Chub's First Grow Dr Krippling Incredible Bulk 400w cxb3590

chubylover

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First time grower ,been lurkin for over a year and finaly was able to get some seeds under my light.

got a 5x5x8 space built inside the spare bedroom kinda a homemade tent built with panda film and 2x4s.
Light is 8 cxb3590s running at 50w each.
just finished a month of veg and am switching to flower tonight any input is welcome.

the medium is in 5 gallon air pots and is 1/2 fox farm happy frog and 1/2 ocean forest iv been using big bloom nutes lightly and am wondering if i should be using something else?
 

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chubylover

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little guy on the left is just some freeb seed that's hates anything i do might just get rid of it if the other 4 need the room
 

chubylover

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First week of flower going good turned off the humidifier and its sitting between 35% and 45% temps get to 66 at lights off and anywhere from 73-77 at lights on, feeding one table spoon of big bloom to a gallon of water every other day. each plant gets about a 1/4 gallon a day of water.
 

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Thorhax

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I like the air pots. During the transition from veg to flower mode it's good to steadily feed the plant more and more as it gets bigger. Don't forget that plants need nitrogen.

If you are ONLY using big bloom, you'll be using a lot of it. But it's organic:)
 

chubylover

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ok im going to pick up some grow big(6-4-4) tomorrow and will start feeding with that unless you have a better suggestion im open to anything.
 

littlejacob

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Bonjour
Is it dim+ and dim- wire we can see in the last pic?
You don't use a pots?
It is so easy to add!? And really useful!
You have 5gl of soil and the plants looks very nice...no need nutes atm...maybe a bit before and during stretch...now I would go with humic fulvic and molasses 1/week...nothing more...I never use those soilbags but I heard and read a lot on it and it is full of good things for plants on their own...no need liquid nutes now...just something to feed the soil!
Have you ever tried to add ewc and batguano bloom...it is just what I use (a good soilbag/coco with trichoderma/ewc/perlite vermiculite and batguano bloom (and molasses 1/w) and tap water all along...no ph adjustment...and I have very good results...1.2gpw without any big work...just a mix for bloom!
CU
 

littlejacob

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Molasses give a very sweet taste to weeds...I suspect that some use fruits syrup to increase some weeds taste!
I want to try with a purple pheno who have red fruits taste to water it with red fruits syrup to be sure it will increase taste...but my experience with molasses on a strain I know pretty well...cheese...told me I am right...organic gives better taste and some organic amendments more than others! (Batguano + ewc!)
CU
 

chubylover

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Yea built the light an forgot to order some pots....than got lazy next run I will deffietly install some.

Ok I just bought bat guano ewc and some big bloom in case all else fails. What am I doing with this. Makin a tea? Top dressing? And how much and which one wasn't sure if I wanted high nitrogen or high phosphate or both so I just got it all.

Also was thinkin about making a SoG net but not sure if I should wait a little longer or just do some tie downs .
 

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chubylover

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Almost week two of flower and I'm having a issue with one of my plants the stems are very flimsy and it's dropping a lot did I overwater? Underwater? Not enough nutes? I top dressed with ewc and bat guano Friday and the other 4 plants look happy.
 

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littlejacob

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Bonjour
Don't let your air pot dry too much because of you do it will be very long to moist it again and if the bottom is dry the roots won't appreciate it! And the plant will not grow as she should!
CU
 

chubylover

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Week 3 of 12/12 once again @littlejacob was right my pots were to dry I have been watering much more now and they are doing great. I bought a ph meter over the weekend and realized my water is about 7.6ph so I will pick up some ph down tommorw and keep my water at about 5.5 to balance out the soil hopefully I didn't damage it permenarly.
I also started lst all the branches and it really opened up the plant and the inner braces are loving it the air pot makes it very easy to tie branches down

@REALSTYLES how big where your bud on the third week of flower? they seem a little small as I look at other grows of incredible bulk at this stage.
 

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REALSTYLES

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Week 3 of 12/12 once again @littlejacob was right my pots were to dry I have been watering much more now and they are doing great. I bought a ph meter over the weekend and realized my water is about 7.6ph so I will pick up some ph down tommorw and keep my water at about 5.5 to balance out the soil hopefully I didn't damage it permenarly.
I also started lst all the branches and it really opened up the plant and the inner braces are loving it the air pot makes it very easy to tie branches down

@REALSTYLES how big where your bud on the third week of flower? they seem a little small as I look at other grows of incredible bulk at this stage.
The difference is I don't veg for 2 months only 3-4 weeks. I can't tell you how big they should be because everyone grows differently
 

chubylover

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Week 4 of flower an the buds are looking nice been top dressing with bat guano and using 1tbls of fox farm grow big per gallon of water every other feeding. no signs of nute burn or any yellowing of leaves so it seems everything is going well. i was wondering if i needed to start adding something higher in the PK side to help with bud growth or if i should just let it be for now.
 

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littlejacob

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Bonjour
What kind of nute is grow big?
Look very nice!
How many week of bloom breeder say? (We all know they give you the fastest pheno flowering time and just ready to.smoke...maybe less than 10% amber...I like it with 30/40% amber!)
Have a great bloom
 
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