Tangerine Dream Auto 4x4 grow

@capogino, my medium is coco coir. Less buffer than soil so ph has to be on point. It's inert so the plant only gets what you give. But it's sort of a passive hydro. With good drainage so its almost impossible to overwater. It's amazing.

@capogino, my medium is coco coir. Less buffer than soil so ph has to be a lil more on point but it's amazing medium. What you give is what the plants get

@Mr_Ewell, Thanks! yeah, you may be right, Ive struggled with the soil this whole grow. Which soil have you been using?

@capogino, yeah i have the same type of variances. Im giving full spectrum the entire grow. I plan on switching to bloom nutes when i see preflowers.. Man i dunno why i haven't thought of a long skinny spout watering can. Jus looked some up and that'd be perfect.!

@Mr_Ewell, just posted a photo in my 8th week of the phenotype differences

@Mr_Ewell, oh wow ha, nevermind! What spectrum have you been using? i didnt use any red light until they started showing preflowers

@Mr_Ewell, thats interesting, my phenotypes are definitely noticeable...seems these seeds have high genetic variance then. 3/4 of my plants have nicely reacted to the LST and yea there are a lot of bud sites. One of them however just tried to shoot up and never really branched out, its just developing one fat cola despite the LST. Hard to see in my pics, ill see if i can upload one of it. My waterings are also really hard, but i bought a long-spout watering can that made it much easier. I took a look at your diary and nothing seems too wrong, although the shapes are much different than the way mine grew. Just make sure you're pulling that main top below the other branches when you do the lst, it forces the plant to rush hormones to the branch sites and pump up the other tops. Im doing 24 hours of light and maybe thats why you're a little taller? Also noticed your light is a bit less powerful than mine, im running 450W (advertised) LED

@capogino, im at 25 days from sprout. And ive done alot of research about different mediums which sent me to coco/perlite with distilled water so i know exactly what they're getting. My plants are having the opposite struggle. They were getting tall. Not from light stretch jus seems like i have two different phenotypes. 3 are tall while 2 are short n bushy. Lstd the shit outta them which is giving me a massive headache at waterings. I do give 4 hours of dark which may have contributed to the length. Yu have tons of bud sites. Your plants are gonna look like they're all buds in a couple of weeks.

@Mr_Ewell, awesome, they are quality seeds, i had 4/5 germinate, and all 4 very healthy. They are much shorter/smaller than I imagined, but the smell of the buds is heavenly...definitely a sweeter citrus smell. Also, they seem to be very sensitive to this fox farms soil, i have struggled with nute burn from these soils as they are really 'hot.' I would really recommend doing the most research into your soil mix, getting a really mild base, and adding some pearlite plus some dolomite lime for ph stabilization. (i didnt do this and ive continually struggled with soil issues)

@ThePotanist, Thank you! I'll be running the timelapse until the very end so stay tuned for a lifetime timelapse :)

@magicUmbrella, cheers! its my first grow and i just found this site, the community seems great