First grow and first diary

[Tom1974]

Not the best numbers I agree... but you didn't kill your plants & you made it to harvest, that's not a bad start after a long break from growing. Dont think its your equipment... just need to level up your skills with more experience & you'll hit the numbers over next few grows. Congrats enjoy your smoke mate.

Thanks a lot my man!

I’ll certainly enjoy it buddy and like I said I am very happy with the numbers after such a long long lay off but it just leaves you thinking so many variables in comparison to yearsssss ago when I used to do this

Is it my recipe
Is it the cuttings I got
Is it the coco (used to use soil)
Is it the size of the pots
Is it the LEDs
Is it hand-feeding (used to use Wilmas)
Is it becoming too obsessed with temps (never used to use a room thermometer)

Is it the set up in general and the tent needs rearranging

Or maybe like you said mate the more I get back into it the better the results

For what it’s worth I do know of a few guys who have been doing it all this time since I stopped and they have said results in the last two years have been 40% less than years gone by and they haven’t changed a lot of their methods from when they first started out

Anyhow I wish I could roll you all a fat one but I’ll just smoke one in honour of ya’ll lol

Cheers
Tom

[420mFuk]

Is it my recipe
Is it the cuttings I got ?
Is it the coco (used to use soil)
Is it the size of the pots
Is it the LEDs
Is it hand-feeding (used to use Wilmas)
Is it becoming too obsessed with temps (never used to use a room thermometer)

I'm not in your room & ive not followed your grow super close but it's normally the grower... lol it's always the grower.

from your list Id focus on these :
Is it hand-feeding (used to use Wilmas)
Is it my recipe

Watering and recipe (EC) are truly hard to master because there's no set of instructions that can be universally applied, it's something that took me years to truly understand, (I'd mark myself a 6 or sometimes 7 as far as grow skills go). Water times/amounts and EC you will change depending on plant age/size and pot size & to a lesser degree your environment temps/RH, this is why it's hard to get right because its always changing.

For example no matter the age/size of the plant I will lower my EC during heat waves otherwise too many salts will be left behind during the dryback & spike my pot EC, they still get the same amount of fertilizer come weeks end its just been diluted more, same amount of fertilizer that week but more water volume.

It's up to you as the grower to learn what your plants like & to think about your current environment conditions ... some grow roots so fast you'll feel like your constantly watering others will grow slowly & need watering less often & its the same for EC. Watering & EC all though they sound simple are the biggest lessons.

Tips
2 tools I couldn't live without in Coco are my PH & EC pens, I do check my runoff EC and adjust the next feed accordingly.
Only real changes I made switching to LED were a slight bump in my base EC (canna a&b) and the addition of calmag & epsom salts solved my purple issues.

I've got a couple active coco/led grow dairies here, your welcome to follow along (starting 3rd soon):mFuk's diaries

Honestly hope that's useful Tom, I'll try help if there's anything I know. Cheers & yes smoke a big fatty for me.