By continuing to use the website or clicking Accept you consent to our cookies and personal data policy and confirm that you are at least 18 year old. For details please see Privacy Policy and Terms
FIRST TIME LED EVERYONE!
Initial setting:
Hipargero 400w cob/led + 80w grow led (one of the circular E27)
Rich soil in 18l smartpots
Growbox about 1,2 m x 1,2 m x 2 m
Automatic irrigation tool
4 Tangerine Auto
1 Critical Kush Auto
I just want to try those automatic strain. All of them germinated in less than 48h, Three of them just sprouted. I'm afraid the power of the light will be soon not enough even for the vegetation phase, but let's see how it goes: I've checked a lot of diaries here and I'm not sure I've found a pattern about LED wattage/number of plants.
Here they are my sweet little girls <3
UPDATE: the two that have germinated but not sprouted: they're gone. I killed them by moving the plastic glass around. I'm a murderer. I'm guilty.
Oh, well, more light for the strong three.
Second week now, we are growing good, healthy. The growbox conditions are perfect, I couldn't hope better for the weather too, it is giving full rain days, pushing the humidity around 55%.
Added BioBizz Bio-Grow in the tank, let's see how the babies react.
Sprayed a solution with neem oil, just for precaution :)
UPDATE: on day 8 given tap water again, just to be sure to take baby steps on nutes. The twisted-leaves (yesterday i just forgot to move the heater on the side and she has taken too much hot air) lady has been moved on the other side of the growbox, the heater is now pointing to the walls.
I'm not used to autos, in general with photoperiod strains I prefer to top at the third internode, I've read many conflicting opinions, what do you advice guys? They seems healthy, should I give it a try? Will they recover in time for flowering?
Hi ! I dont recommend topping autos you can get dissapointed very easy, i always prefer to do LST but if you really want to try topping i suggest doing it at the 4th Node when they are still young autos need more time to heal because they start to bloom after 4/5th week depending on the strain, i also recommend not to spray water on them in direct light as it may cause burns on your leaves, if its the sprayer than fix it😬? goodluck and happy growing ! and be careful with nutes i would follow some feeding schedule as i see you are using biobizz nutrients if you need any more help feel free to send me a message ! 🙏
15/11/18 : Start of week 3.
The weather is getting cold and the heater is stable on 25°C 20h/day, now. They probably had few hours under 20°C today and yesterday, I hope they will go on like nothing happened.
Today I added BioGrow with half the required quantity to see if they react in some way. Planning to add more in two days.
I've noticed different grow in all three babies: one is Big, one is Small and one is exactly in the Middle. It's at least curious, I've treated all 3 in the exactly same way and I've even rotate position of the pots under the light.
They are all working on the 5th pair of leaves, I'm sooo tempted to top the big one, her internode space is impressive...she's developing a lot there....what do you think guys?
UPDATE: the heater is broken. The big growbox was in a basement but the temperatures are way too low now. I had to move eveything in a small growbox inside the house, so now I have perfect temperature and shitty spacing. Thinking about scrog, always if I didn't stun them with this cold. I'm sad :(
In regards to week 3, different heights are definitely normal, even in the same strain. What you are seeing are different phenotypes showing thru, kinda the same way in terms of a litter of puppies. They all come from the same parents, but they are all different in one way or another. If you’ve never topped before I think the tall one is a perfect opportunity to try it out. Some people will say don’t do it, but it’s really just a preference thing with autos.
@SommerVirelli, ty i will def try it. I know about phenotypes but I was stunned about this kind of differences never experienced before :) lets see where it goes
When I topped her at the 5th node, she was already on her 7th.. it was perfect timing!
ps. I update my diaries on Mondays, so I will have some awesome pics to show.
You already have done the most important things for autoflowers. Put them after germination in final pot (check) Give them fluffy prefertilised Soil, (check) Avoid to much water to much Nutes, to near to the LIght. But up to here done things Right
They respond very well to LST and Leave tucking. Some strains are very nice to top others i wont recommend. Its alway the question how strong the Plant grows. But LST works every time. Ive grown a lot automatics that season feel free to look
Lady_ZuppaStufa
