Hey all! This is my first post and my first grow so please forgive me if there are some newbie mistakes during this entire process.
1st Grow
5x4x7ft self made tent
1-600w Apollo MH/HPS air cooled
1-300w Marshydro LED
1- 4 inch inline exhaust fan (blowing air into the tent from outside of my building w/filter taped on the end of ducting
1 - 6 inch exhaust fan hooked to light pushing air out of the tent
1- carbon filter
1 - Oscillating Fan
4 gallon container with bubbling stone (using only store bought distilled water at this point)
7 dark devil autos using a mix of mediums for experimentation in 5 gallon buckets and one 5 gallon grow bag
*All have bottom half filled with subcools super soil - used coco and miracle grow organic
*All 6 buckets have roots organic with added perlite and the grow bag only miracle grow organic with added perlite
Light cycle - first week and a half 18/6 with mh and led/last few days I have upped to 24/0
Temps have been ranging from 65-75 degrees. The grow is in my building (which I don't suggest or enjoy but it is my only option currently). Due to the season where I live, weather has been insane. Dropping to freezing and as hot as high 70s in the last 2 weeks.
This has made keeping temps exact very difficult but it is what it is.
Humidity usually stays around 30- 55. General stays around 35.
At this point, I'm not sure all my babies are salvageable. Over watered the shit out of them. Beginner move... I know. But fuck it. Lesson learned. Every mistake breeds a solution.
Started the ladies all in soil all had 100% success rate from Sweet Seeds Dark Devil's. As you will see in the pics (hopefully if I uploaded them properly) I staggered when I started them. Started 4 and was just gonna roll with that. Waited a few days.... got anxious and excited....said the heck with it and started the others.
*Side note.... ordered 5 seeds...... sweet seeds sent me 7. They are legit. Definitely will roll with those guys again. They are top notch****
Anyway... started by using a spray bottle and small amounts from a water bottle at first. They flourished. Then.... about a week after sprout.... I ran 3/4 of a gallon 2 different times on the 1st 4 and 1/2 gallon once also. Watered them ever 2-3 days like that for a week. Since that point.... they all completed stopped progressing. 100% stand still. As I'm hoping you can see, they are all drooping and one looks completely shot. Read one person with a similar set up to mine only uses 3/4 of a cup every 3 days and his plants looked magnificent in comparison to mine at this point. If they live thru this, that's my plan afterward. Anyone with any knowledge/experience on this please feel free to fill me in.
So..... there it is. Hoping I don't crash and burn with these purps because they look amazing and I am very pumped for the grow.
If so, I have some light of jah on back up. Planning on waiting a week to ten days to see if they can dry out and endure. If not, I'll salvage what I can and try the LOJs
Also.... today I drilled several more holes in the bottoms and sides of my buckets in hopes that it would help the drenched soil receive air and dry out. I also took a hair dryer (using the cool setting) and gave each plant a minute or two of continuous air into the holes I drilled. Have also unhooked my ducting from my fan leading outside which let's my tent stay hotter. Usually will run about 75-80 instead of 65-75 that way. Praying higher temps in the short term might help.
Any comments, suggestions are welcome. I am really hoping for some good, orderly direction with this so I don't continue to make mistakes. Invested a lot of time and effort into this project and am pumped at the thought of growing some top notch smoke. Thanks!
