SweetLeef
New Member
Hello all,
This will be my first ever grow. I say this because I haven't started growing yet. I am 5 days away from ordering my setup, then I will have to wait, patiently of course
, for everything to arrive. Then it's go time! I decided to start this grow journal before I started growing, 1. because I figured it wouldn't hurt to work everything out on "paper" in this forum so I could get some input and ideas. and 2. because I have nowhere else to focus my energy until I can put it into the setup and growing of my babies.
A little background......
A couple of months ago I decided I would start growing. I have always been a pretty heavy consumer of weed and thought it would be kinda cool and probably much cheaper to grow my own, but never got much further than that in the thought process. Recently I have been reading more and more articles and watching more documentaries about the benefits. of medical marijuana and I have come to realize that this plant iis F'ing amazing! Not in just the ways it has helped me, but n the way is has REALLY helped people who REALLY need help. My sister is someone who really needs help, help I believe this pant can provide. So that is the catalyst for me deciding to grow weed. Also, I am SO stoked to stop spending so much damn money on pot. Anyway,
The Plan..............
So, I have been ghosting this, and a couple other forums, for the last two months. Every night. Staying up way too late reading everything I can possibly read. I received some good information from some of the other forums, but most of/the best/answers that seems the most credible, came from 420. I have read through several journals and ever re-read one or two. I almost immediately fell in love with the ebb&flow buckets that The Capn and African Grower are doing. Simplicity, ease, concision! Pretty cool stuff. As I began feverishly pricing everything out, I realized with my other financial obligations I wouldn't be able to start this project for quite some time (late January). I was talking to a buddy of mine who has been growing for a very long time, and he pointed out that if I used his method it would be a much cheaper way to start and then after the first harvest I could upgrade to the hydro. I was on board immediately.
So my plan:
I am getting a 4x4 grow tent. The non-toxic Mylar blah blah tent with the vent holes and places to hang lights.
I am either going to buy an inline fan/carbon filter combo, or a buddy of mine my have a filter and then I'll just need to buy a fan. Hydrometer, timers, powerstrip, oscillating fan...What else....
The buddy who convinced me to go soil is donating a 1,000W MH/HPS light. I'm slightly nervous it will be overkill in a small area, but I have read several grown that seem to go well with that size light in that sized room.
The medium will be TGA Supersoil. There should be no need to add nutrients at any point. Supersoil and water is the way my friend runs. He has got a pretty rad, sizeable setup, and he's been doing it for a long time, so I trust him.
Another friend of mine is going to give me a shit-ton of Cookies seeds, and the buddy who is donating the light is going to hook me up with cookies clones and maybe some cheese, not totally sure.
I'm in Oregon, it's cold, and worse (from what I'm told,) wet!. I'm told I will need a dehumidifier. I really don't want to buy one. I don't want to have another thing to plug in and use electricity, I don't want another thing to take care of, and I don't want something I'm going to eventually have to replace at considerable cost. So, I'm going to go ghetto/DIY and drill some holes in a 5gallon bucket, fill it with charcoal briquettes. If I need to do a couple buckets I will. I am going to start with a passive intake, and when the plants smell starts to sneak out of the passive vent, I will add an intake fan, and to cut down on the outside moisture from being forced in via the fan, I am going to try an place a coffee can filled with briquettes to capture the moisture on it's way in. Don't know if it'll work, but seems like it's worth a shot considering the price difference between coffee, a 5gal bucket, briquettes V.S. a dehumidifier. Just sayin'
As well as the clones and/or seeds my friends bless me with, I have some autoflowers on the way from one of the lovely sponsors of this forum, the Single Seed Centre. I ordered a 3pk of Kush Van Stitch, 1x narcotic kush, 1x Crystal ^#$%, and the two free seeds will be a Northern Light Automatic and a feminized White Widow.
As a noob there is a severe chance I am biting off more than I can chew, but I intend to start vegging 2 or 3 of the autos at the same time as I start vegging the photos.
My goal is get a consistent supply of medicine to my sister asap. I know that I am about to take on quite a bit for a first time grower, several plants/several strains, probably means many problems. However, I am confident that the time I have spent reading thread after thread journal after journal. Combine with the crazy amount of knowledge and experience on this forum, and a couple friends outside of the interwebs, that I will not only complete this grow and journal, but that it will be a success.
Tomorrow, I will make ready an old fish tank to use as a propagation room. It will live in the bottom of my tent. I will devise some way to cover the glass so that it is light fast when seeds are germination, yet easy to remove/re-use once the beans turn into stalks.
That is all I have for now. Wow, looking back on it, it's a pretty large first post considering I haven't started growing anything yet. Thank you in advance for any insight, advice, criticism, questions you may have.
SweetLeef
This will be my first ever grow. I say this because I haven't started growing yet. I am 5 days away from ordering my setup, then I will have to wait, patiently of course
, for everything to arrive. Then it's go time! I decided to start this grow journal before I started growing, 1. because I figured it wouldn't hurt to work everything out on "paper" in this forum so I could get some input and ideas. and 2. because I have nowhere else to focus my energy until I can put it into the setup and growing of my babies. A little background......
