First Grow - Bianca Feminized - Soil - LED

[ddfuji]

I don't think they'd be hungry in FFHF.

Does anyone experienced have an opinion about the LED vertical distance? Are they too close maybe?

[Somebody knowledgeable will probably chime in soon]

24" shouldn't be to close, if spots continued to show then it would be something id try to rule out.

 

[ninetoes]

Yeah, it's hard to tell, but I doubt it's too few nutes. Could be nutrient burn -- which shows up right along the serrated edge of new leaves. Can you get a photo in ordinary light? The leaf colour looks a little funky to me, overall. But, please remember, I barely know what I'm doing

If anything, judging by what you've all said, I would say slight nutrient burn. Or like ddfuji suggested, maybe they did this because we were spraying with water. Who knows? They look great today.

And here's a pic of our new babies - they should all be up by the end of the day.

 

[ninetoes]

Day 2 of life:

We have the lights at 21" from the top of the little ones now.

Temp is staying around 78 degrees with lights on, and humidity ranges from 50% to 70%.

 

[Curly Beaver]

Looking good but I'm not to sure about the fan being that close if they just sprouted.

 

[ninetoes]

Looking good but I'm not to sure about the fan being that close if they just sprouted.

Don't worry, the fan is on low and still facing the wall, not the plants they barely catch wind

 

[ninetoes]

5th day alive:

The babes are putting out their second set of leaves.

Anybody have an opinion on whether we should bury up to the cotyledons when we decide to transplant them?

Here's a picture of the test babes:

We topped (top 2) and FIM'd (bottom) 2 or 3 days ago to see if we could successfully do so. The attempted-FIM'd baby not looking so good...the other 2 look great though

 

[ninetoes]

Day 10 of life:

They are looking healthy. A couple of their leaves have twisted a little, but from what I've read on other journals they should be fine.

The daytime temp is staying at 79 degrees, nighttime is closer to 70 on average. The humidity is averaging 60%

 

[ninetoes]

Took these pictures last night when we transplanted the babies into 5-gallon buckets of Happy Frog. 12 days old.

We turned the humidifier off, and the humidity has been staying at 70% or higher. The temperature is around 79-81 now that we have both lights turned on, and the low at night is 68-70. The lights are 22" from the plants.
Today we set the exhaust fan to come on for 15 minutes each hour, except during lights off. Will update with how it affects temp/humidity for future reference. The box fan goes off during lights off and is facing the wall.

 

[ninetoes]

22nd day of life. We are having some minor issues, so if anybody has advice that would be AWESOME

(Bianca babies)

(Middle row, one is the healthiest)

Most of them look healthy but all of them have some damage to the edges of their lowest leaves (nutrient burn?).
One of them has it the worst and is our smallest plant right now:

(You can see it on the top and bottom leaves)

(Another angle of the same plant)

Last but not least, here is a picture of a baby which we ripped a little I want to keep track of its growth but we think it will be fine

The exhaust was lowering the humidity so the humidifier is coming on to keep it around 60%. The temperature stays around 80 still.

 

[ninetoes]

Also, we are venting our room for 15 minutes each hour (at once) - lights on only. Anybody think we should give them more fresh air?

 

[ninetoes]

Btw, I dont know why I put 22nd day of life before. They were on day 17.

 

[kaivorth]

Fresh air is a must in my opinion. I plan to have my exhaust on while the light is on, and turn it off at night time.

 

[glimmergrass]

Hi, ninetoes! This is a Christmas Eve drive-by greeting

 

[ninetoes]

Fresh air is a must in my opinion. I plan to have my exhaust on while the light is on, and turn it off at night time.

Thanks for the advice. We just changed our air to cycle 15 min on /15 min off while lights on. They are still pretty small, you think that is enough?

Hi, ninetoes! This is a Christmas Eve drive-by greeting

Thank you! Merry xmas!

 

[ninetoes]

Merry xmas! Our babies are 21 days old. We topped 5 of them, on (I think) the 18th and 19th days of life. The runt isn't looking so great; they're all a bit nutrient burnt and even yellowish on the newer leaves... needless to say, we won't be using Happy Frog for little plants anymore. Here are some close-up pics.

Back-left:

This is the healthiest looking one (back-right):

Our second healthiest baby, middle left:

Middle right:

Front right:

The runt, front left:

We are hoping the last one starts growing soon..

Temp: 79 daytime, 69 night
Humidity: 50-70% range
Exhaust: 15 min on/off cycle during lights on
Box fan on during lights on

 

[ninetoes]

Within a few days after xmas our babies were all getting pretty nutrient burnt. We did a little research and realized our temps were getting too high (up to 85 where our thermometer was sitting).

We now have the exhaust on at all times during lights on, and the temperature is staying around 76-77. We also have to keep the humidifier on in order to maintain about 50% (we could probably get it higher but we would have to refill the humidifier more frequently). We mostly just want to keep it above 40%.

We have a probe from the thermometer sitting under the light and it appears to be about 3 degrees higher under the light than where the thermometer is sitting (just above the lights). So the temperature is 78-81 degrees under the light during lights on now.

Now that we have our temps under control the plants are starting to all look better. But in these pictures you will see where the leaves got extremely burnt a few days ago.

Group Shot

1) The biggest baby

2)

3) Second biggest

4)

5)

6) The runt

It appears the runt has some new growth and is gonna pull through. Hopefully none of them go hermie on us..

 

[ninetoes]

Some recent pics:

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[glimmergrass]

Hi, ninetoes! The structure of your girls looks great -- hard to tell the colour under the LEDs, eh? So they're around 39 days old today?

 

[Curly Beaver]

Hi, ninetoes! The structure of your girls looks great -- hard to tell the colour under the LEDs, eh? So they're around 39 days old today?

Are you thinking maybe Cal-Mag?

 

[ninetoes]

Hi, ninetoes! The structure of your girls looks great -- hard to tell the colour under the LEDs, eh? So they're around 39 days old today?

Thanks! Yeah, I will take the next set of pictures without the LEDs on. They're 6 weeks old today!

So, I guess that means they were 40 days old that day. I might have it wrong though.