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Hey Guys, whats up?! Welcome to my first grow ever... Decided to start my growing career on an aeroponic high pressure watering system and LED lights.
Here's the setup:
Build myself my own Growbox out of MDF and coated it with pond liner, sealed it all up with Tape so there are no airgaps. On top of that layer I put Diamant Silver Eco EASYGROW foil for the right reflection of light, all sealed up with diamond aluminum tape.
Box 120x100x285cm ; 2 Compartments ; Top has a height of 36 cm. Top has the exhaust ventilation System build in, which is connected to the grow cabin through a hole in the ceiling. A 125mm hose is connected to the Active carbon filter installed under the ceiling in the grow room.
-Aero grow garland Table M by aeroponik systems
-Prima Klima Active Carbon Filter Industrie 460 m³/h ø125mm
-Prima Klima Rohrventilator Whisperblower EC Drehzahregler 0-100% 450m³/h ø125mm
-Sanlight Evo Series 4-120 250 W for Veg&Flower
-Secret Jardin Cosmorrow Veg LED 20W for Seedling Stage
-2 Fans 20 W one oscillating
-Humidifier 4L Tank
-Bluelab Guardian PH/EC Monitor
Day 1-7
13.01.22 - 19.01.22
Seeds in a glas of water for 1 day; next day put them in 2 layers of kitchen paper towels, keep them nice and moist PH: 6
EC: 1,1 [BETTER 0,4- 0,6] my tap water is really fucked up. EC 1.1 pH 6.8
Day3 16.01.22
10 of 12 Seeds germinated and I put them in 4x4cm cubes (Rockwool cubes put in ph 4,5 water bath for 24h to set the right ph level in the cube)
25' C und 70-90 % Humidity and the in a heated mini greenhouse
Day 4-7 17.01.22 - 19.01.22
keep the blocks moist 1xday I drain the lower 1 cm of the cube into water and 4-5xday I spray them with a spraybottle.
Day 6 1 Stem incl 2 Leaves
Day 7 4 Stems incl 2 Leaves
Day 8
21.01.22
7 Stems 4 incl 2 Set of Leaves
Day 10 23.01.22
I had to get rid of 3 cubes because they didnt produce anything, either the cube is to damaged or the seedling didnt make it out of the cube
Day 11 24.01.22
Nutrients per 1L
0,5ml Canna Aqua Veg A+B
Rhizotonic 2ml
Temp 25 Day / 21 Night
Humidity 70-90% still1xday 1cm cube watering and 4-5xday I spray my girls via spraybottle with ph 5,8 NS
Day 15-21 28.01.22 - 02.02.22
Cubes still in the mini greenhouse at 25*C ; Humidity 60-70% Keep in mind the ventilation and distance of your lamp
Day 16 29.01.22 1 Cube thrown out!!
Day 20 02.02.22
Nutrient Solution (NS) mixed
65 L Water (25/40 Dest./ TapW) PH 6,5 EC 0,5
10 L out again
Nutrients:
Vega A+B 100 ml + 100ml
Rhizotonic 90 ml
Cannazym 120 ml
NS 55L
EC 1,4
PH 5,6
Day 21-27
03.02.22 - 09.02.22
Day 21 03.02.22 My 6 remaining girls are planted into the system today and get a watering cycle of 1m on, 15m off 24/7 h
Temp 22*C ; Humidity 45 %
Day 22 04.02.22 Still no real progress, the ladys have their heads down and show signs of overwatering?!
Day 23-24 05.02.22 - 06.02.22 The babys seem to have adjusted to their new home and show good vegitation right now.
Humidifier installed. 4 L Tank Refill once every 24h
Temp 21-23*C/Night 19*C ; Humidity 50-70 % ; NS Temp 19*C ; EC 1,5 PH 5,8
Sanlight dimmed to 40% ; starting on the 08.02.22 dimmed to 60%
ca 80 cm distance lamp to flower
Day 22 - 28
10.02.22 - 16.02.22 Babes going into their third week of veg. in the system. Looks pretty good so far. One is way smaller than the rest but still kicking...
