My First Grow Journal With Lowryder #2 LED + HPS

haze713

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Starting my first grow journal and hoping to gain some good advice. Any input to help my garden grow is welcome! Thanks.

Strain: LR#2 Because I bought other seeds for outdoors and needed something to mess with in the meantime that would yield quickly.
Lights: 120w triband LED + 150w HPS (on/off 18/6)
Soil: Pro mix2/5, MG organic1/5, 1yr old compost w/ horse and chicken manure1/5, perlite + vermiculite1/5, human hair(fresh)handfull?. I know this mix is scary but before I knew anything it was already in use.
Ten seeds started and 9 germed within 3 days (tossed the last one. I know it could have germed in a few more days but didn't want to deal with "slowness"). 7 seeds were cracked and showing a very small bit of root before 24hrs!! I used a ziplock baggy with a layer of a rapid rooter plug ripped to small pieces in the bottom. I placed this on my LCD tv vents for a steady 75 degrees. Then I placed into pint size organic mix pots.(since learned to use one pot and avoid transplanting) I totally messed everything up and started to look online for help. I found this site and have learned a great deal from the community. I feel I still am not heading in the right direction so PLEASE help me :) Thanks!!! I'll post pictures and as much info on what I have done so far.
Stay tuned
 

haze713

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Started seeds on NOV 17, 12am. After 7 days placed 9 germinated seedling into rapid rooter plugs and in to soil mix and small pots. IMAG0035.jpgDay7 (1).jpgDay7 (4).jpgDay7 (7).jpgDay7 (8).jpgDay7.jpgDay7 (6).jpgDay7 (3).jpgDay7 (2).jpg.Day7 (5).jpg
 

haze713

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After ten days I fed with honey and mollasses mix... not sure if this was useful or not? Pics 1,2, are at day 14 of two that got burned from water(I was spraying them because I had very low humidity of 30% with temps at 71-85 but found out that made it worse)
All suffer from deformed leaves and light burning and sporatic slices and holes that show up here and there; guessing from my poor soil mix?? After 18 days I transplanted to 1 gallon pots and had 2-3 day stunted growth and then they perked and started to grow again.day14 (1).jpgday14.jpgday14 (2).jpg
 

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Day 30 (5).jpgDay30 (6).jpgDay30 (3).jpgDay30 (4).jpgDay 30 (8).jpgDay 30 (4).jpgDay 30 (6).jpgDay 30 (3).jpgDay30 (5).jpgDay30 (2).jpgDay 30 (2).jpgDay 30 (1).jpgAt 30 days and showing how bad I suck at growing indoors! I used cfl's to try and get a decent pic but normally they are not used. I looked at my notes and at 23 days they started to smell. 29days first male showed sex. 30 days flushed 3 gallons each. 31 days added humidifier(cold). I had temp at 71-85 and RH at 30%. The house is very dry. I have multiple 18 gallon bins with water plus the humidifier. I also placed plastic on my windows to help keep the cold air from bringing my humidity down. It's steady at 45-50% with 73-78F. I let my water sit 48hrs and is ph7.5-8(looking for ph down) I water about 4-5 days when pots feel light but not pulling from sides of container. I was using technaflora recipe for succes nutes but have not used them past 30day mark and flush. I'm still getting burned new growth and I've been watering from the bottom. Some fungus nats around but no other crawlies.. Please escuse my grammer and unstructured info.
 

haze713

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fem2defect.jpg46dayunknowntopped.jpgLSTthickstemfem2.jpg46dayfem2.jpg46dayunknown.jpgtopped46dayunknown.jpgtoppedunknown2.jpgMaletoppedntrim.jpg46daysFem.jpgunknown46dayLST.jpggrowcloset.jpg I think this is 46 days and I can only sex two females and two males for sure. I killed one male and keep the other on the outside of the grow area. I'm runnin outta room. I wish more would show sex so I can remove males if there are more. I only want one for seeding. 46 days for auto's and only one female is flowering. and still 5 unknowns(some do have signs but even with my 60x I can't tell what they are. It's probably how I have treated them but the seed company prolly gave me f2 or f3's as well. I know some of the diff qualities like tall ,short, etc are from me rotating under HPS and LED. I dunno.. Gettin frustrated tho About to just kill em all and start over with 2-4 seeds of my other strains and hope for just one fem to get clones from for spring time. 9 weeks is coming on fast... Last picture is grow area and I added 2 2700k cfl's for under lighting since I noticed some leaves dying from lack of light I'm guessing. It's crowded in there. I also added a aero mister but RH still only 45%.. The first picture is of the stem where I noticed it browning in the seam...not sure what's up with that??
 

haze713

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well since I started the seeds it's been 7 weeks. They say 9 weeks for lr#2 so I have 2 weeks left. The 1 female has a flower calyx with two pistils
at every node but that is it. I guess they have locked up... I can't see wasting more electric. I don't even see any trichromes....wow I suck.. I will just wait for spring.. I'm going to cut these down and use them as fertilzer for the veggie garden. Thanks for all the comments!
 
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