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The girls have officially entered week one of their vegetative cycle.
I started to higher the ppm/ec of nutrient solution as they were begging for food! So far the nutrients have been gentle and effective enough to help the heat damaged girls recover.
The plants are being fed once to twice daily in the morning and at night time. Usually I water more on days that are 30% humidity.
I’m still waiting on the fourth bean to pop. I can see that it’s opened up but has barely moved, I hope she is just being slow and isn’t dead. Right now It’s too early to dig in and find out. (Update: dug up the seed today after zero growth, I found that she had sprouted but the root was completely blunt and had 2 fungus gnat larvae feeding on it. Looks like I’m going to have to reinvest in some beneficial nematodes. So I decided to not germinate another Banana Blaze and will plant a freebie Roc Auto seed instead.)
So far I’ve been feeding with a nutrient solution at around 500ppm. I also will give them a compost tea throughout the week sometimes with nutrients added as well to bring the ppm up to 500. I also water throughout the week with oxygenated reverse osmosis water with added trace minerals @ 35ppm.
Thanks for stopping by! 😎🤙
@Mrs_Larimar, Thanks! They all look slightly different from each other but all smell about the same. Should be interesting to see how they look a few weeks from now. Thanks for stopping by! 🤙
Looking nice and healthy. Im growing the same strain and they seem to be strong and healty plants! Super bushy, and with lots of tops. Check my diary if u dont mind! Happy growing
@yomi23, Thanks!! I see you did some nice LST on yours, I’ll probably start LST in the next few days or so! I followed your diary, I’m excited to see how it turns out!
Fresh.
I totally stole your rain science bag idea.
Ordered 4 wowzers they ain’t cheap lol hope they give me a little more wiggle room for a baby room humidifier I got my eye on.
Cheers
Josh
Sorry to her about your girl
I’ve been popping by to see any updates.
Have you ever had heat issues in the pass ?
I’m finding it hard to find the sweet spot.
It’s on avg. 5° hotter inside my box then outside.
My apartment is 22°C (71°f) and the box gets past 27° (80.6°f) all the time.
Poor baby’s that’s to hot for them.
I’m also finding it super hard to regulate RH.
You have any experience with these issues ? Any advice ?
Cheers
Josh
@Hahshshshshsnanamamau, Thanks man, it was definitely a dumb mistake!
I used my USB led and turned off the exhaust to kick up the humidity and drop temps. Later on I forgot to turn on the exhaust so when the full spectrum lights kicked back on in the morning temps got up to 90 degrees! Thankfully only one died but two got damaged. Ive been trying to nurse them back without any issues..
I moved my boxes to my basement which is always around 65-68°F. I get a 10 degree increase with the lights so I’m always in the 76-80° range. I use Agsil16h to help the plants deal with the additional heat stress. My last plant grew within an inch between it and the grow light for 16 weeks and I didn’t deal with any light burn. The silica really helped her manage all that extra heat.
As for humidity, I only care to keep it above 55% until the 2nd week of veg. I use clear plastic cups and Tupperware to cover the seedlings for additional humidity but will also lightly spritz the plants with spring water and or water/Agsil16h mix throughout the day. Once the plant gets into veg a bit 50% and below RH is optimal!
Is your RH too high or too low? Also, check your chat messages, I started a group chat for StealthBox growers so we can shoot ideas, troubleshoot, etc.
@Hahshshshshsnanamamau, It definitely could! I have the bags close together for water retention at the moment. I think I could honestly fit another one of these 2gals right in the middle if I had another! Next round I’ll give it a try! I have another stealth box going but that one is recycled/no till with living mulch, worms, etc. I’m waiting at least a month for the cover crops to become established then I’m going to plant dark devil in that box!
I also purchased a single fabric Grow bag that is 4.5gallon. It’s about 4inches shorter than the stealth box Grow bags so I think with the added volume and shorter bag I could get one large plant going maybe around the size of 150g-300g