(Part 2) Top products from r/MephHeads

Hope I wasn't that wanker haha. I'm doing 50/50 myself and I'm on day 82(not a meph, I'm contemplating ditching my msnl seeds for mephs next grow). I've mentioned my ratio a few times but I don't think I've ever advised it lol. It was the top end of the range on growweedeasy, and I definitely plan on going like 70/30 next time too.

I've been watering like twice a day for a couple weeks now. I mix a 5L watering can of nutes every night. My plant is giant and only in a 2gal smartpot so I top it off every now and then as well, opening the tent and giving her a little more food isn't toooo hard, but it is annoying. I do like looking at her as well though haha.

I've been thinking of getting hydroton to put on top of the coco because it's supposed to help prevent evaporation from the coco I think. I've got some growstones already that I think I might just spread over the top

There’s

Kind Soil - https://www.amazon.com/Kind-Soil-Hot-Product-single/dp/B00S1HRLPQ

Which is a super soil you can get on Amazon. You’d basically put a layer in the bottom of your pot and pour some potting mix with light nutrients and then the roots of your plant will grow into the fertilizer when they’re old enough. I believe you can top dress with it as well.

Michigan M3 - https://www.m3michiganmademix.com/

I believe you can buy this directly from they’re website

KIS Organics Water Only Mix - https://www.kisorganics.com/collections/organic-soil-for-sale-bulk-potting-soil-mix/products/kis-organics-biochar-soil-mix

Can be bought through KIS website, I’ve heard great things about the BioChar mix but shipping is pricey

Build A Soil - https://buildasoil.com/products/living-organic-soil-malibu-compost?variant=44903445010

They have they’re own bagged mix as well, it’s similar to KIS soil although I noticed they’re shipping costs are lower

Sohum Soil - https://sohumsoils.com/product/sohum-living-soils-cannabis-craves/

It’s a living soil like the above 2 choices, although it can be bought in stores and online

(I’m going with a local company that makes living soils)

Aliki Gardens - https://www.alikigardens.com/shop/freyjas-mix

Based in San Diego, super helpful and fantastic soil that is water only.

PH is very important, get the cheap visual kit from amazon https://www.amazon.com/Splendid-General-Hydroponics-Indicator-Accurate/dp/B017XTG6CG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1541357103&sr=8-4&keywords=PH+test+kit+general

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Mix your nutes at 50% of the recommended rate per Biobiz

Get in the habit of flushing, your schedule should be:

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Feed, Water, feed, water, Feed, flush then repeat

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Your pot should be drying out in 48 hrs, so you are either feeding or watering every second day

Read this:

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Weeks 1 - 3. Once you've started your seeds and they break the surface of the soil, they are in their seedling stage. The first set of leaves to appear will usually single fingered, followed by a second set that may still be single fingered or perhaps 3 fingered. Once that second set appears growth will start to accelerate as the new leaves provide more photosynthesis. This process will continue, more new leaves, faster growth. Depending on the type of soil in use, mild vegetative nutes can be introduced at week 2. By week 3 most plants will start to show their sex. Males will start to produce pollen sacks and females will display pistols.

Weeks 4 - 6. The plants are now entering a pre flowering stage. During this time the plants should exhibit explosive growth, often as much as a new set of nodes and 1" vertical growth a day. This is the time when they will gain most of their vertical height. Many people make the mistake of switching from vegetative to flowering nutrients at this point, assuming that since they see flowers it must be the proper time. This is incorrect. If the switch to flowering nutes is made at this time the vertical growth will stop and the plant will put it's energy into producing buds. If you need to keep your plants small, or want them to finish earlier, they by all means switch nutes at this point. But if you want to get the most out of your plants continue feeding vegetative nutes until you see the vertical growth slow and stop. Depending on the strain that will usually be sometime during week 5 or 6.

Weeks 7 - 9. By now vertical growth has stopped and the switch to flowering nutrients has been made. The buds will start to fill out and put on weight, becoming hard and tight. Pistols will start to change from white to brown, orange, red, etc. By now the plants will also have developed a strong smell. Toward the end of this phase the large primary and smaller secondary fan leaves will begin to turn yellow. This is an indication that the plant is moving toward the end of it's life.

Weeks 10 - 11. At this time flowering nutes should be discontinued and only plain pHed water fed to flush the remaining nutrients from the soil and improve the taste. Yellowing of the fan leaves will continue as the plant draws the stored energy from them. Eventually they will die and fall off. By the time that the smaller leaves that come from out of the buds will also start to turn yellow. Then it's time to harvest.

I know that many of you are thinking that the seed bank said the plants will finish in 8-9 weeks, so why are you saying they take 10-11? The claims made by the seed banks are somewhat deceptive. If you switch to flowering nutes at week 3 or 4 the plants can finish in the times the seed banks say but they will remain small and not reach their full potential yield. Years of growing by myself and others has shown that autos do best if you follow this time line.

Of course, there will always be variations depending on the strain, the environment, nutrients, etc. This information is meant to only serve as a general guideline.

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Your setup looks pretty good. I was wondering what zone you are growing in, or if you want to share your general geographical area? My climate is very dry and as soon as the vents kick on all of my humidity vanishes. I've concluded that I need to isolate a flow of air to only cool the lights, but I'm using Quantum board LEDs so they don't really rig up to existing inline fan housing for lights but if you are growing with HID, you can get your system into something like this where you can cool the bulb only and let your humidity from your machine remain unaffected.

What do you think?

Mephisto Skywalker Freebie Day 75. 135W 4000k 3000k HLG QB. 24 Hrs.

