New Grower Heights little hut

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I've caught the grow bug and it's fierce haha,
Basically I wasn't able to stop myself from not growing through the winter, so I'm trying my hand at indoor. Now that I've had the sweet luxury of fresh homegrown I cant go back.

Details:
I will actually have things to say now not just "a sunny day" haha

Tent:
2x2x4.5 (flower side of my vivo 36x24 2in1)

Light:
marshydro - TS600 (100W, smallest of the TS series, havent seen anyone running one so excited to try it out @MarshydroTina )


Ventilation:
6" fan for circulation, (exhaust&filter to be added once purchased)

Medium: - 3 gal nursery pot
1 part composted manure
1 part worm castings
1 part perlite
1 part last grow recycled (same mix)

I also added 1/2 recommended dose of bone meal (4-10-0 + 12 calcium) this time
As i seemed to lack a little p in flower with this summer's plants, plus hoping the extra calcium helps under this LED board.

Nutrients:
Pro-Mix organic liquid concentrates
(12-6-6) general mix during veg, (3-6-12) tomato mix in flower

Genetics:
Dr. Seeds - autoflower Zkittlez
Found these at the local shop and went looking online to find the growers info. When googled it shows up but the link is broken, I emailed them and got very a quick response, so far so good

Now the goods

Shot glassed over night and into soil,
Germ pad & 15W blurple, 24-0, 8" away
I didnt have my tent yet (like I said I just couldn't stop myself haha) house temp and humidity is about 20C and 50%

Sprouted 24/10

Had one tiny coytldon and one normal, doesnt seem to have minded,
Just daily mistings of water to keep the soil moist
Day 7

To be continued...

 

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Day 14

Temp: 20-26C
Rh: 50-70%
Light: 25" high
Now at 18-6 cycle
Another 750ish mL today just water again
Maybe fertigate next watering

Boom she's working on her fourth node and I couldn't be happier, my fastest growing plant yet, hoping I can keep this momentum going
Also loving how fat and round those leaves are

While admiring her I noticed a little bit of leaf edge curling so I just lowered the pot 2"
Light is now 27" away

Happy growing everyone

 

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Day 21

Light on: 26C 45%rh
Light off: 19C 65%rh
750mL watering

The third week comes to a close and Winter has hit us it seems, dropped the humidity in the house by 5-10% the past couple days.
As planned, I snipped the 4th and 5th set of fan leaves, hoping it slows the main down a little bit, let the branching grow out,
Before

After

I'm thinking I'll start a little bit of lst, just to guide the branches to open areas but hoping to let this first plant grow and stretch fairly naturally
Up her skirt branching really well

Happy growing everyone

 

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Hello my little lady

Did not notice these tidbits when snipping the fans wednesday night, looking like she enjoyed it though, all praying again

Better get some wire, here comes the stretch
Happy growing everyone

 

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End of week 4 and the stretch has begun

Light on: 26C and 55%
Light off: 20C and 80%
1L fertigation saturday
1L water today

Still no lst, she seems to be growing pretty wide anyway

A little after the first dose of nutes, I had noticed slight yellowing of the tips which I had thought was nute burn, so last fertigation I kept it at about 1/3 recommended, and now that she has stretched up and I can see everything a little better, I noticed this rear fan leaf

Looks like what i thought was nute burn was probably slight P def and now the stretch has brought it on hard
I'm thinking a 2/3ish recommended dose of my veg this next fertigation, and see what happens, probably switch to flowering nutes after that anyway, maybe I should start putting a shot of molasses in my water only days, I think that has a little P among other goods?


