Well I'll start with my equipment,
4x8x6.5 grow tent
Mars hydro tsw 2000w
1000w super hps
4" exhaust fan and filter
Soon to have a 6" duct booster fan running in from a cool insulated water pump room
Two 6" clip on fans
5 gallon cloth pots
Food, general hydroponics (3 part flora grow, micro, bloom), rapid start, cal mag and koolbloom dry.
Plants, 4 auto flower, Early Miss,
3 Cinderella 99,
1 Headband.
These will be my first harvest, the auto flower in one half and the Cinderella and Headband in other half of tent,
I also have a Rockstar that will be cloned and hopefully ready to replace the auto flower when finished. I have read that auto flower will flower even on 18 hour light cycle, as mine have already after just over 3 weeks from seed, my plan is to keep them under 18 hours for a couple more weeks so I can veg the Cinderella and Headband longer, then I will switch to 12 hour light cycle. I've been keeping a record as best I can and I will post it from the start when I can, I started germinating seeds January 1st.
I've been anticipating the light flip to 12/12, I will continue to anticipate for now, I'm liking the outcome of a few things I've been doing, I just did a lite spreading of branches with pipe cleaners, didn't do any bending, and removing some leaf to open up the plants more, they are still on aggressive veg feeding,
The Early Miss is a lot thicker than I imagined it would get lol, I'm loving it, I am aiming for a week and half starting with the first one that started flowering, I adjusted the feeding and flush schedule for each of them, I think there will be a 3 to 5 day difference between plants as they finish, that's how they started flowering. My plan was to replace the 4 auto as they finish with 4 new plants, 2 Rockstar, 1 Gorilla Glue that I started to Quad line, and 1 Northern Lights that I also started to Quad line.
My new plan, as I can't dive deep enough into this lol, is to keep the 4 replacement plants in the tent along side the auto flower, as they are too big for my clone box, and as I harvest a auto I will pot the biggest plant into a 5 gallon pot and slide it in place, and so on with the other 3, at this time I'd like to flip the lights, the 4 new plants are in 3 gallon pots now.
So I definitely learned a lot from growing the auto flower, not as much as anticipated from my first grow but the quality is looking very nice to me, I hope the harvest goes as smooth as is it smells.
The led is just over 12" above the auto flower and the hps about 24" above the photos, keeping a close eye for any light stress. The temperature is steady at 24c, humidity 49% with light's on, between 19 and 20c humidity climbs up to high 60's, I will start leaving my exhaust system one 24/7 soon I think, especially when I flip the lights. The new temperature controller and heater work much better, the temp change is only around 2 degree difference when the heater brings it back up to set temperature. My ph is staying around 6.2.
The clone box has clones of every strain I have, haven't seen any roots yet. They will be great for my second journal. Note on the 4 scattered plants you may see in the background are frow seed, a outdoor strain been crossed a few times I am curious what they will turn out like, but not sure what I'm doing with them yet.
Cinderella and Headband.
Rockstar.
Gorilla Glue and Northern Lights.
Early Miss.
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