6 seeds out of 7 made it under the "sun". The "bad seed" had a nice white root inside the rockwool, but for some reason it could not open up the seeds shell and rotted inside. I opened it up with a pair of tweezers and let it be for a few days, but it did not show any signs of life, so.. ๐ข
On the 3rd day I noticed the leaves getting larger, so I decided to move the light closer to the plants. It was about 75 cm, now its about 53 cm from them. Today I also noticed that the coco-perlite mix emits a lot of water. So I gave them some water again even though I gave them water the day before. I also set up the AIRDOME system and turned it on from now on. There's one in every pot and I got 2 airpumps pumping oxygen inside the medium.
On the 4th day it got a few degrees (Cยฐ) warmer outside. So did the inside of my growing room. Opening up windows did not help to bring the air down a few degrees from 30, so I had to make a fresh air intake system. It's hanging there on the picture right above the automatic moisturizer. By the end of the day I got the temperature back to 25Cยฐ ๐ค
5th day was still warm. Fresh air intake stayed on.
6th day I switched off the intake, but put it back on later. Most of the room was 25 degrees, but the far corner was too hot. I have a laser thermometer which is very handy for measuring the medium, solution and every surface I need.
I have watered them every day since day 3. Some days twice with small amounts - MISTAKE! One of the babies turned droopy and I was shown the limits. No more overwatering!
7th day / ONE FULL WEEK from transplanting them. The droopy one looks very nice again today. Me happy ๐
The week has been full of action to keep the environment as perfect as possible. Tomorrow its fathers day - I hope to make my girls proud ๐
Hi. I got myself those autopots with a flexitank and connected them after rooting (~12 days). I disconnected the system after 3rd week seeing girls gettin a little 2 yellow and droopy so often. Would it be safe to connect autopots back on now? 1st timer in autopots and coco. Thnx
Hello ! I think you an plug that tank back. What happened to me is that the coco was wet during a long period each time the valve did deliver water because you roots system was too young to use that much water. But now you have a fully formed roots system then you can go safely with it. I hope it will help you ๐โ๏ธ๐ผ
looking nice man ! im using autopot to in one of my grows , you are welcome to see it on my profile . they kind of small now so you should water from the top a bit untill it will get a good low grip . good luck
Thanks for the comment @Leeyum! Very much appriciated. I had some major issues along the way, but @Fast_Buds seem to have superiour genes. Im so impressed myself ๐ค
looking nice man ! im using autopot to in one of my grows , you are welcome to see it on my profile . they kind of small now so you should water from the top a bit untill it will get a good low grip . good luck
@psyych, Thank you for your kind words. I do water them from the top, itยดs just that they have been only 3 days in a pot.. Itยดs my first ever soilless and first ever autopot grow, but far from first ever grow. Cheers and good luck with your grow! โ
Glad to hear your two holdouts are getting on track after the photoperiod change. Get ready for some serious stretch...
My FB Gorilla Glue had stretched as part of the long veg and then decided to shoot for the moon once she finally flowered. Even with LST, Supercropping, and heavy doses of bloom ferts she was still bumping her head on the light by week 4 of flower.
it looks like you've got some room but that 92cm girl will definitely be a leggy one once she takes off.
I'll be watching your grow with continued interest, friend! Keep up the great work. Great coco run you have going!
youre a touch over nuting on the N, might want to keep em veging for a couple weeks to work it down a bit so youre 10/10 heading into flower... just some unsollicited advice for you bro... just trying to help !
@IDOSWED, youre right, not much you can do now bro to veg longer, though it was a photo blue dream for some reason. You can tell you have much N from the leaves that are too green, and i dont think that how P works lol but i see now why you cut out the coco b, which is basically why you've got deficiencies... always analyse the advice you get man, even i give poor advice once every 20 questions ... it s not seriously bad yet, but you want to fix at least the coco b part asap.... N toxicity coming into flower will basically hurt your yield, but hopefully adding the coco b will balance out the NPK ratios just in time to trigger the flowering ... i'll follow along and see how it goes bro, i'm on messenger here too if you want to shoot the breeze ๐
High @CRiSPrGrow, thank you for commenting. Actually I got some very good advice from an old timer that has grown 30+ years (dutch coffeeshop grower). On the 4th week he looked at my grow and said that I have N deficiency. Too much phosphorus clogged up the N intake and that was making my girls loose green and turn yellowish. It all started right after I had problems with too much heat. I did leave the COCO B out by purpose and doubled the amount of COCO A. It worked out great and i'm thankful for that advice.
Now, a few days ago I flushed them with a very light solution and tomorrow i'm going to feed them again. This time normally with A and B + others. How can you keep an autoflower strain vegging for longer? Peace! ๐