And as planned, we are 4 weeks in so...

look who showed her, unfortunately capped, little head this afternoon
Hopefully I can pop it off no harm and keep it going.
This was the first time I have tried straight into final pot rather than my germ pad, still shotglassed over night and pre-soaked the pot, and I dug out a small cup sized hole and filled it with my seedling mix,
Simply extra worm poop and perlite added to regular mix to lighten it up, castings are amazing,
Anyway, so far so good not sure which I prefer,
I'm thinking I just wont water the pot this week, unless of course she starts to droop, I noticed with this first plant all that composted manure and ewc in my mix stays damp much longer than outside, until the plant is actually drinking it between 2 and 3 weeks.

Happy growing everyone

 

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The 5th week comes to an end, and I'm crossing my fingers that the stretch has too

She has grown an inch a day the past two weeks,
Main is Only 13" from the light now, still nicely spread out just letting her do her thing,

I have one more foam block to remove if I start seeing some stress to the tops before I have to get creative
She's kind of taking over the tent haha
I'm starting to think I should go with smaller pots, save the 3 gals for outside


And as you can see there is no week old seedling in the second pot there...
The seed case came off, looked a little funky but I was optimistic...

However in the tent two days later...

Looks like the roots hit the manure and she burned right up, I guess I didnt make a large enough pocket of seedling soil in the center
Probably going back to little pots and my germ pad from now on haha

Happy growing everyone

 

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6 weeks down, The stretch has stopped... I think,

we are sitting at 28" tall main cola and those four main branches that came from the 2nd and 3rd node are about 4" shorter

She has been drinking more the past 2 weeks
About 1.5L every two days rather than twice a week, top dressed with a couple hand-fulls of worm castings at the end of the 5th week and have just been watering in, i think a light first fertigation with my flowering nutes will be next watering. I was hoping I wouldn't need extra cal mag but she's definitly looking for some, might grab a bottle to have on hand for growing under the LEDs
Never had a problem outside, and I'm thinking I'll keep playing around using one soil mix and just supplement the couple plants indoors than have two different soil mixes going. For now anyways


In other news I set up my seedling station in the other side of my tent, 15W blurple and a germ pad, dropped a seed last week, turned everything on, next day the little pot was almost hot to the touch,
if it were a cuppa tea it was still enjoyably warm to drink haha
Note: Germ pads up the ambient temp 10 to 15 degrees Celsius, used correctly...
Meaning with my tent already sitting around 27C
my poor little seed was probably about 45-50C
She cracked open but never grew, boiled alive

So thirds times the charm with the new tent
Heat mat unplugged
Day 1 today

Happy growing everyone

 

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49 days above soil

Starting to eat some of the lower leaves this week, going to up the nutes next fertigation and see if it helps, it's time to just keep her happy and watch them buds swell up, Lots of nice sized pistil puff balls so farlet's see how this light does in flower, got a few more weeks yet.


7 days above soil for this pretty lady
She loved her life in the germ station

Smooth transplant, splash of water to seal the deal, She looks on track to be even larger at two weeks, hope I can keep up the momentum
Happy growing everyone

 

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56 days old

busy week, fertigation was a couple days late, fan leaves have done their job though, buds are still fattening up finally grabbed some cal/mag yesterday hope it isn't too late to help, was hoping I could get on without and that it was more just hydro guys but damn these new LEDs are hungry I'll just keep her moving along to the finish, couple weeks to go.


2 weeks old for this little miss, another real quick gal but she's growing quite differently than the first, almost no branching has started from the nodes this time.

I think it may be the greater light distance, the first plant I had up on all the foam blocks, only 26" from the light, Now both pots are right on the ground, 36" from the light
She is growing a little more like I'm used to outside, possibly Christmas-tree-like rather than a branchy bush.
Of course, it's real early and I'm just guessing haha, maybe it's just different phenos, or even just plants being plants
Happy growing everyone

 

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Merry christmas everyone
Update is a couple days late
Everything is just trucking along though doing her thing, watching them buds

65 days old


And 23 days old for this one

Similar looking leaves at the start and the same slight purple tint on the fan stems but she is growing incredibly differently than the first, looking good though so I'm happy,

Happy growing everyone