First grow, AK-48 from seed under 400w HPS.

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 01:16 PM

Weekly to twice a week updates

As the title states, first grow!

Using this as an excuse to make my first post and break into the rollitup scene

I started with 5 AK-48 and 10 mystery seeds, all 5 AK's are up and out of the dirt and 7 out of 10 of the mystery seed are also growing. Two of the mystery seeds are the largest as they were preliminarily sown in jiffies 5 days before germination of the rest of em.

These have been growing since March 8th.

Here are some pictures, taken March 21. I'm growing in my closet, basic Shultz potting soil with a bit of added perlite. All of these girls were started in coir pellets, which I attribute to the great germination rate

Temps are currently ranging from 67 at night to 82 during the day. Two fans in the enclosure, one venting the light and one blowing directly on the girls.

Looking for comments and pointers towards obvious mistakes and things that can be easily improved.

Cheers =)

My closet ^^b

The prettiest of the AK-48 seedlings:

One of the plants that got a head-start:

Another mystery seed sown at the same time as the AK's:

An overview of the grow closet, notice the broad range of plants that are sharing the light while outside thaws XD

Again, I'll be updating this thread with more advanced stage pics

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 01:17 PM

Ah, that didn't work. Let me fix those pictures...

**GanjaFresh** · 03-21-2010, 02:01 PM

Wonderful setup my friend, love the flag. Most of your plants are looking healthy, but I do see some that are stretching for light. You do have a fan in there right?

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by GanjaFresh

Wonderful setup my friend, love the flag. Most of your plants are looking healthy, but I do see some that are stretching for light. You do have a fan in there right?

Thanks, fresh!

Yeah there are two fans in the room, one above the hpsreflector and one pointed at the plants. As soon as the stems look sturdier I want to move a bigger fan in.

Are you pointing out the bending leaves, angle of the leaves, or appearance of the stems as evidence of stretching?

At any rate I lowered my light to about 16 inches (down from 18.) and turned up the fan a bit.

**TexasMonster** · 03-21-2010, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by monkeybones

Thanks, fresh. Yeah there are two fans in the room, one above the hpsreflector and one pointed at the plants. As soon as the stems look sturdier I want to move a bigger fan in.

Are you pointing out the bending leaves, angle of the leaves, or appearance of the stems as evidence of stretching?

At any rate I lowered my light to about 16 inches (down from 1

and turned up the fan a bit.

I love autos. I will be watching this one if you are going to keep us posted

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 02:34 PM

For clarification sake I revised the overview picture, fencing in the important babies and pointing out strain ["?" being representative of a mystery seed].

Texas; definitly going to be posting pictures two to three times a week. I'm too obsessive of a hobbyist for any less :P

**ckckck** · 03-21-2010, 03:20 PM

your gonna have problems with light leaks when u swith to flower 12/12 make sure your grow room is 100% light proof otherwise you will have problems with plants turning hermie

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by ckckck

your gonna have problems with light leaks when u swith to flower 12/12 make sure your grow room is 100% light proof otherwise you will have problems with plants turning hermie

Yeah you bring up a good point. I certainly plan on investing in some mylar to accomplish this quite soon. For now they're enjoying the 18/6 they currently receive.

**bobbyhopefeild** · 03-21-2010, 03:36 PM

i noticed on some of you seedlings(particularily third pic down which you labelled as the plant having a head start) leaves look a bit crinkled and wavy and delicate
i noticed the same thing on my seedlings a while ago
do you (or anyone) know why their leaves start looking a bit worse for wear???
x

**monkeybones** · 03-21-2010, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by bobbyhopefeild

i noticed on some of you seedlings(particularily third pic down which you labelled as the plant having a head start) leaves look a bit crinkled and wavy and delicate
i noticed the same thing on my seedlings a while ago
do you (or anyone) know why their leaves start looking a bit worse for wear???
x

I cannot claim to know for sure, but it's my guess that this is a natural process. All of my seedlings that have begun their second set of serrated leaves have experienced this waveyness, but both of the "head-start" seedlings, though also showing this characteristic, grew out of it by time their 4-leaf nodes began.

My first thought was "leaf burn" but I ruled that out when the leaves didn't actually die but continued growing normally.

Based on no experience at all and on observation so far, it looks to me like this is something the plants do to accomodate for the sudden change in leaf size that the first serrated blades undergo.

Or that could all be hogwash and there's something wrong with our plants! haha

I would doubt that though, all of my seedlings seem to be in quite good health regardless of the temporary leaf bending :P