Fox farms nutrient schedule for autos

@Jdash860

Hey :waving_hand:,

Sorry to hear about the droop? Pic?

Iā€™m low low budget my brotherā€¦

Portable nebulizer from Amazon : 20
RH Outstanding de temp - 10
Ph /Moist/ Light/ - 15
Computer fan with dimmer switch-9
Pots/Soil/Lights - 6 LED strips and 2 Blurple lights but they put out one fan xed amountā€¦ using cardboard to block light from complete light!!! Works great :blush:
Total

About 50$ ā€” and time

The soil I created is based on my two original grows, which were experiments from seeds in bags

The few main things that I had a flaw with in the beginning, was soil and lights and nutrients

The soil, I had to create myself no one offers the exact mix that is required. I have it listed in my second or third post of all of the 20 percentage items and then 2-10%
% items added.(Maybe Iā€™ll make it and market it and sell it)

Itā€™s a pretty popular blend that I see online that people use and create themselves. The ones you get like miracle grow and all of that have too many nutrients that are released at the wrong time. Even for photo. And Auto.

The PH Eye control by reading the pH on the springwater that I put into my grow. I use Aquafina has a 5.0 pH and youā€™ve got Fiji that has a 7.8 pH so I can kind of like blend the two into the lake where I want 6.8 PH.

The RH humidity I never had before, and I can see the benefits of how the leaves respirate from the moisture in the airā€¦ My grow is so small that a little nebulizer does the trick make sure it never had chemicals in it ever that it only had water from the beginning brand new or make sure itā€™s flushed really well before you ever use it with water because maybe someone had albuterol in it and then that would destroy your leaves.

So those are the few tips I have from grows in Experimental photo. Growsā€¦ The seeds were never mature enough to go all the way to completion and I probably I didnā€™t use a fabric pot as well. I used plastic pots and I think they just got root bound after the plan of needing to flower and it takes so much longer that not having aerated soil is really gonna be a Issue if We water too muchā€¦ I am a notorious water over water! I am correcting it now and using Autoā€™s because I canā€™t control that part of my desire to help the plant!:seedling:

Anyhow ā€“ been real Iā€™m gonna include two pictures one from my first experimental grow one from my second each one had 4 to 5 seeds in it and the first one didnā€™t have a separation between the seeds and the second one did! They only lasted to the point. Iā€™m gonna show you the photos and then they would shrivel up and die. I didnā€™t have a way to control the light!

With all of my LEDs, I can control the appropriate light using the Photone light meter from my iPhone!
It is so worth the five dollars! I have posted a DLI chart for the growth of an auto flower from Photone in past post.

Happy growing have a great weekend!

Peaceā˜®ļø





Last was a hermieā€¦ The seeds were from a Hermie, So thatā€™s what I got! It got bushy and it was fun to play with for a few monthsā€¦ No fruit though:(

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Hey thatā€™s still cool asf you get to follow your hobbies. Even on a small budget like that and get great results. I see youā€™ve switched to fabric pots Iā€™m not sure what root bound means. Iā€™m assuming not enough space to move around? Maybe? How late a long can you tell if itā€™s a female or male. From my Google trained eye I believe that my big girl is a her



The fellas told me not to worry so Iā€™m trying not to worry about it too much :see_no_evil_monkey::face_with_tears_of_joy:




Pretty sure thatā€™s a female if Iā€™m not mistaken

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Hey @jdssh860 ,

Just FYI

on the droopā€¦I have seen this before. Overwatering and root boundā€¦

The soil isnā€™t aerated enough and the roots are becoming bound. Transplant and repot gently workout the compacted dirt.

Soil is a huge issue to keep roots from getting too wetā€¦ oxygen is essential for your roots.
Soil homemade

20% of:
Pearlite
Vermiculite
Peat Moss
Coco Noir
10% of:
Bone Meal (later assisted for Cal Mag)
Worm Castings (Broken down into a fine powder)

I have had no issues with watering because fabric pots help to prevent it getting too wet

And with Autos no need to add nutesā€¦ if so I have used 1/100 of directions.

No burning leaves and only healthy colorā€¦

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Yeah I had a feeling that might have been a factor cuz the dirt was looking very clumpy

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@Jdash860 let me know what you do?

Good luck :four_leaf_clover: and happy growing

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@kaptain3d , @Jdash860

Day 26! Just added second dose of 1/100 the FF schedule of GBā€¦ growth is going well! 50 or do days left until harvest?