Soil, Coast of Maine Stonington - Stonington Granular Fertilizer, GH MicroBloom, GH CalMg, MOAB, GH MicroGrow , Recharge (Until day ~50)

First Mephisto/Auto grow its been a pleasure. Wanted to see how far I could get with the Stonington Soil admendment. Needed help starting in early flower, which was probably because I used half the recommended dose.

Looking to cut in the next 10 days, currently ~10-20% amber on the sugar leaves.

I have a 125 watt QB and a 2x2' tent, started it around half-way (measured with a Kill-a-Watt) and then gradually cranked it up over veg. It seems to go up to 150-160 watts! Mine is still around 130, because my lux meter says it's around 35k-40k lux, and there's not much point going higher than that with a 20/4 light schedule, since I'm not supplementing CO2. (Part of the canopy that grew closer to the light during flowering stretch and hit 65k lux got some light burn until I bent it away.)

If you get a cheap lux meter (I have this $20 lux meter), you can measure the actual lighting in specific places in your canopy and decide, based on DLI targets. This helps with both dimming the light and actual light positioning.

Here's a great write-up about using a lux meter as a plant light meter.

I think with the proper AC/Ventilation and good Air Tube hoods HPS would work just fine. The HIC I mentioned https://www.amazon.com/Sun-System-Emitting-Ceramic-Fixture/dp/B00HBCV8TM/ref=sr_1_5?s=lawn-garden&srs=3043915011&ie=UTF8&qid=1500201628&sr=1-5

Would be good for a 3x3

All are planted in 5gal buckets using 6in net pots. Using this airpump (one pump per two buckets) and these airstones.

The only plant with roots coming out of the bottom of the net pod is the Sweet n Sour.

Test PH at 6.5 after adding in all the nutrients into each reservoir individually, holding approximately 4 gallons of water, which is the following:

• 4ml FloraGrow
  
• 4ml FloraBloom
  
• 4ml FloraMicro
  
• 3ml Southern Ag Fungicide (Hydroguard replacement) Edit: after more research, it seems I should have only used .5ml per 4 gallon reservoir
  
• 6ml CalMag
  
  I try to keep the water between 67F and 73F with frozen water bottles, changing them out every 8 hours. The current lights I am using are two KingBrite 240w 3500k QB at 50% dimmness currently running 24/7 about 2 feet above buckets.
  
  If you need anymore information, please ask!

Spider is one of many HLG clones popping up left and right. They mostly use the same diodes, so the difference comes down more to build quality. Here is the cheapest one I have seen.. https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-LM301H-Dimmable-RED660NM-Quantum/dp/B07Z9V8KPD/ref=sr_1_2?m=A9UQU9ITAVB70&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&qid=1574027408&s=merchant-items&sr=1-2&th=1

That is what I paid for a HLG QB280 a year ago, for basically double the light.. crazy.

Here is a great channel to watch if you are interested in cutting edge grow light tech and see some tests.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSZwj4zGhH1yklVFxS54qdA/videos

I was using a Blumfeld battery power timer and pump (amazon) to water. This pump is sitting on the edge of a 5g bucket outside the tent. The bucket has the same nutrient mixture as what is in the res for each plant. It was set to water every 7 hours for 25 second run time. This provided about 100-150ml of water to the plants each time it ran.

The Strawberry Nuggets took 7 days for roots to reach the res, Cookies took 8. I turned off the auto-water pump on day 9. Today is day 11 and they are happy girls.

Well i test for LUX and calculate par based on height, spectrum used and lux to come up with the average par. I'm not the most experienced person for indoor grows since all my other grows have had solar power. With LUX and watt meters while the data i collect might be off its still something to go based on for future grows.

Digital Luxmeter/Digital Illuminance Light Meter with LCD Display 0.1-50,000 Lux Range https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00992B29I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_uAuEDbEAF4NWN

Just to pipe in because I see this a lot.. For what it's worth, and absolutely not to discount the solid advice, I think the FFOF being too hot was more a problem back in the days of autoflowers being more new and "unstable" for lack of a better word. Even a ~3:1 FFOF/perlite mix (along with a small part of the AN line) has been getting me a couple ounces per plant under chinese COBs for a couple years with no issue. Again, SloatThritter's got their stuff dialed in, I also definitely agree with the lighting advice. I just wanted to mention that ocean forest isn't necessarily instant doom and gloom or burned plants.

To tack onto that, https://www.amazon.com/VELCRO-Brand-2-Inch-Count-Black/dp/B001E1Y5O6/ are an LSTer's dream if you are using fabric pots.

You want a harvestmore trim bin and these
https://www.amazon.com/Chikamasa-Stainless-Scissors-Fluorine-Resin-resistant/dp/B00JSYB9I6/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?keywords=chikamasa+shears&qid=1557962810&s=gateway&sprefix=chikamasa+&sr=8-5

I think they are .25-.5/G vials, here’s some that are similar

https://www.amazon.com/JIUWU-Plastic-Storage-Container-Fragrance/dp/B00NIBG62E

https://www.amazon.com/TrimBin-Harvest-More-Trim-Black/dp/B00L4NJSBE/ref=asc_df_B00L4NJSBE/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193150648923&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7262421580731275073&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003417&hvtargid=pla-309887297935&psc=1

I use poly film

I'll get some pictures of everything for you later today when I get in the tent.

Using 3.75" net pots with hydroton rocks and rapid rooters.

For air pumps I'm running 2 of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002JLJC0W/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_track_package_o1_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1

1 line from each pump into each bucket, in case of pump failure. So each bucket has two air lines/airstones.

Cloudline T6 for exhaust