New Grower First Grow! (Biodiesel Mass)

[Master]

Hello everyone,

First and foremost, I would like to say thank you to everyone on this site for making it the greatest site for growing autoflowers on the internet! I would also like to give a special thanks to these users for giving me the extra help I needed to start growing:

• namvet25
• CGR
• Chingro

How I started: I've been toking since December so I'm relatively new to cannabis in general, but after counting up the amount of money I've used on toking, I realized that I either had to stop or try making my own. I was about to give up when a friend referred me to autoflowers. Greatest referral ever . After lots of research and with the help of this amazing forum, I bought everything I need to start.

Seeds:

• Advanced Biodiesel Mass (Growing one for now, but I have three)

Medium:

• Fox Farm Ocean Forest (here)
• MiracleGro Perlite (here)
• Hoffman Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss (here)

I mixed the Fox Farm with the MiracleGro in a 3:1 ratio and put the peat in the top center to avoid burning my seed.

Lights:

• 3x 2700k CFLs
• 1x 6500k CFL

I plan on on going 20/4 with my lights. Feel free to suggest anything that's worked better for you!

Nutes:
General Hydroponics Go Box Starter Kit (here)

Setup:
One 5 gallon bucket with holes at the bottom for air and drainage and holes at the top to help me with LST sits on top of another 5 gallon bucket that catches runoff water. A slim, oscillating fan sits behind them to assist with air flow.

So far:
As of this post, one seed is sitting in an Aquafina water bottle in the back of my closet germinating. I'll continue to update this thread as the grow continues...

Pics!


I look forward to seeing how this turns out! Thanks again to everyone.

 

[Master]

Reserved for final grow pics...

 

[Master]

It's been 9 days since I started and my seed sprouted from the ground three days ago, but it looks like there is a problem. The sprout doesn't look to be growing and I'm afraid that it's going to die. Can someone help me please? I have included a pic down below.

 

[dr_rob_auto]

yeah not great picture mines slow to grow but its at least 2" tall maybe its just throwing out roots, I wouldn't give up maybe bring your lights closer to it

 

[Master]

It's not even close to 2''. I just zoomed in a lot. The sprout is barely 1cm. I tried that advice yesterday and my lights have been about an inch away. Thanks for the advice though!

 

[Master]

Does anyone else have any input on what might be going on?

 

[Bazooka Joe]

Is it under cold ac, check the temperature is not too cold :;;;;;;burr...

 

[Master]

There is an oscillating fan behind it, but other than that, it's pretty warm. Especially considering that it has two 42 watt cfls that are ~2 inches from it at any given moment.

 

[RebelRoy]

have you given it any water? looks kinda dry?

what did you do when you put it in the soil? all info helps High 5

edit: make the bulb 4 inch away in the beginning. my

 

[skrewg314]

Did you start the seed in OF? Shits HOT bro, ive nuked more than a few starting them in straight ff.