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Milkycat123

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I'm roughly 8-10 weeks in on the largest.

These were started in ProMix Organic Seed Starter (which I'm fairly certain came with gnats inside would not buy again) under a 24" T5 LED light. Currently they're all under a 1000W full spectrum LED which the actual draw I believe is 500W. Medium is ProMix HP with 20-30% mix of earth worm castings. Temperatures have been mostly steady around 24-27 degrees although I had one day that was up over 30. Humidity levels have been fairly stable around 60%, just down to 52% today is a dry day.

For fertilizer I have just been using Fox Farm Grow Big and have been adding in some Cal Mg, I was watering from a reverse osmosis system but have switched to distilling a 4 gal margarine bucket. I have Fox Farm Tiger Bloom aswell but have not yet used it. I was thinking I'd add 50% Tiger Bloom and Grow Big every other feeding. Currently they are just getting Grow Big with some Cal Mg. What do you think?

I've noticed the medium takes longer than I would prefer to dry out, I gave them a good watering almost a week ago and it never actually go dry so I just did a small feed yesterday. Is there a good way to help influence it to dry? I've considered shoving something about 1/2" diameter down to try and aerate but I'm afraid to damage roots. Would appreciate a tip there, waiting a week or more between feedings seems a bit long to me.

Let me know what information I've missed. Here's my biggest and oldest two, very much appreciate the tips here.

G13 Haze:



Violator Kush:



Thanks again every body!
 
Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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Milkycat123 said:
I'm roughly 8-10 weeks in on the largest.

These were started in ProMix Organic Seed Starter (which I'm fairly certain came with gnats inside would not buy again) under a 24" T5 LED light. Currently they're all under a 1000W full spectrum LED which the actual draw I believe is 500W. Medium is ProMix HP with 20-30% mix of earth worm castings. Temperatures have been mostly steady around 24-27 degrees although I had one day that was up over 30. Humidity levels have been fairly stable around 60%, just down to 52% today is a dry day.

For fertilizer I have just been using Fox Farm Grow Big and have been adding in some Cal Mg, I was watering from a reverse osmosis system but have switched to distilling a 4 gal margarine bucket. I have Fox Farm Tiger Bloom aswell but have not yet used it. I was thinking I'd add 50% Tiger Bloom and Grow Big every other feeding. Currently they are just getting Grow Big with some Cal Mg. What do you think?

I've noticed the medium takes longer than I would prefer to dry out, I gave them a good watering almost a week ago and it never actually go dry so I just did a small feed yesterday. Is there a good way to help influence it to dry? I've considered shoving something about 1/2" diameter down to try and aerate but I'm afraid to damage roots. Would appreciate a tip there, waiting a week or more between feedings seems a bit long to me.

Let me know what information I've missed. Here's my biggest and oldest two, very much appreciate the tips here.

G13 Haze:



Violator Kush:



Thanks again every body!
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Nice work.
Those plants are 4 weeks into bloom? So I would start too use your bloom food now.
As far as the soil goes it sounds like there wasn't enough perlite to really have an effect on drainage.
Try turning the soil so more air gets to it, but otherwise be patient, one thing you don't want do is overwater.
Good luck
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Milkycat123

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No they are about 8-10 weeks old from seed. Sorry I guess I poorly worded that. The G13 is just over 16" right now.

I got the Grow Big/Tiger Bloom/Big Bloom as a 3 pack and just re read the Tiger Bloom. Seems strange to me that they have just 1 fert for veg and 2 different mixes for flower. Looks like I'm to combine the Tiger Bloom/Big Bloom so I guess I will in fact just continue with the Grow Big and Cal Mg.

I also have a couple younger plants on the go which I will update with tomorrow.

So aside from dropping the Tiger Bloom idea it looks like we're doing ok?
 
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Milkycat123

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Found this in the morning..



Assumed it was time for a flush, ran some RO water until I saw a decent amount of runoff. Will switch to adding nutes every other watering for now.

Let me know if I should have done anything differently.
 
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Milkycat123

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Here's what it looks like now. The others still look fine I will wait until the weekend to flush them.

This is approx 15h after I attempted to flush with RO water (did not have time to distill tapwater) I simply filled up a 4L bottle and somewhat slowly poured it in until there was significant runoff which took the whole 4L. Buckets are true 4 gallons, not planters gallons.

I'm not sure if I've got this right, someone please advise. Or should I maybe post these pics in the sick plant section?

Thank you very much.

Both pics are the same plant (G13 Haze from Barney's Farm)



 
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