LlamaBomb
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Hey guys/gals I'm doing my first grow and I thought I would throw it up here. Unfortunately I am already at day 12 after sprouting, so I'm starting this part way through.
I will be using Sunshine #4 as my mix w/ added dolomite.
My nutes:
Botanicare's pure blend pro grow, pure blend pro bloom soil (should I be using hydro version with SS4?), liquid karma, pure blend tea, grow-tek's Cal-mag and marinis seaweed extract. Also using general hydro mycrohaze.
First off I will give you the background and information on what has been done up until now.
Seeds:
-2x Mighty Mix (mixed bag)
2x Indoor Mix (again mixed bag)
2x Candy Cane Feminized Auto flower
2x God Bud
Germination technique:
-Damp paper towel.
Put in paper towels 03/02/16. All seeds fully germinated by 03/05/16 at which time I placed them into there starting containers.
Medium:
- Sunshine Mix #4 w/ 1 tbsp dolomite lime/gallon.
*I should have added perlite as drainage was a little slow*
-micro sprinkled in bottom of hole poked in soil
Containers:
- Red Solo Cups w/ holes poked in bottom.
So basically I filled the cups right up with SS4 (should have only filled 3/4 full in hind sight), plopped the seeds about a fingers nail deep, watered with tap ph 7.0 .....and the wait was on.
03/08/16
So a few days later and all the little girls (being optimistic) popped up and had some sprout on.
At this time I was under a very ghetto lighting system 24/0 light and I tried keeping temps around 73f to 75f and humidity around 55%.
I give you desk lamp with a splitter for 2x 23w 6500k CFLs and a homemade reflector. All held up by a piece of wood and zip ties. Lol go ahead laugh I sure as hell am.
03/10/16
Over the past couple days I've had to move the plants around consistently trying to keep them from stretching to no avail.
So I went out and bought this little guy as my new clone/seedling light. 125w 6400k
Plants loved this much better.... Definitely a bit warmer than the small CFLs, so now the light had to stay about 3 inches from the tops.
03/11/16
K so here is where I think I screwed up a bit. I asked some information about sunshine #4 before purchasing a big ass bale of it and was told there was no nutes in it all and you must add everything. But then I read online that there is.
They each got fed 1.5 oz tap water w/ 1/2 strength of the seaweed extract ph 6.5, and not a run off watering as the stems were a little weak and wouldn't handle that.
03/13/16 - 03/15/16
Just some janky pictures cause I'm doing this off my phone . and wasn't planning on making a Journal either hehe (sorry I'll try harder on them from the point we catch up)
On 03/15/16 I may have also screwed up by overfeeding in some way as I fed tap water, full strength marinis seaweed extract and 1/4 strength karma and pure blend tea. pH'd to 6.2
My pH's outta the mix as well as ppms are unknown as I haven't had runoff yet. I am also unsure as what pH I should really be at as some ppl say soil pH and some say hydro..
Any body with any tips or suggestions? Please.
03/16/16
Today was a big day as I was going to be doing my first transplant. Was definitely nervous. Should I have done this with the plant in wet or dry soil? Watered with tap , full strength seaweed extract to ph 6.3 again no runoff.
I also was switching the plants into my homemade grow room (I'll get a good picture of it all later) and to a 18/6 light cycle instead of the 24/0 it's been on.
Medium:
- Sunshine #4 mix with 1 tbsp / gallon dolomite lime and 25-30% more perlite.
-micro sprinkled In hole before transplant.
Container:
- 3gal Grow bags
Veg room:
- 3' wide x 6' deep x 7' tall. I already regret making it 3' wide....hint don't do that... so I may make it bigger after this grow.
- 2 x 400w MH w/ open white bat wing reflectors
- Only running 1 light the moment until the get bigger
- 4" exhaust fan with carbon filter running 24/7
- oscillating fan. Off with lights
-humidifier. Off with lights
Temps:
- Lights on 74f-77f at canopy and 76f - 55% humidity room
-Lights off 64f and 48-50% humidity. What do you guys/gals think about how low it gets? It is coldish and spring here plus in a unfinished basement.
Sorry of all that was kinda busy.
03/18/16
Since some of the plants looked like they had some abundance of nutes I thought I would just water hehe no feed. Over the last few days I picked up some jugs of r/o water and just used that ph'd to 6.2 this time run off and I measured it .
God bud - pH 5.75 ppm 1984
MxM mix - pH 5.77 ppm 1518
Indoor mix - pH 5.54 ppm 2683
Candy Cane - pH 5.63 ppm 1828
So I believe the pH is all a tad low and I guess I'll be running hydro specs since they all don't look too bad at this point.
Also think the ppm is a high on all. Might be because of my early nutes and no run off. What are your guys/gals thoughts on the pH and ppm?
Plants in order:
Back left: MxM mix , Back right: God bud , Front left: Indoor mix , Front right: Candy cane
03/20/16
Light hasnt been really moved (12"-14" away) and temps have maintained 74f-77f and 55% humidity lights on 64f off.
