ChronicReef
New Member
This is my first attempt at a grow. I chose the indoor/soil method as this is strictly for personal use and just makes sense. This grow is my attempt at building a cycle that produces what I require (28 grams a month) that produces great quality buds without going too crazy on the budget. That being said, I will spare no expense to make sure my kids develop properly. Here are the details,
-Strain: Herbies Lemon Kush Feminized (indica) & Herbies White Widow x Skunk #1 Feminized
-# of plants = 3
-Cycle: Currently in veg, I have 1 clone Lemon Kush vegging since 9/25, a lemon kush that popped from the soil on 10/7, and 1 White widow x Skunk #1 also popped on 10/7
-Indoor Grow
-Soil: Fox Farms Ocean Forest
-Pot Size: Undetermined, will probably end up using 5 gallon pots or bags
-Light: Currently using 1 125w 6400k spectrum CFL, will be adding more later. Originally from planting in soil they were on a 24/7 light cycle, on 10/18/2013 I switched to 18/6.
-Cooling: Currently I just have a small fan blowing on the plants within a decent sized room.
-Temps: 84 to 88, fluctuates daily and lately has been closer to 84 consistently.
-Humidity: about 64% on average naturally
-PH: Soil's default is 7, been watering with water that has a PH of 6.5 using PHdown.
-Pests: None yet....
-Nutrients: Undetermined for now, using nothing at the moment.
So now on to what's been accomplished so far. From the beginning, I received 2 clippings from Shrubhub's lemon kush grow, dipping the stem in a rooting agent and then put them in small round pots as you can see in this picture.
On 10/4/13, I soaked 6 seeds in little water dishes to soften the shell for about 24 hours, then placed them in the soil about a half inch down (without making contact with any hand oils) and placed solo cups over top of the pots to increase humidity in the beginning. The seeds were 3 bag seeds, 2 lemon kush seeds, 1 ww x skunk. Of all 6 seeds, only 2 successfully popped the soil and survived. 2 popped up but immediately died and were yellow. The rest never popped up at all. The survivors from the seeds were the Lemon Kush and White widow. So those mixed in with the clone lemon kush gives my first grow a total of 3 plants. 1 of the original Lemon Kush clones died shortly after it was planted, as pictured alove. Not sure exactly why he died and the other clone made it, they were treated about the same. Maybe it needed more of the stem in the dirt to form a better root structure? It was a smaller clipping than the other lemon kush clone, plus Shrubhub had them sitting in his flower cycle for about 2 weeks before I could put them in my setup. It is possible that I may order more seeds and let these 3 veg longer as the new seeds catch up, but that will be decided in a couple days.
I also had an issue (only for 1 day) of the surviving LK clone dropping. I knew it couldn't be from over-watering, as i was very cautious about that, so i instead under-watered. I have since figured out the right balance. There was also a giant bug sitting atop like he was king. Luckily this guy was already in the room when i initially set it up, this room doesn't have a bug problem at the moment.
This picture was taken on 10/10/13
So with him removed and the plant watered, it quickly sprung back up into a healthy state. Some of the original leaves near the bottom of the clone died and I eventually clipped them off to keep from attracting bugs and just to clean the plant up a bit.
Fast-forward a week and a half to 10/21/2013, and I feel there has been satisfactory growth in that time across all 3. I have had no issues since the picture on 10/10/13. I just switched to a 18/6 light cycle, and in just 3 days i noticed a faster amount of growth, is that because they are stretching when its dark? I feel they are stretching perfectly at the current light cycle.
Well that's where I'm at as of now. I intend to update this journal every 2 or 3 days, and answer any feedback daily. I hope you will subscribe to my journal, would love to hear all input and suggestions and hopefully one day turn pro and return the favor. If there is something i left out that you would like to know, please ask. I want to make this as detailed as possible but i'm learning as I go, so I'm sure there will be things that I just don't know about yet. I will say that I have plans at the beginning of November to greatly modify the grow room. I plan to add a enclosed tent like setup on one half that is for a Flower cycle, and have the veg plants growing simultaneously outside of the enclosure like it already is above. The room is big enough to allow this, and its conveniently located in a spot where I can add ventilation to the outside world. That's a project i'm excited for. Also, check out Shrubhub's grow journal that is currently in progress for a similar operation. Shrub's journal is what got me to do my own!
