Trial, error, monitoring, adjusting. First grow, coco coir. Daily pics and updates

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

Hpe your Friday is full of dank, new to this forum but im enjoying it, ive been lurking and soaking in valuable information from various threads so thought why not share my first quest. Its been fun and maybe my journey can give you nuggets of information that you can pick and choose from to potentially apply in your own operation. Its what the forum has def helped me for.

Started as seeds and currently in week 2 of veg. Ill post pics of plant progress and updates, ill include environment setup in future posts from any equipment i started off with as seeds, to the equipment I've switched to presently, I'll also remember to mention nutes or any other misc thing i've found helpful along the way. Stay lit up and stay blessed.

One drop · May 30, 2020

Howdy welcome to the farm hope your grows run smooth best regards Od .

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

One drop said:
Howdy welcome to the farm hope your grows run smooth best regards Od .

Thanks, week 2 of veg ends tomorrow and we go into the starting of week 3 on Sunday. It's a long game but we got this.

One drop · May 30, 2020

Nicely set up good to see pot up off cold floor its a important for the health of plants .
Keep it up I’m sure you will be ok they have got a good start remember less is more with nutes what’s that mantra again less Is more . Od .

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

One drop said:
Nicely set up good to see pot up off cold floor its a important for the health of plants .
Keep it up I’m sure you will be ok they have got a good start remember less is more with nutes what’s that mantra again less Is more . Od .

Thanks, i def put a bit of thought into it before diving in, But im definitely improvising as well. In terms of Nutes, I'm currently following the schedule below(currently early veg), mid veg begins from tomorrows feeding, i use all the nutes listed except sm-90, and h202, and I also add less than 1ml of GH Bioweed (kelp) at the end of the nute mix.

One drop · May 30, 2020

Do you have a bigger space to flower in ?

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

One drop said:
Do you have a bigger space to flower in ?

I actually dont, but i don't plan to flower all 7 plants either, giving 3 of them away to a friend. I'm going to attempt a 4 plant operation, 2 plants in 3 gallon smart pots and 2 plants in 1 gallon smart pots The grow tent is 4x2x6, and i figure 4 plants is the most i'd want to try, using training and defoliation to fit the space. If 4 gets out of control, ill get rid of two and just keep 2, but a controlled 4 is the goal as of now for the grow area.

One drop · May 30, 2020

Cool I usually run 4 in 4 lt pots in my 3x3x6 I run a hot summer tent up to 35 degrees c 55 to 65 % rh and a cooler late summer to autumn Tent 25 to 27 deg c 50 to 60 % rh , summer tent veg 2 week 18/ 6 then flip to 12/12 for 5 to 6 weeks then I move them to the cooler tent to finish off 6 more weeks of flower last 4 weeks run 11/13 hr week 10 to 12 flush with cal/mag and 1/4 strength nutes and worm casting tea .

One drop · May 30, 2020

One drop said:
Cool I usually run 4 in 4 lt pots in my 3x3x6 I run a hot summer tent up to 35 degrees c 55 to 65 % rh and a cooler late summer to autumn Tent 25 to 27 deg c 50 to 60 % rh , summer tent veg 2 week 18/ 6 then flip to 12/12 for 5 to 6 weeks then I move them to the cooler tent to finish off 6 more weeks of flower last 4 weeks run 11/13 hr week 10 to 12 flush with cal/mag and 1/4 strength nutes and worm casting tea .

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

Forgot to mention this on my first post but heres my setup info.

