First LED Grow

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growdown

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So before I start this is gonna have alot of questions. Sorry for the long read.

Ive grown outdoors before, but from clones. This is a first in many ways for me. My first indoor grow, first LED grow, first seedling grow, first coco grow, first auto grow. I am going to be growing 4 autos in Botanicare Cocogro Boss the 8 x 8 x 8 bags. I plan on mixing Miracle grow perlite (only kind i could find) with the coco. I am using the ProGro 180 model. My nutes are going to be Humboldt Nutrients organic: Grow(3-1-3), Bloom(0-10-0), DeuceDeuce(0-0-22) and Equilibrium(1-1-2) for cal/mag. And I will have ample circulation in this area. Im doing 4 plants incase i lose 1 or 2, being new to all this and if things go well I can always buy another light. I will place all the bags against each other in an effort to get maximum light and rotate the plants daily to keep the light well distributed on all sides of the plants. Here come the questions:


1. I will be using a seed starter kit and was wondering how far i should keep the LED from the plants while germinating, and how long I should leave the dome over them for humidity reasons once sprouted?

2. The perlite is .04-.01-.06, should I rinse this off before I add it to the coco, or will this not harm my youngins when i move them to the bags?

3. Should I go ahead and add the Equilibrium to the coco before I move my plants to the bags?

4. Once in the bags about how far should the LEDs be from the plants?

5. How soon should I start adding nutes for these being that thier autos?

6. Should I do full spectrum with the LEDs or just the grow or bloom lights in their respective stages?

Thanks for reading and I hope the grow goes well!
 
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Eraserhead

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I can answer a couple of the questions.

1. I will be using a seed starter kit and was wondering how far i should keep the LED from the plants while germinating, and how long I should leave the dome over them for humidity reasons once sprouted?
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2. The perlite is .04-.01-.06, should I rinse this off before I add it to the coco, or will this not harm my youngins when i move them to the bags?
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3. Should I go ahead and add the Equilibrium to the coco before I move my plants to the bags?
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4. Once in the bags about how far should the LEDs be from the plants?

Seedlings, at least 36" above, even as much as 48", lower the light a little at a time as the plants get older and can handle the light, in flower as close as you can without causing damage to the leaves, I keep my LEDs 20"-24" above the plants. If you can manage to get it even closer than 20" without bleaching the leaves, that would be fine, but I wouldn't go any closer than 14" to the plants. If the leaves start to turn a tan/white like color, back the light off a little.

5. How soon should I start adding nutes for these being that thier autos?
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6. Should I do full spectrum with the LEDs or just the grow or bloom lights in their respective stages?

I'd do the veg mode for the seedlings and the 1st part of veg, but then once they can handle more light, give it to them full blast.

growdown said:
So before I start this is gonna have alot of questions. Sorry for the long read.

Ive grown outdoors before, but from clones. This is a first in many ways for me. My first indoor grow, first LED grow, first seedling grow, first coco grow, first auto grow. I am going to be growing 4 autos in Botanicare Cocogro Boss the 8 x 8 x 8 bags. I plan on mixing Miracle grow perlite (only kind i could find) with the coco. I am using the ProGro 180 model. My nutes are going to be Humboldt Nutrients organic: Grow(3-1-3), Bloom(0-10-0), DeuceDeuce(0-0-22) and Equilibrium(1-1-2) for cal/mag. And I will have ample circulation in this area. Im doing 4 plants incase i lose 1 or 2, being new to all this and if things go well I can always buy another light. I will place all the bags against each other in an effort to get maximum light and rotate the plants daily to keep the light well distributed on all sides of the plants. Here come the questions:


1. I will be using a seed starter kit and was wondering how far i should keep the LED from the plants while germinating, and how long I should leave the dome over them for humidity reasons once sprouted?

2. The perlite is .04-.01-.06, should I rinse this off before I add it to the coco, or will this not harm my youngins when i move them to the bags?

3. Should I go ahead and add the Equilibrium to the coco before I move my plants to the bags?

4. Once in the bags about how far should the LEDs be from the plants?

5. How soon should I start adding nutes for these being that thier autos?

6. Should I do full spectrum with the LEDs or just the grow or bloom lights in their respective stages?

Thanks for reading and I hope the grow goes well!
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superbub52

superbub52

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about the distance part I'll have to monitor how close u can go based on how powerful your lights are and your temps in the cab or what ever your growing with u don't need to flush your preflight because coco has no nutes and when using soil it comes packed with nutes to last you sometimes 2 Weeks and about the lights u don't need bloom for now use the veg spectrum u don't need bloom till ur about a week of 12/12 I'm going at your questions backwards u need to start with half strength or even 1/4 from the getgo due to coco not having any nutes hope this helps
 
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