Indoor First Grow 2x4 Tent 600 W HPS
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Chopped my girls downyou're are coming along nicely dude
I saw that. Ill be ecstatic if my looks even close to yours. Now the fun is really starting. Still can't believe how fast these autos grow. It's like they grow right in front of your eyes lol. Any ideas on my feeding schedule questions?
Also, I think I'm going to run the big bagseed plant in 2L coke bottle setup as a hempy bucket with straight perlite. Figure I can squeeze it in there. Then I can mess around with a hempy bucket plus I can clone off of it if I think it's worth it. Only problem is I won't know if its male or female until my autos are done and I can switch it to 12/12. Kind of a gamble. If I take a bunch of clones and it turns out female could hit the jack pot or so to speak but if it turns out male then I've wasted time/energy/space for nothing. Decisions decisions. Would be much easier if I just had a few more tents running lol.
Looking good, definitely learn from mistake and take it easy on the nutes haha. Im planning on doing some soil next run, so i have been reading up on it. I have heard its best to feed every 2-3 waterings rather than every one. You dont want the nutes to get too concentrated in the soil, an be forced to flush it all out
Thanks! I know what you mean about taking it easy on the nutes. I decided to add them because I was noticing compared to some other journals my plants seemed a little small for their age. Plus I've found conflicting information everywhere as usual. Fox farm recommends adding Big Bloom right away, it's the Gro big you have to take it easy with. I figured with that low of a dosage of big bloom and molasses I'd be okay. Seems to have worked out cuz the girls are super perky today
I didn't add any to my smaller auto tho because its at least 3 days behind the rest. I was planning on feeding 1 time per week on Friday. I've been watering about once every 3 days but I'm sure that'll pick up once they get bigger and start drinking.Any reason your considering soil this next run vs hydro? I've grown both in the past. Loved the rate of growth on hydro but maintenance was a double edged sword. I love working in the garden so the extra work with hydro vs soil was actually a good thing. Instead of just staring at my plants for hours a day I actually had a bunch of different things to do. The bad side to that is I had a bunch of different things to do lol. I hope to get back into hydro in the future but I want to have a decent budget so I can design or buy a more automated and convenient system. In the past I made a homemade ebb flow table with a 20gal res. I also ran 5gal independent DWC. I'd really like to try aeroponics
I just put together my larger tent and will update in a day or 2 with pics, but im looking at this massive 10x4 space and cant help but feel like im underutilizing the space. I cant pack the dwc buckets too close because of the factthat i nee to individually maintain each. Although, if these ladies turn out to be monsters maybe they can fill the tent. i could easily fit like 20 5 gallon pots in this thing though, which makes soil soila little bit tempting
Update Day 18:
They're really growing fast now. I still think they're a little smaller then they should be compared to other journals I've seen but they're alive and it's my first grow so I'm happy with what I've got lol. I'm wondering if my PH or slightly higher temps or running my MH at 300watts vs 600watts is causing them to stunt or grow slower. I only have the water/drops method for PH. My nutrient/water was a little high. I'd say roughly 7.5. Not watering enough to tell runoff. I'm hoping my soil is lowering it. Otherwise the plants seem very healthy so not even sure if its an issue lol.
I went with my second feeding today. I fed all of them except the runt 2 cups of water with 1/4tsp grow big hydro (still haven't had a response on this version vs soil so I'm trying to using a smaller dosage), 1/2tsp big bloom, and 1/2tsp molasses all per 1gal. I gave the runt it's first feeding with 2cups 1/2tsp big bloom and 1/2tsp molasses per 1gal.
The soil wasn't completely dry 2in down but it's been 3 days since my last watering and my temps have been getting up to 85.
I've also been having a small fungus gnat problem. I tried using fly paper and got a sticky mess ugh! No sns 303 in my area and too expensive online so I'm going to try and pick up some neem oil in the next few days. I've heard they can really get out of control
Ill try to get some pics updated later.
I guess after looking at the pics they are getting pretty big lol. A few hours after feeding them and they look super healthy. We'll see how they look tomorrow morning (fingers crossed). I did try cranking my light up to 600watts for about an hour and it got up to 88. I turned it back down to 300watts where its maxing out at 83. I guess i'll have to wait til i can afford a new fan/carbon filter before I can turn my light up. Should time out well though because it will be for the the last month of flowering
Anyways...here's the pics (these were all taken approximately 2 hours after they were fed/watered):
The Group
Critical Jack
Berry Ryder 1
???????
