I am starting this up a little late to the game and will regularly post in as it comes up. I am a new to OG so this will be my first grow journal.
This grow will be including the following Maui cherry and Maui mango strains from Sebring store. I started germination of these on June 20th.
Here are photos of them leaking out a 5 days later:
What are your plans for these guys?
Currently only giving them the a normal lighting schedule of 18-6 with one of my 600 w veg light in and turned down to the lowest setting of 200 watts. Strictly just using activated carbon filtered tap water at this point. Started adding nutrients when all plants sprouted. I use the current culture solutions for my nutrients and am only putting quarter nutrients if that into the feed water being used.
Here is a photo of continued development day 23:
Sadly as you can see I got hit with 2 duds and am thinking I will pop another seed if it’s possible to try and catch up at this point with a plant, might just be wasting seeds at that point.
These will be turned into smokable buds. This lot will not be for making seeds.
I decided to lower the light a little further because they were getting a bit leggy. I had to support one and let it grow some strength in the stem because of its top weight.
Here is their development at day 31:
I have also noticed a green microbial development on one of the plants. Started using a little bit of the UC roots because I smell chlorine and know it’s used to treat that sort of thing. I might need to take other methods but have only been trying this for 2 days now. Will be back with more details on if it works at all.
I’m not a rock wool expert but if it’s algae it might be because your plugs are too wet.
I get a little green on the top of my promix once in awhile.
100% good advice
Don’t sweat a little algae. It’s not going to hurt anything.
Thank you for the information! I know I was a bit concerned but saw the plant was doing fine so I didn’t want to react to strongly and over do it.
Another 5 days passed when I took these photos, I am a bit slow to upload over the weekend. These pictures are from day 36. The maui mango roots are taking off now that they are in the circulating system.
I am still finishing building off the door to this room. Getting the entire room airtight with a door is a bit difficult, really want to do some CO2 dosing after it’s finished. So it might have to wait for the next go.
I not sure if I need to get a humidifier, it appears that the room likes to sit close to 30-45%. I have a dehumidifier but don’t think I need that atm. Prolly just use it when I am drying in a separate area.
Otherwise, for this I am using the current culture nutrients and I’m not bearing far off of the recommendations from them. Although I am using a little warmer of water a degree or two @71F and keeping the room temp closer to 74-77F. They are all sativa so making the assumption they like a more tropic climate.
Today marks day 42 since I popped the first maui seeds and day 10 with the blue dream and Jack herer seeds. So my plan is to have the Maui’s veg an extra week or so to try and get those other 2 to catch up. The Maui’s are having some great root development too. The photos of them are shown below.
Let these gals go a 11 more days putting the eldest sisters here at 53days old and will keep them in vegging for another 3 weeks from today is a pretty decent guess. I really will need to watch and see when there is literally no more space for me to train the largest plants.
I have been running these plants on the warmer and more humid side 77-82F & 30-40% humidity. I dropped my dehumidifier in the room and finished plumbing that to drain to avoid buckets. I am going to need to find something that can offset the heat I am producing for these lights and water chiller. Please feel free to offer any suggestions for this but I will be quickly in search of getting something in here ASAP.
My plans for tomorrow are to finish putting in the scrog for the larger plants and force them to a closer height as the young’ens. Also, cause of the heat I am going to finish making the insulators for the pots because I bet a good amount of heat is from the lights heating the water circulating.
Was seeing that the biggest gals were ready for the first scrog to be laid out and started trained them and popped a couple sites.
I was saying yesterday the heat is getting worse and worse day by day. Getting closer to 83F, but recycled some frozen food deliver bags to cover the buckets to help prevent the water from heating up any bit more. It’s not the solute but will definitely just assist in helping me keep the water temp at 68-70F better.
Other than that I guess it puts these girls at 54 days and doing very well for the heat conditions I am subjecting them to. I am rigging something tomorrow off my house A/C to get these temps down a bit and get that fuller greener and lessen their slight droopiness (even from before training, which made it a touch easier, maybe plan to subject to higher heats the few days before you throw in the first scrog).
Here are the final pics for today:
I made that scrog with fish line if anyone cared to know, I just wanted really tight and non frayable string. Last time I bought some premade netting and terrible idea never again!
Looking good, man! It’s always more fun to custom build equipment like you did with the screen. It ends up fitting your needs better and if you can use recycled materials, even better. Plants are looking healthy!
Day 59 for the eldest Maui’s and the blue dream and Jack herer at 27 days old. Made that change with dumping more cool air into the grow room. Thinking I’ll live with this temperature range of about 76-80F.
Did some moving around some tops to facilitate a more even spread in my growing area. Topped the sites on the 4 largest plants to help double the cola sites.
This brings up the question of I still need to figure out a solid solution for cooling the room without introducing new air if I am going to do the CO2 dosing. I have the regulator, gas and system to do it but don’t want to just be wasting the gas.
Otherwise here are update photos:
Yea custom recycled build. Although I’m really glad I didn’t do that for the current culture system. Two thing about the system is buy your own more reliable pump and prolly needs more airflow to the roots than what is supplied with the system.
Day 68 for the eldest Maui’s and the blue dream and Jack herer at 36 days old. Temperature outside is a steady 76-78F and the water temp is between 67-69F. Just been working the Maui’s back down to keep allowing for more time for the younger 2 to catch up.
Photos below, sure are getting big!
Oh yeah, you’ll have a thick sativa forest reaching toward the sky in a few weeks here.
