My first grow

daveyhouse · Aug 21, 2016

never grew before. Here is the hood I built

Bought ballast and t5's assembled and hung by cable

But my max height from floor to hood is only 42"

daveyhouse · Aug 21, 2016

But i can adjust height with pully

used white poly with black backing

And here are babies at one week initial soak. soaked 24 hours then placed in wet paper towels day 4 they were placed in soil with about half inch root. day six and we have green.

Any feedback or tips is welcome as this my very first grow. I just popped my cherry

WISH ME LUCK

Paddi · Aug 21, 2016

Best luck daveyhouse

Look likes a really good start :woohoo:

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daveyhouse · Aug 22, 2016

12 hours later they have more than quadrupled in height

NoSocSlic · Aug 22, 2016

cool I will keep an eye with you... subbed

Packer420 · Aug 28, 2016

Subscribed..

daveyhouse · Aug 29, 2016

Two weeks since germination

daveyhouse · Sep 5, 2016

3 weeks from seed

I almost killed them. Didn't see them for few days they were severely dehydrated. Laying over against the side of the cups with leaf damage.

daveyhouse · Sep 5, 2016

Questions,

Is it normal for these plants to be this short? Is it because my lights are elevated too high?
When would be a good time to transplant into bigger pots?

HuffnPufferfish · Sep 6, 2016

pots as big as you can afford, more roots, bigger buffer
shorter plants is less light loss from top to bottom
also more water induces stretching

daveyhouse · Sep 6, 2016

Transplant

Transplant

Ok I put the kids in bigger pots, looks like they were ready. Do these roots look fine to you? Its the best I could do with my phone

Plant 2

Plant 1 This is the one that suffered the most leaf damage

Here they are in their new homes

I have lowered the lights to approximately 1 foot above the plants
They are 4 foot long t5's (I have 6 of the 12 running)

Packer420 · Sep 10, 2016

Nice kids man

NoSocSlic · Sep 11, 2016

I'd keep them as close to the lights as you can without harming them. Also get them out of the cups and into a next size. Plan on transplanting about every 4 weeks while vegging and double the size of the pot each time. Depending on how long you veg, try and time it so you repot your girls right before you start to flower. That will stretch out how long you can go without nutrient deficiencies. If you don't have many plants then maybe consider makin a screen (see SCROGs) of some sort to stretch out how much you get out of it. Other than that don't over water them. every 3 or 4 days as seedlings and longer once they establish themselves.

NoSocSlic · Sep 11, 2016

Now that they have some size they will really start to take off. Have fun =)

daveyhouse · Sep 12, 2016

NoSocSlic,
Thank you for the tips, it is greatly appreciated. I started with happy frog soil in cups and put fresh soil in the pots they are in now. They are being watered with DI water every 3 to 4 days.

I was going to put them in smart pots next weekend with ocean forest soil so I could start pulling them over with LST.

Or should I wait for transplant?

Here they are at 4 weeks from seed

daveyhouse · Sep 12, 2016

Another thing,
I am only giving DI water, should I be giving any nutrients, or is the happy frog soil enough?

Tri_Cho_Me · Sep 12, 2016

daveyhouse said:
Another thing,
I am only giving DI water, should I be giving any nutrients, or is the happy frog soil enough?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with "DI Water". Is that distilled?

The Happy Frog will be enough for a couple weeks, then you should add nutrients. Unless you're repotting often enough and using new soil each time. This would introduce new nutrients each time, so it could extend the amount of time you wouldn't need nutrients.

I am using Happy Frog and Ocean Forest in my grow. Check out my Grow Diary in the Grow Diaries section!

Tri_Cho_Me

daveyhouse · Sep 12, 2016

Tri_Cho_Me said:
Sorry, I'm not familiar with "DI Water". Is that distilled?

The Happy Frog will be enough for a couple weeks, then you should add nutrients. Unless you're repotting often enough and using new soil each time. This would introduce new nutrients each time, so it could extend the amount of time you wouldn't need nutrients.

I am using Happy Frog and Ocean Forest in my grow. Check out my Grow Diary in the Grow Diaries section!

Tri_Cho_Me

Thank you, I did use new soil from the happy frog bag. I also have a large bag of ocean forest ready to go, but don't know when to start using it.

DI stands for Deionized

I am using a 6 stage RO/DI (Reverse Osmosis/De-Ionizing) system

I bought it from http://airwaterice.com/ (Dual Home Reef Kit) many years ago when I used to have 2 salt water fish tanks. No longer have the tanks but I do try to keep the filters updated on it because I still use the filtered water going to my fridge. I did upgrade to a 10 gallon holding tank last year though.

daveyhouse · Sep 18, 2016

I wasn't even thinking (common for me)

Here I've been depriving my girls by using RO/DI water stripping the water of all its minerals.

I was a Sam's Friday and I got a case 1 gallon jugs of spring water to feed them.

Then it dawned on me this morning when I woke up. I already have the perfect water to feed them with in the back yard.

Those fish have shitting in that water for the past five years, plus a turtle during the summer months, and he's a big dumper LOL

daveyhouse · Sep 18, 2016

5 weeks

5 weeks

Here we are 5 weeks from seed

On the right is an unopened gallon of spring water. On the left is a donation from the fish pond.
YUM YUM for the DUMB DUMB

I gave them a well deserved drink but I forgot to PH it. Not the first mistake on this grow and we all know it wont be the last. I'm sure its gonna be low.

Will report back with level

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