As originally planned, ā€œLucyā€ is responding well to LSTā€¦

Iā€™m including the images from Day 26ā€¦

I attempted a FIM a week agoā€¦ but it appears that I FIMd the FIM? Or is this lateral movement because of my FIM?

Regardless, the original plan is working, I see at least 6 cola potential sites on stem already, so Iā€™m making it lateralā€¦

Thanks for any suggestions? And Kapā€¦ did my FIM take?

It appears not.:thinking:




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I canā€™t tellā€¦ :nerd_face:
Maybe @Low or @dbrn32 have a better eye than me for that? :thinking:

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I canā€™t tell, sorry

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Re homed the little ones :grin::green_salad:

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Continuing the discussion from Fox farms nutrient schedule for autos:

@Jdash860 WOW :star_struck: that is awesome, what did you do? Procedure?

WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!

Congratulations on saving herā€¦ I have to say itā€™s true what Iā€™ve read about AUTO flowers being OK with being handled and not getting stunted because of it they do well under LST and so far this is where Iā€™m at one month is tomorrow!

Gr8 Chimera



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Thanks man those r looking great too! I just got fresh soil from the medium I use mg potting mix and I mixed in about a cup of some coast of Maine organic nutrients into enough soil for 1 gallon pots staked em down a bit. Not sure if I want to take the stakes off and top and fim one tho havenā€™t full decided yet. These are my first auto plants Iā€™ve ever attempted to grow Iā€™ve heard good and bad things about topping autos. Kinda want to top one and fim one and see which yields a better result just to see :thinking::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:


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@DiannaLynn scroll around in here learn some new stuff girly :grinning_face::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Hey @Jdash860 !

Looking :+1: great! It looks really, really wet. Iā€™d make sure you have fans on it and also maybe a light on the pot to dry out the soilā€¦ but looking good :+1: I feel that your desire to do the topping and LSD experiment. It sounds like itā€™s worth it. I would like to see it. I donā€™t have another one growing at the moment just focusing on one at a time.

I have to remember these release stages that the growth occurring is mainly underground and Iā€™m not noticing or seeing it, but it is happeningā€¦ Be sure to keep adding pear light to keep that soil, nice and aerated!!! The fabric parts will help that and a fan. I see you have it outside, but maybe an outdoor fan or some kind of breeze would help.???

So Iā€™m a day 30 Iā€™m gonna call itā€¦ Looking like about halfway to harvest, which means 4/20 is harvest date!

Still a ways to go Iā€™ve gotten this far with a photo. Before in twice the time it took.

The FIM I tried it on this plant and it :disappointed_face:ā€¦ However, it did not take after I did that The KAP in the forum suggested to not submit it and to do what youā€™re doing with the steaks Iā€™m gonna show you what Iā€™ve done since I realized the FIM did not take!!! I fimmed the FIM.

So here is Lucy at gonna call it 30 days exactly because of the 28 day month beforeā€¦

She may be really more like 21 days. I donā€™t know when to start counting. I just did it when I saw the leaves of the appear above ground.

So could have another 30 days left to continue my LST going around I did take all of the steaks off for one day so that it would grow up and I would have more space to add another steak because in between each node theyā€™re very very short, the notes or maybe half inch if Iā€™m lucky :smiling_face:

The bigger the no the easier to LST it! I HAVE DONE THIS SUCCESSFULLY BEFORE, AND THESE BUNCHES OF LEAVES GROWING AT THE NODES SHOULD START GROWING VERTICALLY!?!

Which would mean Iā€™ll have three colas minimum maybe or four??? Iā€™ve seen other people do this and the bunches of leaves at the nodes shoot up at the point of flower I believe or within the mid veg stage.

So here are the details currently

White widow auto ILGM sprouted February 14ā€¦

DLI is currently up To 30 and 40 Āµmol based on the fact that I added CO2 bag to the to the growā€¦ Allowing for more light to be used during the day and more growthā€¦ Since itā€™s such a short time to flower

I am watering till itā€™s dry. I am alternating bottom, feeding and top feeding.

