First time Ever Grow Hydro
- Thread starter OldLuck
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I'm starting to see in hydro or soil the hard part is dialing in the right nutes. I'm understanding more why all the good soil or hydro growers all have there special recipe for there soil or hydro systems. Still learning on how to feed them correctly. I have to get better so I can start using better seeds. Growing is a little addicting. Keep trying to find ways to go in with the lights off. Flipped to 12/12 and that cut out 6 hours of light I was using watching them grow lol. But now at least I got 6 hrs back I gave up at the start of the grow. lol Thanks guys for all of the support. Some days I need it a lot more then others. Sorry for rambling.
The light is about 20 inches from the tallest plant. How many plants can you scrog in a 2foot X 4 foot screen?
Someguy15
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Anywhere from 1-6 depending on how long u veg them and how big they were. 2-4 being ideal probably.
mugsey
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no sir...stretching decreases the amount of nodes you'll have and often times from what ive seen the nodes you do have will get airy buds. but stretching means the plant is trying desperately to reach the light which indicates a lack of light and u should know light equals more bud+bud density. so stretching is always bad. hope this helps
Thanks for the info. This hole grow they are going to stretch because my light isn't fully adjustable. Was thinking about scrapping them and doing the light correctly and start over. Don't want to waste another 2 months on flowering if it is nothing but a waste of time.
Someguy15
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sounds about right. I did 6 week veg from seed to fill my 2x2 scrog, so that sounds pretty accurate. From rooted clone more like 4 weeks.
mugsey
Member
they really didnt seem to be stretching too much at all based on the latest pics. once you have vegged em to about a foot most people start 12/12 then. but in the end its your call. picture update?
i have a question for whoever will answer first very nice old luck i had some troubles with mine my light was 5 ft high first two weeks so i fixed that never fd them either for two weeks and they strted showing so i had some miracle grow fed them that last week and they took off then magnesium defiency set in gave them epsom salts now my question is i got them some jungle juice and super thrive now since i gave them miracle grow last week when i change out water should i use full dose of what bottle says or should i only give halfreason i am asking is i did the change yesyerday and gave them half but they were looking saggy last night before lights out plz help i cant get no one to answer my posts
mugsey
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you may wanna LST the super long ones and try to even out your canopy as best u can. they look healthy to me. so this is the end of the first week of flower? just keep an eye out for those nut sacks or pistil hairs
Has anyone tried the CMH lights for flowering? http://advancedtechlighting.com/cdmed18.htm
Someguy15
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Yep, I have one of the Philips CMH's. Its the 250w, 4000k temp. It works great. It's one of my side projects, you can see in my pic album or journal. Been growing great, seems to have a lil less stretch then the HPS...and if you run it in an open hood, you get some UVB on the plants too, which is supposed to help increase thc output in trichomes. Based on the fact that equatorial sativas typically have higher thc content, equitor = high uvb. Anyhow, biggest they come is 400w...and they run on HPS ballasts. Got my 250 for about $60.
Thedillestpickle
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Dude your plants at week three is KILLING me, I just started a first time grow, my plants will be at 3es weeks as of tomorrow, they are still only at the 3rd set of leaves and actually smaller than your plants are at week 2! Yours look like they are loving the ebb and flow. I will start a new thread with my plants now having seen this to try and get some help and see why they are growing so damn slow, I bought a good strain too so its not the genetics. Good luck man looks like you could pull this off!
They have them in a 400w that works in the MH ballast now for $75. Was thinking about geting one for flower. Do they work for veg also?