bartverso
New Member
Hi fellow growers!
Me myself I just started on my first grow ever. I opted for 2 auto´s - an Auto Colorado Cookies and a Think Big - 2 fairly new and promising autoseeds by Dutch Passion.
I´ve got myself a nice indoor grow tent combined with a Kind LED XL750 which is running on a 20/4 schedule.
They´re both 5 weeks and 6 days old now. Tara should evolve from seed to harvest in like 13 to 14 weeks. Coralie is said to be harvested around week 10 or 11 after germination.
Now. I must admit, I´m a bit disappointed when it comes to Coralies size - both plants stand at around 2 feet now. If I had to go by my guts, I might say that she´s like a week and a half behind schedule. She only started flowering a day or 2 ago (she´s flowering, right?) :-D
Both are rooted in 2.5 gallon pots, filled with growing soil containing perlite, coconut fibre and lava.
NPK stated on the packing of the soil: 6.5:6.5:6.5, initial pH of 5.5-6.
I'm quite confident I haven't over- or underwatered them even once
I gave both my babies their first feeding on like day 10 (Aptus Startbooster - root & growth booster). I used around a quarter of the recommended amount.
At week 3 - I started doubting if I should LST them. I gave them a low feed of Aptus Regulator (which is said to make them more resistant to stress). I tried to bend over the main stems away from the light. Two days later, I started reading all sorts of negative comments about LST'ing auto's as it might stunt the plant's grow a lot, considering the already short lifetime of auto's. So I freaked & backed out, removed the LST's strings and went back to an unrestrained growing method.
I might have screwed Tara over with a "light" *cough cough* nutrient burn about a week ago, in combination with a "light burn"
(Already raised my lights more since then)
I think Tara's soil still had an abundancy of N's in it for it's vegetative grow. I didn't think the burn to be severe enough for me to have to flush the poor thing. So next time I watered, I didn't give her any nutrients.
I should say - I'm using plain tap water - hailing from Belgium - which might be pH'ed in at around 6.5. I don't treat it, I just let it acclimatize to the conditions of the tent for about 12 hours.
So now, fellow growers. If you made it this far, thank you for your attention. You're crazy. Me ranting on and on. ;-)
My main questions:
I love my LED's! They're awesome! And insanely bright! But it's got that typical LED property of the light spectrum that annoys the
out of me, when I'm caring for my plants (approx 15 minutes a day). It's also hard to whitebalans any pictures I take. Am I allowed to turn them off during its light-part of it's cycle? Or will that cause more stunted grow?
Do I have to treat Tara's slight burn, or will she be producing tons and tons of bud without me having to interfear?
What are your opinions on Coralie? I mean, sometimes also real kids, can be slow when trying to raise them :-D
Any reply is highly appreciated!
Belgium out!
Me myself I just started on my first grow ever. I opted for 2 auto´s - an Auto Colorado Cookies and a Think Big - 2 fairly new and promising autoseeds by Dutch Passion.
I´ve got myself a nice indoor grow tent combined with a Kind LED XL750 which is running on a 20/4 schedule.
They´re both 5 weeks and 6 days old now. Tara should evolve from seed to harvest in like 13 to 14 weeks. Coralie is said to be harvested around week 10 or 11 after germination.
Now. I must admit, I´m a bit disappointed when it comes to Coralies size - both plants stand at around 2 feet now. If I had to go by my guts, I might say that she´s like a week and a half behind schedule. She only started flowering a day or 2 ago (she´s flowering, right?) :-D
Both are rooted in 2.5 gallon pots, filled with growing soil containing perlite, coconut fibre and lava.
NPK stated on the packing of the soil: 6.5:6.5:6.5, initial pH of 5.5-6.
I'm quite confident I haven't over- or underwatered them even once
I gave both my babies their first feeding on like day 10 (Aptus Startbooster - root & growth booster). I used around a quarter of the recommended amount.
At week 3 - I started doubting if I should LST them. I gave them a low feed of Aptus Regulator (which is said to make them more resistant to stress). I tried to bend over the main stems away from the light. Two days later, I started reading all sorts of negative comments about LST'ing auto's as it might stunt the plant's grow a lot, considering the already short lifetime of auto's. So I freaked & backed out, removed the LST's strings and went back to an unrestrained growing method.
I might have screwed Tara over with a "light" *cough cough* nutrient burn about a week ago, in combination with a "light burn"
(Already raised my lights more since then)
I think Tara's soil still had an abundancy of N's in it for it's vegetative grow. I didn't think the burn to be severe enough for me to have to flush the poor thing. So next time I watered, I didn't give her any nutrients.
I should say - I'm using plain tap water - hailing from Belgium - which might be pH'ed in at around 6.5. I don't treat it, I just let it acclimatize to the conditions of the tent for about 12 hours.
So now, fellow growers. If you made it this far, thank you for your attention. You're crazy. Me ranting on and on. ;-)
My main questions:
I love my LED's! They're awesome! And insanely bright! But it's got that typical LED property of the light spectrum that annoys the
out of me, when I'm caring for my plants (approx 15 minutes a day). It's also hard to whitebalans any pictures I take. Am I allowed to turn them off during its light-part of it's cycle? Or will that cause more stunted grow?Do I have to treat Tara's slight burn, or will she be producing tons and tons of bud without me having to interfear?
What are your opinions on Coralie? I mean, sometimes also real kids, can be slow when trying to raise them :-D
Any reply is highly appreciated!
Belgium out!
Bart! You joined an excellent group of growers and cannabis fanatics. You will do great here. 
They look great, you have nothing to worry about.
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