StormChaos
New Member
Greets,
Now that I have gotten my feet and wet and am getting ready to start my 2nd group of plants, I decided to start documenting my efforts and explaining my reasoning and logic of my decisions when required. My goal is to be a knowledgeable and skilled marijuana horticulturist. My mission is to provide a premium growing environment/conditions for happy plants in order to maximize the quality and yield of my girls. .
Any and all comments, suggestions/advice, hints or tips and feedback is not only welcomed it is encouraged. Thank you in advance.
In my haste and excitement to get started, I jumped before I looked and I may have done things that will make you scratch or shake your head and say... "what was he thinking?" It is that lack of experience that has caused much regrettable and unfortunate plant abuse... However... my parental instincts and my thirst knowledge that has lead me here...
At some point or another all of my plants were not doing well for a variety of reasons. I have corrected most of my issues, and learned a lot in the process... I am sure I have compromised my yield to some extent... but that is OK, whatever has been lost has been rewarded with invaluable knowledge. Many of the problems I encountered include but are not limited to: under feeding, nute burn, bugs... as well as PH imbalances and climate control issues... although I have battled and corrected most things on my own I still have an unknown deficiency of some sort... that includes malformed leaves and yellowish perhaps mottled colored leaves. Pictures coming soon....
I acquired my original clone plant from a buddy of mine who has been growing this same plant/strain for I think over 30 years now.
Quick Overview of facts....
I am cloning using an aero-garden and Dip-n-gro - so far I have 100% success rate.
Afghani Hash Plant - Strawberry Fields
The Room is 10' x 14' insulated with reflective thermal barrier. (block-Ir)
72 to 80 degrees F
40 to 60 RH
RO water
PH Hydro 5.3 to 5.9
PH Soil unknown
Direct Air from Outside and I Exhaust using a Carbon Filter directly into my heating system.
I have 2 1k HPS/MH but am only currently really using 1 light... I put the 2nd light on just a couple hours a day... I am concerned about the electrical usage.
Group 1 is in their late 3rd or early 4th week of flower... I am not sure.. I didn't start a calander... I vegged them for about 3 or 4 weeks I think.
Hydro/Soil Mix (soon to be hydro only)Mixed Ebb and Gro and Self Contained Buckets.
2 plants are in self contained bucket/drip systems that I really love. I recently switched to BC technoflora recipe for success from 3 part GH. I liked the 3 part GH initially but my plants seemed to suffer a lil and I felt the GH was lacking. The future mother that is in the 2nd self contained bucket system is really thriving and not showing any signs of any deficiencies that all the other older plants are/were exhibiting.
1 plant is in the Ebb and Gro. I transplanted just prior to flowering (the day before) and it took a lil while to rebound. Transplanting and then immediately flowering seems to have stunted it slightly and it is not doing as well as the others in terms of projected yield... however it does seem to have the most resin on it at this point. I am using Organic Botanicare 1 Part with some additives. I plan on putting 2 new rooted clones directly from the aero-garden into this system and directly into flower to see how that goes and what kind of yield that produces. You will see that my ebb and gro is a 24 plant site that has mostly garden plants in it... we wont be focusing on those but I just thought I should mention it.
3 Plants that are in Soil have been getting GH3 part every 3rd watering using the lucas formula. I plan on using up my GH on these.
One of the soil plants has the unfortunate distinction of being my guinea pig plant. The guinea pig gets to try out all my remedies and basically gets to test anything I plan on putting on the plants. Better to loose one plant than all of them... This plant has suffered so much plant abuse it is criminal.. I am sure you will agree.... lol the poor girl is only now just starting to rebound. And I fear her yield will be pitiful... I have tested a garlic/Tabasco remedy. A baking soda mixture for misdiagnosed powdery mildew that turned out ot be what I think is "honeydew" from white flies.... as well as neem oil. the neem oil seemed to have minimal impact on the plant as was later used on all the plants with no negative impact.
All my plants seem to have suffered some sort of deficiency at one point or another... the new clones started to exhibit the same symptoms of the unknown deficiency that the older plants exhibited... however I think it has been corrected since switching to the BC formula. My hydro store is no longer going to be carrying the BC line so I will most likely switch to the AN line that they will be replacing the BC line with... I will switch only after using up what BC nutes I have....
I accidentally burnt one clone when I transplanted it into the self contained bucket/drip system too soon even though it contained only 1/4 str GH 3 part. It had developed a strong root system and I thought it was ready... but it must have been slightly premature. This prompted me to move it back to the aero garden and a week later take a new plant to be the future mother. The 2 clones will be put into the Ebb and Gro in a day or so and flowered.
In 2 weeks I will take 4 more clones and root them for 10 days under CFLs. Then I will transfer 2 to either a self contained bucket, soil or the ebb and gro. and Veg the other 2 for 3 weeks.
Pictures are coming soon... I will edit them into this post if possible... if not I will make a new post.. I just wanted to get my journal started while I had a lot of my thoughts fresh in my head....
