First Grow - COCO COIR, CFLS, & LA CONF CLONES

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  1. #1 Ignatius, Jan 26, 2011
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    Hey all, before posting i have spent hours reading all kinds of stuff on this site so ill try to give as much info as possible to hopefully get some useful input or information which would be appreciated and its great that such a resource exists...

    anyway, i got my med card so i went and picked up 2 LA CONFIDENTIAL clones from the club the other day... started out at a solid 4 inches each and currently are at about 5 1/2". I've had them for 4 days now. The condition i bought them in was trimmed, alot of the fan leaves had been clipped, probably to cut down on weight, but they were perky.

    I'm using coco coir w perlite... about a 60/40 coco/perlite watering with tap water that i leave uncapped to air out chlorine for atleast 12hrs before using...

    Nutrients that i got include the Technaflora "Recipe for Sucess" kit, this is a link to the mixing guide:http://www.discount-hydro.com/images/link/RecipeforSuccess.pdf
    so far i have only given the babies a 1/3 dose the day that i transplanted them... the day after they seemed to shrivel up alot so i have tried to flush with just PHed water at about 6.2 w root66/magical at 1/2 does (figured these couldnt hurt) and the runoff comes out between a lil over 5 - lil under 6 (5.2-5.8 it seems so far)... i have been using 1 gallon a day between the 2 - 3 gal planters everyday since i got them (1/2 gal each)... the coco coir w perlite seems to drain really well but also dries out fast.

    for my lighting - i currently have a hydrofarm jumpstart 54w T5 (6400k/5100 lumens), 1 x 27w T5 (6400k) and 2 x 27w (100w equivalent) 2700k/1750lumens on the 2 plants, surrounding it from the top and sides, all about 4" away from the plants... the leaves seem to be shriveling even with all this light, is it too close? too far away? is that too much light? i know the rule is 50-100w/5000lumen min. for a mature plant but what about for these lil guys?

    for flowering i have 2 x 68w (300w equivalants) 2700k/4200lumen each to add to the lights above, im not sure if this is overkill or if there is such a thing? i know that heat wont be an issue or it hasnt been so far, my room temps have been 60-75 so far...60 only at night but i have kept them on a 24/7 light cycle to hopefully prevent that temp from effecting anything... i am thinking about going on a 18/6 light cycle and keeping my heat at a bare min. of 65 to hopefully progress things...

    at this point is there anything i can do? im still trying to figure out what the drooping is from and also if the spots on the tips of the leaves are nute burns or something else? my current plan of action is to not water them for a solid 24hrs to see if overwatering has been the problem (since i believe ive flushed out the nutes i initially gave them) and get another gallon of water to ensure they each get 1gallon each during feeding and that way maybe only have to water every 2-3 days. also the next time i do water them i will give them each 1 gal of 1/2 nute water PHed at around 6 or as close to 5.8 as i can get it.

    I lastly am wondering how long i should wait until i start flowering... i know it should be around a foot optimally but i dont want these bad boys getting much taller than 2ft... theyre indica too so if anyone has any suggestions that differ from just waiting til a foot thatd be great to hear.

    here they are...

    http://forum.grasscity.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=104783&title=cimg0087&cat=all
     
  2. #2 Ignatius, Jan 26, 2011
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    here are some pics i took this morning... you can see that some of the tips have dark green looking burns... the drooping seems to be not as bad but i still do not like seeing the burn marks on the larger fan leaves... dark green is usually nitrogen related from what ive read... is this possible nute burn or water burn from nutes/water being on the leaves from watering?

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  3. #3 Ignatius, Jan 27, 2011
    still looking for suggestions... so far this is the only one i have gotten and i plan to follow it, only thing i might do different is expedite things to tomorrow for watering/feeding if they look extremely bad... ive got a box full of different nutes and some sound like they could do nothing other than help... if i end up just watering i might also include a half dose of some Thrive Alive B-1 green as its organic and mostly made up of nitrogen. any suggestions would be much appreciated.

     
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