First Grow 2 plants - 250w MH 400w HPS +CFL

AgenXkill

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:leaf:Hello Everyone! Thanks for taking a look at my post!:leaf:

To start things off this is my very first grow. I started with 5 bag seed plants which the setup can be seen in the seedling setup/inside seed picture. I used a cool white fluorescent bulbs for the seedlings to grow. In the beginning i'm pretty sure i stretched them a bit, but that shouldn't be an issue anymore. Out of the 5 plants I had one turned into a female (the big plant in the rest of the pictures.) I also ordered 5 autoflower seeds and only one survived (should be able to see it in the withplant picture). I think the other 4 autoflowers died because they were a bit smaller than this seedling. I put a 250W MH bulb in the room for the first time and the next morning I went in and they were all dead. The humidity dropped a pretty good amount(60ish to 40ish) probably the cause of the bulb. So I am now left with a 6-7 week old bagseed plant, and about a 2-3 week old ak-47 autoflower. I have a 400 HPS bulb I will use for flowering once the time has come. I may use this plant as a mother and do some cloning. the light schedule is on 18/6 currently with the 200w MH bulb and four 42w 2700k CFLS. Once the auto flower is ready I will most likely have to use the ballast and light for the bagseed plant since the autoflower wont be able to use the 12/12 light schedule obviously. Ill have to consider my options of either getting a new ballast for the 200w MH or using CFLS, since the one im using is actually for the 400w bulb(which is not used atm). My nutes are the earth juice bloom/grow. Ive probably used the nutes a total of 3 times, still not sure on when to use them. once every week or week and a half i planned to nute? Plant uses about a half gallon of water with a small amount of excess drip. Oh i used foxfarms soil and just normal brita water from my tap that i let sit for 3-4 days. If im missing anything or you have any constructive help that would be great! I plan on keeping this updated with pics and info as the grow progresses. Ohh and when would be a good time to let my baby flower and does that other autoflower stem have a chance ? :D :leaf:
 

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Also i noticed i had some stems that are red which is a deficiency somewhere. I have used the nutes and they seem to be getting better, besides the random CFL burn spot everything looks good from what I can tell. Any comments would be appreciated.
 
UPDATE:

So yesterday, the 15th I switched the 250w MH bulb for the 400w HPS and boy did the plant perk up. Ill get more pictures very soon here. Also got a new female sativa plant from a friend(not sure whats its called) so that will be fun to grow now too. The new plant is very thin and I think this HPS will really bring it to life.

comments appreciated ;-)
 

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UPDATE:

Added 3 new pictures. The Auto AK is growing pretty quick as well as my bagseed, gettin pretty hairy.

The new scrawny plant i have is wilting or something, might try to transfer to different soil. any opinions?

I could switch my big hairy guys to a 12/12 schedule now like I said before but i wouldn't have to separate grow rooms though, so im still trying to figure that out.
 

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UPDATE:

Transplanted my auto into a 3lb bag, all went smooth.

Fed my big plant and the scrawny one nutes today. Hopefully the scrawny one will come back to life a bit.
Biggey is now 23 in, hes growing so fast!

My light schedule got messed up, was off for about 4-5 hours when it should be on, hopefully shouldn't affect it much.

I need to clone very soon, still need to buy the rooting hormone or w/e. this weekend most likely.

NEW PICS
 

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