Budget First Grow - DWC - Veg - LED/CFL - Bud - 600W HPS - Bag Seed - NL#5

Friendectomy;2849446 said:

Hello everyone!

Been browsing the forums for awhile now, reading articles and trying to gain as much knowledge as possible. Now I have sprouted some seeds so I guess I will make a journal and see if I can get some hands on learning. I am starting a small DWC grow using the General Hydroponics GO! box, and some additional samples that I picked up at the local hydro store.

My current set up, I am growing some dispensary bag seed, and then some Northern Lights #5 I got from my brother. (The bagseed first, so I Dont mess up the beautiful NL)

I just vegged 29 bag seeds in between two paper towels and kept the temperature around 70-75 degrees.

Two days later, I had 24 strong tap roots.

I moved the seeds using sterile tweezers into a rapid rooter, then placed them in 12 small cups in a 3 gallon tub. Put expanded clay under each pot so the bubbles from my air strip underneath can moisten the medium.

Alot more seeds germinated than I expected, so I made a half ass little propogator in a milk jug untill pay day so I can get another 3 gallon tub to propogate.

Right now im using two 50W 2700k CFLs, 2 100W 5000k, and 2 cree 100 wat 5000k 2000 lumens LED's. I have a 300W 6700k CFL grow light that I got from the home depot, ran about 70 dollars and when the plants get a little bigger I plan on turning that on to help veg. I think it puts out around 20k lumens? Total lumens for veg will be around 38k, mixed.

On payday I plan on constructing a 5'x5'x6' pvc pipe tent for flowering, and getting a 600w HPS for when I move into flowering.

Right now, my plan is to turn the light to 12/12 as soon as possible to sex these guys and pull out the males, before moving them over to the 30g tote you see beneath the propogator. I plan to have 6, 6" pots in the tote, and every two or 3 weeks add another tote into the 12/12 tent. I will do this untill I have space issues. I am still deciding whether to use a scrog, or just grow them tall with such a small space.

I used RO water in the resevoir, and put 1/4 amount of micro, and rapid start. PH is sitting around 6.5. Since this is a budget grow, I dont have PPM meter and currently only using PH test kit because I Cant afford the proper meters at the moment.

This is day 1, I will keep you guys posted, and please feel free to give any tips or helpful criticisms.

Thanks!
Friend

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