paintedbudman
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I already started this grow log in a word processor. I just copied the text from there into this log. I will add the pictures i have in my documents later when i figure out how. Here is the first 6 days of my log hope you like it. I will trey to keep up with this on a weekly basis if not more frequently. Well here goes ..... enjoy !!!
11/3/2015 — Day 1 - This is my first public grow log. I have built my grow box (pictures to come). I ordered seeds, received them in under 2 weeks. First 5 I grow will be Nirvana Northern Lights Auto flower feminized. I chose this because it is supposed to be an easy grow that would be forgiving for newbies. I placed the seeds between two thoroughly damp paper towels last evening. Today it looks like 3 or 4 or them have cracked and I see evidence of a root starting to stick out. I am hoping that all 5 will germinate but only time will tell. My grow box has ~6 ft^2 directly under light, and maybe a total of 8-9 if you include every nook and cranny inside the box. From the top of the soil to the very bottom of the CFLs is 75cm (~30 inch). This will mean that I have to do some LST to make sure everything fits. I have just a smidge less than 800 watts of CFL lights over the plants (~54000 lumens). It has ~1/3 of the lights at 2700K 1/3 of the lights at 6500K and the other 1/3 switches between 6500K during veg and 2700K during flower/bud. These are adjustable in 6 inch increments over the plants. The box has 2 4" fans forcing air in and 1 4" fan exhausting it. I may add to these as need arises. Maintains the interior of the box at ~10°F higher than the exterior at pot top level. I am guessing there is an increase in heat the closer to the lights. Pictures are below. The green in the box was my first grow, in a 10 gallon bucket. They are at day 24. They have some nute problems as well as some watering issues, but overall from bag seeds they don't look too bad .... Too bad they will have to go to make room for the northern lights. I added ~1/2 gallon of distilled water to each of the 5 pots (#3 nursery pots — 2.25 real gallons, 3 trade gallons). I previously placed ~1-2- inches of limestone in the bottom of each pot and then put fox farms ocean forest in each pot. Two of the pots (the rearmost in the grow chamber, plants #4 and #5) also had ~1/3 part miracle grow perlite added to the mix. After the water addition all of the pots showed some clear runoff into their plates. With a slight addition of water tomorrow morning the planting should go smoothly (btw I have looked at the seeds and at least four of the five have sprouted, and I think I see a crack in the fifth one. So I think all 5 have popped, but we will see in the morning.
Nov 4 — Day 2 — 4 of 5 beans definitely popped. Planted all 5 this morning. Placed the seeds just under ground and poured a little water over each bean after I placed the seed just barely under the ground. Watched all day and nothing. The seeds are in the soil and now we wait to see if anything comes up. Had to modify the grow cabinet a bit. Placed the thermometer up higher in the chamber maybe 12 inches from the lights. The temperature climbed to 104°F. Way too hot. So I went to home depot and bought a sheet of acrylic and cut it such that when I placed it on the just below the light (using the same braces that I have for the lights) so most all of the air would travel in the 1" border to exit the cabinet. Two fans forcing cooler air into the lower portion and 1 fan pulling hot air out the top. Again set the thermometer in the same place and it only got up to 88°F. I am going to add another fan to the case tomorrow or the next day midway up the sidewall. This should disrupt and stratification in the middle of the box. Also puts more cool air below the acrylic thus keeping the temperature in the growing area under 86°F. My hope is that this should get the temperature maximum down in the mid 80's. The plants should be able to grow right up to the acrylic sheet without heat stress. Should work well. I hope.
Nov 5 — Day 3 — All 5 seeds are growing. Periodically spritzing them with water and covered with plastic to keep them moist and warm. I read in one of the blogs that oxygenating your water is a good thing. It stabilized\s the pH on the acid side and provides extra oxygen for the roots. I have an aquarium air pump that can feed two air stones. I have both of these bubbling away. I can't think of any reason it would hurt the plants if I do this and maybe it will help. Besides, it is a bit dry in here and increasing the interior humidity even a little it a good thing. Measured the temperature even closer to the acrylic sheet .... Equivalent to ~2-3 inches from the lights. It maxed out at 96 before I added another 4" fan about in the center and the top of the fan about level with that 2-3 inches from the lights. After this the max temperature I saw here was 90. Still a bit hot but livable. When the plants are in there growing we will see what the temperatures are there then. It might require I install the 8" exhaust fan that have waiting in the wings. I replaced the plastic over the seeds with 12 oz. clear plastic cups. I can clearly see 4 of the 5 seeds sprouting and one that I know has sprouted must have dirt over the sprout but it will come up. Looks like I'm 5 for 5 so far.
