CQ's Details
• Soil Growers:
1. Are you growing from seed or clones? Clones
2. How old are your plants? 39 days from when they went into buckets under HPS (12 days old prior to that)
3. How tall are your plants? 22 inches
4. What size containers are they planted in? 2 ½ gln buckets
5. What is your soil mix? Roots Organic Coco Fiber (soilless)
6. How often do you water and what type of water do you use? Every other day I feed (with nutrients) and every third feeding is only trinity. Tap water, ALWAYS ph’d.
7. What is the pH of your water? Out of the tap, 7.9, when I feed/water 5.5-6.1
8. What kind of fertilizer do you use and what is its NPK ratio? Here is the list of what I feed, it changes as they grow. (Roots Organic: Trinity, HP2, HPK
Aurora Innovations: Soul Grow, Soul Bloom, Amino Aide, Big Swell)
9. Do you foliar feed or spray your plants with anything? Nitrozime (kelp) once a week only in veg
10. What kind of lights do you use and how many watts combined? (HPS, MH, fluorescent, halogen, incandescent "plant lights") I use 4 – 600 HPS in cooled hoods.
11. How close are your lights to the plants? About 8 inches from the top, it is on a light rail which moves the lights side to side
12. What size is your grow space in square feet? Uh, 10X10X12
13. What is the temperature and humidity in your grow space? I keep it around 78-81 and humidity 41-44
14. What is the pH of the soil? Interesting, I haven’t tested the soil, how would I do that? Stick the pH meter in the soil?
15. Have you noticed any insect activity in your grow space? Not this round, but fungus gnats are a problem for me. I use yellow sticky’s for the adults and gnatrol for the others. Seems to work well for me.
16. How much experience do you have growing? This is my fourth go around personally.