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-Day #7-
Well, looks like I’ve successfully made it through the first week above ground! Really excited about that as this is my first grow. Everything seems to be going better than I hoped for so far. See where we are at the end of next week and maybe start introducing some nutrients very slowly. Going to try the floranova veg this time, I’ve heard really good things about it so hopefully it works out. PH of water has been around 6.5-6.6 so I’m going to be maintaining that with the results I have been getting so far. I’m not going to push it though, want to make sure they are ready for nutes so I will be contacting my local grow store to see what they think at the end of next week. Experimental plant #5 is doing well though not as big or nice looking as the other 4 in my enclosure. So obviously warm, bright and humid plays a huge role in the success of these early weeks. I’m having a lot of fun with this grow!! New pics are up for those who would like to take a peek and as always any help or guidance is always appreciated. Shout out to @OGgrows for the tips and advice this week!! Really appreciate it! Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!
Hi there, just looking for some watering advice on these brand new little seedlings. My pictures have the info as to my method so far. Any help would be great appreciated! Thanks peeps!
Hi @PoleKat Until the first pair of real leaves is born, the ideal is to gently spray the entire surface of the substrate, in small quantities and several times a day. the substrate cannot be completely stained, the roots to form need water but also oxygen. Keeping the humidity at 80% -90% is also a good help for germination. the seedlings must be in the dark and only put them in the light when the plant breaks from the soil. lucky mate 🙏👍
Hi, wondering is you guys could look at my enclosure and give me some ideas as to when and how I should provide some air circulation to my seedlings? I plan to keep them in here for the next couple weeks like a small grow room. Also, do they look happy for day#3? Advice? Thanx
Hi @PoleKat you can make a hole in that box and adapt a Pc-type sunon extractor, you can also put a small foot support fan inside, you can find in DIY stores. good luck mate 👍
-Day #11-
After moving everyone to their new home last night everything seems to be ok. Having a bit of a harder time keeping up the humidity. Need to figure out a solution there I think. Seems to be around 55% with wet towel hung inside the box. Hopefully that’s ok.. I have noticed that my tallest plant (not sure why this one is so tall) appears to have a slight twist in the stem half way up. Looks the slightest bit flat (more like oval). No signs of damping off or anything like that. Hopefully she pulls through. Still very straight and growing up top rapidly each day. Stems are all very nice and green in colour so nothing looks sick to me, also no signs of mildew/mold. Anyways if you guys could take a peek and give me any tips on that would be great! I have moved the light closer to them and also added paper clip support to the tall one just as a precaution. Don’t want to risk it falling over. Thanks guys, have a great day!
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Week 3. Vegetation
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16 cm
19 hrs
24 °C
6.5
Weak
65 %
23 °C
23 °C
21 °C
2 L
0 L
10 cm
Nutrients 1
NovaMax Grow 0.4 mll
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-Day #21-
Well, another week has come and gone. These plants really seem to be taking off, especially after the last 5-6 days. What seemed to take forever for the first couple weeks, happens almost daily at this point in the game. It’s unreal to watch and see this amount of growth everyday! This is my very first grow, so far I think things are going insanely well. Going to skip the nutrients next watering and just give ph water ~6.5~ roughly every 4-5 days seems to be working great for me. Extremely happy with the progress these little girls have shown this week. I will keep everyone posted through week 4 and I am super excited to see what week 4 brings! Have a great weekend peeps! Any tips or advice is always greatly appreciated as always!
Was just wondering with these more mature seedlings I have right now if I should be skipping nutrients to every second watering at all? They seem to need a good drink every 4-5 days on average right now. Also started watering borders instead of direct stem area. Thanks guys!
My advice is water every 3 days for this pot size. You start water less then increased through the process. I ussally water 200-250ml at this stage and wait around 2 days for it to dry in my condition
Day #28
This is my final post for week #4! These plants have just exploded over the past 2 days. This week has been amazing to say the least. Really can’t believe how well things seem to be going. Noticing a lot of new growth from inside the canopy as well. Lots of new leaves, looking very happy! Looking forward to the transition to flower. Going to transplant these beauties in the next couple of days to their final pots. Really looking forward to the rest of this grow! Hope everyone had a great week, will keep everyone posted on the transplant and the next few days here!
