Full BioBizz grow 400w HPS (Northern Lights Auto + Royal Critical)

Whatsup growers. This is my third-time growing with BioBizz... but this time I'm using their whole line of nutrition and soil.
This thread will be updated regularly with more information and pictures of the progress.
Support and Feedback are more than welcome!

Planted
20th - 30th March

Strains
Northern Lights Auto from Royal Queen Seed
Royal Critical from Royal Queen Seed

Medium
BioBizz All mix
Perlite (on the top)

Nutrition (I rely on the official nutrition schedule from BioBizz)
BioBizz Root Juice
BioBizz Grow
BioBizz Bloom
BioBizz Top Max
BioBizz Activera
BioBizz Bio Heaven
BioBizz Ph Down
BioBizz CalMag (ordered)

PH (this is the value the plants are watered with)
6.3 - 6.6 (first two weeks)

Medium
BioBizz All mix
Perlite (on the top)

Light
HPS 400w (grow + flower spectrums from GIB)

Light Schedule
20 hours light

Fans
1x 30w Monkey Fan
1x 20w Monkey Fan

Tent
100cm x 100cm x 200cm

Just a little update.

Update. My BioBizz Calmag arrived yesterday, might help me work on some of the issues I'm currently facing.

I'm dealing with some twisted growth and I've done a lot of reading on the subject. My best guess is that its related to PH and I may have had too big pots too early which makes overwatering another element to be careful about.

I'm going to go back to lower the PH value within the recommendations from BioBizz which is 6.2 - 6.5. I'm going to dose 6.4 and see.

I will update more about this issue down the road, I had something similar in my previous grow with BioBizz on one plant.
If you have any valuable inputs and experiences with a similar setup with BioBizz feel free to make a comment.

I use biobizz 3 times and on my 4th. First 2 I pH the water then I read the soil buffers the water so never bother now but do leave water sit for 24 hours. When you go to flower do you use the grow and bloom together

Yours look a little bigger than mine and mine started on 17th March. I'm guessing my light is not enough I added 2nd light yesterday so hopefully start shooting up now. Also I haven't started with nutes yet was planning on. One more repot and a couple more weeks veg maybe top once also

Arnski5000 said:

I use biobizz 3 times and on my 4th. First 2 I pH the water then I read the soil buffers the water so never bother now but do leave water sit for 24 hours. When you go to flower do you use the grow and bloom together

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Did you notice any big differences when you stopped PH the water? I've read about the buffer in the soil but kept on using PH down to get it right. Just scared to put in whatever PH values come out from the tap with only nutrition. Anyway, your plant looks very healthy.

I use Bloom and Grow together, yes. I stick with the nutrition schedule from BioBizz that I shared on the first post...

No difference at all if anything my last grow was the best I've done. Pretty sure my lights aren't good enough but will see it out with this one I may get a better light for flower. My last grow was gorilla zkittlez turned out nice I used Grow and bloom and some mollases

Arnski5000 said:

No difference at all if anything my last grow was the best I've done. Pretty sure my lights aren't good enough but will see it out with this one I may get a better light for flower. My last grow was gorilla zkittlez turned out nice I used Grow and bloom and some mollases

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Looks good, thanks for the info. What PH did you use when you used PH down? 6.3-6.5?

Yeah something like that lol

I'll be following your journal as I want to try and start another grow with the Biobizz line up. Good luck with your grow!

Awesome to hear @shrooms31

So I just started today watering with calmag 0.6ml / liter and adjusted the PH to 6.5. Let's see if the twisting on new growth will heal. Given that I planted the plants directly in a big pot instead of starting small and transplanting to a larger pot as the plant grows - I may have faced some overwatering which potentially caused some stress. The temperature is quite high inside the tent, 26 at coolest when I cool the grow room which is fine but it easily goes up to 29-30C and the summer hasn't even started. This will be tricky when the outside temperature goes up.

I purchased another 30w monkey fan from Secret Jardin to get more breeze inside the tent to deal with the rising temperature.

I will share more photos again soon of the progress.

Keep it up and keep us updated!

Time for an update.

On the last update, I was dealing with some setbacks visible on the plants' new growth. Right now the plants are around 80cm tall (I used a net to train the plants and make them bushier)

I started working on correcting many potential factors that led to the issues I had on the previous update where new growth was strange and weak.

Improvements:
- Cooler & better circulation
- Proper feeding (no over-watering)
- Added BioBizz CalMag
- PH at 6.4-6.5 when watering
- Adjusted light to be further away (40-45cm from the buds)

The plants are much healthier as a result.

Wow your plants have really shot up. How long you veg for. Mine are still vegging