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Cpurola's first indoor grow, alot to learn.

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Cpurola's first indoor grow, alot to learn.

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Like2Grow said:
I tripped over a root shot for autopots.

With autopots you never guess when it's time to water. It's on all the time. Plants want it, they've got it. Clay balls (the red colored things mixed in with the roots) cost next to nothing and I toss a few in each grow. They improve air flow and you never have to guess when it's time to water. This isn't an exceptional shot of the roots. It's normal when using autopots.

I don't fart around with dry cycles. Make sure the reservoir has water going to the pot base, it's good.

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Impressive! So how do you fertilize, pour it in from the top? Do you check EC with a meter to see if it's good?
 
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cpurola said:
Impressive! So how do you fertilize, pour it in from the top? Do you check EC with a meter to see if it's good?
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Mix nutes in with the water in the reservoir most days/weeks. Pour in the top with not a lot of fluid if you need to (most of the time I don't). I don't use an EC meter. I don't use a PAR meter. I look at leaves. Some growers using meters get great results, others take it over the top and don't understand why they kill their plants. I tend to be conservative on nutes and light and don't like to see plants killed because of too much ...

One of the biggest differences between indoor and outdoor for me has been shaping the plant. With autos (which I've grown very little) I'd do low stress training by tying yarn/string to the branches and taping the other side of the yarn to the pot side to stretch the plant wider (depending on whether you've got space for wide plants). Regular seed/fem lets me veg longer and topping the plants widens them out a lot. With autos veg is over when they decide it is.

I usually let my water set out for a day before adding it to get chlorine out. Water is very important. Keep a bucket around to fill up a day before you use it. You will likely have some of the same issues you had outside unless you add in a bit of something to kill the little bugs in your water. A low dose of what ever you've been trying outside mixed in the day before using would be something I'd do knowing a little about your place.
 
#43
Like2Grow said:
Mix nutes in with the water in the reservoir most days/weeks. Pour in the top with not a lot of fluid if you need to (most of the time I don't). I don't use an EC meter. I don't use a PAR meter. I look at leaves. Some growers using meters get great results, others take it over the top and don't understand why they kill their plants. I tend to be conservative on nutes and light and don't like to see plants killed because of too much ...

One of the biggest differences between indoor and outdoor for me has been shaping the plant. With autos (which I've grown very little) I'd do low stress training by tying yarn/string to the branches and taping the other side of the yarn to the pot side to stretch the plant wider (depending on whether you've got space for wide plants). Regular seed/fem lets me veg longer and topping the plants widens them out a lot. With autos veg is over when they decide it is.

I usually let my water set out for a day before adding it to get chlorine out. Water is very important. Keep a bucket around to fill up a day before you use it. You will likely have some of the same issues you had outside unless you add in a bit of something to kill the little bugs in your water. A low dose of what ever you've been trying outside mixed in the day before using would be something I'd do knowing a little about your place.
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Thanks! Yes, I've been watching indoor grows with the sticky traps and think I'll get some mosquito bits and soak them, then strain, and sprinkle the top of the potting soil when I transplant.
And I'm of the 'less is more' for the most part, so will act accordingly.
 
#44
cpurola said:
Okay, the outdoors is done and I'm looking for a new adventure. 🙂
Lots to learn, so I'm a gonna lean on y'all.
Splurged and got an AC Infinity 4 x 4 tent 'kit', with all the bells and whistles.
UPS dropped it off yesterday and hubby and I put it together today. Very impressed with the packaging and ease of assembly.
Now I have to do some reading. Man that light is bright!

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Sheet, you're gonna blow the doors off this🥰 Now YOU get to control everything.
 
#48
Another big shout out for Autopots here, they are amazing. Plants go absolutely mental, I've never seen growth like it. Just on my second grow with them (indoors) after switching from soil. It's certainly an adventure! 🤩
 
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cpurola said:
I read the promix has some perlite in it as well, but a little more won't hurt. I hope.
I'll put that BioBuzz on my things to try next list. Thanks.
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Your starting it already, stop messing with things, they are purposely made for the job lol. Just give them light, feed them....less is more, and just veg and bloom nites unless you have an issue, soil like that is full of microbes that buffer the PH, but if you just use Canna Terra Vega (A for soil) and Canna Terra Flores (B) up to 5ml of of those in Per Litre will be between PH6 or 6.5 depending on your water source and at first you won't even need to feed them in an enrichment soil mix.

