Indoor First Ever Autofower Grow ''Think Different'' +some

[smith4924]

most of them have showed their sex and they are all little ladies. they are only 3 weeks and 2 days from sprout I germinated them on 3/18/12 and planted in pots on 3/20/13 and 3/21/13 and then the little baby in the small pot is a Blue Dream .....they are growing like crazy the last couple days... the pistols are hard to see in the picture but there blurry things right in the node. Now do I wait to use my 3 1000 watt HPS until I see pre-flowers and then do bloom nutrients at week 6ish let me here a few opinions from experienced auto growers....also if when I do go to 1000 watts should I dial them down to 600 watts for the first week of HPS

 

[smith4924]

just thought I would throw a couple pictures of my MOB and Super Skunk leaving there 4th week of bloom....been through a lot having had mites and treated, forgot to give cal-mag with r/o water and nutrient lockout but all is well and recovering now.....smelling good and going good for t5's these were clones I was going to give away then decided to just throw them in closet under a t5 I also figured out that if I shut lights off the pics look better duh!!

 

[smith4924]

1st and 2nd picture is one of my ak-auto's and is bigger then all the TD and Auto Wappa's etc started at the same time but there catching up..all seems to be very green and healthy. I have started spreading them out and will soon add another light in and then another...4th is my new cloner I cant wait to use this cloner I have always done soil/rockwool and hate waiting. Then I got my self a shelf to store everything on and do my journals and measurements at and store my nutes in a cooler darker place. Then the last picture is my hanna gro-chek combo meter showing a ppm of 10 I was only getting down to about 40 from my well water being at 270 due to only having a 40psi max pressure but I changed my well pressure switch to a 30/50 and added a inline booster pump to r/o system and now get a lot lower of a reading. the system needs at least 40 psi to get a low ppm and you 155 gallon per day amount.......It is going to get crazy I think... this was most likely a little much for my first time growing indoors but hell ill put my heart and soul into it and pull through it. If it goes good I will increase the number of plants but if its to much I will back off and do less but bigger.....most of the photo strains I just started from seed are indoor like blue cheese, strawberry cough, blue dream, grapefruit and a few other that were freebies with some of my orders but will be put outdoors with my lemon skunk...so ill have a lot outdoors and indoors to tend to

 

[smith4924]

really bushing out now....hah this room is going to be nothing but canopy in another month or so

 

[smith4924]

strawberry cough and grapefruit are popping up now waiting on 2 more SC, 1 Blue Cheese, 1 Jack Diesel and 1 Acapulco Gold and I am going to be pissed if this Gold doesn't pop I already lost one. It cracked then into these jiffy pellets yesterday.....The first picture I took to show I put my heating mat inside the box it came in because it was hitting over 90F when directly under the dome/tray now it stays at about 80F I can't find my hydro-farm thermostat for it, but this seems to be working ok. I leave a meat thermometer in one of the pellets so I get a good reading on internal temp of the jiffy pellet... Most of my next grow will be sativa dom. because I have very bad anxiety and it seems to work well for it but also have back pain which causes my anxiety so I like both.. The patience I have like the indica more so I have to keep that included anyways....My favorite is Orange Haze but I have not yet convinced my friends father to share his strain with me but if my Gold works out he will trade with me.. he is an old timer and used to smoke it back in the day..

 

[smith4924]

sorry all it is day 22 right now got my shit mixed up on the calendar...I will do an update Sunday night or Monday morning and Wednesday the 17th will be 4 weeks from sprout, and 4 weeks and 3 days from seed...this is correct info lol I got ahead of my self with another grow im helping with.

 

[smith4924]

Think Different....I am thinking different about auto's now after getting these results in such a short time....figured out how to use my macro setting on the camera so I can now do some decent bud shots tomorrow of my skunk and MOB

 

[smith4924]

playing with the camera trying to get the close up macro dialed in a little.... I t seems like this plant has just slowed down on bud growth. maybe normal at almost week 5?? I hope they fill in a lot better within the next 3-4 weeks now that I have the ''P'' lockout under control.... by the way this is the super skunk not an auto

 

[smith4924]

lost another Acapulco gold today checked the seed and it was mush.. so I had bought 2 and lost both not very happy.. out of 45 seeds I lost those 2 and 2 strawberry cough that just didn't grow. I was most excited about A. Gold seeing how I have never smoked it nor know anyone beside an old timer who has, and he was going to trade me some orange haze clones forA.Gold clones.. I just snapped some pictures of the room now that I switched over from M.H to 1000w H.P.S and burning them at 750 watts until they start to flower. To my surprise the glass right in front of the bulbs is still cold to the touch with the nice cool air drawing from outside to cool them. I have them about 2 1/2 feet from the top of the plants just to get a better light spread. Using these Raptor hoods IMO I think it is better to run at 1000w to spread the light out better but I figured the 1000w was too much right now.. So here are some pictures of the auto's under 750w H.P.S. should I just go 1000w the rest of the way?

 

[medicineforme]

hey just reading along. I am not using co2 at this point and you can see the results. Just lots of air movement.
I am a CG also. I have not done all the steps yet but I am calculating with CMP's help and there is a program to actually save you money for using power on off peak times. You have to enroll in program its not automatic, but can help.

for now your gonna be fine at 50% on your (1)1000w on the seedlings, or just run a t5 for first few sets of leaves. There is no way you need anywhere near that much juice at this point in the grow.