All seeds are popped in plastic bags wet paper towel, humbolts secret enzymes, clones solution, can a rhizotonic. Once a sprout placed in a peat cup with cannaterra or cannbio or my soilless mix. And the cups go directly into 18 gallon planters, 2 plants each. Ph for germination solution 6.2 6.4 tds under 100Rooting week1 veg in cups, ph 5.8 6.2, Clonex, Calmag , Rhizotonic, 150 - 200ppm
All seeds are popped in plastic bags wet paper towel, humbolts secret enzymes, clones solution, can a rhizotonic. Once a sprout placed in a peat cup with cannaterra or cannbio or my soilless mix. And the cups go directly into 18 gallon planters, 2 plants each. Ph for germination solution 6.2 6.4 tds under 100Rooting week1 veg in cups, ph 5.8 6.2, Clonex, Calmag , Rhizotonic, 150 - 200ppm
Fungus gnats are not your friend, lost 3 heavyWeight Fruit Punch, and 4 other "sprouts" which were replaced by new seeds now a week behind but since we have 9 too 14 week finishing time spread across the strain selection. We will run with it.
Grow area is indoors, in a 64sq foot tent, c02 enrichment will begin week 3 along with a feed calibration week. Nominal c02 is 700ppm, enrichment will be set at 1300 with a target air temp of 84 to 87 degrees (leaf surface temp at 87F is 84.5F)
Lighting is all led
750w (actual draw 430w) x4
1000w (actual draw 640w) x2
Seemingly very high wattage, however, these are kind series, so let's just say, too achieve desired average par/ft² and adequate footprint cross cover, that's how many are needed.
Soil used, CannaBio and Canna-terra with added large and med sized pearlite.
All nutrients used are CannaTERRA series, except for Cal mag, using very low ppm & e.c. (12 & .08)
There are more strains that are able too to be listed, however only the listed ones will be focused on in this journal.
Sorry no pics, grow is ending week two as we speak, and have not grabbed any "media" yet as this was a last min decision, but after reviewing others journals, and reading community interaction, this seemed like the best way to learn about doing auto flower correctly for optimal quality and yields.
I have extensive experience with photoperiod, but feel Auto strains have reached the viability point that LED lighting did two years ago with the introduction of cobs, 3w 5w and 10w diodes, INCREASED diode density pushing par/ft² past HID and purpose-built Osram Horticultural LED products and the introduction of UV-A, UV-B, near INFRARED AND FAR-INFRARED, as well as varying nm of blue as well as red; too spectral recipes.
I will also be starting another journal in about 3 more weeks, focusing on Auto again but using my 10x10 and two strains only, Mephisto DoubleGrape and WhiteCrack. Keep a lookout. Week 3s entry will have images and continue too from there on.
Thank you for reading or showing interest, all positive feedback and critiques welcome, if you're just going to say "this is wrong" but offer no solution to fix it or even evidence, it is in fact wrong. Keep your characters to your self.
@Puffer_Bill, depends, got a contaminated bag of coco and like termites I think once they're in they stay, I just top dress with clover seeds, also looks nice, lady bugs n predator nematodes, have not had issue no more sticky yellow crap
Look me up, same name on Duby, until September I'm not going to attempt to do this no time, I'm waiting for the monster cropped layercake in the fall. But I post pics weekly on duby, it's much less involved. Stay lifted fam, oh n , no more auto for me eben with the 10x10 yielded 8lbs white crack 15 plants 3600watts draw led, still not profitable enough. So going back to photos.
Excellent comments. Full of information. Very nice setup. Minus the gnats. ( is that usual for soil medium ) I only know water garden. And not much at that.
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Grow well 🌱
@Puffer_Bill, depends, got a contaminated bag of coco and like termites I think once they're in they stay, I just top dress with clover seeds, also looks nice, lady bugs n predator nematodes, have not had issue no more sticky yellow crap