Berry Ryder 2 "The Runt"
Berry Ryder 3
Blue Cheese
Mazar
Bagseeds:
They're really growing fast now. I still think they're a little smaller then they should be compared to other journals I've seen but they're alive and it's my first grow so I'm happy with what I've got lol. I'm wondering if my PH or slightly higher temps or running my MH at 300watts vs 600watts is causing them to stunt or grow slower. I only have the water/drops method for PH. My nutrient/water was a little high. I'd say roughly 7.5. Not watering enough to tell runoff. I'm hoping my soil is lowering it. Otherwise the plants seem very healthy so not even sure if its an issue lol.
I went with my second feeding today. I fed all of them except the runt 2 cups of water with 1/4tsp grow big hydro (still haven't had a response on this version vs soil so I'm trying to using a smaller dosage), 1/2tsp big bloom, and 1/2tsp molasses all per 1gal. I gave the runt it's first feeding with 2cups 1/2tsp big bloom and 1/2tsp molasses per 1gal.
The soil wasn't completely dry 2in down but it's been 3 days since my last watering and my temps have been getting up to 85.
I've also been having a small fungus gnat problem. I tried using fly paper and got a sticky mess ugh! No sns 303 in my area and too expensive online so I'm going to try and pick up some neem oil in the next few days. I've heard they can really get out of control
Ill try to get some pics updated later.
I guess after looking at the pics they are getting pretty big lol. A few hours after feeding them and they look super healthy. We'll see how they look tomorrow morning (fingers crossed). I did try cranking my light up to 600watts for about an hour and it got up to 88. I turned it back down to 300watts where its maxing out at 83. I guess i'll have to wait til i can afford a new fan/carbon filter before I can turn my light up. Should time out well though because it will be for the the last month of flowering
Anyways...here's the pics (these were all taken approximately 2 hours after they were fed/watered):
The Group
Critical Jack
Berry Ryder 1
???????
Berry Ryder 2 "The Runt"
Berry Ryder 3
Blue Cheese
Mazar
Bagseeds:
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Hey!!! I was looking at your pics and I wanted to tell you why your bagseed plants lookd like they were gonna fall over, I don't think anyone else comented on them.. When u were running your t12s they had to have been set to high so the plants were stretching for the light.. you can have your t12 3-4in away from the tops of your plants!!! also I see you got the MH up at 3feet??? that is fine from the beginning but you can slowly lower it like an inch every 2days or something like that... the closer the light to the plants(more Lumens) the closer the nodes will be (bud sites) also you will have more bud sites, if not the plant will keep stretching for the light and u will end up with tall lanky plants without many budsites.... also some of your plants in the recent pics look overwatered... remember u can overwaterthem by spraying/misting them also... I made that mistake once with clones and the ended up dieing or stunting the shitout them... I actually never really mist my plants, I just wait for the soil to dry up then I kno its time to water them... hopethis helpsThanks! I know what you mean about taking it easy on the nutes. I decided to add them because I was noticing compared to some other journals my plants seemed a little small for their age. Plus I've found conflicting information everywhere as usual. Fox farm recommends adding Big Bloom right away, it's the Gro big you have to take it easy with. I figured with that low of a dosage of big bloom and molasses I'd be okay. Seems to have worked out cuz the girls are super perky today
Any reason your considering soil this next run vs hydro? I've grown both in the past. Loved the rate of growth on hydro but maintenance was a double edged sword. I love working in the garden so the extra work with hydro vs soil was actually a good thing. Instead of just staring at my plants for hours a day I actually had a bunch of different things to do. The bad side to that is I had a bunch of different things to do lol. I hope to get back into hydro in the future but I want to have a decent budget so I can design or buy a more automated and convenient system. In the past I made a homemade ebb flow table with a 20gal res. I also ran 5gal independent DWC. I'd really like to try aeroponics
THAT BERRY RYDER 2 could be that small due to over watering overwatering is the worst it will stunt the shit out ur plants.. worse than anything else!!! ive seen over watered autos grow only5-6in tall before!!! they did look cute though!!! they were lke 5in 1gram bud!!!! could be also a shitty phenol ive also seen that where they stay a few inches tall due to a (dud seed) cant stress enough bout the over watering.. u said 3days before u watering? those 1gal pots?? those plants are still to small to e sucking up water that fast.. are u waiting for the soil to dry up??? reason y im tellin u this is cuz overwatering is the #1 mistake for newbe growers..
jus tryin to help out fellow grower!!
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