Lighting CH9 Jack 33 (photo) under Blackstar Chrome - autopot

[astronomy420a]

hey farmer! get out here and make some noisethings are happening, i have six plants growing under the chrome!:booya:and they are doing very well, two spots on. along with 6500k cfl's pray for three females!:smoke:

 

[herbal.experience]

guess this is going to be the first autopot experiemtn to follow.

goodluck brown.

amazing start by the way.

led is definitely something to look out for in the near future.

 

[farmerBrown]

hey farmer! get out here and make some noisethings are happening, i have six plants growing under the chrome!:booya:and they are doing very well, two spots on. along with 6500k cfl's pray for three females!:smoke:

Looking forward to seeing how it turns out, post a link to the diary for me. How high have you got the Chrome above the babies?


Thanks for all the kind words guys, just wanted to upload a couple more pics from yesterday. I'm think about 4 weeks to go, but who knows. Also included a shot of the whole space so you can get a better idea of what I'm working with at the moment.

One thing that always surprises me is how people manage to run EC of 2 or even more. I'm at 1.4 - 1.5 right now and she shows no signs on hunger at all, moving along nicely.

Another thought, should I chop out some of the fans leaves from the top of the canopy? You can see how dense it is from the pics below. The Chrome has pretty good penetration but nothing is getting through that mess. In an ideal world I would move the light up a few more inches cause there is a little bleaching going on but pretty minor so I'm not going to get too worried. Pending some advice about the above, I'm just letting things roll along at the moment and we'll see what happens.

The grow space:
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Couple of random shots:
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[Hazy]

Normaly i would say no to removing fan leaves but f you feel they are stoping the light getting throught to the rest of the plant i might, sorry a can't be anymore vague .. lol

 

[farmerBrown]

pulled out about a dozen or so fan leaves and a lot of lower bud sites that weren't going to amount to anything. it's still so bushy I don't think it'll cause any harm. At least there's a bit more light getting through now. Hazy inspired me to scrog next time.
One thing I was wondering is if anyone has used airpots (super roots) with auto pots? Got some airpots coming that I was just going to use for seedlings and mothers but if there is a way to use them in an autopot, even better. noticed the big air space under the pot so I'm thinking it won't work with bottom feeding, but if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

 

[Hazy]

pulled out about a dozen or so fan leaves and a lot of lower bud sites that weren't going to amount to anything. it's still so bushy I don't think it'll cause any harm. At least there's a bit more light getting through now. Hazy inspired me to scrog next time.
One thing I was wondering is if anyone has used airpots (super roots) with auto pots? Got some airpots coming that I was just going to use for seedlings and mothers but if there is a way to use them in an autopot, even better. noticed the big air space under the pot so I'm thinking it won't work with bottom feeding, but if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

Think your right about the airpot autopot combo. just no real way to match them together. But i do like people who think outside the box.

 

[farmerBrown]

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Bit of an update , 4 more weeks ?
Not much to report really everything is going along nicely. Little bit of bleaching and a tiny bit of tip burn but nothing serious.

 

[farmerBrown]

hmmm....what the hell is happening to my plant?

EC is only 1.4 so it can't be nute burn...unless the medium is full of salt. Ph of the rez is good, 5.8 - 6.0. I threw in a bit of cal/mag to see if that helps the situation.

Looks much worse in person.

Any ideas...?
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[farmerBrown]

mag isn't helping.
ph is good. run off ph is good.
going to hit it with some pk 13/14 looks like def of some sort

 

[farmerBrown]

page just crashed.
mag didn't help. ph and ec ok.
hitting her with some more pk looks like a def to me.