RQS Nothern Light Automatic – My first ever grow
Howdy growers! :)
Welcome to the diary of my first ever indoor grow
At first I would like to specify the setting and setup I have chosen for my first run:
1x 90x90x180 Secret Jardin tent (Situated in my bedroom)
2x 120W QuantumBoard mb301h + deep red that I am going to run at maximum 100W each
4x 11L RQS fiber pot
1x 50L Plagron lightmix (with perlit)
1x Plagron Terra starter kit (Terra Grow, Terra Bloom, Green Sensation, Root Juice, Pure Zym)
1x VitaLink CalMag
4x Royal Queen Seeds Nothern Light automatic (Girls #1, #2, #3, #4)
I chose this strain after a some time of studying and considering, where Northern Light seemd to be a good option for me because of its relatively not intensive odor when flowering and strong indica genetics that could forgive me my possible newbie mistakes.
My plan is to feed them with 1/3 of Plagron recommended feeding plan, try to do some kind LST, to adjust them to the same height if possible, with lighting plan of 18/6 in vegetative and 12/12 in flowering stage but mainly to give them as much love as I can.
WEEK 0
Day 0.0
I planted the seeds straight into the soil, right in the tent with lights off and started watering them with a spray, periodicaly twice a day.
Temperature was about 22C and RH in the tent ranged from 75 to 85 so I just kept irigating and waiting for the girls to show up.
I have also put a bowl of water in a middle of the tent to higher the RH. (Or at least to fullfill my unstoppable experiment thirstiness :-) )
Lighting - OFF
Day 0.3
3 days after planting, Miss #2 made my day showing her self and being the first one off the soil.
There was no sign of life in other pots so I continued the same procedure as before in the same temp and RH conditions.
Lighting - OFF
Day 0.4
Just after I woke up I went to water the pots and found out that Miss #4 entered the our world and when I checked it 4 hours later, both #1 and #3 were up too. It really amazed me, how quick it was. Later that day I decided to turn the lights on, dimmed to 30W each.
I also have found a very tiny rest of the seed cover that was blocking #2 to spread its leaves completely, so I gently putted it away and now it seems to be fine.
Watered them with spray, but today I used Ph regulated water with Ph 6.5
Lighting - 2x 30W, 6/18
Day 0.5
Because all of them girls seem to be ready I decided to mix first 10L of the feeding solution to make them even happier.
I used: Terra grow - 8ml, Root juice - 5ml, Pure zym - 5ml into 10L of water with Ph 7,5
I mixed it all together and checked both, Ph and EC. Ph was 6.8 and EC 0.8 which was very close to the values i wanted to get so i decided to leave it as it is and I kept it stay until next day.
Lighting - 2x 30W, 24/0