My First Aero Garden - My Journal
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Da420Monkey
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once again looking pretty good bro!!
jazzyvibez
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Update
Day 20 since sex was determined. Girls are looking great! The lady and I are going on vacation for a couple of days, so I thought I'd go ahead and post up some pics. Lemme know what you think - Sicc, and 420. =)
Day 20 since sex was determined. Girls are looking great! The lady and I are going on vacation for a couple of days, so I thought I'd go ahead and post up some pics. Lemme know what you think - Sicc, and 420. =)
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For those of you that are wondering if a 95w LED did all of that - the answer is yes. The plants are about 4 feet tall and with the strings; about 4 feet wide as well. I know its not a powerhouse, but I wanted to point out the validity of the LED grow light. My next grow will be a combo - just got myself a 600w hps&mh plus using this 95w as filler light for the bottom. That's gonna be insane.
I'd recommend closing of those open holes in the planting deck with A/g's plugs or you're likely to have algae problems. If you have the three lamp hood you won't need more lighting. The advantage of the A/G is that it is energy efficient. Think about that.
gom
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Ok. I am new to the aerogarden myself. Have not read all 15 pages of this thread yet just about to. I have looked over some of the piks good stuff guys. I just wanted to ask is that a blue streak you are growing there? I am sure there will be more questions later. I just started my first grow in a aerogarden pro 100 (3 weeks into it). I am trying 1 plant (blue streak hybrid) in the center front spot. I put golf balls over the other holes to block the light from the roots, and I am using fox farm nuts (I have done a lot of homework). But like I said I am just getting started, and I need to get through my first test grow. I would like to take this plant to full term in the aerogarden if I can. The goal is to get 3 plants to go 4 to 5 weeks in the aerogarden then transplant to a small booth (booth not done yet need $$ for parts) till harvest (space is very limited and so is the budget). I am pretty focused on the auto flowering hybrids (most running 12 week life, 6 week growth, and 6 week flower) and will be using fem'ed seeds when I can.
Wow did I rambull on there. Must have been the cali sweet tooth i just sampled hehe
So I will take any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thz guys
And yes i am going to read the whole thread now
Wow did I rambull on there. Must have been the cali sweet tooth i just sampled hehe
So I will take any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thz guys
And yes i am going to read the whole thread now
gom
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ok should have read thread first cuz no thats not blue streak
and just so you know when he said "and then there were two" i cried a little
but the lady's are looking good man wish i could get a hit when your done
still taking any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thz guys
and just so you know when he said "and then there were two" i cried a little
but the lady's are looking good man wish i could get a hit when your done
still taking any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thz guys
gom
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Hey guys, me again
Hope you don't mind me jumping in on this thread with you guys. I have been stoked that I finely found somebody doing close to the same thing as me. I just wish I would have found you sooner, because I am going through the same things you did in a bad way. Right now I am at day 1 of week 4 (plant is blue streak hybrid 12 week life, 6 week growth, and 6 week flower). Plant is now in PH corrected water with no nuts, and we are sitting with all fingers crossed hopeing she is going to recover
But we will get to that in a bit.
Let me start with setup. In my first post I gave you a good idea of what I"m working with and what I'm trying to do. I have a pro 100 with a small fan on 1 side (very lightly fanning the plant leaves with air),LED light panel on the other side (fan and LED's switch sides every 24 hour),and AG hood at lowest setting. The blue streak hybrid is only a 2.5ft plant. So at week 3 day 1 . Sprout was 2 and a half inches tall and starting to form branching points 5 and 6. Yes I call her sprout(at least I hope its a her). It looked like I thought it would. It looked good at this point. Sprout was going to be a short fat little girl, and ya know they need lovin to. I should say at this point I had not done much research on line (just for nuts ), and hadn't put much thought into ph. A plant needs water, light ,and air "bingo" your good to go right. Man I just didn't know. I should also add that I have no choice but to use tap water or rain water ( we are now collecting rain water ). I'm in the south east tropics and it rains every day at about 4pm. But for now we are using ph corrected tap water. Also getting bottled water to me is to costly.
