brewer7
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I decided to attempt a grow of Mandala's Chill OM. This is my first attempt to grow anything other than bag seed under CFL. I decided to do a Perlite hempy style grow using Jack's Professional Hydroponics 5-12-26 and Calcium Nitrate for nutes.
I started the grow on January 18[SUP]th [/SUP]when I dropped five Mandala Chill-OM seeds into rock wool cubes. Three of them took three days to pop up and the remaining two popped up in another three or four days. The temperature in the house was around 65 which probably accounts for the slow germination of two of the seeds.
I placed the rock wool cubes into solo cups filled with a ¾ perlite and ¼ Viagrow expanded clay. I had no real reason to add the Viagrow except I had already purchased a giant bag of it to grow DWC but changed my mind at the last minute.
Anyway, 4 out of the five plants didr eally well. One plant had problems almost immediately. The back of the leaves turned purple (temps???) and the tops began canoeing. Then they got got bad rust looking spots on them. This only happened to the one plant. The other four appear to be in excellent health.
Today is day 17 since the seeds were planted. The purple plant's leaves seemed to be dying off. The new growth seems to be doing fine so perhaps it was nutrient lockout due to the cold or something else??? It was one of plants that took seven days to germinate. I thought about culling it, but decided to give it a shot and just cut off the rusty/purple leaves as they were shriveling and dead looking this morning.
Here are some pics of the rest. Hopefully they will all be ladies!!!
Up until now, I've been watering with Elanore's VF-11 which is a very, very mild nute. I use it on most of my house plants and vegetables and they seem to like it. 30 mL gal.VF-11 during week 1 and 45 mL gal VF-11 + 6 mL CaliMagic week 2. Today, I switched to the Jack's Hydroponics + Calcium Nitrate regimen which is ½ tsp gal of each. This is supposed to be an easy and affordable nute combo so I'm crossing my fingers that it will work well. It should be fully adjustable if necessary and others have reported excellent results with it.
Up until this point I've been keeping the plants under 120 watts of 6500K CFL. I'm still putting my grow room together, but have a 600w MH/HPS cool tube setup. However, I don't have an inline fan yet due to some unexpected expenses that left me low on cash, so I have no way to control the heat. Until I get a way to cool the HID, they will stay under the CFLs. They won't be flipped until the 600w HPS is running!
Hopefully this will grow some good meds!!!
I started the grow on January 18[SUP]th [/SUP]when I dropped five Mandala Chill-OM seeds into rock wool cubes. Three of them took three days to pop up and the remaining two popped up in another three or four days. The temperature in the house was around 65 which probably accounts for the slow germination of two of the seeds.
I placed the rock wool cubes into solo cups filled with a ¾ perlite and ¼ Viagrow expanded clay. I had no real reason to add the Viagrow except I had already purchased a giant bag of it to grow DWC but changed my mind at the last minute.
Anyway, 4 out of the five plants didr eally well. One plant had problems almost immediately. The back of the leaves turned purple (temps???) and the tops began canoeing. Then they got got bad rust looking spots on them. This only happened to the one plant. The other four appear to be in excellent health.
Today is day 17 since the seeds were planted. The purple plant's leaves seemed to be dying off. The new growth seems to be doing fine so perhaps it was nutrient lockout due to the cold or something else??? It was one of plants that took seven days to germinate. I thought about culling it, but decided to give it a shot and just cut off the rusty/purple leaves as they were shriveling and dead looking this morning.
Here are some pics of the rest. Hopefully they will all be ladies!!!
Up until now, I've been watering with Elanore's VF-11 which is a very, very mild nute. I use it on most of my house plants and vegetables and they seem to like it. 30 mL gal.VF-11 during week 1 and 45 mL gal VF-11 + 6 mL CaliMagic week 2. Today, I switched to the Jack's Hydroponics + Calcium Nitrate regimen which is ½ tsp gal of each. This is supposed to be an easy and affordable nute combo so I'm crossing my fingers that it will work well. It should be fully adjustable if necessary and others have reported excellent results with it.
Up until this point I've been keeping the plants under 120 watts of 6500K CFL. I'm still putting my grow room together, but have a 600w MH/HPS cool tube setup. However, I don't have an inline fan yet due to some unexpected expenses that left me low on cash, so I have no way to control the heat. Until I get a way to cool the HID, they will stay under the CFLs. They won't be flipped until the 600w HPS is running!
Hopefully this will grow some good meds!!!
