Tent Growers Club....

[Herm]

Well my tent is up and running now. I posted a grow journal.

 

[Locked]

Well my tent is up and running now. I posted a grow journal.

Yeah I saw that...nice clean set up. Welcome to tent growing.

 

[pcduck]

Well my tent is up and running now. I posted a grow journal.

What brand of tent do you have?
And how do you like it?

Looks like a nice tent.:aok:

 

[Herm]

I got a Grolab 145. I really like it so far it looks like I should be able to get some production out of it.

 

[pcduck]

Cool beans Herm

 

[hamholfarm]

This is day 13 of my first tent grow (first grow at all). This is a Vanilla Kush - it is the plant at the back left position. The leaves have brown spots on them. No other plants are showing these spots - yet. I've been watering every day with a very diluted "Tea" as described in the Coco Bucket thread. I'm using about 15 cups water to 1 cup of the tea. For light I'm using a 400W MH Conversion bulb in an air-cooled hood that is approximately 14 inches above the plants. Am I burning the plant with nutes or maybe the lamp is too close? Is there something else going on?

Thanks for the help!
:farm:

 

[Herm]

If you are watering everyday I am guessing you are watering to much.

 

[hamholfarm]

I do water every day - the peat cups are only 4 inches tall - if I wait until the second day to water, the soil is bone dry - I thought it was bad to let the roots go completely dry?

Help?
:farm:

 

[PuffinNugs]

They look overwatered in the photos.

I'm in tiny 2" cups for my seedlings and have extremely low humidity and still go 2-3 days before completely dry. And yes IMO they should go pretty dry before watering again. I water by weight of the pots, never fails. There's a sticky on the wet/dry cycle somewhere on here

What's your temps?

 

[Locked]

Yeah I wld agree with them looking a lil over watered....I like to let the soil get dry on the top to where it is almost cracking. I think I read something about it being good for them to hve to send their roots searching for water. So a good wet dry cycle is a big plus for good growth IMO.

 

[hamholfarm]

Wow! My Bad!! I'll let them go longer before watering.

Thanks so much for the quick replies!!

Love this this place!!

:farm:

 

[hamholfarm]

OK - Here we are at day 16 - I have stopped watering every day, and have gone to every other day. I also stopped feeding with the diluted "Tea" and will only use water until I transplant these gals. But, as of today, 4 of the 5 still look terrible! The one nice looking girl is the "Sour Kush" and was not affected at all. Looking at the pics do you still think I was over-watering? Am I going to lose these plants or do you think they will make it?

Thanks again!
:farm:

 

[bubba902]

Ooooh man, What kinda soil is that?

 

[PuffinNugs]

Ooooh man, What kinda soil is that?

looks like MG to me... but what is it they are started in also, some kinda a mix there i can see

why start any sort of nutes at that age may i ask? especially in prenuted soil

sour kush is a heavy feeder, and resistant to heavy nutes to a point.

 

[Locked]

Tell me they are not in an Miracle Grow time release soil and you hve been feeding them with a tea? That soil looks rough bro. Kinda barky for my taste. Reminds me of that MG Organic soil. I use MG Seed Starter which is pretty much plain un-nuted soil. It has a lil something to promote root growth but thats it. I hve gone 3 weeks from seed without feeding in that soil. 2 weeks is the norm. Not a good idea to feed seedlings let alone seedlings in "hot soil".

 

[Ganja Gaia]

Sorry to interrupt the growing questions... I just thought I'd ask the resident tent aficionados if you guys think that the Secret Jardin Darkroom II Twin DRT90 would be a good idea for a perpetual, small growth?

-> hxxp://secretjardin.com/~secretja/en/grow-tent-secret-jardin/dark-room-twin-grow-tent-secret-jardin.html

My plan would be HO T5's in the top, with a 400w HPS on the bottom, but would this be a good idea for turnaround growth or is the space up top too tiny? I'd also plan to only grow about 2-3 plants in the bottom area to flower, with some SCROGing to increase yield (hopefully). I'm completely new to this and I'm in the piecing-it-all-together stage. :/

 

[bubba902]

What kinda price range ya got?

 

[Ganja Gaia]

I'm willing to patiently wait and save for the right things to make this personal grow room fantastic. So, I guess... That's not as big of a concern as space availability and I can't dedicate a room to a grow space (nor could I afford a severe spike in the electricity bill).

 

[dontknowmuch]

Sulfur ( Sulpher) burner in a tent?. 4x4 tent with powdery mildew. Dont have burner yet. What would you do for a sulfer burn in your tent with light off?

 

[hamholfarm]

You guys know your soil! It is Miracle Grow Potting Soil. It was in the basement, so I used it. Once the seeds sprouted, I put them into the plugs from this "Seed Starter Pack" I received for free with an order I placed, hXXp://www.htgsupply.com/Product-6-Pack-Seed-Starter.asp
Then I put the plugs into the potting soil. At day 10 I started watering with the diluted "Tea" recipe which was made as:
2c mushroom compost, 2c kelp, 2tsp fish emulsion, 2Tbls molasses, .5tsp Epsom salt, 2 gal water.
For feeding I used about 2 cups tea with 1 gal of water.

Feb 3rd was last time I fed with the tea. I'm now watering every other day.

There may be hope yet! The Viper and Trans Love both have some new growth that is healthy looking and a deep green color. The two Vanilla Kush plants look like they may have just a tiny little bit of new green showing.

Should I try to re-pot these plants into something else? Should I remove the "plugs" from around the stems? I have an unopened bag of Roots Organics Original Potting Soil, should I try to transplant into this for now, before I put the plants into their coco buckets?

Thank you again for the help
:farm: