Volcoms first aerogarden grow

hey I'm growing some white widow seedsman seeds from Attitude in an aerogarden. I'm using fox farm nutrients and I've added a few things. I added an emergency blanket and an air pump with a 4in airstone. I'll be posting my progress and questions as I go. Look forward to any tips/ or suggestions

I germinated using the AeroGarden too. Just check on them every couple days and see if you can see the white root starting. On some of mine the root actually grew towards the surface because the entire sponge is soaked with water the root gets a little confused. Just pay attention and when the little white root gets about as long as your fingernail gently take the sponge out and set the root faceing downward and the seed on top of the sponge and then replace it back into the plastic holder and into the AeroGarden. I placed my seed pretty close to the top of the sponge when I first started and the sponge pinches so hard together the seed cant really push out to the top! So after its germinated in the sponge just remove and set it up the right way. I tried to make a picture below to show you what it should look like. After the roots long enuff just place it in the sponge with the seed ontop like in the shitty picture below. LOL

Hope you understand all that. I wish I just had a real picture of what mine looked like at that stage.

Thanx ksg I appreciate everything I've been real busy lately but I'm about to finish setting everything up I just put a shit fAn in my closet for ventilation and my buddy came through on the ph tester pics coming soon

Got'er set-up yet man?

Keep me posted! If you remember, I have 1 Fem. White Widow growing underneath all those Power Skunks (and 1 Fem. Violator Kush) -LOL The Skunks got so big so quick they blocked alot of the light from her so she never really got that big, but hopefully she will yield atleast a quarter

Shit i'd be happy! I cant wait until my next grow I've learned so much from this one. ((I have way to many plants in there right now))

Yea I'm only going with three plants back left and right and front center i'm finishing setup tom when I get off work tom had a friend I hadn't seen in yrs staying with me if u know what I mean she leaves tom morn so I'll have some spare time again

Alright, set up and germinating, have ph at 5.5, and playing the waiting game. Pics later I need a nap. I can't stop looking at them and they are still just seeds I'm already addicted....

Day 1 8-14-08

the setup...

checked my seeds today cause I had a feeling I had them too deep in the foam. Well I ended up having 2 in the spot I wanted and both have cracked and showed root the third hadn't cracked, so I readjusted it. Mainly cause it was twice as deep as the others and could of been pinching. Last night I also added a 1/4 of an ag sm nute tablet I'm thinking that could help with rooting development and wait 2 weeks until starting the fox farm nutes.

EDIT: All three have shown root, I carefully readjusted the root (using tweezers) through a hole I made in the foam (used kabob skewer).

Planted: 8/14/08
Today : 8/16/08

I've had a little issue yesterday my dog bumped me when I was redirecting a root through the hole I somehow forgot to do one or did one twice I was ripped when I was doing but somehow about a 1/8 in of my root tap has a little break in it. It's a about halfway through but overnight the root got a little longer. So my question is will it be ok? I started germing one in a paper towel just in case so if I need to be replaced it wouldn't be so far off from the others. If it ends up ok I'll put the extra in it in a pot with soil my buddy just started his orange crush and he said I can through mine in with his and he'll take care of it for me.

so nobody know if she'll be ok??????

volcomi18 said:

so nobody know if she'll be ok??????

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She'll be ok man! Just try not to adjust unless you have to!

Yea I think your right... It's funny when I went to bring the seeds to the top after I got ur pm they already pushed themselves to the top of it

Good news all of them have shot up one has it's 2 starter leaves and the others two have shedded their seed case but theirs like a white ball still kinda around the top of them pics later Tonite.

Day 1: 8/14/08
Today : 8/18/08

ok here's the pics I was going to put them up last night but RIU was down. Here's the ladies from left to right.




Day 1 : 8/14/08
Today : 8/19/08

Looking great man! Just let them babies do there thing.

(make sure your using "atleast 1" starter nute right now, otherwise you might run into a little growth stunt. Alot of people just use water in the AeroGarden during this stage but it seemes they run into stunted growth problems about 1 to 2 weeks down the road. I used both starter nutes when I germinated mine and they did just fine!)

Thanx man yea it's getting hard to stop looking at them I just hope I don't get me power outtages this week do to the storm headed my way. I just dropped a starting tablet in Thanx again for the advice ksg I hope ur ladies end up ok being stuck with all them males. Sausage parties suck.... LOL

been lucky so far only had a 45 min power outage it's nuts out there raining hard as hell. Wind is at 58 mph and only 1 power outage not bad. Just had a tornado warning for my specific area. Good thing my ladies aren't being grown outdoors.

checked my plants today I have brown spots on some of the plants and some leaves that are curling under. I figured it was from that extra nutrient tab I put in so I flushed and cleaned the rez. Then filled with fresh phed water prob not going to add any nutes until next week when I start the fox farm nutes. I also changed it from getting 24 hrs water to 16/8 just in case I may be overwatering.

Day 1 : 8/14/08
Today : 8/23/08
(day 9)

Here are some new pics of the ladies not much but hey it's something to look at. Does anyone know if I did the right thing with brown spotting and leaves curling under? The first pic is the one with the brown spotting. The 2nd one is of the plant that's curling. The third is looking good my second biggest plant no noticable problems. The 4th is of them all.

volcomi18 said:

Here are some new pics of the
ladies not much but hey it's something to look at. Does anyone know if I did the right thing with brown spotting and leaves curling under? The first pic is the one with the brown spotting. The 2nd one is of the plant that's curling. The third is looking good my second biggest plant no noticable problems. The 4th is of them all.

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Ha lakai, i think thats awesome, i love lakai's, well anyway im about to do what your doing with the aero garden and this is very helpful. Is yours a aerogarden 100 or 200? also whats a nute and where can i buy them locally?