After seeing "SICC" drop the lights on his babies AGAIN! I've decided to start my own Grow Journal... I'm only on day 9.

I spent several weeks reading through tons of Aerogarden threads... but mostly "SICC's" and "Lurkmaster's" threads...

The Following Breakdown I got From LurkMaster's Aerogrow Guide

Suggested Supplemental Materials:
24 hour light timer
Figure 8 power cord (sold at RadioShack)
Aquarium Pump & Airstone(s)
Spring water (gallon jugs are like $1 at your grocery store)
pH tester / adjustment kit
Thermometer

Lighting periods (in hours):
1. Seedlings: 24 on / 0 off (first 2 weeks)
2. Vegging: 18 on / 6 off
3. Flowering: 12 on / 12 off

Grow Time:
3-4 weeks for vegging
6-12 weeks for flowering
Do not strictly go by this guide, as your plant may grow at a slower or faster rate, these are just generalized numbers, only YOU will know when your plant is ready!

Lighting:
Just using stock AG lights is suitable for vegging, BUT if you want a larger yeild, you will probably want additional CFL bulbs and fixtures. Color temperature wise, you want 6400K(daylight) for vegging, and 2700K(soft white) for flowering, mixing these two kinds is A-OK! If you are planning on keeping your pump and lights on separate cycles you will need a figure 8 power cord to connect the AG light to your timer.

Nutrients:
Using the stock AG nutrient tablets is also, perfectly fine. It’s not a good idea to give your plants nutes at the very beginning, just water will be good enough. Nute burn is bad. You should wait 2 weeks before you add any nutrients. You should use 1 small nutrient tab every week. Also it’s a good idea to flush out your reservoir before putting your weekly nutes in. You want nice fresh, clean water for your plants to live in. The last thing you want is root rot.

Preparation:
First things first, decide how many plants you want to grow in your AG, cover up ANY holes you are not going to be using. Plunk some golf balls over those holes, or stick opaque cups over them, do whatever you need to do to keep light from getting inside the res. Light + heat = bacteria = root rot.
You will also want to glue your plant labels onto the plastic rim of the of the pod, or you might end up with a problem like this. (photo courtesy of drdankyphd)

You want to fill your AG reservoir a little bit past the “fill to here” marker. You should let the water sit out with the lid off for a day or two to help neutralize the pH.


Planting your seeds:

Now that you have your AG set up, you are ready to plant your seeds in the grow sponges.
You should cut a small hole in the bottom of the sponge for your taproot to sink into.
Obviously, take whatever seeds are in the kit out of the grow sponge. (unless you have master gardener kit, which have no seeds)
Now, plant ONE seed per pod with the taproot facing DOWN (yes towards that hole you just cut!)

Now all you have to do is sit back and wait a few days.

Other useful info/links:
- Your plant is going to triple in size when you are flowering.
http://www.aerogrow.com/ - general troubleshooting with AG
http://www.aerogrow.com/community/in...tent&Itemid=61 – Pump/Lighting cycles for ALL AG versions.
http://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq - you can find almost everything you could possibly need in there if it pertains to something NON-AG specific about growing.


If you have any questions that haven’t been answered in this thread, feel free to ask them here. If you need a quick response now… Search function is your friend! This forum is loaded with information.


Happy Growing

So Here Goes....
-1st pic DAY 1 in AeroGarden (After germinating seed in a papertowel for like 2 days)

-Pix 2-4 DAY 9

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Lookin good man, a lil burnt but they will be fine, good lucc!

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Oh and this is what my setup looks like...

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Thanks SICC... Have you started your new ones yet?

Naw, not yet, i need to order some more shit and get situated, proabably another week or so, im glad my thread was useful

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Ok so on day 1 when I put the germinated seed into the AG I realized I had lost my starter nutes... (I'm ALWAYs High, so GO FIGURE), anywayz... I asked around and decided to go with NO NUTES for the 1st 2 weeks. It was smooth sailing until Day 6... I woke up and realized there was discoloration in the biggest set of leaves.. I went to work and when I came back 8 hours later.. the shit had spread through almost the entire leaf.. I freaked out and added half of a small AG NUTE Tab to the REZ.... Luckily that seemed to do the trick and the burning was stopped in its trax... since then I've seen ALOT more growth... So much so that the burnt leaves are no longer the BIG leaves...

haha, yea, but its all good now, The pH was probably a lil high, so the nute tab buffered it

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yeah I figured thats what happened....

whats an Aerogarden ?

ha... I've also read enough threads to know that Korvette likes to post random "incoherent" shit on everyone's threads... I think he's just ALWAYS HIGHER then we are... lol

Oh and to answer your question Korvette... An "AEROGARDEN" is the type of gardens that austronauts use when they're living on the moon for months at a time... DUH!

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