BC Northern Lights Producer grow

No prob! So far so good. Feel free to comment on here whenever. I could use the help.

First week of floweing mothers they all range from 4-2.5 feet,

Clones are coming in nicely will be in the producer within a week

Why are you flowering your mothers? I thought you pretty much tried to keep them in a perpetual veg state. You say they are 2.5 to 4 feet tall?

Yes tallest is 4 feet smallest 2.5. [2.5 months of veg under a 400w mh]

Im flowering my mother to determine if any of them are male, then i dont get any male clones in my producer. Also get some more bud from a soil job and compare to my hydro job.

During this stag i will be veging all new mothers from clones, will be second generation mother. After i crop out i will destroy almost all my mothers keeping one or two of the best kinds. I need to make room because i have several favours i want to experiment with to find best one for producer.

Gotcha.

I have another question for you about TDS meters. Not sure if you work with one, however, I just bought one pretty cheaply off ebay and just measured the water in my reservior which is reading 415 ppm. Im trying to follow the BCNL grow guide to a tee and their recipe calls for a MAX ppm of 210 for week one. However, my tap water itself is 150 ppm. My question is, when BCNL calls for a 210 ppm reservior with nutrients, do I need to account for the base ppms in my normal tap water? How to I accurately meet the recipe calling for 210 ppm?

Have u allowed your tap water to sit for 24 hours before check your ppm reading?

Lookin good! Will b watchin this one

Welcome Kronic!

Smokedup, yeah the tap water I tested had sat out for nearly 24 hours and had a reading close to 150 ppm.

All ppm charts you see on nutes and bcnl grow chart is based on R/O water which should have a 0 ppm. Your ppm meter is reading certain chemicals used in the purification of water process. This is not plant food and does not count towards your total ppm. Make sure tap water sits for 24 hours before used this will clear out most of those chemicals and lowering tap ppm. I buy reverse osmosis water for my plants but getting kind of expensive they drink lots

smokedup12 said:

All ppm charts you see on nutes and bcnl grow chart is based on R/O water which should have a 0 ppm. Your ppm meter is reading certain chemicals used in the purification of water process. This is not plant food and does not count towards your total ppm. Make sure tap water sits for 24 hours before used this will clear out most of those chemicals and lowering tap ppm. I buy reverse osmosis water for my plants but getting kind of expensive they drink lots

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Ok, so if my tap is reading 150 ppm after letting it sit out for 24 hours, then I should just subtract out 150 from the total ppm reading in my reservoir. Is this correct?

Yes, just raise your ppm weekly as instructed until nute burn is visible. Ph water as well

If you have roots coming out the bottom of the net pots you can go ahead and put them in their holes in the big reservoir now and turn on the HPS lights along with the veg light, you can run both at the same time. 2 more weeks and they should be about ready to flower. Don't worry about getting the MH lights, you don't use them long enough to make it worth it. The CFL and the HPS are plenty and as long as the roots are coming out of the bottom of the net pots they should be able to handle the big lights just fine.

nodrama,

Thanks. I decided not to mess with the mh lights on this cycle. I'll just work with what I have and start buying the extras next time. Im going to wait until the roots really start coming through before I add any lights.

Day 14

The plants are looking very good and growing fast. Eight of the nine look really good. The struggling one is still extremely stunted. I'm only leaving it to see what it does. The splotchy plant is still splotchy. It's not the biggest of the bunch, but it does seem to be keeping up pretty well.

Im now feeding on the full week one nute schedule. Here is what I mixed in my nine gallon reservoir...

Sensi-Grow A: 15ml
Sensi-Grow B: 15ml
B-52: 144ml
Sensizym: 180ml
Voodoo Juice: 43ml
Piranha Powder: 5g
Tarantula Powder: 5g

PH = 6.0
Total ppm = 480
My tap water ppm = 170
Nutrient ppm = 310













This is the splotchy plant (below). Don't know why it looks this way, but BCNL tells me it's just because every kid is different.





The plant with the warped leaves is now growing a new set of healthy leaves (below).





Here is the stunted one...

Lol i thought the last pic you were going to eat it or something. Does it have any new growth on the top? also have u switched to the hps yet

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Day 16

These "grow notes" are just going to be posts from time to time that make note of some details of my grow for my own personal interest.

Fed once today.
Changed lights to one 400 watt MH
Bumped light cycle from 18/6 to 20/4
Nute ppm = 335

Notes:

I switched my 125 watt CFL for one 400 watt metal halide during the last few hours of the light cycle. I kept a look out for any sign of stress or shock. I noticed all the plants seemed to really respond well to the new light, but my room temperature rose to about 80 degrees, so my box temp was probably around 85-86 degrees. On one of the plants, I noticed a little heat stress on one of the sides of the leaf. I immediately turned on the portable A/C in my room.





I am going to be venting the hot light exhaust out the window later today (Wednesday), but for now I'll just keep the AC on.

Yah good idea 86 is to hot. Running Co2 in the future will alow your plants to handle 80+ temps

Day 18

I attached pictures of the plants and root development below. I am now using both MH lights and ducted (verb?) the exhaust out a window to keep the temperature under control. I also have my portable a/c unit keeping the room cool. If you are following along, please take a look at the roots and let me know how they look. One looks kinda strange... several roots look super skinny and have a brownish color to them. Others start white and bushy and end brownish and skinny.

I really don't have the experience to notice any irregularities, so please let me know if you see anything in any of the pictures that concerns you at all. Thanks for everyone's help, especially smokedup.

What is this?




Here's a video I took...

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Okay i was quite stoned and need to answer this again. Roots look great few brown ones here and there not a big deal, Hydrogen Peroxide every 2-3 days to prevent rot and super oxygenate your root zone

Lots of question you have can be answered here aswell.

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