I don't think Al Gore has any friends. Autoflower grow, start to finish

Thank you @WilIy. So far everyone is still getting the same feedings. EC going in is between 8 and 9, and the runoff on all of them is between 10 and 12. A couple of them are starting to creep up a bit, so I’ll probably have to start mixing separately soon.

The last thing I expected was to run into height issues growing in soil. Normally only my plants in coco challenge my height limits, but these girls seem to think they’re in coco, lol. I’ve had to do last minute emergency super cropping a couple of times, but I’m really hoping these girls are finished stretching now.

As far as the buds go, it’s still very early, but it looks like the ManBearAlienPigs are going to fatten up as advertised!

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Man you have a very clean setup. I see all the organization in the background. Very nice write up to, I feel like I’ve already learned a lot just reading.Also another advanced nutrients guy. I’m following awesome job.

I too saturate my solo cups with seedlings and I’ve gone sometimes 10 to 14 days not having to water and I just get such a better start that way.

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Thank you @TMC.PRE
Yeah, I love Advanced Nutrients, but more importantly the plants love them, lol. A couple of years ago I did a grow where I grew half the plants on organic nutrients, and the other half with my normal Advanced Nutrients routine. At the beginning and through veg, they were close, and a few of the organic girls even grew a bit faster, but once they hit flower the AN girls left the organic plants in their dust. At the end, every AN plant produced more than any of the organic ones.

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I second the advanced nutrients. Fantastic nutrients. I now work a part-time job so I can afford them LOL but well worth every single penny

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Sounds like a win to me growmie.

My local grow store guy told me, I just like the pictures on the front. I mean I do like the pictures lol. But you cannot argue results.

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Lol, they do have a good marketing thing going on, and definitely a talented artist who designed the characters on the bottles. I love the Green Guy on the Big Bud, and the Cotton Candy eating dude on Bud Candy, lol.

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Loving the admin loving the space the plants living in a 5 :star2: hotel with room service :grinning:

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Hahahah bud candy is a good one. Even the gorillas I’m like yeah king kong buds!

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I don’t know what advanced nutrients was thinking on the Bud Candy logo. Come on a 10-year-old licking cotton candy on marijuana nutrients bottle.

That just screams… hey man, come try some Bud Candy! “ALL THE KIDS ARE DOING IT”

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Lol nah what they ment was it makes your bud like candy and gives you the feeling of being a kid with candy again…

Yeah that’s my story and I’m sticking to it

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It’s funny because as much as I love their products and the labels, I can’t stand the way the bottles pour. Every time I try to pour it into measuring glasses I spill it all over the place and feel like a moron, lol. So I finally got to the point where I only use syringes to get it out of the bottles.
Funniest part is that the Fox Farm nutrients suck as far as growing pot goes, but the bottles poured perfectly. I don’t think I ever spilled a drop. They should each keep their own formulas, but switch bottle shapes!

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I know huh, when you look at it that way it don’t seem right but advertising, right or not, includes tactics like subliminal imagery. Looking at it as a metaphoric image…well… the kids name is Bud, you know Bud he lives in your grow tent and when he goes to the Phenofair he likes candy :lollipop: , cotton candy is his favorite. Feed Bud candy and he will will grow up well adjusted, a shiny example of the best Bud he can be. Ok Ok, maybe I’ve been chilling with bud a bit to much :joy:

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:rofl::rofl::rofl: I like your take on it!

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I heard that, I’ve been using a pipette since day one. Wasn’t no way I was pouring out a 1/4 tsp, shoot probably would have wasted more than I use! :joy:

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I’ve always used a 12 mil syringe. But then again I’m old fashion, I still germinate seeds underneath my boob :thinking::astonished::eyes:

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Everyone has their own growing techniques, some I’ll try others probably not but it’s interesting to see how others grow from seed to harvest

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:rofl::joy::rofl: they should put that on the back of the bottel :joy::rofl:

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Those bottles are terrible to pour and ends up all over everything except the object you are aiming for. Yeah I use my syringes strait from the bottle. I thought i was the only one.

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Thanks for pointing me over here to this thread…and for investing the time to document your grow - it’s super helpful to newbies like me. I’ve not even put the first seed in water yet, just reading and preparing - threads like this help me to (hopefully) avoid mistakes before I get started. Being a reef aquarist for decades, I have some knowledge that I think will help as I start on this new hobby (e.g., R/O, lighting, water chemistry), but I could really use some help understanding of how you think about your overall setup. Like what designs help you be successful and make your daily maintenance easier. A couple of noob questions:

  1. Your set up is so clean and organized. Making the complex simple is the hardest thing to do! I see all kinds of gear in the background of your pics, and from reading your thread it seems that the infrastructure details matter! Do you have a thread that describes your overall design for environmental infra? Air handling, humidity, temp, etc?
  2. What advice do you have for someone just getting started growing (indoors)?

Thanks again!

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@Alien_Shore, are you going to be using a grow tent, a closet, or a more open space?

One of the best pieces of advice I could give you is the more flexibility you give yourself with the set up the better. The environmental requirements change a lot from the seedling stage to the end of the grow, and seasonal changes and outdoor conditions can play a big role as well. You can find yourself having a difficult time keeping the humidity in your grow space high enough while your plants are very young, and then a month later it can seem almost impossible to keep the humidity low enough for your plants to be safe from pathogens. Of course everyone’s set up and conditions vary quite a bit. I struggled mightily with humidity for a long time, but I have 3 grow spaces stuffed into one fairly small bedroom, so that’s why I generate so much humidity.

My biggest grow space is a 4 x 6 closet grow, then I have a 2 1/2 x 5 tent, and a 2 x 4 tent. The closet is in the corner of my spare bedroom, so it has 2 outside walls. This makes keeping the conditions in my grows difficult sometimes. The outdoor temperature has no effect on my tents at all, they’re only influenced by my indoor conditions. The closet is a different story with it’s 2 outside walls. They’re insulated, but there’s still a pretty heavy influence, both in the winter and summer. In the winter I need heat in the closet grow, but I rarely need to add heat in the tents. In the summer, I need to run AC specifically because the sun is beating down on the walls outside the closet. If I had it all to do over again I’d demo the closet and put a 4 x 6 tent in it’s place.

How many plants do you want to grow at a time? Have you chosen a grow light yet, or what kind of exhaust fan you’re going to need?

I have my closet grow set up in a way that I can have the exhaust recirculate into the grow room, or I can direct it through a vent I put in the wall to my living room. It helps a lot to have that option. Also, my 2 1/2 x 5 can recirculate, or I can vent it up into my attic and out the ridge vent. This way I can take advantage of lower or higher outside temps in an effort to save electricity. Now it’s starting to get cooler at night where I live, so setting the 2 1/2 x 5 to vent out the attic draws cooler outside air back in, and takes away the need for air conditioning to cool the grow room. A lot of times I switch things around pretty frequently. Right now the big tent is recirculating because it’s pouring here and I wouldn’t want to be drawing in 100% humidity air from the outside, especially during lights off time when it’s already a big effort to keep humidity in check. Tonight, when all the grow lights are on, and the temps in the grow room are climbing, if the rain stops I’ll vent it out again.

Anyway, if you’re only going to do a small grow you won’t have nearly the troubles I’ve had keeping up with conditions, but it’s been my experience that Rush fans and saltwater fish people usually don’t do things small, lol.

Your grow light will be the most important purchase you make. Without a good one, most everything else you do could end up being in vain. My personal preference for lights is HLG, but there are several good choices these days. Just avoid Amazon fixtures for the most part, the companies there all lie about the lights power.

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