First Grow Journal: 6 Sweet Afghani Delicious, 400watt hps agro
Hello everyone!
I'm living in Málaga, and I love it. The grow culture here is getting really big.
Anyway,
Let me start you off with a description of my set up. I´m currently building a 80 x 80 x 160cm grow tent designed for a spare bed room.
Here are some stats:
6 Sweet Afghani Delicious http://sweetseeds.es/
80x80x160cm grow space
400watt phillips son-t agro
two fans (medium size) the guy at the grow shop said it would be enough air flow
So far, I've built the frame for the tent out of PVC. I have white plastic that i will line in with than cover it with either cardboard or wood. (I'm doing this tomorrow)
Right now:
Its been about day 4 since I planted the seeds. Tonight the last one sprouted. Ive been keeping the temp to 73 degrees.
A few questions:
1. How often should I water them when they are seedlings? I feel that the soil drys out quickly because there is not sufficient leaf coverage...
2. What would you recommend as the optimal ph level? I'm balancing it at 6.5ph.
3. How can I explain to my roommate that pulling the seedlings out of the soil (for more light) won't help them?
(Don't worry, this didn't happen)
Anyway,
here are some pictures of my (temporary) setup up. Tomorrow will be in the grow tent.
1) Keep them moist as seedlings, but once they get past the early seedling stage beware of overwatering. To get a good soak, just put your seedling pots in a large pot of ph'd water (no nutes needed at this stage), and soak them until soaked through. Then allow to drain completely.
2) Ph between 6 and 7 is fine in soil. 5.8 for hydro.
3) Kick him repeatedly in his soft fleshy parts until he stops molesting your kids.
Awesome. thanks people. I checked them this morning and they are doing well. Overnight it actually cooled down to around 68 f.
Is that too cold?
I also repositioned the fan pointing towards the plants. I pointed it upwards toward the light pushing the hot air up. They are sleeping right now so Ill post pictures when the light is going again.
So Ive obviously been smoking a bit so I have been extremely lazy about posting. mainly because I havent ran into too many problems; yet... Ive been feeding them nutes every other day and they seem to be taking them well. At first I was worried that they might be get nut burn, but so far they've been eating it up.
I moved them into this open grow tent as you can see from the picture. Its done quite nicely so far.
Is there a point that I need to flush the soil before they might get nut locked?
They all sprouted about a month ago starting tomorrow. Im trying to do somewhat of a quick grow, mainly for apartment reasons that are beyond my control. They have been vegging for about a month.
Time to flower? I need to make sure I dont flower them to late or Im going to have a problem on my hands with moving out.
Tomorrow they are moving to bigger pots and then they should explode!!
How do they look? Anymore advise?
Last edited by Greenspace420; 03-01-2009 at 02:45 PM.
Reason: typo
Just put transplanted the plants to new containers. We bought pots without hole in them and just added them ourselves. They are about a month old now and I think I might start flowering in a week.
Any Comments?
Last edited by Greenspace420; 03-02-2009 at 07:07 AM.
Hey there Greenspace, good looking grow you got there. I think you could flower now if it was necessary, but the extra week will be good for development. I usually flush my medium between vegetative and flowering cycles, and then again for 2 weeks with clean water at the conclusion of flowering. Your plants enjoy a temperature of 65-75 degrees mate, heat past 75 degrees will negatively affect some strains of cannabis, I would love my temperatures to be around 65 at night though. You're doing well, I'm subscribed if you're in need
So I was looking at my plants earlier, and saw these little hairs growing in the meeting points between the stem and the branch.
I'm new to this: is this pre-flowering?
YAAAAAAHHHHHH!!
Those are preflowers . Congratulations, you have the beginnings of a healthy female mate. Now you have something to look forward to for sure . Best of luck with the rest
KC
[edit: P.S. that area is called your Internode mate]
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