Laynexsiren
420 Member
Hello everyone,
After some expert assistance with my initial post and prompting for this, I've decided to start logging my grow journal here. This is my first grow in over a decade, and my budget and poor enviro conditions in the past led to poor yields, so I'm hoping to up the game here now.
I'm doing a basement tent grow. Almost all setup components were purchased from HTG Supply. Here's the basics of my rig:
40" x 40" x 7' Agro Grow tent
HTG Supply LED grow light, 320w, 4 fixture
196cfm fan with carbon filter
Two stationary 6" fans, placed high- and mid-tent
6" oscillating fan placed at base of plants
Exhale co² bag (not using exhaust fan or carbon filter currently to encourage co² growth)
Settable 1gal humidifier
Settable ceramic heater
Dual bucket DWC system purchased from PA Hydroponics (buckets, air pump, air line, air stones, 6" mesh pots, hydroton, rockwool cubes)
Philips LED light bulb in a typical clamp light used for germination
Using city water run through an inline hose carbon filter designed for campers and pools, ppm of water is 80 after filter
Nutrients:
Armor Si (from General Hydroponics?)
Botanicare CalMag
Cyco Platinum series nutrients
-Grow A & B
-Bloom A & B
-Cyco Zyme
-Ryzo Fuel
I'm currently on day 19 of my grow. Counting from when I initially wet the seeds.
To start, I soaked my seeds in 5.8pH water and soaked my rockwool cubes in 4.0pH until my runoff was around 5.5pH from the cubes. My seeds are from Grow King Seeds, doing 2 plants in this grow. After a few hours in the water, I placed the seeds in the rockwool in a 4" tray very wet but not soaked, stuck the tray in a 1gal ziploc, and placed in the dark tent with a heater keeping it around 75°. Sprayed with water periodically to keep humidity up. On day 6, both plants had emerged from the cubes. I left them in the bag but put the clamp light directly over them, about 4" away. Named them A and B for simplicity. A shed its shell with no issue, B lost the shell but the inner seed membrane was stuck around the cotyledon leaves. By day 8 my investigation showed that B would die if I didn't intervene, and I was able to manually remove the membrane. The cotyledon leaves were totally yellow and soggy, as were the very tips of the first true leaves forming. I think this stunted her badly.
Day 10- even with the damage on B, both plants were popping roots out of the rockwool, so I decided to place them in my buckets. I overfilled to 15L of water to get food to the plants and used Armor Si, CalMag, Grow A & B, and Cyco Zyme to get ppm to 400. Turned on my grow light @ 32" on an 18/6 schedule. Top fed 2x a day through day 16. pH fluctuation surprised me, checked the first time at day 13 and was at 7.0, so I corrected and started checking daily. By day 15, A was reaching down into the water well and B was getting close with a single root. B looked rough still, causing me to get on here initially. I was still using a heater to keep the tent around 71° at night through day 18. Humidity had been set around 50%.
Day 18 (yesterday) - I did my first bucket change (doing them weekly) and noticed that I had seen my water temp close to 75° and there was "slickness" on the bucket walls and air line. Chose to stop using the heater at night to allow water to cool and discourage algae growth. Tent gets to 64° at night without heat. I raised the humidity to 75% after seeing a VPD chart from @Rexer . Here's my current bucket setup:
12.5L water
4ml Si
8ml calmag
12ml each of Grow A & B
8ml Zyme
Total ppm 500
pH @ 5.5
Day 19 - within 12 hours, pH had crept up to 6.6 in both buckets. I corrected back down to 5.5. A now has multiple happy roots deep in the bucket and B still only has 1, but it's getting longer. I've already developed a leak in a bucket from PA Hydro, they have the tubes displaying water level on the side. Tightened and cleaned, hopefully that'll stop. Debating buying the HydroBucket instead, as SCROGging is something I'd like to do, but I haven't seen enough about actually using those buckets yet to pull the trigger.
Besides being stunted, B has multiple "bends" in the leaves. Like certain serrations in the leaves curl oddly. I'm seeing it a small amount in A as well, but nothing like B. Current day cycle temp is 76.8° and humidity is 74%.
I've attached a photo of each of the babies from last night, I'll post more of my operation as I continue to fill this. I feel like it's starting decently for what it is! A is the much bigger of the two!
