OldSkoool
New Member
After three years of employing information from this fine site to learn the craft of growing MJ from it's amazing contributors, I thought it high time (pardon the pun) to document, and share information on my current, single plant CFL/LST grow using two cardboard computer boxes. Certainly not the most hi tech cab, but the cost was hard to pass up.
Shown here with a previous grow underway. I have since replaced the top box which I'll refer to as a light canopy, and will detail later. The exhaust fan, powers strips, CFL's, and bottom container were recyclable, and are still in use in the new light canopy.
Basics.
Lighting: (plugged into four vertically attached power strips)
Veg - Four 42W warm spectrum CFL's, four 23W cool spectrum CFL's.
Flower - Eight 42W warm spectrum CFL's
Soil:
Fahards African Violet potting soil (was nute free, now has MG nutes)
Nutes:
Veg - MG Tomato
Flower - Green Light Super Bloom
Seeds:
Bag, from smoke I, or friends considered to be worth the effort...and they certainly were
Okay, on to the show!
I usually try to get two to four germinating seeds to start off with, hoping for at least one female, on this grow I had four seeds that germinated. Identifying them by the date they broke the surface. As it turns out, 8/19, the first of this crop that popped up first, is the plant that's currently flowering all by it's lonesome. Numbers 1 & 2 indicate the seed group they came from.
I shall now bore you with weekly photo's of growth progression....can't help but reminded of my dad's vacation slide shows that had half the guests asleep before we left the driveway.
Week 0: 08/19/09
Week 1: 08/26/09
Week 2: 09/02/09
Week 3: 09/09/09 (how cool is that? An omen?)
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/medium
/EOW039-09-09.JPG
Week 4: 09/16/09
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/medium
/EOW049-16-09.JPG
Week 5: 09/23/09 (failed 1st attempt at cloning lower right)
Week 6: 09/30/09
I had to cease LST after 6 weeks, the lower plant container no longer large enough to hold these bushy babies. But I knew it wouldn't be very long belong before I initiated the 12/12 light cycle to sex them, and return to tying down the selected female for harvest.
On 10/02/09 I built the new light canopy, and commenced 12/12 lighting which I'll document with the 7th, 8th week progress along with today's one week old flowering buds later on today.
Naturally, I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have
Shown here with a previous grow underway. I have since replaced the top box which I'll refer to as a light canopy, and will detail later. The exhaust fan, powers strips, CFL's, and bottom container were recyclable, and are still in use in the new light canopy.
Basics.
Lighting: (plugged into four vertically attached power strips)
Veg - Four 42W warm spectrum CFL's, four 23W cool spectrum CFL's.
Flower - Eight 42W warm spectrum CFL's
Soil:
Fahards African Violet potting soil (was nute free, now has MG nutes)
Nutes:
Veg - MG Tomato
Flower - Green Light Super Bloom
Seeds:
Bag, from smoke I, or friends considered to be worth the effort...and they certainly were
Okay, on to the show!
I usually try to get two to four germinating seeds to start off with, hoping for at least one female, on this grow I had four seeds that germinated. Identifying them by the date they broke the surface. As it turns out, 8/19, the first of this crop that popped up first, is the plant that's currently flowering all by it's lonesome. Numbers 1 & 2 indicate the seed group they came from.
I shall now bore you with weekly photo's of growth progression....can't help but reminded of my dad's vacation slide shows that had half the guests asleep before we left the driveway.
Week 0: 08/19/09
Week 1: 08/26/09
Week 2: 09/02/09
Week 3: 09/09/09 (how cool is that? An omen?)
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/medium
/EOW039-09-09.JPG
Week 4: 09/16/09
https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/medium
/EOW049-16-09.JPG
Week 5: 09/23/09 (failed 1st attempt at cloning lower right)
Week 6: 09/30/09
I had to cease LST after 6 weeks, the lower plant container no longer large enough to hold these bushy babies. But I knew it wouldn't be very long belong before I initiated the 12/12 light cycle to sex them, and return to tying down the selected female for harvest.
On 10/02/09 I built the new light canopy, and commenced 12/12 lighting which I'll document with the 7th, 8th week progress along with today's one week old flowering buds later on today.
Naturally, I'll be more than happy to answer any questions you may have