That brings us to week 3 day 1 mistake # 2 (Ph was first mistake), (or we could call it Sprouts first feeding ). Yes you could say this did not go good. I got the the bottle of fox farm nuts that every body on line said is good stuff for hydro and I am sure it is. But the bottle is a little miss leading in the directions. When it said to use 4 tbls for 1 gal and I cal the cap at 2 caps full = 1 tbls. This is not good. This is for a 1 gal watering can feeding a plant that is in a pot of dirt once or twice a month . Not for a hydro setup at all (Sprouts first feeding should have been 1tsp to the gal. Not 4 tbls).
Week 3 day 3. Seeing some slight yellowing of the very bottom leaves. Humm.
week 3 day 4 Tips of bottom leaves brown and more yellowing. Double Humm.
Week 3 day 5 A 8th of the bottom leaves brown next set of leaves up not looking good. WTF(time to get on line and double check nuts ) holly chit there way off. I am thinking that the reason I didn't see the yellowing sooner is because the ph was so high that the plant was having a hard time getting the nuts in and it was more a ph thing than a nuts thing. We will see.
Week 3 day 6 AC goes down. Temp at 83F. Not good.
At this point I did a full drain, and clean out. I refilled with tap water to do a flush and said a little prayer for Sprout (not really thinking about ph yet). Later that night I start looking around on line and I find your thread. I love what you have done here. I saw that plant you show in some of the first piks and it looked like Sprout. That's why I thought it might be a BS lowryder. But any way when SICC asked what your ph was, and thought it might be the reason for some of your yellowing. I thought I should check mine. Ok I get this ph tester and some ph up and ph down from the pet shop when I get a chance to get to town.
Week 4 day 1 No change. We have a ph test kit. and can ya guise can ya!!! You bet ya 8.0 (AC still down temp at 83 high humid)
At that point I calibrated a 2L soda bottle 3 drops at a time with ph down until it was at a ph just below 6.0 (24 drops of ph down to a 2L soda bottle of tap water), and once again we did a complete water change with ph corrected water, and no nuts.
And that brings us to this very moment in time. Were my and Sprouts weekend has been very stress filled. So I thought I would take a break, sampled a little more of whats left of the cali sweet tooth and let you guys know whats going on
Also wanted to say thx for getting this thread going. You have helped me a ton.
and as always taking any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thx guys
Holy crap I just posted this and didn't realize I typed that much. I do find that sweet tooth inspiring. lol
Hope you don't mind me jumping in on this thread with you guys. I have been stoked that I finely found somebody doing close to the same thing as me. I just wish I would have found you sooner, because I am going through the same things you did in a bad way. Right now I am at day 1 of week 4 (plant is blue streak hybrid 12 week life, 6 week growth, and 6 week flower). Plant is now in PH corrected water with no nuts, and we are sitting with all fingers crossed hopeing she is going to recover
But we will get to that in a bit.Let me start with setup. In my first post I gave you a good idea of what I"m working with and what I'm trying to do. I have a pro 100 with a small fan on 1 side (very lightly fanning the plant leaves with air),LED light panel on the other side (fan and LED's switch sides every 24 hour),and AG hood at lowest setting. The blue streak hybrid is only a 2.5ft plant. So at week 3 day 1 . Sprout was 2 and a half inches tall and starting to form branching points 5 and 6. Yes I call her sprout(at least I hope its a her). It looked like I thought it would. It looked good at this point. Sprout was going to be a short fat little girl, and ya know they need lovin to. I should say at this point I had not done much research on line (just for nuts ), and hadn't put much thought into ph. A plant needs water, light ,and air "bingo" your good to go right. Man I just didn't know. I should also add that I have no choice but to use tap water or rain water ( we are now collecting rain water ). I'm in the south east tropics and it rains every day at about 4pm. But for now we are using ph corrected tap water. Also getting bottled water to me is to costly.
That brings us to week 3 day 1 mistake # 2 (Ph was first mistake), (or we could call it Sprouts first feeding ). Yes you could say this did not go good. I got the the bottle of fox farm nuts that every body on line said is good stuff for hydro and I am sure it is. But the bottle is a little miss leading in the directions. When it said to use 4 tbls for 1 gal and I cal the cap at 2 caps full = 1 tbls. This is not good. This is for a 1 gal watering can feeding a plant that is in a pot of dirt once or twice a month . Not for a hydro setup at all (Sprouts first feeding should have been 1tsp to the gal. Not 4 tbls).
