Zkittles Auto (Fastbuds) + Quantum Board

WEEK 2 Well so far week 1 seems to have gone as good as could be expected. After their watering yesterday at 50% they seem to have shown renewed vigour in their growth, so I'll probably aim for a moderate watering every three days for the rest of the early vegetative growth stage, I will probably look at 200ml-500ml per plant of 50% strength until the plants are big enough to support a full watering to run-off. At this stage these figures are pure estimates based on research and gut feeling, and the desire to not underfeed, and to not overfeed and potentially have a nutrient salt build-up and lock out. Day 8 - The plants continue to grow well. They seem a little lite in their green-ness, but I've looked at a few quantum board grows and this seems to be something that happens with coco... I have noticed organic soil grows seem to get much lusher looking dark green seedlings.. but I guess the coco grown plants must overtake later on because I chose coco based on the widespread belief coco ultimately can give a faster grow with a higher yield than soil. I will be installing two 18cm pole grip fans in the next day or two and ditching the 40cm fan as the lab clamps I require to mount the fan properly are around 3 weeks overdue and look to be lost in the post. Also I think two smaller fans will give me better air circulation as the 40cm fan was a bit full-on for this sized environment. Day 9 - The plants have boomed off today, they must have really enjoyed the feed on Day 7. I have slowed down the extraction fan to keep the humidity high, and the tent is operating at around 27c air temp with a humidity in the light cycle around 75%. I've been told high humidity can dramatically shorten the life of carbon filters, and that during the early veg stages they aren't really required so I will be taking the carbon filter out of the tent today until its required. I've implemented a dehumidifier in the grow room and it is also warming the air, so I haven't had to run my oil fin heater, so I will remove the heater and the large fan (its being replaced by two 18cm pole-grip fans today) which will give me 100% floor space for the plants So I might not have to carry out my initial plan of dropping the weakest plant and only growing 8 in the tent. Day 10 - The plants continue to grow well and increase in size. At this stage I feel really great about the environment and the performance of the plants and I hope this theme continues unabated! I gave them a small feed of 300ml each using nutrient solution identical to the Day 7 feed (it was the leftover mixed nutrient from Day 7 - I think it should be ok to use this?). Day 12 - The plants were feed with 650ml each of 50% nutrient (as detailed in the nutrients chart above the text area), with a PPM of 627 and a PH of 6.6 The water temp was about 23c. The plants continue to grow well. After the photos today I replaced the heater/fan with two pole grip 18cm fans, both mounted on the back poles and set to oscillate across the tent in windscreen wiper style waves, which ensures all of the plants get some air circulation and slight leaf movement. I gave them a higher PH than I would usually, in order to ensure they get the magnesium and calcium in the calmag additive. I'll look to vary the ph throughout the feed series in order to make sure the micronutrients that need higher PH to be absorbed are absorbed. I noticed that all of the test growers for Zkittles had their light cycles on 24hrs, so I've increased the light cycle from 18 to 20 hours today. Day 13 - The plants continue to grow well, and the environment has been fairly consistent at around 70% humidity and temps around 25-27c. I am happy with these. I removed the Carbon filter temporarily to stop it getting damaged by the high humidity. Given there is no smell yet, the carbon filter can be safely taken out of the tent for awhile, until there is some smell or when I start to drop the humidity. My humidistat and thermostats arrived, so I've put the fan on humidity control. Its currently set only to shut-off if the humidity drops below 65%, and to stay on if the humidity is above that. The plants don't seem to have darkened up and still look like they are lacking some micronutrients (even after giving a higher PH feed yesterday), so I might increase the CMX on the next feed as well as include the kelp extract supplement. I increased the light cycle from 20 hours to 21 hours today. I will probably leave it at 21 hours from here on out. Day 14 - Gave the plants a 75% strength feed (except the CMX which was a 1ml/L (2x Strength). Also started using SilikaMajic additive today.