James 
commentedweek 02mo ago
Good luck and happy growing!!
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Northern Light Auto by RQS
Fan
Spider Farmer
Ventilation Fans
Filt
Spider Farmer
Air Filter
Perlite
Perlite
Indoor
Room Type
HST
weeks 2
Topping
weeks 2
LST
weeks 3
11 liters
Pot Size
Start at 3 Week
G
Germination1mo ago
Nutrients 2
Root-Juice
1 mll
Bio-Heaven
0.5 mll
ChubbyBudBros -
Second try... I tried to sprout a seed last week, but the seed's taproot die after putting her in soil..no idea why.
Seed germinated by placing it in a glass of water until taproot shows, then transferred to damp paper towel, until taproot length was ok to be plant) and planted on August 18.
Third try...I've deleted the previous week of germination and week 1 of veg, as the seedling had completely stopped growing after the first 3 days above ground for over a week. Received a new seed replacement pack from RQS now and will try again and hope these seeds will do better! (pray for me)
I will try to post at least 1 picture everyday.
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Germination Day 1
I've bought a propagator set from Royal Queen Seeds and some coco plug to germinate the seed in because I'm curious to try another method than just placing the seed in water for a day and then moving it to a paper towel. I hope this way will be less stressful for the seedling when planted in the final pot.
I've sprayed the perlite in the propagator with some PH'd water and soaked the coco plug in PH'd water with 1ML/L of Bio Bizz Root Juice.
Very excited to see what will happen now.
Day 1
4 days after placing her in a soil pallet she has poppep out and she's looking good!
I've put her in an 11Liter pot (containing Bio Bizz Light mix + extra perlite + wormcastings) as the taproot was already coming out of the bottom of the peat pellet.
Day 2
Still looking good. She stretched a bit since yesterday so I increased the PPFD from 170 to 210, I will slightly increase it over the coming days.
Day 3
She is still stretching 😱so increasing PPFD to 320. she's looking healthy otherwise.
Day 4
She stopped stretching and I'm seeing the first set of true leaves getting bigger now. 😍
Day 5
Second set of true leaves are starting to develop now.
Day 6
Her first set of leaves are really starting to accelerate in growth now. top soil is dry but deeper down it's still a bit moist, will probably water tomorrow.
Day 7
The top 3cm were completely dry so I watered with 150ml's of water with 0.15ml/l root juice, PH'd to 6.3.
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Peat Pellet
Germination Method
1
Week 1. Vegetation20d ago
5 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
40 cm
Lamp Distance
400 PPM
CO₂ Level
Nutrients 5
Alg-A-Mic
0.5 mll
Bio-Heaven
1 mll
Root-Juice
1 mll
ChubbyBudBros -
Day 8
She is still doing great, the second set of leaves are starting to pop off now.
Day 9
Surprised by how vigorous the growth has been so far. Definitely confirms that my previous 2 failed seed were from a bad batch or those seeds were damaged during transport.
Day 10
Soil was dry enough to water, so I watered her with 400ml(1ml/L of Root juice, Alg-a-mic & Bio-heaven)
Day 11
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Day 12.
Third set of leaves are really showing up now. Gonna wait one more day before watering again.
Day 13
She's still growing nicely. Probably have to water her again tomorrow.
Day 14.
Definitely had to water today (probably yesterday) the top soil was completely dry and the leaves drooped a bit (thirsty).
Watered with 1L (1ml Bio-Grow, 1ml Bio-Heaven, 1ml Acti-Vera, 1ml Root Juice & 0.5ml Alg-A-Mic).
She will probably need some more water by tomorrow again, happy to see this as in my previous growth the pot stayed wet for 3 weeks after the initial pre moistening the soil before planting the seed. The added perlite + airflow caused by continues intake from the inline fan(both which I didn't have in my previous grow) really help the dry backs of the pot A LOT.
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Week 2. Vegetation13d ago
8 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
23 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
38 cm
Lamp Distance
400 PPM
CO₂ Level
Nutrients 7
Alg-A-Mic
0.5 mll
Bio-Heaven
2 mll
Root-Juice
1 mll
ChubbyBudBros -
Day 15
Just letting her grow some more before I decide if I will top her to just LST her.
