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Ok this is try 2. First plant was a boy and had to go today. but that's ok because I did it all wrong, and it showed in the plant.
I am new to the Aerogarden myself. I just started my first test grow in a Aerogarden. I am trying 1 plant (blue streak hybrid) in the center front spot. I put golf balls over the other holes to block the light from the roots, and I am using fox farm nuts (I have done a lot of homework on nuts and everybody likes FF nuts for hydro). But like I said I am just getting started, and I need to get through my first test grow. I would like to take this plant to full term in the Aerogarden if I can. The goal is to get 3 plants to go 4 to 5 weeks in the Aerogarden then transplant to a small booth (booth not done yet need $$ for parts) till harvest (space is very limited and so is the budget). I am pretty focused on the auto flowering hybrids (most running 12 week life, 6 week growth, and 6 week flower) and will be using fem'ed seeds when I can.
Let me start with setup. I have a pro 100 with a small fan on 1 side (very lightly fanning the plant leaves with air),A "GlowPanal" LED light panel on the other side (fan and LED's switch sides every 24 hour),and AG hood at lowest setting. The blue streak hybrid is only a 2.5ft plant. I should say at this point I had not done much research on line (just for nuts ), and hadn't put much thought into ph. A plant needs water, light ,and air "bingo" your good to go right. Man I just didn't know. I should also add that I have no choice but to use tap water or rain water ( we are now collecting rain water ). I'm in the south east tropics. We have high humid and it rains every day at about 4pm. But for now we are using ph corrected tap water. We are trying to Keep it just below 6.0 Also getting bottled water to me is to costly. I was able to get a ph test kit at a pet shop the other day. It came with ph up and ph down. I calibrated a 2L soda bottle 3 drops at a time with ph down until it was at a ph just below 6.0 (24 drops of ph down to a 2L soda bottle of tap water), and tests show this is repeatable. So I can say the tap water is consistent. We can also assume that I have learned my lesson on the amount of consideration that should be placed on ph as this is take 2. Like I said that first plant looked like shit at the end. As far as nuts go this time. I was thinking 1 cap full of FF big bloom at 2 weeks. Then increase later. I know 2 caps = 1 tbls. So that's the set up
week 0 day 1;
Clean and fill AG with ph corrected tap water. Put golf balls in place, and 1 AG basket with grow sponge in the center front spot. I let the sponge get wet. the sponge has a small cupped out middle. So I pocked a toothpick down in a little ways and put a seed in point down with the top of the seed flush with the bottom of the cupped out middle. Here we go. May luck be a lady tonight
I am new to the Aerogarden myself. I just started my first test grow in a Aerogarden. I am trying 1 plant (blue streak hybrid) in the center front spot. I put golf balls over the other holes to block the light from the roots, and I am using fox farm nuts (I have done a lot of homework on nuts and everybody likes FF nuts for hydro). But like I said I am just getting started, and I need to get through my first test grow. I would like to take this plant to full term in the Aerogarden if I can. The goal is to get 3 plants to go 4 to 5 weeks in the Aerogarden then transplant to a small booth (booth not done yet need $$ for parts) till harvest (space is very limited and so is the budget). I am pretty focused on the auto flowering hybrids (most running 12 week life, 6 week growth, and 6 week flower) and will be using fem'ed seeds when I can.
Let me start with setup. I have a pro 100 with a small fan on 1 side (very lightly fanning the plant leaves with air),A "GlowPanal" LED light panel on the other side (fan and LED's switch sides every 24 hour),and AG hood at lowest setting. The blue streak hybrid is only a 2.5ft plant. I should say at this point I had not done much research on line (just for nuts ), and hadn't put much thought into ph. A plant needs water, light ,and air "bingo" your good to go right. Man I just didn't know. I should also add that I have no choice but to use tap water or rain water ( we are now collecting rain water ). I'm in the south east tropics. We have high humid and it rains every day at about 4pm. But for now we are using ph corrected tap water. We are trying to Keep it just below 6.0 Also getting bottled water to me is to costly. I was able to get a ph test kit at a pet shop the other day. It came with ph up and ph down. I calibrated a 2L soda bottle 3 drops at a time with ph down until it was at a ph just below 6.0 (24 drops of ph down to a 2L soda bottle of tap water), and tests show this is repeatable. So I can say the tap water is consistent. We can also assume that I have learned my lesson on the amount of consideration that should be placed on ph as this is take 2. Like I said that first plant looked like shit at the end. As far as nuts go this time. I was thinking 1 cap full of FF big bloom at 2 weeks. Then increase later. I know 2 caps = 1 tbls. So that's the set up
week 0 day 1;
Clean and fill AG with ph corrected tap water. Put golf balls in place, and 1 AG basket with grow sponge in the center front spot. I let the sponge get wet. the sponge has a small cupped out middle. So I pocked a toothpick down in a little ways and put a seed in point down with the top of the seed flush with the bottom of the cupped out middle. Here we go. May luck be a lady tonight
LOL That's ok though. The two I'm gettin are 28W each. I should have a ton of light, and I should have it coming from all sides. Hope its enough