A couple of months ago I decided I would start growing. I have always been a pretty heavy consumer of weed and thought it would be kinda cool and probably much cheaper to grow my own, but never got much further than that in the thought process. Recently I have been reading more and more articles and watching more documentaries about the benefits. of medical marijuana and I have come to realize that this plant iis F'ing amazing! Not in just the ways it has helped me, but n the way is has REALLY helped people who REALLY need help. My sister is someone who really needs help, help I believe this pant can provide. So that is the catalyst for me deciding to grow weed. Also, I am SO stoked to stop spending so much damn money on pot. Anyway,
The Plan..............
So, I have been ghosting this, and a couple other forums, for the last two months. Every night. Staying up way too late reading everything I can possibly read. I received some good information from some of the other forums, but most of/the best/answers that seems the most credible, came from 420. I have read through several journals and ever re-read one or two. I almost immediately fell in love with the ebb&flow buckets that The Capn and African Grower are doing. Simplicity, ease, concision! Pretty cool stuff. As I began feverishly pricing everything out, I realized with my other financial obligations I wouldn't be able to start this project for quite some time (late January). I was talking to a buddy of mine who has been growing for a very long time, and he pointed out that if I used his method it would be a much cheaper way to start and then after the first harvest I could upgrade to the hydro. I was on board immediately.
So my plan:
I am getting a 4x4 grow tent. The non-toxic Mylar blah blah tent with the vent holes and places to hang lights.
I am either going to buy an inline fan/carbon filter combo, or a buddy of mine my have a filter and then I'll just need to buy a fan. Hydrometer, timers, powerstrip, oscillating fan...What else....
The buddy who convinced me to go soil is donating a 1,000W MH/HPS light. I'm slightly nervous it will be overkill in a small area, but I have read several grown that seem to go well with that size light in that sized room.
The medium will be TGA Supersoil. There should be no need to add nutrients at any point. Supersoil and water is the way my friend runs. He has got a pretty rad, sizeable setup, and he's been doing it for a long time, so I trust him.
Another friend of mine is going to give me a shit-ton of Cookies seeds, and the buddy who is donating the light is going to hook me up with cookies clones and maybe some cheese, not totally sure.
I'm in Oregon, it's cold, and worse (from what I'm told,) wet!. I'm told I will need a dehumidifier. I really don't want to buy one. I don't want to have another thing to plug in and use electricity, I don't want another thing to take care of, and I don't want something I'm going to eventually have to replace at considerable cost. So, I'm going to go ghetto/DIY and drill some holes in a 5gallon bucket, fill it with charcoal briquettes. If I need to do a couple buckets I will. I am going to start with a passive intake, and when the plants smell starts to sneak out of the passive vent, I will add an intake fan, and to cut down on the outside moisture from being forced in via the fan, I am going to try an place a coffee can filled with briquettes to capture the moisture on it's way in. Don't know if it'll work, but seems like it's worth a shot considering the price difference between coffee, a 5gal bucket, briquettes V.S. a dehumidifier. Just sayin'
As well as the clones and/or seeds my friends bless me with, I have some autoflowers on the way from one of the lovely sponsors of this forum, the Single Seed Centre. I ordered a 3pk of Kush Van Stitch, 1x narcotic kush, 1x Crystal ^#$%, and the two free seeds will be a Northern Light Automatic and a feminized White Widow.
As a noob there is a severe chance I am biting off more than I can chew, but I intend to start vegging 2 or 3 of the autos at the same time as I start vegging the photos.
My goal is get a consistent supply of medicine to my sister asap. I know that I am about to take on quite a bit for a first time grower, several plants/several strains, probably means many problems. However, I am confident that the time I have spent reading thread after thread journal after journal. Combine with the crazy amount of knowledge and experience on this forum, and a couple friends outside of the interwebs, that I will not only complete this grow and journal, but that it will be a success.
Tomorrow, I will make ready an old fish tank to use as a propagation room. It will live in the bottom of my tent. I will devise some way to cover the glass so that it is light fast when seeds are germination, yet easy to remove/re-use once the beans turn into stalks.
That is all I have for now. Wow, looking back on it, it's a pretty large first post considering I haven't started growing anything yet. Thank you in advance for any insight, advice, criticism, questions you may have.
SweetLeef
I am going to the hydro store where I will pick up some TGA Supersoil, rockwool grow cubes for the cuttings I'll be getting from my buddy and future cuttings as well. Some Guardian Angel for the cuttings (ala Cultivator). I'm going to see if the hydro store can beat the interwebs price for an inline fan, otherwise I'll order that up after the shop. A few other odds and ends. Once I have the fan in hand, I can set up the big light and get my first little baby under the HID and into the 18/6 light cycle. It's still at 24 under the aquarium bulb. I think I'll pick up a bulb with a better spectrum for the tank as well. Once I've got everything setup, I will have a much more concise explanation of my set up.
Congrats on the successes the last couple days! You are moving right along there and planning well.
