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Germination occurred on the 26 of November from direct to soil planting on the 23rd of November in 5 gallon pots of Fox Farm's Ocean Forest. The soil was watered when the seeds were planted with filtered but not PH'd water and covered with a large clear plastic dish to maintain moisture levels.
I'll remove the dish later today when the plants have had time to fully emerge from the soil. So far these pots have just been sitting out in a room and not in the tent while I get the space ready. I'm very excited to see they've both germinated and so far are looking great, not that there is much to see as of yet. I plan to wait 4 - 6 weeks for the first feeding as I've read Ocean Forest has plenty of nutrients to get them started and extra would just cause burning. I picked up Roots Organic's Buddha Grow for a possible vegetative feeding if necessary and General Organics Bloom for flowering and SaferGro PH Down to adjust the PH of the water as necessary.
I'm setting the tent up now, I'm using an old HPS 400w Sun Systems light that I picked up at a great price for this grow while I look at nicer LED lights. I found a Vivosun 4x2 tent on sale that I picked up as it fits my 4x2x5ft grow space like an absolute glove and I'll be running an AC Infinity 4" inline fan through their carbon filter to minimize any smell, as well as pulling out heat and refreshing the air. I already had a Bionaire BT015 fan that I'll at least start the grow with and see if it is able to sufficiently move air around or if I'll need to supplement with a clip fan. I'll show more of the setup in the next update as it will all be put together better by then!
Feel free to leave any comments telling me how to improve!
Big change in the tent this week as I've swapped to an LED, instantly brought temps way down and think they will really like the new temps. I've also been working on slowly turning up the intensity as I didn't want to bleach them out. LST started this week and I'll need to trim up some leaves soon as the big old leaves aren't quite holding themselves up off the edges of the bag. I'm still just watering and not worrying about nutrients as the ffof should have that covered for a couple more weeks.
We're at 29 days from germ and its been an interesting week. The two plants are giving vastly different experiences. Mellow Yellow is much leggier and already flowering which caused a bit of a calcium deficiency, I've been giving calmag for the past few days as soon as the leaves started showing spots. The LST has been working very well on this plant because of how quickly the branches are growing. Big Red is an absolute bush now, not growing up as quickly as yellow and only just barely showing signs of flowering. On the flip side, I've taken fistfuls of leaves off of the underside and you can barely tell because of the growth its putting on. I'm curious if I should defoliate more as I'm barely able to keep air flow flowing into the under canopy as it is. on a slight concern is when each plant will finish as I am planning to use the tent to dry in as well. I think it will be ok as I am starting to see buds develop which only puts it a few days behind.
Sorry for the late update, the holidays hit and then I was in the hospital for a few days. They are starting to stack up nicely, the flower shots are from 45 days in and the full plant shots are at 48 days in. They are still doing really well in spite of missing a watering and yellow is still struggling with deficiency no matter the calmag I add and ph I adjust. I'm guessing the ph meter is too cheap to read correctly. I'm feeding pretty heavy with the liquid nutrients now, doing 4tbs of General Organics BioThrive Bloom and 2tbs of CalMag in every gallon. Yellow is definitely starting to smell delicious, spicy with a little bit of fruitiness to it as well. Red definitely is looking to be the bigger of the two but that was too be expected with its better tolerance of the growing conditions than yellow. I'll probably need to let yellow overripen a bit with red being about a week behind, I'm guessing the stress pushed yellow to start flower sooner. I've just been letting them run, a little light defoliate on the underneath to keep air flow going and the occasion leaf blocking budsites.
We're almost on autopilot to the end now, Red is getting big but has some catching up to do Yellow for bud development. I might end up leaving Yellow up for a bit long just so I can harvest at the same time. I'm moving yellow onto just pure dechlorinated water with a smidge of ph down.
Thanks, I've been watching your grow as well to make sure I'm more or less on track. Oddly enough, I've got one that's being a bit scrawny and one that is running like a beast just like your run.
Bartan
