Conradino23
Well-Known Member
Hi everybody in this beautiful growers' commmunity!
Welcome to Conradino23's "Survivors Are The Champions" organic experimental grow in Air Pots!
Basically, I just signed up to this forum yesterday, but after browsing through couple of very interesting threads, I figured I should have got involved ASAP Certainly, we're talking here about some hot ladies grown
As this is my 2nd indoor grow after long break - in the meantime I've been growing outdoor and my last grow was finished three years ago - I thought I could share my rookie's efforts with you, getting some help when necessary. I've seen some real monsters on this forum. They were amazing!
Anyway let's get to the point, ladies and gentlemen!
First thing is, that I'm starting my grow journal in 2nd week of indoor flowering, precisely this is 10th day under lamp.
Before, my plants were vegged outdoor, on a parapet, with about 4-5 hours of sunlight a day (I know a lot of people wil say it's not enough, however...). I planted 4 different varieties from feminized seeds 23/04/10 (it was Twilight, Bubba Kush, Red Dragon and Critical Neville's Haze) and one on 24/04 (which was AK-48). From these five germinated seeds only two sprouted (my fault, soil was too loose). Lucky survivors were Twilight and AK-48 and with them this story continues From July they were joined by small automatic variety, Himalayan Blue Diesel.
AK-48 and Twilight were vegging approximately for 2,5 month, till the middle of July, when I forced flowering outdoor by putting black bags on both plants, thus shortening light period. It worked, both have shown preflowers, however flowering was very lousy and slow, thus I decided to move them indoor last Tuesday eventually (07/09/10). Himalayan was doing well, but due to the lack of proper amount of light it flowered slowly, hence it went under lamp as well.
My set up is a budget one, nothing fancy as I was skinned after holiday when decided about making this investment
You'll find all details below.
What strain is it?
AK-48 (Nirvana), Twilight (Dutch Passion), Automatic Himalayan Blue Diesel (Short Stuff).
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?
AK-48 is a 60% Sativa/40% Indica hybrid, Twilight is 100% Indica, Automatic Himalayan Blue Diesel is a hybrid of Indica, Sativa and Ruderalis with mostly Indica and Ruderalis features.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
This is an early flowering stage, apart of Himalayan Blue Diesel being in advanced flowering.
If in Flower stage... For how long?
This is really complicated, they started to show preflowers in the middle of July outside and didn't move on untill I stuffed them into my grow room. They've been flowering vigorously for 10 days, so I'd say it's end of 2nd week/beginning of 3rd one. Himalayan Blue Diesel will be probably ready in a week or two.
Indoor or outdoor?
Indoor
Soil or Hydro?
Soil
If soil... what is in your mix?
It's an organic mix containing potting compost (about 50%), perlite (about 30%), natural river soil with couple of earthworms (about 10%), egg shells (about 5%), bone meal (about 3%), composted tomato leaves (about 2%).
If soil... What size pot?
They are 6L (1,6 gallons) Superoots Air Pots.
Size of light?
400 HPS (Sylvania Dual Spectrum Grolux Bulb, 58,000 lumens, new one).
Is it aircooled?
No.
Temp of Room/cab?
It's a grow room. At the moment it's stabilized around 28°C (83°F), but in my first week indoor it was going up to 36°C (98°F).
RH of Room/cab?
I don't have a clue, I don't measure it.
PH of media or res?
I don't know, I don't have a PH tester.
Any Pests?
Nothing, pure organic approach.
How often are you watering?
Now every 2-3 days.
Type and strength of ferts used?
Organic Miracle Glow till the middle of July, some egg shells' tea, hydrated lime once in August, then some bone meal straight in the soil and bone meal tea in August. Saturday both plants got organic Miracle Glo again with coffe grounds, Monday I watered all plants with molasses sugar tea.
Any training?
Ak-48 and Twilight have been topped after 4th node of leaves and then again after two or three weeks. They've been both LST-ed extensively outdoor, which resulted in AK's bottom branch being ripped by the wind (taped and stabilized though). Then they were falling off my parapet and this bent all branches a bit, which looked dramatically (however no major damages occured). To be honest there was a day, when Twilight fell down like three times and lost a branch, used for cloning straight away. Then AK just splitted in two when LST-ed too much, but survived after taping and tying both stems together
That's probably all you need to know by now, folks!
I'll try to post some iPhone pictures as well (that's all I have), so you can check them out). Thx for looking and dropping a line! Any help with this grow will be highly appreciated, as it is a big experiment for me.
