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My 1st grow

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h0m3b0y h0m3b0y
6 years ago
This is my very first cannabis grow so I'll leave some basic info here: I've been planing this grow for quite some time now, reading on the internet, books, talking with friends, watching videos, etc. I should probably just go for a non-smelly auto indica in a soil, but that just sounded too boring to me. I opted for a photoperiod strain in DWC grow. With SCROG. Under DIY lamp. Yes, for my first build. Since I managed to pick not-so-basic techniques, at least I set my goals a bit lower than most. What are my goals for this growth I hear you ask? There is only one goal actually: to not kill this plant :) And if I manage to learn while not killing it, hurray for me. So first I started to build my light. It's a LED strip light using mid-power full spectrum LEDs (EB Gen2 strips), color temperature 4000k. This temperature was picked according to datasheet since it was the warmest color temperature that still has enough output in blue part of the spectrum. 560mm strips were used, 10 of them. Each of them runs at ~19.6V-ish, and their rated current is 7.5A. This works out to ~150W of power. At this parameters strips are quite cool, and could probably be run without any heatsinking. I used aluminum U profiles for fixture, so technically I am using heatsinks (kind of), but fixture is quite cool to touch. Even the diods themselves are not that hot to touch. Then I started to buy everything else: grow tent, exhaust fan, charcoal filter, duckting, buckets, netpots, hydroton, nutes, air pump and hoses, airstone (I'm using a small wooden one, since bigger stone ones gave me shitty bubbles), pH meter, EC meter, pH adjusting solutions, air temperature and humidity meter, etc. It ended up being quite exhaustive list with much more stuff than I planned for, but I got it all, built my tent and installed all the stuff. Everything runs cool, quiet and stealthy. Then I set 1 seed to germinate. "Just one?" I hear you ask. Yes, juts one. If it's of any quality, it will sprout. I have sprouted seeds before, just not cannabis seeds. Some pop fast, some that long time (2 weeks or even more), but they all either sprout or they start to grow mold. My seed sprouted, and I might say it sprouted quite fast and looked good doing it :) I left it on paper towel for 3 days. I should probably leave it there a day more, maybe even two days, so the root would get bigger and longer and thus more suited to transfer to hydroton. But this was my first grow, so I guess this was the first lesson learned without killing the plant. She took the transfer well, the root kept growing and soon some greenery appeared. All this was wihtout any nutes, under a "seedling light", which was just a 13W cool white LED E27 bulb fitted in a desktop lamp connected to mechanical timer set for gas lantern routine (12-5.5-1-5.5). Oh yeah, did I mention I was doing weird light timing for my first grow as well?
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h0m3b0y
h0m3b0ystarted grow question 6 years ago
So... the brown spots in the last 2 photos. Are they Ca deficiency? Will I do extra damage if I add Ca/mG supplement? What is the upper concentration of Ca/Mg concentration for cannabis in DWC grow? How can I tell if I add too much Ca/Mg? Help please!
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CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 6 years ago
hi there homeboy, first off, daym ! best description i've seen in time out here bro, seriously top marks. You're killing it in every respect. Second : tap water - how are you gonna trust the authorities to tell you what s in your water, same people putting chlorine in there right? That's actually the main problem with tap water : it's got a bunch of chemicals in there that will eventually lead to issues in your plants if you're not careful. So if you're using tap water you can do two things to avoid "cross contamination" or "inter-chemical" lock outs - these are not technical terms by the way, just how i think lol. Take tap water and leave it out for 2 hours or over night - should let the chlorine evaporate. Or use two tablespoons of the cheapest active carbon you can find and just add it to the water, give it a stir, wait an hour. this will remove the chems that might prevent uptake. When you add Cal Mag suplements, again you're correct - can't really be too much, the saturation dose will be indicated on the bottle, and every one of those cal mags are a bit different. One thing they wont tell you is that there is actually plenty of N in those things, so balance that out accordingly. finally a little known fact is that Ca uptake from the roots is efficient at like 20% not much more. Ca uptake by the leaves is 95% so almost perfect. The quickest way to fix the deficiency is to use a foliar spray - just be careful not getting the juice on the buds when you do it - maybe use plastic film to protect the buds. i think the max does for cal mag in the water is like 64 Mg/l but dont quote me on that, that might be the max dose you need for the spray, and I cant find my source again.... hope this helps bro ! 🚀
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