Week 3 was fine. Nothing of note really. Some are better than others. Am doing some slight adjustments to my grow cabinet to free up a little space. I made a VERY simple overall plan of what i am doing,so i will postthat now but my phone is broken and therefore, so is my camera so when the ladies are awake, i will post some photos of what i have done. I am hoping it will allow me space to move into bigger pots while i await signs of sex and throughout flower, especially if i get males to cull.
Thinking of switching to 12/12 at the end of this week, it might mean im sacraficing yield on the 1 auto i have going but the gorilla glues will make up for it.
**UPDATE FRIDAY**
So, the plants were switched to 12/12 for t he first day today. I have been adding an hur more darkness a day for the past 6 days until the hours of light match that of dark.
Wasn't gettting enough air circulatioon around the plants so i moved the desk fan above the plants again. Seems to be better. also my temps were too high and i had two pc fans knocking about so i decided to add extra output. I plugged the two 120mm pc fans into the same outlet the lights are plugged into. This means it only operates when the lights are on (which in turn brings temps up). Thermometer was reading a high of between 28 and 31 depending on outside weather and plants were wilting and just generally warn out as a consequence. With the extra air out i have it down to a max of 25-28 depending on outside environment.
I had extra activated charcoal so have set it up so that air is running through the activated carbon. I ran the fan straight, without charcoal for about a day before re alising the smell of veg plqnts was starting to be noticeable. Only once i was in the safety of my flat, it didnt smell atall outside but better safe than sorry. Now it cant be smelled AT ALL, ANYWHERR!
Iv also decided to buy some supplemental blurple LED strips for flowering. I am interest ed in adding extra light of pure red and magenta spectrum to equal out the spectrum a bit. obviousky im running CFL's and a s mall T5 at the moment. Although my 250w CFL is meant to be red spectrum, it obviously is biased towards blue due to the fact iv not experienced ANY internodal stretch like you do when growing, in veg, under a HPS.
Now that i have entered flowering i will need more power in a spectrum which is better for bloom!
Also i did some LST onthe kush auto because it was WAY too bushy and wasnt getting light towards the lower nodes so i just went in and pulled the plant apart a little to enable more light to reach the lowest nodes.Going to put it on the window sill a nd flower it under the sun for the final coup!e weeks of its life!
Good luck on this grow adventure! Hopefully it will help you save the money you need for your desired setup 😊 I got a grow tent kit from Amazon which came with 600w HPS, 1.2m x 1.2m grow tent, carbon filter, extraction fan and that saved me a whole load of money than buying each part individually!
May be the best solution for you to save some dollar! Have a look around as there are some pretty good deals for HPS especially for beginner growers! Best of luck!
Iv been brewing some compost tea over the past few days. It’s Absolutely incredible how fast they have grown in the short amount of time it’s been since I gave them some some. Really happy with that! Trying to add photos but I’m on my phone and can’t figure out how on the mobile version of the site! I’ll do it later though
Anyone got any ideas whats wrong with my kush auto? Iv increased feed from 2ml/l to 3ml/l over the past couple of days and it doesnt seem to be lessening massively. I also fed it dilute epsom salts once which didnt hurt but didnt help.
Do i need to increase my veg nutes even more than i already have? Is it that simple? Iv already plucked the first 1 finger leaves, should i pluck them and then i know if there is any more yellow its new growth? That would make sense to me actually, i may have just worked out the solkution by typing to myself.
Iv increased feed but didnt pluck the old yellow leaves so i doknt actually know if either of the things i did worked.
Please chime in anyway if u cab help!
Thanks for the kind words. Yeh 5 girls would be ace. That would stretch me to maximum capacity...atleast. Am imorre liky to get herms growing bagseeds? Iv only done it once. Got some. Eautifuk fruity bud but it had some seeds. Have a feeling these might br the same , hope not.