1st Grow, Northern Lights, Quick One, Special Kush #1

Decided to make a thread now and try to post updates and keep a log of my grow before it gets any more developed. Equiptment listed below is what I use but feel free to ask questions if anyone wants to know more. I have only germinated 3 of the 4 strains I recieved as I wanted to keep the Royal Domina until I have more experiance it was my special pick @ 20% thc so I germed one of each auto and one fem. I only have one light for now however as things progress if the light needs upping I will purchase a second SF1000. My EC meter does not work right now so monday/tuesday I will pop out and swap it for a working one, although I am a newbie grower I beluive EC is just as important as PH, why PH to a level the plants can work with only to not know how much food you are actually giving them etc.

Nutes: Canna Coco full product line.
Medium: Canna Coco Pro+ with Perlite mixed in around 20-30%.
Light: Spider Farmer SF1000.
Tent: Bud Box Lite, 80 x 80 x 160.
SeedBank + Seeds: Royal Queen Seeds, RQS Northern Lights Auto 3 pack, RQS QuickOne Auto 3 pack, RQS Special Kush #1 Fem Photo 5 pack, RQS Royal Domina Fem Photo 3 pack.

I have plenty of ventilation provided by various computer fans hooked up to an arduino, I have a couple 200mm fans for intake and exhaust and various 120mm fans that can be used around the tent either on the light to cool the aluminium and driver or placed near the plants to push air across them. Seems to have plenty of umph and miles quiter than tower fans or box fans etc.

17/6/20: One of each seed placed in paper towels to germinate spritzed with plain boiled off water left too cool and ph'ed to 5.8. Left in a sandwich tub lid on sat on top of my SkyQ Box plenty warmth but not too hot.

19/6/20: All 3 showing tap roots at least 10mm each so planted them in their first little pots of coco at around 4pm. The coco was sprayed with a 1/4 strength mix of Rhizotonic and nothing else again ph'ed down to 5.8, I lightly misted the coco until I saw some run off wich seemed plenty moist and then placed the seeds in a small hole made with a pencil/pen.

20/6/20: First full day in pots under the light, I have dropped the light down to 6 inches and run it dimmed at 20% load wich is around 18k lux on the coco surface. Once all three sprout green above the coco I will raise the light up and start upping the light intensity for full veg efforts. The only feed they are getting is a small amount of the 1/4 strength Rhizotonic I made up and some 1/4 strength A + B again all this is ph'ed down to 5.8. I mainly feed Rhizo to keep damp but once per day they get a feed of 1/4 A + B to help supplement the rapid root growth.

21/6/20: Quick One has popped above the coco surface some point overnight standing around 20mm tall now looking good and healthy was a nice thing to wake up to this morning. Still waiting for Northern Lights and Special Kush to also pop, I did notice with Special Kush that the tap root was rather long and seemed to have gone a bit rollercoaster sideways in the coco but it was plenty white and looked plenty healthy so I sprinkled a small ammount of coco over the root to shield from light and damped down with the Rhizo spray. A few hours in and it still seems fine no popping up yet but doesnt seem like it was dying I wasnt expecting the Fem Photo to be so fast hwoever next time I germ Special Kush I will probably plant it in coco very early on in the germ stage as this seed had the largest tap root out of them all!

I will post updates as much as possible I am fortunate enough to work from home so I can tend to these babs 24/7 without any worries, some updates will be very simple updates stating no change but continuation of watering or change to feed strengths etc. And again all input and questions are welcome but keep it clean, sincere and sensible! Happy Growing.

24/6/20: Quick one seems to be doing very well, when the shell popped one of the first leaves broke off and was left stuck to its other rounded leaf and I did not notice for about a day it did however just keep growing, I damped the leaf off and removed the sticky stuff that was holding the broken leaf over the other leaf and the broken leaf itself as it was just preventing the working leaf from getting light. Seems to be fine and the true leaves are starting to grow out pretty nicely on the other hand however my other two did not seem to be happy at all, Special Kush #1 almost popped soil and is sat looking rather miserable and is potentially wiliting away just sat above the hole it popped out of but still on the coco, as for Northern Lights I think it was a dud seed, it germinated okay along with the other ones but the tap root didnt seem to be anywhere near as big as other seeds and the seed itself was very very tiny compared to the other Northern Lights seeds in the pack, maybe it was just the runt. I will be popping another Northern Lights along with another Special Kush #1 and potentially a Royal Domina too to replace the two that didnt want to make it </3

28/06/20: Quick one is doing fine the missing leaf did not seem to have any negative effects and it now has three sets of true leave, the first two are well under way and the third set are poking out of the stem. The other two seeds deffinately did not make it and the second set of germinated ones went into fresh coco moistened with 1/4th strength Rhizotonic. I had been feeding quick one some 1/4th strength food consisting of A/B + Rhizotonic for the first week while it developed but I am now upping it to 1/2 strength with the same nutrients, I will also add some Cannazyme into the mixture but I didnt feel the plant would need it right away as when I transfered Quick One to a larger pot the roots where only just showing at one side of the pot so I will ease that in however if anyone can reccoment different feel free to comment ! Quick One is 1 week old at this point. I will follow up with some pictures soon !

Its been a moment since I updated but the first plant seems to be doing good, she sits around 12" tall but is LST bent over to get some light to the lower leaves. I did have a couple of issues with germinating where the tap would pop but when moved into coco they wouldnt grow and ended up rotting, after a couple of tests I figured it was the 1/4th strength Rhizo causing issues as plain water made the second set germ and pop fine I started feeding Rhizo after a few days instead this time. I also managed to get a Bud Box Lite 80x80x160 a few weeks back and since moving into the tent the plants seem to be doing a lot better.

On the side I have been working on some automation for the tent, I am running 120mm PC fans for airflow from a standardATX psu combined with a Raspberry Pi to control the speed based on temp/humidity and so far so good. The next addittion to the controls will be dimming control of the light so they can be transitioned automatically at lights on/off. I havent had any issues with humidy as of yet so havent found the need to include a humidifier unit into the system but it could easily be added.

Couple Clones I took, not sure how well they will grow from an auto though.


Pi Display for temp and humidity(set doesnt work yet).


Quick One Auto now starting week 6, shes gotten really bushy really fast



Royal Domina Fem



Special Kush #1 Fem



Couple of the tent also