Sunshine9 said:

Hello, new face here saying Hi to everyone on the forum. I have a perpetual grow, running 5 plants in flower and 5 plants in veg. I grow pheno feminized plants and use primarily organic fertilizers but also supplement my soil with certain synthetic / salt-based nutrients. I have been growing for 5 years but by no means consider myself an expert, but at times I'd like to think I've learned a thing or two.

Hoping to have some great, fun discussions with everyone here and learn more about growing high quality marijuana.

Currently Growing:

• Flower Room

5 x Alien Cookies by Purple Caper Seeds​

• Veg Tent

1 x Crescendo RBx1 by Ethos F​

1 x Planet of the Grapes Rbx by Ethos F​

1 x Purple Sunset R2Bx by Ethos F​

1 x Candy Store by Ethos R​

1 x LA OG Kush F (Freebee from Atlantic Seed Co)​

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Soil Line Up:

• Fox Farm Ocean Forest
• Coast Of Maine
• Perlite

60% FFOF, 35% Coast of Maine, 5% added Perlite​

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Nutrient Line Up:

• Microbes

Recharge​

Great White​

Root Magic Rhizo​

Microbe Life Photosynthesis Plus 0-.5-.9​

• Veg

Fox Farm Grow Big (Synthetic/Salt based nutrient) 6-4-4​

Ferti-Lome Fish Emulsion Fertilizer 5-1-1​

Sensi Cal - Mag Xtra 4-0-0​

• Flower

Fox Farm Tiger Bloom 2-8-4​

Neptunes Harvest Fish & Seaweed 2-3-1​

Roots Organic HPK 0-4-3​

• Micronutrients

General Hydroponics CaMg 1-0-0​

Fox Farm Big Bloom​

Marphyl Marine Phytoplankton​

• PH Adjust

General Hydroponics - PH Down​

Grow Light

• Flower Room

HLG 650R (650 Watts, 100% power) (Full Spectrum)​

• Veg Tent

HLG 100 (100 Watts) (3000k) - will get updated to a better light spectrum soon.​

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Flower Room

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Veg Tent

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Sunshine9 said:

The flower room is getting dialed in rather nicely. All 5 plants are the same strain and but showing some different phenotypes in veg already. These plants are 38 days old and doing fairly well. I let them stretch a bit too much when they originally sprouted getting the new HLG650R at the right height. Hoping I can improve on veg time and size of the plants a bit over the next couple runs. I flipped them to flower on 1/23 (yesterday).

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I top all of my plants at the 5th of 6th node depending on the overall structure of the plant and perform a light defoliation to trim down the bottom popcorn / undesirable nodes as flower progresses.

One of the plants is showing an automatic topping mutation and has topped itself on three of the main node branches.

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I will be adding a SCROG to each plant in a couple of days.

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Cypress66 said:

Looking sweet and I love the poles that you have used in your pots peace

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Cypress66 said:

By the way welcome to the farm good place for stoners to learn more about the plants they grow and maybe improve their quality and grow their plants better and better each time this place has been a great help to me in the past I’ve been very much a lazy grower in the way I fed my plants and the environment they were in was not always the best just following the instructions on the bottle of nutes and I have learned to appreciate the results of the lower level of the ec level and the learning of the plants and the uptake of the nutes is something that I’ve been more interested in for the ph level and the different stages of the plants life Is nice to try to keep lmproving every time you grow your garden your always learning when your growing And is a big part of my life that I’ve been involved with for the last fourty years now I only started gardening ten years ago but I have been smoking it for years now and I’ve never bought it since I’ve been growing my own and it was the first thing that I realised and I cannot believe some of the shit and under weight dealings I have paid for the plants you are growing will be better than the shit you will get and your money is your own. Great hobby for me to relax and enjoy the results of your work and care of your garden. What a wonderful herb keep it green peace

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Sunshine9 said:

Thanks for the warm welcome! You are right, growing is very satisfying and learning everything involved with growing healthy plants is very interesting and fun. Once you get the basics down and can continually grow full term plants -- that is when the fun really begins because like you said you can tweak nutrients and ph to really home in a plant's health and vigor. I've noticed there is generally just less guess work involved as you get more plants under your belt. But there is always something new to learn!

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Sunshine9 said:

The flower room is still going well, fed them some pretty heavy nutrients this morning.

The front three I could tell could still use a bit of nitrogen but the back two definitely did not need any additional nitrogen so made the water solutions slightly different for them. About 8 hours later and looks like they appreciated it!

When I water I try my best to have no water leave the bottom of the pots, letting too much runoff water out of your pots also removes nutrients from the soil.

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Cypress66 said:

Looking like a hanging garden lol . The plants are looking very nice and green nice work i have a light that is the 4000k spectrum is the osram diodes has had little use as the bar lights have replaced it do you use it to veg and flower? The light i have is a plant photonics brand is a 100wt light and 3wt osram diodes x 45 ish very yellow light compared to the white light from the Samsung 35000k Is more like the flower light of the hps and yet the spectrum is further away from the flower spectrum of the hps. Which i think is the 27000k may be wrong on that it is a full spectrum light and will flower but it is not used much for flower as far as I’m seeing in the majority of the farmers here but I will have to try it for a full cycle on one plant and see what it is capable of. Peace

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