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The Home Grower's Thread

Neat!!

Right now I want to first clean out the grow space and re-organize. My garage is a small 1 car, and it has 3 sets of shelves and the grow tent along the 4th wall next my "grow table" for nutrients, water, tools, etc. I don't like to advertise that I grow to all visitors so I might need to revisit where the tent lives.

The tent and my current light are actually big and small enough that if I could wall off 1/3rd of the grow tent I could do a continuous harvest with a secondary set of veg lights.
 
Automation is neat, but nothing replaces the footsteps of a farmer. We are automated only because it would be too much work to hand water as many plants as we have. Being able to pick up every plant and inspect it goes a long way toward better yields. Just my two cents.

You did a great job, but f I were you, for your next grow I would not do auto flower, nor soil. I would do 4 plants from feminized seeds in 2-5 gallon Radicalbags (Transplant from one gallon pots one week before flower) with coco/perlite. I would run a true hydroponic cocktail that you follow to a T until you can learn enough to read the plants and change the cocktail for your environment. I'm seeing a lot of nutrient deficiency in your grow, and I believe it's because you are trusting the soil to do most of the heavy lifting. Running a hydro setup allows you to control exactly what the plant needs exactly when the plant needs it. I guess that's my 4 cents...

Been fun watching it come together!
 
Thanks so much, I agree about the nutrients in the auto flowers, they're pretty yellow. I've amped up the nutes but they're close to the end and they were more of an experiment.

When you say a hydroponic cocktail do you mean I should use say cococoir and water every day vs. soil?

Or do you mean run a hydroponic setup like those water buckets with watering rigs?
 
HappyHighwayman said:
Thanks so much, I agree about the nutrients in the auto flowers, they're pretty yellow. I've amped up the nutes but they're close to the end and they were more of an experiment.

When you say a hydroponic cocktail do you mean I should use say cococoir and water every day vs. soil?

Or do you mean run a hydroponic setup like those water buckets with watering rigs?
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I mean Coco Coir 50/50 with a hydroponic cocktail. Meaning every day (read every time the plant is thirsty) you feed with nutrient enriched and PH balanced water.
 
shouldnthave said:
Automation is neat, but nothing replaces the footsteps of a farmer. We are automated only because it would be too much work to hand water as many plants as we have. Being able to pick up every plant and inspect it goes a long way toward better yields. Just my two cents.

You did a great job, but f I were you, for your next grow I would not do auto flower, nor soil. I would do 4 plants from feminized seeds in 2-5 gallon Radicalbags (Transplant from one gallon pots one week before flower) with coco/perlite. I would run a true hydroponic cocktail that you follow to a T until you can learn enough to read the plants and change the cocktail for your environment. I'm seeing a lot of nutrient deficiency in your grow, and I believe it's because you are trusting the soil to do most of the heavy lifting. Running a hydro setup allows you to control exactly what the plant needs exactly when the plant needs it. I guess that's my 4 cents...

Been fun watching it come together!
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You'd recommend watering/feeding manually with coco/perlite to a grower that's at work most of the day? Problem with manual is that while you can give a plant what it needs, when it needs it, you gotta be there to do it. Anyone working a full time job away from the grow should probably just use soil if they're watering/feeding manually. You need that water retention if you're going to be away. Or, just automate it. With a small grow where your reservoir is 5g, it's easy to mix up whatever custom batch you want and it's also really easy to adjust volume, especially with the Floraflex where you can see exactly how much you're giving them.
 
Here's the bucket plants...to be honest underneath the top layer they're VERY green and I'm wondering if the CFLs are perhaps just too close to the top?



 
HappyHighwayman said:
Here's the bucket plants...to be honest underneath the top layer they're VERY green and I'm wondering if the CFLs are perhaps just too close to the top?
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Could be a little heat burn, but it looks more like a deficiency to me without having the plant in my hand.

I am a little concerned about this brown spot here though. The photo is a little fuzzy, but my eyes went straight to it, and I'm a master botrytis hunter.

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HappyHighwayman said:
So rot?

Should I cut it down?
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I don't know if it is simply because I'm not looking at it in person. Put on a pair of gloves and isolate the plant without shaking things up too much, with the fans off. Open the flower where the brown spot is (like looking into a sandwich to see if it has tomato in it). If it goes deep into the bud and it's soft, cut it out. Make sure you only touch that one part with your gloves. Just go as deep as you need to. Before you put the plant back, remove the gloves.

Report back, and we will go from there.
 
Bud rot is usually pretty easy to spot. You'll see a small brown leaf on a bud, then kind of bend the bud open to look inside where the brown leaf is. If it's rotten inside, then it's bud rot.
 
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byke said:
But rot is usually pretty easy to spot. You'll see a small brown leaf on a bud, then kind of bend the bud open to look inside where the brown leaf is. If it's rotten inside, then it's bud rot.
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That's what concerns me with all those brown leaves. : |
 
Yeah they have that look, but it's the mass of brown leaves that's throwing me off. I've only caught it early with an otherwise healthy plant and that one red flag, but it could just be a rotten mess. Fingers crossed.
 
I think it's ok.

Before:

After:

What I removed:


I'm going to move these to the main tent on Friday when I harvest the main plant and have my roommate water them every day while I'm away. They seem to need watering every day in this weather, they lose a ton of moisture the smart pots are light every day.
 
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Looks like bud rot, but you still need to carefully peel open a bud and look inside. Do you ever spray the plants with a water bottle, or do anything else that gets the buds wet?
 
I use a watering wand and avoid getting the plant wet. I'll keep an eye on it.

Should I open a "clean" bud or the one I cut off?

If I use these buckets again it will only be for starting plants until I add more ventilation. Certainly another 80mm intake fake.
 
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Definitely open the one you took off because you won't have to worry about damaging it. If it's rotten inside, you'll want to look inside the buds on the plant. How does the main plant look as far as the little leaves on the buds? Just the little ones that are like 1/4" to 3/4" long and on the buds themselves.
 
Botrytis can spread fast in the right conditions. I would do a full inspection, and assess if an early takedown is prudent especially if you plan on being away for some time. Sometimes a little under cooked is better than a complete loss.

From the looks of it you are about two weeks away from hanging? When are you leaving town?
 
Same thing as bunch rot in Grapes? Or the result of soggy testicles.
 
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