AUTOMATIC AK - First grow - Indoor

TopDogTHC

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4x Feminised AUTOMATIC AK from Gorilla Seeds.

Black Orchid 80X80X160cm tent
4" Fan & Filter Kit With Carbon Filter
400w Lighting kit - Multi spectrum HPS bulb - Traditional barn reflector
6" Clip on desk fan
Hygrometer

Soil/Medium - Westland muti purpose compost

Fertiliser - 1L Ionic soil grow > 1L Ionic soil bloom > 300ML Ionic PK boost.

Watering with tap water which has stood for 24-48 hours.

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Germination
4th Nov - Put 4 seeds into damp cloth and put inside a sealey bag and put somewhere dark and warm. Seeds popped within 48 hours.

Planting
6th Nov - Planted popped seeds a few mm down into 8" pots with an already moist soil medium and covered lightly.

Seedling
8th Nov - All 4 pushed through medium, two had seed shell stuck on first leafs so just eased them off lightly which opened them up properly. Started lighting at 39" and 18/6. Two seedlings noticeably smaller.

10th Nov - First water. All seedlings a few inches tall. Lowered light to 30" as advised in newbie forum.

Pics to follow.... Awaiting on phone repair.
 

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11th Nov - Second nodes starting to develop. Still two plants noticeably smaller. Pics to follow on Friday.

I run the light 00.00 until 18.00 then dark 18.00 til 24.00. My reason is its cold here in the uk when the sun goes down and my heating is on until 01.00ish so the plants will be kept warm from the heating while in the dark, And the grow tent should have warmed back up nicely by the time the heating goes back off.
 
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14th November - 6 days since sprouting. Two still much further in front and have really picked up the last few days. All look healthy and nice consistant colour. Had 3rd water today, took around 300ml each. Seem to be drying out quickly, would assume that's due to heat from the light. Have started running fan on lights on cycle , don't want it to get to cold while off. Hoping to get pictures in next few days.
 
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What age are those? I got sent a 12" instead of a 6". I will be moving the fan soon, it does help thicken the stems. But just going off what I've been told lol.
 
SativaSumo

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TopDogTHC said:
What age are those? I got sent a 12" instead of a 6". I will be moving the fan soon, it does help thicken the stems. But just going off what I've been told lol.
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Third week. I think they should be a little bigger, but I had some issues with the system and several of the net pots completely dried out!! Yeah, they look MUCH better than they did last week. :):)
 
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16th Nov (Day 9 Seedling) - Had another water. Around 300ml again each with no nutrients. Put a jug of water in to raise humidity cause it was low. Temp also a bit high but seem to be growing fine apart from slight curving of bottom set of leaves. Which could be because of it being to hot so I'm going to try bring the temp down and see if that helps.

Also found out they are Autoflowering. I don't think it was clear on the seed info but I don't know all the lingo so may have missed something. Noticed it in time though. Going to transplant to bigger pots tomorrow (10L/2.2Gallon), which is what autoflowers should be in from germinating.
 

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TopDogTHC said:
Mines 9th day of seedling today. Gunna get a few more pics when lights go back on. Just read your journal, looks good. Wish you luck!
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Thanks man, super stoked to be starting this journey. :) And very thankful for resources like RIU and the great peeps who are guiding me through this.
 
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17th Nov (Day 10 Seedling) - Struggling with humidity. It's dropping as low as 22% and only going as high as 30% after misting. Added another bowl of water. May have to get a humidifier on the weekend if I can't find a solution. Needs sorting before vegging. Managed to get temp down to 30C so will continue to monitor the slight curving.

They are really starting to pick up now. There are still two much further in front but the others have progressed well the past 24 hours.

Decided to transplant them tomorrow instead so I can pre-water the soil in the new bigger pots. Pics to follow transplant.
 
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17th Nov (Day 10 Seedling) - Decided to transplant tonight instead. Transplanted to 10L pots. Had the original pots with plants in sat in new pots so the hole size was perfect. No messing around taking them in and out. Did it quickly and they stayed together, no crumbling. Could see the roots on the two biggest plants. Gentle pat down then gave them a little water with 1/8 of the recommended amount of IONIC grow in. Hopefully they recover quickly. Also rearranged tent slightly, moved fan in front of a vent and pushed pots and light towards the back. Humidity is much higher with those pots in. Will check for next few hours to see what it sits steady at.

 

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19th Nov (Day 12 Seedling) - Had to drop tent and hide everything under the bed as the landlord was round for an inspection. They were out of light for about an hour. Not much progress growth wise, Expecting it to be slow after transplant and hiding, they have grown a little bit though. Still struggling to keep temps down, Decided to leave zip door open to help. If leaves stop curling at least I know the cause is heat stress.
 
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Be careful, when you are in flowering and your landlord comes through you will have a harder time hiding it. If you switch the carbon filter off then the smell CAN become very very very strong. I am talking smell it down the street from your house strong.
 
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Siino Gardens said:
Be careful, when you are in flowering and your landlord comes through you will have a harder time hiding it. If you switch the carbon filter off then the smell CAN become very very very strong. I am talking smell it down the street from your house strong.
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I was thinking about this earlier, He will be back in 3 months , so this grow will be complete. But what would be the best course of action if I was say mid veg or mid flower? I imagine even with the carbon filter the house will still smell so how early would I have to get them out to let the house air out?

I'd hate to have to wait another two months after completing this to get started again. I think I could possibly get another in if I start mid December, the seeds I've ordered are not autos tho. I could probably re home them for a week but is it worth the stress on plants and risk of being spotted by a neighbour? I just dunno. If I have to wait I'll wait. But I just want to keep on going! Haha.
 
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TopDogTHC said:
I was thinking about this earlier, He will be back in 3 months , so this grow will be complete. But what would be the best course of action if I was say mid veg or mid flower? I imagine even with the carbon filter the house will still smell so how early would I have to get them out to let the house air out?

I'd hate to have to wait another two months after completing this to get started again. I think I could possibly get another in if I start mid December, the seeds I've ordered are not autos tho. I could probably re home them for a week but is it worth the stress on plants and risk of being spotted by a neighbour? I just dunno. If I have to wait I'll wait. But I just want to keep on going! Haha.
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You are going to need to assess the risk of the situation at the time and proceed with extreme caution. If you are transferring plants from one home to another (which I don't recommend due to bugs/disease/stress that might ensue) take them late enough in the day that you won't get caught up by the neighbors. You can throw a black garbage bag over them and usually no one will stop you on the road. Not sure how it will be for your ladies on the other end.

I also don't recommend taking it outside as your landlord will walk up to the house and most likely take a nice whiff of some dank. Renting is a real shitty way to grow, I been there done that. You are just going to have to make a decision when the time comes and maybe if you have a place to hide the whole tent you could throw that baby outside and close up ALL the holes on it. But you better go give them air the second he leaves :P.

Sorry man I am not a master of moving plants around, I can tell you that a ziplock bag will suffice for transporting clones though.
 
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