Indoor Second Grow - Five Mephisto strains in coco/perlite with auto watering

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Hey everybody! Really glad to be back in the tent!

This grow will be from left to right:

Hubbabubbahaze
Orange Biscuits
Alien vs Triangle
Sour Stomper
Double Grape

All grown in 2 gallon fabric pots with coco/perlite, using an HLG 350R light and General Hydroponics FloraTrio + CaliMagic. I'm also adding in 5ml/gallon of 12% hydrogen peroxide to help maintain the reservoir. Last grow I wasn't able to water my pots 2x-3x a day to keep them all happy, so for this grow I followed Cocoforcannabis' guide on a DIY autowatering system with draining trays, a catchment bucket, and a reservoir leading into hydro halos. I'm not great at DIY projects so the tubing is a bit messy, but I can leave it all week without worrying about it. I happened to have a lot of risers laying around that I used to raise the plants. It's pretty silly and there's much better ways to raise them but this is working for now (they are more stable than they look hahaha).

Day 3

Day 13

Day 17

I'm feeding these plants much more nutrients than my first grow. Week 1 was just 0.2ec of calmag, but week 2 they were getting up to 1.0ec of nutrients (RO water), and for week 3 they're getting around 1.2ec. I'm trying this based on the General Hydroponics feeding chart, and the fact that I mostly had deficiency issues in my first grow. They seem to love it so far, but from what I understand these are very hardy genetics. I had a good experience topping, so I will likely top them next week above the 4th node. Happy to answer any questions, but I'm a complete beginner so I can't really speak from prior knowledge!

 

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Quick update, day 25. Seeing the first pistils coming out of the biggest plant (Orange Biscuits Mephisto). I'm having some troubles with two of my plants, and possibly not maintaining my reservoir correctly. I've got two very very short plants (far left Hubbabubbahaze, and far right Double Grape). I know my pH has been too high, I have been mixing a full reservoir and leaving it for 3-4 days, but I'm finding out my pH is unstable for hours after filling my reservoir, going from 5.7 to 6.3 very quickly. So my plants in coco have been unfortunately drinking 6.3-7ph nutrients. A few of them feel dry, coarse, and crispy. And pretty much all of the leaves on all plants are droopy. Could this be from the pH as well? They're being fed to runoff 3x a day. I'm going to keep an eye on the pH every day for now until I figure out how to hopefully slow the drift.

Did my best to leaf tuck, the fan leaves are gigantic on most of these, they're hogging all of the sun. Any advice on what I should do about my stunted plants would be greatly appreciated! When it's so close to the grow medium I really don't know if I should be doing anything different. It's very hard to tuck a plant that's like 7 inches tall!

 

[St. Tom]

Great job my friend

 

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About day 29, just yesterday switched them back to RO water from tap water. I think they're loving it. I also turned my light down because the leaves were curling downwards pretty hard. Trying to tie down the Alien vs Triangle a bit, it's getting massive. AvT and Sour Stomper are looking really promising all the way down! They're all getting 2.0 EC nutrients around pH 5.8. It might be a little hot but in the coming weeks I'm going to taper down to about 1.6-1.7 EC based on the General Hydroponics feeding guide I'm following.

 

[Dankerson]

Love the setup! I have one that's very similar but I grow in soil. The plants look great! Been wanting to get my hands on some hubbabubbahaze. Going to follow along for the rest of the grow

 

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Love the setup! I have one that's very similar but I grow in soil. The plants look great! Been wanting to get my hands on some hubbabubbahaze. Going to follow along for the rest of the grow

Thanks dude! You were right, your setup looks great as well! I'm jealous of that tent size, I'm already having trouble reaching over my AvT to the Hubbabubbahaze hahah. Speaking of, I wish I could give a better representation of the Hubbabubba for you, I've definitely made some mistakes. No worries, it's crunch time. We'll make it up on the back end!!

 

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Day 38 or so! I've never had my tent so full! The ones that were blowing up continued to do so. AvT and Sour Stomper are stacking up top to bottom, Orange Biscuits in the back is surprising me as well. It was a seed I popped last minute when my other strain didn't germinate. Hubbabubbahaze and Double Grape are still behind like they have been for most of the grow, but I'm hoping they're just flowering late because they had a slow start and needed more time to establish roots. Those two are perched on 5 gallon buckets to keep them even with the canopy, so they are shorter than they appear. I'll keep treating them like the rest and hope they catch up here soon!

Everything is getting 45,000-52,000 lux, and I'm following a new feeding chart since I've added some of the General Hydroponics extras. They're getting around 1.3 EC consisting of Armor SI, Calimagic, Floramicro, grow, and bloom, Koolbloom, and Diamond Nectar. Since they're being autowatered twice a day with hydro halos, I'm adding some yucca powder to the reservoir supposedly to help the water and nutrients disperse better for less dry spots. That's it for now! I'll update when the buds start developing more, and hopefully have some budsites to show on the Double Grape!

Alien Vs Triangle

Sour Stomper

 

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Day 50 update, everything is finally done stretching it looks like, hopefully they just need another month or so to plump up. As expected, the Double Grape and Hubbabubbahaze never fully caught up to the others. I did something bad early on, looks like between day 17 and 25. I was using tap water at the time and I don't think they liked it very much, and I was having pH issues. They're still on stilts to be as tall as the canopy, but it looks like Double Grape is finally starting to form up, just a few weeks behind the rest. Hubbabubbahaze still a bit behind even the DG. They also seem like they need a ton of defol! Double Grape is super super bushy, like a wrapped up tree, and Hubbabubba has small leaves, but a ton of them. I've been really behind on defoliating them this week due to being busy, but I'll be clearing them up soon.

Really happy by the Orange Biscuits! I didn't know anything about it since it was a last minute germinate, but it's my frostiest and most developed strain, the entire canopy is covered in frost. AvT and Sour Stomper need no introduction, they're always happy. Hope to be close to harvesting some tops by next update! Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Day 61, they're getting close now I think, at least the top half. The Alien Vs Triangle is smelling super sweet, it takes up the main aroma of the tent from the front. Whenever I touch the Orange Biscuits I get the strong citrus musk, the orange is very on point. Not sure if it's the nutrients or the lights, but some of the hairs are fluorescent orange, way more bright orange than I've ever seen bud hairs in person. Close up shots are just taken with my phone, using a ~$20 100x clip on camera phone lens, and zooming x2 on my phone for 200x total.

Alien Vs Triangle

Sour Stomper

Orange Biscuits

Alien Vs Triangle