Grow tent setup

Mars 4x2x6 grow tent
Mars TSL 2000 light
4 x Phillips 15w, a19 bulbs (seedling stage)
Clamp light + desk lamp (seedling stage)
AC Infinity Cloudline S6 - 6" Inline duct fan
AC Infinity 25 foot duct
Vivosun 6" Carbon filter
2 x LOGIIX 6" USB clip fans.
Honeywell HT900C TurboForce fan
Honeywell Humidifier
Inkbird Humidity controller + Inkbird temperature controller
Vivosun Digital program timer
4 bricks, and a rack.
Fire extinguisher

Growing Medium

Coco coir + perlite mix
2 x 3 Gallon Fabric pots
2 x 1 Gallon Fabric Pots

Nutrients + advanced nutes + supplements

GH Armor Si
GH CaliMagi
GH Flora Micro
GH Flora Gro
GH Flora Bloom
GH KoolBloom
GH Diamond Nectar
GH Rapidstart
GH Bioweed
GH Florakleen

Seeds

Blue cheese
Northern Lights
Lemon kush

One drop · May 30, 2020

soulz20 said:
Forgot to mention this on my first post but heres my setup info.

Grow tent setup

Mars 4x2x6 grow tent

Mars TSL 2000 light

AC Infinity Cloudline S6 - 6" Inline duct fan

AC Infinity 25 foot duct

Vivosun 6" Carbon filter

2 x LOGIIX 6" USB clip fans.

Honeywell HT900C TurboForce fan

Honeywell Humidifier

Inkbird Humidity controller + Inkbird temperature controller

Vivosun Digital program timer

4 bricks, and a rack.

Growing Medium

Coco coir + perlite mix

2 x 3 Gallon Fabric pots

2 x 1 Gallon Fabric Pots

Nutrients + advanced nutes + supplements

GH Armor Si

GH CaliMagi

GH Flora Micro

GH Flora Gro

GH Flora Bloom

GH KoolBloom

GH Diamond Nectar

GH Rapidstart

GH Bioweed

GH Florakleen

Seeds

Blue cheese

Northern Lights

Lemon kush

Blue cheese oh very nice .

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

Entering week 3 of veg tonight. Pics of the final tent setup after many alterations. Carbon filter isn't connected because its not really necessary at the moment, ill def hook it up when shit gets real.

boomgagem · May 30, 2020

Are you giving the strength that’s on that feed chart? I was using that one and couldn’t get it right but I was only going half strength. My ppms were only like 250ish in RO water. I was only using calmag, the flora trio, and orca

soulz20 · May 30, 2020

boomgagem said:
Are you giving the strength that’s on that feed chart? I was using that one and couldn’t get it right but I was only going half strength. My ppms were only like 250ish in RO water. I was only using calmag, the flora trio, and orca

Yeah im using the strength listed on that chart, sometimes a bit under the recommended level, i use tap water that has a 185ppm so i gotta factor that in too.

boomgagem · May 30, 2020

Cool, I think that was my problem, I was underfeeding and it was throwing off the available nutrients in the coco. I’ve since changed to the h3ad formula and mine are looking better. Good luck man looks like you are starting off with all the right stuff!

soulz20 · May 31, 2020

Week 3 of veg starts today.

soulz20 · Jun 3, 2020

Mid week of week 3 for veg. Transplanted into final containers this morning.

soulz20 · Jun 3, 2020

Transplant update:
Later in the afternoon after transplanting all the ladies seem shocked, each one is upset and drooping over, will give them a few days to recover and hopefully bounce back.

soulz20 · Jun 5, 2020

Transplant update: Day 2 after transplanting it looks like I ran into some nutrient deficiency issues due to not watering the coco coir right away after transplanting, i assumed since the coco was buffered and wet in the new medium, i would need to wait for it to dry before watering, thats not the case with coco coir, the plants required nutes at full strength right away and so i ran into some deficiency issues where all plants had some browning on the fan leaves. I watered at full strength today, and will continue to do so moving forward.

soulz20 · Jun 6, 2020

Transplant update: After suffering from a nutrient deficiency due to not watering right away after transplant, I've watered at full nute strength once a day consistently, 3rd day after transplant and the ladies look to be thriving, the new growth is healthy and it looks like we're back on track. I will continue to veg until the plant looks stronger, and until at least 6 nodes emerge, then i plan to top and start training for a main-line grow.