Hello folks, I’m a first time grower and I thought I’d try growing some GSCE autos for a new hobby around the house.
I’ve been scanning the forums for a little while now and have found a lot of great info. Everyone seems really helpful and super friendly which is nice to see and I look forward to learning much more going forward.
I purchased a grow tent kit from spider farmer that is 2’x2’x5’. It came with a sf1000 light, in-line fan, carbon filter and a few 5 gallon soft pots. So that’s what I’m working with this grow.
I have Girl Scout cookies extreme from ILGM and am growing in fox farms happy frog soil.
I am only growing 1 plant at a time this go around.
I dropped it into a glass of water on 10/3 and on 10/6 I planted, not quite 72 hours later, right into the 5 gal soft pot.
10/8 it popped up with the shell still.
I watered the soil before I planted the seed last week and I haven’t really watered it since. I spray the inside of the cup 2-3 times a day and that’s it so far.
I have a ph meter and have been ph’ing the water to 6.5.
I do have a question about watering though. At what point do I start watering the soil? And how much?
I haven’t really given it any water besides spraying the cup for the last week. Should I give her an ounce or two?
Also, my light has been on 24/7 schedule for the past week. I was going to leave it on that schedule for the next week before going to an 18/6 schedule.
Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Buck
I personally start it the day it pokes out the soil but it’s really just personal preference p.s. your first grow will almost always be 3+weeks longer then the advertised time frame just because you re figuring things out and not growing optimally in the perfect coco coir medium with the perfect amount of nutes. I personally do the sprays until they hit the 3rd node then I do their 1st soak then I seriously let the medium dry out ( usually 5-7 days or until they start to sag) it’ll get them on the wet dry cycle thatll train their roots as to how much depends on if you’re dry organic growing or hydroponic nute growing,organic I stick with 1/2 gallon water per plant cause you don’t want runoff (except once right at flower to clear any gunk just in case) if hydro 2/3 - 3/4 to get 10 % runoff to clear salts
I planted my GSCE on the 5th in Coco. These pictures were taken yesterday except the last on the tray, and is 3 days old. Haven’t looked at them today yet.
It means Low Stress Training. Google it and you will get an eye full of stuff to read. it is only one of many ways to “train” your plants to increase the yield. Scrog, sea of green, Fimm, topping, are also other methods of accomplishing the same results. Typically done to Photoperiod plants and not to Autos, but we have some Wizards here such as @SKORPION that know how to do this to the little girls.
Yup low stress training pulling to make you’re girls nice an short and even it’s highly recommended to max yeild for autos safely so that they eventually turn into these
You guys are the freakin’ best!!! Thank you all for the valuable info…
What’s with the spraying into the cup? Do you do that and put it over the plant to achieve a higher humidity? Is that an autoflower thing? I’ve been searching for an hour and can’t find the process of doing that.
