My second grow

amcutem

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Hey guys. I just wanted to share my second try at growing. My first time didn't turn out as I planned due to it being my first time. I also made the mistake of planting more than one plant in one pot and when the others turned out to be male and I chopped them, their roots were still in the nutrient with the females rotting and screwing up my nutes.

This time I a good friend sold me some female clones that were 3 weeks old. They were around 1 foot tall when I got them growing in soil. So for the first time, I had to also perform a soil to dwc transplant which really wasn't that hard.

When I got these ladies on Dec. 15 from veg, I put them straight to 12/12.

Im using GH nutes with a few secondary nutes. I started my PPm at around 300ppm then 600 after the first week, then at around the 2nd or 3rd week I went to 900ppm. I now have them swimming at 1300 ppm while each time I add my frozen preready nutes to control dwc temp which is at 1700ppm, the dwc ppm goes up a bit.

I also have co2 injection at 1500 and a dehumidifier which is keeping rh at 30 -50. Room temp has never reached 85f because im only using 1x400 watt hps. The room is 1000watt ready but I decided to have one safe run under my belt before I try 1000watts again. Unlike my first grow which I flowered at 1000w, the temp was reaching mid to high 90f. However, I now have an Ac ready in the room but Im still worried about wasting my precious co2 because I dont know how well the room will seal with the ac running.

Heres a couple of pix from a few minutes ago. The plants are a little over 5 weeks old and I really hope they get a little bigger b4 harvest.

Any advice and comments are trully appriciated.
 

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Bucees

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Looks like you have your situation all under control. I've never seen anyone freeze their nute solution before. Interesting idea. Around week 7 they should start puffing out nicely.

Cheers.
 

amcutem

Member
Looks like you have your situation all under control. I've never seen anyone freeze their nute solution before. Interesting idea. Around week 7 they should start puffing out nicely.

Cheers.
Looks like you have your situation all under control. I've never seen anyone freeze their nute solution before. Interesting idea. Around week 7 they should start puffing out nicely.

Cheers.
Thanks for the positive comment Brucees. However, im not sure about having my situation completely under control.

After my second or third week, when I did my first flush, I found a couple of the plants had some root rot which almost made me depressed. I guess it was probably because I was being lazy to change the nutes every week or something. So I change the nutes asap. Then I realize that I forgot to add hygrozyme which I heard helps with root rot. I immidietly added the proper amount on my second batch of nutes with the hopes of everything getting better. I also started making double sure that the solution does not reach over 72f which I read also helps with slowing down root rot formation.

Then after around 4 weeks, I saw what looks to be a symptom of spider mites on a couple of the leaves. I didn't think that I would actually have this problem but for curiousity, I took the leaf, laid it on the table, and inspected it with my microscope. Lord and behold, I nearly passed out. That was the first time I've ever seen a spidermite. I was like OMG, and pretty much started panicking. I snuck out of work and went straight to the hydro store the next day and they sold me a little tinsywissy little bottle of pesticide. I was suppose to drop 18 drops of the stuff with a litre of water and spray the girls 3 times 3 days apart. That's after I pretty much dumped my whole 20lbs if co2 in the room which didn't work so good. I then realizes that my cap-3 wasn't calibrated properly and/or I also wasn't sure if it was maintaining 10,000ppm of co2. I read on the manual that the cap-3 is only good up to 5,000ppm. But anyhow, that was that. The good news is it looks like the little $40 magic in the bottle is doing the trick because I don't see those little bastards anymore (crossing my fingers). I'm planning on doing my 3rd spray tomorrow and hopefully its over and done with. I just wish I knew what exactly I was spraying just for curiousity.

Right now im on day 44 of flowering and I hope the girls make it through somewhat decently. I guess I only have between 20-30 days left. I hope they make it without anymore problems.
 
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