Nov 6 — Day 4 — 4 of the 5 have their heads up and 3 are opening leaves. One still has its seed coat on, if it doesn't sluff it off by this evening I'll take action and help like I did with 2 of the others last evening. Looks like I did have to help all of them with their seed coat removal. Next time I am going to leave the sprouts in the moist paper towel longer to soften up the seep coat a bit more/ Now I can see green on all of them with their little dicot leaves opening. Moved all of the plants up by placing the pots on top of 5 gallon buckets. They are now about 14" from the lights. Still covered with clear plastic cups (see pictures below). The second picture is just a picture of my current setup. Pots on top of 5 gallon buckets to get them closer to the lights for now. Later I can use 1 gallon buckets followed by nothing. Currently at the base of the central pot my humidity has ranged from 35 to 51% and the temperature has gone from 75 to 81°F. Pretty darned stable and right in the sweet spot. The next picture is my first small grow from bag seeds. Looking for a good home for them. I really want to see this auto flower grow get moving and there won't be enough room for the extra pot right now especially because I'm a newbie and need to avoid male plants at all costs. The next 5 pictures are of the various seedlings. I have 2 seedlings that seem to be having some problems and that is #1 and #4 I will be watching them especially.
Nov 7 - Day 5 — All 5 are sprouted, the dicot leaves are now open and now I can see the first "single" finger leaves starting on all of them. Even the two that looked scrawny are looking better this morning. Got up early (2:00 am) turned on the lights in the box. I guess today the plants will get about 3 extra hours of light. The little ones continue to grow. I gave each bucket ~1 litre of distilled water. And took off the humidity domes just before bed. Took some pics, but one missed one of the seedlings so I only have 4. Trying to take 1 of each nightly.
Nov 8 — Day 6 — The sprouts continue to grow. #1 looks runty right now, #4 only one of the two dicot leaves never formed (may have been damaged when removing the seed casing). But all of the five show the first single finger leaves are out and growing. See pictures below.
11/3/2015 — Day 1 - This is my first public grow log. I have built my grow box (pictures to come). I ordered seeds, received them in under 2 weeks. First 5 I grow will be Nirvana Northern Lights Auto flower feminized. I chose this because it is supposed to be an easy grow that would be forgiving for newbies. I placed the seeds between two thoroughly damp paper towels last evening. Today it looks like 3 or 4 or them have cracked and I see evidence of a root starting to stick out. I am hoping that all 5 will germinate but only time will tell. My grow box has ~6 ft^2 directly under light, and maybe a total of 8-9 if you include every nook and cranny inside the box. From the top of the soil to the very bottom of the CFLs is 75cm (~30 inch). This will mean that I have to do some LST to make sure everything fits. I have just a smidge less than 800 watts of CFL lights over the plants (~54000 lumens). It has ~1/3 of the lights at 2700K 1/3 of the lights at 6500K and the other 1/3 switches between 6500K during veg and 2700K during flower/bud. These are adjustable in 6 inch increments over the plants. The box has 2 4" fans forcing air in and 1 4" fan exhausting it. I may add to these as need arises. Maintains the interior of the box at ~10°F higher than the exterior at pot top level. I am guessing there is an increase in heat the closer to the lights. Pictures are below. The green in the box was my first grow, in a 10 gallon bucket. They are at day 24. They have some nute problems as well as some watering issues, but overall from bag seeds they don't look too bad .... Too bad they will have to go to make room for the northern lights. I added ~1/2 gallon of distilled water to each of the 5 pots (#3 nursery pots — 2.25 real gallons, 3 trade gallons). I previously placed ~1-2- inches of limestone in the bottom of each pot and then put fox farms ocean forest in each pot. Two of the pots (the rearmost in the grow chamber, plants #4 and #5) also had ~1/3 part miracle grow perlite added to the mix. After the water addition all of the pots showed some clear runoff into their plates. With a slight addition of water tomorrow morning the planting should go smoothly (btw I have looked at the seeds and at least four of the five have sprouted, and I think I see a crack in the fifth one. So I think all 5 have popped, but we will see in the morning.
