New Growers Garden With OG Candy Dawg Kush & Banana Glue & LA Confidential, 4x LED

[celticlyle]

Hey guys and girls long time medicinal and social /gamer Smoker here just wanted to share my little grow and hopefully get some tips so i grow some nice dank bud! I have grown a few times over the years the last time being around 10 years ago so I am pretty new to growing you could say. I like to do my research and try and not just jump into things so hopefully i have not done anything too wrong...

My set up is as followed:

-Big Buda grow tent 100x100x200
-Wilma 18l 4 pot dripper system (when they are big enough)
-Vipaspectre 600 Reflector series LED grow light BUT I think I am getting x2 Of these for budding tho (as advised a few times)
-Carbon filter and cyclone 4" 2 speed extraction fan. Carbon filter has AUS mined carbon so i think its good enough?
-ORA 8" 2 speed hydroponic fan
-5L Ram Air ultrasonic humidifier ( not a humid enviroment yet)
- 3 temp and humidity dials. one at plant level digital one, 1 and top of tent and 1 midway both old school gauged ones
-Very very high grade washed coc coir with perlite medium for hydroponics
- X1 PH pen and Advanced Nutrients Sensi Coco grow Part A + B

I started with 6 seeds ALL photoperiod OG candy dawg kush seeds from seedstockers. I Was an IDIOT and over wet them and basically dampened them down and ruined them. The starter cubes i had were way to wet but one of these plants did take off and grew fine to an extent. I only really plan on having 4 girls in this tent so I am seeing who starts out the best and stick with the best 4 then scrog them.
The following week i received another 5 seeds, all photoperiod 1 banana glue, 1 LA confidential and another 3 OG candy dawg kush's . After learning from my 1st mistake I have now germinated all these seeds to the following plants below photoed, The large one being the only 1 to survive from the drowning I gave those poor little girls. ( IM GOING TO HELL NOW )
The roots were popping out the new starter cubes very quickly so i decided to put them into like 0.7l pots as seen to stop them from getting burned by the light (which is still on the veg only mode single switch on) The all seem to be very slowly putting down roots? The small plants were only planted (paper towel method) a week today so they are 7 days old from planting. The larger one is 2 weeks old but from the hard wet start i gave her she could have an extra set of leaves but They all seem to be growing now, they seem to look positive?

Currently 18 hours of light ,6 dark, feeding once a day to a small run off with a very small amount of nuts as per label. sitting at 65% humidity and 24c /74f ish? feeding at the natural ph of the weakly mixed nutes Roughly 6.7 ph... getting a run off of around 6.7 ish aswell with the "PH perfect advanced nutrients in a weak solution for small plants as per bottle" can remember exactly but its very similar...

**ANY SUGGESTIONS OR TIPS WELCOME!

 

[celticlyle]

Here is how they are looking the around 3,4 days ago.. I took one in the natural light to have a better look as well. One of them at the back left of the picture with all 6 pots in, that plant had a slight droop the other day ( maybe slightly over watered compared to rest?) Seems to be fine now will show pics, also the back right one has not grown much since its initial sprout. i recon that is already a non keeper, as long as i get 4 positive looking girls to go forth with I am a happy man

 

[celticlyle]

Here Is them today a few days after the last pics , 5 seem to be doing well and the little runt being the big one at the back right is pretty much a goner. poor we girl. At least if all goes well I should have at least 4 healthy girls for the flower <3
I Have also ordered some CALMAG from advanced nutrients (same as my food) to use a a weekly supplement and also as a foliage spray once and again . Any suggestions help or comments GREATLY appreciated!

 

[Modest Grower]

Looking good! That one looks like a beast

 

[celticlyle]

Looking good! That one looks like a beast

Hey bro, thanks a lot for looking! She is actually a week ahead of the rest but still even then i will be surprised if the others compare to her in week!! Definitely taking some cuttings when i lollipop her in the future. She has the genetics alright!

 

[Modest Grower]

You should do well. You mention all of the important parameters and your within the acceptable range for each. I'll follow along!

 

[celticlyle]

You should do well. You mention all of the important parameters and your within the acceptable range for each. I'll follow along!

Thanks man, I have been trying to do it right because if you do then they reward you greatly and the end of the lives
Would You start some LST on the biggest girl i was told I could set her at 45 degrees and start LST with some rubber covered wire..That was my next step while waiting for them all to get to a stage where I can officially VEG them.

 

[celticlyle]

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH THE "VIPASPECTRE 600 R SERIES"
WAS LOOKING FOR SOME INFO ON WHEN TO FLIP BOTH SWITCHES ON FOR FULL SPECTRUM LIGHT FOR MY WEE GIRLS SO I DO NOT BURN THEM AND STRESS THEM?