Thanks for viewing!
-Strain: Herbies Lemon Kush Feminized (indica) & Herbies White Widow x Skunk #1 Feminized
-# of plants = 3
-Cycle: Currently in veg, I have 1 clone Lemon Kush vegging since 9/25, a lemon kush that popped from the soil on 10/7, and 1 White widow x Skunk #1 also popped on 10/7
-Indoor Grow
-Soil: Fox Farms Ocean Forest
-Pot Size: Undetermined, will probably end up using 5 gallon pots or bags
-Light: Currently using 1 125w 6400k spectrum CFL, will be adding more later. Originally from planting in soil they were on a 24/7 light cycle, on 10/18/2013 I switched to 18/6.
-Cooling: Currently I just have a small fan blowing on the plants within a decent sized room.
-Temps: 84 to 88, fluctuates daily and lately has been closer to 84 consistently.
-Humidity: about 64% on average naturally
-PH: Soil's default is 7, been watering with water that has a PH of 6.5 using PHdown.
-Pests: None yet....
-Nutrients: Undetermined for now, using nothing at the moment.
So now on to what's been accomplished so far. From the beginning, I received 2 clippings from Shrubhub's lemon kush grow, dipping the stem in a rooting agent and then put them in small round pots as you can see in this picture.
On 10/4/13, I soaked 6 seeds in little water dishes to soften the shell for about 24 hours, then placed them in the soil about a half inch down (without making contact with any hand oils) and placed solo cups over top of the pots to increase humidity in the beginning. The seeds were 3 bag seeds, 2 lemon kush seeds, 1 ww x skunk. Of all 6 seeds, only 2 successfully popped the soil and survived. 2 popped up but immediately died and were yellow. The rest never popped up at all. The survivors from the seeds were the Lemon Kush and White widow. So those mixed in with the clone lemon kush gives my first grow a total of 3 plants. 1 of the original Lemon Kush clones died shortly after it was planted, as pictured alove. Not sure exactly why he died and the other clone made it, they were treated about the same. Maybe it needed more of the stem in the dirt to form a better root structure? It was a smaller clipping than the other lemon kush clone, plus Shrubhub had them sitting in his flower cycle for about 2 weeks before I could put them in my setup. It is possible that I may order more seeds and let these 3 veg longer as the new seeds catch up, but that will be decided in a couple days.
I also had an issue (only for 1 day) of the surviving LK clone dropping. I knew it couldn't be from over-watering, as i was very cautious about that, so i instead under-watered. I have since figured out the right balance. There was also a giant bug sitting atop like he was king. Luckily this guy was already in the room when i initially set it up, this room doesn't have a bug problem at the moment.
This picture was taken on 10/10/13
So with him removed and the plant watered, it quickly sprung back up into a healthy state. Some of the original leaves near the bottom of the clone died and I eventually clipped them off to keep from attracting bugs and just to clean the plant up a bit.
Fast-forward a week and a half to 10/21/2013, and I feel there has been satisfactory growth in that time across all 3. I have had no issues since the picture on 10/10/13. I just switched to a 18/6 light cycle, and in just 3 days i noticed a faster amount of growth, is that because they are stretching when its dark? I feel they are stretching perfectly at the current light cycle.
Well that's where I'm at as of now. I intend to update this journal every 2 or 3 days, and answer any feedback daily. I hope you will subscribe to my journal, would love to hear all input and suggestions and hopefully one day turn pro and return the favor. If there is something i left out that you would like to know, please ask. I want to make this as detailed as possible but i'm learning as I go, so I'm sure there will be things that I just don't know about yet. I will say that I have plans at the beginning of November to greatly modify the grow room. I plan to add a enclosed tent like setup on one half that is for a Flower cycle, and have the veg plants growing simultaneously outside of the enclosure like it already is above. The room is big enough to allow this, and its conveniently located in a spot where I can add ventilation to the outside world. That's a project i'm excited for. Also, check out Shrubhub's grow journal that is currently in progress for a similar operation. Shrub's journal is what got me to do my own!
Thanks for viewing!
