SOIL #4 Strawberry Gorilla Auto and OGK Photo

[ezmaarc]

And so it begins:
Strawberry Gorilla Auto as a freebie from Fastbuds (5 gal pots - new home for 15 weeks)
OG Kush Feminized as a freebie from Seed Supreme (3 gal pots to eventual 7 gal pots placed outside)
Soaked in water: 4/20/24
Planted sprouted seeds in reused FFOF with worm castings and lime on 4/22/24 from last grow.

2x4x6 Ft Tent
ACI Controller 69 - 6" exhaust, SF-2000, Oscillating Fan, Humidifier


Week 0
Day temp: 77
Day RH: 67
VPD: 1.02
DLI: 14
Soil PH: 5.9
Night temp:70
Night RH: 70
VPD: 0.70

 

[SoOrbudgal]

I love your style just keep on growing. Nice mix you got going on fella. Good luck i know you'll do well, i'll be watch' in

 

[ezmaarc]

Today is Day 5 of sprout and the first single leaves are pretty set with new ones emerging. I’m calling tomorrow Day 1 of Week 1 if they keep moving this fast. I let my daytime humidity drop a little by setting the humidifier to max on setting 1. Now set it up to 2 to see if it keeps me stable. If not, its up to 3. Darn humifier sucks up that water though. They look like they are fine though and getting strong.
So with that said:
Week 0, Day 5
Day Temp: 77
Day Rh: 57
VPD: 1.36
DLI: 15
Soil PH: 5.9
Night Temp: 73
Night Rh: 70
Night Vpd: 0.84

Keep on rockin in a (semi) free world!

 

[No3odiesShad0w]

BABIES🌱🌱🙌. I LOVE that everyone is starting all these new grows just in time for spring 🌼 For all the auto starts, they'll be chopping around Independence Day 🫡 🇺🇲🎆. The longer autos at the end of July.

​​​​​​Good luck on your next grow! Your last one went well from what I remember. You should be perfectly fine this round too! 👍
Happy Growing!

 

[Cougar672]

I've got some Strawberry Gorilla seeds I plan to sow in 4-6 weeks so very interested to follow along. Off to a good start!

 

[ezmaarc]

Greenlings earthlings!
Today things are steady:

Week: 2

Day: 1

Day Temp: 77

Day RH: 61

Day VPD: 1.22

DLI: 20

PPFD: 300

Night Temp: 70

Night RH: 72

Night VPD: 0.71

Soil PH: 6.0

15ml of Neptune Kelp

5ml Cal Mag

1gal of water divided
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[ezmaarc]

Ah, the end of week 2. Healthy and happy thus far. 4 nodes. I reckon this weekend I’ll top and start training them for the circus. Gonna strive for the tomato hoop trick like Ckbrew. Great spread technique!

Week: 2

Day: 7

Day Temp: 78

Day RH: 64

Day VPD: 1.16

DLI: 20

PPFD: 300

Night Temp: 75

Night RH: 66

Night VPD: 0.98

Soil PH: 6.0
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[ezmaarc]

One thing I’ve noticed is the center baby, although always my target DLI/PPFD child, the outer ladies grow more vigorously at this stage. Might be the angle of the dangle or the diode placement on this SF2000? Odd that the outer edge plants seems to fill out quicker. They are are on the low end of target 16/280 respectively. Learn, learn, learn.

 

[Ckbrew]

When installing the hoop, I put a small cut in the fabric of the pot near each leg of the hoop. Then use garden wire to anchor the hoop to the pot. If the hoop is not anchored, the plant will lift the hoop up out of the pot as it grows.

 

[ezmaarc]

Well so much for the weekly posts. But things seem to be going well. The 3 Gorilla autos in bloom are interesting. When I topped them in week 3, two of them reacted differently. SG#1 has stayed short but is budding profusely with trichs galore. SG#2&3 went vertical. SG#3 particularly has gotten real tall and their lengths cascade down from the right to the left of the tent. At first I was thinking LED spread issues with the SF-2000 but I think it might just be their pheno reaction. Anyway, they’ll be fine but I just need to keep watching SG3.
My 2 photo OGK’s in the front are nice and bushy after their second topping.
Still debating on how I’m going to handle this juggle with autos in the same tent. The autos are due to finish 3rd week of July so I may put the OGKs outside around July 4th to finish them there. That way I can start my Scarlets I received from Going2fast. But we’ll see how this rolls out. I don’t really like my choice of photos and autos together. Too much juggle for this old stoner.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

I hear ya about the juggle. I've done it a few times both together. I learned to start autos first 18/6 in the tent 6wks later i put my photoperiod seedlings in there. 6wks to how ever long you wanna veg the photos i'll flip to 12/12. Now your tents not as wide so me personally would only do 4 total plants for ease an health. And lots of training on those photos LST or manifolds definitly topping. Yep i'm moving 2 autos do to crowding in the tent outdoors in about a week. But i knew i would be. You can do it i got faith you can bring all these plants to harvest

 

[ezmaarc]

I hear ya about the juggle. I've done it a few times both together. I learned to start autos first 18/6 in the tent 6wks later i put my photoperiod seedlings in there. 6wks to how ever long you wanna veg the photos i'll flip to 12/12. Now your tents not as wide so me personally would only do 4 total plants for ease an health. And lots of training on those photos LST or manifolds definitly topping. Yep i'm moving 2 autos do to crowding in the tent outdoors in about a week. But i knew i would be. You can do it i got faith you can bring all these plants to harvest

Thanks for the vote of confidence and the tip. I’m gonna keep those photos tidy.

 

[Bluey]

I really struggled with 4 autos and 3 photos in the one room. The photos were all started at different times due to issues I was having with stalling seedlings and germination problems.

Then I ran out of room and moving around in the room to work on them caused a lot of damage to one of the photos and now Im paying for it with a plant that I couldnt train properly so it height got away from me.

Is it worth it. Yes. I think so but it's a lot of work and things can easily go wrong.

 

[ezmaarc]

Crowd control. Trimmed the poo-poo out of my photo OGK. Really happy with the results and they seem to be reacting well. Gonna do it again in a few weeks and get more flower sites. The Fastbuds Strawberry Gorilla auto is still poppin off. This is going to be a good one. Frosty goodness.