Again sorry for not taking great pics I will do better and I will try and write this a bit neater from now on... please comment/help/critique/bitch/chit chat all is welcome .
I will be using Sunshine #4 as my mix w/ added dolomite.
My nutes:
Botanicare's pure blend pro grow, pure blend pro bloom soil (should I be using hydro version with SS4?), liquid karma, pure blend tea, grow-tek's Cal-mag and marinis seaweed extract. Also using general hydro mycrohaze.
First off I will give you the background and information on what has been done up until now.
Seeds:
-2x Mighty Mix (mixed bag)
2x Indoor Mix (again mixed bag)
2x Candy Cane Feminized Auto flower
2x God Bud
Germination technique:
-Damp paper towel.
Put in paper towels 03/02/16. All seeds fully germinated by 03/05/16 at which time I placed them into there starting containers.
Medium:
- Sunshine Mix #4 w/ 1 tbsp dolomite lime/gallon.
*I should have added perlite as drainage was a little slow*
-micro sprinkled in bottom of hole poked in soil
Containers:
- Red Solo Cups w/ holes poked in bottom.
So basically I filled the cups right up with SS4 (should have only filled 3/4 full in hind sight), plopped the seeds about a fingers nail deep, watered with tap ph 7.0 .....and the wait was on.
03/08/16
So a few days later and all the little girls (being optimistic) popped up and had some sprout on.
At this time I was under a very ghetto lighting system 24/0 light and I tried keeping temps around 73f to 75f and humidity around 55%.
I give you desk lamp with a splitter for 2x 23w 6500k CFLs and a homemade reflector. All held up by a piece of wood and zip ties. Lol go ahead laugh I sure as hell am.
03/10/16
Over the past couple days I've had to move the plants around consistently trying to keep them from stretching to no avail.
So I went out and bought this little guy as my new clone/seedling light. 125w 6400k
Plants loved this much better.... Definitely a bit warmer than the small CFLs, so now the light had to stay about 3 inches from the tops.
03/11/16
K so here is where I think I screwed up a bit. I asked some information about sunshine #4 before purchasing a big ass bale of it and was told there was no nutes in it all and you must add everything. But then I read online that there is.
They each got fed 1.5 oz tap water w/ 1/2 strength of the seaweed extract ph 6.5, and not a run off watering as the stems were a little weak and wouldn't handle that.
03/13/16 - 03/15/16
Just some janky pictures cause I'm doing this off my phone . and wasn't planning on making a Journal either hehe (sorry I'll try harder on them from the point we catch up)
On 03/15/16 I may have also screwed up by overfeeding in some way as I fed tap water, full strength marinis seaweed extract and 1/4 strength karma and pure blend tea. pH'd to 6.2
My pH's outta the mix as well as ppms are unknown as I haven't had runoff yet. I am also unsure as what pH I should really be at as some ppl say soil pH and some say hydro..
Any body with any tips or suggestions? Please.
03/16/16
Today was a big day as I was going to be doing my first transplant. Was definitely nervous. Should I have done this with the plant in wet or dry soil? Watered with tap , full strength seaweed extract to ph 6.3 again no runoff.
I also was switching the plants into my homemade grow room (I'll get a good picture of it all later) and to a 18/6 light cycle instead of the 24/0 it's been on.
Medium:
- Sunshine #4 mix with 1 tbsp / gallon dolomite lime and 25-30% more perlite.
-micro sprinkled In hole before transplant.
Container:
- 3gal Grow bags
Veg room:
- 3' wide x 6' deep x 7' tall. I already regret making it 3' wide....hint don't do that... so I may make it bigger after this grow.
- 2 x 400w MH w/ open white bat wing reflectors
- Only running 1 light the moment until the get bigger
- 4" exhaust fan with carbon filter running 24/7
- oscillating fan. Off with lights
-humidifier. Off with lights
Temps:
- Lights on 74f-77f at canopy and 76f - 55% humidity room
-Lights off 64f and 48-50% humidity. What do you guys/gals think about how low it gets? It is coldish and spring here plus in a unfinished basement.
Sorry of all that was kinda busy.
03/18/16
Since some of the plants looked like they had some abundance of nutes I thought I would just water hehe no feed. Over the last few days I picked up some jugs of r/o water and just used that ph'd to 6.2 this time run off and I measured it .
God bud - pH 5.75 ppm 1984
MxM mix - pH 5.77 ppm 1518
Indoor mix - pH 5.54 ppm 2683
Candy Cane - pH 5.63 ppm 1828
So I believe the pH is all a tad low and I guess I'll be running hydro specs since they all don't look too bad at this point.
Also think the ppm is a high on all. Might be because of my early nutes and no run off. What are your guys/gals thoughts on the pH and ppm?
Plants in order:
Back left: MxM mix , Back right: God bud , Front left: Indoor mix , Front right: Candy cane
03/20/16
Light hasnt been really moved (12"-14" away) and temps have maintained 74f-77f and 55% humidity lights on 64f off.
Again sorry for not taking great pics I will do better and I will try and write this a bit neater from now on... please comment/help/critique/bitch/chit chat all is welcome .
cheers
