144w CFL Doghouse grow "Plan-B"

Doghouse is no more. I have them in something more climate controlled. It stays at about 78-84 at any time now. Which i can deal with.

Here's a few shots from yesterday's watering.

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So i went back to rain water, instead of pH lowered water. Seems to be working much better. They're still growing slow as hell.

your mix seems to lack perlite, which i find is essential for speedier growth in soil

Twistedfunk said:

your mix seems to lack perlite, which i find is essential for speedier growth in soil

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When i scooped the dirt into the cup, i noticed that very same thing. Would it hurt them a lot to put them in different soil? I have a bag of perlite here, but would have helped to mix more in with it i guess.. =/

for a veg mix, what i did last round was take some Roots Organic (seems to have a lot of N) and cut it with worm casting, vermiculite, peat moss and perlite. Castings for organic N, vermiculite for drainage, peat moss soaks up the water, perlite oxygenates and lets the roots thrive. You could use this same recipe and remove the soil, just make sure to use bio-bizz or some source of beneficial bacteria.

Go ahead and transplant them asap and you should notice the results.

So i took the 2 most healthiest looking sprouts, and transplanted them, into some MG soil. While i was transplanting them i had a nice look at the root system. On both the sprouts, they had brown-ish looking roots. and white tips where the roots where growing.. I'm no rocket scientist.. but i'm pretty sure that brown looking roods on these plants isn't healthy, and would be the reason why my little garbage-mid grade seeds are growing so slowwwwwwwwly. Thanks for the help!

So the two i put in new soil, are already shaping up! This is good news, this confirms my first suspicion, which was the soil i originally got, was crap.

Here's the 2 in completely new Miracle grow soil...
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All of my others, i think i'm just gonna keep an eye on wihile i wait for my new lowrider-ak47 seeds to get here then tear them up depending on how they look.

bumpedy, bump bump

The leaves are curling on the sprouts, it's probably because there getting too hot. leaves curl when your growbox gets to fuckin hot.

Updates:
-Ordered a bag of FFOF
-Ordered 2 71cfm 120mm fans.


Found some irritated hornets under my patio. Joy...
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This poor fella isn't doing too bad it's day 21, 3 week mark for her. She's still in that crap soil i got from wal-gay.
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Ah these two. These two are looking much nicer than their sister, in the garbo soil. These two are in the MG soil i found outside.
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Day 3 for these lil pups. Again, these lil ones are in the MG soil.
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All the rest of the babies are destroyed. They looked horrible, and rather than let them suffer and grow, i put them out of their misery.

Update:

GREAT NEWS!!
I put the 2 i had put in MG soil, into bigger pots. Added more MG soil to fill the pots. However. i took and added some more perlite to the MG. (Equivalent to 1/3 perlite to the bag of MG soil) Just checked them and i immideately see a difference from last nights look, to now.



Last night...
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Today...
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Also this one still looks good, and it's still in that crap soil...
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The 2 sprouts i threw in MG... (Day 4 for them)
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And finially with lights ON i have a stable 75 degrees. WOO! Problem is. the 42watters of 2700k i had in there, were creating enormous heat. So it's just the x4 26w 6500k...
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Things are looking up for these little ones. You may have come from some mid-grade snickle-fritz, but you might just turn out well for me.. Who knows!

Things are looking better by the day. I wish i would have went with decent soil from the start.. Got my FFOF last night, and transplanted my two 6 day old sprouts. The other two are still in MG soil.

The two in MG soil:
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My two little sprouts (day 6 for them)
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Lesson i learned: If you're going to grow, of all things, soil is not something to skimp on...

Bump of awesomeness.