First time grow KC Brains Skunk #1 & White KC

[Weedhound]

Good to hear. I'll check back later and see how it's going along w/dusto.

[JackHerer]

Alright Dusto & WH

Bit of an update as the beanlings are now 3 weeks. Not a bad bit of growth on them. They seemed to be suffering an N defficiency at the beginning of the week so I put 6ml of Formulex into the res of 12Litres water. Seemed to perk them up a bit so when I changed the res this week I started them on a low dose of the nutes I got with the kit. The Vita Link instructions were to first use 2 ml/ltr but I reduced that to 1ml/ltr of each part A & B. I have ordered some SuperThrive it should be here soon.

Seems to be enough green leaf now to handle the heat from the bulb so managed to bring the light down a lot closer. Did this by reducing the height by 4" / day. Seems to have stopped the stretching which occurred in the propogator.

Had to move the pictures to a Gallery thread:
http://boards.cannabis.com/cannabis-...ml#post1423419

JH

EDIT: Meant to add the front two & the middle left are the White KC from KC Brains the others are the Skunk #1 actually from Nirvana.

[Weedhound]

Jack, can I ask what are your room temps and humidity level? also do you have something you can moniter the ppms with? You will want to know how much food your plants are getting....too little will lead to poor and slow growth and too much of course will burn them. A ppm meter is the only real way to to do that. During flowering you will definitely need it.

[dusto2k3]

Like WH said, the PPM will be important and the temp does need to be regulated within a window. High temps can also promote that stretch. But they are looking better, i think they are growing a wee bit slow. See if you can't provide that info that WH asked Temp/humid.

Looking good thought. Have you dropped that light back down yet?

[Weedhound]

High room temps promote stretch? I didn't know that dusto. Do you happen to know why? Interesting.....

[dusto2k3]

i dunno, but it's my experience WH. Maybe someone else can shed some light.

[JackHerer]

Alright WeedHound

Good to see you have time to be dragged away from your own Pot Porn Log :thumbsup:

The temps are still 77 - 79 during the day with the light on and the door open. The hours where the light is on and the door is shut is up to 88 at the external probe which lies on top of my tank cover or 79 - 82 at the actual thermometer on the shelf above. I got some two part additive product which you add to water & sugar to generate CO2 so when flowering comes along I thought I would try that out during the high temp periods of the day as most things I have read on CO2 advise to get the temps up to around 96.

The humidity is strange. I might sound stoned probably am :stoned: but I'm sure that changes even within the small area of the tray where the plants are growing depending on where I place the water dish. My photographs don't do the one on the rear right S1B much justice it looks pretty lush it's 5th set of leaves are about ready to spread & the 6th are just showing, while the bottom set have now developed into a branch with its first set of parralel matching leaves. Which is a bit of a contrast to the front row & I was putting this down to the different strain. But at the front the Humidity meter was at 40 and actually getting lower as it got hotter, I moved it to the back where the water dish used to be last night and the reading was 50 this morning. So I moved the water dish to the front this morning and during the day the humidity dropped to 40 at the back. But I would say the front to plants actually darkened up a bit so a few minutes ago when I checked the PH I moved the meter back to the front & I am going to check if the humidity has gone back up since it is now by the water dish again. Think I might need to add another water dish and maybe damp cloths to increase the humidity.

Not sure but I think the on middle left KC1 is suffering from being hat close to in front of the fan, but if I move it back to the front left then the nice S1B suffers as the breeze doesn't reach it.

Checked the roots when I changed the res the other day and they looked pretty good each one had many developed roots several inches out into the spreadr mat from their own rockwool block. The ones closest to the drain end are already growing towards the res tank and was wondering whether I should ease them back on to the tray or just let them grow into the res tank.

I have bought a TDS pen on e-bay last weekend so another week and it should arrive. Then I'll be asking how to use it.

JH

[Weedhound]

Sounds good....Both Markass and I have been having humidity issues these days. When I asked around I was told to try to keep my humidity level down to the 30's to avoid mold issues but my plants are in flowering and that may not be the same as for veg growth. I would doubt that you would want it above 45 rh however......dusto? Thoughts?

good job on the tds pen. Once you have all the bugs worked out you'll be getting some good wild growing going. :thumbsup:

[dusto2k3]

umm, iin veg, i've seen reccomendations of 55%. There are some growing vidoes that say that. But in SD, i dont really have an issue, its drier that a suns ass here. But in flower, you do need to keep it down so as not to have that mold. I think that even with high RH, if you hav good air circ, you can avoid it as well.

[JackHerer]

Alright Dusto thanks for keeping an eye out. :thumbsup:

You both have me convinced to sort out decent extraction for the heat. I'll ave to make it wait 3 weeks though as the car is due its service & MOT. I have seen 100mm inline fans on ebay for £25 do you reckon that would cope. ALso some of the cab ideas around here have got me thinking. Rather than keep knocking holes ina closet I will need to repair at some point would it be better to get a large steel cabinet and mount the extraction on that. A bit like that aeroponic ready made kit in one of the other topics.

JH