First Time Grow - Aerograden

Sup All.....

This is our first grow ever. We decided to use the aerogarden set-up after reading many of the posts on here. We have had some good and bad times with this. But it is a learning process. The seeds are un-known. Just stuff that we had picked outta of stuff we have gotten from others.

The pics are about week 4-5 for two of the plants. The smaller ones had to be re-planted. THEY MAY NOT MAKE IT....oh well thats life.

Any advise or tips you can provide would help. We are just using the standard pack that came with the aerogarden. Nothing too special yet.

Looks pretty good so far, but what I would do is ditch the lights that came with the aerogarden and go buy 4 100 watt cfls. Buy two warm tone ones and two blue toned ones. I think they are called natural light and daylight or something... anyway use those and get them way closer to the plants! Otherwise they'll get stretched out like your big ones are right now. Also get a bubbler, you can get it at walmart in the aquarium section. Are you just using plain tap water right now? Temp in the room? Light cycle times? Once you get the cfls, buy a seperate timer for them and run it on a veg time cycle of your choice, and set the aerogarden to salad greens, so the water runs 24/7. Looking good, just a few small changes can make a BIG difference.

Check out my grow if you need some visuals.... CLICK HERE

try and seperate those plants

The light cycle is set to a 12/12 cycle. We are using just plain tap water right now. We have talked about getting the different lights from wal-mart. The water is set to the veg cycle to keep it running. The temp in the room is 78-81. With a fan for good air flow.

Thanks for the tips

Ok Im at the end of the 5-6th week and want to start inducing flowering. How does this occur? This is my first attempt at growing so I need some assist.

Also how do I determine the male from the female plant?

budsmoker706 said:

Ok Im at the end of the 5-6th week and want to start inducing flowering. How does this occur? This is my first attempt at growing so I need some assist.

Also how do I determine the male from the female plant?

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Turn the lights onto a 12/12 cycle veg is 18/6 some do 24/24 Flower is 12/12 ... You are having nute deficiency there I noticed a slight paling off of the fan leaves

Get some nutes ... and feed your babies also make sure your water pH is adjusted to 5.8<>6.0 makes a hugeeeeeeeeee difference ...

Just noticed you also want to know how to determain sex ,Cant be done until flowering has commenced and your about 10 to 14 days in ...
Once that far into flowering look for Pistils (white long hairs at the base of each node )


Best of luck
Cheers&Peace

What are the best nutes for them?

How do you determine male from a female plants?

We are doing 16/8 right now, I will drop it to the 12/12 to get the flowering started once I get me a secondary timer tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help

budsmoker706 said:

What are the best nutes for them?

How do you determine male from a female plants?

We are doing 16/8 right now, I will drop it to the 12/12 to get the flowering started once I get me a secondary timer tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help

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As for nutes in your neck of the woods I'm not 100% sure as I no doubt live in an other country ... But In the FAQ's there heaps of reading for nutes ,Or you could go to a local hydro store and they will put you on to some fine nutes for your Babies ...
If you were in AU I would recommend BudRite A & BudRite B

How do you determine a male from female plant

Now your just being Dumb ... What this pic didnt explain it enough for you ?

Once again here's how to determain the sex of your plants ...

The pic never posted the first time. Thanks

Well just got back from petsmart. Got a airstone that everyone seems to praise. Going to hook it up and see if it helps our plants any.

I am also going to order some nutes for them tonight as well. Been looking around at some stores but still cant seem to find anything so figure it be best to order offline.

I'm on my third grow with aerogarden, but i do dwarf autoflowering plants. I tried regular plants the first time and i can tell u now the aero isnt much punkin for full sized plants, your gonna need a lot more light for budding, the lights that came with it are okay for veg but just too weak and the wrong Kelvin temp for flowering. you need some 2700-3000K for budding the ones you have are 6500K, they will bud but not much yeild. I gutted my hood and replaced the sockets with regular medium e26 sockets this allows me to put any type cfl in it. if you want to learn more about lighting and kelvin temps go to Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFL's) | Shop 1000Bulbs.com
You want 5000K or above for Veg and 3000K or below for flowering also look at Lumens your aero lights are 26W- 1850 lmn, in the world of bud growing this is low. I replaced mine with 42W 2850lmn bulbs that are available in 6500K and 2750K. If you want to go higher the link above offers 105W 6300lmn bulbs for about $20. check out my grow journal at https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/90917-diesel-ryders-aerogarden.html if you planning on using your aero in the future i would recommend trying some auto flowering dwarf plants, I get mine from auto flowering lowryder hybrids. Good luck

Has any had trouble buyind seeds and have them being sent to the US

The link i gave you above ships to the US. I usually get mine in 5-7 days

thanks.

I did order me a fresh bach just to make sure that my next grow is a good one

Well we lost one of the larger plants. The stem just couldnt sopport it. So we put supports in to hold them up. Im going to start the flower process this week. Hopefully it turns out good.

Ill post pics once I get going

buy a clip on fan from walmart and have it blow on it, not only will it cool the plants down but it'll make them stronger. maybe it's too late though....let the pros definitely let you know.

I'm looking to start growing with my girlfriend, just for personal use. What model AeroGarden does everyone suggest, also the link to the seeds, is that basically the safest kind of seed to atleast expect some sort of yield?

earnie said:

The link i gave you above ships to the US. I usually get mine in 5-7 days

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Thanks for the link. What does a purchase show up as on a bank statement? I just don't want a charge to "Dope-Seeds" on my statements since other eyes might see it is all.

p.s.
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