AutoGrow Journal: Northern Lights - In & Outdoor

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JxAxG

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So I made my first thread upon this forum section about insight on buying seeds, at the last minute I decided Nirvana, which has now shipped my seeds today from email confirmation. There won't be much on this first post as the seeds have not arrived.

I bout 10 of em. Will have 4 outdoors and 2 indoors ( maybe 1 indoors ) we shall see.

Day of confirmation seeds have been scent:

Hiked out through thick dense 50 acres I own to my spot and dug 4 holes 3 feet wide x 4 feet deep in the right type of hidden manner. The holes had some treats mixed in with the soil, some goat crap, chopped up bannana peels and a handful of worms to the time need for a natural compost to occur while I await.

Next I will get the seeds germ put them in the clear cups wait til 8 nodes then transplant them into there outdoors home, then I will begin my indoors one or two in a 3 gallon pot with just a little extra perlite added into the mix. Will germ and drop str8 up instead of doing the node growth in the cup first.

Hopefully ( knocking on wood ) my seeds indeed get here and germ with all that, you will get a straight up guide and journal and hopefully some good yeild. I will not get fancy what I have said I have is what I will use, more natural grow, the only nutes i will use is a lite mixture of molasses that will be adjusted as the plants grow.

Say a pray my brothas that I at least get the seeds. These next 2-3 weeks will prolly feel like 2-3 months. Peace!
 
lowblower

lowblower

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shit man thats some big holes for some autos :/ will be interesting to see ur results !! gd luck !
 
J

JxAxG

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I have a natural spring loaded property, so my process is to make the hole deep cause at 4 feet you strike bright pure aquifer white sand and the spring drips water as with my other plants although they do not have to be that deep it creates it's own bottom level watering system it's actually a huge advantage IMO during droughts and have always my outdoor plants explode with huge trunks. The land is mostly hard hard clay so it's basically a natural pot. So just to be safe I make there will be enough dark soil so the roots are not forced to have fight through rock hard clay.


It never failed me yet, and hopefully it will not fail m now. We shall see. :)
 
J

JxAxG

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Journal Entry: Day 1:

Ordered seeds from Nirvana on 5/01 got here at my amazement on 5/10 I truly did not believe they would get here that quickly many props to Nirvana and will be placing many more orders from them.

So the seeds in the picture, got 10 but only germing the 4 were started on 5/10 in 27 minutes it will be 24 hours since they were put into the papertowel, I'm kinda nervous cause I never did auto'sView attachment 2162944...Germkit bottle...View attachment 2165876View attachment 2162945
 
J

JxAxG

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Journal Entry : Day 3

All 4 seeds have germinated. I decided to leave 2 in the incubator, and the other put in these 2 liter container's instead of the small cups. I gently put the tip in and brushed gently a bit of PM on top and misted it with water and shut the lights off.



Very surprised how strong the seed actually busted out overnight. Here are the pictures.

I will update after others are in soil! :)



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J

JxAxG

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Journal Entry: Day 4

All 4 germinated as said before, and all are in soil the small cup on the left will be going outdoors as well as the other one of the left. The two on the right are going to be indoors and already have a strong green false leaf starting to show through the seed shell. This will be my last update until a few nodes grow, feel free to comment or offer tips of your own. Peace...

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lowblower

lowblower

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JxAxG said:
I have a natural spring loaded property, so my process is to make the hole deep cause at 4 feet you strike bright pure aquifer white sand and the spring drips water as with my other plants although they do not have to be that deep it creates it's own bottom level watering system it's actually a huge advantage IMO during droughts and have always my outdoor plants explode with huge trunks. The land is mostly hard hard clay so it's basically a natural pot. So just to be safe I make there will be enough dark soil so the roots are not forced to have fight through rock hard clay.


It never failed me yet, and hopefully it will not fail m now. We shall see. :)
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that sounds like the perfect set up man, i wish i knew where some natural springs were around here, but it seems every place i scout for a guerilla grow i find a tramp there :( the 4 foot deep soil dnt sound too bad after all as long as ur able to watter mayb once or twice with a few ggallons :/ put loads perlite in there and mix sum sand in mayb. gd luck keep posted
 
J

JxAxG

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Yeah It's not that deep I measure it it's more like 3 feet, I put rocks in the sands and keeps the bottom moist so I dont have to water alot. The peaches that grow near are and juicy. Makes me think of that song '' move into the country, gonna eat alot of peaches'' lol.