Do not top them
Do even bother LST
Watch your plants, tiredness ect
Dry and Light until you need to feed
Really just let them grow
Give a small hair cut at the bottom at the start of flower (lollipop) and another once you have actual buds so as much light can as they can.

As sorry I'm just trying to give you some tips from experience lol so you can first just grow some nice weed and with your space and light power and it being AC I reckon if you will pull 2/3 oz a plant then once you have the hang of it you can start messing with hydro ect pulling weights.

Again good luck my man
Like2Grow said:
Mix nutes in with the water in the reservoir most days/weeks. Pour in the top with not a lot of fluid if you need to (most of the time I don't). I don't use an EC meter. I don't use a PAR meter. I look at leaves. Some growers using meters get great results, others take it over the top and don't understand why they kill their plants. I tend to be conservative on nutes and light and don't like to see plants killed because of too much ...

One of the biggest differences between indoor and outdoor for me has been shaping the plant. With autos (which I've grown very little) I'd do low stress training by tying yarn/string to the branches and taping the other side of the yarn to the pot side to stretch the plant wider (depending on whether you've got space for wide plants). Regular seed/fem lets me veg longer and topping the plants widens them out a lot. With autos veg is over when they decide it is.

I usually let my water set out for a day before adding it to get chlorine out. Water is very important. Keep a bucket around to fill up a day before you use it. You will likely have some of the same issues you had outside unless you add in a bit of something to kill the little bugs in your water. A low dose of what ever you've been trying outside mixed in the day before using would be something I'd do knowing a little about your place.
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Sounds like the Wilma's I used to use mate, and in regards metres ect, now I'm only growing a few autos in soil the only metre I've got is my litmus paper and I rarely use that.

I know there are plenty that will need them, hard water areas ect, but I'm lucky to live in an area of the UK where we get the best water.
 
#52
cpurola said:
Actually, I have them on a sunny windowsill for now. Can't see running that light for the babies. 😉
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90% of decent LED panels are dimmable dude, and if not just change the height, there's loads of guides available because obviously a 100w at 25% is going to be a
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lot different than 600w at 25%. I plant my autos directly in the pot and stick them with my main plants. And I put them under my highly blue spectrum light and raise them a pot lol. I'm properly DIYing in right now lol 🤣 it's not that close when it's a seedling I slowly raise it.

Seems to be working anyway but I cannot wait to get my 8 pot Wilma set up in a tent with a powerful LED, I've got 4 Wilmas but getting caught with 32 plants is a massive fine or a year or two inside in the UK, it's not set in law but you have cannabis cultivation and cannabis production (for profit, usually more than 9 plants)

Sorry for going off topic my brain does that an awful lot.
 
#53
cpurola said:
Actually, I have them on a sunny windowsill for now. Can't see running that light for the babies. 😉
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😄 I’m only here to contribute regular harassings🤪✌️

I totally hear you on the light! my plants are under the 1000w in the flower room right now, it’s ridiculous! and so much so its motivated me to get the shed finished out hahah!

I’ve got a little spider farmer 100w light that is perfect for the teeny tinys in solos. you can turn it down to almost nothing, the only reason i bring it up is this time of year our house is hella cold compared to ideal growing temps. You may run your heater and keep it nice and toasty though so if thats the case disregard : )
 
#54
BearWater said:
😄 I’m only here to contribute regular harassings🤪✌️
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Keep up the good work !!! Your hairassings are very well done as well as regular I'm sure ;-).

I use an 18 watt LED light at the seedling stage and leave the light on 24/7 for the first couple weeks. Then I go carefully to more light. The downside of using outside light at this time of year is the hours are likely a bit short for what the plants want.
 
#55
Like2Grow said:
Keep up the good work !!! Your hairassings are very well done as well as regular I'm sure ;-).

