First Grow Journal Black Ice OG from OGGenetics

Im starting this grow journal to help me keep track of my process, refer to it later, and share my experiences with others.
If you have any questions, concerns, or criticisms please feel free to oblige them.
This isnt my first grow, as i have experience with DWC, and a little bit of soil.

First off backround:

Setup:
4 x 8 room
16 five gallon buckets with hydroton as the medium
running a drip system and recycling the nutes changing the whole reservoir (40 gallons) every 14 days.
2 or 3 1000 watt lights depending on how big they grow.
PH kept between 5.6-6.0 and running 950 ppm on a .5 conversion

right now they are ending their first week of full veg(2 weeks of seedling stage so 3rd week total)
Im using GH micro and bloom using my own ratios, not the lucas formula.
9000 btu air conditioner-temp remains at a constant 70-80F

Seedlings(20) were started in a wet paper towel enclosed in a paper plate and kept in a dark space.
Every 8 hours opening the bag squeezing the air out and breathing c02 into it.
All 20 seeds germinated withing 24-72 hours.

Seeds were then transferred to presoaked rockwool and hydroton in 3" net pots.
Kept under t'5s under the the vegetative phase.
once i saw roots i transferred them into 1 gallon pots for 3 days and realized it was unnecessary.
so i put the into the five gallon buckets under the HPS lights.
2 transfers caused a little bit of stress:/
completely regret transferring them into 1 gallon pots.
As of right now the 5th/6th set of leaves are growing in nicely.
I will post pictures soon, im just waiting until payday to go and buy a nice camera so i can really keep a good detailed journal.
Im using 1gph drippers running them 5-10 minutes every hour or two.

so far everything is looking great

Well thats all i can think of right now, i will post pictures ASAP.
Let me know what you think and if you have any questions!



In compliance with Prop 215 SB 420

Well heres the first update. they are about 2 1/2 weeks ago from seed. Some are struggling. I nuted to early and burned the fuck out of some plants. I fixed that and right now im running 8ml of micro and 12 ml of bloom for a ppm of about 800-850. At first i was running 10ml of micro and 8 ml bloom when i found out that you need at least 10 ml per gallon to get the minimum required mag.
So after correcting the nute problem, the plants got better but they are still showing signs of stress/drooping. Also, some burning around the edges. I figured the yellowing/burning around the edges was a composition of both over nute and mag def. So i fixed the nutes and added enough bloom to help fix the mag. I did this yesterday, and they seem to be looking alot better. Watered late last night about an hour before the lights went off and they looked good this morning. And after watering this morning they began to look a little droopy pretty quickly. So im trying to figure out my watering schedule by ear. Im running open drippers with a 396gph pump. turn it on for about 15 seconds until i hear a good amount of water falling into the reservoir. then i shut it off. Ive been doing this in the morning, mid day, and at night.

So heres a bump, and if anyone has any suggestions id be glad to hear.
Im also experimenting with a bagseed(what i think is a male cause its tall and skinny).
Running FFOF, Jacks classic, dolomite lime, and some blackstrap.
Ill take pictures of that in a little bit.

Sorry for the lines in the pictures, the light does that i guess..

thanks for looking and any criticism would be appreciated

Buuuuumpppp

Well I watered them late last night, and raised the lights a couple of inches and they seem to be doing alot better. Checking the new growth this morning and signs of mag def are subsiding. I'll post pictures later today