First Grow 600w Metal Halide / 600w HPS, Herbies Seeds.

OmniKush

Member
I currently have 10x Nirvana Ice seeds, 5 Barney's Farm Vanilla Kush, 1 Dinafem Cheese, and I got like 8 freebies, 2x Samsara Green Love Potion, 5x World of Seeds Kerala x Skunk, 1x Afghan Kush.

I started off using my free seeds on my first grow, as its no loss if I fuck up, besides the obvious, soil nutes etc. I'm using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil in 5x 3 Gallon pots, I have Fox Farm Big Bloom, Grow Big, and Tiger Bloom nutrients, the plants are currently 1 month and 5 days old, They've been having problems here and there, were doing really good up until yesterday, Will post pic's tomorrow of the problems, I need help.

The set-up is 5x 3Gallon Pots under a 600w Metal Halide conversion bulb, Plants are in a 10'x11' room, Mylar on the two major sides of the plants, 6500k 26w CFL's are around the sides to help with bushing. Temperature is steady 78-82, Installed Window AC Unit to keep temps under control, Have a carbon filter / Hepa filter to clean the smell and the air, 2 high CFM fans blowing on the tops of the plants. Humidity has been low lately at 27%, Lights have about an 18" clearance from the tops of the plants, Kind of Ghetto rigged setup to a point, High quality equipment, just was unprepared on how to set it up. Anyways here's some progress pics, advice is really appreciated.

These two were the GLP a week in:

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Kerala x Skunk #1 4 or 5 days in:
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The day of the Transplanting:
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About a week and a half later:
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3 Days ago:
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They looked great in the last picture, but today they looked completely different, not like its dying, but the leaves are all fucked up.
 

huff74

Active Member
hey i grow in fox farm to one thing with fox farm is that the soil has alot of nutes in it to begin with so if u are using ur veg nutes that could be ur problem after transplanting wait 3 weeks before giving nutes and then only do 1/4-1/2 strength to see if the plants really need it or not the bag says it feeds for up to a month so with seedling u can probaby wait a little bit longer before give nutes as they will use less as they are establishing a root system hope this helps
 

cheefbird

Member
Nice. We've got a very similar setup for our first grows!

I've got 2 blue tooth plants and an afghan kush freebie. Looking forward to yours.

Any plans to top/LST/scrog?
 

OmniKush

Member
Pretty dissappointed at what I saw today...







Im assuming its nutrient burn? But could anyone else clear that up for me?
 

goatlicker

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I'm a real newb so don't go from this post but to me it looks like nute burn!
Pretty sure nute burn starts at the tips..
Hopefully someone more advanced sheds some light on this!
Good luck bud.
 

OmniKush

Member
I flushed the plants yesterday with purified water, ill update progress today, id rrally appreciate help guys. Do the plants look like theyre growing right or is there something I can do?
 

fr3d12

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Sadly no PH meter. Can you suggest me a decent one?
You could get a liquid ph test kit until you get a digital one,they only cost a few bucks.Even litmus paper from the pharmacy.
I have a hortilux ph meter and I'm happy with it,I've also heard some good things about the hanna meters but it all depends on how much you want to spend.
Just stay away from the cheap Chinese ones on ebaay, I had one and it nearly ruined my plants because it was off by miles even after calibration so I was adding to much ph down to the nutes.
 

OmniKush

Member
Progress update! Put an Afghan Kush in to test 12/12 from seed. Looking GREAT.

Green Love Potion Day 4 Flowering:
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Green Love Potion second plant Day 4 Flowering:
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Kerala x Skunk #1 Day 4 Flowering:
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Kerala x Skunk #1 second plant Day 4 Flowering:
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All plants day 6:
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fr3d12

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They're looking good Omni,
If they are getting enough light, the right amount of nutes they will do just fine.
 

OmniKush

Member
Thank you, Yeah its a 600w HPS for flowering, I have good equipment, just no Ph meter, but I flushed my plants for 2 weeks, then introduced 1/4 a dose of nutrients to all of them and they recovered. I'm just working up to the full dose.
 

fr3d12

Well-Known Member
Good job.
That's spot on and you will see the results, just keep an eye on them and they will be fine.
What nutes are you using?
 

OmniKush

Member
Yeah, I got all of my information from a local Hydro Store owner, hes old school and really cool. Fox Farm 3 Pack Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, the Hydrponics store owner recommended it to me, Along with Fox Farm Ocean forest soil.
 

fr3d12

Well-Known Member
Yeah, I got all of my information from a local Hydro Store owner, hes old school and really cool. Fox Farm 3 Pack Big Bloom, Grow Big, Tiger Bloom, the Hydrponics store owner recommended it to me, Along with Fox Farm Ocean forest soil.
Fox Farm is hard to get here and if buying online shipping is expensive but I know it's good stuff.
I'm not the most knowldegable person to help you but I definitely won't lead you astray, read loads and you'll be surprised what you pick up.
Do you download torrents?
If you this is worth a look, it's a huge encyclopedia and will install on your machine so if you share a computer or anything it may not suit, I have it on mine and just changed the name but I'm the only user of the laptop.

http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/4812703/GrowFAQ-Marijuana_Growers_Encyclopedia.033009-Installer
 

OmniKush

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Updates!

2 Weeks into flowering.
 

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