First Grow, Ryn0nTX: Critical Mango, Ebb 'N’ Flow, 2020

[Ryn0nTX]

Starting my first grow and journal. I look forward to hearing from all of you! I enjoy smoking occasionally, however I am more of a whiskey man myself. I am venturing out with growing my own simply so I can produce my very own RS oil. I have severe back problems and a good OTC CBD oil works well, but it’s expensive. So I am looking for more potency and cost savings (long run).

I am starting my journal a bit late, currently in the middle of week 3

Here is what I have……..

Seed(s)

Strain: (3x) CBD Critical Mango (Critical Mass/Mango)
Strain Type: 30% Sativa, 70% Indica
Percentages: 6% THC / 6% CBD
A fourth plant that was a bag seed. No clue what it is but thought it would be fun and I had the room.


Grow Setup
Type: Ebb and Flow Indoor grow room with GH nutes
Size: 10’x6’ insulated (former) laundry room
Media: Rapid Rooter starter plugs – Hydroton
Nutes: GH CALi-MAGic; Micro; Grow and Bloom. I am currently following the GH guidelines that I found in the 420 Forums

(4x) 5-Gallon buckets with 6” built-in net pots

Lights:
18 on / 6 off
Timer: (2x) NEARPOW Multifunctional Programmable Timer (one for nutes/one for lights)
Veg - (2x) Hydrofarm Agrobrite FLT48 T5 Fluorescent Grow Light System, 4 Foot, 8 Tube 6.5k
Flower - MARS HYDRO TSW 2000W Led Grow Light (these have been ordered and will be installed when they come in.


Temp: 76 deg F avg.
RH%: 55-65

(1) Stationary fan. I have two wall mountable oscillating fans and will install them soon.


Feeding
Timer: On for 15 minutes 6 times per day (every 3.5 hours from 6AM – 11:30 PM) Lights and nutes are off from 12AM-6AM
Nutes: .5ml CAL-MAG/5ml Grow/ 2.5ml Micro/2.5ml Bloom per gallon of RO water.
PH: 6.5
Water: 7 stage RO filtered water

 

[Ryn0nTX]

This is where I am now with the grow. In the middle of week 3.
Rapid Rooter plugs in tray and dome (not pictured) using ONLY RO water once at the end of week 1......

 

[Ryn0nTX]

Overview of the entire room...Organized chaos

Simple ebb and flow setup with 1GPH drippers (2) at each pot.

 

[CagedApe]

let's do it!

 

[Ryn0nTX]

The girls (well hopefully all girls) are in their permanent home, automation set and waiting for any tips and pointers.

 

[CagedApe]

The girls (well hopefully all girls) are in their permanent home, automation set and waiting for any tips and pointers.

Reminds me of my set up 20 years ago. Looks good

 

[Ryn0nTX]

Reminds me of my set up 20 years ago. Looks good

Thanks! I've been experimenting with aeroponics and had really good results with cucumbers and tomatoes. It seemed that the ebb and flow would be a little less maintenance. Once I install the Mars led's they will be in the middle of the room...or at least off the walls.

 

[Ryn0nTX]

So these girls started their light and nute cycle two days ago. Prior to that, I had them in a dome getting about 12 hours of light. Curious if the leaf tips are from light or nutes? I am leaning toward the nutes because its the only one of the four doing it. What do you think?

 

[CagedApe]

Looks good, what's the light cycle now?

 

[Ryn0nTX]

18/6

 

[CagedApe]

Looks fine, I wouldn't worry about a little tip burn. It'll probably grow out of it.

 

[Ryn0nTX]

Thanks....so you do think it's burn? I was leaning towards the nutes because I have two with the lights less than 10" from the canopy and two with the lights about 20" from it. This one has the light farther away and I'm not seeing it on the other two.

 

[CagedApe]

I'm leaning more towards transplant root damage. It'll recover just fine.

 

[Ryn0nTX]

Ahhhhh...

The roots were tangled between the three (plants) in the tray, under the rapid rooters. I did have to cut them. Good call!

 

[CagedApe]

 

[Ryn0nTX]

UPDATE: So apparently I found a week somewhere! I was off on the dates. Theses girls came out of their seed on 3/15/20. This is when I planted them in the rapid rooters and placed them in the germination tray/dome. on 3/28/20 I moved them to the dutch buckets and started feeding them. Prior to that they only had RO water.

So we are on day 20 (since the tap root busted out). I was told that they were very small on another thread. He posted a pic of his plant at 3 weeks and it was quite a bit larger. Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology when saying how old they are/what stage they are in? It didn't help that I said they are nearly three weeks old in the thread when they were truly only 15 days

I'm going to post some updated pics in a bit. They are looking great!

 

[CagedApe]

Prior to that they only had RO water.

You may want to stay away from RO water. RO is a mineral snatcher. In the future you may have big calcium and magnesium deficiencies. Just a heads up.

 

[Ryn0nTX]

I do have Cal-Mag that I'm adding to the nutes. Our tap water here is complete shit.....smells like it too

 

[CagedApe]

Our tap water here is complete shit.....smells like it too

In that case you may want to use the tap water. Plants love poo smelling water.

 

[Ryn0nTX]

In that case you may want to use the tap water. Plants love poo smelling water.