@77f, Hum=58% None of my others (NL & Tan.Dream auto) have it.
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Leaves. Color - Mottling
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ChitownCannaChica
ChitownCannaChicaanswered grow question 3 years ago
Just give them straight up 6.5 waterβ€”- not 7β€” go lower. Looks more like a water spot/light burn…
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 3 years ago
Anyone have a quick and easy rule/suggestion for PPFD & lux for plants in Seedling, Vegetative & Flowering states? Lots of divergent answers online. At plant top right now I'm currently at ~1000PPFD and the lux readings are 49,000-51,000. What are 'best practices' for this?
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Cannabeast40
Cannabeast40answered grow question 3 years ago
Lowest numbers to hit: Seedlings: 200-300 ΞΌMols Vegetative: 306 ΞΌMols Flowering: 463 ΞΌMols If you want to increase the amount of light from 20 to 40 moles per day, resulting in higher yields, you simply need to double the numbers above, but not the Seedling stage – 308 PPFD to 616 PPFD during the vegetative phase, and 463 PPFD to 925 PPFD during the flowering phase. Seedlings: 200-300 ΞΌMols Vegetative: 617 ΞΌMols Flowering: 925 ΞΌMols Best of luck and happy growing my friend.
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 3 years ago
My auto blueberry just started showing some yellowing mid-plant. It's first/second week of flower. Thoughts on what she needs? None of the others have it (Tangerine Dream & Northern Lights). Doesn't show signs of overwater. More deets below.
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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ChitownCannaChica
ChitownCannaChicaanswered grow question 3 years ago
Hiβ€” she just started to flower and it looks like there is a touch of purpling??? I think you are rightβ€”- get more aggressive on the feed. She looks like she is lacking potassium and phosphorus.
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 3 years ago
This Northern Lights auto is being vexatious...I can't get rid of the yellowing towards the bottom. Not overwatered, I've tried beefing up the nutrients, etc. with no effect. Any thoughts or do I just writing off as she's just being a jerk? Other plants in this grow are fine.
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Leaves. Color - Yellow
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WeGro
WeGroanswered grow question 3 years ago
OK dli is good, 60 is max.. but, if the dli is given to intense (to close light) the leaf turn upwards like yours, so you might back light a little. 4-7 cm? problem with ppm is that is no standard definition of it. sometimes 700ppm =1 ec. sometimes 500ppm =1 ec?? its just a mess. it depends on your reader. So anyway, i dont know how much 500-800 ppm is. You should however be between 1.2 - 2 EC for soil flowering. make sure you measure the run-off water.. if its a lot less then what you feed them, they need more nuets. (EC target need sometimes even go up to 2.2-2,6 ec ... if strain demands, typical indica to need much and sativa little.. or if you are doing hydro/coco that also needs more EC.) Anyway about your nuets,, i read only 1/2 strength nutrient and that's not good. I too use GHE tripart, their seedling feed where spot on EC-target. (with my water). I think GHE have good ec targets in mind when design feedchart, but of course your water quality also plays a part.. but i would just go full strength mate. atleast for 2-3 watering and see what happens
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrowerstarted grow question 2 years ago
Just chopped my first 4 plants, all auto. Did 2x Northern Lights, 1 Blueberry, 1 Tangerine Dream. I have enough seeds for a few more rounds. But I should probably pick one type & do 4. Help me pick! BB are fussy, TD are more Sativa, NL are classic. Thoughts?
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LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGroweranswered grow question 2 years ago
@BeautifulCraftRreddit Leaning towards the NL's too, given they did pretty well no matter how badly I butchered them...and also I just have more of those seeds. I have 8 on hand still. Though soonish I'd like to move over from autos to photoperiod so I can have more control over things and try my hand at more training techniques.
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LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGroweranswered grow question 2 years ago
@ BeautifulCraftRreddit; Yeah, the Blueberry was more prone to conditional problems, sensitive to nutrient burn, etc. And it was also the first to hit flower-fade at the end of its time. It helped convince me that it wasn't the best to run 3 different strains at the same time. At the same point, if I'm running 4 of the same thing, it's easier to tailor the feed to that one strain, and dial that in, I think. On the other hand, I have 8 NL seeds (I originally bought 10 NL, and 5's of the others). And those plants just GREW the best. Once I got used to them, they did well and even with all my abuse they were very forgiving. The Tangerine Dream is the one strain that's heavier on the Sativa...but the one I grew was really dense and tight and was a mutant that only ever developed 3-lobe leaves that always pointed downwards. So this round I ended with a bunch of reasonable indica heavy stuff and less sativa, so there's some draw to balancing it out. I'm going to move to Pro-Mix and stay with all my other common elements but get some good myco for next run. I'm also going to start out in .75g pots instead of cups.
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BeautifulCraftRreddit
BeautifulCraftRredditanswered grow question 2 years ago
@LeastExpectedGrower LYeah I did the same thing as you, tested out a gelato, sour diesel and purple lemonade all at the same time and mid grow was thinking how I should have done just one. I went dry amendments so I didn't have to really worry about feeding just watering but the sour diesel just wasn't letting up on how much cal mag she wanted
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@LeastExpectedGrower, But doin' good
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@Ferenc, Thank you! :) I've been doing the deep dive research so it was time to just simplify and start it up. A good friend who's a pro-grower/specialist told me I've 'jumped right into the deep end of the pool' on this.
