New Grower Jacks First Grow

[jackdingle]

Finally got everything setup and kicked off my first ever grow in the last week.

Breeder: Royal Queen Seeds
Strains: Northern Lights Auto x 3, Fast Eddy Auto x 1

Setup:
4 x 4 x 6 tent
5 gallon fabric pots
Biobizz Lightmix soil
Humidifier - Amazon Special
Heater - 1500 watt ceramic
Honeywell tower fan
6 inch Silent 250 M3 Fan ,Can Lite Filter
Inkbird Wifi Temp & RH Controllers
Biobizz Organic Nutrients full range

Light: Spider Farmer SF 4000

Environmental conditions: 24c/75f & 70% RH

Day 0 - 5th March

Tap water left out for 24 hours in advance for chlorine to evaporate. Biobizz root juice added and then PH adjusted to 6.3. Pots soaked to run off and then left in the tent for a few hours to come up to temperature. Seeds sown directly into the soil for this first run

Day 1 - 10th March

Woke up this morning and the first of the NL ladies has shown herself. The other 3 don't seem far behind - can almost see them poking through the soil so hoping to wake up tomorrow to 4/4. In hindsight I probably dug the holes for the seeds a bit too deep hence it taking so long for the seedlings to break through.

Pots still nice and heavy so no water yet.

The seed casing is still attached in the below pic, assume this should naturally fall off in the next day or two ?

Everything going OK so far apart from a lack of patience .

My light is set to minimum on the dimmer currently, at what point in the seedlings life should I start cranking it up ?

x

 

[fauxnacho]

Good luck to ya bud. You've got all the gear. You wont need ur humidifier up so high, that will cause some algae or mould probs if you keep it up so long.

 

[jackdingle]

Thanks - just dropped the humidifier to 60% this earlier this week.

Unfortunately one of the NL seeds didn't germinate so had to be replaced a couple of days ago.

The other 2 NL girls + the fast eddy are all looking healthy. These 3 received an initial very light feed of fish mix on Day 4 yesterday (0.5 ml/litre) alongside some further root juice.

Noticed them stretching slightly so dropped the SF-4000 and bumped it up to 40% on the dimmer. Approx 65 cm above the canopy

 

[jackdingle]

Latest update from today - the older 2 NL + Fast Eddy on Day 11 now and the younger NL on Day 6

Had an issue the last few days with the first set of serated leaves curling up (pictures attached). Came to the conclusion that this was due to too much light so raised the light and dimmed it again slightly. Looking at the pics does this seem correct ?

Had droopy leaves on days 6-8 - pretty sure I overwatered last time so left them to dry out for a few days and reduced the amount of water I gave them yesterday. Didn't see any nutrient issues from the last very light dose of fish mix so bumped this up to 1ml per litre for the latest feed.

How am I looking overall ?

Very hard to follow the LITFA mantra on the first grow Struggling at the moment as I see some growers with a lot more development on Day 14/15 and my first set of 3 pronged leaves are still quite small

Temps are at 21C and humidity kept at 60%

 

[fauxnacho]

All fine to my eye dude, as you note the LITFA mantra will help you through the first few weeks at least .. closely inspecting a seedling or early veg plant on the daily will just make you see things that aren't there
Light mix + 1ml/l fish mix is all good in the hood for younglings. I found fishmix is fine at first but once the bottle has been open for a month or two, facking STINKS
Through this stage I just check in daily to make sure they're still green, and other than that, no need to open the tent. Before they get to a good size, there's no jobs to be done anyways doing good bud

 

[jackdingle]

Been a while without an update here after an absolute disaster a few days ago.

Arrived home to discover the plastic joints at the top of my tent has snapped and the whole thing had collapsed. Was very fortunate the my light was not damaged but 2 of the NL ladies were completely crushed

Picked up a replacement tent pronto and didn't cheap out this time with poorly made chinese tat.

Above is the surviving NL on Day 16, all looking good apart from a couple of marks where I spilled some nutes

Above is the fast eddy on Day 21. She was topped at the 4th node yesterday.

As the pic above shows the very top set of leaves are curled up slightly. I'm assuming this is just a bit of temporary stress from the topping yesterday and should resolve itself over the next couple of days whilst she recovers, am I thinking along the right lines here ?

Planning to start LST on her once she has bounced back in the next 2/3 days

 

[jackdingle]

The Fast Eddy recovered nicely from the topping with plenty of growth beneath the top of the canopy. Cola sites beginning to pop out thick and fast now. She received her first touch of LST this evening on Day 23

The Northern lights has been coming on nicely also - She was topped today at the 4th node on Day 18

 

[Harukisan]

Looking good so far.
I got a NL auto from RQS as well in my seed stash, curious to see the results with yours.

 

[jackdingle]

Yeah I've heard they can go for quite a long time - read several reports of phenos that go 100 days+ easy

The quality has looked good on all the pics I've seen though

 

[fauxnacho]

Looking tight bud. Make sure you let em get huge. Keep your hands off em for a while, no need to top a fast eddy in a badass setup like yours