I am using very small amounts of nutrients per schedules and fox farms and maybe 1/100 of the recommended dose and once every three feedings or something and I donā€™t know if Iā€™m gonna flush it see how to do it online and Iā€™m afraid of water logging my beauty to this point Iā€™ve spent a lot of time and I donā€™t wanna fuck it up so anybody with help Including you my friend I appreciate you sharing yours and Iā€™ll share mine so we can see how this gets to flower. !!!

I donā€™t have everything I can including adding humidity, which never did before because Iā€™m at a high altitude. Itā€™s like 20% humidity all the time so I have to add humidity and Iā€™m using a nebulizer thatā€™s portable with water only and it RH it up to 80%.!!! Itā€™s not all day itā€™s maybe three times a day and then at night when itā€™s closed it gets up to about 60% humidityā€¦

Iā€™m just trying to think of all the factors that didnā€™t let my previous grow fruitā€¦

Happy growing, my friends and anybody with feedback let me know especially KAP Whose opinion was to NOT top and LST only ā€¦ it was his opinion and other people do other things experiment if you have the time and your money just experiment and see if topping brings you more ability to do the LST after itā€™s topped because I know you can do that successfully. Iā€™ve seen it online. these people are using really sophisticated, grow tense and sponsored by grow product distributors

So theyā€™re not the usual hobbyists that are doing this for :star_struck: fun!!!


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Thanks brotha, yeah I took that pic the day I watered. Iā€™m beginning to understand I donā€™t need to water the entire pot :sweat_smile::joy::joy:. Iā€™ve been doing better I do a ring around the plant about an inch r two off now. Especially with the mg medium I use itā€™s spose to be a 6month time released nutrients. They are actually indoors in a little tent I bought. I do keep a fan running and I put a dehumidifier in the tent as well struggling with space rn.:man_facepalming:t4::squinting_face_with_tongue: As soon as I took em out the closet and into a tent I started struggling with too much humidity just strung a box fan up in there the other day :sweat_smile:. I could definitely use some more perlite to aerate the soil better. but Iā€™ll show ya what I got so far.



These are the nutrients I currently are using on my photo and my autos. My buddy suggested fox farm he said heā€™s gotta flush his plants tho afterwards for about a week r so before chopping. Said he made that mistake last grow, he forgot to flush and it tasted like straight chemicals.

Have not started to use these but soon enough :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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This is my big girl. Sheā€™s just over two months was just a wee little bag seed when I found her and now she almost all grown up gettn ready for college :sob::sob::rofl:





These are my FB autos today not feminized so I hope at least one is female :raising_hands:t4::raising_hands:t4: fingers crossed that both turn out to be femaleā€‹:crossed_fingers:t4:


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Sheā€™s definitely growing :raising_hands:t4::raising_hands:t4::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Iā€™m glad she recovered from the fimmed fim :sweat_smile: Iā€™m pretty sure I seen u in other peopleā€™s grow journals. I canā€™t particularly say myself I havenā€™t grown ganja since I was like 16 and had to do it all sketch out in the woods or at a friendā€™s farm :sweat_smile: Iā€™m just picking back up the hobby. I try to join as many journals as I can with the friendly heads maybe @kaptain3d @MidwestGuy @Dman1969 @Fieldofdreams @Hopalong would have better insight or better suggestions than I could. These few have been very helpful along my journey so far I know I can count on them to help me trouble shoot. When in doubt ask a buddy :+1:t4::+1:t4::grinning_face:

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Mannn Iā€™m digging your photo thatā€™s :fire::fire::fire: love me some Rick n morty

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@jdash ,
I
Hey :waving_hand:! Great results! Get some close up clear images of the ā€œnodesā€ and I can help sex them for you now!

Just be sure you are getting images of the node between branchesā€¦ and what grows there?

Here are my WW autos at a month and obviously female plantā€¦ :seedling: so , get hour camera phone into ā€œmacroā€ mode and then edit it in phone for sharpness!

Hereā€™s Lucy about to start sprouts on stem!!! Evidence in red lineā€¦ a sprout :seedling: is growing off the side of the main stemā€¦ due to gravity! I wants to always grow up :up_arrow:

Peace :peace_symbol: looking forward to images

@kaptain3d
@MidwestGuy
@dman1969
@kaptain3d
@Hopalong
@Fieldofdreams




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Hard to see the female hairs in the calyxā€™s. Are they showing 2 hairs?

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Indeed @Fieldofdreams ā€¦

Closer inspection reveals a few white hairs at the top ā€¦ small but thereā€¦ !

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