Hi all. Been scrolling through GC for a while now and i got the notion to grow (never grown before) some of the best plants we know!!!!! After much debate i went with supercloset and chose their 2x4x6 tent with 1' adjustable height extension and I am here to chronicle what happens. The strain is 6 - royal queen seeds critical
Figured id post some pics of the ladies and the setup. As stated earlier i got the 2x4x7 super room from supercloset and 600w lumatek digital ballast with 600w hps. The ladies are 6 Critical plants from Royal Queen Seeds i ordered from the Attitude. My thing is trying to figure out if the supercloset is as noob proof as they say it is. This is version 3.0 of their system and has the gorilla grow tent which i really do admire becase of its rigidity. So far their have been some setbacks mainly because of the minor missing things from the kit and the fact that i had to think out my setup because of their outdated instructions but i happily pulled through and the ladies are veggin on 18/6 this is the 7th day from seed and they are doing pretty good the pics included are when they were 5 days from seed. The first week i used the jungle juice in the Lucas Formula and it did ok but i wasnt liking the way the plants were looking (dunno if it was from how much i was feeding or what) and i jus went with my gut and got the AN ph perfect Sensi Grow A&B and Voodoo Juice as my base and additive and mixed up a batch today so we shall see how much the PH system works. When mixed it acctualy did stabilize ph at 5.5 and ppm at 340 so lets see how long that last . Being a noob i know imma need some help sooner or later but welcome to my grow!!!!!
Hello. Just figured I would jump in and see what ya got going here. Looks like a nice little hydro settup. The criticals u talk of they are AutoFlowers I presume. If so they are pretty hard to mess up as long as you follow basics. Like proper ppm proper ph and temps, you should be fine. Now only thing I personally don't like about your settup is this. 1 hydro settup for multiple plants can cause root strain. They are pretty close together and would be worried about it. Other then that looks good and should be a good grow.
Update with some pics on day 8 from seed. Preciate the scribe chiozan. The setup is 16 plant superponic system that has built in res, 4 airstones, and has a top feed system. I have the ladies in the best spot so far from what I see there are only two of them close together and they are only close on one of their sides so they can still grow out a bit I guess. My questions are on feeding schedule and the plant in the back left I call Sam the Cannabis Ram......I was at first feeding 15 minutes on 45 minutes off but I read that was too much for them to be so young so I switched to 15minutes every 8hrs.......Sam was bowing already but she still has been growing fine.....she also doubled in size but she is still looking like a ram what's wrong with her? And the critical aren't autoflower they are 50 day flower supposedly.......
Update: Day 10 The ladies are doing pretty good they are sprouting New leaf sets and roots like wildfire. I really gotta give it to AN cuz the ph perfect sensi grow and voodoo juice are really good products. Past two days ph has been about 5.5-5.8 and ppm has been about 300ish for the last three days so that's pretty cool. The problem I had with the big one in the back on the left seems to have corrected itself with the nute switch from the jungle juice (AN product also) to the ph perfect. Also took the wattage up to 400w and am starting to feed 6 times a day for 15 minutes.
Thanks bro. Well the ladies are in day 11 from seed. They look pretty damn good but I do have one question.......is the glare from the HPS makin the plants look yellow cuz they look yellow and when I take pics they look fine......hell I dunno.......and my next thing I have read the forums on sog and scrog but I'm not sure which I should do to get max yield.....any help?
It helps if you can see them under sun light in the early stages to verify good colour. Checking using a camera with and without flash is also helpful. From my perspective they look pretty much spot on for the age. A lot of growers would kill to have seedlings that healthy. What's the EC? With my nutrients and CFL setup I like to get to 1.2 fairly quickly then move to 1.6 as soon as I think they can take it.
Cool. I did the camera thing a few times and ur right I think I do get the color. I even noticed some nute burns from that one week I used that cheap ass jungle juice....... :/ ............it was only on the first set of leaves on the girls though thank God. That had to he the high ass ppm (580 or so). Right now my ec is below 1.0. My ppm is currently at about 380 ish and the ppm from tap is 66 so about 320 or .6 ish ec. So far I'm upping the light and feeding bit by bit to see if they like it. Friday on res day I should be giving them a stronger solution prolly take it 500 ppm/ 1.0 ec+. I have been following AN instructions and they are spot on for the ph perfect. It's way less problems than the other stuff.....I havent had to adjust ph or anything so far......cflpro do you know any training methods? I wanna max my yield but I cnt grasp some of the methods like scrog and I'm scared to hurt my girls I think I'm infatuated or sumn............ any help?
I think you need to Top/FIM after 4 or 5 nodes, then use LST techniques to increase yield. Look at screwing tea cup hooks into the lid of your res, and then use pipe cleaners to pull your branches down to create a level top or canopy under your lights. I'm jealous of PH perfect!! I am still playing the game with the original formula! Subbed looks great!
So even though I have like 6' of height I should still top/fim? I thought that would be a waste? This is a dumb question also butbarent the nodes the little intersections where the branches sprout?
Wow!! 6'!! Ok well you can decide if you want to LST . I have never had that much room!! And yes nodes are the spot on the stem where the branches come out from.
yeah the tents are pretty cool they have 7' of height with the extension and about 6' of growing height. What can I do to lst and what height?
Hey all. The girls are officially two weeks old today. They are growing their fourth sets of leaves now and look pretty good. They had started to yellow a bit so I did the res change and added the b52 to the voodoo juice and sensi grow so I guess we will see how that works out!! Other than that no problems so far........any tips on the training yet?
I think it depends on several factors like strain, grow setup, space etc as to what is the best method. I find a bit of topping combined with some gentle super cropping are the easiest ways to spread/even some tops out without creating a mess. I like LST too but it probably involves a little more planning and effort. The balance between smaller, heavy yielding bushes vs a tall shady hemp jungle can be found through trial and error. I'd aim for the former as a new grower. The flowering stretch has likely caught all growers off guard at least once.
Sounds like a fairly standard mutation. If it's persistent then just avoid taking clones from that one.
I was too curious too see how the girls were and I decided to update and let you all see how they are after the res change......they are wonderful. Here we are at day 15 and they are great the stems are pike mini trunks and the new growth is awesome......here are the pics enjoy!!!