Hello! First diary, let's gooo!
After 2 successful soil grows (with advanced nutrients), I thought it's time to step up my game; mostly due to the fact that I have to leave for 8-10 days 2 times a year and the only 4 month window without july-august is nov-mar.
What's the plan and what is new to me:
- 5x5 tent (150cm*150cm)
- 9 fastbuds autoflowers in 15L (4gal) pots
- 70% coco - 30% perlite (new)
- high-frequency fertigation (new) (150L (40gal) tank + 3000lph (800gph) pump + 9 * 6" Hydro Halos)
- Terra Aquatica nutrient line (new) + taking care of EC (new)
- I want to top all 9 (new)
- Scrog with a very low height (like in the 2nd photo)
- grow them horizontally and try to fill the holes as much as possible
- lst to help with the plan above
I also mostly built everything as you can see; each pot drains into a tray that's on a slope; I drilled a hole in the dray where I sealed a filter washer and a tube that drains into a bucket .. so I have 5 trays that drain into the same bucket, where I have a small pump with which I push the runoff into another bucket that's outside the tent; this way, the bucket from the inside, stays inside.
I am a bit afraid of this, but here we are! so far, 7/9 are out of the medium, one I think should pop-up tomorrow, but I think that one Amnesia Zkittlez out of the 4 planted, will not germinate; luckily, I had another one for backup, so today it went into the glass of water and tomorrow it's in the medium; hoping to not loose the herd. I will update as soon as I have news
What I did so far with the girls
- each seed was placed into a shot glass with some tap water; all shot glasses went onto the same tray, into a small cardboard box (to keep dark), along with a thermometer; this box was placed at the edge of a heating mat designed for seedlings .. I moved the box until the temp settled at 25 celsius (77 fahrenheit)
- after 18 hours, I tapped on the seeds, they went to the bottom
- in 2 hours they went into the coco
update 14 nov
- 8/9 are getting out of the soil, trying to stand up and shed the helmets
- 1x Amnesia Zkittles does not do anything; yesterday I soaked my last seed of Amnesia and it went into the pot an hour ago; I hope she will rise, catch the rest and have only a 2 day-delay; the initial seed is still in the pot, just nothing happens .. I placed the 2nd near the 1st, I hope one will crack
- will probably call tomorrow day 1
update 15-18 nov
- the seed planted later is now up with the gang, the first seed still did not crack, I removed it, and call it a loss; first seed that fails to crack out of 20 fastbud seeds
- I started nutrients, according to the Terra Aquatica feeding schedule; 0.3 EC, root booster and trichoderma (trikologic at 0.1g/L), 100ml per day around the seedling
- thinking about doing 1L in each pot with only root booster and trikologic, no nutes (and away from the seedling), but will probably wait a few more days .. just so the roots will have an easier job in the next weeks
Hi buddy, your installation is very pretty, I really want to follow all this 😉✌️
I don't know how big your space is, but I'm a little afraid that you will run out of space very quickly.
I don't know if this is the phenotype I had, but orange sherbet has a very large and very long stretch.
It is the largest in my box and I have enhanced all the others.
I did a topping once and LST, and 4 plants take almost entirely 140x140. Not to mention the height.
I'm going to update my diary tomorrow, I'll take pictures of all this 😉
Hello! thanks for following!
The tent is 5x5 (150x150cm), I think it will get crowded too. I will try to fill the net as much as possible, and will try to find a way to keep the stretch under control, maybe supercropping, depending on how they will perform; I will have time to research ways to keep the stretch under control. The lights that I am using is pretty good (also measuring it constantly and supplying correct DLI for each phase) and the internodal space was pretty tight on my other grow. I was not doing coco with high-fertigation, but the environment and lights should be the same. I hope I can control what's going on, it will be a ride, that's for sure!
I checked your grow, it's tight indeed :D