Day 28 16.02.22
New NS 60 L mixed (Osmosiswater) starting DAY 29
Cal-Mag 20 ml until I reach an EC = 0,4
Aqua Vega A+B 120 ml each
Cannazym 120 ml
Rhizotonic 100 ml
PH 5.5 EC 1,6
Temp NS 18 *C
Distance light to plants 50 cm.
As you can see i changed the setup inside the growbox a little bit, because i couldnt hang the light any deeper than the monitoring board. Putting that board vertical instead of horizontaly did the trick just fine and is way easier to handle asswell. Lights can be put down all the way to the plants now.
I also changed up the position of the fans, putting one on each side of the sanlight cooling panels so that thee lamp stays balanced in the center. One looking slightly down towards the plants and one slightly up, for best possible air ventilation.
Day 30 - 36 17.02.22 - 23.02.22
DAY 30 17.02.22
I changed the NS today, after letting it gas out for 24 hours. EC 1,6
PH 5,5
NS Temp 18* C
Topping of all six plants today went without any complications, lets wait and see how the girls adapt..
DAY 37 - 43 24.02. - 02.03.22
DAY 37 24.02.22 After topping all of the girls yesterday, it seems to be working just fine, since all of them seem to be still growing strong. Added a little bit of LST on top.
DAY 38 25.02.22 My smallest baby seems to have some Problems... Some deficiancy Leaves are getting yellowish with bronce Spots in the middle. I started changing watering times and adjusted the PH and EC Level since they where going up a little bit. (EC 1,9 and PH going up to 6,3) Finished the NS off with 15 more liters of Osmosiswater to get it down... EC 1,3 PH 5,5 added a lil bit of ph down asswell.
DAY 39 26.02.22 Another one of my babys has to sets of leaves showing signs of deficiancy, the small one didn't make it so i took here out of the tent and had to let her move to Valhalla...she's doing just fine now i guess...
DAY 40 27.02.22 Plants look pretty good. I added another 10 l of water to the solution so that it will be enough till I change the NS on DAY 42/43
DAY 41 28.02.22 Nothing worth mentioning today!
DAY 42 01.03.22 Nothing worth mentioning today!
DAY 43 02.03.22 I mixed up the new NS today so that I could leave it standing to gas out for 24 h.
Distance lights to plants 50 cm. Sanlight Evo 4-120 is running at 80%.
DAY 44 - 50 03.03. - 09.03.22
DAY 44 03.03.22
Mixed New Nutrient Solutionon DAY 43; Gased out for 24h
60 L Osmosiswater
Cal-Mag 35 ml until reaching EC = 0,4
Aqua FLores A+B jeweils 150 ml
Cannazym 120 ml
Rhizotonic 30 ml
PH 5,1 ; EC 1,6 ; Temp NS 18* C
decided to give it a little more Flores A+B 20 ml each and adjusted the PH.
PH 5,5 ; EC 1,8 ; Temp NS 19* C ; Watering Cycle 2/5 (on/off)
Distance lights to plants 30 cm. Sanlight Evo 4-120 is now running at 100%.
I have to admit I fucked up, something went horribly wrong with my babys over the last 1,5 days of veg. I didnt have much time and let it slip for a day, didnt realize how low the water level in the tank was... Result: Two of my girls did NOT make it... :-(
Learning curve pointing straight up...
DAY 51 - 57 10.03.22 - 16.03.22
The three remaining girls were sent to flower on 02.03.22, so we are currently on FLDAY 10, they have stretch quite a bit over the last two weeks, gaining an extra 20- 30 cm of hight. SInce they seem to be very thirsty i had to change the NS on DAY 54 already...
It slowly but surely starts smelling a fair amount when i open up the door.
DAY 57 - 63 16.03.22 - 23.03.22
Had to start the new NS early ( DAY 54 13.03.22)
60 L Osmosiswater
Cal-Mag 35 ml until reaching EC = 0,4
Aqua FLores A+B jeweils 170ml
Cannazym 120ml
Rhizotonic 30ml
PH 5,8 ; EC 1,8 ; Temp NS 19* C
DAY 61 Lollipopping
Today I gave the ladys a good trimming down below to maximize airflow and get rid of the budsides that would only make those unwanted popcorn buds...
