berniceblack
Well-Known Member
Hello everybody,
Welcome to my first grow journal! This is my second time growing, my first time growing resulted in a little under a quarter ounce off two white widows autoflowers. The small yield was a little disappointing but growing was a great learning curve and im ready to start again. Hopefully some experienced growers will see my slightly deceiving title and will want to give a newbie a helping hand.
A few days ago I started germinating some new beans, I placed them in water for 24 hours followed by 48 hours in damp paper towel. This left me with 100% germination rate of the 4 beans all with nice long tap roots sorry i forgot to get picture before putting them in soil. Some information on the breeders and strains follows
1 Blue Auto Mazar from Dutch Passion
Hybrid 75% Indica 25% Sativa
Height: Short
2 OG Kush Autos from Dinafem
Hybrid unsure on percentages but pretty sure it has more sativa than the blue auto mazar.
Height: Tall
1 Stoned Henge from High Altitude Seed House.
Indica Heavy Hybrid
I prepared my soil 24 hours before planting. I mixed together a mixture of 70% yates potting mix with 30% perlite I then chucked into this mixture two handfuls of organic compost. I mixed this all together well then filled up my pots. Unfortunately my hardware store only labeled these pots as 175mm tall pots im guessing they are about 2 gallons. I filled these pots full, only leaving about a 5mm lip at the top. I did this as i had a problem with pests in my last grow and read that filling pots up to the top allows you're fan to blow away some small insects such as thrips. More talk about pests later on if they become a problem during the grow.
I soaked these pots with tap water PH'd to 6.5 and checked the PH of the run off guess what it was also 6.5... too good to be true?
Anyhow i put the beans in the soil by poking a hole in the soil with my finger, placing the seed in the hole and only sprinkling a small amount of soil on top. I also made each pot a humidity dome for the first few days to a week. They are under CFLs for the first few days of germination with the light cycle of 18 on and 6 off.
I monitored the conditions after this pic and the temps slowly creeped up to 90 so i had to raise the lights about 6" this had brought the temps to about 85 which is still abit to high for my liking but what can you do on a budget :S
I presume the initial soaking of the soil should provide enough water for the plants for at least a week. So for now its just a waiting game trying to control humidity and temperature to the best of my ability. After a couple days/week i will be swapping out the CFLs to my 600w Chinese LED.
Feel free to sub and join me for this grow I will try to keep it as active as possible,
until next time.
Welcome to my first grow journal! This is my second time growing, my first time growing resulted in a little under a quarter ounce off two white widows autoflowers. The small yield was a little disappointing but growing was a great learning curve and im ready to start again. Hopefully some experienced growers will see my slightly deceiving title and will want to give a newbie a helping hand.
A few days ago I started germinating some new beans, I placed them in water for 24 hours followed by 48 hours in damp paper towel. This left me with 100% germination rate of the 4 beans all with nice long tap roots sorry i forgot to get picture before putting them in soil. Some information on the breeders and strains follows
1 Blue Auto Mazar from Dutch Passion
Hybrid 75% Indica 25% Sativa
Height: Short
2 OG Kush Autos from Dinafem
Hybrid unsure on percentages but pretty sure it has more sativa than the blue auto mazar.
Height: Tall
1 Stoned Henge from High Altitude Seed House.
Indica Heavy Hybrid
I prepared my soil 24 hours before planting. I mixed together a mixture of 70% yates potting mix with 30% perlite I then chucked into this mixture two handfuls of organic compost. I mixed this all together well then filled up my pots. Unfortunately my hardware store only labeled these pots as 175mm tall pots im guessing they are about 2 gallons. I filled these pots full, only leaving about a 5mm lip at the top. I did this as i had a problem with pests in my last grow and read that filling pots up to the top allows you're fan to blow away some small insects such as thrips. More talk about pests later on if they become a problem during the grow.
I soaked these pots with tap water PH'd to 6.5 and checked the PH of the run off guess what it was also 6.5... too good to be true?
Anyhow i put the beans in the soil by poking a hole in the soil with my finger, placing the seed in the hole and only sprinkling a small amount of soil on top. I also made each pot a humidity dome for the first few days to a week. They are under CFLs for the first few days of germination with the light cycle of 18 on and 6 off.
I monitored the conditions after this pic and the temps slowly creeped up to 90 so i had to raise the lights about 6" this had brought the temps to about 85 which is still abit to high for my liking but what can you do on a budget :S
I presume the initial soaking of the soil should provide enough water for the plants for at least a week. So for now its just a waiting game trying to control humidity and temperature to the best of my ability. After a couple days/week i will be swapping out the CFLs to my 600w Chinese LED.
Feel free to sub and join me for this grow I will try to keep it as active as possible,
until next time.
