BangPaf
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Hello there!
I decided to start a journal for my current grow. I think it may help for organization and discipline. It's also always fun to show out your stuff (when you don't fail miserably, of course...).
Feel free to drop in if you have something not too offensive to say!
The "mostly organic" part is because I use OMRI certified organic fertilizers. But then, I use a CaMg additive for the plants in coco. I also plan to test some tricks involving growth stimulants and a bit of salts on some plants. Nothing scientific, just a bit of madness to keep my motivation up.
Since this is my 1st journal, some things may lack. I'm no expert or large scale grower as you'll see. I usually have around 3-4 plants in my 4'x4' tent.
Here's a post from another thread here I wrote to introduce myself :
I topped the three oldest plants on the 2016-01-18
I can't get my RH level over 40% despite having an humidifier and wet socks inside the tent. There are several reasons for this. I use a 600w MH for veg. My cheapo HID reflector has the lamp behind glass which generate tons of heat so I must increase air turnover in the tent to keep temps under control. The tent intake is right up the window that must remain slightly open when lights are on, even with the freezing temps outside. So when the outside cold air is sucked in the tent and reheated, its RH goes down. The fact that my apartment is really dry to start with doesn't help: My hygrometer reads 28% in my computer room as I write this. My skin is also really dry right now.
When I get things right, I get slightly cooler temps in the tent than in the rest of the apartment, around 24-25C with lights on. I must obviously close the window when lights goes off. I forgot to do this yesterday (2016-02-06) and temps dropped to 15C in the tent. I guess it's not the first time
My seedlings often seem to suffer from dry conditions, with some leaf deformities on the first two sets. However, they always outgrow this problem with some time.
I know I should really change this reflector, just no money for this at the moment.
Here is a picture inside my tent taken on 2016-01-24 (from left to right: "WW", LSD, "Kush", seedling is the LSD child)
The LSD showing sex already (female, as expected):
So two days after I took these pictures, I dropped the seedling pot and it fell on its head. It's in coco, which doesn't seem to cake as much as peat, so it created a huge mess. I had to dig in the pile to find the green part and the roots were loose. Fortunately, the stem wasn't damaged.
Things turned out ok for the child. It started growing again. Although with some anomalies... (you'll see in one of the next pics)
So the topping was successful on every plants and yielded the expected two new shoots.
I also begin to suspect the "White Widow" and the "Kush" to be of the same strain. They look quite similar in comparison to the LSD.
I did a supercrop/tie-down combo and some pruning on the LSD on 2016-02-04, aiming for six top colas. Same thing the day after on the "White Widow" and "Kush", but only aiming for four top colas as they are smaller and have 1-2 nodes less than the LSD. These two are not in coco, but in peat. Their container is also different from the LSD. Their diet also.
While tying down the "White Widow", I found 1 pistil.
Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking a pic. I took a pic of a leaf that I pruned from the LSD instead:
Here is a picture inside my tent taken on 2016-02-07. I took the picture about 2.5 hours before lights off. Notice the LSD in the blue bucket looking sad: She always goes droopy 3-4hours before lights off. First time I have a plant doing this as much and so early. Perhaps from lack of experience lol. (from left to right: "WW", "Kush", LSD, seedling is the LSD child, seemingly vacant pots are hot pepper seedlings lol)
Ok, I had a crazy Kratky-style experiment with catnip sprouts that almost worked. I say almost because I just saw what seemed to be a fully grown fungus gnat in on the surface of the peat (small black fly, omg). Yes, it was super damp in there. It also began to smell bad. So I dumped the whole thing. Unfortunately, this experiment was in my tent for two days.
I just hope it was the first adult gnat to surface from there!
I've put some yellow sticky traps and I hope I won't see any bugs on them tomorrow!
I decided to start a journal for my current grow. I think it may help for organization and discipline. It's also always fun to show out your stuff (when you don't fail miserably, of course...).
Feel free to drop in if you have something not too offensive to say!
The "mostly organic" part is because I use OMRI certified organic fertilizers. But then, I use a CaMg additive for the plants in coco. I also plan to test some tricks involving growth stimulants and a bit of salts on some plants. Nothing scientific, just a bit of madness to keep my motivation up.
Since this is my 1st journal, some things may lack. I'm no expert or large scale grower as you'll see. I usually have around 3-4 plants in my 4'x4' tent.
Here's a post from another thread here I wrote to introduce myself :
The "White Widow" and the LSD were germinated around 2015-12-08, the "Kush" on the 2015-12-18 and the LSD child on the 2016-01-16.
I topped the three oldest plants on the 2016-01-18
I can't get my RH level over 40% despite having an humidifier and wet socks inside the tent. There are several reasons for this. I use a 600w MH for veg. My cheapo HID reflector has the lamp behind glass which generate tons of heat so I must increase air turnover in the tent to keep temps under control. The tent intake is right up the window that must remain slightly open when lights are on, even with the freezing temps outside. So when the outside cold air is sucked in the tent and reheated, its RH goes down. The fact that my apartment is really dry to start with doesn't help: My hygrometer reads 28% in my computer room as I write this. My skin is also really dry right now.
When I get things right, I get slightly cooler temps in the tent than in the rest of the apartment, around 24-25C with lights on. I must obviously close the window when lights goes off. I forgot to do this yesterday (2016-02-06) and temps dropped to 15C in the tent. I guess it's not the first time
My seedlings often seem to suffer from dry conditions, with some leaf deformities on the first two sets. However, they always outgrow this problem with some time.
I know I should really change this reflector, just no money for this at the moment.
Here is a picture inside my tent taken on 2016-01-24 (from left to right: "WW", LSD, "Kush", seedling is the LSD child)
The LSD showing sex already (female, as expected):
So two days after I took these pictures, I dropped the seedling pot and it fell on its head. It's in coco, which doesn't seem to cake as much as peat, so it created a huge mess. I had to dig in the pile to find the green part and the roots were loose. Fortunately, the stem wasn't damaged.
Things turned out ok for the child. It started growing again. Although with some anomalies... (you'll see in one of the next pics)
So the topping was successful on every plants and yielded the expected two new shoots.
I also begin to suspect the "White Widow" and the "Kush" to be of the same strain. They look quite similar in comparison to the LSD.
I did a supercrop/tie-down combo and some pruning on the LSD on 2016-02-04, aiming for six top colas. Same thing the day after on the "White Widow" and "Kush", but only aiming for four top colas as they are smaller and have 1-2 nodes less than the LSD. These two are not in coco, but in peat. Their container is also different from the LSD. Their diet also.
While tying down the "White Widow", I found 1 pistil.
Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking a pic. I took a pic of a leaf that I pruned from the LSD instead:
Here is a picture inside my tent taken on 2016-02-07. I took the picture about 2.5 hours before lights off. Notice the LSD in the blue bucket looking sad: She always goes droopy 3-4hours before lights off. First time I have a plant doing this as much and so early. Perhaps from lack of experience lol. (from left to right: "WW", "Kush", LSD, seedling is the LSD child, seemingly vacant pots are hot pepper seedlings lol)
Ok, I had a crazy Kratky-style experiment with catnip sprouts that almost worked. I say almost because I just saw what seemed to be a fully grown fungus gnat in on the surface of the peat (small black fly, omg). Yes, it was super damp in there. It also began to smell bad. So I dumped the whole thing. Unfortunately, this experiment was in my tent for two days.
I just hope it was the first adult gnat to surface from there!I've put some yellow sticky traps and I hope I won't see any bugs on them tomorrow!
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