Now that I have gotten my feet and wet and am getting ready to start my 2nd group of plants, I decided to start documenting my efforts and explaining my reasoning and logic of my decisions when required. My goal is to be a knowledgeable and skilled marijuana horticulturist. My mission is to provide a premium growing environment/conditions for happy plants in order to maximize the quality and yield of my girls. .
Any and all comments, suggestions/advice, hints or tips and feedback is not only welcomed it is encouraged. Thank you in advance.
In my haste and excitement to get started, I jumped before I looked and I may have done things that will make you scratch or shake your head and say... "what was he thinking?" It is that lack of experience that has caused much regrettable and unfortunate plant abuse... However... my parental instincts and my thirst knowledge that has lead me here...
At some point or another all of my plants were not doing well for a variety of reasons. I have corrected most of my issues, and learned a lot in the process... I am sure I have compromised my yield to some extent... but that is OK, whatever has been lost has been rewarded with invaluable knowledge. Many of the problems I encountered include but are not limited to: under feeding, nute burn, bugs... as well as PH imbalances and climate control issues... although I have battled and corrected most things on my own I still have an unknown deficiency of some sort... that includes malformed leaves and yellowish perhaps mottled colored leaves. Pictures coming soon....
I acquired my original clone plant from a buddy of mine who has been growing this same plant/strain for I think over 30 years now.
Quick Overview of facts....
I am cloning using an aero-garden and Dip-n-gro - so far I have 100% success rate.
Afghani Hash Plant - Strawberry Fields
The Room is 10' x 14' insulated with reflective thermal barrier. (block-Ir)
72 to 80 degrees F
40 to 60 RH
RO water
PH Hydro 5.3 to 5.9
PH Soil unknown
Direct Air from Outside and I Exhaust using a Carbon Filter directly into my heating system.
I have 2 1k HPS/MH but am only currently really using 1 light... I put the 2nd light on just a couple hours a day... I am concerned about the electrical usage.
Group 1 is in their late 3rd or early 4th week of flower... I am not sure.. I didn't start a calander... I vegged them for about 3 or 4 weeks I think.
Hydro/Soil Mix (soon to be hydro only)Mixed Ebb and Gro and Self Contained Buckets.
2 plants are in self contained bucket/drip systems that I really love. I recently switched to BC technoflora recipe for success from 3 part GH. I liked the 3 part GH initially but my plants seemed to suffer a lil and I felt the GH was lacking. The future mother that is in the 2nd self contained bucket system is really thriving and not showing any signs of any deficiencies that all the other older plants are/were exhibiting.
1 plant is in the Ebb and Gro. I transplanted just prior to flowering (the day before) and it took a lil while to rebound. Transplanting and then immediately flowering seems to have stunted it slightly and it is not doing as well as the others in terms of projected yield... however it does seem to have the most resin on it at this point. I am using Organic Botanicare 1 Part with some additives. I plan on putting 2 new rooted clones directly from the aero-garden into this system and directly into flower to see how that goes and what kind of yield that produces. You will see that my ebb and gro is a 24 plant site that has mostly garden plants in it... we wont be focusing on those but I just thought I should mention it.
3 Plants that are in Soil have been getting GH3 part every 3rd watering using the lucas formula. I plan on using up my GH on these.
One of the soil plants has the unfortunate distinction of being my guinea pig plant. The guinea pig gets to try out all my remedies and basically gets to test anything I plan on putting on the plants. Better to loose one plant than all of them... This plant has suffered so much plant abuse it is criminal.. I am sure you will agree.... lol the poor girl is only now just starting to rebound. And I fear her yield will be pitiful... I have tested a garlic/Tabasco remedy. A baking soda mixture for misdiagnosed powdery mildew that turned out ot be what I think is "honeydew" from white flies.... as well as neem oil. the neem oil seemed to have minimal impact on the plant as was later used on all the plants with no negative impact.
All my plants seem to have suffered some sort of deficiency at one point or another... the new clones started to exhibit the same symptoms of the unknown deficiency that the older plants exhibited... however I think it has been corrected since switching to the BC formula. My hydro store is no longer going to be carrying the BC line so I will most likely switch to the AN line that they will be replacing the BC line with... I will switch only after using up what BC nutes I have....
I accidentally burnt one clone when I transplanted it into the self contained bucket/drip system too soon even though it contained only 1/4 str GH 3 part. It had developed a strong root system and I thought it was ready... but it must have been slightly premature. This prompted me to move it back to the aero garden and a week later take a new plant to be the future mother. The 2 clones will be put into the Ebb and Gro in a day or so and flowered.
In 2 weeks I will take 4 more clones and root them for 10 days under CFLs. Then I will transfer 2 to either a self contained bucket, soil or the ebb and gro. and Veg the other 2 for 3 weeks.
Pictures are coming soon... I will edit them into this post if possible... if not I will make a new post.. I just wanted to get my journal started while I had a lot of my thoughts fresh in my head....