Hi everyone. It was time late in December to fire up the HID lights and add a little heat to the basement.
My first grow journal ended abruptly when I ran out of time to post. The grow was successful and has provided medicine for the year.
I tried another grow on completion of the first but the HID lights were heating the room to the upper 90's F and the peak summer temperatures had not arrived yet. My choice was run the Air Conditioning or stop the grow. I chose to stop the grow and composted the plants.
Five Feminized Strains (1 each):
- World of Seeds Medical Collection - Northern Lights x Big Bud:
- Female Cannabis Seeds Grapefruit Kush
- Buddha Quasar
- White label White Ice
- Moby Dick
Media and Nutrients:
- 50% Coco and 50% Pearlite
- Dolomite lime, OC+
- GH flora, bloom and micro for foliar feeding
- Cal-Mag
Water:
- Well water - 160 ppm cold (190 ppm hot)
- pH 7.4 -
- Water treated with a Water softener using potassium salt and an aeration system and sand bed filter to remove iron and manganese .
Available Lights:
- 1 250 W with either CMH and sodium lamps.
- 3 400 W with CMH, MH conversion and sodium (standard, Agrosun Red, and Son Agro)
- 1 1000 W dual spectrum
- 2 Reptile Hi UV (10.0) CFL lights
- 1 68 W CFL (300 W incandescent equivalent)
The seedlings were started with a 400 W CMH on 18 hours a day.
The lights are currently on 12 hours a day. These plants are under the 1000W light and the 3 CFL lights. Additional light is provided by a 400 W CMH and 250W Sodium over some pepper and other plants in the grow room.
The seeds were soaked in tap water until they split and planted in solo cups of Coco.
For this grow I started many seeds which did not germinate including two Tangerine Dream and 5 Cannatonic.
The Northern Lights x Big Bud is 4 or 5 weeks older than the other plants. It was only seed in the first batch to germinate. None of the second batch seeds germinated and finally all of the third batch of seeds grew.
The Moby Dick grew 1 inch tall and stopped growing. It was never big enough to transplant out of the solo cup.
The seedlings were transplanted to 5 gallon buckets
While bending the Northern lights my LST technique was not L enough and a branch broke off. I scraped the stem and dipped it in Clonex and put it in wet Coco under a humidity dome. The clone is shown in the photos. I transplanted the clone to a 2 L soda bottle.
My first grow journal ended abruptly when I ran out of time to post. The grow was successful and has provided medicine for the year.
I tried another grow on completion of the first but the HID lights were heating the room to the upper 90's F and the peak summer temperatures had not arrived yet. My choice was run the Air Conditioning or stop the grow. I chose to stop the grow and composted the plants.
Five Feminized Strains (1 each):
- World of Seeds Medical Collection - Northern Lights x Big Bud:
- Female Cannabis Seeds Grapefruit Kush
- Buddha Quasar
- White label White Ice
- Moby Dick
Media and Nutrients:
- 50% Coco and 50% Pearlite
- Dolomite lime, OC+
- GH flora, bloom and micro for foliar feeding
- Cal-Mag
Water:
- Well water - 160 ppm cold (190 ppm hot)
- pH 7.4 -
- Water treated with a Water softener using potassium salt and an aeration system and sand bed filter to remove iron and manganese .
Available Lights:
- 1 250 W with either CMH and sodium lamps.
- 3 400 W with CMH, MH conversion and sodium (standard, Agrosun Red, and Son Agro)
- 1 1000 W dual spectrum
- 2 Reptile Hi UV (10.0) CFL lights
- 1 68 W CFL (300 W incandescent equivalent)
The seedlings were started with a 400 W CMH on 18 hours a day.
The lights are currently on 12 hours a day. These plants are under the 1000W light and the 3 CFL lights. Additional light is provided by a 400 W CMH and 250W Sodium over some pepper and other plants in the grow room.
The seeds were soaked in tap water until they split and planted in solo cups of Coco.
For this grow I started many seeds which did not germinate including two Tangerine Dream and 5 Cannatonic.
The Northern Lights x Big Bud is 4 or 5 weeks older than the other plants. It was only seed in the first batch to germinate. None of the second batch seeds germinated and finally all of the third batch of seeds grew.
The Moby Dick grew 1 inch tall and stopped growing. It was never big enough to transplant out of the solo cup.
The seedlings were transplanted to 5 gallon buckets
While bending the Northern lights my LST technique was not L enough and a branch broke off. I scraped the stem and dipped it in Clonex and put it in wet Coco under a humidity dome. The clone is shown in the photos. I transplanted the clone to a 2 L soda bottle.
