tree beard
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Hello all, hope everyone is well!
I'm new here, and new to indoor growing as well. First, a little history on me. I've been growing outdoors for years, just a summertime thing here. I usually pick up a couple clones, plant them in a spot in my yard that only gets full sun about half the day. On average get about a lb off each plant which lasts me till the following season. Nothing fancy, just pull out the garden hose each morning and give em a drink. Nothing fancy, no nutes, just some bloom booster when the time is right, simple.. Only issues is the bugs eating the leaves. Not sure, I suspect grasshoppers as the bite marks are huge.. This past grow they really tore em up, to the point where I decided I'm doing this indoors from now on. I've dabbled with indoors a few decades ago (in my 20's) and from what I remember it was pretty easy. Fast forward 30 years and here I am, clueless... Went to my local grow shop and told him what space I have, what my intentions were, and to set me up. I came home with a 4x8 shorty tent (low ceilings), 2 nextlight mega pro series lights, 6 inch inline fan, 2, 6 inch oscillating fans, 3, 6 inch stationary fans, an 8 pot, 4.9 gallon autopot setup, 3 bags of canna coco, and GH calmag ( I use RO water, my well water here is disgusting) and GH 3 part nute system. Ordered some feminized seeds and away we go! Or so I thought..
Looking back now I wish I would have done so many things differently. Trying to start 8 plants from seed was an absolute nightmare. Over watering, under watering, too much light, not enough light, if there was a f##k up to be had, I mastered it.. So after killing numerous seeds and seedlings, I finally got 8 going that looked pretty viable. I got them going in solo cups, then transplanted to one gallon pots, then finally to the auto pots. I hand watered for the 1st few weeks as per their instructions. They looked pretty decent, not great but not horrible either.
So after I was confident the roots were doing their thing, I added the recommended amount of nutes (1st mistake) to the resevoir and turned it on. After a few days they looked like they were sprayed with roundup, way too much nutes. Some were stretching to the lights faster then I could raise them, some didn't do anything, just stunted and in limbo. I've topped them all and did a little lst. I've got some 2x4 chuncks under a few to try to keep the canopy somewhat even. I've cut the nutes down to half dose but doesn't seem to be much change after about 4 or 5 days.
I was also thinking they have root rot, roots just sitting in water can't be a good thing, can it? Yesterday I put a timer on the resevoir to open it for 2 hrs a day to see if that helps. As they sit now, their yellow, look burnt and I'm running out of head room in the tent. I would just flip em and keep fingers crossed, but in the condition they're in, I feel like I should wait a little longer.
So far I am absolutely hating coco! On a different note, I have a few moms going in a closet and 6 clones going in a tiny 2x3 tent, grown in fox farms ocean forest and they look beautiful, green, lush and happy! Maybe me and coco just weren't meant to be, lol.. Sooo... not sure what to do with this sick looking grow in the 4x8. Rip em out and start over? Keep on keeping on? I've got so much time and $ invested in it, I hate to throw in the towel but I just donno.. Either way, after this grow I'll give coco one more try with clones, but so far it's been quite discouraging.. any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
TB
I'm new here, and new to indoor growing as well. First, a little history on me. I've been growing outdoors for years, just a summertime thing here. I usually pick up a couple clones, plant them in a spot in my yard that only gets full sun about half the day. On average get about a lb off each plant which lasts me till the following season. Nothing fancy, just pull out the garden hose each morning and give em a drink. Nothing fancy, no nutes, just some bloom booster when the time is right, simple.. Only issues is the bugs eating the leaves. Not sure, I suspect grasshoppers as the bite marks are huge.. This past grow they really tore em up, to the point where I decided I'm doing this indoors from now on. I've dabbled with indoors a few decades ago (in my 20's) and from what I remember it was pretty easy. Fast forward 30 years and here I am, clueless... Went to my local grow shop and told him what space I have, what my intentions were, and to set me up. I came home with a 4x8 shorty tent (low ceilings), 2 nextlight mega pro series lights, 6 inch inline fan, 2, 6 inch oscillating fans, 3, 6 inch stationary fans, an 8 pot, 4.9 gallon autopot setup, 3 bags of canna coco, and GH calmag ( I use RO water, my well water here is disgusting) and GH 3 part nute system. Ordered some feminized seeds and away we go! Or so I thought..
Looking back now I wish I would have done so many things differently. Trying to start 8 plants from seed was an absolute nightmare. Over watering, under watering, too much light, not enough light, if there was a f##k up to be had, I mastered it.. So after killing numerous seeds and seedlings, I finally got 8 going that looked pretty viable. I got them going in solo cups, then transplanted to one gallon pots, then finally to the auto pots. I hand watered for the 1st few weeks as per their instructions. They looked pretty decent, not great but not horrible either.
So after I was confident the roots were doing their thing, I added the recommended amount of nutes (1st mistake) to the resevoir and turned it on. After a few days they looked like they were sprayed with roundup, way too much nutes. Some were stretching to the lights faster then I could raise them, some didn't do anything, just stunted and in limbo. I've topped them all and did a little lst. I've got some 2x4 chuncks under a few to try to keep the canopy somewhat even. I've cut the nutes down to half dose but doesn't seem to be much change after about 4 or 5 days.
I was also thinking they have root rot, roots just sitting in water can't be a good thing, can it? Yesterday I put a timer on the resevoir to open it for 2 hrs a day to see if that helps. As they sit now, their yellow, look burnt and I'm running out of head room in the tent. I would just flip em and keep fingers crossed, but in the condition they're in, I feel like I should wait a little longer.
So far I am absolutely hating coco! On a different note, I have a few moms going in a closet and 6 clones going in a tiny 2x3 tent, grown in fox farms ocean forest and they look beautiful, green, lush and happy! Maybe me and coco just weren't meant to be, lol.. Sooo... not sure what to do with this sick looking grow in the 4x8. Rip em out and start over? Keep on keeping on? I've got so much time and $ invested in it, I hate to throw in the towel but I just donno.. Either way, after this grow I'll give coco one more try with clones, but so far it's been quite discouraging.. any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
TB
