Indoor Easy Ryder Hempy Grow - Hows she looking?

[zaQ]

WTF you do? Check my grow journal and you can see how an Easy Ryder should look after 30 ish days from seed

 

[infused]

Infused what medium are you using to hold the plant itself?

Since germination she has been in rockwool. Then thrown in a 16oz solo cup with straight perlite....then into her 3 gal home with the 3:1 mix of perlite and vermiculite. Don't know how i feel about rockwool though. In combination with rockwool PH craziness and heat problems...my poor girl has been stunted.

3:1 h202 mix is a bit strong, I would do more along the lines of 9:1. But if you do not see massive amounts of algea, then it is really not going to have a negative effect on your plant. They are not parasitizing your plant, just there because it's the perfect environment for them. They are probablly eating some nutes, but as long as the colony isn't massive, it's a minimal amount.

Wow thanks. I was way off haha. I'll start off with a minimal amount and spray the algae areas. I really didnt think the minimal amount of algae would affect her....but I do want to reuse the perlite medium. Wanna get rid of that stuff before it spreads like wildfire. Thanks for all the solid advice.

WTF you do? Check my grow journal and you can see how an Easy Ryder should look after 30 ish days from seed

HAHA. Yea wtf is right. I had way too much heat on her after the 1st week. 95-100F temps. My damn thermo was broken and giving me false temps. I got it all fixed up now. I'm cruising at 75-80F now. Checked out your grow. That ER looks beastly. Killer work man.

 

[spacemanspiff]

In case anyone else comes across this thread looking for info on autoflowering in hempy buckets, if you are having problems with ph stability in rockwool it is because your plants are sucking up water faster than they are using nutrients and the salt buildup is making your ph climb. Water your cubes more frequently or use less nutrients. When you do water them, make sure they get flushed well to clear out salt buildup.

Also, don't worry about algae in your hempy bucket. It's only on the top where it can get enough light and your nutrients and water are at the bottom. That said, because beneficials can't survive in an all perlite hempy bucket, using hydrogen peroxide is a good idea. Your hempy nutrient reservoir is susceptible to root rot due to low oxygen. H2O2 will kill the bad stuff and give your plants more O2 that they wouldn't get otherwise. Soil, coco or jiffy pellet based hempy buckets are another matter entirely. Treat all perlite/vermiculate based hempy buckets as you would DWC or NFT that lacks an airstone. They're like bubble buckets without the bubbler. With low O2 levels you should really add hydrogen peroxide.

 

[agito]

Very good first post
and repped