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Good luck buddy πŸ‘
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@Rock_n_Roll_Randy, Thank you!
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Thank you!
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good luck with the grow....enjoy.
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Thank you!
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Grower2021253week 4
I dig the humidistat. I have the same one. Battery died last week and been too lazy to get replacements =]
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@Grower2021253,I invite you to see my diary 🀝
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@Grower2021253, Surprisingly cheap. I have mine updating every 30 minutes (while I'm away at work I can see how things are unfolding). I recently adjusted it to reflect what the meter on my AC Infinity controller says, since I'm guessing that is fairly accurate. I also have some smart plugs that I can trigger extra fans, etc. when I'm away from the house. Right now no matter what it looks brutal since the exterior temps are 85-90f during the day and 75-85% humidity. My dehumidifiers can mostly keep up but it's keeping grow tent conditions a little warmer than ideal!
DBoogie
DBoogieweek 3
Good luck with the grow! I see you went with Growers Choice Seeds!! ahaha This is my first grow as well. I am growing Tangerine Dream πŸ˜… annnnnnnd GIRL SCOUT COOKIES woot woot. Check out my grow!
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@DBoogie,I invite you to see my diary 🀝
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@DBoogie, Thanks! I'll definitely follow along. I'm just learning the basics, so I've been trying to check out what others doing the same seeds and similar setups are doing!
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2x2growingweek 8
Good luck with your diary🀞
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@2x2growing, Thank you, I appreciate it. Good to see other riddim players here... I've spent lots of time standing on stage behind a bass.
Kitties_and_Colas
Kitties_and_Colasweek 3
Northern Lights by Grower's Choice is some pretty good stuff..good luck with yours!! πŸ±β€οΈπŸ’‘πŸŒ±
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Those swings you mentioned are why we only run a veg tent down there..humidity is rough in the summer but perfect all winter, we typically pick tropical/heat resistant strains for the summer indoors and heavy indica outside (or inside during the winter) our GDP run was a fluke, Grower's Choice decided to send us all autoflowers (..again πŸ™„) and of all the GDP seeds we got 1 photoperiod, so we took 6-7 clones, vegged them and flowered them with mom indoors... that GDP took the heat better than my Kush lol, I still can't explain that lol
LeastExpectedGrower
LeastExpectedGrower
@Kitties_and_Colas, that's at least a cool work-around and a nice way to think around corners. I do all basement (we don't have an attic), but the basement is the most consistent zone for us across a season, where our living space is all over the place depending on the day's weather. Also, we're prone to house guests and gatherings. Once we really hit fall, the humidity will naturally drop at basement level into the 20-40% range for Fall/Winter/Spring and the room with the tent will remain in the 65-75 range, so summer is the real challenge. This first growing experience has been a challenge in a lot of ways, but also has been a great learning/researching experience, so I'm not at all sorry that it's been tough. Luckily I don't have my hopes pinned on a big harvest for it. In reality, most of what we do will go towards edible projects anyway.
Kitties_and_Colas
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Thanks!! Yeah its been pretty rough here too... we veg in a basement and flower in an attic lol..we're constantly chasing Temps this year..
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Wackytabacky_420
Wackytabacky_420week 16
Nice harvest! Enjoy the rewards of your hard work! Best of luck and Happy Growing!πŸ˜ŽπŸŒ±πŸ’šπŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺ
LeastExpectedGrower
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@Wackytabacky_420, Strong stuff...a quarter teaspoon is plenty, and much more than that, I'm out of commission for a good while.
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@LeastExpectedGrower, nice! Sounds delicious 🀀🀀!
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LeastExpectedGrower
@Wackytabacky_420, Thank you! Making infused honey from the trim right now...
Sour_D
Sour_Dweek 15
Nice!
LeastExpectedGrower
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@Sour_D, Thanks! I actually had really low expectations for this time around as a first...but I'm overall really pleased with where it ended. Will be interesting to weigh it once dried.
Godesskat
Godesskatweek 13
Everything is better with a beg of weedπŸ‘» Good luck happy growing😍
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@Godesskat, Thanks! You too!
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Mr_Cannuccia19week 13
Gigante πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»
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@Mr_Cannuccia19, Tiny little giants!
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Inganjawetrustweek 11
Coming along nicely man πŸ₯¦πŸ₯¦πŸ₯¦ best of luck ✌️
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Good jobπŸ’šπŸ™πŸ»
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@LittleJohn, Thanks!
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Enjoy! πŸ‘οΈmy 🌸 chem bride diary. Thanks! πŸ‘πŸΌ
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Beautiful budsπŸ˜‰πŸ‘
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I invite you to see my diary 🀝
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Nice harvest! Enjoy the rewards of your hard work! Best of luck and Happy Growing!πŸ˜ŽπŸŒ±πŸ’šπŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺ
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Nice harvest! Enjoy the rewards of your hard work! Best of luck and Happy Growing!πŸ˜ŽπŸŒ±πŸ’šπŸ’ͺπŸ’ͺ