Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

[BoycieTen]

Cheers mate,

Yeah my setup is ok-ish for a first timer but definitely some flaws in there. For example I attach the top-feed lines with garden wire to the pots. It's ok with small seedlings but with a crowded bush like it is now it's painful. On top of that if I had a screen I still need to lift up the net pots out of their hole by at least 10-15cm (which is their depth) if I want to do a proper clean up.

I usually take everything out to empty and wipe everything (residu) down. I thought about a valve but not a fan as this would create a weak point prone to leaking.

I'll see what f I can take some pics with my next res change.

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

 

[Bearded Budz]

Yea I d like to see that, I m wondering if you couldn't take the whole lid off with all the baskets and drop the res from the bottom somehow.... say prop everything up enough to drop the res and somehow support the baskets and lid?? Sorry I haven't looked it up yet, gonna get right on that tonight man.

 

[Scottay]

Flaws and all it seems to be comin right along and lookin just dandy!

 

[BoycieTen]

Thanks Scottay! Any words of advice on the overcrowdness? Prune the shit out of it or get rid of some?

 

[BoycieTen]

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Quick mid-week update:

Plants are growing significantly. Especially the heavy LST one (left-corner) so I decided to push them into 12/12 from today. Otherwise I won't be able to give them the headroom they need in flower.

The LST one is also 5-10cm taller than the other ones so I'll have to bend it down even more on the next res-change.

They're still on VeG NUTRIENTS at the moment. Probably will switch to bloom in a couple of days

Can I still defoliate during flower? Because I'm afraid my "tucking in" of big leaves is not resolving my shadow and dew-on-leaves problems. I have two fans 24/7 blower under and over the canopy.

Making sense or am I missing something?

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

 

[Scottay]

I say as long as all your plants are getting light penetration down into the lower canopy then run with it! Just gotta make sure airflow is good.

 

[BoycieTen]

Well that's my issue, the lower leaves and nodes are barely getting any light. Heaps of airflow though.

 

[Rifleman]

You can thin it some now. I wouldn't take too much off later in bloom though.

 

[BoycieTen]

Ok thanks. Should I consider removing half of the plants to allow them much more space?

 

[Scottay]

Id try a decent defoliation so that she can focus her energy on the top half and get those flowers rockin up top!!! Anybody else think this is good advice or should I just hush hahaha

 

[Scottay]

Hey Boycie.....check this guy out on here. He is a great grower!! Light Addict's Last Thread

 

[BoycieTen]

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Hi y'all,

Update:

Day 4 since the 12/12 switch.
pH: 5.6
Ppm: 680
Room temp: 25* C
Res temp: 24.5* C
First day of flower NUTRIENTS.

One thing that I noticed is that all the plants have pretty severe stretch between nodes in the last week. Around 10cm. Which is weird because most of the plants were less than 10cm under the lights. Am I right or am I missing something?

Today I decided to do some updates on the growbox.
- painted the whole inside flat white
- installed a exhaust tube to lower the noise (didn't seem to do much)
- better hooks for the light hanging
- redone the top feed system into something easier and cleaner

Major decision: I decided to switch two of the plants into soil. I know there's a lot of controversy about the subject and found equal amount of people who voted against/for it. I couldn't keep the four plants in the one space so it was either ditch them or give to switch to soil a good go.

So I decided to keep the mainlining one and one of the small ones. The mainlining one which was heavily trained into half a circle and the other small one are in soil/perlite now.

So here is all 4 of them:

Small 1:

Mainlining:

HST:

Small 2:

Mainlining one back in the box. Separated the main stems as much as possible for light penetration.:

Small one back in the cupboard and same thing. They seem to have the same height more or less. Light is at 30cm height.

The two remaining ones in pots with soil/perlite mix m. Fingers crossed they pick up.

Any feedback welcomed!
Cheers
B

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

 

[BoycieTen]

Anyone any input?

The plants have not grown as much in the last week and I've noticed some brown tips and marks on the lowest leaves. I suspect nutrient burn but no idea how that would've happen.

Used the advices quantity and only fed them flower nutrient on day 4-5 of the 12/12 switch.

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

 

[BoycieTen]

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

These are the burn marks, shrivelled up tips and slight yellow marking on 2nd pic.

 

[The Germinator]

Subbed.

 

[BoycieTen]

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

New update:

Day 19 of 12/12

Changed water and refilled it with NUTRIENTS.

pH: 5.8

ppm 680

Room temp: 24* C

Res temp: 23* C

- I figured that the burn marks would be from the 100% bloom NUTRIENTS from the first week.

- Plants look healthy overall with some serious root-mass under water. Except for a couple of burned leaves they look happy. They drank about 20liters of water in the last two weeks.

- No sign of sex yet.

- Snapped one big stem and a couple of small ones whilst taking them out of the cupboard. I definitely need to make a new one for the next grow.

- Despite culling half of my plants and leaving 2 in that space, I still feel like it's a bit too crowded in there.

SMALL PLANT - little to no training - 70cm high

No sign of sex yet?!

BIG MAINLINE PLANT - 85cm high

Any sexing experts out there?

BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER IN THE SPACE
Try to space them out as much as possible.

Any input welcomed!
Cheers

 

[BoycieTen]

Female?

Cheere

 

[BoycieTen]

For those would like to know, seems like both plants are female.

Day 29 of 12/12. Still training them down daily away from the lights.

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Cheers

 

[BoycieTen]

Boycie's Grow - Unknown Strain - LED & Hydro - First Grow Journal

Need feedback and know if I'm still on the right track!

Day 44 of 12/12.

Is this looking good?

Due to my setup it's difficult to do measurements of pH, temp and ppm but I top up the res with pH 5.8 and 600ppm water+nutes.

Anyone? Germinator, Riffleman, Scottay,...

 

[The Germinator]

Man I am so sorry I didn't get back to you. I was going through a rough time in life and wasn't active on this forum. Hope it went well for you.