I have 7 recently purchased clones (yay AK):
First photo was Sunday when I first got the DB#3 home; second photo is today: top left GGxD, bottom left Sled Dawg (the leaves seem tiny to me), then the two NL, and the three on the right are the DB.
Plan: The game plan right now is to veg everything for another month and change, in which time I will top and clone the two singletons. Then once the clones are into their own veg, throw the two little gals in with a month old(er) Northern Lights and Donny Burger, and try flowering the whole 2-tiered mess at once.
Space: I have an old 5x5 tent from a friend, but right after I got it set up, another friend needed a place to stay, so now he's occupying the spare room. So now I have a 3x3 coming tomorrow that fits perfectly in the corner of my bedroom that can eventually be an auxiliary. If I get my grow room back before too long, I'd probably try to flower another of the big Donny Burgers with everything else, otherwise I'll just do one of each in the 3x3.
Lights: After some armchair research I decided to try a couple of lights from Parfactworks, have the 500W COB, and the RA1000 and RA2000. If I stick with the 3x3 I thought this ought to be plenty, but if I go to the 5x5 I'd be in the market for some more watts. (The COB has two channels, and right now I've got the girls vegging under the 90W-actual draw yellow channel at about 30" from plants, I blasted them with the RA2000 at 28" for a few hours yesterday and thought the DB new growth looked like maybe it was getting stressed from too much light, the COB at half power and pretty high seems like less light than optimal, but they seem to be bushing out plenty...)
Soil/Nutrients:
HP CC Pro-Mix
Piranha (at manufacturers rec. for clones and about 1 ml/L since)
PH Perfect Sensei Grow A + B (gave them 2ml/L after 4-5 days, think I was both overwatering and maybe too many nutes too soon, so have been at 1ml/L since)
Watering every other day
Milestones:
I transplanted initially into 7 gallon pots, decided that was just silly and repotted to 1 gallon (the DB showed up after that mistake, so they went straight to 1 gallon)
I FIM'ed the GG4xD and one of the N. Lights a couple days ago, because I'd never tried that before and I wanted to give the branches a leg up, they didn't seem to mind much.
Yesterday I started some LST to spread a couple of them out a bit, they seem to be branching from every available site at the moment, so just trying to get some light in there.
Not so much a milestone, but I have been trimming fan leaves with moderate aggression. Sometimes I'll take part, other times the whole thing, but it is mostly when they are blocking something I think needs it more.
Conclusion (of the introduction):
Aside from a little babysitting and a single harvest from a bubble bucket several years ago, I'm new. But at least I know I'm ignorant. Any suggestions for changing something I'm doing or starting something I haven't considered would be much appreciated! I figure this is a good exercise both for getting custom advice if I run into anything I can't figure out browsing other threads, and for being able to track/compare/store lessons learned over the next few months for future reference.
- 1 GG#4 x Do-si-do cross (that is really taking off)
- 1 Sled Dawg ("Chemdawg V2")
- 2 Northern Lights
- 3 Donny Burger #3
Plan: The game plan right now is to veg everything for another month and change, in which time I will top and clone the two singletons. Then once the clones are into their own veg, throw the two little gals in with a month old(er) Northern Lights and Donny Burger, and try flowering the whole 2-tiered mess at once.
Space: I have an old 5x5 tent from a friend, but right after I got it set up, another friend needed a place to stay, so now he's occupying the spare room. So now I have a 3x3 coming tomorrow that fits perfectly in the corner of my bedroom that can eventually be an auxiliary. If I get my grow room back before too long, I'd probably try to flower another of the big Donny Burgers with everything else, otherwise I'll just do one of each in the 3x3.
Lights: After some armchair research I decided to try a couple of lights from Parfactworks, have the 500W COB, and the RA1000 and RA2000. If I stick with the 3x3 I thought this ought to be plenty, but if I go to the 5x5 I'd be in the market for some more watts. (The COB has two channels, and right now I've got the girls vegging under the 90W-actual draw yellow channel at about 30" from plants, I blasted them with the RA2000 at 28" for a few hours yesterday and thought the DB new growth looked like maybe it was getting stressed from too much light, the COB at half power and pretty high seems like less light than optimal, but they seem to be bushing out plenty...)
Soil/Nutrients:
HP CC Pro-Mix
Piranha (at manufacturers rec. for clones and about 1 ml/L since)
PH Perfect Sensei Grow A + B (gave them 2ml/L after 4-5 days, think I was both overwatering and maybe too many nutes too soon, so have been at 1ml/L since)
Watering every other day
Milestones:
I transplanted initially into 7 gallon pots, decided that was just silly and repotted to 1 gallon (the DB showed up after that mistake, so they went straight to 1 gallon)
I FIM'ed the GG4xD and one of the N. Lights a couple days ago, because I'd never tried that before and I wanted to give the branches a leg up, they didn't seem to mind much.
Yesterday I started some LST to spread a couple of them out a bit, they seem to be branching from every available site at the moment, so just trying to get some light in there.
Not so much a milestone, but I have been trimming fan leaves with moderate aggression. Sometimes I'll take part, other times the whole thing, but it is mostly when they are blocking something I think needs it more.
Conclusion (of the introduction):
Aside from a little babysitting and a single harvest from a bubble bucket several years ago, I'm new. But at least I know I'm ignorant. Any suggestions for changing something I'm doing or starting something I haven't considered would be much appreciated! I figure this is a good exercise both for getting custom advice if I run into anything I can't figure out browsing other threads, and for being able to track/compare/store lessons learned over the next few months for future reference.