After some expert assistance with my initial post and prompting for this, I've decided to start logging my grow journal here. This is my first grow in over a decade, and my budget and poor enviro conditions in the past led to poor yields, so I'm hoping to up the game here now.
I'm doing a basement tent grow. Almost all setup components were purchased from HTG Supply. Here's the basics of my rig:
40" x 40" x 7' Agro Grow tent
HTG Supply LED grow light, 320w, 4 fixture
196cfm fan with carbon filter
Two stationary 6" fans, placed high- and mid-tent
6" oscillating fan placed at base of plants
Exhale co² bag (not using exhaust fan or carbon filter currently to encourage co² growth)
Settable 1gal humidifier
Settable ceramic heater
Dual bucket DWC system purchased from PA Hydroponics (buckets, air pump, air line, air stones, 6" mesh pots, hydroton, rockwool cubes)
Philips LED light bulb in a typical clamp light used for germination
Using city water run through an inline hose carbon filter designed for campers and pools, ppm of water is 80 after filter
Nutrients:
Armor Si (from General Hydroponics?)
Botanicare CalMag
Cyco Platinum series nutrients
-Grow A & B
-Bloom A & B
-Cyco Zyme
-Ryzo Fuel
I'm currently on day 19 of my grow. Counting from when I initially wet the seeds.
To start, I soaked my seeds in 5.8pH water and soaked my rockwool cubes in 4.0pH until my runoff was around 5.5pH from the cubes. My seeds are from Grow King Seeds, doing 2 plants in this grow. After a few hours in the water, I placed the seeds in the rockwool in a 4" tray very wet but not soaked, stuck the tray in a 1gal ziploc, and placed in the dark tent with a heater keeping it around 75°. Sprayed with water periodically to keep humidity up. On day 6, both plants had emerged from the cubes. I left them in the bag but put the clamp light directly over them, about 4" away. Named them A and B for simplicity. A shed its shell with no issue, B lost the shell but the inner seed membrane was stuck around the cotyledon leaves. By day 8 my investigation showed that B would die if I didn't intervene, and I was able to manually remove the membrane. The cotyledon leaves were totally yellow and soggy, as were the very tips of the first true leaves forming. I think this stunted her badly.
Day 10- even with the damage on B, both plants were popping roots out of the rockwool, so I decided to place them in my buckets. I overfilled to 15L of water to get food to the plants and used Armor Si, CalMag, Grow A & B, and Cyco Zyme to get ppm to 400. Turned on my grow light @ 32" on an 18/6 schedule. Top fed 2x a day through day 16. pH fluctuation surprised me, checked the first time at day 13 and was at 7.0, so I corrected and started checking daily. By day 15, A was reaching down into the water well and B was getting close with a single root. B looked rough still, causing me to get on here initially. I was still using a heater to keep the tent around 71° at night through day 18. Humidity had been set around 50%.
Day 18 (yesterday) - I did my first bucket change (doing them weekly) and noticed that I had seen my water temp close to 75° and there was "slickness" on the bucket walls and air line. Chose to stop using the heater at night to allow water to cool and discourage algae growth. Tent gets to 64° at night without heat. I raised the humidity to 75% after seeing a VPD chart from @Rexer . Here's my current bucket setup:
12.5L water
4ml Si
8ml calmag
12ml each of Grow A & B
8ml Zyme
Total ppm 500
pH @ 5.5
Day 19 - within 12 hours, pH had crept up to 6.6 in both buckets. I corrected back down to 5.5. A now has multiple happy roots deep in the bucket and B still only has 1, but it's getting longer. I've already developed a leak in a bucket from PA Hydro, they have the tubes displaying water level on the side. Tightened and cleaned, hopefully that'll stop. Debating buying the HydroBucket instead, as SCROGging is something I'd like to do, but I haven't seen enough about actually using those buckets yet to pull the trigger.
Besides being stunted, B has multiple "bends" in the leaves. Like certain serrations in the leaves curl oddly. I'm seeing it a small amount in A as well, but nothing like B. Current day cycle temp is 76.8° and humidity is 74%.
I've attached a photo of each of the babies from last night, I'll post more of my operation as I continue to fill this. I feel like it's starting decently for what it is! A is the much bigger of the two!
I hope both you and the plants are doing good!
