First grow please share your thoughts

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

New first time growing. Please let me know what you think.
My setup is a 4x4 tent. I have 4 going now using FF Hero Lite to start
They are 3 weeks old
Only watering with distilled water ph 6.5
Qiixer 1000w led

I thought that they would have been a little bigger but they seem to look okay except for one. I’ll have to be patient I guess
Any advice on my setup would be great
Will post photos from phone

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

Here some pics of the girls

oldskol4evr · Jan 23, 2020

look good ,why distilled water? that soil ive never heard of im check into it,you might have enough nutes in it to get to 2 sets of full leaves,i will have to see the bag

Dirtbag · Jan 23, 2020

Looks like they're off to a good start. I'm curious about the water too though. Distilled water shouldnt need ph adjustment since it will instantly buffer to whatever you add it to, in this case the nutrients in the soiless mix. Water needs to have a measurable tds for ph to even become an issue, or even accurately measurable for that matter.

And I'd caution against using distilled just from the fact that you should always feed water with some tds and a balanced ph. Mainly from calcium. 100-150ppm is all you need. Running 0ppm distilled you will run into problems I think.

One last thing, is that light dimmed down? It looks awfully close to those seedlings if it's running the thousand watt equivalent.

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

No li

Dirtbag said:
Looks like they're off to a good start. I'm curious about the water too though. Distilled water shouldnt need ph adjustment since it will instantly buffer to whatever you add it to, in this case the nutrients in the soiless mix. Water needs to have a measurable tds for ph to even become an issue, or even accurately measurable for that matter.

And I'd caution against using distilled just from the fact that you should always feed water with some tds and a balanced ph. Mainly from calcium. 100-150ppm is all you need. Running 0ppm distilled you will run into problems I think.

One last thing, is that light dimmed down? It looks awfully close to those seedlings if it's running the thousand watt equivalent.

No light is not it's on veg switch
Would spring water be better to start

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

oldskol4evr said:
look good ,why distilled water? that soil ive never heard of im check into it,you might have enough nutes in it to get to 2 sets of full leaves,i will have to see the bag

What kind of water do you use?

MIMedGrower · Jan 23, 2020

Agree wirh everything @Dirtbag said plus no dome for seedlings. You can see the cups are too wet. The perlite is turning brown. Good sign its too wet too long.

Need to let soil dry out real good and light before watering again.

oldskol4evr · Jan 23, 2020

wizard122 said:
New first time growing. Please let me know what you think.
My setup is a 4x4 tent. I have 4 going now using FF Hero Lite to start
They are 3 weeks old
Only watering with distilled water ph 6.5
Qiixer 1000w led

I thought that they would have been a little bigger but they seem to look okay except for one. I’ll have to be patient I guess
Any advice on my setup would be great
Will post photos from phone

i cant find that soil at fox farm,got a picture of the bag?

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

oldskol4evr said:
i cant find that soil at fox farm,got a picture of the bag?

Sorry this is it

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

MIMedGrower said:
Agree wirh everything @Dirtbag said plus no dome for seedlings. You can see the cups are too wet. The perlite is turning brown. Good sign its too wet too long.

Need to let soil dry out real good and light before watering again.

Thanks I'll start it tomorrow morning. What do you use for water ?

MIMedGrower · Jan 23, 2020

wizard122 said:
Thanks I'll start it tomorrow morning. What do you use for water ?

Well water. 150 ppm. 7.8-8.0 ph.

wizard122 · Jan 23, 2020

MIMedGrower said:
Well water. 150 ppm. 7.8-8.0 ph.

I have bottled spring water with similar spec's

MIMedGrower · Jan 23, 2020

wizard122 said:
I have bottled spring water with similar spec's

Bottled spring water into a peat mix with lime or oyster shell should be fine.

What is wrong with your tap water?

oldskol4evr · Jan 23, 2020

wizard122 said:
Sorry this is it

ya seen that one,couldnt find hero no were ,im thinking my next round trying the salamandor

quirk · Jan 23, 2020

You had me googling FF Hero Lite. I thought FF had come out with a new product because of all the "too hot" comments about FFOF. That being said, I use the Light Warrior in my soil mix as well with good results. Those plants are not getting enough oxygen. Lose the distilled, lose the dome, perforate your solo's all around and bottom, get some air circulation to help dry them out. Spring or tap will do you just fine. I put my Jiffy's in final pot day after sprout to mitigate this problem.

Havocsm1 · Jan 24, 2020

What's the actual power draw on that light? It's likely it will easily get you through veg but once you flower you may need stronger. Without a whole lotta red light they won't grow as good. They won't eat as much nutrients. If you want my advice is start searching for a nice red spectrum light. I personally use HLG for my smaller lights but my granddaddy light is BudgetLED, a little better tech a little cheaper price. Anyway just something to consider.

Well done so far!!

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