New Grower anonamoose's first grow, northern lights auto

[Dogfishfan]

how long you reckon till buds start forming? day 39 from sprout today.

I'm still on my first grow but my fastest and now heaviest girl went to swell about 35 days and the latter ones stared about 39 days. I have read logs where the plant didn't start to swell for 50 days. Your girl looks good probably be any day now.

As far as flushing to raise PH I don't really know. Runoff of 6.2 doesn't seen bad to me but a lot of people do a flush at the start of bloom anyway. I flushed my plants to clear salts out using 26 liters (Vs 11 liter pot) of PH 7 water.

 

[dex]

Yes but only at 0.5ml per lt ( max 1ml per wk ) , if you see any tip burn then you could feed , water , feed , water and so on but you should be fine if your watering every few days or so moose , i always feed every time i water mate in soil

 

[anonamoose]

cool man thanks. ive been watering every 2 or 3 days lately. i water till 10% runoff, then wait till its light and starts wiltin, which lately hasnt taken very long. proper seems like im watering it too much lol. ive kept a watering diary, ill show you because it seems to me im watering a lot. but i always wait till its light, soil feels dry and the leaves are drooping. few hours after i water it really perks up and has a growth spurt, then grows slower n slower till it wilts n then i repeat the process. am i doing that right?

01/0502013 day 25 - veg nute (4ml/800ml)
02/05/2013 day 26
03/05/2013 day 27
04/05/2013 day 28 - watered (900ml)
05/05/2013 day 29
06/05/2013 day 30
07/05/2013 day 31 - veg nute (5m/1000ml)
08/05/2013 day 32
09/05/2013 day 33 - watered (1200ml)
10/05/2013 day 34 - calmag (1ml/1000ml)
11/05/2013 day 35
12/05/2013 day 36
13/05/2013 day 37 - calmag 1ml/1200ml
14/05/2013 day 38
15/05/2013 day 39(f1) bloom 3ml, silicon 0.5ml, - 1200ml water

bare in mind, the only proper nute feeding was today, as the others are those shitty grow nutes i had that were a waste of money.

proper excited about seein the first buds lol

forgot to say, on the 9th and 10th when i watered 2 days in a row, was when that yellow shit started happenin n i couldnt wait to give it calmag lol

 

[dex]

So your basicly water/feeding every 2 days what size pots are they in again mate and what did you put in the soil before planting just to refresh my memory mate

 

[anonamoose]

bout 60% john innes number 2, bout 30% seedling mix by verve (both from b&q like 4 quid or sum shit a bag) and about 10% perlite. maybe a bit more perlite im not sure lol. in an 11 litre pot, but i didnt presoak medium, so soil level has gone down quite a lot, i reckon theres about 7 or 8 litres in the pot now. ill take a pic in a sec n try n show how far the soil level has gone down

 

[dex]

A nice close up moose

 

[anonamoose]

tried to show amount of perlite to lol

 

[dex]

could you take another mate but a little back , its to see how close to the top of rim of the pot the bottom set of leaves are...........im thinking fill the fecker up mate but take a few more pics buddie as if we could get more soil into her this would help no end moose

 

[anonamoose]

i thought a while ago about addin more soil to bucket, was gonna ask about it on here but forgot about it lol. i could deffinately add a bit more without touchin leaves i reckon. would it fuck up the ph or give it extra nutes n burn it though? it wont be at root level but i imagine when i water itll wash the nutrients n shit out the new soil into the lower levels of soil. or wont it matter lol? should i put just seedling soil and perlite?

 

[krug]

I wouldn`t use any more J.I. no 2(i used that on my 2), I wouldn`t use it again(low soil ph, I found)! I`m having to go easy on my `ol timers`, for another week or 2, to make sure my ph comes back up! If the weather picked up, it would allow me more options on sorting the probs, but at the moment i can only water once a week!.......note: i`m not under lights, btw!