42wenty_Blazeit
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Hello Community it's nice to join you all.
I'm having a few issues with my grow and I'm in need of some advice, I have done multiple grows with zero success in the early stages of growth, I am slowly getting the jist though, but not quick enough and maybe the community can point something out for me so let me give you guys and gals a bit of a set-up introduction.
My room is roughly 3.2m X 1.5m and 2.3m in height, I use 2 black dog LED photmax-2 200 with my RDWC system. The RDWC is hooked up to a chiller that keeps my water temperature around 18-19c (64.5-66F)
I run 2 decent size oscillating fans that provide good air flow. I have my temperature sitting between 24-25C (75F – 78F) @ lights on, and 19C-21C (68F – 70F) @ lights off. I try to run humidity at 60% most times, every now and the I forget to fill before work and it may drop rapidly to 35% for 5-6 hours.
Also, my exhaust system is set up to replace the air in the room every 1.5-2 minutes
I have 2 plant vessels, and a reservoir I use to access my water, roughly 70L of water the system holds before the levels are touching the bottom of the net pot. I use Cyco Platinum nutrients (silica, A+B’s, zyme and Ryzo-fuel), my ppm usually sits around 300 at early growth although I did have it at 650 the other day (oops).
Ps. My water that I use is rain water.
My journey has been very slow, I started off in 1 inch rock wool and they germinated fairly quickly, I soaked for 26 hours of 1% h202 water, the seeds shells were cracked so I placed them in the rock wool 6mm deep (¼ inch). After 6 days a couple roots had appeared out of the bottom, the seeds had popped one had a shell stuck for like 5 days so I helped get it off. all good and well BUT this is possibly where I screwed things up; ill come home from work them days and dip the bottom of the rockwool in some fresh 19c (68F) water and it would end up just soaking the whole damn thing anyways, the thing was id dunk it after work and it would be dry fairly quick, I'd try to take advice from online about not over watering rock wool but this was drying out pretty damn quick, although the longest time I can't be with it is 10 hours, sometimes id dunk that night and next morning it would be dry as shit, then and try dunk day and night to keep it a bit more wet with not much signs of growth. So, on day 14 I chucked it in my DWC system and after like 2 and a half weeks she started growing (hallelujah). That’s my beginnings.
My question with this is, when a root or two start to poke from the bottom of the rock wool should I stop wetting the cube and get a small bubbleponic bucket and net pot going, have it lightly splash up below the cube and get them root tips a little moist?
Moving on.
Now that my babies are growing it’s good to see and makes me happy, I've seen progress over the last 2 weeks but they are slow as fuck. The leaves are growing in pretty weird ways too, some discoloration ill add some photos I started taking from last week.
Let me know your thoughts people. Was my rockwool moistening skills horrible? Did that impact my early growth ya think? Are they just baggage?
Peace
Photos Below
PS strain is Jack Herer - seedman
I'm having a few issues with my grow and I'm in need of some advice, I have done multiple grows with zero success in the early stages of growth, I am slowly getting the jist though, but not quick enough and maybe the community can point something out for me so let me give you guys and gals a bit of a set-up introduction.
My room is roughly 3.2m X 1.5m and 2.3m in height, I use 2 black dog LED photmax-2 200 with my RDWC system. The RDWC is hooked up to a chiller that keeps my water temperature around 18-19c (64.5-66F)
I run 2 decent size oscillating fans that provide good air flow. I have my temperature sitting between 24-25C (75F – 78F) @ lights on, and 19C-21C (68F – 70F) @ lights off. I try to run humidity at 60% most times, every now and the I forget to fill before work and it may drop rapidly to 35% for 5-6 hours.
Also, my exhaust system is set up to replace the air in the room every 1.5-2 minutes
I have 2 plant vessels, and a reservoir I use to access my water, roughly 70L of water the system holds before the levels are touching the bottom of the net pot. I use Cyco Platinum nutrients (silica, A+B’s, zyme and Ryzo-fuel), my ppm usually sits around 300 at early growth although I did have it at 650 the other day (oops).
Ps. My water that I use is rain water.
My journey has been very slow, I started off in 1 inch rock wool and they germinated fairly quickly, I soaked for 26 hours of 1% h202 water, the seeds shells were cracked so I placed them in the rock wool 6mm deep (¼ inch). After 6 days a couple roots had appeared out of the bottom, the seeds had popped one had a shell stuck for like 5 days so I helped get it off. all good and well BUT this is possibly where I screwed things up; ill come home from work them days and dip the bottom of the rockwool in some fresh 19c (68F) water and it would end up just soaking the whole damn thing anyways, the thing was id dunk it after work and it would be dry fairly quick, I'd try to take advice from online about not over watering rock wool but this was drying out pretty damn quick, although the longest time I can't be with it is 10 hours, sometimes id dunk that night and next morning it would be dry as shit, then and try dunk day and night to keep it a bit more wet with not much signs of growth. So, on day 14 I chucked it in my DWC system and after like 2 and a half weeks she started growing (hallelujah). That’s my beginnings.
My question with this is, when a root or two start to poke from the bottom of the rock wool should I stop wetting the cube and get a small bubbleponic bucket and net pot going, have it lightly splash up below the cube and get them root tips a little moist?
Moving on.
Now that my babies are growing it’s good to see and makes me happy, I've seen progress over the last 2 weeks but they are slow as fuck. The leaves are growing in pretty weird ways too, some discoloration ill add some photos I started taking from last week.
Let me know your thoughts people. Was my rockwool moistening skills horrible? Did that impact my early growth ya think? Are they just baggage?
Peace
Photos Below
PS strain is Jack Herer - seedman
