Fncg's Grow 0.5/1.0 Hempy 2L Perpetual Sea of Green

[Xare]

Alright its another Perpetual Hempy grow.

I am always happy to see others pickup on how great the Hempy SOG is.

Ill stick around cheer you along your path to lots of buds.

 

[jjames]

dedication pays off... that sucks havin to use the gen, but at least you have it, theyre lookin good

 

[fncg]

Our power finally came back on, after 75 hours of toting gas to the generator. Whew. Now to get the girls back on some sort of schedule, and growing into little moms to start the clone army!

Xare, I read your whole thread over on another site, you're definitely one of my inspirations. There's still a huge mental gap for me between these six tiny plants and an enormous sea of green colas, fat and ready for harvest, that I can't even imagine.

My Blue Planet Nutrients 3-part mix should be in early next week, and we'll see what this stuff can really do!

Thanks to everybody for the support, and for reading along.

 

[fncg]

It's now Day 5, power is back on, which means I can run my space heater and fan instead of just a couple banks of shop lights. Weather report, 88 degrees and 30% humidity with lights on. Too warm? Seems like we're getting temps in the high 60's with lights off, and humidity climbs up towards 50%.

If I'm screwing this up, somebody PLEASE tell me.

New growth! I'm so irrationally excited about this, lol.

 

[jdub]

Lookin good and like about time to transplant on up , on holdin it down with the power outage bro..., maybe a lil mute burn, but transplanting should help

 

[jjames]

they look good... in my exp, an like you noticed, drop the air temp an the RH goes right up an viceversa... i like to keep RH between 50-60% during veg... air 75-80*

 

[jjames]

you should look into GLR veg light sched.(gas lantern routine)... i tried it this grow an it was amazing! look around theres a whole lot of ppl on 420 doin it.
it goes
12hrs light
5.5hrs dark
1hr light
5.5hrs dark
repeat...
the trick is that during the one hour of light that splits your 12 of dark, it tricks the plant out of producing flowering hormones, and crazy veg lets loose. its worth readin about anyway, also savings on electricity an bulb life too...

 

[fncg]

First, the exciting news...

MY BLUE PLANET NUTRIENTS ARE HERE!



Thanks again Corey, you're awesome. Unfortunately, they arrived on a water-only day, so we're gonna have to wait another 48 hours to get the girls their new nutes.

I think I've got the room temperature balanced out decently now, showing a range from 79 degrees with lights on down to 57 at "night". Humidity is in the 30-50% range. Seem reasonable? I'm running an oil-filled radiator to keep the room temps up (it's near freezing outside) and no active controls for humidity at this point.

Lavender 1 and Lavender 2 are growing like, well, weeds. New leaf nodes growing at the tops, little sprouts out the sides at lower nodes that appeared abandoned a week ago, and just generally looking great all over.

Trainwreck 1 and 2 remain little shorties, but 1 is definitely starting to move and 2 is thinking about it. We should have more to see in a couple days.

Lavender 3 and 4 have me a bit worried. I'm getting some brown tips on perhaps 2-3 leaves per plant, and there's what appears to be mold growing on the rockwool and perlite medium. Thoughts/suggestions/etc? My gf suspects I've been over-doing it on the nutrients, which is entirely possible (~1/3 strength of the other brands' veg stuff). I would really like to see this green schmutz gone from my plants' homes though.

Thanks for checking in, I'll be posting a nice little group shot of the girls with their new nutes in a couple days, take some measurements, and get them started with Blue Planet.



Edit: I'm definitely planning a switch over to gas lamp routine for these plants, but I don't want to be changing too many variables at once. There's also the question of temperatures, we're getting down to 57 in the grow room during lights-out, which is actually during the day. I'm concerned it'll get too chilly in there with ~11 hours of dark, and running both heaters puts my temps at almost 90 with lights on.

 

[jjames]

[/QUOTE]Lavender 3 and 4 have me a bit worried. I'm getting some brown tips on perhaps 2-3 leaves per plant, and there's what appears to be mold growing on the rockwool and perlite medium. Thoughts/suggestions/etc? My gf suspects I've been over-doing it on the nutrients, which is entirely possible (~1/3 strength of the other brands' veg stuff). I would really like to see this green schmutz gone from my plants' homes though.

Thanks for checking in, I'll be posting a nice little group shot of the girls with their new nutes in a couple days, take some measurements, and get them started with Blue Planet.



Edit: I'm definitely planning a switch over to gas lamp routine for these plants, but I don't want to be changing too many variables at once. There's also the question of temperatures, we're getting down to 57 in the grow room during lights-out, which is actually during the day. I'm concerned it'll get too chilly in there with ~11 hours of dark, and running both heaters puts my temps at almost 90 with lights on.[/QUOTE]

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i gotta say that GLR is awesome and you will be rewarded with crazy veg, puttin BPN in the mix will catapult your grow as well...

the leaves maybe nute burn or a def. of some sort, mine looked alot like that when i effed up an gave em full strength nutrients right off the bat.(not BPN however)

as for the green stuff id read up on maybe treatin it with some H2O2... maybe let the medium dry out a little more in between waterings? i grow in hydro and i know that is what ppl use when root rot happens, i guess i shouldnt give advice on that but maybe a good place to start lookin. theres so many good experienced growers on this site youll have it licked in no time...

good luck

 

[jjames]

i dont know how i messed up my last post!? tried to quote, its too late time for sleep

 

[OG13]

The green stuff is algae and doesn't hurt anything. When the plants get bigger, no light will get "down there" and it will decrease.

