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Just Tripart coco and perlite.

My wife got me some Purple Power CBD seeds (Femenized Auto) from the Green Smoke Room. I totally messed it up though, I got over confident and sloppy, I think I added too much perlite , over watered and too much nutrients. she's a bit stunned. The perlite started making thick layers of pond scum, So I replaced the grow medium but from the pic as you can see it came back a little but. But at least it recovered and looks like its growing again. I'm not familiar with auto flowers but the below plant started making pistils right away. Not sure if its because it was stressed or if it is just how they are. In the same tent I have 2 other plants. When I realized i stuffed up on the Purple Power CBD's I went and bought a different CBD plant but this time a clone Dont kow the name. On the pot when I bough it it read "NARC" Try find NARC when searching relating to weed ,Narcotic this narcotic that so I'm now sure what CBD plant it is. And this clone growing like MAD! CBD clone in the back and just normal regular unknown seed in the front also doing quite well. (With the little CBD Purple power in the back for reference) Why is it that all of my grows have a light "Green" leaf colour yet no sign of stress or nutrient burn or any sort of deficiency. When I got the clone the leafs were a very dark green and had some nutrient burn but as I do as I always do the plant is growing happily and the dark green leaf colour became a lighter green . When ever I look at other growers plantd they are also a darker green. I'm tempted to add nitrogen, but not sure if I should. ?

Thanks for the offer. I'm unfortunately far away. I will source something from a local shop.

Last update, These bag seeds came out OK not too shabby And i'm happy with the lights, the PSU i'm using has some extra capacity to add more. Next time I will try and keep it in control by trimming and training better and will log the progress in a more appropriate section of this forum. Thanks for all the advice. Chapter closed. BTW I may have trimmed it early in fear of running into bud rot issues , because the lower flowers started to develop some fluffy white stuff which came off when i lightly rub it with my fingers.on the sugar leafs.After reading up it wasn't bud rot it was powdery mildew. Seeing 50% of the pistils were amber. Based on that I thought I may as well just take the plunge and start harvesting because I don't own a magnifier. Will be donating the plant to a friend who also recently got into growing, maybe he can re veg it (Practice) with it now to get my hands on a good strain.

Exactly the type of input I need sensei I feel like I may now remove my white belt and replace it a yellow belt and i'm now worthy of proper seeds. On a serious note thanks for the input, it makes encouragement and what you said makes totally sense. Any recommendation on some seeds ? Being the zombie apocalypse type of guy I prefer to buy regular seeds with the possibility of getting a male which can be used to pollinate to make more.

So Here's an update. From the previous photo's you can see I planted 4, one of which was a male. Out of the 3 that was left one of them got overshadowed by these massive fan leafs and got stunted. Pulled her out and gave it to a friend. Not sure if its going to survive. Then I had 2 left. 1 of the 2 that was left was growing in a mixture of organic and coco/perlite medium. and the other just pure Coco/perlite. Never knew how much to feed the plant in organic mix, so I just kept feeding the same as the pure coco/perlite plant. It never shown any burns or deficiencies but neither did it bud propperly. Not sure why flowers were all over the show but didnt show any progress. So I moved her to the greenhouse outside. Now I only have this one in the tent. Not sure if its doing well but it isnt exactly doing poorly either (To my untrained eye) any comments ? I feel like the bud can be denser. I dont know the strain its just bunch of left over seeds which came from a very seedy bud.

Update: Things got a bit out of hand not complaining. Stems are nice and thick, not a single deficiency! and buds are coming along nicely. Some minor light burns here and there. I probably should have trained it better. Best I can do now is to try and pull the branches down with some rope. Below is 2 trees (Technically 3 but the 3rd one is not getting much of a chance) Went to the china shop and bought more warm Led panels for a life changing R200.00 Will be adding 2 more if it make decent buds.

Hey I only see this thread now! Ive been growing mushrooms for quite some time now, but nothing serious just normal small scale PF Tek style. Lions Mane, Kings, Blue oysters . Although PF tek is not quite the most efficient way to mushrooms, its a great an easy way to start off with. For what its worth, Noob to Noob, If you are going to take the PF tek route. Dont stuff around just get a steam pot. You can steralize using other methods but a steam pot and some consol jars makes it so much easier and almost fail proof. And start with oysters they are very resilient and grow fast. I use the same steam pot to decarb sugar leafs using the same method used to sterilize grow medium. Chuck the leafs or buds into a consol jar (AKA Mason Jar / Jam Jar) Instead of making a breather with stuffing just punch some holes and cover the lid with alu foil to keep the moisture out. I cook it for 90mins just like you would cook PF Tek.

Should I in the name of science flip the schedule to 12/12 and get the plants to flower so we can see if the the lights will make some buds ? If it works out I will dub them "Bud Makers" Maybe I should start an Open source project that will allow people to build their own on the cheap. I can make them modular so you can snap more together.

Update. Wow I dont recall the leafs growing this big in my previous grow, they're gigantic! everyday when I check in to feed them there is a clear difference. I had to raise the lights for a second time already.

I wanted to make sure I calculated the wattage correctly. The amount of heat these panels put out made me doubt my measurements done with the multi meter. So I got a Sonoff Powr2 and its reading a total of 130watts I think its because I measured them with the tips if the multi meter leads and not making proper contact allowing all the current to flow. Without the light panels the Sonoff reads 7.5 watts (Small AC fan and a USB powered hub + 250watt PC PSU) , when connecting only one panel it goes up to 68.5 watts. So both of them draw around 62watts. I'm thinking to just buy an LED driver to test it out on a grow, will soon see what happens. The plants seem to be happy for now. Except for the little bit of leaf curl. Not sure if its because the light are too close or if I have over watered them. My first time growing with coco. On the left is a premex which I bought from the store and on the right my own Perlite , coco buffered mix. They have been on a 24 hour schedule for almost 2 weeks now. I have now set the Powr2 on a 18/6 schedule.

Bookmarked! Do you think its worth mixing them with some LEDs in the blue spectrum and IR LEDs ?

I'm still procrastinating , Haven't yet decided if I want to build or buy In the meantime I designed the below. I took the QBs I already had , some alu flatbar offcuts and some 3d printed components. I also realized out of the panels I have they have different types of LED's The below looks like they are around 3000K but cant say for sure. I think it came out quite nice. So If I had to buy the samsung LEDs I will do the same. They draw only 27watt not sure if its usefull. the panels come in 1m strips so I could make another 3 of them, if I have enough Alu offcuts. The above version has mounting holes for a 80mm fan. PM me if you are interested in the STLs, Sharing is caring I think if you can find the correct panels it will make for a very nice grow light.

Regarding the earthing issue. Those cobs are supposed to go into an enclosure and is covered with a lens. But in my case the terminals were covered with high heat silicone. But when one of them short circuited I imagine the short is on the inside of the cob somewhere. I took the cob off of the frame and the back of the cob which is alu has conductivity with the live. So maybe the Vslot alu profile didn't dissipate enough heat leaving the cob to cook it self on the inside.