Anyone from Redding? First Time Afghan Attic Grow

[hootchmaster]

Hi All,

This is my first time growing in Beautiful Redding, CA. I love it so far, although I feel a bit stressed, liked worrying about my first baby. But I like what I see so far. So here is my setup.

Location: Attic
Temp: 58F-80F depending on outside temp
Humidity: 40%-60%
Medium: Fox Farm Happy Frog Organic soil (great stuff IMO)
10 Afghan Indica seeds purchased from 420-seeds.com
PH approx 6.5
Light is a Sun Systems 400W HPS with a Hydrolux Super HPS enhanced spectrum.
light cycle is 18/6 and I have an oscillating fan going 24X7

Started germinating Oct 28th in paper towels with distilled water in a warm dark place. 9 of them came through after 2 days and I planted them in 16oz plastic cups with holes poked in the bottom on Oct 31st (Halloween babies)

#10 took 5 days to germinate

after two weeks I transplanted to 10" pots. After only 8 days I noticed the growth was incredible (only nuted 1 time half strength FF Grow Big) so I bit the bullet and transplanted them to 14" pots. They weren't root bound but already had established nice roots throughout the 10" pots bottom

Haven't noticed any pre-flowers yet, hopefully soon. I am shooting for throwing them into 12/12 after 5-6 weeks in veg. Thankfully the Afghan is short and stocky because I really don't have that much height in my attic for anything really tall.

Will be using Tiger Bloom once they are into the flowering stage.

I have been adjusting the PH of my tap water after leaving it in an open container for 24 hours. It was roughly 7.5-8 and with just a few drops of PH down it drops to about 6.5

Any suggestions? How do they look? They are a little saturated with water right now from the transplant but I let them dry out completely before watering again. Surprisingly that FF Happy Frog is so rich I really haven't needed to add much nutes.
Thanks all in advance

[oSecretGardeno]

Hey Hootch,

Just wanted to stop in and say whats up. I am actually growing the exact same seeds. Tomorrow (or today I suppose) will be 21 days flowering, so check out the link in my signature to get a little preview of what your girls will look like!

The plants look pretty good. If anything it looks like you have a bit of stretch, which is usually from the light being too far away. How far do you have the HPS from the plants? I know that my Afghani Indica was really short and compact the entire time; Even now the nodes are so compact it's a little ridiculous.

I'll check back soon, keep updating with some new pics. Oh ya and be cautious on the nutes - most plants dont get all that hungry until the 5th node or so.

Peace,

-Secrete

[oSecretGardeno]

Shit bro, sorry about that, for some reason the first time I loaded the page the last 3 pics didn't show up.

No stretch there ... they look great!!

Keep up the good work!

-Secret

[hootchmaster]

Oh no problem, shit happens ;)

Check this out, I just found my first female preflower on my tallest plant. I'm switching to 12/12 today woohoo

[hootchmaster]

Ok, after 9 days of 12/12 I have eliminated 2 males from the garden and identified 2 females. The tallest is a female (woohoo) and she is now over 2 feet tall. Hopefully the rest will be females, time will tell. Here are a couple of pics for ya. Enjoy

[M.B.A.]

how often are you watering? using any phospate?

[hootchmaster]

Every 2 to 3 days as needed once they've dried out. No phosphates, why? Is that good for them?

[M.B.A.]

i had a similar problem w/the leaves curling in my first grow, so I was told by a few other members to add some phosphate to the soil and water every 3 days as needed, they look good other than that

[hootchmaster]

Yeah, I noticed that, and not all of them have that. Sometimes they are such a mystery to me. I'm trying out this new nute on 2 of them, Fox Farms Tiger Bloom, which is higher in Phosphorus so we'll see what happens. Thanks

[M.B.A.]

Anytime!