AkFrost
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Hi all, new member here. This is going to be my first grow journal. The strains I'm going to grow are Nirvana's AK48 and Sensi Seeds Northen lights. Both are the feminized versions from seed and have already been grown from seed. The plants In this grow are clones from the first run I did with them. Plants are just over a month and half old and are happy as can be. I will be growing them in granulated rockwool this time. Last time around it was 2 plants in soil and 2 plants in Rockwool under a 600w SolisTek. So let's start with the Rockwool. I put the rockwool in a netting that is inside a three gal pot. Then I put the netting/ media in a five gal bucket of water that has a ph of 5.5 and let it soak for about 8hrs. The netting helps keep it manageable when it go's in and out of the water. After it's done soaking I flush it with the same amount of water as the pot size (3gal). The water I flush it with has a ph of 5.5 and has my veg nutrients already added to it. After that I consider the Rockwool ready. I had the plants in small pots and have just transplanted two of them (AK-4
into #2 pots. Transplanting in Rockwool is easy and pot size is important! The plant needs to be able to drink a lot of the water in the pot within a day (After watering the pot it needs to be noticeable lighter before the next watering). If it's not, then your pot size is too big and plant growth slows down and other issues come along with it. I used to grow in the 4x4 inch Rockwool cubes on a recirculating DIY flood table a long time ago and have been experimenting with larger pots thanks to the Captn from the dudegrows show website. I have gotten a lot of pointers from the Captn and his forums. I have also been trying out different feeding schedules to find one that works best just using mainly base nutrients from GH flora series. I also use liquid Koolbloom and Recharge. This time around kinda like the last. I will be using a feeding schedule from the growweedeasy website that's just a little tweeked to make it easier to measure out. It is as follows 3ml of each micro, grow, and bloom per gal of water. When I water I pretty much flush them every day (LOTS of runoff). Then I give them about 4oz of recharge every other day at the base of the stock after feeding. The ppm is about 400/ EC 0.8. I keep the PH around 5.8-6.0 and try not to be too OCD about it. My plants are on a DIY table with about a 15gal res under it. The res has an air stone in there to help keep anything unwanted at bay. The plants in veg are under 8x56w florescent t5 fixture. I have been topping my plants frequently to get as many tops as possible. I consider myself a noob at growing again since it has been so long since I have grown and what was tought to me was wrong in quit a few ways. Amazingly I had really good success in the past due to what I will call an epic strain I wish I could get back. I've done a lot of reading in the last year for more knowledge and it never seems to stop. So if you have any, please just spit it out as I have an open mind and will apply it. If I see fit. Next time I'll post pics of the the plants I'm getting ready to put into 12/12 and here are the ones that are finishing up. Hopefully they are a fatter next time.
Thanks for joining me if you do. Talk to ya later.
into #2 pots. Transplanting in Rockwool is easy and pot size is important! The plant needs to be able to drink a lot of the water in the pot within a day (After watering the pot it needs to be noticeable lighter before the next watering). If it's not, then your pot size is too big and plant growth slows down and other issues come along with it. I used to grow in the 4x4 inch Rockwool cubes on a recirculating DIY flood table a long time ago and have been experimenting with larger pots thanks to the Captn from the dudegrows show website. I have gotten a lot of pointers from the Captn and his forums. I have also been trying out different feeding schedules to find one that works best just using mainly base nutrients from GH flora series. I also use liquid Koolbloom and Recharge. This time around kinda like the last. I will be using a feeding schedule from the growweedeasy website that's just a little tweeked to make it easier to measure out. It is as follows 3ml of each micro, grow, and bloom per gal of water. When I water I pretty much flush them every day (LOTS of runoff). Then I give them about 4oz of recharge every other day at the base of the stock after feeding. The ppm is about 400/ EC 0.8. I keep the PH around 5.8-6.0 and try not to be too OCD about it. My plants are on a DIY table with about a 15gal res under it. The res has an air stone in there to help keep anything unwanted at bay. The plants in veg are under 8x56w florescent t5 fixture. I have been topping my plants frequently to get as many tops as possible. I consider myself a noob at growing again since it has been so long since I have grown and what was tought to me was wrong in quit a few ways. Amazingly I had really good success in the past due to what I will call an epic strain I wish I could get back. I've done a lot of reading in the last year for more knowledge and it never seems to stop. So if you have any, please just spit it out as I have an open mind and will apply it. If I see fit. Next time I'll post pics of the the plants I'm getting ready to put into 12/12 and here are the ones that are finishing up. Hopefully they are a fatter next time. Thanks for joining me if you do. Talk to ya later.
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