Grow Journal 1st grow Autos by Greenpassion

[Chefbjy]

I'll be watching for that Campesino. I was a little hesitant at first but after dozens of transplants I'm not worried. I wish I started mine in cups but they're happy and chugging along nicely. Idk about manifolds, that could be bad news for me. But look forward to following along. 😉

 

[Greenpassion]

Wow. I need to reread what you guys have just written. I am struggling with a physical problem of vertigo. Positional vertigo. It's like if you took a syringe of straight gin or alcohol or something and ingested it into your jugular vein and you were spinning and spinning and spinning. I really want to be a part of this conversation here but I am having a hard time looking at the words and watching them Rush by. This really sucks. Hopefully tomorrow when I get up and I can straighten up and have some coffee and I don't know some days it's better and some days it's not. But I need to know what you guys are talking about. I need to hit your onto your trailer so to speak hahaha. I am a very bad situation with work. Don't know if any of you have seen it. But I work at a hospital and they're trying to get rid of people that have been here for a long time and I've been there 20 years plus. So I'm looking at losing my livelihood and I'm alone in my house. I'm sorry none of that is important in this red. I'm going to go to bed. You guys are awesome.

 

[Chefbjy]

Sorry to hear about your situation. We're here to talk to 😃. We're just shooting the breeze really and talking transplant and training. Sorry if we hijacked your thread 😉. And I hope you make the best out of whatever comes your way.

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Greenpassion, been gone a few days, sorry to hear about your vertigo,
If you want to see how to grow autos, check out Green75 ,grows, he is the best, period.
He shows you step by step, anyone can follow his methods, he is very clear.
He is also the first to manifold autos, too, that i know of,again, he shows you step by step,
After your first grow, you'll see its not that hard, after all. HappyGrowing.
Ps, if you are not careful, you are gonna get brain fog, from trying to learn everything, all at once, it's really not that hard, I promise, check out Green75, and you will see how he grows autos, He shows you how to do it all.

 

[Greenpassion]

Redwasp, when I get the email that tells me somebody has posted, it gives me a small section of what the post was. So I click on it and most of the time it's there. But you posted something about you transplant from peat pots and that post simply isn't to be found in my journal. I can't understand why I can't find it. This happens over and over again here, at least with me. What did you post about transplanting into peat pots?

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

Put your rooter in your pot and let them grow, it's that simple, know need to make things harder on your first grow, but do it anyway you want too.

 

[Greenpassion]

D.A.A.S.69 , that's exactly what I had intended on doing, but I didn't calculate correctly it did not have enough kind soil for (7) 3 gallon pots. I ordered enough, but only two bags came. I've emailed the seller and haven't gotten a response yet.
I've got another question to everyone out there. It's super hot here in Vermont, and the upstairs of my house can get blisteringly hot. As I posted earlier, I have an air conditioning unit in a room across a short hallway, blowing cool air into the grow room. It keeps the room right about 78 degrees which is great, but the downside is that the humidity is only around 38. Is that a problem? I know I like to keep my orchids in the mid forties and higher downstairs in my living area, and I am concerned that 38% humidity for seedlings is not such a good thing. I have small fans on them giving them slight movement as instructed, to make them stronger, and I don't know if that is affecting the humidity or if it's just the air conditioner alone. Any advice? I did think of putting the clear Dome over the ones that I have in the Solo cups. That would increase the humidity around them, but what about the ones in the 3 gallon pots? Clear cups over them?

 

[D.A.A.S.69]

As long as the humidity is close to 40 you will be ok, Higher is better, but it's
35-40percent is ok.
Keep the dome off. You don't need it.
Plenty of cheap ways to get humidity up, if you just have to get it up, which if they were mine, I wouldn't worry with.

 

[Greenpassion]

Ok. Thanks 😊

 

[Greenpassion]

Gotta a question for you guys. So I have these seven autos planted about a week or so ago. When should I start new seedlings? Should I wait a month or two months? Trying to have it so that I don't have a gap.

