NewClosetGrower
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looking good bro
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dadio161
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Okay , The girls started showing their female hairs two days ago . I tried to take close up pics but camera won't focus that close with lights on . They are really starting to take off . Everyone spreading roots and feeding once a day .When I started the grow , I used 5ml/gl of each GH GROW , MICRO , BLOOM . I hand fed the girls from the top using a cup during the normal morning feeding . Just to make sure the roots were getting wet while spreading for the first three days. I then let them feed on a normal watering cycle after that . Everyone doing great .
Last night I changed out the reservoir as today starts week 2 of vegg . I have had a few problems with my first two grows with minor over feeding . I have decided to back off on the nutes a bit and try something different . I have heard a lot of positive things about Lucas Formula and I already have GH nutes on hand . So I added 5ml of micro per gallon and 10ml of bloom per gallon . I left out the Grow formula as it stated . I will top everyday with PH'd water , and change out the reservoir every Friday . I will also continue to water once a day for 15 minutes until the blocks start to feel light late in the day . I just want to keep it simple while trying to learn to read the plant . Like a lot of other new people , I wanted to get the most out of my grow . Giving them more nutes than they need will not make them grow bigger and faster if you don't have a clue . I feel that I need to learn to grow healthy plants all the way thru before I start to try to play with different additives.
Here's a few pics from this morning . I intend to vegg for 4 weeks .
Dropastone
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Looking good.
dadio161
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here are a couple pics I was able to take with my Zorb . I also forgot to mention that today I also gave the girls a good bath with a spray bottle of soapy water . I haven't seen any evidence of spider mites but I am trying to be cautious . It's easier to get to all the leaves when they are still short . Gotta stay ahead of this problem .NewClosetGrower
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looking good brother...wow, i didnt know you can get spider mites growing indoors. Are they more attracted to hydro grows? god i love learning new things about this lol...how tall are you plants bud? its hard to tell
dadio161
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I am fixing a mite problem that came with my clones . When you get free clones , sometimes you get mites . Today the girls are at 5 1/2 inches .
NewClosetGrower
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dadio161
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Today is day 10 . Today I checked on the girls and looked at the bottom of the blocks . All six girls have healthy white roots coming thru the bottom of the blocks . Everything looks good so far . Healthy green leaves are branching off everywhere . The girls are at about 6 " each so I went ahead and topped all of them . I plan to vegg them for another 2 1/2 weeks for a total of four weeks . I am hoping to get to about 18 " in height . They should grow to about 36" to 45 " .
crystalman
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looks good my set up will be simaler i got the same tray by the looks of it
dadio161
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Here's a few pics I snapped tonight . The stems are getting thicker and looking like stems instead of branches . The girls now look like small bushes . Two more weeks of vegging at 18/6 and then on to flower . I changed out the reservoir this afternoon as I am trying to change every Friday. I am staying with the Lucas Formula for feeding . Feeding is still at once a day .NewClosetGrower
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looking good my friend...hey bud i gotta question if you gotta sec...a good friend of mine has done a few outdoor grows, in buckets...he rescently set up his first hydro grow at the same time i started my soil grow... hes got 3 plants and 2 of them are doing "ok" nothing to write home about, but one of them is still at the medium, literally but the roots are growing like crazy, it only has 2 leaves on it, granite there pretty wide but it is getting NO height! hes got all 3 of them under a 50W 4 foot flourescent light and yesterday i went over to his house and wired up 6 23W CFL's, 2 for each plant with the FL...but what i dont understand is why that one plant is still at the medium and the other 2 are doing ok...its been about 6 weeks and my plants are dominating over his..."small bush's" like you said when his are like twigs...hes only using Sensi grow parts A&B..i looked on the back of it and its stats are 20-0-0..so i told him what that means and we decided to throw some MG all purpose plant food into one of the buckets and see what happens (the tiny plant) anyway, thanks man and congrats on the awesome progress
MEANGREEN69
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nice setup dadio the plants look great.... what strain/s are you growing?
dadio161
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thank you . I have four Blueberry , one Pez , and one that was supposed to be Pez but looking more like the Blueberry as the leaves are getting bigger . No complaints for that . I checked the heights today and one plant is at 10 1/2 " and the other 5 are at about 9 1/2 " . I have the lights 8" above the girls . I am trying to wait until thursday for new pics so you can see how much they are growing .
I will try to spend my waiting time trying to design a seperate vegg/clone cabinet . This vegging for four weeks is slowing me down . I don't have any extra money to buy anything right now anyway . Lots-o-time to plan ahead .
I will try to spend my waiting time trying to design a seperate vegg/clone cabinet . This vegging for four weeks is slowing me down . I don't have any extra money to buy anything right now anyway . Lots-o-time to plan ahead .