BTW all 4 have now sprouted their false leaves from packaged seed to soil in 5-6 days give or take hours. You guys were right abou Nirvana when I read on it, strong healthy seeds.

edit: I had to add before someone brings it up about rain and flooding and the spring flooding my plants, the cool part is I am on the upper level where everything flow downhill. Nothing ever floods. I will show you later what I mean, where on the botton, I take 1 shovel full of dirt and the hole fills with clean cold water instantly.

I have a Sony HDR-SR11 Camcorder and a Fujifilm finepix z90 so there will be quality pictures this time compared to my first grow in the link below.

Also, I may just put 1 outdoors, I want to watch over these ladies.
 
lowblower

lowblower

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haha yeah i got protective over my proposed outdoor grow and i suddenly had 16 orphans in my closet (sounds dodgy) but had to get rid of most of them coz of space (durr *slaps forehead*) and now jus got 5 in there, which would have been bigger if they hadnt spent the first 5 weeks of their life striggling for space and light.
anyways, u could put two out just incase one dies of something else like bugs etc coz then ur more likely to find out if they work. theres always next year, plus all winter indoors. hope all goes well
 
J

JxAxG

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Well day 6 or 7 tragedy strikes. I used the composted dirt pile out back but now I have lost 3 of my plants cause of snails/little worms. I wanted to try the straight from seed like alot suggests to do and 1 was ate completely out by the worm and just left the shell, the other 2 I woke up and found little snails on the stalk and when I removed them the babies had little holes where it drained out all it's life.

So I immediately went and got some bag soil and perlite and got the of babie out very carefully and saved it, so I only have 1 plant going now.

I germinated or trying to germinate 2 more seeds which if successfull I will have a total of 3 plants and will be down to only 4 seeds left. So lesson learned, will never use the straight seed to soil method again, and learned to check my soil religiously from here on out.

My day is ruined, I hope the seeds germinate successfully so next post will be brighters.

God damn snail and worms, arghh!
 
lowblower

lowblower

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if u dont mind poisoning them then u can get organic slug pellets made of iron phosphate or something that breaks down on the soil (that was a complete guess). or you can just use a 1-2 foot perimeter of fine sand, so the snails n slugs cant slide on it. i would try the sand technique first. plus with the sand ur less likely to get fungus gnat later on too, coz they live in moist soil round the main rootball (and they dry out when theres 2cm sand round the base of the plant). id use a combination of the two if ur really got a bad problem with them. or use a beer trap or something. anyways shame bout ur grow but live n learn. its not impossible to doan outdoor grow with slug n snail pests but u just have to b prepared with defences from the start if u wanna b safe. all the best for the one u got left
 
J

JxAxG

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lowblower said:
if u dont mind poisoning them then u can get organic slug pellets made of iron phosphate or something that breaks down on the soil (that was a complete guess). or you can just use a 1-2 foot perimeter of fine sand, so the snails n slugs cant slide on it. i would try the sand technique first. plus with the sand ur less likely to get fungus gnat later on too, coz they live in moist soil round the main rootball (and they dry out when theres 2cm sand round the base of the plant). id use a combination of the two if ur really got a bad problem with them. or use a beer trap or something. anyways shame bout ur grow but live n learn. its not impossible to doan outdoor grow with slug n snail pests but u just have to b prepared with defences from the start if u wanna b safe. all the best for the one u got left
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It's a non issue now, i lost those first plants the snail ate a hole into the stalks on my first four so I went and bought some new soil and perlite and the pictures above are the 2 above are the new ones I started in the new snail and worm free soil and perlite. I'm not going to add anything to these plants until they get 4-5 nodes high, may even wait until 6-7 we shall see.
 
MDEVA

MDEVA

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I was interested in this thread, and just stopped by to check it out. NO UPDATES? :( How's things going for your girls? I hope all is well. My condolences... I really hate to hear that some greedy snail sucked the life out of your baby girls that were outside. Hopefully the change of soil & location fixes those issues for you. Please let me know how the indoor girls are doing - I would like to see them. I have some Fem. Northern Lights Auto beans from Nirvana that I haven't started yet... right now just have 2 Short Riders, and a Bubblelicious under the light. Good luck buddy... Keep 'em Green!
 
808killahz

808killahz

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When putting seeds or seedlings outdoors place a clear cup over it til it gets a little bigger. Drill a small hole at the bottom of the cup for ventilation. This provides some protection against snail and slugs. Good luck on your grow!
 
J

JxAxG

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Thanks + rep. I have one outdoors, just put in yesterday I will have to do that! Now I have 2 small ones going and one really getting some ass behind it.
 
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