CptNemo
Well-Known Member
My grow exp is limited to one outdoor grow a few years back. Great results with 6-7ft gals. My location is not good for outdoor and was pretty stupid of me to do it the first time. So this year I decided to go indoor in my garage. Nice little 2x4x6 tent, 1000w dual bulb light set up. I didn't get it all set up in time so I have to go with autos. It will get too cold in the garage to start normal plants now.
I planted 2 Auto Berry fem seeds from MNSL in peat pots using MiracleGro garden soil. After about 10 days the seeds popped. I quickly realized 5 or so days after popping I had flushed the soil. I figured I had a nitrogen deficiency and started diluted garden nutes 26-8-18. This pic was taken the day I started nutes.
Over the next 10 days they got better on a 2 water / 1 nute cycle over 3 days. Ive been testing soil, water and nutes and holding ph at 6.5-7.5 Temps are in the mid 80's and I keep the light 12-18in from the tops. Running 24hr of MH. Also I cut the bottom of the peat pots and replanted into their final pots.
Another 7 days go by and I think everything is going great. They both start to flower showing female.
Another 7 days passed and I may have over fed. A couple leaves started to burn. I cut the nutes back to a 3/1 water/nute cycle. And the new growth seems good.
And another week goes by. These are budding like crazy! But they are only like 6-7" in height. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Light too close at 18" from top of plants?
I figure Im 4 weeks in and will switch to my HPS bulb during the 5th week. Is this normal? I would think these should be taller by now.
I planted 2 Auto Berry fem seeds from MNSL in peat pots using MiracleGro garden soil. After about 10 days the seeds popped. I quickly realized 5 or so days after popping I had flushed the soil. I figured I had a nitrogen deficiency and started diluted garden nutes 26-8-18. This pic was taken the day I started nutes.
Over the next 10 days they got better on a 2 water / 1 nute cycle over 3 days. Ive been testing soil, water and nutes and holding ph at 6.5-7.5 Temps are in the mid 80's and I keep the light 12-18in from the tops. Running 24hr of MH. Also I cut the bottom of the peat pots and replanted into their final pots.
Another 7 days go by and I think everything is going great. They both start to flower showing female.
Another 7 days passed and I may have over fed. A couple leaves started to burn. I cut the nutes back to a 3/1 water/nute cycle. And the new growth seems good.
And another week goes by. These are budding like crazy! But they are only like 6-7" in height. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Light too close at 18" from top of plants?
I figure Im 4 weeks in and will switch to my HPS bulb during the 5th week. Is this normal? I would think these should be taller by now.
