MrDabFace
Active Member
Hey 420 Magazine Forum Members!!
I have been lurking for awhile now and with working from home I'm taking up a new Hobby!
It all started when I was visiting our cottage in Michigan. I found a local person on Strainly who was selling a GMO clone. One of my favorite strains at the current moment! I really really wanted to get my hands on this and its been about 10 years since my last grow. So I reach out to the person on Strainly and we go back and forth in the meantime I start working on a equipment list.
When I get something in my head I deep dive the shit out of it and its full send....
So I started with this vision of low budget {will come back to this later} just add water setup. I bought a Giixer 1000W LED Grow Light
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So I'm in for around 250 ish dollars had some seeds laying around my house in a jar I have been hanging on and popped them into some red cups. I started by setting up the tent outside in my garage but soon realized that the colder weathers were not going to be nice to me. So I took over our spare bedroom my wife was using as her storage / reading room
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So now I have the Tent setup in the room and the GMO Fella is willing to ship me the clone {with the weather I was going to have to wait till next season} but luckily we got a break in the weather. So now I'm full research. I know my light is garbage so now I'm thinking shit I need to get some better equipment. So instead of just doing this lower budget grow I'm now researching LEDs by Spider Farmer, Mars, and HLG
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I see there is a deal on the 600R spec lights. I get on YouTube and googling and start looking up all the grows under these lights. Seeing results pros and cons from grows, looking at SpiderFarmer lights, vs Mars Lights but something had me interested in the Horticulture Lighting Group LEDs. So I purchase the 600R light around $750
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New Lights Arrived:
I will say that Natures Living Soil, man my house smells like shit lol. I read a lot of reviews about it smelling bad so I planted everything outside in the garage not thinking when I brought it in the house it was going to smell up the whole room haha
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According to reviews I have 3-4 more days before it goes away....
PS if you haven't figured out I'm a "review" and "google" whore. Way to much time spent into reviews and youtube videos lol.
Well Here is where we are today after the package arrived with no issues
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Right now the LED is around 38 inches off the plant, its at around 10-12ish % intensity.
In my mind I'm kind of thinking maybe I get rid of the 3 little red cups and just focus my time on this GMO clone. Get that baby up and running then get some cuts off her and just run it. Not worry about if those seedlings are males / females.
Thoughts what do you guys/gals think?
I love there is a form that is specific to growing where you can get help and input from the community. Same thing on the Saltwater Fish tank side the forums are Life Savers! Very glad I could join this forum!!
Ill also use this as my personal calendar.
Watered the GMO plant in the 5 gal smart pot about 1.2ish gallons of water before I started to notice the water coming out of the bottom of the pot ever so slightly.
Picked up the pot to get a good idea of the weight {I did this before watering too} I read the article The Proper Way To Water A Potted Plant. Lots of great information there! Huge Shoutout To @Emilya such a great article.
Looking forward to this journey and learning as much as I possibly can!