Any ideas as to when I should transplant these plants? Will be going into 4g final pots. Also, when do you think would be safe to start making the transition to outside? Currently under 3ft T5 single bulb fixture. Thanks in and Vance!
Hey growmie 😎. First of all, your plant looks very beautiful 😍👍. You can repot when the whole bale is properly rooted. You can easily test it when it is ready by letting it dry a little, then stretching the pot a little, and then slowly pulling it upwards on the thick stem below without any force. If it doesn't come loose immediately and comes out of the pot, wait a bit :-) Keep it up, the grow will be mega 👍😎🙏🏻
-Day #35-
Last day of week 5! This week has definitely been about explosive growth especially after feeding and upping my nutes 2 days ago. I can’t believe how big they have gotten. Looks like they have all entered pre-flower in the past day or so. Week #6 I will call the beginning of the flower cycle. Definitely will be keeping up with the veg nutes for the next couple of weeks until vertical growth slows and then I will concentrate on switching to flower nutes once they slow down a bit. As for the slow down, no end in site right now. Need to know if now would be ok to start trying some LST with them or is it too late at this point? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks for all the help so far guys! Have a great weekend. Will post some pics of the new bud sites in the next couple of days for week #6! Wish me luck!
So, I am on my last day of week 5 with these auto’s. They are still aggressively growing upwards. Was wondering if now would be too late to start some LST with them? Pros and cons? Thanks guys!
Hello.. Hope you are well.. They look nice and healthy.. Great work.. Never 2 late for low stress training tbh.. Its more of a fail safe aswell.. If u need headroom cuz she's 2 tall lst-ing is always best option in my opinion.. Obviously u dont wanna top autos so if she's outgrowing ur tent then start the technique.. Stay safe n gud luck with her around harvest.. 👍🍀
-Day #42-
Hi guys, sorry I haven’t updated much this week. It’s sure been a busy one. Last pics from week 6! Flowers really starting to show especially on my big plant! This week has been amazing, did some more LST this morning and I have to say the response has been insane! Water and Feed tomorrow morning I think. Plants are really filling out and still growing... and growing... and growing. Beautiful colour, no deficiencies to report, and thinks are really on track. Couldn’t be happier! Have a great weekend people!
Hey guys, just wondering if someone would be willing to take a look at my plants and let me know if this looks good for LST? We are at Day #37 and it looks like everyone has entered the preflower stage beginning of week 6! Thank you!
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to when I should start switching these critical purple autoflowers to flowering nutes? As I understand it should be a few weeks after preflowers start? Hard to tell when vertical growth slows when doing LST. This is my first grow ever!
Hi there, even with lst it should be good to see when the plants stopped stretching and start putting their effort into budding.. in most of my grows this is usually around day 10 (+/- a few days) after flowering kicked in.. and it doesn't have to be perfect either, it's just important that they still get their fair share of nitrogen in the beginning.
I know people that use bloom nutrients during the whole lifecycle and their plants also survive (whether they are maximizing yield or whether i would recommend that is a different question, but they survive ;))
happy growing!
Was wondering when doing LST with these autos if I should untie them at any point? Stop forming them at any point? Stay on it until they are done? I have been going in and kinda re-rigging them every few days but just wondering when to call it a day? Thanks guys!
Hello.. Hope you are well.. Yes u can leave ur lst tirson all way thru to harvest.. U can continuously do lst technique until harvest if required.. As her flower's develop over the wks it will get harder to bend her over but just b careful n is still possible.. Stay safe n gud luck with her around harvest time.. 👍🍀
-Day #47-
Well, today is the day! Moved the girls outside this morning, weather is supposed to warm up and be nice and sunny for the next week! I will probably move them inside for the next week or so at night just because the overnight temps seem to come down to about 10-14C. That will hopefully change in the next week or 2 though so I can just leave them out there. They will sit in indirect sunlight for the next couple of hours to get them used to the different light. I have checked out this space and it seems like they will get about 8 hours of direct sunlight everyday. I’m sure this is going to be a whole lot different then my 2-36” T5 bulbs they have been growing under from seed. Hopefully this pays off! Soil still seems damp today so hopefully they evaporate a bit today. Tomorrow morning will be PH 7.0 flush as I haven’t done this yet and I want to prevent nutrient lock. Runoff was around 5.9 which is only 0.6 difference of what input mixture is but just want to make sure my soil doesn’t get too acidic. The next time I will be upping my bloom nutrients to equal the same as my veg nutrients. These plants have responded very well to nutrients through the entire grow with zero deficiencies or nutrient burn to date. Very excited to see what happens here! Have a great rest of the week people, will post up for the beginning of week 8 if they are still alive lol!
