Indoor 5X5 Mephisto run. 3rd autoflower grow.

[GreenMersh]

This is my 3rd time growing autoflowers, and my 4th grow overall. The strains I'm growing are,
2 strawberry nuggets
2 double grape x 3bog x sour bubbly
1 Northern cheese Haze x sour bubbly
The SN and DGx3bogxSB were soaked for 18 hours in 6.5 PhD water , sank to the bottom and planted directly into 3 gallon fabric pots filled with roots organics soil on June 18th that had been previously watered the day before. The NCHxSB was soaked and planted a day later on the 19th since i ran out of roots soil, gonna experiment and throw it in this miracle grow seed starter I had laying around mixed with some perlite and like 25% leftover roots soil. I've got a 240w QB led from Alibaba along with a Mars ts1000 and two 300w viparspectra purple LEDs (132 actual watts a piece) so around 650 watts in total. I'll be running all of the lights once things are in full swing, for now I have the 240w QB a little over half strength about 30 inches away from pots. Been misting once a day, temps in the tent are 73f and humidity has been at 90. Hopefully they all sprout within a day or two! I'm going to be using just FF big bloom as of now but I've got the roots player pack on the way which comes with a ton of good organic nutrients. I also have Cal mag, pH up down, etc. I'm still super new to this so any advice or critism is appreciated my last 2 autoflower grows were not really super good but yielded about an OZ each grow of fairly good bud, ive since switched my entire set up, soil, nutes, lights, tent. Will keep updated all the way through grow, I've got a photo period journal on my page as well that I'll be harvesting in a couple weeks. Thanks

 

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Update, both strawberry nuggets have broke soil so I took the dome off of them they still have seed shell attached. Was taking the domes off the right move or no ? Had 1 of the DG crosses pop open and grow a root as well

 

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Both of the double grape crosses have broken soil as well this morning. All 4 seeds planted on the 18th, will give the NCH cross another couple days since it was planted on 19th. Temps in the tent set at 73 for the time being, humidity is staying around 85 but I expect that to change hopefully. Got the 240w QB set at half strength, 44 inches away from seedlings, will adjust light as needed.

 

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Have high hopes for this one, the other 4 have all broke soil but still haven't completely opened up or shed their shell all the way. Honestly more excited for my freebie crosses than the SN.

 

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Here they are in order,
2 DGx3BOGxSB
2 StrawberryNuggets
1 NCHxSB
They're all at 7 days above ground now except for the NCH she was planted a day later but is still one of the biggest seedlings. Just watered 2 cups each plant of PhD water. I kind of feel like they're small for a week but I'm not sure. What do y'all think?

 

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My other 240w kingbrite came in yesterday, think I'm just gonna let her hang for another week before I turn it on. I've got the other 240w led on about 50% right now at 40 inches. Once flower begins they'll both be full blast, with a Mars TS1000 and some blurples as well. Need to figure out how to mount a couple of the driver's outside tent at some point. Also doing a sour stomper In a smaller pot, little bigger than a solo cup gonna expierement with it off to the side since I had so many seeds to go through.

 

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Here is a week 2 update! Everything has been going smooth as far as I can see, all 5 plants are showing steady growth and good leaf color. Been feeding just PhD water on all except for the NCHxSB she is blowing all the others out of the water so I went ahead gave her 1ml of Roots Trinity In a gallon and fed 3 cups from that mix. Also did some LST and tied her down, praying I didn't fuck anything up with this plant. May I remind you she is a day younger than all of the other plants also in mixture of 25 % roots organic soil, some perlite and the rest is all miracle grow seed starter. The other 5 plants are all in 100 % Roots Organic soil they were all given 3 cups of PhD water because I thought they weren't big enough to feed or train yet. One of the strawberry nuggets is alot smaller than any of the other plants but I heard she grows squat so I'm just thinking the 2 SN are different phenos.
Here they are in order
2 DGX3BOGXSB
1 NCHxSB ( before and after LST )
1 Sour Stomper in a small pot experiment. (4days)
2 Strawberry Nuggets

Forgot to mention I started a sour stomper in a smaller pot experimental grow wasn't any labels for the actual size of the pot but it's just a little bit bigger than a 16 oz solo. Gonna try to keep her healthy and hopefully pull like a 1/2 oz out of this small pot.

 

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Got the AC infinity Cloudline T6 in the mail the other day and need some help with the correct way to rig it up and program it. Didn't come with any hanging equipment so I'm gonna have to figure something out. Heard nothing but good things about this fan. All the plants are doing great especially the NCHxSB she was LSTd a few days ago and again the other day, already tied the main stem twice and 4 side branches, double the size of all my other plants easily will be updating tomorrow after I water on week.

 

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Here's an update, plants are in order
Day 24:
2 DGX3BOGXSB
2 Strawberry nuggets
Day 23:
NCHxSB
Day 15:
Sour stomper.

The NCH cross is getting ridiculous, she's been LSTd multiple times, got topped on day 19 and nothing has slowed her growth even the slightest, probably will defol her a bit in a few days. All plants have been LSTd except the small strawberry nuggets and the Sour Stomper. I hope the DG crosses and strawberry nuggets gain some size I feel like they are a bit small, gonna give them all a hefty feed of organic nutrients after work, all plants are also showing their first pistils except sour stomper.I have my Cloudline T6 installed and it's honestly just a bit confusing with the settings. If I even turn it on the lowest setting it drops my humidity all the way down to like 60 which I usually have been keeping it around 73. I've got my alarm settings on but I just feel like there's way too many temp and humidity swings with the fan coming on and off as needed. I feel like I'm making it harder than it has to be, can someone please explain some simple instructions on how to set this thing up to maintain a constant temp and humidity. Other than that everything is going as planned.

 

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Here's an update, I feel like I didn't give enough nutrients earlier on to the smaller plants being in 100% roots organics original soil they had faded leaves since they were small so I guess the soil didn't come packed with much, and I wasn't feeding enough with the roots organics master pack of nutrients. Both double grape crosses are about 10 inches tall and have shown odd growth most of their life and one even has an 11 finger leaf, the strawberry nuggets are both short and stout as well, one of them is showing solid purple calyxs and bud so that's cool, just wish I could've gotten her alot bigger. Ended up transplanting the Sour stomper into an air pot at day 16 she's since doubled in size and showing some good growth. The NCHxSB is by far the biggest I think for the simple fact I added a good amount of miracle grow in with the roots soil on that one so it came pre charged with more nutrients in the medium than the others, has been LSTd multiple times, got topped on day 19 and didn't slow down at all. She's been getting alot of yellowing lately so I gave a pretty big feed of nutrients last night, one of my favorites so far and I'll def be growing her in my garden again next time. Fed last night 5mls of buddah bloom, 5mls of Trinity, 3.5mls of extreme serine, 3.5mls of ancient amber, 2.5mls of some extra seabird and bat guano, then 2.5 of some calmag PhD at 6.3. This is them in order


2 DGX3BOGXSB ( Day 38 )
2 Strawberry Nuggets ( Day 38 )
1 NCHxSB ( Day 37 )
1 Sour stomper ( Day 29 )

Just want to grow autoflowers better next go around, this is my 3rd autoflower grow and it's still inferior af but also has shown great improvement each grow, I just wish I could dial in what I'm doing wrong and actually grow some decent size plants, as usual any advice / critism is welcome so feel free to drop some knowledge on me.