Perpetual auto flower micro grow!

Waterlab420 · Mar 10, 2015

Well highlo fellow growers! I have recently ordered some auto flowers and decided I wanna fire up my small grow closet again!

Here's what I'm working with.

Purple Ryder and LR2 from green path autos.
28 sun blaze t5 (192 watts)
Sunshine organic soil
Gonna be running advanced nutes

I plan on runnin 4 new seeds every 2 weeks, these are regular seeds not fems so i will be pulling males here and there.

I'm starting them out in very small pots not even sure the size maybe .5L? I want them to be very root bound by day 15 when I'm transplanting them into tall 2 gallons.

Gonna be running 18/6 from start to finish with a mix spectrum of 3400/6700 t5 bulbs.

My closet space is 28x36 with 3' of height which is why choce some known short autos.

I'm open to suggestions and comments

I'm germinating in the soil so not much to look at right now but will prob do daily updates once the show gets rolling

P.s: how close should I be keeping the lights at this stage? Never used t5 at seedling stage.

yellowfeverford · Mar 10, 2015

If you can keep the air moving between the plantsee and the light then go ahead and drop that light down 3 to 6 inches from the plants. I keep mine around 3 from seedling to flip

Waterlab420 · Mar 10, 2015

yellowfeverford said:
If you can keep the air moving between the plantsee and the light then go ahead and drop that light down 3 to 6 inches from the plants. I keep mine around 3 from seedling to flip

Ya I have not installed a fan in there yet ( tomorrow probably )

And only have (4) out of 8 bulbs going right now. Never germinated in soil so kind of un charted territory don't wanna stress them to much lol

3-6" even before they pop out of soil? And do you think the humidity bags on top will interfere with oxygen intake ?

Waterlab420 · Mar 18, 2015

So I'll be doing updates every couple days now! Now that they have showed themselves

the show begins!

Going 100% organic, nectar of the gods line.

Dion · Mar 28, 2015

Waterlab420 · Mar 28, 2015

Dion said:

Hi

lol

Been slacking lately! Lol think I'm gonna attemp to run these in a hydro systrm! I lost track of em and they dried out n died. I hate soil

Dion · Apr 2, 2015

sorry to hear it

i actually love soil when i dont do aquaponics

perhaps look into a blumat dripper system if watering is an issue but honestly bro if you lost track of soil hydro seems like trouble

Waterlab420 · Apr 2, 2015

Dion said:
sorry to hear it

i actually love soil when i dont do aquaponics

perhaps look into a blumat dripper system if watering is an issue but honestly bro if you lost track of soil hydro seems like trouble

Hydro is very easy ( to me ) its what I started with though. I can go away for 5-7 days and have faith my plants will be okay in my DWC. But to each there own right?

Dion · Apr 2, 2015

ok then i agree i also find hydro easier than soil but i thought u were a total noob so yeah cool DWC is good

looking forward to it

Waterlab420 · Apr 2, 2015

Dion said:
ok then i agree i also find hydro easier than soil but i thought u were a total noob so yeah cool DWC is good

looking forward to it

Noob to autos haha.

But I'm setting up a dwc set up right now with 1 gallon buckets. Not sure how many I can fit and still have room for other plants so the numbers are still to be determined haha but it's getting there

You think 1 gallon b enough for a low Ryder 2 or a purp ryder?

Dion · Apr 2, 2015

Waterlab420 said:
Noob to autos haha.

But I'm setting up a dwc set up right now with 1 gallon buckets. Not sure how many I can fit and still have room for other plants so the numbers are still to be determined haha but it's getting there

You think 1 gallon b enough for a low Ryder 2 or a purp ryder?

r you connecting all these buckets? wont that water get too hot too quick in such small amounts?

cant say for the strain never grown it but should be totes fine in hydro if things get root bound just root trim

Waterlab420 · Apr 2, 2015

I thought about RDWC, there regular autos, so pulling males needs to be easy while not stressing the other plants out.

So im not sure if totes will be ideal.

Dion · Apr 2, 2015

pulling should be as easy as taking out the net cup no?

Waterlab420 · Apr 2, 2015

Dion said:
pulling should be as easy as taking out the net cup no?

well if the roots get entangled....thasts added stress on the auto. Which trying to minimize lol

Dion · Apr 2, 2015

Waterlab420 said:
well if the roots get entangled....thasts added stress on the auto. Which trying to minimize lol

true didnt think of that

soil? lol

Waterlab420 · Apr 2, 2015

Dion said:
true didnt think of that

soil? lol

I thought about connecting pvc to bottom of net pots, make a tube...with the round air stones right under it.

Use a tote and space them out. Would contain the roots long enough to sex them and pull males without roots being tangled....what ya think?? Yay or nay lol

Dion · Apr 3, 2015

not sure what you mean r you talking about RDWC with an external tote?

whatever u do it will work sounds like u know what u r doin

Waterlab420 · Apr 3, 2015

Dion said:
not sure what you mean r you talking about RDWC with an external tote?

whatever u do it will work sounds like u know what u r doin

Nope DWC

1 tote

12 net pots set inside 8" long piece of pvc.

Drill the holes in the top of the tub and put the pvc down through into the water situated above th air stone. That way the roots still get submerged there just forced to stay in the pvc. Until I can sex them and pull the males.

So the roots won't entangle

if that makes sense lol

Dion · Apr 3, 2015

Ah ok but anywhere water passes roots will too

Probably easier to just do a big solid bed with an auto dripper

Waterlab420 · Apr 4, 2015

Dion said:
Ah ok but anywhere water passes roots will too

Probably easier to just do a big solid bed with an auto dripper

Maybe, rock wool cubes? Eh not a fan I guess lol

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