FlowerNose's Electric Fruit Auto Grow Journal 2017

[FlowerNose]

Electric Fruit Autoflower by GYO seeds
Mostly Indica
Day 10 from seed
Indoor
Hydro
Rockwool/coco coir
5 gallon Vivosun fabric pot
GE LED10LS/DL 10w bulb (x4)
GE LED16LS/SW 16w bulb (x4)
(Will be upgrading lights someday- not sure when)
Grow space 16x21x42
Temp of Room 22-27°c/71-80°f
RH of box 30-33%
PH of media ~6.2
No Pests
Feeding daily
GH Flora series + silica + cal mag (+Recharge sometimes)

I'll be fluffing up my coco today hopefully, so I can put her in her final home.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

This is my first ever grow. The grow box is all DIY and built to be stealth inside of a wardrobe. I plan to have a garden for the rest of my life. So while I really hope this turns out with loads of potent medicine, whatever I learn will be valuable regardless.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Day 13 from seed.

I've moved the 4" Rockwool cube to a cloth pot and coco coir. Maybe I jumped the gun because I didn't see roots before I moved it.

RH and temp don't fluctuate much, staying around 31%rh and 75-78°f.

Lights are 18 inches from the leaves.

She's not very tall, but I don't know how tall she should be.

Nutes: uploading an image of the schedule I plan to follow. I'm open to suggestions, but I had to start somewhere.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Day 14! Here's a tour of my grow room.

There she is. Just chugging along, being all cute. We have a couple of those wireless rh/temp sensors. They're in Celsius, but I was raised a Fahrenheit gal so I have a cheat sheet on the wall. I stuck one to the wall at canopy height and one is positioned on the outside of the exhaust vent up top. The intake is on the left. Everything will get updated to permanent (no Coke boxes) eventually.

We picked up a secondhand wardrobe and decided to build 2 grow boxes into it. The plan is to have one veg chamber and one flower chamber when we grow photoperiods. We'll see if that happens. Everything's messy right now. we're about to put the wardrobe doors back on. Then it will qualify more as "stealth."

The box inside the wardrobe is constructed of 1x2s and masonite. The seams were caulked and then everything was primered white.

We had some failures before landing on this door design. We're pretty happy with it now. There's a little light leak, but we're not too worried because we've got her on 24/0 anyway.

The fans are salvaged. We have a bunch of them, so we're using them everywhere we can. We purchased giant twist ties (the green things) so the the fans would be super positionable. It works great.

The current method is drain to waste. The original idea when we built the box was ebb and flow. Above you can see the fixtures for that. For now whatever I water exits the bottom and fills the "reservoir" which we empty into the yard when it's full.


Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

I accidentally quoted my whole previous post and I can't figure out how to delete the mistake.

So here's a close up from a couple days ago.

 

[pleaddafith]

Good luck hope it all works out for you. Just try not to have the bar set too high for goals on weight. Sometimes it takes a couple grows to realize what else is needed for success. Happy Growing!

GOTHAM

 

[FlowerNose]

Good luck hope it all works out for you. Just try not to have the bar set too high for goals on weight. Sometimes it takes a couple grows to realize what else is needed for success. Happy Growing!

GOTHAM

Thanks. our goal is to make it to harvest. Weight is great. But success is best.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Still day 14. Bedtime. Had to take one last look at her and take some pics to see how much she grows overnight. All these tiny little dots of new growth has me thinking she'll get quite a bit bigger over the next two days or so. This is so much fun.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Still day 14. Bedtime. Had to take one last look at her and take some pics to see how much she grows overnight. All these tiny little dots of new growth has me thinking she'll get quite a bit bigger over the next two days or so. This is so much fun.

Smell the flowers

The next morning.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Day 17. No problems so far. She's just getting bigger. I've been doing some very low stress training by gently pressing down on the fan leaves several times a day. This is in an effort to get more light into the new growth and encourage new leaves to spread out more easily.

Before LST

This is as rough as I get with her.

The crinkled paper is a new addition. It's a tube I made in a pinch for the intake fan to blow into the bottom of the cabinet. Something nicer than paper and masking tape is in the works.

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Day 21! That makes her 3 weeks old and time has flown. I'm sticking to the feeding schedule I posted earlier.

RH stays between 29-32%. Temp hangs between 71 and 75°f for the most part. I feed with PH around 6-6.2. I haven't tested the PH of my runoff yet, but I plan to start.

I probably take a lot of photos. But they say it's like that with your first.

Off to load a bowl with some cheese. .

Smell the flowers

 

[Islandgrow]

Subbed . Looking good look into ponytailing the top leaves . Or lst and tie her sideways while supporting the base all the branches will race to be the top. They have aome good threads on it.

"carpe diem"

 

[NorCalHomeGro]

Subbed...found your journal after seeing your seeking friends post. Just started my own first grow journal as well. Looking forward to following yours.

First Grow - RDWC - Big Buddha Blue Cheese - FEM - Winter/Spring 2017


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[JPinkman]

Subbed! How close are your lights to the plants Flowernose?

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[FlowerNose]

Subbed! How close are your lights to the plants Flowernose?

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Thanks! 18 inches. Perhaps less since the plant has grown a bit. Also, one of the bulb sockets busted so one of the LED 10wDL bulbs isn't on. So I have a little less light than I wanted.

Smell the flowers

 

[JPinkman]

Your stealth cab is SWEET!

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[FlowerNose]

Your stealth cab is SWEET!

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Thanks!! We're really proud of it. Side #2 is in the works. Hoping to pop more beans in a week or two. .

Smell the flowers

 

[FlowerNose]

Subbed . Looking good look into ponytailing the top leaves . Or lst and tie her sideways while supporting the base all the branches will race to be the top. They have aome good threads on it.

"carpe diem"

I've read about those methods! I'm interested in pony tailing for sure. Ordered soft pipe cleaners on Amazon for all my LSTing. For this first grow I think I've decided to try the "bowl method." Instead of tying her sideways, the outside branches are coaxed outward and the center cola continues straight up. I want to try everything! I have a Low Ryder #2 seed that I want to tip sideways when I train her.

Smell the flowers

 

[Islandgrow]

I've read about those methods! I'm interested in pony tailing for sure. Ordered soft pipe cleaners on Amazon for all my LSTing. For this first grow I think I've decided to try the "bowl method." Instead of tying her sideways, the outside branches are coaxed outward and the center cola continues straight up. I want to try everything! I have a Low Ryder #2 seed that I want to tip sideways when I train her.

Smell the flowers

Tying down sideways you can achieve a bowl as well and it should increase the size if the seconday colas as well. .

^^^^^^^a tied down amnesia auto.


An automazar topped and lst'd

"carpe diem"

 

[JPinkman]

Thanks!! We're really proud of it. Side #2 is in the works. Hoping to pop more beans in a week or two. .

Smell the flowers

I'm legal so Im planning on getting a couple tents, but I find the stealth setups super interesting. I findnmyself wanting to build a cabinet and pc case just for the fun of it


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