Crazy Cat Guy
420 Member
Heya Folks,
Thought I would start a grow journal for my new grow I'm starting at the moment.
I'm a fairly new grower, I have a two small grows under my belt using soil with a 600w HPS for personal use.
Recently I have been reading up on growing with coco and decided to try a grow using it rather than soil to see how things go.
I also just got a Telos 300 watt LED to replace the 250 to 660 watt HPS which I never really got to use to its full effect due to struggling with high temperatures in my grow area - it tended to be at 250 or 400 watts, so It will be interesting to see how this LED compares.
I'm using a BudBox Mylar grow tent at 1.2m x1.2m x2m along with six 20 liter air pots (thinks that's about 4x4x6 and 5 gallons US ?)
I have mixed up the CoCo and Perlite at about 70 /30 mix rate and will be using nutrients from a range called Shogun :
Shogun Coco A+B ~~ Katana Roots ~~ Silicon ~~ Active Sumo boost ~~ CalMag.
For this grow I have decided to try out some Auto strains ~ I have chosen to go for a little mixture x3 Lineage Seeds Auto Triple XL , x2 Dutch Passion Auto Blue Mazar and x1 Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake. Lights will be on for 18 and off 6.
I germinated them by soaking them for about half a day in water then into root cubes and my DIY ice cream tub with cling film propagator to keep them snug. I started 9 off ( 3 off each strain) in-case a couple didn't pop or look healthy but they all worked out fine - sadly I can only keep six.
I'm not sure how long people tend to keep the sprouted seedlings in the little grow cubes for, before putting them into a large pot, Ive seen pictures with loads of roots sticking out the little cubes but I tend to pot them into their containers soon as I see any roots sticking out in-case they get damaged or dry out etc - but I'm not sure if its better to wait a week or so until more roots are visible before potting them up.
Hopefully I will achieve about 10oz from the six Auto's. I haven't grown these strains before or used the LED light so not sure about the end results .
Here they are at the end of the first week - sprouted and placed in coco after the first serrated leaves appeared and given a half strength first feed. Two of the roots sticking out the little starter cubes seemed discolored and thin like they had dried out a little although the cube was moist and humidity was high in the little propagator tub - hopefully nothing to worry about.
Thought I would start a grow journal for my new grow I'm starting at the moment.
I'm a fairly new grower, I have a two small grows under my belt using soil with a 600w HPS for personal use.
Recently I have been reading up on growing with coco and decided to try a grow using it rather than soil to see how things go.
I also just got a Telos 300 watt LED to replace the 250 to 660 watt HPS which I never really got to use to its full effect due to struggling with high temperatures in my grow area - it tended to be at 250 or 400 watts, so It will be interesting to see how this LED compares.
I'm using a BudBox Mylar grow tent at 1.2m x1.2m x2m along with six 20 liter air pots (thinks that's about 4x4x6 and 5 gallons US ?)
I have mixed up the CoCo and Perlite at about 70 /30 mix rate and will be using nutrients from a range called Shogun :
Shogun Coco A+B ~~ Katana Roots ~~ Silicon ~~ Active Sumo boost ~~ CalMag.
For this grow I have decided to try out some Auto strains ~ I have chosen to go for a little mixture x3 Lineage Seeds Auto Triple XL , x2 Dutch Passion Auto Blue Mazar and x1 Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake. Lights will be on for 18 and off 6.
I germinated them by soaking them for about half a day in water then into root cubes and my DIY ice cream tub with cling film propagator to keep them snug. I started 9 off ( 3 off each strain) in-case a couple didn't pop or look healthy but they all worked out fine - sadly I can only keep six.
I'm not sure how long people tend to keep the sprouted seedlings in the little grow cubes for, before putting them into a large pot, Ive seen pictures with loads of roots sticking out the little cubes but I tend to pot them into their containers soon as I see any roots sticking out in-case they get damaged or dry out etc - but I'm not sure if its better to wait a week or so until more roots are visible before potting them up.
Hopefully I will achieve about 10oz from the six Auto's. I haven't grown these strains before or used the LED light so not sure about the end results .
Here they are at the end of the first week - sprouted and placed in coco after the first serrated leaves appeared and given a half strength first feed. Two of the roots sticking out the little starter cubes seemed discolored and thin like they had dried out a little although the cube was moist and humidity was high in the little propagator tub - hopefully nothing to worry about.