Bllshtlill
New Member
Hello all, first time grower here. I've found this new hobby to be quite fulfilling. I love seeing the changes every day. I've been a lurker on the forum gleaning information here and there, mostly from a member, CHAOSHUNTER's thread using MEGACROP.
To make it easy for myself, I dropped 5 white widow autoflower seeds from ILGM, into tap water for 24 hours....and nothing happened. Maybe I should have gently roughed up the seeds a bit before I dropped them, not sure. After the initial 24 hour water bath I put them in rapid rooter plugs, which, in turn, were placed into a seedling tray. I used a seedling germination kit that I found on the online retailer, including a small t5, 2 days later the husks poked out. One went crazy, growing rapidly with a long spindly stalk. Four in total seemed to survive and thrive, while the fifth seed seemed to drowned inside the plug. Admittedly, it seemed like the plugs were too saturated. I gently squeezed the excess water out of the plugs then planted the 4 seeds into 5 gallon fabric pots filled with cocotek mixed with perlite.
The feeding has been a bit of trial and error. I didn't read the cali magic bottle correctly. I initially started with .25 ml calmag in a 2 gallons watering can. I started giving thegirls 2 grams of MEGACROP in the same 2 gallon can, increasing as time goes on. I started to get weird leaf shapes so I gave them alternating .5 ml cal mag and ph water, and cal mag with 2 grams per gallon of MEGACROP. Then I started to get yellowing in the leaves, especially in the new growth, as the plants got a bit larger. I read that it could be calcium or magnesium deficiency, re-read the cali magic bottle, instantly realizing that I had not been giving them enough. Growing in coco seemed to exacerbate the issue, from what I've read. Increased the cali magic to 3 ml/gallon along with 4 grams of MEGACROP. The increase in cal mag seemed to fix the issue. I'm now at 5 weeks and 5 days from the time I put the seeds in water.
Additional growing info included the typical 4x4 grow tent the filter and inline fan. The grow light I used initially was advertised as 1500 watt led from the large online retailer. Used a heater with thermostat and an automatic humdifier. I'll post up pics.
To make it easy for myself, I dropped 5 white widow autoflower seeds from ILGM, into tap water for 24 hours....and nothing happened. Maybe I should have gently roughed up the seeds a bit before I dropped them, not sure. After the initial 24 hour water bath I put them in rapid rooter plugs, which, in turn, were placed into a seedling tray. I used a seedling germination kit that I found on the online retailer, including a small t5, 2 days later the husks poked out. One went crazy, growing rapidly with a long spindly stalk. Four in total seemed to survive and thrive, while the fifth seed seemed to drowned inside the plug. Admittedly, it seemed like the plugs were too saturated. I gently squeezed the excess water out of the plugs then planted the 4 seeds into 5 gallon fabric pots filled with cocotek mixed with perlite.
The feeding has been a bit of trial and error. I didn't read the cali magic bottle correctly. I initially started with .25 ml calmag in a 2 gallons watering can. I started giving thegirls 2 grams of MEGACROP in the same 2 gallon can, increasing as time goes on. I started to get weird leaf shapes so I gave them alternating .5 ml cal mag and ph water, and cal mag with 2 grams per gallon of MEGACROP. Then I started to get yellowing in the leaves, especially in the new growth, as the plants got a bit larger. I read that it could be calcium or magnesium deficiency, re-read the cali magic bottle, instantly realizing that I had not been giving them enough. Growing in coco seemed to exacerbate the issue, from what I've read. Increased the cali magic to 3 ml/gallon along with 4 grams of MEGACROP. The increase in cal mag seemed to fix the issue. I'm now at 5 weeks and 5 days from the time I put the seeds in water.
Additional growing info included the typical 4x4 grow tent the filter and inline fan. The grow light I used initially was advertised as 1500 watt led from the large online retailer. Used a heater with thermostat and an automatic humdifier. I'll post up pics.
