NorthernCosmos' First Indoor Soil Auto Grow: 2019

I always run my plants at full strength by the time they're in flower. A plant is a plant...it doesn't know it's an auto :).

I've never run AN nutes, but I'm sure there's a feeding schedule on the bottle or their website that tells you when to add the Big Bud. Probably soon!
 
If you're at 50% now, next watering should be 75%, then 100% the one after that.
 
Ah, but you're CraZy after all... :p:laughtwo:

The Advanced Nutrients recommendation is 1-4ml each pr liter of Grow/Micro/Bloom from seedling to flowering - that's upwards to 12ml pr liter in sum (so 120ml per 10 liter), which sounds like a lot(!) Is the Canna nutes stronger stuff? Perhaps the 3 component style just needs more of the liquid. Then there's the Vitalink Root-Stim, with 1-2ml/l recommended, and the AN Big Buds with 2ml/l recommended.

I've read about individuals' schemes involving some of these, and they vary... Of course there are many factors, like strain, medium, light/temp/RH, nute brands/types, what kinds of things you whisper gently to the plants etc..

The max recommendations above will be my target levels for this grow. BTW, I'm starting two more plants in the same tent in a few days, to get that overlapping-grow plan going, and I will give them more nutes earlier on. It'll be interesting to compare, even though they'll be other strains.
 
Yeah I am crazy, that's me! :cheesygrinsmiley:

Don't go in depth about all this yet, if it's your first grow you should just keep following instructions. As you will learn from now with growing there is a lot of stuff to learn and every grow is not the same. Each grow style with its own difficulty and obstacles to get over.

Were I am at now I just keep trying to maximize everything for this space, I got keep weed coming in steady and not having too much in stock if things should go south.

Sounds interesting this that you are having more plants already. :)
 
Day 38. Some older and some newer growth have developed light spots and some brown tips overnight. There has been a growth spurt since yesterdays feeding, and it looks mostly healthy, I think...(?) but there are definitely some areas that could look better(?)

The piece of paper is for white balance reference to give you true colours. Some of the lower leaves has had some spots already, but some have gotten worse. with more light spots.

The very lowest and oldest leaves may just be naturally decaying, right? What are the likely causes of the rest of it? Too much nutes too suddenly? Lights too close at 20 inches? Should I worry?

Amnesia:

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White Widow:

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NorthernCosmos said:
Some older and some newer growth have developed light spots and some brown tips overnight.
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The tips burning are a sign of excess nutes. The spots could be a Ca def for many reasons. The plants were fine before the last feeding so if it were me I would back off or just feed plain water next feed.
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The very lowest and oldest leaves may just be naturally decaying, right?
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Unless they are damaged, no. Those lowers should be just as healthy as the top of the plant. Late flower before harvest you may see leaves dying off.
 
OK... :nervous-guy:

Is this one of those occasions where the pots should be flushed to stop more damage, or is that to late, or even not something that useless or not advisable at all?

Edit: It doesn't seem to have gotten much worse since earlier today, so perhaps it's "stabilizing"... Or am I to expect a slow delayed progression of the issue(s) ?
 
Well I wouldn't flush unless there was a good reason, and I'm not seeing that. Your plants look fine right now in general. I don't know anything about these nutes, but adding Big Bud sounds like a PK booster so it's possible your plant is not liking a certain ratio of the macro elements. You don't want a low N to high K ratio or you will get a Ca lockout.
 
Thanks for the advice! I'll skew the balance a bit in favour of the Micro which is N dominant, and less Grow, Bloom and Big Bud which are all K dominant. And maybe just water next time (which is no more than a couple of day away). Oh, and I'll see if I can get some finely ground Calcium from that pharmacy I got the Epsom salt from.

Then I'll take it a bit more easy with the ramping up of nutes.
 
Whew... It hasn't gotten any worse. The new growth is looking happy. And there is growth indeed, so it wasn't all for nothing - good height and mass has been gained! :)

Now I'm beginning to think about the LST which I've been fiddling with almost daily. Is there a point at which it should stop and the ties be removed, or do I follow it up as long as the branches keep growing and creating nodes that can be exposed?

There are these small buds appearing on lower nodes, what @InTheShed refers to as lowers here. They're not as big as Shed's lowers in that posting, and many of them are shadowed by leaves above them. Thus I wonder if I should work to expose them, ref. continued training above, or I should snip the off.

This also brings my thoughts to the question of defoliation to allow more light to the lower nodes/buds. I don't really feel an urgent need for it, but optimization is always near to an old coder's heart (an occupational hazard of sorts...:p)
 
I saw you posting in Shed's LST tutorial. I have my plants in soil, in 5 gallon fabric pots, outdoors. I have my pots in plastic milk crates. That helps in several ways. The crates keep the pots off the ground and helps with drainage. I move my plants around to get the best sunlight, and I carry them by the crate handle, which helps maintain the pot shape and not disturb the soil. They also provide me with lots of places to tie off for LST. It also lets me go wider with my LST. In addition to pipe cleaners, I also use the green stretchy garden tape. Additonally, I use some 12 gauge Nomex indoor wire. I strip the outer plastic cover from the Nomex, which gives me 4 individual 12 gauge wires to use for LST.
 
Day 40. The pots were light an dry, so they both got ca. 0.8l plain water each. Their thirst is on the increase, which I take as a good sign.

There was quite a few dead earthworms, and a couple of live ones, in the run off. There has been a few in the run off previously too, but not as many. The compost supplement I used in the peat based soil was very lively, and it seems that the earthworms have been reproducing. Perhaps the nutes have killed off more than usual? Anyway, earthworms are good, right? Should I put the dead earthworms back into the soil?

It looks like the beginnings of colas are starting to form on both Ada and Wren. Things are happening fast now. They're almost at 25cm height, which doesn't sound like much, but is meaningful in this Bonzai grow (that's almost 5cm in 3 days):

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Dead earth worms in the run off:

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