 

[calidreaming]

Hey found u. Looking good.
Iv grew with a vs light years ago but more recently mars with a veg n bloom light. I think the advice I got when I was looking was to just run both switches flicked from day one as the light wont hurt them. If the rooms dialed in and everything's good and controlled then the more light the better...... no expert tho so keep researching dont just do as I say lol

 

[celticlyle]

****UPDATE****

Hi guys and girls, Hope all is well in your gardens! My garden seems to be doing OK.. 3 of my girls are doing super well booming into weeks 2 and 3 respectively however 2 very small OGCDK's seem to be very stunted in growth.
I am 100% to blame as the small dose of nutrients I used were too strong for these little girls. The other 3 handled them fine with no form of nutrient burn, I also feel the LED light was slightly too close for the 2 slow starters too as they are the same age as the front 2.
I can FULLY see I was at fault, I basically set the small dose of nutes and set the lights according to the 3 flourishing plants and it was too much for the smaller ones stunting their growth and maybe ruining them completely? I should have had the light higher and the nutes lower as i have a nice humid environment for them as it is.
My PH was also slightly high for coco i have now reduced this to between 5.8 and 6.2 as advised for my feeding PH's.
I have just put the lights up around 4" PH'd some nice clean water to 6.1 and gave the effected small plants a flush kind of, i did not soak the pot completely just watered round the edges of the pot til i got a satisfactory run off (10-20%) I hope this reduced the amount of nutes and i shall feed these going forth separately til they have caught up in such with a very weak does of nutes after they have used whats in the coco??

ALSO OF NOTE MY ROOM SITS AROUND 24c WHEN ALL THE DOORS ARE CLOSED FANS ON AND EXTRACTOR FAN ON.
I am only looking for 4 nice girls to flower in this tent so i only really need 1 of them (bad as that sounds haha)
Would you guys personally continue with these small ones hoping it picks up soon (in time for flowering time) or would you grab a few more seeds and hope one is as sporadic as these guys . Suggestions welcome and appreciated much Also I have leaned my lesson. I always learn the hard way but I do learn eventually

 

[celticlyle]

Pics of the plants are below.. OGCDK is 3 weeks and other are 2 weeks..
Here are pics.. ( also got a new air room temp thermostat connected to an 80w tube heater for a grow tent as seen in pics)

 

[celticlyle]

HERE IS ALSO A PIC OF THE NUTRIENT BURNED PLANT/SEEDLING
( kinda showing signs of new growth still? )

 

[celticlyle]

If anyone has any suggestions or input it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[celticlyle]

UPDATE**

I went ahead and ordered 5 more seeds HAHA I cant risk not having 4 good ones to flower. I can easily wait a few weeks for one to catch up in veg, better safe than sorry! Even if the neut burned ones did recover It could take ages by the looks of them. I went ahead and Ordered x5 Feminized "White Fire Gelato" seeds from growers choice(Sounds like a really nice strain). Hopefully 1 or 2 of them is a fast grower so i can chuck them along with these 3 girls that i already have here..

 

[GHempster]

Hey bud just got here sorry. Only just found it lol.

Looking good great journal so far.

 

[celticlyle]

UPDATE**
3 of the girls are coming along very nicely the other 2 Hmm not so much I think the stunted growth is real .
I have 5 more seeds coming in the next day or 2 so hopefully at least 1 of them catches up sooner or later unless one of these girls can pick up the pace. I am in no real hurry tho Just want 4 healthy good girls to put into flower and utilize the most of the space that i have.

 

[celticlyle]

UPDATE TO THIS GROW 02/02/2020 (2 weeks after last post and pics)
Things are really starting to look good now and they all look healthy and luscious. The 7 seedlings are White Fire Gelato seeds from growers choice. I do not know if i am going to wait for these to catch up before i flower in a month or so and keep the Gelato vegging til I am done flowering these bigger girls. SUGGESTIONS WELCOME
Pictures to follow

 

[celticlyle]

Here are the girls today.. the biggest one OGCDK is 4 weeks old from seed. The LA Con. and Banana glue are 3 weeks old from seed. The 7 seedlings are around 9 days old from seed as well.
- I have just turned my light onto full spectrum mode ( both switches on veg and bloom ) today to give them all the light they need I was only holding off a week for the seedlings. I have also just fed them their 1st very weak neut solution after 7 days of using what they had in their seeds.
ANY SUGGESTIONS VERY WELCOME <3 1st time growing in over 10 years ! :0

 

[celticlyle]

I have also been doing some LST on these girls with gardening twine. Gentle loose knots pulling them at a 45 degree ANGLE to let other parts of the plant get some light and make them busy girls also to stop them growing way to tall in veg! I am planning on putting a scrog net up at some point but i presume I hold off til around the 1st week of flower? Any help or suggestions welcome

 

[celticlyle]

Life got in the way with work and feeding and games and stoned, you know the drill haha. Anyway I am now into the first few days of week 7 flower! Alot has changed.. I shall add in some photos of in between and now.
The only problem I have had is that I was feeding my 5 girls the same feed going into flowering around week 3 the 2 smallest ones suffered nitrogen toxicity and I had to do what I could to save them, they look OK now but the 2 small ones show the signs still of my past barbaricness.