First grow, one month in, how does it look?

[tems]

This is my flower set up.

I have a air stone and heater for the reservoir once I start using it,

I noticed your doing the mr green method. Good method but could be better. Your flowering beds would be much better off in 5"-6" individual pots filled with hydroton. Mobility to move plants around under the light is important. If you plant right into it the medium your going to have to see it thru as is.

Also becareful with the res heater. As a first timer a sanitary reservoir is a must. Extra heat may not be necessary for the roots.

 

[brainfart]

I noticed your doing the mr green method. Good method but could be better. Your flowering beds would be much better off in 5"-6" individual pots filled with hydroton. Mobility to move plants around under the light is important. If you plant right into it the medium your going to have to see it thru as is.

Also becareful with the res heater. As a first timer a sanitary reservoir is a must. Extra heat may not be necessary for the roots.

Hehe, yeah its the mr green method. When you say individual pots do you mean still using ebb and flow and just use a lot more water to fill the tray since there wont be grow medium taking up space?

The heater is because the room is in a basement and even though I keep a heater in the room the water gets down to the 50s-60s, so I was going to use a aquarium heater to keep it in the 70s, does that sound good to you?

 

[smokedup12]

Yah lots of algae on that Rockwool i would get that looked at

 

[AquafinaOrbit]

Your plant will be fine either way, but I would say it probably needed another week or so before it was given 75%. (Larger the plant the more nutrients it can obviously uptake) Also no, generally shock like that is not from the fact that it's suddenly getting more but more from the fact that its suddenly getting to much. So whether you eased the plant that 25% or just did the change all at once it would probably be showing the same results.

 

[brainfart]

Yah lots of algae on that Rockwool i would get that looked at

Several people have mentioned that but I have been told that the algae would not hurt anything so I haven't bothered to mess with it.... do I have bad info about that?

 

[brainfart]

Your plant will be fine either way, but I would say it probably needed another week or so before it was given 75%. (Larger the plant the more nutrients it can obviously uptake) Also no, generally shock like that is not from the fact that it's suddenly getting more but more from the fact that its suddenly getting to much. So whether you eased the plant that 25% or just did the change all at once it would probably be showing the same results.

righto. another quesion, I know that the low humidity in my room is hurting the plants.. before I tell you what its at, what would you consider too low?

 

[AquafinaOrbit]

Depends completely on the strain. I have some Thia skunk and Pineapple going in the same room(Vegging) with the humidity hovering around 30-35% and the Pineapple looks great but the Thia was showing some severe signs of perspiration stress. It's good though IMO to find what humidity level does stress the plant because in flowering you want the humidity pretty close to that point without crossing it so the plants resin glands are forced to do extra work trying to protect the plant. (That's of course based on the theory that humidity stress can cause that, but as with most things in this hobby/prof the argument goes both ways.)

 

[smokedup12]

"you have lots of algae, it is much wetter than your plants' roots need. This would explain slow growth. The algae won't be able to use up all the food and oxygen your roots need, but the excess water will displace the oxygen from the rockwool cubes, leading to root diseases." Quote from other post.

when you get the chance rip that rockwool very carfully completly off. The last thing you want is algea on your roots killing your plants. Next time you must completely cover the rockwool (shaded from light) or it will algea up again.