JamesOaceO
Active Member
Hello all! I am new to the growing community and am excited to share my journal with you! I have been at this for a little over a month and been keeping a physical journal - I saw this forum and decided it would be cool to share what I am doing and heed suggestions of more experienced growers in an online community format where a lot of good knowledge congregates. I have done a lot of research and read a few online books, such as Greg Green’s Marijuana Grow Bible and my head hurts. I just want to get to growing now and share my experience thus far, so, here is some background of what I have going on:
11/18/18 – (Day #1?) Picked up four clones, all different genetics; Sour Diesel, Power Kush, Chronic Kush, and Fruity Chronic Juice (I don’t know who names them or what, but, ok…) They were rootbound in solo cups and about 10 – 12” tall and about 4-6 weeks since had been cut from the mother according to the dates written on each cup. The only grow equipment I had at the time was my 400w MH / MPS lamp and bulbs. I wanted to wait to pick them up, but the situation determined I needed to get them asap. I immediately transplanted them into some 2 and 3-gallon pots/buckets using FFHF soil, dashing some Great White into each spot. Soaked them well with our tap water, which, come to find out later on, is at 7.8 pH (again, didn’t have ANYTHING besides my light yet). Placed the pots in a large cardboard box on top of a piece of 4x4 plywood which sat on top of an insulating foam material about ½ inch thick since I am growing in my basement and it stays between 60° and 64°F but the floor laser temps around 55° in spots. Started with my MH conversion bulb in my 400w HPS light about 12” away.
11/23/18 – Plants have responded well to the light and new pots although I had watered on the 19th and didn’t need to. I over watered and they got droopy last few days. Rest of my equipment showed up. Gave quarter to half of recommended dosage of GH FloraNova series fertilizer when watering (didn’t have pH or ppm meters yet). Averaging around 80° and 63% rH as of right now. Did some LST to the Sour and the Power Kush as they were growing pretty rapidly using soft wire and bending the main shoots horizontal.
11/25/18 - Got the 4x4 setup and everything in place. Carbon filter is not hooked up yet but use the 200 cfm duct fan and passive intake to replenish the air within the tent while a single 12” oscillating fan moves air around the plants. Watered again today, this time with a proper pH’d water, however, I was using white distilled vinegar to lower, which I have later read can be bad in some cases. I have since bought pH down to make necessary adjustments. Plants seemed a little droopy.
11/29/18 – Noticed some white tips on some of the plants? Not sure if it was a deficiency or? Broke a large branch on the FCJ right at the main stem. It was not a full break but was hanging by a small sliver. Soft wire wrapped it and applied honey several times between then and the next two days.
12/7/18 – Vegging has been great; transplanted them into 7-gallon fabric pots. Every plant had a root mass that ate up the whole container it was in before going into the new pots. I didn’t think it would have grown that fast! I did some trimming on the lower end of the plants because they were getting bushy. I cut a clone the other day from the PK using some Rootech and placed it in a pre-soaked 1.5” rockwool cube and placed it in a rH done with a 75w LED on it. The break from 11/23 on the FCJ is completely healed and the branch never slowed growth from what I could tell. Maybe held back a day or two.
11/18/18 – (Day #1?) Picked up four clones, all different genetics; Sour Diesel, Power Kush, Chronic Kush, and Fruity Chronic Juice (I don’t know who names them or what, but, ok…) They were rootbound in solo cups and about 10 – 12” tall and about 4-6 weeks since had been cut from the mother according to the dates written on each cup. The only grow equipment I had at the time was my 400w MH / MPS lamp and bulbs. I wanted to wait to pick them up, but the situation determined I needed to get them asap. I immediately transplanted them into some 2 and 3-gallon pots/buckets using FFHF soil, dashing some Great White into each spot. Soaked them well with our tap water, which, come to find out later on, is at 7.8 pH (again, didn’t have ANYTHING besides my light yet). Placed the pots in a large cardboard box on top of a piece of 4x4 plywood which sat on top of an insulating foam material about ½ inch thick since I am growing in my basement and it stays between 60° and 64°F but the floor laser temps around 55° in spots. Started with my MH conversion bulb in my 400w HPS light about 12” away.
11/23/18 – Plants have responded well to the light and new pots although I had watered on the 19th and didn’t need to. I over watered and they got droopy last few days. Rest of my equipment showed up. Gave quarter to half of recommended dosage of GH FloraNova series fertilizer when watering (didn’t have pH or ppm meters yet). Averaging around 80° and 63% rH as of right now. Did some LST to the Sour and the Power Kush as they were growing pretty rapidly using soft wire and bending the main shoots horizontal.
11/25/18 - Got the 4x4 setup and everything in place. Carbon filter is not hooked up yet but use the 200 cfm duct fan and passive intake to replenish the air within the tent while a single 12” oscillating fan moves air around the plants. Watered again today, this time with a proper pH’d water, however, I was using white distilled vinegar to lower, which I have later read can be bad in some cases. I have since bought pH down to make necessary adjustments. Plants seemed a little droopy.
11/29/18 – Noticed some white tips on some of the plants? Not sure if it was a deficiency or? Broke a large branch on the FCJ right at the main stem. It was not a full break but was hanging by a small sliver. Soft wire wrapped it and applied honey several times between then and the next two days.
12/7/18 – Vegging has been great; transplanted them into 7-gallon fabric pots. Every plant had a root mass that ate up the whole container it was in before going into the new pots. I didn’t think it would have grown that fast! I did some trimming on the lower end of the plants because they were getting bushy. I cut a clone the other day from the PK using some Rootech and placed it in a pre-soaked 1.5” rockwool cube and placed it in a rH done with a 75w LED on it. The break from 11/23 on the FCJ is completely healed and the branch never slowed growth from what I could tell. Maybe held back a day or two.