Right!...any advice is greatly appreciated. I will say this now, I am a girl, I have been looking into growing my own cannabis for a while now but never seem to have the money. By a miracle I now have pretty much a complete set up!...but I need help! I'd like advice on what I've got and what bullshit I've been told!
My little tent is only 1.2x1.2 but perfect for the space I have. This is my house so I have no issues with keeping it top discreet although I do have visitors so it's kept out of the way! I have a 400w bulb set up with 400w ballast, 4 x 15" clip on fans for circulation and complete extraction set up! Now...is that okay? Completely wrong? My light is at its highest point at the minute, I'm hoping to grow around 4-5 successful plants at a time, is this too ambitious for my space? Should I have less?
My tent when on stays at an average of 25-29c and from what I can gather the humidity or circulation is 31% (RH)? Do I need a separate metre reader for circulation and humidity? I've currently just got a standard max min thermo- hygro? Do I need to up humidity and invest in humidifier? Would that cause problems to my plants being that low?
Now I started my little beauties in a propagator with Rockwell(or what ever they are called please correct me so I can learn!) and popped straight into small 3" pots with coco soil, I water them once pots are placed in the propagator with room temp adjusted pH water(6.0-7.0). But how much should I be watering? I'm worried this is where I go horribly wrong! Should I be adding any nutes at this stage or not? I pop the lid on and close the vent.
I leave in a warm well lit (but not direct light) room. After 3-4 days they sprout..is this too long? About right? After about the 7-8 day they have a couple of little nice sets of sprouting leaves, i start opening the vent around this stage too! I water around the 10 day stage again with room temp adjusted pH water but even then the soil is still damp! Should I be doing it less or more frequently? Once they've established around 8 nice looking sets of leaves I transfer into a larger pot with soil. Should I have some sort of drainage material in bottoms of my pots? Perlite? I find the compost isn't drying out like other posts say it should. Is this where I'm going wrong?
After the 3rd week -4th week I put them in there final pots. And this is where they die. My timers are on 18/6 for the veg stage, I start with canna coco A&B in pH adjusted water, should I adjust pH before and after mixing nutes? Is the pH in the draining water that comes off your plants thats the vital key to what's going on in the soil? I haven't got a decent pH reading kit so what's the best to buy? Uk based possibly?
The nutes I was advised and bought ; canna coco A&B, cannazym, boost accelerator, PK 13/14, and Superthrive.
Should I avoid any of those? Or add any too that? I use coco soil, been reccommended bio bizz is this better? Any better uk makes? Should I invest in perlite or clay for drainage? More fans? Humidifier?
Id really appreciate any help and advice, and if anyone's good at explaining it in lamens terms, I'd love you even more! Please help me identify how much I've got wrong! X
