Auto Assasin Hempy Grow under 250watt cfl

This is my second Grow the first was a G-Force grow that was heavily LST'd and grown in soil.

This grow i'm experimenting and trying out growing in Hempy buckets using 1/4 vermiculite 3/4 perlite.

I have some free Auto Assasin seeds from Dope Seeds, and are currently germinating 2 in rockwool, i had them soaking in water first for 24 hrs both have cracked so hopefully they'll both come up. 48 hrs in the cubes now.

Also growing G13 x Haze but planted 2 seeds to grow into mothers and then 9 plant SOG they can veg while i grow out the autos.

Since my last grow i've upgraded my extraction system, had to tho as killed my bathroom extractor not designed for 24hr use.

I have bought a systemair rvk100 much better, moves more air and is quiet only bad point is physically larger but will cope, comes with nice metal mounting bracket which is good. Air will be drawn from top of my closet down to the fan then out through a new channel i've built on the wall before going through the wall, this channel gives me about 1.5metre length of duct to allow the sound of the fan to be disguised, at least i hope, otherwise fan would go straight out from the fan, people say you need a length about 2 metres to smooth out the flow making it quieter, mine also gets bigger than a 100 mm duct pipe, so should help.

The grow room is also going to be lined with reflective insulation to reflect the light, was last time just flat white. As i have a 250watt cfl i'm not worried about any hot spots as not bright enough to burn the plants, compared to big hps type lights. hoping it will help reflect the lights lower down the plants.

No plans on changing anything else at the moment, except maybe investing in a thermostatic fan controller depends on the temps while lights on.

1 seed has come up and first set off leaves are open and now under my led lights at mo, as they are cooler. Had to go out and buy some vermiculite as when checking found the tap root was coming out the bottom of the 1inch rockwool cube so as not able to get to the local grow shop till weekend have moved the cubes into 330ml plastic cups and made them into little hempy pots 75% perlite 25% vermiculite, B & Q expensive for very small amount bought need lots more for rest of grow.

Have planted another seed in rockwool the one that hasn't come up hasn't even cracked so prob a dud. Put the rockwool cube straight into one of the hempy cups so as that way don't need to disturb the seedling when it comes up, hopefully.

Just put my cfl back in and turned her on put the 6500k bulb in but lifted the light to the top of the closet don't want to upset them, also fitted my extractor and turned it on, as it's a new fan and setup am running the fan for an hour and then checking the temps hopefully i'll be able to put the light on a timer 15mins on 15mins off, this new fan def moves much more air than previous one, and at mo she's sucking air direct from the reflector.

Hoping to get some pics up soon, will take some when testing temps in an hour.

Picture of the setup as yesterday, only 1 auto assasin in shot new seed is under the fan with a cover over the top of the pot



Had fun today thought i'd lost my last AA AS looked as if the leaves were all dried up, had to go to work so just moved her to the side where there was less light. home from work checked her again still signs of green then realised she still had the clear plastic type cover on her from inside the seed casing, so gave her a gentle spray every 15 mins with plain water and she managed to get it moving and i pulled the rest off her, and found she was already growing her first set of proper leaves , so still got one seedling alive.

checked the other AA and an see her in the rockwool growing her stem upwards towards the surface so put the cover back on her for now and will keep checking her until she's out of the ground.

I have put my fan in the closet now that the first baby is about an inch tall, the fan is not blowing directly on to her but just enough that she quivers, enough to make her strong. Temps are about 73degF. humidity 45%

now have 2 AA again new seed above the ground and 2 leaves open lets hope both are female

I've repotted them early in new perlite/vermiculite mix, I had to re-pot my G13/Haze as one had stretched early on as it was too far from the light.

They have been repotted into 6inch square topped pots about 8inch tall, roughly 3.6ltrs capacity, this is the final pot for them.

Back 2 are the Auto Assasin, front 2 are my G13xHaze

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I've just sprayed the grow room to increase the humidity, hence the water drops.

20 days since starting to germinate seeds.



Please let me know if everything looks ok.

Any experienced hempy growers if they could check my other Grow i'm in trouble with my G13xHaze

https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/360640-g13-x-haze-hempy-grow.html

+rep for help.

Grow now back on track they both picking up nicely lets hope they are both female, I've never tried an auto b4 so looking forward to it, hope the babies haven't been stunted by the shock they've been through, time will tell, I'll post some pics soon of how they are doing.

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The largest baby is definately a girl she has started to flower, shame she is so small but she has had too much stress early in her life i have more seeds so will do another grow when the grow room is empty enough.

Now i have 2 females, as both my girls are in flower added an extra red cfl to help them and gave them a feed to help them along, they are also smelling lovely, already.

I had fungus gnats earlier in the grow and had to kill them with plant vitality plus, but have read that putting 1/2 an inch of sand on top of the soil gets rid of them as the sand dries up very quickly,

Is this true because if i get them in the future i would like to try it and save having to use chemicals near my little girls, especially when they have started flowering.

Been a while since i have made an entry so thought i'd better do one, the larger of the 2 plants, the eldest by a week, has just finished and i have chopped her down, and i was very surprised at the amount of bud i got off such a small plant. After i had chopped her and trimmed the buds i pulled the rootball out of the pot and she had very much taken over the pot, when i grow anymore i'll use a larger pot as i think will get even more bud and next time i intend on tying the branches down so more light penetrates to the lower buds.




Not bad amount of bud from one very small plant centre cola was very sexy lol, the pot and stalk can be seen front left of the 3rd pic

The second plant can be seen in the 3rd pic now in prime light position as it's the only plant in flower.

The other plants in the pic are at the back my G13xHaze and the 2 on the right are my 2 cheese clones.

I hope the second plant produces as much as the 1st so i have a nice stash.

The second plant has now been chopped with the whole main stem being a solid cola, when dried and finally trimmed i got 28grams from a 12inch plant not too bad for a messed up grow.

All together both plants got me 1.75ounces ok for free seeds.

They smoke very nice the second def stronger and not so tired the next day.