12 day old plants, how do they look?

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Phantomgrowtech

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Hey guys, this is my very first grow. I did very very extensive research about growing and everything required for the entire process. But I am still new and I know I can make mistakes due to that. These girls popped out of the soil 12 days ago. How do you think they look now? I think they look great but I want more opinions.
Setup:
4x8 grow tent
3x p450 platnium led grow lights
Fox farms: ocean forest mix with 25% perlite added
Smart pot: 2 gallons. Will be moved into 10 gal start of veg.
Running 20/4 for the light cycle
Temps have been regular at 80-82 although humidity is usually around 47% [A20161025_213326.jpg 20161026_162208.jpg TTACH=full]3815195[/ATTACH]
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Leave them ... They are already vegging.
Water diet only for now ..... ( You can use TAP ... FFOF is already buffered for right PH )

Fox Farm soil has enough nutes within to carry plant up to week 5/6 typically.
Also , LED grows tend to favor LIGHTER feeding than other light setups.
I let mine just grow without ADDING nutes , unless i actually see anything different than normal. It is a slightly hotter mix than other brands but is mostly plug and play without adding anything but perlite.

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Cyrus420

Cyrus420

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Budzbuddha said:
Leave them ... They are already vegging.
Water diet only for now ..... ( You can use TAP ... FFOF is already buffered for right PH )

Fox Farm soil has enough nutes within to carry plant up to week 5/6 typically.
Also , LED grows tend to favor LIGHTER feeding than other light setups.
I let mine just grow without ADDING nutes , unless i actually see anything different than normal. It is a slightly hotter mix than other brands but is mostly plug and play without adding anything but perlite.

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Never heard that the light source could alter how you feed your plants, what's that all about?
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Cyrus420 said:
Never heard that the light source could alter how you feed your plants, what's that all about?
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Alter your watering as needed when using LED : Watering causes some problems to those starting out with LED growing. Most watering/feeding guides are based on HPS lighting where evaporation occurs and daily watering is required to replace the evaporated water, feed, etc. from the pots (if growing in soil). The evaporation of the water/feed etc is not an issue with LED grow lights however the possibility of over watering is a very real danger.

Know what to feed your plants. Plants grown under LED grow lights usually only require approximately 30% of feeding compared to HPS lighting. You would all so do well to add Cal-Mag when growing with LEDs
In hydroponic systems, less topping up of the nutrient reservoirs are required due to the reduced evaporation of the nutrients.

It is very easy to overfeed ( BURN ) or Overwater using LED. i personally had to ramp down to 1/8 strength sometimes . I even just foliar fed nutes during early veg.
 
Cyrus420

Cyrus420

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Budzbuddha said:
Alter your watering as needed when using LED : Watering causes some problems to those starting out with LED growing. Most watering/feeding guides are based on HPS lighting where evaporation occurs and daily watering is required to replace the evaporated water, feed, etc. from the pots (if growing in soil). The evaporation of the water/feed etc is not an issue with LED grow lights however the possibility of over watering is a very real danger.

Know what to feed your plants. Plants grown under LED grow lights usually only require approximately 30% of feeding compared to HPS lighting. You would all so do well to add Cal-Mag when growing with LEDs
In hydroponic systems, less topping up of the nutrient reservoirs are required due to the reduced evaporation of the nutrients.

It is very easy to overfeed ( BURN ) or Overwater using LED. i personally had to ramp down to 1/8 strength sometimes . I even just foliar fed nutes during early veg.
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Good summary. Spot on about the HPS the plants definitely drain quicker I noticed, never used an LED but my CFL grow had such issues.
 
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