 

[Greenpassion]

You posted your journal on the sick plants forum... Maybe SiriusFourside or NebulaHaze can move it for you. Not sure if that was intentional. But don't stress out there are plenty of people here to help you on your way. Those that sub to your journal can see when you post. There is a setting that subs to wherever you comment. A lot of these peeps know their ganja. All I do is read read read... There's a lot of helpful info and peeps to get you to harvest... And I always learn something new everytime I log on. 😃 good luck and happy growing.

How would I move this grow journal to the right place?

 

[Chefbjy]

Depends on your resources, space available, and time to care for. I like to start new seedlings about 3-4 weeks before harvest. That way I can free up my tent and transition them to 12/12 . I have another room I can use for veg while I'm cleaning out my tent. And I have plenty of time to tend to curing while the others are going into flower.

But if you have the time space and resources to keep a continuous garden you can start at the beginning of flower or sooner. Depending on your ability to tend to different needs of plant stages.

 

[Greenpassion]

Question. Do you guys have your exhaust / filter system running even when your plants are seedlings? I am growing in a room, not a tent, and have plenty of air movement from small fans, and from fans pulling cooler into the room from an air conditioner. Tomorrow I will post pics of my progress, and want to know how close I am to needing to begin Lst, and topping ( or whatever training you guys recommend).

 

[Greenpassion]

Here are some pics of my plants and grow room. For five of them this is day 16. They didn't all come up at once. Today I transplanted 4, the remaining four and I was going to do the 5th one but as you can see in the picture that little one is the one that had its head stuck inside of the rapid Rooter plug. It is alive but barely hanging on it seems. It's just so miniature.
so at the moment I'm only running 2 300 watt LEDs over the 3 gallon grow bags. I have them at 22 inches above the plants. They all seem to be doing well so far.

 

[Greenpassion]

For my seedling station, or seed starting station, I have 2 CFLs that are 300 W, the equivalent of 60 watt incandescent. I've read that cheap CFLs are the thing to use when starting seedlings, so I hope these will do. They're huge light bulbs!

 

[Greenpassion]

Oh good! So even though there such giant light bulbs, I should have them super close to the rapid Rooter plugs when I do seeds correct? Like 12 in?

 

[Greenpassion]

I'm just not sure when I should start a new round of seeds. Theses seedlings are now 17 days old, and their harvested within 3 months I've read, and it takes about 10 days for seeds to get to me in the mail, so maybe I should start them around 6 weeks from now...? I am also and something of a dilemma about whether or not I want to do autos on my second grow, or do I want to get photo period plants. I am much more familiar with photoperiod Plants, and I like the way you can get clones off of them the way you cannot growing when growing autos.

 

[Chefbjy]

Hey Greenpassion I see your journal got moved out of the sick forum...nice. It's great growing photos you don't have to be so delicate as you do with autos. Stress can really hurt your overall yield...and I'm not very graceful with training. Taking clones is a great opportunity to keep things rolling but I get sick of the same strain after awhile. Have to switch it up now and again 😉. As long as you got the space you can start in say 4weeks...with photos you can veg them as long as you need to. Good luck deciding and happy growing. 😃

 

[Greenpassion]

Thanks Chefbjy! Yeah. I hear you. I have five seeds that were free with my order from Nirvana, they are Northern Lights seeds. I'd like to find a way where I could do both. I do have another bedroom upstairs unused, so I could do the veg with photos in the same room that I'm growing the autos and then move the photos across the hall to do the 12:12. Just don't know what to do with all the stuff that's in that other room, plus my electric bill is an issue. Right now I've got three air conditioners going, 2 downstairs, one upstairs in the grow room, a dehumidifier going 24/7 in the basement, 5 small fans, and the carbon filter exhaust. That's not even mentioning my LED lights for my orchids.

 

[Greenpassion]

Oh. I just realized an error in my thinking. I would not be able to grow the photoperiod plants in the same room as my autos, because I have my autos on an 18/6 schedule, and that would have the photos go into flower. Oops!