Cap'n Style - New Seed - New Nutes - Same Set Up

[go4snypr]

Good day all. I figured I would start a new journal on my Capn' Style grow. It has been a year since I have done a journal but have had great success with this style of growing since then. The reason for the new journal is that I have been given some tester nutrients from a new hydro store that I checked out yesterday. The brand is called "Jakes" I have never heard of it before, but I am going to set aside my General Hydroponics nutes and give it a go. So as for my set up. In seedling stage my plants are under a single CFL bulb on the corner of my dresser. I only have one plant going from seed and one going from clone. I will only be following the one from seed to see how it does. Once out of seedling stage and into veg it will be placed in the veg room under a 600w MH. After a lengthy veg period it will be then placed into flower under a 1000w HPS bulb.
For those of you not familiar with a "Capn Style" grow, the medium I am in is straight rock wool. The seed is started in a starter cube and then moved to a pot that is full of rock wool crutons. In veg the plant will be top fed with the excess water going to waste. In flower the plant will be on a "res" system where the plant will be fed twice a day from a drip ring for 15 mins and the water is recycled back to the res and re-used. The plants will be trained to grow out and not up. I will be bending and topping to get the plant to reach about 3 feet across before it will be put into flower. Once in flower the plant will be put under a screen and we are trying to reach a minimum of 1lb of sweet sweet cannabis.
I will have pictures posted as soon as possible. all input and questions are welcome!! If you want a quick run down, check the link in my signature to check out my first Capn style grow.

 

[Mtn Dew]

Missed the first grow around but I got front row for this one. Thanks G4S.

 

[go4snypr]

Well, I had a busy Christmas and have not had time to update. The seed popped and is sticking out of the rock wool. Looks like bad genetics maybe, there is only 1 leaf sticking out but it is getting bigger. I will take some photos with my phone later today. Hope everyone had a good holiday!! : )

 

[go4snypr]

Well, I am behind on taking photos. My camera on my cell phone is all scratched but here is a pic. Sorry the pic is sideways, forgot to change my camera angle. As you can see, I have one really large leaf, and now it seems to be straightening itself out. So far all I have been giving it is "root" and "florablend" with the R.O water. If growth straightens out, I will start a regular feeding schedule in the next week or two.

 

[go4snypr]

well, here I am a couple of weeks later, I have seen very slow growth on this plant, I am almost ready to give up on it. The roots are not out of the cube yet and for some reason this rock wool cube is molding very badly. Last night I went and cut all of the mold off of the cube leaving about 1/3 of the original cube and there is next to no root development inside. I am going to give it another week but if there is no improvement this experiment will be in the trash. At this point I cannot give any sort of review on the new line of nutes as I have not given anything but 'root" to the plant. On a better note, I have started another seed and it has taken off quite nicely. working on second set of leaves and already put into a bigger pot as the roots exploded out the bottom of the cube. At least I will not be too far behind.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Hi Go4. I have a question on rockwool. Without going into all the complications- I've sprouted a few plants in rockwool and am going to grow them in rockwool, in solo cups. I can't be around much so am going to set up an autowatering system. Any recommendations for a watering schedule for the first couple weeks? Maybe every three days to start, or less? I figure I'll kill them if I water too much in the early days. Complications are that I have some other ones in perlite which will have to be watered more often- but maybe I'll set up a separate system for them or something...
Basically- I'm assuming they'll have to be babied a bit till they get a good root system- correct?

 

[go4snypr]

You can probably get away with every couple of days, I start mine in the starter block and I don't move them to a bigger pot until I see root sticking out the bottom. Once the roots show I place it in a 4 inch pot, that is where they are at right now, and I water that 4 inch pot every couple of days. I dont know if you have to baby them any more or less than any other style of grow, if I were you I would soak some rock wool in your solo cup and let it sit for a day or two and see how fast it dries out under your lights.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Thanks! That's a great idea. Why didn't I think of that...
Just based on my experience with cloning, I find the cubes get overwatered easily, but figured it would only be an issue in the early days.

 

[David Bowman]

Hope all is well in your world.

Is this grow still alive?

We would love to be updated with some pictures and info.

How about posting a 420 Strain Review?

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I am moving this to Abandoned Journals until we get updates.

Sending you lots of love and positive energy.

 

[go4snypr]

Well David, all is well in my world. I have definitely been slacking on the journal. I will try to get some pics posted and some current info up some time today. thanks!!