farmerjim's 2nd grow! Nirvana Lemon OG Haze autoflower

[farmerjim]

4 out of 5 after 1 night in rehydrated rotorooters. Placed in a small tupperware container tucked away in a dresser drawer... squeezing in my 1st autoflower run before the dhgc!

[Campesino]

Sub'd

I was tempted to try to do the same, but I will enjoy the break!

[oldjarhead100]

Me to well I wont be enjoying the break I'll be working my ass off fixing grow room lol

[farmerjim]

5/5!

Going to run 5 lemon og haze autos in buckets under the viparspectre450 for the first few weeks. Once I harvest my super skunk, I'll incorporate the cmh. I may even start the seedlings out on the porch until the cmh is ready. Haven't "decided" yet (er, haven't asked farmerjane yet!)...

set everything up tonight. I've got the rotorooters in 3.75 net pots that are sitting snugly in 2 liter bottles (I cut the tops off the bottles). Theyll end up in 5 gal buckets.

I have the light at 50% veg (ch1) and it's a good 3 ft or so from the seedlings. Any advice on height and dim settings for newly germinated seedlings from anyone with the dimmable 450?

[oldjarhead100]

I'm in Farmerjim .My tent looked like that once when I took it out of the box lol. Chefbjy do you mean the setup tags with the DHGC

[farmerjim]

Thanks Chef! I had these seeds in addition to some photos... aurora indicas, WW/MasterKush/some other Nirvana random and various local dispensary bagseed (Chocolope, Black Mamba, and Double Black Domina). After seeing @obi-wan's perpetual harvest attempt starting up, I just couldn't resist! Figured it gives me a chance to run both photo and auto and can test out some other training methods and the timing should line up nicely. I really wanted to try buckets too. Scrogging with the 10gal tote got a bit old and I only had 1 plant running... I really like Obi-wans tomato cage things and want to give them a try here.

I admittedly stole the Dark Harvest one from Campesino but wanted a decent way to track what I had purchased and to track my journey...

[farmerjim]

haha - that tent definitely just came out of the box!

[farmerjim]

Alrighty - Day 13 and things are going pretty smoothly. I'm a little behind in putting my system together because I ordered the wrong size hole saw bit. It arrives today so figured I'd map out the plan until then...

1 x 13 gal reservoir with lid
6 x 5 gal buckets (Lowe's spraypainted black to lightproof)

2 x 5 ft 2" pvc
1 x 5 ft 1/2" pvc
1 x 1/2" pvc ball valve
1 x 1/2-2" T connector

12 x 2" Uniseals (requires a 3" hole saw)
1 x 1/2" bulkhead

6 x airstones (I have mediums)
1 x activeaqua submersible pump for sub or inline use (I got the 800 which is likely overkill for now)

My plan is to pH and nutrient in the 13 gal res and pull the solution through 3 pairs of side-by-side buckets. The 13 gal res connects to the 1st two 5 gal buckets from 2 separate exit points. Those connect to the next pair, and then those connect to the final pair through the same 2" pvc passing through Uniseals. When the solution reaches the end of each side, it runs through the 2" to 1/2" T connector and returns to the 13 gal res through the 1/2" pvc. The ball valve sits on this return line.

I think I need to consider a couple of ball valves between the 13 gal and the 1st set of buckets in order to be able to drain the system to clean the buckets when needed. If anyone has any suggestions feel free to chime in! Probably biting off more than I can chew on this one!

[farmerjim]

Agghh - SO close! Now I know why many commercial bucket systems have square buckets!

so far, the uniseals are holding up ok...i think it's the curve of the bucket that is causing the issue. I'm going to leave the water in overnight to see if any other weaknesses show up. If not, I'll give it a drain tomorrow, seal all seams with marine epoxy from the inside, and give it another whirl.

you may have noticed that I went from 6 buckets to 4. It's very likely 6 + res had no chance of fitting in my 4x4 space. I'll probably take the runt out of the tent and set it up in its own bucket on our sunporch.

[Redwasp]

I always grow an aurora indica. Cant live without her. My best friend at night. And now I know why i grow in soil. Thats to much work. Lol

[farmerjim]

Nice! I picked Nirvana for my first seeds specifically for the AI. I just didn't want to screw them up on my 1st grow so i started with one of the randoms... now, I've got these guys going and the dark harveststrains will be next... will have to find some time (or light!) for an AI or 2!

[Redwasp]

Awesome plants. Like i said my favorite. And ive grown alot of different strains.

[farmerjim]

Space all set up! Just need to get these buckets up and running... moved the plants to the 10 gal tote with 6 airstones for the time being...

[farmerjim]

C'mon stragglers! You look thirsty! Get those roots in the water!!

[farmerjim]

Didn't realize I had bad pH in my starter bottles... P deficiency?

[Campesino]

Yeah, could be... Can't zoom in much, but looks like P issues maybe

[farmerjim]

It's gotta be. Almost text book - purpley stems and top of new growth with brown splotches on lower leaves. I have my pH stabilized and put a few extra mL of FloraBloom for the extra P-K

[Redwasp]

Never had issues on young plants.

[farmerjim]

They seem to be coming back a bit. I was way too focused on my bucket setup. I popped the seeds thinking they would stay in the 2 liters for a couple days, but that turned into a week and a half or so...

Speaking of buckets... water retained in the system through the night! Setting up the pump today to stress test a bit more... hoping 1 final drain and epoxy and we're up running...

[Redwasp]

Soil. Its easy. Lol

[farmerjim]

Up and running!

[farmerjim]

Week 3 in the books! Rdwc installed successfully but battling some root rot already... if DankwingDuck isn't scared of root rot then neither am i!

[DankwingDuck]

You’ll be all right you have all the tools you need to deal with any problem that comes up have faith in your ability and get it done

[farmerjim]

Week 4 saw explosive growth on most with a of couple stragglers... I will post a more detailed post this after noon after I finish up my first res change in the buckets. Until then...

[farmerjim]

Week 5 has come and gone and week 6 is practically over too! Gotta play a little catch up here...

Root issues are all good. That H2O2 rinse seems to do the trick.

Continued to train using the soft ties and removed light blocking fan leaves. Topped a few more times on a couple I think? Let's get some pictures in here...

[D.A.A.S.69]

Looking nice farmerjim, keep up the good work.

[farmerjim]

agreed and thanks! love the abbreviation to fj, lol... the funny thing is, my name isn't even jim - it's actually tj! farmerjim is a homage to my grandfather whose name was jim and was... you guessed it... a farmer.

[DankwingDuck]

Hey!!! These look just like mine lmao . How u likening that super crop tech . Seems to be doing the trick.