BudFrostyleaf
New Member
I'm a total noob, been growing for exactly 48 days.
2x600 watts HPS/MH
8x4 tent
CO2 enriched environment
Sunshine Grow Mix 4 with Advanced Nutrients, Sensi Grow, Connoisseur, VooDoo Juice, B-52, Big Bud, Overdrive, per directions on label.
Growing:
Feminized Photoperiod - Silver Surfer Haze, Pineapple Sativa, Kalishnikova, Blue OG
Auto Feminized - Northern Lights, Amnesia, Jack Herer, NYCD, Pineapple Express, Tangelo Rapido
AND some bag seed 12/12 from seed
Ok. This has been a fun little journey, and I'm beginning to see the fruit of my labor, literally (pun intended). However, it has not been without issue.
Issue #1: I'm clumsy. Or perhaps overly excited.
Issue #2: One of my hoods, and ballasts went out.
Issue #3: severed Tangelo Rapido stem at a week old. This has a bit of a story. This is the strain that I started this for, and now I thought that I killed it straight out the gate. She had been growing beautifully. I was watering her when I noticed that she just laid over. I picked her up and tried propping her up with dirt. The next day, same thing but upon further inspection, she had nearly an inch of stem and zero root. Her little stem had become hard and had began to dry up. I quickly took her to some root growth hormone, sliced off another quarter inch of her precious little stem, and dipped her for about 5 seconds. Sure, that she would not make it, she has proven me wrong. Her will for life was too great, and I just transplanted her a second time (gnarly, good-looking roots). All of my other Autos were planted in their final containers to begin with. But, Tangie has required some extra Handling. making me second guess so much information that I have read concerning cloning Autos. I may experiment in the future.
Enough of that story.
Two weeks before I tried to pop my beans, I had the foresight to test my environment variables. My test rats were tomato seeds, peppers, and some flowers. I learned about having lights too close to seedlings
I learned that I needed to used hose clamps on my air cooled lights instead of just HVAC tape, when I killed everything with 108 degree temps. So I killed many things in those weeks. I learned. I am still learning, but since saving Tangie I have suffered no real loss.
I began with an 18/6 veg schedule with veg nutes an MH lighting at 600 watts. Fought like hell to control my temps, and then decided to dial down to 250 watts on my dimmable digital ballasts, lowered the lights to within 6 inches, and things went wonderfully. Wonderfully with the exception of burning up a 20lb CO2 tank every 7 days.
I am using the Atlas 2, CO2 controller, and the Titan controls regulator. I didn't realize that I would use this much gas to keep my tent perfectly at 1500ppm but turns out that it takes a lot of gas. Where I'm from gas ain't cheap. I had a very tight budget for this project following my initial gearing up, and stopped CO2 enrichment after 3 weeks. Next time I will go longer. Turned out that you can negotiate a contract with gas providers and lower the costs of gas.
So after 30 days and no action on my autos, I decided to force flowering. The veg phase scared me, that with the amount of growth that I'd seen, that if I didn't hurry-up and flower, that I may have a jungle on my hands and run out of room. I had also heard that it was necessary to force flowering on northern lights from Nirvana Auto as it was a true auto.
So, perhaps impatiently, I made the decision to throw everything into flower. So before I do that I take clones. 14 clones, with 100%success. I have a close friend that I am cooperating with, and he currently vegs those. I ended up taking several dozen more, as I had some light leaks (cheap tent). And flowering was slow to start for my photoperiod plants. My autos, automatically flowered and are looking AWESOME. After figuring out the light leak issue, my photoperiods are budding up nicely as well.
All-in-all, this has been WORK. I am thoroughly enjoying this, preparing for my next grow. And, I'll fill you in with more details along the way. So now, I am in full flower, 600 watts HPS, Carbon filter 24/7, cause I got some stinky babies. Lovin' it!
2x600 watts HPS/MH
8x4 tent
CO2 enriched environment
Sunshine Grow Mix 4 with Advanced Nutrients, Sensi Grow, Connoisseur, VooDoo Juice, B-52, Big Bud, Overdrive, per directions on label.
Growing:
Feminized Photoperiod - Silver Surfer Haze, Pineapple Sativa, Kalishnikova, Blue OG
Auto Feminized - Northern Lights, Amnesia, Jack Herer, NYCD, Pineapple Express, Tangelo Rapido
AND some bag seed 12/12 from seed
Ok. This has been a fun little journey, and I'm beginning to see the fruit of my labor, literally (pun intended). However, it has not been without issue.
Issue #1: I'm clumsy. Or perhaps overly excited.
Issue #2: One of my hoods, and ballasts went out.
Issue #3: severed Tangelo Rapido stem at a week old. This has a bit of a story. This is the strain that I started this for, and now I thought that I killed it straight out the gate. She had been growing beautifully. I was watering her when I noticed that she just laid over. I picked her up and tried propping her up with dirt. The next day, same thing but upon further inspection, she had nearly an inch of stem and zero root. Her little stem had become hard and had began to dry up. I quickly took her to some root growth hormone, sliced off another quarter inch of her precious little stem, and dipped her for about 5 seconds. Sure, that she would not make it, she has proven me wrong. Her will for life was too great, and I just transplanted her a second time (gnarly, good-looking roots). All of my other Autos were planted in their final containers to begin with. But, Tangie has required some extra Handling. making me second guess so much information that I have read concerning cloning Autos. I may experiment in the future.
Enough of that story.
Two weeks before I tried to pop my beans, I had the foresight to test my environment variables. My test rats were tomato seeds, peppers, and some flowers. I learned about having lights too close to seedlings
I learned that I needed to used hose clamps on my air cooled lights instead of just HVAC tape, when I killed everything with 108 degree temps. So I killed many things in those weeks. I learned. I am still learning, but since saving Tangie I have suffered no real loss. I began with an 18/6 veg schedule with veg nutes an MH lighting at 600 watts. Fought like hell to control my temps, and then decided to dial down to 250 watts on my dimmable digital ballasts, lowered the lights to within 6 inches, and things went wonderfully. Wonderfully with the exception of burning up a 20lb CO2 tank every 7 days.
I am using the Atlas 2, CO2 controller, and the Titan controls regulator. I didn't realize that I would use this much gas to keep my tent perfectly at 1500ppm but turns out that it takes a lot of gas. Where I'm from gas ain't cheap. I had a very tight budget for this project following my initial gearing up, and stopped CO2 enrichment after 3 weeks. Next time I will go longer. Turned out that you can negotiate a contract with gas providers and lower the costs of gas.
So after 30 days and no action on my autos, I decided to force flowering. The veg phase scared me, that with the amount of growth that I'd seen, that if I didn't hurry-up and flower, that I may have a jungle on my hands and run out of room. I had also heard that it was necessary to force flowering on northern lights from Nirvana Auto as it was a true auto.
So, perhaps impatiently, I made the decision to throw everything into flower. So before I do that I take clones. 14 clones, with 100%success. I have a close friend that I am cooperating with, and he currently vegs those. I ended up taking several dozen more, as I had some light leaks (cheap tent). And flowering was slow to start for my photoperiod plants. My autos, automatically flowered and are looking AWESOME. After figuring out the light leak issue, my photoperiods are budding up nicely as well.
All-in-all, this has been WORK. I am thoroughly enjoying this, preparing for my next grow. And, I'll fill you in with more details along the way. So now, I am in full flower, 600 watts HPS, Carbon filter 24/7, cause I got some stinky babies. Lovin' it!
