Grow Diary 26 April 2006.

[cantgetenough]

Hi all, been watching you all for some time getting ideas and so on. My set up has been quite rushed but this is a working and on going product. Please help and offer advise if you see something going wrong or that i shouldn’t be doing. Hope you enjoy the journey as much as i do.On Monday 24/04/2006, after sowing 4 seeds only one seems to have germinated. Today i have finally put the seedling under a 400w HPS light on a 24/0 cycle. Also before going under the light I watered the soil around it with around half a litre of water as it was very dry already. Tomorrow I will pick up a fan as i have noticed that it is getting very warm in the grow closet now, so I’ve left the doors open to regulate the temp as best I can. I have no idea what the strain is or even if it is going to be female as i got the seeds from a friend[
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[cantgetenough]

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Ok these seem alot better.

[comedykills]

you should be on 18/6 with a HPS 24/0 is a waste of energy and you might cook your seedling with a 400w HPS that close

[cantgetenough]

Thanks for the advise, will pull back the light, and change the light cycle.If pulling back on light distance, will this not encourage the seedling to stretch?

[KALiBERRRR]

whoa. first of all, whats the temp in that box? a 400w hps and foil should be cooking the little guy. do you have it under control?

[Cody3]

yea a 400w hps is like 50000 lumes... more then enough for a seedling and yea that seedling must be cookin... whats the temp? and plz get a fan immidiatly

[cantgetenough]

Hi guys, point taken with the set up .Ive now taken the nipper, and put her in a sunny place for the next few days.Pay day soon so will buy proper reflective material and fans.Thanks for jumping on me so quick, she could have passed on.

Q) what would be the most effective reflective material but at the same time not expensive?

Q) same as the above, but with nutes for soil grow??

[mmmm dank]

theres this stuff its called mylar, its not too expensive and u can get it at any hardware store, as for nutes dont get anything with "time realease fertilizer" for this stage you want a high nitrogen plant food i.e. 30-10-10 but i wouldnt feed them the full dose the package recomends, cut it down by half, and dont give them nutes this early they are still too young, any more questions ill be on for a while

ur fellow grower

Dank

[cantgetenough]

Thanks for the advise Dank,will pick some up this weekend

[cantgetenough]

Hi all, been shopping today and picked stuff up for grow.
1 Air extracter
1 Carbon Filter
Digital thermometer
Bio Grow
Bio Bloom
PH tester
Mylar/ 3 meters
Timer
Ducting
Fan
I took all that foil down and replaced it with Mylar. i attached the Mylo with Velcro to closet which would be nice and easy to take back down.Everything is up and running now, and the temps are stable at 85c and humidity at 40%.The fan and extracter are on full.I've noticed that the extracter fan is on really Strong and quite loud, so I'm going to buy a dimmer switch tomorrow to control the speed.
The seedling not grown that much this first week but we all know why!I'm hoping that in a few days i should see some sign of growth, now i have this set up.Is there anything more that i should be doing at this stage?Let me know guys.





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[comedykills]

that looks perty good.... you spent alot of money ...... now you just got to wait for your babies to grow

[cantgetenough]

What the hell happened to my pics????????Anyway it's been nearly 2 weeks since birth and i must say I'm getting a Little concerned or am i getting paranoid. Week 1 was a complete F**k up. I went and bought all new equipment and set everything up. I am having a few problems, so would like some advice please. I’ve been having problems controlling my temps, it seems to be under control now but the temps at their highest are 37C & 35% humidity. This has only been achieved since buying more ducting and attaching it to the light reflector and also the extractor fan to draw heat out from the very source. Humidity was also a problem at one stage where it was reading at around 25% but since adding a bottle of water with the lid off, it's kept it at round 35%-40%.On Tuesday i checked on the plant and found her on her side. I put in a support and she now seems to be fine, enough to take the support back out. I think the fan may have been on too strong! My big concern at the moment is size(2inch) Her's not mine.I checked about an hour ago and could see new growth coming through, but should she be this small? Is everything I'm doing wrong? Yesterday i gave a little Bio-Grow(8.0-2.0-6.0) 1ml per 1liter to help her along. Should i have done this? Anyway, guy's let me know what you think. Constructive advise and criticism much appreciated. Here are some up to date pics.

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[mmmm dank]

i dont know what your problem is i really dont, my little guy was two inches after the first 4 days, im no expert sorry for the pointless post, gl guy, u'll figure it out, theres alot of smart people on this forum, as for the nute, im sure its fine because the ammount is so little, gl again


dank

[cantgetenough]

Advise please.Something is seriously wrong, my baby is sick big time .The leaves are turning a slight yellow brown.The tips started a few days ago, i thought it may have been down to too much light as Ive been having problems with my light timer, i cant guarantee that she has been having 18 hours light only.I will know this at 12PM today as I'm off work and will be around to see if the lights turn off.The other thing Ive done recently(last night) i gave a little Bio-Grow(8.0-2.0-6.0) 1ml per 1liter to help her along.The amount given is some small surly this hasn't caused this.Please help guys really need help on this one.Bellow in the first photo is when the leaf tip just started to change color(2 days ago).The rest are from today.


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[cantgetenough]

I can now say that my plant has been getting 24 hours light for the pas 3 days.Could this be the problem