Hi guys, just moved the girls outside to finish the grow and was wondering how cold is too cold for night time temperatures? I live in Canada southern region and the temps at night are currently between 10-14C. Thanks guys!
Hi buddy everything under 18 degrees is not so great anymore but it works, everything under 12 degrees is really very critical and you can possibly stop your growth completely :-)
Hi guys, just came across this leaf today one of the lowest ones on one of my plants. None of the other plants seem to be affect nor any of the other leaves on this plan. Can’t seem to find it on list of deficiencies as it presents different. Any thoughts? Thanks guys!
Looks like she's just getting ready to self prune that leaf off. It's reached it's usefulness. Leave it as right now it's still helping that girl grow. Really thou it's up to you as to when you will want to remove that dying leaf! Other than that she's one healthy looking girl. Great job!! Cheers and happy growing!
-Day #53-
Girls are really starting to fill in canopies this week. Kinda looking more like a weed bush as opposed to a plant lol. They are still definitely stretching this week and continuing to grow within the canopy. Bud sites are really finding their way to the top after fixing LST ties to allow for more light within. Still pretty damp soil today after I flushed them a couple days ago. They seem happy with that. I am however looking forward to pumping those nutes back into them to see how they react after they have been flushed!
Hey there smart people! I have about 3 strange coloured fan leaves on one of my 4 plants and I’m not really sure what to make of it. To me it doesn’t look like any deficiencies that I came across per say. All other leaves look nice and healthy. Kinda randomly scattered. THX!
is that under a wooden trellis? maybe the sun only hits in that stretch of the plant? if so, light burn is possible? (you'd know if they are acclimated to full son or not... also if east/east was perpendicular to a trellis, lol, probably be a more even sun throughout day)
easy stuff: pH? recent change in behaviour etc... rethink the last couple weeks to help eliminate possiblities.
if always low on plant, likely immobile, if a nutrient related issue. the worst one is kinda mid-plant, eh? Starts at tip...
Zinc def? but, i don't see other symptoms of that, i don't think
If it never approaches petiole, Manganese deficiency is a viable option
no spots, so that eliminates some. some of those look pretty advanced and should have shown that sort of thing by now i think. (like zn, mg... Fe goes margins to tip, i think... )
Manganese is my 2 cents, lol. check your labels to rule it out.
So quick question... how would I go about raising PH of my soil. I just took a reading about 5 mins ago from my runoff and it was like 5.8!?! It’s never been 5.8, and I do have a little issue with 3 of my fan leaves on one plant. No soil PH meter. Just flushed them 5 days ago...
no, it's not accurate.. it tells you the direction it is going.. realtive information only. so, if lower on runoff, you can assume it's even lower in the soil fairly safely, but i wouldn't venure to guess how much. it's a logrithmic scale, so it takes a lote to drop 1 pt on scale and more each successive drop.
Garden lime will raise it, but maybe not fast enough? if it happens again, add instructed amounts when you mix the pots relative to soil volume.
alkaline water will be temporary and impossible to guesstimate with accuracy what you need. maybe, give them 7 and not push it for now.
Do you fertilize every irrigation? if so, don't do that in soil. sorry if basic, but .. it's possible and could be part of the cause of pH imblance.
Day 72
Well, end of another week. I think things went very well! Cal mag seems to have helped the girls, they were pretty happy the day after I added that to the mix. Carbo blast is really working for trichome production. Sugar leaves pretty sparkly at the end of this week. Buds are growing very rapidly! Very excited to see what next week brings. I’m sure it’s going to be unreal! Posted some more pics of the buds from today. Have a great weekend people!
So, when a seed bank says 11 weeks of flowering time are they referring to first signs of pistils to harvest. Or is it from seed? Sounds like a stupid question but I am seeing a lot of CP autos harvested at around 11 weeks. Think I’m week 6 of flower from first sight of pistil
I was always under the impression that flowering time refers to once flowers start forming after the veg phase ends and not the total time from seed but I’m new and could be wrong.
