Morning blokes! First time posting a journal on here! Hopefully I can get it all done before I go to work!
Here is my hydroponics grow for AK99, using 12/12 straight from the seed!
My setup!
It's an NFT (?) system that was designed extremely cheap. I bought 1 plastic storm gutter - cut it in half - and cut holes big enough for a net, rockwool, and hydroton. Using both halves, I elevated one end of the gutters only .5-1" higher than the other end, allowing the water to run down and back into the reservoir via gravity.
The pump was bought at lowes, it's always running 24/7 as the system continually recirculates.
I'm using 2 lights, one is a 8 light florescent fixture - aprox. 400 watts and the other is a 400 watt HPS.
I'm using a tri-meter to keep track of everything, adjusted regularly.
The nutes I have are the tri-GH nutes and Florobloom along with Hygrozyme, Superthrive, and the PH adjusters.
The seeds
The website describes my seeds as such:
The Journal
I began germinating the seeds 12/15/07. They were put in a damp paper towel, which was put into a bag, which was put on a plate with a bowl on top for an "oven" effect. I put the seeds in my closet where I turned on my 75 watt light on above the ceramic dishes -- it created the oven effect and on 12/17/07 I had all 10 seeds germinated
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They were put straight into rockwool, and the rockwool went straight into my system. I left the light off an extra day then put the florescents very close on 12/12 until they sprouted.
December 26th
All 10 have sprouted and they had a strange 'twist' to the beginning leaves. I didn't think much of it but asked on here anyway. The PPM is around 300-350 at this time, PH around 5.6, temp stays around 75 degrees inside and the water is usually around 70.
There were two that sprouted earlier than the rest and have stretched a good amount, the others are a few days behind and aren't quite as tall.
January 9th
The one thing I can't stop thinking about... sex. These plants are sexing it up pretty good! I had 3 plants show their sex at this point, all 3 were female!
I experienced some serious purple stem about a week back on every plant, after bumping my nutes they recovered in aprox. 3 days. Otherwise, no nute burn... nothing... they are growing green and they're growing good.
A few days after I had all of my plants sexed, 3 male, 7 female. And I took pics!
(all 5 on right are fems, then it goes male, female, male, female, male... males are dead now)
The nutes here are around 800-900ppm and they are loving it. PH is still around 5.6 though it's increasing more quickly the bigger they get... gotta keep knocking it down. I had some problems with the temps - we ran out of gas and ran out of heat so I had to use electric heaters all over the house - It got down to 56*F at the lowest point in there... slightly stressful.
January 21st
These suckers have grown... alot! Well, the two giant ones that had the head start are a good 2x bigger than all of the other ones. I hope the others bush out more or something...
The biggest plant has started developing mad crazy bud sites... everywhere. The 2nd biggest has worried more about growing branches first, then budding. The others are short and becoming bushy. I should really LST them ... but... i'm lazy... and so are all the rest of you
Daytime temp is around 68*f-80*f
Nighttime temp is 74*F
Water temp is around 68*-70*F
PPM is at 1330
PH is around 5.6
The PPM is too high, alot of plant leaves are darker green and horn curl down at the tip slightly. I'm just letting the water run out via the plants then thinning the solution out... I just flushed it... and they aren't hurting too bad. There's no nute burn so I'm not really in any hurry to drop the PPM. These plants take everything I throw at them in stride.
That's about it, I had to play catch up. I'll update her in about a week, feel free to ask Qs.
Here is my hydroponics grow for AK99, using 12/12 straight from the seed!
My setup!
It's an NFT (?) system that was designed extremely cheap. I bought 1 plastic storm gutter - cut it in half - and cut holes big enough for a net, rockwool, and hydroton. Using both halves, I elevated one end of the gutters only .5-1" higher than the other end, allowing the water to run down and back into the reservoir via gravity.
The pump was bought at lowes, it's always running 24/7 as the system continually recirculates.
I'm using 2 lights, one is a 8 light florescent fixture - aprox. 400 watts and the other is a 400 watt HPS.
I'm using a tri-meter to keep track of everything, adjusted regularly.
The nutes I have are the tri-GH nutes and Florobloom along with Hygrozyme, Superthrive, and the PH adjusters.
The seeds
The website describes my seeds as such:
The Journal
I began germinating the seeds 12/15/07. They were put in a damp paper towel, which was put into a bag, which was put on a plate with a bowl on top for an "oven" effect. I put the seeds in my closet where I turned on my 75 watt light on above the ceramic dishes -- it created the oven effect and on 12/17/07 I had all 10 seeds germinated
.They were put straight into rockwool, and the rockwool went straight into my system. I left the light off an extra day then put the florescents very close on 12/12 until they sprouted.
December 26th
All 10 have sprouted and they had a strange 'twist' to the beginning leaves. I didn't think much of it but asked on here anyway. The PPM is around 300-350 at this time, PH around 5.6, temp stays around 75 degrees inside and the water is usually around 70.
There were two that sprouted earlier than the rest and have stretched a good amount, the others are a few days behind and aren't quite as tall.
January 9th
The one thing I can't stop thinking about... sex. These plants are sexing it up pretty good! I had 3 plants show their sex at this point, all 3 were female!
I experienced some serious purple stem about a week back on every plant, after bumping my nutes they recovered in aprox. 3 days. Otherwise, no nute burn... nothing... they are growing green and they're growing good.
A few days after I had all of my plants sexed, 3 male, 7 female. And I took pics!
(all 5 on right are fems, then it goes male, female, male, female, male... males are dead now)
The nutes here are around 800-900ppm and they are loving it. PH is still around 5.6 though it's increasing more quickly the bigger they get... gotta keep knocking it down. I had some problems with the temps - we ran out of gas and ran out of heat so I had to use electric heaters all over the house - It got down to 56*F at the lowest point in there... slightly stressful.
January 21st
These suckers have grown... alot! Well, the two giant ones that had the head start are a good 2x bigger than all of the other ones. I hope the others bush out more or something...
The biggest plant has started developing mad crazy bud sites... everywhere. The 2nd biggest has worried more about growing branches first, then budding. The others are short and becoming bushy. I should really LST them ... but... i'm lazy... and so are all the rest of you
Daytime temp is around 68*f-80*f
Nighttime temp is 74*F
Water temp is around 68*-70*F
PPM is at 1330
PH is around 5.6
The PPM is too high, alot of plant leaves are darker green and horn curl down at the tip slightly. I'm just letting the water run out via the plants then thinning the solution out... I just flushed it... and they aren't hurting too bad. There's no nute burn so I'm not really in any hurry to drop the PPM. These plants take everything I throw at them in stride.
That's about it, I had to play catch up. I'll update her in about a week, feel free to ask Qs.
