[Scuba]

Hi all,

Ive got my mum box up and running with 2 seedlings in it, jamacian dream (fem) and cheese quake (hoping it will be a girl), they are about 6 days old (from sprouting).



Inside temperature is between 18-24 deg. Im getting a tube heater to replace the fan heater this week which i will hook up to a thermostat.

The res is 20 litres but im having trouble with PH rising slowly, im thinking a bigger reservoir would aleviate this. Theres also a air stone in there and a heater which is keeping the water at 20 deg.

Lights are on 18/6 and the plants are drip fed 3 times a day for 15 min. Once at 6am (lights on), once at 2pm and once about 10pm. Any run off drains back to the tank. Im also using general Hydraponics 3part and feeding as described in the chart.
TDS is 400ish but i plan to up the feeding schedule tommorow which is 1 week in.

So the question is - am i feeding enough, is 3 times a day for 15min ok? And would it be benificial to run the lights 24/7 and feed more often?

This post has been edited by Scuba: 17 April 2012 - 06:09 PM

[Scuba]

maby i posted in wrong section

anyway the question was also ment for when im vegging clones and growing my mothers.

any info would be greatly appreciated.

[Joint hogger]

im not up to date but i used to run the pump for 15mins every 4 hours including lights out

[Scuba]

Thanks for the reply, never thought about feeding while lights are out. Gonna give it a try and see what happens

[trichomedome]

The stage there at they only need fed by hand. When they get to 2/3 weeks old in they sized cubes they,ll need soaked twice a day. What are you finishing them in ?. It,s worth getting some plastic and making some 4"squares to keep the tops from going green with algae they also come precut 50 packs. CR
Also i don,t know who,s who and what,s what with nutes, but the 1st ever nute,s i used was ghe and i had to correct the p.h daily "nothing but hassle". I changed to 1 part ionic and BINGO! stable p.h regardless of volume "even 1 ltr" and great results aswell. atb CR

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[madgiz]

I used to run slightly different to joint hogger and run my dripers at 3 times, 15 mins at lights on, 15 mins at lights off and a 15 minute feed half way through their day cycle..

At the stage yours are at the moment then I wouldn't bother drip feeding yet but instead just soak the blocks once a day..

[Scuba]

 cantregister, on 19 April 2012 - 08:50 AM, said:

The stage there at they only need fed by hand. When they get to 2/3 weeks old in they sized cubes they,ll need soaked twice a day. What are you finishing them in ?. It,s worth getting some plastic and making some 4"squares to keep the tops from going green with algae they also come precut 50 packs. CR
Also i don,t know who,s who and what,s what with nutes, but the 1st ever nute,s i used was ghe and i had to correct the p.h daily "nothing but hassle". I changed to 1 part ionic and BINGO! stable p.h regardless of volume "even 1 ltr" and great results aswell. atb CR

So im probably getting ahead of my self here, too eager for them to grow its like watching paint dry at the moment i just need to make sure the rock wool dosnt dry out. They are gonna be transplanted to pots with clay pebble at some point, would you say 3 weeks ish? also gonna cut some mylar squares and pop em on top.
PH does seem to be a daily problem, but im stuck with it until i use up the 1litre bottles.

 madgiz, on 19 April 2012 - 09:02 AM, said:

I used to run slightly different to joint hogger and run my dripers at 3 times, 15 mins at lights on, 15 mins at lights off and a 15 minute feed half way through their day cycle..

At the stage yours are at the moment then I wouldn't bother drip feeding yet but instead just soak the blocks once a day..

Yea thats about what i was running. Gonna use a small watering can for now then put them on drip feed when i've potted em on.

thanks guys..steap learning curve me thinks

[trichomedome]

Yes budy a little , yes hand feed just now you,ll soon notice the difrence once they get established then once repoted you,ll need to move on to x amount per hour/day you,ll soon get the hang of what,s needed by the plant. mylar is great for reflecting not so good for lids it has a habbit of turning the edges up, b.w is reuseable and re writeable and stays flat. atb CR

This post has been edited by cantregister: 19 April 2012 - 03:38 PM

[Scuba]

Im knocking this on the head... just had a small white plane circle my house, im too paranoid

[madgiz]

He's probably looking for the private airfield..

Eyes in the sky if you believe the bollocks that they can see small grows through walls are always in helicopters AFAIK..

Also considering that almost every indoor grower has their main lights on at night then sending them up during the day would be a bit pointless..

It is propaganda bullshit crack on I say..

This post has been edited by madgiz: 26 April 2012 - 12:24 PM

[Scuba]

I also bought some stuff off ebay then read some comments here so im paranoid about that too

Oh the joys

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 Scuba, on 26 April 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:

Im knocking this on the head... just had a small white plane circle my house, im too paranoid

its just a white plane, if it isnt blue and yellow one it not a police one coz i live near a police air port and c them all the time here as they fly rite over are house

This post has been edited by waldo: 26 April 2012 - 12:29 PM

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 madgiz, on 26 April 2012 - 12:20 PM, said:

He's probably looking for the private airfield..

Eyes in the sky if you believe the bollocks that they can see small grows through walls are always in helicopters AFAIK..

Also considering that almost every indoor grower has their main lights on at night then sending them up during the day would be a bit pointless..

It is propaganda bullshit crack on I say..

very very ture madgiz they carnt c mine and i live were they take off and land

[madgiz]

TBF if you are this para already then growing maybe isn't for you although what is it you think they can see from their eye in the sky..?

Also it is not a disaster buying from E-bay it just isn't as stealth as it could be but rest assured nothing you bought was illegal..