I use an 18 watt LED light at the seedling stage and leave the light on 24/7 for the first couple weeks. Then I go carefully to more light. The downside of using outside light at this time of year is the hours are likely a bit short for what the plants want.
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Im not quite at oldchucky’s elegance but im getting there! 😆✌️ as far as frequency, i do try and behave myself LOL! : )

yeah I didnt even consider the natural light being at 12 hours! even when i was doing things on my counter i had a small light on it. we just dont keep our house warm enough, as soon as moved the entire operation to the shed things started popping and growing way better : )
 
#56
BearWater said:
😄 I’m only here to contribute regular harassings🤪✌️

I totally hear you on the light! my plants are under the 1000w in the flower room right now, it’s ridiculous! and so much so its motivated me to get the shed finished out hahah!

I’ve got a little spider farmer 100w light that is perfect for the teeny tinys in solos. you can turn it down to almost nothing, the only reason i bring it up is this time of year our house is hella cold compared to ideal growing temps. You may run your heater and keep it nice and toasty though so if thats the case disregard : )
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Yeah, I don't like a house to hot and tend to keep my thermostat on 21⁰C and my radiator off, in my little cowboy build it's consistently between 23/25⁰C over summer we had a few heat waves and it got upto 28⁰C
That was more to do with houses in the UK being built to keep heat in.

I was skeptical about Spider Farmer as the company that makes them has around another 6 brands on eBay, but over this year I've seen some amazing results from spider farmer and it's brother brands.

Ive now been looking for some cheap small strips x 4 to go lower down as I've noticed the 100w only had around 2 inch of penetration powder at 12 inches so the top 2 inches of your side Colas get hard anything below that and it's fluff. I'm hoping extra light from the sides can help lower down, not right at the bottom as I lollipop mine but at those areas lower down on the smaller Colas that don't get as many photons

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I don't like to LST autos but at this stage I've been tying the side Colas down to get more light to the lower buds.

I've been growing years and the more I learn I realise there is a lot more I need to learn. But it's a great hobbie and teaches patience. I don't just grow weed I like having a nice garden and love growing my own Strawberries and Tomatoes, nothing better than UK summer strawberries and I use the same BioBizz and nutrients to grow them also as they are the same at the end of the day.

To get some beautiful fruits I dig a holes and fill them with 25l each of full strength BioBizz lol 🤣
 
#57
Spent the day harvesting my last outdoor girl, Rosemary Alchemy from Trilogene. I figured she was a lost cause because she started flowering so late, but it worked for her, and my, favor. She avoided bud rot, had mild case of Septoria and the alternaria was trimmable. Just hope the trics were done enough, 'cause freezing weather is predicted.
Oh, and it's a CBD heavy variety. Only one that survived this year.

BTW, on paper 50 degrees doesn't sound too cold but when you're sitting, trimming and washing/rinsing bud, it's ccccoold! Probably could have cut a few more branches, but I filled 2 levels of the mesh net so I'm done!
Went inside to warm my toes and fingers and everything else! LOL

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#59
cpurola said:
Spent the day harvesting my last outdoor girl, Rosemary Alchemy from Trilogene. I figured she was a lost cause because she started flowering so late, but it worked for her, and my, favor. She avoided bud rot, had mild case of Septoria and the alternaria was trimmable. Just hope the trics were done enough, 'cause freezing weather is predicted.
Oh, and it's a CBD heavy variety. Only one that survived this year.

BTW, on paper 50 degrees doesn't sound too cold but when you're sitting, trimming and washing/rinsing bud, it's ccccoold! Probably could have cut a few more branches, but I filled 2 levels of the mesh net so I'm done!
Went inside to warm my toes and fingers and everything else! LOL

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cpurola said:
Spent the day harvesting my last outdoor girl, Rosemary Alchemy from Trilogene. I figured she was a lost cause because she started flowering so late, but it worked for her, and my, favor. She avoided bud rot, had mild case of Septoria and the alternaria was trimmable. Just hope the trics were done enough, 'cause freezing weather is predicted.
Oh, and it's a CBD heavy variety. Only one that survived this year.

BTW, on paper 50 degrees doesn't sound too cold but when you're sitting, trimming and washing/rinsing bud, it's ccccoold! Probably could have cut a few more branches, but I filled 2 levels of the mesh net so I'm done!
Went inside to warm my toes and fingers and everything else! LOL

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I have tried in the north UK a few times with limited success, I mean it's wet and damp most of the time.....even when it's warm, I know people have success with green houses with a supplemental LED. I just want to cuddle that big bit lol
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