NorthernCosmos
Well-Known Member
So here it is - my very first grow!
Having just signed up here at 420, I'm two weeks into this one, and I'll do a little recap and a situation report. This grow involves 2 pots as a learner grow, and with a little luck there'll be some produce eventually...
- The setup is a 2 x 4 x 6 feet Mars hydro tent, a Mars Hydro TSL 2000 light, a 100mm inline fan and carbon filter, a small clip on fan and an atomizing humidifier.
- The buckets are 3 gallons each, drilled drain holes at the bottom and drilled LST tie holes along the top.
- The medium is the typical cheap peat based soil that came with some NPK, mixed with compost from the garden in a ca. 3:1 mix, with a few handfuls of crushed clay pebbles mixed in. There's also some whole clay pebbles at the bottom around the drain holes.
- The seeds are auto feminized from Seeds Stockers, one Amnesia and one White Widow.
After soaking in water for a day, the seeds were planted 1/2 inch deep, pointed end up, at 2019.09.11 after the soil had been soaked and let to drain for a while. I had them covered with some glass jars, i.e. "micro greenhouses" . On 2019.09.14 I had tiny little plants greeting me on day 4
The tap water here is from my own well, with a pH of 7. I believe it's a bit hard, with plenty of calcium - enough that my atomizer makes a thin white coating where the mist hits. The water and soil has a pH of just below 7 using my el cheapo passive pH meters (I have two of them and they're in agreement if nothing else...).
The environment is at 24°C (75°F) and a little above 40% RH. I'm prepared to raise the RH as needed. The TSL 2000 light is set to 75% power - I figured it has to be enough for now and will save some LED wear, but I'm prepared to crank it to 100% if needed.
I ran 24 hour light the first week or so, and then switched down to 19/5, then 18/6 where I am now.
Today, on day 15, they got the first feeding as I thought the soil was suitably dry for that. I uses the Advanced Nutrients Grow/Bloom/Micro set and Vitalink Root Stim. The mix was 1.5ml Grow, 1ml Bloom, 1ml Micro and 1.5ml Root Stim in 1l of water for each of the plants. That's not much, but to my understanding the autos should have a fairly small amount of nutrients. The watering was just enough to get a tiny amount of rub off in the trays.
Things have been progressing fairly satisfactory, but today I got a little worried as the plants seem to be a little low and have some twists on the leaves. There is a little purplish colour on the branches close to the bigger leaves. One of them has some brown spots at the tips of the very lower tiny leaves. Detail pictures below (the images below may be a little light due to the exposure, the actual plants are a little darker green).
This is the setup:
These are the plants over 3 days, from 2019.09.19 to 2019.09.21, days 9,10 and 11:
These are the plants as of today, day 15, first Ada (Amnesia), then Wren (White Widow) (yes, they have names, very silly
):
Here's a closeup ow Wren, showing the lower leaves with the brown spots:
That's it for now. I hope the format is OK. I'll try to update this now and then until it's done.
Any comments are welcome!
Having just signed up here at 420, I'm two weeks into this one, and I'll do a little recap and a situation report. This grow involves 2 pots as a learner grow, and with a little luck there'll be some produce eventually...
- The setup is a 2 x 4 x 6 feet Mars hydro tent, a Mars Hydro TSL 2000 light, a 100mm inline fan and carbon filter, a small clip on fan and an atomizing humidifier.
- The buckets are 3 gallons each, drilled drain holes at the bottom and drilled LST tie holes along the top.
- The medium is the typical cheap peat based soil that came with some NPK, mixed with compost from the garden in a ca. 3:1 mix, with a few handfuls of crushed clay pebbles mixed in. There's also some whole clay pebbles at the bottom around the drain holes.
- The seeds are auto feminized from Seeds Stockers, one Amnesia and one White Widow.
After soaking in water for a day, the seeds were planted 1/2 inch deep, pointed end up, at 2019.09.11 after the soil had been soaked and let to drain for a while. I had them covered with some glass jars, i.e. "micro greenhouses" . On 2019.09.14 I had tiny little plants greeting me on day 4
The tap water here is from my own well, with a pH of 7. I believe it's a bit hard, with plenty of calcium - enough that my atomizer makes a thin white coating where the mist hits. The water and soil has a pH of just below 7 using my el cheapo passive pH meters (I have two of them and they're in agreement if nothing else...).
The environment is at 24°C (75°F) and a little above 40% RH. I'm prepared to raise the RH as needed. The TSL 2000 light is set to 75% power - I figured it has to be enough for now and will save some LED wear, but I'm prepared to crank it to 100% if needed.
I ran 24 hour light the first week or so, and then switched down to 19/5, then 18/6 where I am now.
Today, on day 15, they got the first feeding as I thought the soil was suitably dry for that. I uses the Advanced Nutrients Grow/Bloom/Micro set and Vitalink Root Stim. The mix was 1.5ml Grow, 1ml Bloom, 1ml Micro and 1.5ml Root Stim in 1l of water for each of the plants. That's not much, but to my understanding the autos should have a fairly small amount of nutrients. The watering was just enough to get a tiny amount of rub off in the trays.
Things have been progressing fairly satisfactory, but today I got a little worried as the plants seem to be a little low and have some twists on the leaves. There is a little purplish colour on the branches close to the bigger leaves. One of them has some brown spots at the tips of the very lower tiny leaves. Detail pictures below (the images below may be a little light due to the exposure, the actual plants are a little darker green).
This is the setup:
These are the plants over 3 days, from 2019.09.19 to 2019.09.21, days 9,10 and 11:
These are the plants as of today, day 15, first Ada (Amnesia), then Wren (White Widow) (yes, they have names, very silly
):Here's a closeup ow Wren, showing the lower leaves with the brown spots:
That's it for now. I hope the format is OK. I'll try to update this now and then until it's done.
Any comments are welcome!
so you'll most likely find that same basic peat soil in every garden center.
<--- very Swedish joke.
