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Well... I've been doing nothing but watch over the plants all weekend. They went into my system at about 1PM on Friday. I just took the pictures below right at 8PM, so this these pictures are after 2 days and 7 hours after being put in.
When I first got them home 3 had drooped over. I was worried about this, but assumed it was the stress of the trip in the car. After a few hours you could tell they were going to stand up, and they were all stood up after about 12 hours, but 2 plants had a leaf each that were browning after they stood back up.
I decided to use the full GH expert system and just go by their schedule, but weaker at first after all I've read. So I started with the exact seedling recipe but calculating it as 12 gallons of water when there are really 14. I also used only a 10ml level of concentration of Florablend because it said to start at 15 and reduce to 10 in "mild growth". I saw no way of removing, so I just went with the 10 level so I can add to the seedling forumla to create the mild growth formula. The PPH of just the 3 base nutes was 302, but it was 490 after the addatives (Diamond Nectar, Flora Blend, Floralicious, and FLora Nectar).
After the 3 drooping plants stood up, leaves on all 6 began turning a lighter green and some edges began to yellow. After spending most of the day reading I decided they were N deficient. I also suspected this because the seedling formula uses equal parts of the base 3 but the mild growth uses a lot more of the Gro bottle with the N. So at the beginning of day 2 I added everything to create a weakened version of the mild growth formula, but at about half strength. This was clearly what the plants had been wanting because the all turned green and started looking very healthy (execpt for a few brown parts from the early shock).
This morning they were starting to pale again, so I added more of the base 3 towards the full forumla (calculated at 12 gallons when there is actually 14)... and they quickly turned dark green and started pushing out new leaves. So right now I am at 824 PPM/5.8 PH with the exact GH expert mild growth formula minus 30ml Gro/15ml Micro/15ml Bloom (adding those would create the full strength GH formula for 12 gallons, but I actually have 14). Next time the plants seem to want more I will add the rest of the base nutes, but I am guessing that will be at least a few days. Later I can add the other 2 gallons worth if they seem to want even more. I will do a water change to change to the full veg formula when they are ready. I am high in nutes compared to most advice I have read for this stage, but they suffered without it and perked up as I increased it... so I carefully, thoughtfully, and slowly increased it until I wound up where I am now.
As for the light... I started it about 3.5 feet about the plants set to 280w. After 6 hours I increased to 400w. After 12 hours I increased to 600w. I was planning on leaving it high at 600w for a full day and gradually lowering it on day 3, but the plants seemed to be stretching up toward the light growing stem but not leaves to reach (one became particularly taller than the others), so I began lowering the full power light 2 inches per hour on day 2 until I got it down to 26" where it is now.
Here are some pictures of the plants after 2 days and 7 hours in the tent. I tried to get a good close up of the one with the brown areas on the leaves, but I don't think my cheap camera takes very good closeups.
When I first got them home 3 had drooped over. I was worried about this, but assumed it was the stress of the trip in the car. After a few hours you could tell they were going to stand up, and they were all stood up after about 12 hours, but 2 plants had a leaf each that were browning after they stood back up.
I decided to use the full GH expert system and just go by their schedule, but weaker at first after all I've read. So I started with the exact seedling recipe but calculating it as 12 gallons of water when there are really 14. I also used only a 10ml level of concentration of Florablend because it said to start at 15 and reduce to 10 in "mild growth". I saw no way of removing, so I just went with the 10 level so I can add to the seedling forumla to create the mild growth formula. The PPH of just the 3 base nutes was 302, but it was 490 after the addatives (Diamond Nectar, Flora Blend, Floralicious, and FLora Nectar).
After the 3 drooping plants stood up, leaves on all 6 began turning a lighter green and some edges began to yellow. After spending most of the day reading I decided they were N deficient. I also suspected this because the seedling formula uses equal parts of the base 3 but the mild growth uses a lot more of the Gro bottle with the N. So at the beginning of day 2 I added everything to create a weakened version of the mild growth formula, but at about half strength. This was clearly what the plants had been wanting because the all turned green and started looking very healthy (execpt for a few brown parts from the early shock).
This morning they were starting to pale again, so I added more of the base 3 towards the full forumla (calculated at 12 gallons when there is actually 14)... and they quickly turned dark green and started pushing out new leaves. So right now I am at 824 PPM/5.8 PH with the exact GH expert mild growth formula minus 30ml Gro/15ml Micro/15ml Bloom (adding those would create the full strength GH formula for 12 gallons, but I actually have 14). Next time the plants seem to want more I will add the rest of the base nutes, but I am guessing that will be at least a few days. Later I can add the other 2 gallons worth if they seem to want even more. I will do a water change to change to the full veg formula when they are ready. I am high in nutes compared to most advice I have read for this stage, but they suffered without it and perked up as I increased it... so I carefully, thoughtfully, and slowly increased it until I wound up where I am now.
As for the light... I started it about 3.5 feet about the plants set to 280w. After 6 hours I increased to 400w. After 12 hours I increased to 600w. I was planning on leaving it high at 600w for a full day and gradually lowering it on day 3, but the plants seemed to be stretching up toward the light growing stem but not leaves to reach (one became particularly taller than the others), so I began lowering the full power light 2 inches per hour on day 2 until I got it down to 26" where it is now.
Here are some pictures of the plants after 2 days and 7 hours in the tent. I tried to get a good close up of the one with the brown areas on the leaves, but I don't think my cheap camera takes very good closeups.