Week 3 day 3. Seeing some slight yellowing of the very bottom leaves. Humm.
week 3 day 4 Tips of bottom leaves brown and more yellowing. Double Humm.
Week 3 day 5 A 8th of the bottom leaves brown next set of leaves up not looking good. WTF(time to get on line and double check nuts ) holly chit there way off. I am thinking that the reason I didn't see the yellowing sooner is because the ph was so high that the plant was having a hard time getting the nuts in and it was more a ph thing than a nuts thing. We will see.
Week 3 day 6 AC goes down. Temp at 83F. Not good.
At this point I did a full drain, and clean out. I refilled with tap water to do a flush and said a little prayer for Sprout (not really thinking about ph yet). Later that night I start looking around on line and I find your thread. I love what you have done here. I saw that plant you show in some of the first piks and it looked like Sprout. That's why I thought it might be a BS lowryder. But any way when SICC asked what your ph was, and thought it might be the reason for some of your yellowing. I thought I should check mine. Ok I get this ph tester and some ph up and ph down from the pet shop when I get a chance to get to town.
Week 4 day 1 No change. We have a ph test kit. and can ya guise can ya!!! You bet ya 8.0 (AC still down temp at 83 high humid)
At that point I calibrated a 2L soda bottle 3 drops at a time with ph down until it was at a ph just below 6.0 (24 drops of ph down to a 2L soda bottle of tap water), and once again we did a complete water change with ph corrected water, and no nuts.
And that brings us to this very moment in time. Were my and Sprouts weekend has been very stress filled. So I thought I would take a break, sampled a little more of whats left of the cali sweet tooth and let you guys know whats going on
Also wanted to say thx for getting this thread going. You have helped me a ton.
and as always taking any advice you can give to help my little garden grow. Thx guys
Holy crap I just posted this and didn't realize I typed that much. I do find that sweet tooth inspiring. lol
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jazzyvibez
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Hello Everyone, I'm back!!!!
It was good to get away for a week. Me and the ol' lady went to puerto plata in the Dominican Republic and just had some R n R to ourselves. Now, it's back to reality. I've went ahead and posted new pics. The girls are looking wicked!!! That's all I have to say.
Sicc, thanks for having my back while I was gone. =) Gom, I have no problem with you posting on the thread, but as SICC said I hope you read through my entire journal before you write posts in which it already has been addressed. I think you'd get more feedback if you did start your own thread.
Sicc, 420 - lemme know what you guys think. =) peace.
It was good to get away for a week. Me and the ol' lady went to puerto plata in the Dominican Republic and just had some R n R to ourselves. Now, it's back to reality. I've went ahead and posted new pics. The girls are looking wicked!!! That's all I have to say.
Sicc, thanks for having my back while I was gone. =) Gom, I have no problem with you posting on the thread, but as SICC said I hope you read through my entire journal before you write posts in which it already has been addressed. I think you'd get more feedback if you did start your own thread.
Sicc, 420 - lemme know what you guys think. =) peace.
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FYI - It's day 28 of flowering.
jazzyvibez
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Siccc, that was my biggest fear buddy. I made sure to have the resevoir full to capacity before we left. Also fed the girls too to ensure that they'd be fine. When I got back last night, almost all of the water was gone, and there were a few fan leaves that wilted away. Other than that no problem. Watered them and fed them last night. They bounced back well overnight!!
Da420Monkey
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They are looking wonderful! cant wait to see what they look like in a few weeks! they look like there are going to have some real nice fat colas!!! im excited!!!!! lol
BlazedWaffles26
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Just wanted to drop by and say those plants are looking very sweet!!! Gotta love the flowering stage! I love leds! 
jazzyvibez
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Thank you sir. =)Just wanted to drop by and say those plants are looking very sweet!!! Gotta love the flowering stage! I love leds!
jazzyvibez
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Bud Porn Update
Just uploaded some eye candy pics. =)
**All off one 95w LED **
Just uploaded some eye candy pics. =)
**All off one 95w LED **
