Day 19
Just gave topsoil another spray of capt. Jacks neem oil. Filled reservoirs with about half gallon each. Just to get wicking process started. Once i see plants are feeding from bottom, ill put a layer of sand on top. This is the last time i use this soil. It was outside at walmart, just found out its bad to use shit stored outside, for inside grow. I shouldve came to that conclusion on my own, but im a pothead. You live and you learn, hopefully the sand and captain jack work, to ar least control the fungus gnats.
These plants are small to me for day 19, maybe overwatered while in solo, but i was really careful, used a spray bottle when they were tiny. The problems continue.
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Day 22
Plants are drinking from reservoir of bucket. So put sand on a couple of days ago and got like four adults on both sticky traps. I can see the glass in the sand, the lil bugger dont like that.
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Plants are doing great so far. Hope it can continue. Water level is definitely going down. Gonna give them some recharge next watering.
Gotta figure out how im gonna top dress these plants. Guess ill just move sand to one side as best as i can and place it under it. Or i might just put it on top of sand and scratch it in like a regular top dress. Any suggestions?
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Once you’ve broken the cycle with the gnats they can’t return so you probably don’t need the sand any longer. But whatever you top dress with will work it’s way down regardless through the sand pretty quickly each time you water I’d think since it’s so loose and porous. Just a thought.
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I was thinking the same thing, it should work its way down. I think i will make a circle trough around plants and place dry admendments in. Then cover up with sand. And water in.
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Hello, sugar water with a little dawn dish w will kill gnats. Just put out a bowl of it . Im selling red cedar kief boxes on ebay. Im giving forum members $20 off. Email me from ebay if interested . Thanks. Happy gfowing
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Day 28 or so from sprout
Plants are still green and growing. Did tie them down so middle of plant would open up to the light. Its been 14 days since theyve been in buckets, so i will top dress next week about day 35. Think ill give them two more weeks or so in veg. So ill do a 60/40 mix of flower 4-8-4/veg 4-4-4. Only see a couple of gnats so sand is working, thinking about taking it out b4 i flip, and use a cover over top of buckets. Also visited my new hydro shop they have everything, will be getting some more soil for next run, still hadnt decided, but will probably go with promix bx. I also purchased some roots organic bloom terp tea, im gonna go back and get the terp tea bloom booster to.
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Dam these are some shorties. They just wont stretch upwards. I had to lst them just so budsites under apical would grow. But i think im being impatient, bc i dont have to water as much. So i wont even look at them again til thurs. Probably wont clone these phenos, dont like the way they are vegging. Everything is on point. We’ll see how it ends up, these plants always surprise me when i least expect it. Seems like all the seeds ive grown in this tent are turning out small. Gonna change soil next grow, to promix bx, maybe thatll help my plants stretch a lil bit in early veg.
Day 31
Nothing different, these hoes staying close to the sand. Tied them down some more, probably gonna veg for two more weeks and flip. Didnt want to go 60 days, but ill have to reevaluate that, depending on stature. Some of the leaves are looking a bit pale, when resevoir is empty ill, let them dry out for a couple of days, then ill give them a good watering of fish emulsion, let them dry out again and fill resevoir back with plain water. At the same time, after i fill resevoir back up, ill do a top dress of some flower nutes. Ill then wait a week or so and flip lights. So it sounds closer to 60 day veg.
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Looks real good. You think the growth rate is less with the auto watering or better?
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To be honest i think its slightly better, maybe thats bc i dont have to hand water all the time. But for some reason, all of my plants have been short and stubby. These look the best so far though, so my final answer is yes. Also much easier if your just using water. Was thinking about adding some airstones to resevoirs, so i can try some bottled organic nutes or teas from the bottom. So far i like them, cant wait to see how much im filling up in flowering though. So full review of buckets at end. Thanks for stopping by bro!!
Forgot to mention the mistakes ive made so far. And since using buckets neither are over or under watering. The first mistake was transplanting to early, even though leaves were past edge of solo cup, i should’ve let them go. And the stupid thing is i knew it!!! So when i transplanted, and flipped cup over, all soil fell out and seedling fell in my hand with weak lil rootlets fall down to. So needless to say, i had to touch roots a little bit. I know it slowed them down, which lead to my only other mistake so far, not watering enough from the top, b4 relying on the resevoir. Ive learned and they are still doing good imo. What im hoping for now is that in the next 2weeks i can spread them out to cover the topsoil(sand). Then at day 45 will flip to flower!!! Whooohoooo
Did some more tying down. If they dont wanna grow tall ill stretch them out. Also removed alot of the stuff in middle of both plants, the lil leaves and budsites. Still debating whether to take clones or not.
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The glookies res is empty, will let tb res dry out and give them a couple of days to dry out, will foliar feed during dry out period. I will then fill back up with plain water phd to 6.5 or so.
Day 36 veg
Plants are chugging along. Gave them some recharge and filled res’s back up with some kelp water. Plan on flipping on day 45. And they are starting to stink. The stinkiest veg plants ive ever grown. They are definitely growing. In 5 days theyve almost covered buckets. They definitely would’ve been taller if i wouldn’t have lstd. I hope they stretch pretty good in flowering stage.Wanna clone them and have them vegging while these flower, that way i should have time to have a mother plant. Gotta get another light for other tent. Moved it from garage to mancave. Its crowded but comfy. Snapped a few pics.
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Just ordered a 100 watt led from amazon. And i know some people will grill me for this, but it was 44 bucks. Had to get it and it had good reviews. We’ll see how it works. Should make a good veg light i hope
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Hopefully it’ll get the job done.
That’s all that really matters.
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Plants are looking good, for me. Will flip in a week, day 45. Filled up buckets today with plain water. Will give kelp water next feeding. They are starting to drink the gallon or so of water quickly. Did some more lsting. They are spreading nicely. Almost covering Im gonna take 1 clone from each plant, just in case they beast out. The plan is to keep giving them kelp water and compost tea, through to about week 2-3 of flowering. Then ill start giving them the roots organic bloom terp tea, if they need it. Will also do a defoliation at week1 and 4 of flowering, will also lollipop at week 4. So far so good. Will throw some pics up in the morning.
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Ordered me some more beans from seedsman. Greenhouse seeds bogof sale. Got 19 seeds for 70 bucks:10 kongs krush, 9 freebies, white widow, blueberry and unknown fem all 3 pack fem. Also ordered a couple of small fans and a trellis net. I will not buy anything else this year for growing. Ive spent right at what i wanted to, 1100 bucks. Hopefully this stuff can last at least 2 years. Its gonna be harc but ive got to wait until at least next bonus time at work to get anything else over 20 bucks. Might just get one more thing, i want the apera ph pen kit, its 40 bucks. But i dont really ph, bc my water comes out at 7 so i just let it sit out for 24hrs and water. Ill snap a few pics of the plants in the morning.
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They are looking great, gonna flip tomorrow morning. Gotta hang some blackout curtains in the closet, between tent and door. Should keep light leaks out. Also filled res’s up with plain water. And dump some recharge in, and sprayed a lil kelp water on leaves. Thats the plan. Heres some pics:
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