Nov 4 — Day 2 — 4 of 5 beans definitely popped. Planted all 5 this morning. Placed the seeds just under ground and poured a little water over each bean after I placed the seed just barely under the ground. Watched all day and nothing. The seeds are in the soil and now we wait to see if anything comes up. Had to modify the grow cabinet a bit. Placed the thermometer up higher in the chamber maybe 12 inches from the lights. The temperature climbed to 104°F. Way too hot. So I went to home depot and bought a sheet of acrylic and cut it such that when I placed it on the just below the light (using the same braces that I have for the lights) so most all of the air would travel in the 1" border to exit the cabinet. Two fans forcing cooler air into the lower portion and 1 fan pulling hot air out the top. Again set the thermometer in the same place and it only got up to 88°F. I am going to add another fan to the case tomorrow or the next day midway up the sidewall. This should disrupt and stratification in the middle of the box. Also puts more cool air below the acrylic thus keeping the temperature in the growing area under 86°F. My hope is that this should get the temperature maximum down in the mid 80's. The plants should be able to grow right up to the acrylic sheet without heat stress. Should work well. I hope.
Nov 5 — Day 3 — All 5 seeds are growing. Periodically spritzing them with water and covered with plastic to keep them moist and warm. I read in one of the blogs that oxygenating your water is a good thing. It stabilized\s the pH on the acid side and provides extra oxygen for the roots. I have an aquarium air pump that can feed two air stones. I have both of these bubbling away. I can't think of any reason it would hurt the plants if I do this and maybe it will help. Besides, it is a bit dry in here and increasing the interior humidity even a little it a good thing. Measured the temperature even closer to the acrylic sheet .... Equivalent to ~2-3 inches from the lights. It maxed out at 96 before I added another 4" fan about in the center and the top of the fan about level with that 2-3 inches from the lights. After this the max temperature I saw here was 90. Still a bit hot but livable. When the plants are in there growing we will see what the temperatures are there then. It might require I install the 8" exhaust fan that have waiting in the wings. I replaced the plastic over the seeds with 12 oz. clear plastic cups. I can clearly see 4 of the 5 seeds sprouting and one that I know has sprouted must have dirt over the sprout but it will come up. Looks like I'm 5 for 5 so far.
Nov 6 — Day 4 — 4 of the 5 have their heads up and 3 are opening leaves. One still has its seed coat on, if it doesn't sluff it off by this evening I'll take action and help like I did with 2 of the others last evening. Looks like I did have to help all of them with their seed coat removal. Next time I am going to leave the sprouts in the moist paper towel longer to soften up the seep coat a bit more/ Now I can see green on all of them with their little dicot leaves opening. Moved all of the plants up by placing the pots on top of 5 gallon buckets. They are now about 14" from the lights. Still covered with clear plastic cups (see pictures below). The second picture is just a picture of my current setup. Pots on top of 5 gallon buckets to get them closer to the lights for now. Later I can use 1 gallon buckets followed by nothing. Currently at the base of the central pot my humidity has ranged from 35 to 51% and the temperature has gone from 75 to 81°F. Pretty darned stable and right in the sweet spot. The next picture is my first small grow from bag seeds. Looking for a good home for them. I really want to see this auto flower grow get moving and there won't be enough room for the extra pot right now especially because I'm a newbie and need to avoid male plants at all costs. The next 5 pictures are of the various seedlings. I have 2 seedlings that seem to be having some problems and that is #1 and #4 I will be watching them especially.
Nov 7 - Day 5 — All 5 are sprouted, the dicot leaves are now open and now I can see the first "single" finger leaves starting on all of them. Even the two that looked scrawny are looking better this morning. Got up early (2:00 am) turned on the lights in the box. I guess today the plants will get about 3 extra hours of light. The little ones continue to grow. I gave each bucket ~1 litre of distilled water. And took off the humidity domes just before bed. Took some pics, but one missed one of the seedlings so I only have 4. Trying to take 1 of each nightly.
Nov 8 — Day 6 — The sprouts continue to grow. #1 looks runty right now, #4 only one of the two dicot leaves never formed (may have been damaged when removing the seed casing). But all of the five show the first single finger leaves are out and growing. See pictures below.
.. But all is looking good for your girls! I can't wait to see them grow!
