Skywalker OG + Amare Tech SE450 LED (1000W)

Hello fellow growers.

This is my second grow ever, and my first time running Skywalker OG and the new Amare LED's. I've also never used a trellis of any kind. I've read as much as I can and try to interpret it with an open mind and a grain of salt.

Currently the plants are at Week 4 of Veg, and went straight in 10 gallon fabric pots from clone (no transplanting). I will be transitioning to flower soon, at which point I may put up another trellis. Check out the video of them now, and check out the pics of their progress.

The only issue I have been noticing this grow, should be visible in the video and pics; which is the wilting of the leaves a bit (mostly the new growth, as lower growth on clones were perfect), and the taco'ing or edge curling of the leaves upwards. I've ready that there are 3 cuts of the Skywalker OG, so those characteristics may be a sign of Cut #3 Rob Cabrera's? (wilting aside), but I also am not convinced that everything is going perfectly in the soil.

Being they were put straight into big pots, I did the best I could to water enough and often until they got bigger but never watered to more than a tiny bit of runoff. Recently I flushed them at week 4 of veg with FloraKleen (All GH products) until ~15% run off. I tested the runoff at it was 4300+ PPM... PH was 5.8 runoff, I put in 6.2 pH water every time. I have only fed half strength nutes twice so far, starting late week 2 of veg. That seems excessive, especially when the tap water is 60 ppm before adding nutes. My guess is that from not drenching the soil the first watering, it created air pockets, dry spots and what have you resulting in unused nutrients in the soil, that were carried out during the flush. I roughed up the top of the soil to let it breath better and noticed a root that was very healthy looking and white.

Temps have been steady at 68F night, 75-77F day. Humidity has stayed between 50-65%.

I have much to learn so your constructive criticisms are welcome.

Thank you!
Rundskop.

 

Thanks! I'm hoping the flush was a good call. Never used FloraKleen until now. I shouldn't need to flush until harvest now, but time will tell.

I will thanks for the suggestion. My attempt at "SCROG'ing" is a little embarrassing compared to everyone else's. I didn't start early enough and the branches became too thick to really bend much. I think the second trellis will be much more effective and even up the canopy.

Thanks for subbing! I'll be sure to update as often as I can.

I really wanted to do the SCROG method but didn't expect them to grow this fast and thick. It seems I missed the timing for SCROG'ing them but I'm hoping the second trellis will do more for me than the first.

I did add some clips to help train the tall branches outwards. A bit unorthodox but it's helping for now.

 

Those are Hydrofarm plant clips, typically used when staking plants, instead of using a plant tie or string. These are reusable, super light and versatile. I used them with bamboo stakes last grow and figured they would work with the trellis too.

These plants are really booming after switching to 12/12 and turning on the Bloom lights. Temps are up with the bright Cree lights but nothing alarming - 81F max. Going to tighten up the trellis when the bottom leaves come up a bit.

 

Despite there being so many different factors between this grow and my last, I do attribute much of the vigorous growth to the SE450 panels. The plants are not letting up!

My last grow had less watts, smaller pots and twice the plants as well as different strains, but this grow is going much much better.

I'm very excited to see what the coming weeks have to offer. Here's a list of the nutrients I'm running:

• GH Flora Series (Micro, Grow, Bloom)
• GH Floralacious +
• GH Liquid KoolBloom
• GH Armor Si
• GH Flora Nectar
• FF Open Sesame
• FF Beastie Bloomz,
• FF Cha-Ching
• Atak (SAR supplement)

If anyone has any input on UV-B for plant development I'm all ears. Anyways, back to staring at these beautiful girls.

 

Just a little update. This is the end of week 1 of flower. Buds are coming in but I'm running out of room. They're growing "too fast".