1200W AutoGrow for Medicinal Users (suggestions warmly invited).

Hello All,

This will be my first auto grow, as you may or may not know this is a project I have decided to do so that I can give some relief to people from there ailments and pain in country where it is not available.

If you would like to know more about that please visit here:
https://www.rollitup.org/introduce-yourself/441083-finally.html

It would be great if you could jump in wherever you see fit to add suggestions and I would greatly appreciate any tips. Although I have done a grow before it was for fun with amateur equipment.
Ok, the equipment that I am using is is:
Blockbuster Air-cooled hood with a Magnum XXXL Air-cooled hood both 600w and powered by two Lightwave digital ballasts.
Carbon filter with insulated ducting and extraction. Room is sealed with reflective coating and extraction and ventilation are in order. For the seedlings I have a 24inch fluorescent tube.
I planted a mixture of Diemos, Big Devil, El Diavlo all feminized with some regular auto Russian Rocket Fuel plus two White Russian seeds that I found.

I germinated them on Wednesday morning and potted them in the evening. After 3 days I transplanted them into larger buckets and put them under the lights (24).

Because of my location no equipment, supply shops or any form of marijuana material is available.
I suppose the questions I have is regarding the watering and the nutrients (as I can’t get them here). I water if I can get my finger in the soil an inch and it is still dry.
However, should I start nutes after the first 2 weeks. Below are some pics taken over the past few days.

Thanks in advance.

Just a few more pics as the last ones were not the best

I lift my pots to see how dry they are. This doesn't work so well in the seedling stage, but once you have a root ball it is easy to judge when they are dry. Good luck.

Thanks for that, I will have a go, heavy when wet, light when dry. Nice

You should start nutrients when you have 3 to 4 sets of leaves, usually around 10 to 14 days

Hey all, this is the second update of the grow.
So far I haven’t suffered too many issues and although I have a high temp(Average at 32) they seem to be keeping well.
They are 18 days old today and they started their nutes around 4 days ago. Due to lack of choice I have went for Grow plus all-purpose liquid plant food 15 + 10 + 15 (+2) for Ornamental Plants it recommends 7.5ml – 2 litres and for a Vegetable Garden 7.5ml 1 litre. I put 7.5ml in 4 litres (3/4plants) and have raised it a couple of ml for today. It says on the bottle to add it every two weeks, I am using this small dosage every 2 days when watering. I did notice some salt residue on the surface of 2/3 plants earlier today.
I have some small leaf turning but putting this down to the high temps in the room humidity is ranging from 50-60% temps are between 32-34. There is a nice smell building in the room already.

How do you think they are looking?

Also as there were 10 regular automatic Russian Rocket Fuel I am expecting some males – any timelines for autos to start showing their sex?
Many thanks all,

They seem nice and bushy. Good Luck!

They should sex around the 3-4th weeks...As far as feeding and watering i would feed every 2-3 days prob 8oz per gallon roughly...But once they r budding heavily i woul atleast double that...U i use str8 perlite in Hempy Buckets and feed or water every 2 days a liter per plants right now they r 8 days into 12/12...Soon it will double by the end its about a gollon every couple of days they get hungry....

Thanks for the luck and tips guys, especially regarding nutes and watering.

Hey all, apologies for the late update we have had a death in the family, I had a hospital visit and I got married so a bit intense.
Well here we are at day 40 and looking good. These were taken a few days ago and I have now started a new nute regime. They are now on a higher N.P.K with the focus on K. They are really starting to flower and the trichromes are now visible to the eye.

I will update again in less than a week as they are coming on very fast now. Have not changed the temp or humidity but they are drinking a lot of water daily now.
Any advice or comments more than welcome.

Thanks
Tetra

New camera and the pics are too large, I will have to resize them before I can put them up. Shame as there are some good ones - should be up by tomight

photo no 1
Only one that will fit at the mo, will resize all and post later

Cool should be up now, took these today at 43 days
Looking forward

Hey all, any feedback/comments much appreciated, im not quite sure how these are doing going with the 'norm'
Many thanks

Ok another update: (If anyone cares)

Day 58



As you can see some are closer than others, in about 3-4 days I will stop watering 2/3 of them put them in darkness for a couple of days and harvest!

looks sick! whats your temps at? no a/c? what size fan cooling the hoods?

very nice boss