Cheers,
Conradino23
Welcome to Conradino23's "Survivors Are The Champions" organic experimental grow in Air Pots!
Basically, I just signed up to this forum yesterday, but after browsing through couple of very interesting threads, I figured I should have got involved ASAP Certainly, we're talking here about some hot ladies grown
As this is my 2nd indoor grow after long break - in the meantime I've been growing outdoor and my last grow was finished three years ago - I thought I could share my rookie's efforts with you, getting some help when necessary. I've seen some real monsters on this forum. They were amazing!
Anyway let's get to the point, ladies and gentlemen!
First thing is, that I'm starting my grow journal in 2nd week of indoor flowering, precisely this is 10th day under lamp.
Before, my plants were vegged outdoor, on a parapet, with about 4-5 hours of sunlight a day (I know a lot of people wil say it's not enough, however...). I planted 4 different varieties from feminized seeds 23/04/10 (it was Twilight, Bubba Kush, Red Dragon and Critical Neville's Haze) and one on 24/04 (which was AK-48). From these five germinated seeds only two sprouted (my fault, soil was too loose). Lucky survivors were Twilight and AK-48 and with them this story continues From July they were joined by small automatic variety, Himalayan Blue Diesel.
AK-48 and Twilight were vegging approximately for 2,5 month, till the middle of July, when I forced flowering outdoor by putting black bags on both plants, thus shortening light period. It worked, both have shown preflowers, however flowering was very lousy and slow, thus I decided to move them indoor last Tuesday eventually (07/09/10). Himalayan was doing well, but due to the lack of proper amount of light it flowered slowly, hence it went under lamp as well.
My set up is a budget one, nothing fancy as I was skinned after holiday when decided about making this investment
You'll find all details below.
What strain is it?
AK-48 (Nirvana), Twilight (Dutch Passion), Automatic Himalayan Blue Diesel (Short Stuff).
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?
AK-48 is a 60% Sativa/40% Indica hybrid, Twilight is 100% Indica, Automatic Himalayan Blue Diesel is a hybrid of Indica, Sativa and Ruderalis with mostly Indica and Ruderalis features.
Is it in Veg or Flower stage?
This is an early flowering stage, apart of Himalayan Blue Diesel being in advanced flowering.
If in Flower stage... For how long?
This is really complicated, they started to show preflowers in the middle of July outside and didn't move on untill I stuffed them into my grow room. They've been flowering vigorously for 10 days, so I'd say it's end of 2nd week/beginning of 3rd one. Himalayan Blue Diesel will be probably ready in a week or two.
Indoor or outdoor?
Indoor
Soil or Hydro?
Soil
If soil... what is in your mix?
It's an organic mix containing potting compost (about 50%), perlite (about 30%), natural river soil with couple of earthworms (about 10%), egg shells (about 5%), bone meal (about 3%), composted tomato leaves (about 2%).
If soil... What size pot?
They are 6L (1,6 gallons) Superoots Air Pots.
Size of light?
400 HPS (Sylvania Dual Spectrum Grolux Bulb, 58,000 lumens, new one).
Is it aircooled?
No.
Temp of Room/cab?
It's a grow room. At the moment it's stabilized around 28°C (83°F), but in my first week indoor it was going up to 36°C (98°F).
RH of Room/cab?
I don't have a clue, I don't measure it.
PH of media or res?
I don't know, I don't have a PH tester.
Any Pests?
Nothing, pure organic approach.
How often are you watering?
Now every 2-3 days.
Type and strength of ferts used?
Organic Miracle Glow till the middle of July, some egg shells' tea, hydrated lime once in August, then some bone meal straight in the soil and bone meal tea in August. Saturday both plants got organic Miracle Glo again with coffe grounds, Monday I watered all plants with molasses sugar tea.
Any training?
Ak-48 and Twilight have been topped after 4th node of leaves and then again after two or three weeks. They've been both LST-ed extensively outdoor, which resulted in AK's bottom branch being ripped by the wind (taped and stabilized though). Then they were falling off my parapet and this bent all branches a bit, which looked dramatically (however no major damages occured). To be honest there was a day, when Twilight fell down like three times and lost a branch, used for cloning straight away. Then AK just splitted in two when LST-ed too much, but survived after taping and tying both stems together
That's probably all you need to know by now, folks!
I'll try to post some iPhone pictures as well (that's all I have), so you can check them out). Thx for looking and dropping a line! Any help with this grow will be highly appreciated, as it is a big experiment for me.
Cheers,
Conradino23