 

[fncg]

Thank you soooo much. Very relieved to hear that.

 

[fncg]

Aaaaand today:

(drumroll please)

Blue Planet Nutrients switch day!



Got the old nutes flushed out with a couple of good waterings over the last week, and we're ready to get growing!

But first, a quick family portrait.

The Lavender girls when I brought them home on 11.29, about 2/3 the height of a lunch bag.

Here's everybody now, 12 days later. Ready to start hitting the BPN

The two tallest Lavenders, 1 and 2, are within an inch or two of the lights...I'm gonna have to move things up very soon here, quicker than I expected.

Trainwreck 1 and 2 are still short, but showing good new growth, and finally starting to get moving. These are supposed to be the 5-star strain, if I can get them to thrive and produce well. They were kinda sketchy for a while, $5 discount clones, but I think we've got a chance still of making these two into some good moms.

One major concern, tonight I noticed some fuzzies on the rockwool base around TW1, is this powdery mildew or ???? And what do I do about it?

And the Lavenders:

L1, sprouting everywhere, and looking (I think?) pretty healthy.

L2, a little skinnier but the tallest of the bunch.

Top view of L2, lots of little fan leaves coming out of every node.

L3, also skinny, but looking like she's about to sprout a bunch of fan leaves everywhere from her lower nodes, and growing at the top as well.

And L4, another bushier and shorter one.

And I picked up a Kill-a-Watt, so as to get a more accurate picture of what this grow is going to do to my electric bill.

Lights are drawing 185 watts (three shop fixtures, 2x 32w bulbs each). These are running 18 hours a day, pending switch to GLR, and my electric rates average $0.21/kwh. Looks like $0.70 oer day for the lights.

Heater is a different story. 818 watts draw (on the 900 watt setting) and it's running 24/7 to keep my room temps between ~65-80 degrees, depending on whether the lights are on or not. This one adds up to $4.13 a day, and doesn't even help the girls grow. Crud. However, I expect to be able to turn it down significantly when I add some insulation, and get an HPS going in here. Seeing almost $150 a month just to keep the room warm is gonna make insulation panels an easy sell.

And my little fan draws 31 watts. No worries there. Not gonna break the bank at 17 cents a day. Whew.

The girls have now all been watered and fed, with Blue Planet Nutrients 3-part mix, with Micro, Bloom, and Grow each mixed at 5.0ml/gallon, which is Corey's suggested strength for early stage Veg plants.

Fingers crossed, tape measures ready, and we're off to the races!!!!



Thanks for reading along, PLEASE help with any suggestions, I've got a couple of questions above that I could really use answers to. Thanks everybody!

 

[OG13]

Insulation is always a no brainer, most people never do the math first. If you are worried that is mold on the cube (I'm not) give it a light H2o2 drench to kill it. Make sure you have a fan moving the air directly around the plants, you want to see them wiggle a bit. Then you know the O2 is not building up in the tub and they have plenty of CO2.

 

[fncg]

Insulation is always a no brainer, most people never do the math first. If you are worried that is mold on the cube (I'm not) give it a light H2o2 drench to kill it. Make sure you have a fan moving the air directly around the plants, you want to see them wiggle a bit. Then you know the O2 is not building up in the tub and they have plenty of CO2.

Thanks, OG. I need to set up a fan on the plants,there's one in the room circulating air in general, but you're right that it might be a bit stagnant in the tub. Framework and insulation goes up in a couple days, going to be essentially a box made from those 1" thick Styrofoam sheets with a foil/mylar layer on one side.

I think I'll hit the one plant with some H2O2 just to make sure. You don't think that's necessary though?

 

[Blue Planet Nutrients]

What size pots are you going to transplant into?

 

[fncg]

I want a couple of big, healthy moms that can spin off 20-30 clones every couple of weeks to feed the SOG. Thinking 5 gallons. Too big? Not committed to any particular size yet. The "bonsai moms" intrigue me, but I'm not educated enough on how much they can produce.

 

[voltron]

Fncg, everything is looking good! I'm as excited about the BPN as you are. I am about to place an order for some BPN org trio after checking out other journals that currently use them. I'm currently growing hempy now but already have Nirvanas Blackjack sown in FFOF for my organic soil/nute grow. I look forward to seeing how your hempies work out for you. They are a great simple way to grow, I messed up with mine by germing in soil and transplanting with all soil attached into pearlite causing ph fluctuations, that takes a little of the simplicity away but using rockwool makes it much easier to you. Wish you the best.

 

[Mr. Krip]

I want a couple of big, healthy moms that can spin off 20-30 clones every couple of weeks to feed the SOG. Thinking 5 gallons. Too big? Not committed to any particular size yet. The "bonsai moms" intrigue me, hut I'm not educated enough on how much they can produce.

Bonsai Mothers

 

[fncg]

Bonsai Mothers

THERE'S the thread I was looking for. + reps

That two level shelf setup would be perfect for my grow space. That's exactly what I'm gonna do. Thanks!