1st CFL Berry Ryder & Blueberry Headband Grow - 2015

[quietsvn]

Hello alll

I started my first grow on Dec 19, 2014 from seed. Any advice to getting a nice yield would be great.

Currently my setup is below:

Strains: 3 Berry Ryders & 1 Blueberry Headband
Grow cabinet: 36" high x 18"deep x 24" & mylar lined with an exhaust fan
Light: 6400K 125W CFL
Temp: 60ºF night 80ºF daytime
Nutrients: Fox Farm Trio
Medium: 2/3 Coco Coir + 1/3 Perlite

Dec 19, 2014
Started my germination.

Dec 21, 2014
Germination complete and moved to the grow cab. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Dec 23, 2014
First signs they are alive and took to the medium. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Dec 26, 2014
Signs of growing +/- 1" in height. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Dec 28, 2014
They doubled in size working off the Fox Farms schedule at 1/2 strength (Light cycle is 18/6)

Dec 28, 2014
Noticed the tips were a little light, I moved them a bit back from the light. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Jan 4, 2015
Things are still looking okay, growth has sped up real fast. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Jan 5, 2015
Growing even faster. Color seems to be strong. The Blueberry Headband is definitely the runt of the litter so far. (Light cycle is 18/6)

Jan 6, 2015
Yesterday seemed to have a real nice bump in size (Light cycle is 18/6)

Jan 7, 2015
They really do seem to be progressing well. Everything looks healthy 18 days in. (Light cycle is 18/6)

 

[Atrain]

Re: First Grow - "Pushing the little daisy..."

Good looking plants you got there brother.... I'll be keeping up with this one.... Good luck and check out my current grow as well I got some autoflower under t5 and cfl going now

 

[quietsvn]

Re: First Grow - "Pushing the little daisy..."

Thanks - Atrain

It will be interesting to see yours as well and the difference in yields.

 

[Atrain]

re: 1st CFL Berry Ryder & Blueberry Headband Grow - 2015

Hopefully I don't screw them up and actually have a yield it's my first grow as well

 

[quietsvn]

Update on the grow:

Day 25
Light Schedule: 18/6
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio

Plants seem to be growing real strong. There are a few spots on a couple of the leaves that are suspect, other than that all is good.

 

[quietsvn]

 

[quietsvn]

Update on the grow:

Day 30
Light Schedule: 18/6
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio

Plants are looking very strong. Began doing some pinning and LST on the Berry Ryder to get some more light down in the canopy. The transplants of the auto went very well and over 2" of growth over 3 days.

Blueberry Headband

Berry Ryders

 

[HealingKronic]

Nice looking plants! They are looking a bit dark green with minor leaf curl downward which to me looks like a little too much N in the food.

Also, I would remove the bottom three or so inches because light will never penetrate far enough to develop the buds when Energy could be directed to the main cola.

 

[quietsvn]

Nice looking plants! They are looking a bit dark green with minor leaf curl downward which to me looks like a little too much N in the food.

Also, I would remove the bottom three or so inches because light will never penetrate far enough to develop the buds when Energy could be directed to the main cola.

Thanks man - they have been pretty low stress so far.

When should I thin out the bottom? Its only Day 30. They are autos though so I assume they will start flowering soon.

 

[Atrain]

Looking good man keep it up

 

[Snax818]

Looking good Quietsvn. Subbed

 

[quietsvn]

Looking good Quietsvn. Subbed

Thanks fellas

 

[quietsvn]

Update on the grow:

Day 32
Light Schedule: 18/6
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio

Not to much to report - ended up doing a PH'd water flush on Day 30 and a dry out day on Day 31. Leaves are looking a bit better.

Also began pinning some leaves up letting the underside get some more light.

Berry Ryder

Blueberry Headband

 

[TheRoach]

Thats a nice looking plant.

 

[Tomster420]

They look very nice bro! Happy to see someone growing these as i have a berry ryder and bbhb aswell, will be awesome to see the growth and development!

 

[quietsvn]

They look very nice bro! Happy to see someone growing these as i have a berry ryder and bbhb aswell, will be awesome to see the growth and development!

Thanks - Ya it will be nice to see someone else trying to figure out these auto's as well.

 

[quietsvn]

Update on the grow:

Day 35 - End of Week 5
Light Schedule: 18/6
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio

I have to go out of town for 5 days next week so hopefully they will stay in the veg state until I get back. I bought some hydrospikes off Amazon to keep them hydrated and plate on using 1/2 nute strength in the hydrospikes.

According to the Autogrowers guide its advised to keep them in veg till week 7.


Blueberry Headband

Berry Ryder

 

[Tomster420]

I'm pretty sure that the BBHB is a non-auto?

 

[quietsvn]

Day 42
Light Schedule: 18/6
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio

Back from 1 week away on work travel. Had all 4 plants hooked up to hydro spikes and 1/2 strength nutes. Seemed to be working well each went thru about 2/3 gallon while I was away.

Some serious growth on the Berry Ryders happened which is nice. The Blueberry Headband is about 2-3 weeks away from flowering - I think as per the reviews.

I gave them a good flush with PH water last night.

Berry Ryder

Blueberry Headband

 

[quietsvn]

Day 43
Light Schedule: 12/12 for Berry Ryder plants 1 & 2, 18/6 for Berry Ryder plant 3 and Blueberry Headband
Nutes: Fox Farms Week 3 Trio


I did some serious trimming today of Berry Ryder plants 1 & 2 (the real growers) and Berry Ryder plant 3 and some under pruning of the Blueberry Head band to thin it out a little as the last two are still in Veg.

Hopefully the plants were pruned correctly, they definitely look a lot better. Also got about a shopping bags worth of leaves and clippings. Not sure what to do with them if anything... any ideas?

Berry Ryders

Blueberry Headband