CFL Closet Grow 250+watts Kush

paintkilz

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so this is a supposed Royal Kush strain. I had 2 seeds..safe to say they came from a herm so im hoping for fems.

started them in rockwool. rockwool got moldy and i found the rapid rooter plugs and did a transplant. ran those in a plate until i made my diy cloner the other day. figured id throw the plug/seedlings in there since they were like an inch tall.

the seeds cracked like 10 or so days ago. got rapid rooters 6 or 7 days ago and put into the cloner 2 days ago.

i was using just ph'ed water and superthrive. the cloner has MMMMIILLLLDDD flora nova grow and was running 18/6 with water spray 24/7. as now you can see its been 2 days and not much growth has happened but they are really droopy. i decided to turn off the misters with nutes to go to hand feeding with ph'ed superthrive water as im not sure if theyre being overwatered or needing nutes really.

i am noticing the understand to the roundish leaves are purple and so is the stem slightly. is there something im doing wrong?

my ph is roughly ALMOST 6. its a reddish orange so id say like 5.8 or close to 6. superthrive is mild too. im prolly just being too impatient as youll see in the last pic my plant thats done the best has shot a root out the side of the plug and its developing the spines and hairs that make healthy plants...

was using 26watt daylights but my town has the pleasure of a hydro store now so ive been acquiring 125watt daylight cfls in my own homemade hoods. i know im getting 2 more in 3000k either 175 or 200 watts. even another daylight spectrum possibly. the 4 noobie cfls are being retired for once i have cuttings to root in the cloner. going to build a tent out of a pvc frame and black plastic soon as well..no need yet as i dont need to seperate light sources.

so ill try and keep this updated and look forward to contributing. its been awhile since i was back

also you guys thinks im on the right track?

quick pics..sorry their from my phone.









 

paintkilz

Active Member
alright.

can i get someone to move this to the grow journal area or do i need to start a new thread?

decided to scrap this setup i was using above. the rubbermaid developed slime in the few days i was actually using it. so i replaced it with an straight black tote and redid my aero setup inside.

These pics are from 2/7/11


 

paintkilz

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as of yesterday i again redid my setup. well not redone since the cloner will still be used once we get back to that step.

i had to transplant though before the root system got too much to setup with the netpots.

i had addressed the droopy leaves by going back to just ph'ed water with Superthrive. I guess the nova grow was just too much and the plant wasnt ready even though i was doing MMMMIIINNNUTTTEEEE seedling nutes.

I again swapped them to 5g buckets and this time and added the ph'ed water with superthrive as well as nutriboost and nova grow(again partial strength). Now we have droopy plants again and spotting. Im draining right now and replacing with just ph'ed water and superthrive. maybe theyre not ready yet again. i have been told our water has a high ppm(until i get a ppm meter idk) so maybe that plus my nutes is just too much.





 
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