Sorry to be a couple days late this week. We celebrated my daughter's 21st and my focus was all her's.
I had hoped to harvest this week, (and i have sneaked a bud or two) but I'm getting foxtails with fresh white pistils still showing up. From the start I had planned to force as much out of this flower box, sufficient nutes, plenty water, plenty airflow, plenty light top/sides/bottom. Also, last week as I noted, I noticed a couple buttons on my timer were pushed partially in where they should have been out, possibly resulting in an hour of bright light in the middle of the night--I can't know for sure if it happened or for how long it had been. So I don't know which of these things cause this continued new flowering, but regardless I'm taking measures to bring this in for harvest.
I've unplugged the brightest, the top lights, and curtailed the light schedule to 10/14. And while you see the nutes all zeroed out, what I'm actually doing is just adding fresh water as needed to keep the level up.
There were 2 plants from this grow, clones from the 2 healthiest, that I put into dirt together and feminized one with colloidal silver. They were segregated, and the 'male' plants has since been discarded. I'm seeing lots of healthy feminized seeds maturing. This batch of plants varied quite a bit in identical growing situations, but these 2 best plants I cloned performed really well from sprout to harvest, so I'm hopeful that I'll have consistently best plants from my seeds.
I accidentally clicked veg for this week, and don't see how to correct that. Oh well.
@Ragweed, I have this shelving unit in my closet. No tent. I hang a sheet of black paper with silver emergency blanket glued to it in front and back.
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@professor, That's a great price. I'll be following your grow to see the results. I've been using a combination of 2' and 4' fluorescent T5s with a grow area of 12 sq. ft. and a total bulb wattage of 512W or 43 w/sq. ft. I'm pretty happy with them, but I like to experiment a bit, so I might give these a try. I'm sure you have it on your page somewhere, but what is the area of your grow tent? Thanks for the info and good luck with your grow.
@Ragweed, I’m using these right now. A combination of the red/blue and the warm white versions. 3 sets together. LED Grow Light, Aceple 2 Sizes... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0761KKJGQ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Looks like you are as new at posting here as I am.
Another question- have you measured you EC or dissolved solids? Your grow is maybe a little more than a week ahead of mine and I'm going to compare notes since I am a real beginner at Aero or hydro growing.
I have not checked my ec yet because my meter is whacked. Got another one and will be checking in a few hours. Will post if I can figure out how.
@MikesGrow,
I take the plug of coco out with the seedling, and gently rinse the coco off the root. I don't measure the solution density, but am using about 2/3 the GH expert program recommendation for nutrients.
Looking good. I would let it grow maybe 5 to 6 nodes and top to the 3rd node for mainlining next time as it gives the roots more time to develop. Either way it should be a great grow best of luck.
Interested in how to do this. So my question is, after you put the sprout in the seedling box for a few days in coco, before you put them in the net cups do you remove the seedlings from the coco?