tuffles
Well-Known Member
eh up growers.
first ever grow attempt, and so far we (joint - excuse the pun - attempt between three of us bored of being ripped off) have just done things with a bit of advice here, the odd research there.
found this place, and it has been so good i started asking questions. it was then suggested by VV that i start a journal.
so i am.
a bit late, granted. but hey ho.
so....what's the story?
we are using femanised seeds of A.M.S and Lemon Skunk i bought on a recent trip to amsterdam from the greenhouse cafe - love that place.
we are using a NFT hydropoincs system in a grow tent. pics attached.
we bought the following kit, as well as a 75cm x 75cm x 2m grow tent.
http://www.growell.co.uk/p/1538/Hobby-Kit-NFT-250.html
we propogated the seeds in some small rockwool. one started immediately, the lemon skunk. the AMS took a bit longer. looked in the end like the root was kind of tangled, so we took it out, replaced it (very gently) and then it started no worries.
by this stage, however, it was a few inches behind the other plant, and has remained so ever since.
this is our first grow, and is pretty much considered an experiment. so we just decided that we would do everything to maximise the lemon skunk, the AMS would just have to deal with it.
after the lemon started to get it second set of proper leaves, we put it in bigger rockwall and waited. once a few roots were coming out the bottom, we put it under the light and into the NFT system.
from looking at a few pics on here, i think we might have done this a bit early, but i don't know. there were only two or three bits of root sticking through, some others have said you would wait until they look more web-like.
anyway....
under a 250w HID light bulb, we started on a 20/4 cycle.
ph level was the biggest problem for us. we really struggled getting the ph level, but it is between 5.5 and 6.5, pretty much around 6.
we have been using about 1ml of the Vita Link Max Grow nutrient per liter of water.
the resevoir has about 12litres of water in it.
the light was lowered to about 20inches above the top of the lemon skunk plant, so about 22 away from the ams.
they were going great guns, growing about an inch or two a day.
they are bushy, with lots of leaves - again, pics attached.
then, after the ams plant was about 13-14inches, which was about a week or so ago, we noticed that some of the leaves started to go a bit odd.
they are the middle leaves, the bottom and tops are fine and look perfectly healthy.
the middle leaves, really on one side only, have started to curl a little at the edges, and have brown patches between the veins.
again, pics attached.
this has only been happening on the AMS, the lemon skunk has been fine.
we thought it might be nutrient burn, so had a look under the tray.
we found a mass of roots. a huge mat of them. they have not stopped the flow of the water, but they had worked their way down the slope and had started to hang over the edge of the tray and were now in the resevoir below.
we thought this was a bad idea, and asked a couple of questions on here, and then moved the roots. we moved them from the resevoir and put them back on the tray. some are not receiving any nutrients at all now. but the root matt is pretty evenly spread around. hope that this will not be a problem.
we then spread the matting to cover the gap at the end of the tray to avoid this happening again.
this all happened yesterday.
pics are attached of the grow tent, the plants, roots and some of the leaves with the problems.
we are now on a 12/12 cycle, and have been for 5 days.
we are now 6 weeks into the grow.
now we have a journal, we will keep you updated.
first ever grow attempt, and so far we (joint - excuse the pun - attempt between three of us bored of being ripped off) have just done things with a bit of advice here, the odd research there.
found this place, and it has been so good i started asking questions. it was then suggested by VV that i start a journal.
so i am.
a bit late, granted. but hey ho.
so....what's the story?
we are using femanised seeds of A.M.S and Lemon Skunk i bought on a recent trip to amsterdam from the greenhouse cafe - love that place.
we are using a NFT hydropoincs system in a grow tent. pics attached.
we bought the following kit, as well as a 75cm x 75cm x 2m grow tent.
http://www.growell.co.uk/p/1538/Hobby-Kit-NFT-250.html
we propogated the seeds in some small rockwool. one started immediately, the lemon skunk. the AMS took a bit longer. looked in the end like the root was kind of tangled, so we took it out, replaced it (very gently) and then it started no worries.
by this stage, however, it was a few inches behind the other plant, and has remained so ever since.
this is our first grow, and is pretty much considered an experiment. so we just decided that we would do everything to maximise the lemon skunk, the AMS would just have to deal with it.
after the lemon started to get it second set of proper leaves, we put it in bigger rockwall and waited. once a few roots were coming out the bottom, we put it under the light and into the NFT system.
from looking at a few pics on here, i think we might have done this a bit early, but i don't know. there were only two or three bits of root sticking through, some others have said you would wait until they look more web-like.
anyway....
under a 250w HID light bulb, we started on a 20/4 cycle.
ph level was the biggest problem for us. we really struggled getting the ph level, but it is between 5.5 and 6.5, pretty much around 6.
we have been using about 1ml of the Vita Link Max Grow nutrient per liter of water.
the resevoir has about 12litres of water in it.
the light was lowered to about 20inches above the top of the lemon skunk plant, so about 22 away from the ams.
they were going great guns, growing about an inch or two a day.
they are bushy, with lots of leaves - again, pics attached.
then, after the ams plant was about 13-14inches, which was about a week or so ago, we noticed that some of the leaves started to go a bit odd.
they are the middle leaves, the bottom and tops are fine and look perfectly healthy.
the middle leaves, really on one side only, have started to curl a little at the edges, and have brown patches between the veins.
again, pics attached.
this has only been happening on the AMS, the lemon skunk has been fine.
we thought it might be nutrient burn, so had a look under the tray.
we found a mass of roots. a huge mat of them. they have not stopped the flow of the water, but they had worked their way down the slope and had started to hang over the edge of the tray and were now in the resevoir below.
we thought this was a bad idea, and asked a couple of questions on here, and then moved the roots. we moved them from the resevoir and put them back on the tray. some are not receiving any nutrients at all now. but the root matt is pretty evenly spread around. hope that this will not be a problem.
we then spread the matting to cover the gap at the end of the tray to avoid this happening again.
this all happened yesterday.
pics are attached of the grow tent, the plants, roots and some of the leaves with the problems.
we are now on a 12/12 cycle, and have been for 5 days.
we are now 6 weeks into the grow.
now we have a journal, we will keep you updated.
