1st time Micro Grow with Bagseed

Not too much happening here.
Plants a little taller.

Put a small blanket over the box after lights out and it worked to keep the temperature at a constant 76.5 degrees all night.

So tempted to water again (misted them a bit with an atomizer yesterday). I know most newbs over water, but seeing the top layer dry just bugs me, oh well

Here's a picture. Xena caught up with other two seeds very nicely in one day.

Sooo. a few things going on today.

Doing more and more research, not finding answers to all my questions. But this is supposed to be a learning experience, so here I go.

Added my second 27 Watt daylight cfl. So now I'm at 2x27w daylights and 1x23w softlight.

One of my sprouts (Roxy) is having some issues. I found one tiny black bug, skinnier than a flea but about the same sized. Squished it. Haven't found any others, I was pretty ocd about looking. And she also has burnt (?) brown tips on her fan leaves - I took a picture. Any advice would be awesome!

I can see one thin tiny roots at the bottom of each of my cups. Wait for more to show before I transplant. I can't figure out what size I should go to next?

Here are some pictures. Sorry for the fuzzy ones, camera doesn't like macro shots.

Sooo. I'm planning some construction for the box. The fans finally came in the mail, so did the power source. I'm going to wire them drill some air holes where the fans will go, and temporarily ghetto rig them.

I have a circular saw I need to borrow to make the permanent holes for the box, so that'll be a later project.

I think the timer I have has issues, sometimes it goes off at the correct time, otherwise I have to tap it to make it shut off. Might have to invest in a better one.

I'll be transplanting into 1g containers soon, watered a little today. They dry up so quickly for how young they are, but I do see a lot of root growth.

Here are some pictures from day 7 & 8.

Looks good! Thats a good setup. With the fans in place everything should be just right.

I'll try to answer some of your questions.

adding the 3rd light is fine. At this age they are growing more roots than leaves and stem. You are close to were they are going to be needing the other light so just leave it.

Question on your lights. They should have a K (kelvin) rating. What is yours? There are typicaly 3 different 6500K is best for veg. 2600k is best for flower. mixing them is great. The 3rd is 4100K it's not good for much.

I was wondering, are you planning to LST? You should transplant right befor you need to start. On the watering you should let them dry out, no mater how hard it is The root need air to breath, wet soil doesn't allow air in. You might want to put a few holes in the bottom of the cup. Then water untill you get runn off. When the weight of the cup is alot lighter is when you want to water agian.

Speeking of watering I need to water mine befor I go to bed.

Hope this helps

In the pic its magical at the top try getting a reflector above those lights. Makes a big difference.
Can't see any air vents either. They get weak and diseased without fresh air.

Heyyyy,

Been a few days but I'm back. Got pictures from days 9, 10, and 13.


Last week I did a lot of work.

Wednesday I drilled temporary holes for the fans (gonna cut full sized holes later with the electric jigsaw I borrowed yesterday) wired and added 4 cpu fans and hot glue gunned them to the sides of the crate. And I lined the crate with mylar (except for the lid of the crate becuas eI have to use the curtain still until I get the bigger holes for the fans. Still pretty hot so waiting on the third bulb.

Thursday I transplanted all three girls into 1.1qt planters with blackgold 2:1 with perlite. I watered recently but I had to wet the soil in the cups to keep it together for transplanting. So the girls look a little frumpy, but with the bigger containers of barely moist dirt I saw they picked up again. I planted them deeper so that they have a little more vertical room to grow.

On the sides of the containers I twisted in some cup hooks for when I LST the plants. All looks good at this point.

And at day 13 they look pretty strong and healthy, Xena is still the runt of the pack, but I'm hoping.

cph

Thanks for coming through!My lights are 5500k for the 27 watt daylights, and I can't find the K rating for the 23 watt softlight

I am planning to LST just trying to get a good idea when I should start. Some posts say at 4 nodes, the others are less consistant. Any ideas?



v12xjs

Thanks! I just lined the whole box with mylar. I can see the difference. And I finally got my fans in, check out the new set up

nice grow man im subscribed .. how many lights are you using/gonna use for flowering....peace

spliffbazz

Originally Posted by spliffbazz

nice grow man im subscribed .. how many lights are you using/gonna use for flowering....peace

spliffbazz

Thanks for subscribing! I'm thinking of using at least 3x23watt cfl softlights (looking for some higher wattage softlights, but I got some time).