Small Stealth Scrog Hans Panel LED Grow

Strain: Seedsman Feminized Northern Soul (Northern Lights x Skunk#1)
Grow medium: About 60% Coco Coir, and 40% Perlite in a pot of about 5 liters (1.3 gallon). (I know it’s quite small)
Nutrients: Canna Coco A+B. PK13-14 will be added when flowering starts.
Light: Hans Panel 80w LED.
Grow Room: A small plastic storage box with dimensions: (H: 70cm D:35cm W: 40cm).
Two 8 cm pc fans, one in one out, one small regular fan for air movement and strengthening of stems. Diamond Mylar all the way around. When i go into flowering i will attach a carbon filter.
Grow method plans: Scrog, in an attempt to increase my yield despite my very small growing space. Lst, topping, and maybe some super cropping and defoliation. Was strongly considering trying out mainlining but, again because of size, for this first grow ill go Scrog. I will loosely follow LBH’s guide.

I am hoping for at least one ounce of dried bud, and will become very satisfied if i am able to reach the 1g per watt and get 3 ounces. Though i do not expect this, given of my small space, and relatively low experience as this is my first grow.

I will be updating as often as possible. Thank you for stepping by.

September 6
A Seedsman Feminized Northern Soul soaked in a cup of water

September 7
About 20-22 hours later i put the seed into a food container with moist paper towels

September 8
About 20 hours later the seed is showing a root tap and i have transferred it into a small plastic cup with coco coir, perlite and water ph just below 6.

Septemper 10
The seedling has arrived above the coco.
(Sorry for the bad quality of this pic. It is the seedling popping out of its shell)

September 11
She has a nice color, but the leaves are hanging just a bit. I am not sure if this is because of overwatering (i have been careful though), or maybe to much light. The panel is in “seedling” mode, and i have now moved it up so that she is about 6-7 inches from the light. There is very little heat.

September 12
Looking good. She is back to strength. Leaves are still hanging a little bit, though i don’t think this is a problem. If you disagree please don't hesitate to pitch in.

September 13 - 16
There hasn't been a lot of growth above the coco, but there has been great root development.
September 17
Because of the nice root development, i decided that it is time to start giving her a low dosage of nutes. I mixed 4ml A and 4ml B into a 2 liter bottle and fed her this evening.

September 18
I am already today seeing an explosion in growth after feeding. In my "green" eyes she is looking very good. Below are pics from today.

EDIT: By the way you are very welcome to pitch in if there is anything you wish to say.

It has been a while since my last update, but here it is. She has been doing very well despite my mistake of underwatering a bit while believing it was overwatering. Which would be strange because of my 60/40 coco/perlite. That is over now.

About september 25 i increased the amount of nutes in my water a bit, and she seems to like it. (i am roughly following the chart made by canna for tap water with an EC at about 0.5)

Later today i am going to transplant her into a bigger pot.

Oktober 3
She is getting really bushy which is awesome considering my small space. I topped the 5'th set of leaves in order to prepare for scrog. Even though i am considering not making this a scrog, and just trying to use lst and such to make her fillout my space.

She is still looking good, but some problems have started to appear.
The lowest leaves have turned yellow, and the ones just above them are having their tips turn brown/yellow. When i read about it it seems as if this is either nutrient burn or potassium deficiency. I am growing in coco and feeding canna coco just below the recommended amount.

If this is nutrient burn it would be bad to buy something to supplement potassium. Though if this is potassium deficiency cutting down on nutrients would also be bad i guess. So i am hoping there is someone here that can shine some light on my problem.

Thanks a lot in advance!

So, we are at October 9 and i have gotten a lot of great responses on the above mentioned problem, over at the "marijuana plant problems" section. The nutes have been cut down a bit, and also i have learned that this might actually be a normal part of her life cycle.
Today she looks like this:

Several weeks has past since my last update, but here we go.

I have decided not to scrog anyway, since i want to see how she will grow.
I had a little accident a couple of days ago, while doing some lst. I was trying to lower the two main branches which resulted in the stem being cleaved in the middle (there is a pic). This scared me a lot since I didn't know what would happen. She seems to have recovered though.

Still she is growing very bushy and i like that a lot. I have to push away leaves to be able to see any branches at all. Pretty cool.

Would any of you recommend doing some pruning, pulling leaves and stuff, or should i be ok just leaving her as is?
Another question, i see some yellow spots on a few of the leaves. Does this look like mag deficiency to you? i have read that this i quite common when growing in coco.
I am a new grower so any comments are very welcome!

At Oktober 27 i switched her light schedule into 12/12. 7 weeks of veg is what i ended up with.
I switched her now due to both the size of the pot (about 1.5 gallons) and the small grow box i am using.
There is one leaf in the middle of the plant that is turning yellow. It started when i did my unintentional supercrop trying to lst. The leaf is growing out a couple of millimeters from where she broke.

Other than that she seems to be doing very well. Any thoughts on that though, from some experienced growers?
Maybe you can see something that i cant when looking at the pics.

4 days into 12/12. Pistons are starting to show so i am pretty sure i didn't get one of the few unlucky male feminized seed. Smell is increasing a bit.

All in all i am happy with her as she is now, and looking really much forward to seeing the flowers grow.

A couple of pics i took 30 mins ago.


As i mentioned earlier i did an accidental super crop on one of the two mainstems, and kept on only lst'ing the other one.
This turned out to be a great idea now. As you see in the next couple of pics, it really showed me the effects of supercropping clearly. I will probably do the same super crop on my next grow just on both main stems. I makes such a smooth canopy.

A couple of pics of where the supercrop happened + a pic of the canopy with some arrows and stuff below.
I was actually a pretty bad crack, and i didnt manage to get it properly together. I did use some tape and a broken toothpick to try and get it straight, but that didn't work. Which is probably for the best.

Once again, a long time has passed.
Never the less she is doing great! flowers are really showing, there are pistons everywhere, and the smell is also beginning to be really nice. It is really amazing to see an mj plant in flower. Honestly this is the first time i have seen one ever.
And not just A plant, MY plant.
I am watering every second day atm, it seems to fit well. I am using 6ml canna coco A + B.

So december 16 became the last day in my girls life. RIP

But it is not all bad. Harvest is upon us, and it is looking great. I'll start with some pics from about 14 days first since there is none above, then 3 days ago, and then the harvest pics.

Dec 1:


Dec 13:

They weren't ready to chop yet, IMO

Harvest!

Wet weight it is 233 grams, and with my very small grow space + this being my first grow + only 80 watts of light, I am happy with the results.
My grow box:

TubePot said:

They weren't ready to chop yet, IMO

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Not at december 1 if that is what you are thinking about. Unfortunately i dont have a microscope i can take pics with, but they are all cloudy, and it is intentional that none has turned amber yet. The pics you were looking at is from before harvest

Going buy the last pics you posted.

TubePot said:

Going buy the last pics you posted.

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(I hadn't posted the harvest pics when you wrote it though) Why do you think it looks to early?

Color of the pistils, (the little hairs)still see many are white.

Ok. i guess we are talking about different pictures then. More than 70% of the pistils are amber in at harvest time, but in the other pics i uploaded today most are white. Sorry for the confusion with the uploads.