Ready For The Boom:)

GreenBean 420 said:

I was gunna say they'll prolly be fine. Can't you also water till runoff. Let them drain a bit, then put some water in the catch bin under it as well to be taken up as needed? Or is that too risky?
Ps they look so sick haha

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Drain pan water could get nasty. I could though, I don't worry as much, cuz I have a drainage layer of GrowiT Clay Pebbles as high as the drain holes. I think of it as Base Air Pruning.

Underground Scientist said:

Drain pan water could get nasty. I could though, I don't worry as much, cuz I have a drainage layer of GrowiT Clay Pebbles as high as the drain holes. I think of it as Base Air Pruning.

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Nice! I put an inch or so layer of growstone at the bottom of my pot! Seems to be working. I let the girls go without watering yesterday and today to hold out for my ful-humix to show up in the mail today. They seem fine, trichs are showing up quickly now!. Going to drown their asses tonight hahaha

Day 40 NorthernSkunk Veg: 2 of 4 confirmed female Now I just need my clone buckets to free up so I can take a few clones and Transplant & Bloom these:

Day 10 of first set of SB1 clones, root nubs building big time, by day 14 will be exploded and ready for Transplant. I need more room in Veg!

3 weeks into flower, signs of toxicity, I had precharged the media and fed once after Transplant. Fed Calmag Plus, Bud Candy, and Bud Ignitor after that. This feeding was :

1 gal RO Water
2 ml Calmag Plus
2 ml B-52
8 ml Big Bud

PPM 333

Watered to mild runoff.

Hoping to weaken toxicity.


The center plant, entering week 8:

150 ppm Epsom Salt
6 ml Bud Candy
4 ml Overdrive

About 300 ppm. Ramping towards flush.

I think my addition of 1 cup/gal of Ancient Forest to 1 gallon of the Sunshine Advanced #4 is too rich. It's holding water too well. Plants are darker looking than the lime green in previous, but the early leaf twist is still there.

So here is Day 15 of 2 KushBerry and 1 SweetSkunk:



Note the dark green leaves which contrast my lime green in earlier days. I see some overly dark areas, which could be a little magnesium, nitrogen excess. First time adding Azomite, and I precharge with CalMag Plus. Do you see the leaf twist/ripple? Same issue I've had early in growth since day 1. Someone mentioned tiering Calmag, CaliMagic, Botanicare, Advanced Nutrients, then ramp back down to bloom. They vary in Nitrogen, 1; 2; 4; maybe, I guess it matters how much Calmag you need. I struggle from my soil being part coir, but I like it though. You can evenly water and not get waterlogged like pure peat.

Clones Day 12, they need to come out of the pots:

2 KushBerry topped, need a few more days for SweetSkunk. Those 3 and SB3 clone fed to 30% runoff:

1 gallon RO water
3 ml Botanicare Calmag Plus
4 ml Advanced Nutrients B-52
2 ml General Hydroponics Micro
2 ml General Hydroponics Grow
1.5 ml General Hydroponics Bloom
4 ml Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy
Total PPM 530, PH 6.0

Transplanting the NortherSkunks, have to back down a pot size due to space limits:

Sunshine Advanced #4
1/2 cup Ancient Forest Alaskan Humus
2 Tbsp Extreme Gardening Mykos
2 Tbsp Root Naturally Azomite
RO Water, following nutes are per gal
3 ml Botanicare Calmag Plus
2 ml General Hydroponics Micro
1.5 ml General Hydroponics Grow
2 ml General Hydroponics Bloom
2 ml Advanced Nutrients Bud Ignitor
4 ml Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy
500 ppm mix, pH 6.0

She was root bound:



Drainage Layer:

Bloom is Officially Full!

4 - SB1 Clones Transplanted:



Sunshine Advanced #4
1/4 cup Ancient Forest
1 Tbsp Root Naturally Azomite
1/2 Tbsp Extreme Gardening Mykos
1/2 Tbsp Extreme Gardening Azos
RO Water, following nutes are per gal
3 ml Botanicare Calmag Plus
4 ml Advanced Nutrients B-52
1/2 ml General Hydroponics Micro
1/2 ml General Hydroponics Grow
1/2 ml General Hydroponics Bloom
4 ml Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy
Total PPM 300, pH 6.0

It looks like a bomb went off in the grow room.

Grow Room cleaned back up and pulled a clone off each NorthernSkunk, which will be NS3 & NS4. The stems on those will make your fingers smell just like skunk piss. Now time for a drink...

I have the impression that the Veg LEDs we're maybe a bit much, so I dialed them back by turning off the Bloom Switches. I intially left them on because 204 watts didn't seem like much coming from 400w MH, and I lose about 35 watts each when I turn Bloom off. I'll be monitoring for stretch. I have noticed new growth was often reddish/purplish when it intially emerged. I was adding fair amounts of Mag. If I dial these back and that diminishes, I'll know the light was too intense. I have not found the optimum conditions yet, but I have always maintained tight internode spacing and decent growth rates.

I ordered a 2x4 tent. Maybe because I feel like I don't have enough space, and maybe because I'm reading the Entire GrowErr Grows Thread.

Underground Scientist said:

I ordered a 2x4 tent. Maybe because I feel like I don't have enough space, and maybe because I'm reading the Entire GrowErr Grows Thread.

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4x4 tent is the way to go man

ThatSpudGuy said:

4x4 tent is the way to go man

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haha, I have a 3x5, a 2x2, and a 1x2. Need 1 more space at least.

I think I need photography lessons from GreenBean

Underground Scientist said:

I think I need photography lessons from GreenBean

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Looks nice man