DAY 64 -70
24.03.22 - 30.03.22
Had to change the NS again because the ladys are extremly thirsty theses days... ( DAY 64 24.03.22)
60 L Osmosiswater
Cal-Mag 35 ml until reaching EC = 0,4
Aqua FLores A+B jeweils 190ml
Cannazym 120ml
Rhizotonic 30ml
PH 5,8 ; EC 2,1 ; Temp NS 19* C
DAY 65
4 Days after lollipopping the girls seem to have recoverd quite nicely and are back to producing...
Slowly the smell is increasing so I turned up the exhaust fan to 70%.
After having had the door open for the water change yesterday and after 20 minutes of working my bedroom was smelling like a greenhouse :-)
DAY 71-77 30.03. - 06.04.22
Still going...
70 L Osmosiswater (NEW 31.03.22)
Cal-Mag 35 ml until reaching EC = 0,3
Aqua FLores A+B each 160ml
Cannazym 150ml
Rhizotonic 30ml
PH 5,8 ; EC 1,6 ; Temp NS 20* C
These girls are still growing strong...the right side of the box is still stretching. Left side is already grown into the lamps... some light burns are visible. Had to take the led and deconnect the easy roll hanging system to get some more space between them and the plants...
DAY 78-84 07.04.22 - 13.04.22
See for yourselves... Nothing much to say at the moment...
Biggest one (left side of the tent ) is at 165 cm.
Second makes it to 142 cm.
Third place 125 cm.
They are currently getting the same feed as they did the week before. I added a total of 20 l osmosiswater so far. Everytime the EC was reaching .1 above my current EC max of 1,8 I added water till it dropped back to the minimum. Same goes for the PH levels. I start on PH 5,8 and let it go up to 6,2 before adjusting to 5,8 with ph - down again.
PH 5,8 - 6,2 ; EC 1,4 - 1,8 ; Temp NS 18* C
DAY 84 - 90 13.04.22 - 20.04.22
DAY 84
Still the same...smell is getting stronger every day now, but nothing gets out of the box. so far everything seems to be going really well. Buds are starting to get some darker coloring.
DAY 88
They are currently still getting the same feed as they did the 2 weeks before. I added a total of 40 l osmosiswater so far. Everytime the EC was reaching .1 above my current EC max of 1,8 I added water till it dropped back to the minimum. Same goes for the PH levels. I start on PH 5,8 and let it go up to 6,2 before adjusting to 5,8 with ph - down again.
PH 5,8 - 6,2 ; EC 1,4 - 1,8 ; Temp NS 18* C
DAY 89
NEW NS mixed 60L Osmosiswater
Cal-Mag 35 ml bis zum Erreichen von EC = 0,4
Aqua FloRes A+B jeweils 130 ml
Cannazym 130 ml
Rhizotonic 20 ml
PH 5,8 ; EC 1,6 ; Temp NS 20* C
Method of maintaining is of course still in use!
My sweet girls are slowly getting closer to their endgoal. Still at least two more weeks of flower then i will flush them for to days before harvest.
Let's see how it all works out.
DAY 91 - 97
21.04. - 27.04.22
DAY 91
NS 60L Osmosewasser (from DAY 89)
Cal-Mag 35 ml bis zum von Erlangen EC = 0,4
Aqua Flores A+B 130 ml
Cannazym 130 ml
rhizotonic 20 ml
pH 5,8; EC 1,6; Temp NS 20* C
DAY 98-104
28.04.22 - 04.05.22
We are going into the last week(s) of flower. All seems to be working out pretty well. See for yourselves.
I'm still feeding them the same NS as the week before.
DAY 100 30.04.22
I changed the NS to only osmosis plus calmag for the flush today.
DAY 102 03.05.22
I took their water away to dry them out the last 48 hours before harvest. They won't get any light in that timeframe asswell.
PH: 5,8 - 6,2
EC: 0,8 Temp: 18'C
DAY 105 - 05.05.22 TIME TO HARVEST
I fortunatly had a helping hand harvesting these 3 lovely ladies ( Thx again YouNowWhoYouAre) still it took us 6 hours. The smell was insane!!!
DAY 113 13.05.22 DRY TRIMM
After 11 days of drying I was ready to dry trimm my babies. Took a hell of a long time asswell, 6,5 hours i would say.
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