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First of all, sorry if my English is not perfect. I will do my best
Secondly, I am in no way a PRO grower, I have done some growths, but I never put much time in it, and the result is usually good (with room for improvements), but the yield defiantly suffers in my opinion, and now I want to learn, and explorer different methods to improve the yields, and perhaps the quality. I have improved my soil, by adding about 20% perlite and 10% coco coir. In my previously growths, I used BioTabs ONLY (nothing more then the tabs you put into the soil), and I still have quite a few left, so I bought the starter pack from BioTabs with everything they recommend by their manual, to use for my current/future growths (At least the auto strains) and will properly look into other nutrients when I have used up my BioTabs
For this grow, I am also going to try some new techniques. The plan is: Whenever they are about 2 levels high (Around start of week 3) I plan to replant them all into 20L pots and top them. After a week or so I will try for the first time to do Main-Lining (Fingers crossed I succeed). Slowly after that I will do some LST (Also for the first time), and at some point, I also plan to do some Defoliation. There are many new techniques I have never tried before, and I hope to learn them by running this grow.
The soil I use for this grow is properly not the ideal, but it have worked for me serval times. The soil is 70% sphagnum and 30% wood fibre. PH = 5.8 - 6.6. Degree of humification: h5-h6. EC: 25-45 mS/m It contains the following minerals and nutrients each cubic meter: Nitrate-N 52g, Ammonium-N 88g, phosphorus (P) 70g, potassium (K) 149g, magnesium (Mg) 5g, Boron 0.3g, molybdenum 2g, copper 1.2g, manganese 1.6g, zinc 0.4g, iron 0.9g. Any advice on picking the right soil is very appreciated!
The germination method I used was paper-towel, and it went surprisingly fast. Around 36 hours later they where sprung out, and I planted them in small pots, maybe under 1L (Day 1 picture)
Now the plant has begun to show it self :) (Day 4 pictures)
Day 7: All plants looks good and healthy, yeah! Good start. They tend to be a little high, so I have placed the light a little closer :)
Day 7: I looked through other diaries here, and found 1 guy who chopped over some water bottles, and put them on top of the plant to dramatically increase the humidity, and I immediately had to try it out for my self. The day after I looked to the plants at they seem to enjoy the new humidity levels :D (See pictures from day 8). Everything seems smooth so far, and it won't be long until I will replant and top the plants
Day 10: I looked to the plants, and it seems like they are getting a little yellow. Maybe its normal, but I decided to give them a little CalMag (approx 0.3ml per L.) and hope for the best. The next day I could not see any difference (see day 11 pics), but they seem to grow fine
Day 13: The plants grows good, but they are still a bit yellow. It don't seems to get any worse, and was told not to worry about it. The plants fan leaves are growing out of the bottles, and some of the perlite has turned green (properly caused by the high humidity), so I have decided to remove them from the plants. I don't think I can top them yet, so ill wait a couple days more before replant and topping
Day 14: The plants began to show some yellow/brown spots, and I raised another question. I quickly got response, but multiple caused is posted. I think the light is too close to the plant, is one of the reasons, but I think there is more to it. I raised the light to about 25cm, and hope for the best!
Hey, your little ones are not looking to bad at all.
I would not worry to much about it.
One thing of advice is that autoflowers are not as heavy feeders as Photoperiods.
If you give them to much feed they can sometimes enter flowering early.
They will benefit from a flush entering flower to clear out any built up salts in the soil before feeding gets heavy.
this link is a good reference points for strengths of feed. still have to go by what your plant is telling you though.
https://www.autoflower.net/forums/threads/med-man-method-feeding-chart-ppm-ec.47856/
Best of Luck and Happy Growing!
My plants are becoming more yellow and now also showing some brown/yellow marks. I'm afraid it’s because I may have splashed some water containing a little bit of CalMag on them one time, not knowing better. Might that be the issue here? And most importantly, what should I do?
It does look like they have had a bit of burn from some water droplets.
are you balancing out the waters ph as well? or just adding in calmg to its water?
Your diary says the lamps distance to the plants is 10cm, or just under 4 inches.
That is way to close. If it's meant to be 10 inches that's also a little close for seedlings sometimes.
I would aim for anywhere between 25-35" for sprouts on a 600w led if that the true wattage its pulling. Some of them also have dimmers.
Some of this could be light stress but I'd like to confirm the lighting distance before thinking about that.
If you light manufacture has a PPFD map you can reference then use it as a guide line and adjust from there.
Good Luck and Happy Growing!