Day 16
Very happy with how the leaves are developing. My previous grow had very thin papery leaves while these have a nice volume and healthy look to them.
Day 17
I decided instead of topping her, to remove the upper fan leaves, to allow the the nodes below to get straight light and catch up with the main node. I will probably have to keep removing main node fan leaves for a while to allow the side branches to catch up. I saw BasementGanja's video recently where he was trying out this method for keeping an evening canopy without topping and it worked amazingly well for him, so here's hoping it works out for me too 🙏.
Day 18
It seems that she is recovering quickly from cutting off the upper leaves. the smaller nodes lower down have really started to take off now.
Day 19
The newer upper leaves were already covering the lower nodes so I decided to already cut those leaves off.
Should probably have watered today, but I didn't have time, will do that first thing tomorrow.
Day 20
She was very thirsty! Fed her 1.5 liters of water (6.4 PH) with Bio-Grow, Bio-Bloom, Top-Max, Bio-Heaven & Acti-Vera. The lower nodes are starting to properly grow bigger now.
Day 21
Today I applied low LST stakes to spread the lower side branches out more to give some more light to the nodes below it. Also removed the newer upper fan leaves that were starting to get it bigger. I have no clue what I'm doing with not topping her and removing the upper leaves as they got to a certain size....I hope this ends well. 😖
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Topping
Technique
HST
Technique
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Week 3. Vegetation6d ago
12 cm
Height
18 hrs
Light Schedule
22 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
70 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Night Air Temp
11 liters
Pot Size
38 cm
Lamp Distance
400 PPM
CO₂ Level
Nutrients 7
Alg-A-Mic
0.5 mll
Bio-Heaven
2 mll
Root-Juice
1 mll
ChubbyBudBros -
Day 22
Doing good so far I think. I keep readjusting the training stakes twice a day as she seems strong enough to keep moving them all the time.
Day 24
Watered a bit earlier than I'd like to, but I'll be leaving on a 2 day trip early tomorrow so I won't have time.
Gave her 2L of water with same nutrients as the previous watering.
Day 26
I've removed the bottom fan leaves, they started to slowly die, I think this is due to the low stress training as the plant is otherwise very healthy. Will keep an eye if newer leaves start showing this as well.
I've redid some of the LST'ing and reshaped the plant a bit as growth is starting to pick up. I did also remove the upper most fan leaves again to slow down the main branch. So far the side branches aren't really catching up with the main branch, but I guess this will mostly be a thing during the pre flower stretch.
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MrBulldops commentedweek 01mo ago
Yeah I noticed that the first 1-2 weeks it’s working on roots not above ground… your plant was probably ok
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ChubbyBudBros commented1mo ago
@MrBulldops, Really? I've never seen that before that there is like zero change above the soil for so long so early on. Seems kinda impossible for me for it to catch up in growth then before she starts flowering, no?
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MrBulldops commented1mo ago
@ChubbyBudBros, the first 3 weeks It may have grown about half an inch in my case last year.. I posted about my RQS northern lights outdoor grow if you want to compare it to how yours was growing… I actually planted another northern lights auto in my hydro system a couple days ago so it can get massive before I throw it outside with no help lmao anyways they have stayed the same size this whole time even in hydro
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DutchBarnacle commentedweek 01mo ago
Fresh new grow, and some fresh motivation. I'll be tagging along for the ride in this restarted journal. Keep me updated and don't be shy to ask questions you think you know the answer to already!
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ChubbyBudBros commented1mo ago
@DutchBarnacle, Thanks man!
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GhostTerpZ commentedweek 02mo ago
Looking Really Good ❗️ ❗️ ❗️
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DutchBarnacle commentedweek 212d ago
How's the PPFD currently?
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DutchBarnacle commentedweek 11mo ago
Hope she had a growth spurt, I'd suggest trying to increase the PPFD to about 400 - perhaps she just needs more light to energize. I'm running the same strain currently, at least 400 PPFD since germination.
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ChubbyBudBros commented1mo ago
@DutchBarnacle, I sadly gave up on her. she had zero progression still a few days after my last update. I contacted Royal Queen Seeds and informed them that my 2 seeds seemed to come from a bad batch and they send me a new free pack. So I'll be restarting this grow. Yours seems to be doing well however!
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