Okay, so after my plants began to show some bad signs at day 14 I raised a new grow question, and from the answers I learned that my light properly was too close to my plants, I immediately raised the light to about 25 cm. I don't think the issue is over feeding as I haven't given my plants any nutrients, except from maybe 10cl of water containing the smallest dose recommended of CalMag. But again it could also be the soil I use, but never seen this before using the same soil. I have also thought that maybe I over watered them, that is also kind of food for the plant. Anyway the grow must go on :)
And.... A BIG THANK YOU to all the help I've got so far!
Today I replanted my babies to a big 20L pot, and the roots where almost filling up the container, so maybe that also contributed to the bad signs? Anyhow, they seem pretty fine now and I do not see any new yellow spots, and I think they getting more green and healthy again. I also decided to start with the BioTabs nutrients schedule, as I also think they where getting a little hungry. The soil I use says the nutrients only apply the first 1-2 weeks, another reason to think they was not over feed, and maybe under feed? I used 2 BioTabs, 50g Strartrex, and 5g Mycotrex in the soil, for each plant. The other nutrients mentioned are used this one time for this week, and the only tap water
On another note, after the recommendation in the answer to my grow question, I decided to only do Topping, LST, and Defoliation, but I still wait a couple of days before topping them
Day 18: My plants seems to have fully recovered, and today I decided it was time to top them as it might soon be too late. They actually seems like they should have been topped yesterday, but I didn't have the time there
Day 22: A couple of days ago, I added another lamp. I don't know if it is too early, but I think I gonna need 2 of these lamps at one point, and decided to add it now. I also started a new freebie seed, just to get more out of the 2 lamps. Plants looks good and healthy, although you can still see the damage on the lower branches, happened at week 2
Day 27: Wow, now it is going fast! And they are so beautiful these girls. So glad I picked this breeder and strain! Everything seems super good now, and today i chose to try some LST on them. I am not sure if I am doing it right, but I have to try, to get practice in LST
Day 28: I think my LST is looking good, lets see what happens in the next couple of days. It might not be too long before they are going to bloom, but I hope I can do some more LST before that
Day 30: I am beginning to get a feeling of how to do LST and how the plant reacts. I decided to change some of my previous LST and added some new. Everything is looking very good! I never had so beautiful girls in my tend ever before, and really hope that I am on the right path with my LST 😇 I am also considering doing some Defoliation very soon
Day 31: I noticed I missed up with the days on the pictures for this week. It is corrected now. After I did some changes to my LST yesterday, the plants has fully recovered, and I am leaving them at it is although I am still considering Defoliation, but I wait at least a couple of days more
Day 33: I can see one of the plants is not growing as big as the others, but everything seems good. I think I should let the plants grow now without touching them for awhile
Day 35: Lol. I can now see I haven't done regular LST in week 4, it must be Main-lining :D I was wondering if what I did really was regular LST, and not Main-lining, but now I see it. Maybe I should not have topped them before LST to do regular LST. Either way, I am still going to do some LST if I can
Main lining involves LST so yes, you are actually using both principles, although LST on its own does not necessarily involve topping.
Also, 18/6 is better for your plants, they need sleep to function properly. Don't worry, growth will be identical, if not better with more sleep.
Ease up on the nutrients, they are very, very dark green, half to three quarters strength nutrients is usually plenty.
Do not defoliate, - less leaves = less energy being made = less growth.
Since they are autos and considering what you have already done to them, I would just leave them to do their thing without further interference.
Nice job though.
Day 37: The girls are growing fast and strong! They also seems to have turned into flowering state now. Everything seems good. Ive been recommended to just let the girls do their job from now, and I won't touch them for awhile, but I think I soon will give them some more nutrients as they are now in flowering state.
Day 54: The plants are growing fine, and looks healthy. It is maybe going a little slow now, but I think that's normal in the current state. I have also decided to feed the girls a bit, and from my many recommendations gathered from my grow questions (And a big thank you to all the help!), auto-flower don't eat as much as photos, so I gave the half dose of the nutrient schedule recommendations (Approx 1600 ppm). It is given to them this one time only, for each plant, and afterwards i am back to just plain water (240 ppm)
Day 62: These girls looks absolutely fabulous! I never had so beautiful girls in my tent, and I have a feeling it is going to be a record for me in terms of output in cured grams :) The smell is very awesome. Sweet with a tend of earth. Can't wait till harvest :D
Day 69: Plants are growing fine, and looks healthy, only problem is the weight. Some of the stems are needing a little support, and I just moved the pots closer to the tents sides, to give some support
Day 74: The buds are getting really heavy, and many of the stems a struggling to hold the weight. I have done my best to give them some support, and hope for the best. Also some of the fans are beginning to turn a little yellow, I wonder what could cause that....
Day 98: I have not been active for the last 25 days, and only watered the plants, because of family emergency. I think it is time to harvest :) Tomorrow I will start cutting down the most dark buds, and slowly cut it all in the next couple of weeks
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