Bchris22
Well-Known Member
My time has finally come and its been a long time coming. My journey to grow the herb began about two years ago. Much like a lot of TubeofYou era growers my first bit of knowledge about cultivating Ms Mary came from the green man. Instantly I was hooked. A quick search on how to grow cannabis led me here to 420. I started reading like a mad man. I was hooked. Once before I read, and I believe it was in one of XLR8's journals that smoking Marijuana isnt addictive, but growing it is and boy oh boy did they nail that on the head. At first nothing made sense. I was trying to learn how to grow hydroponically and thanks to my determination and the great knowledge provided here I began to understand.
One day while reading one of XLR8's Journals(a great source of knowledge BTW) he mentioned Super Soil and the fact that I would only have to feed water throughout the grow. This sounded amazing, so I began to research it... Then I found Sub, and the weed nerd nation and my viewpoints on how to grow changed. At the time DocBud was just getting into organics, so I began reading his journals and have followed along ever since. Now I consider myself to be a DocBud Disciple and a believer in HighBrix.
Now to the details.
The good:
I have everything I need to grow plants. 4.5x9 Grow tent, 2000 watts of light and enough fans for adequate air flow.
The Bad
I am missing some valuable pieces.. For instance, I do not have a veg room at the current moment. Hell, I dont even have a MH bulb to veg with right now. My tent cannot handle 2000 watts of light and have optimal temps without an AC unit, but at 600 watts the temps stay between 79-81 degrees. My biggest concern at the moment is humidity. Currently I am experiencing fluctuations between 37%-55%. I do not have a dehumidifier or a device to manage it, but I have been tampering with my humidistat in my home and its not perfect but it is getting better(generally between 45-50)
So if you havent figured it out yet I am growing in Soil
Sunshine #4 20lbs worm castings and HighBrix Ammendment
I am currently running 6 different strains of free feminized seeds. This is not how I intend to do things in the future but without having kept a plant alive I figured I would beta test on the freebies first.
The strains are Cheese, Purple trainwreck, Blue OG, Silver Kush, SageNsour and Kosher Tangie
Currently I am running only one of my lights at 400 watts 3 feet above my canopy. I planted the seeds a week ago today. I followed the directions for DocBuds Kit and planted the seeds in moist soil. On friday I didnt see any signs of life and gave them all a 1/4 cup of water and went out of town for the weekend. Sunday night when I returned 5 out of 6 germinated. Today the soil was bone dry, so I mixed up 6qts of water, mixed in 2.5mils (1/2 Teaspoon) and an ounce of Transplant, and fed all plants a qt each. I also noticed 3 of the plants were stretching a bit more than I liked. After some time spent sitting in the garden I noticed I wasnt getting the best use of the light footprint so I readjusted the alignment of my plants and I think they love it.
Pics:
The Tent
The plants.. As you can see they are stretchy
Notice the low Humidity
One day while reading one of XLR8's Journals(a great source of knowledge BTW) he mentioned Super Soil and the fact that I would only have to feed water throughout the grow. This sounded amazing, so I began to research it... Then I found Sub, and the weed nerd nation and my viewpoints on how to grow changed. At the time DocBud was just getting into organics, so I began reading his journals and have followed along ever since. Now I consider myself to be a DocBud Disciple and a believer in HighBrix.
Now to the details.
The good:
I have everything I need to grow plants. 4.5x9 Grow tent, 2000 watts of light and enough fans for adequate air flow.
The Bad
I am missing some valuable pieces.. For instance, I do not have a veg room at the current moment. Hell, I dont even have a MH bulb to veg with right now. My tent cannot handle 2000 watts of light and have optimal temps without an AC unit, but at 600 watts the temps stay between 79-81 degrees. My biggest concern at the moment is humidity. Currently I am experiencing fluctuations between 37%-55%. I do not have a dehumidifier or a device to manage it, but I have been tampering with my humidistat in my home and its not perfect but it is getting better(generally between 45-50)
So if you havent figured it out yet I am growing in Soil
Sunshine #4 20lbs worm castings and HighBrix Ammendment
I am currently running 6 different strains of free feminized seeds. This is not how I intend to do things in the future but without having kept a plant alive I figured I would beta test on the freebies first.
The strains are Cheese, Purple trainwreck, Blue OG, Silver Kush, SageNsour and Kosher Tangie
Currently I am running only one of my lights at 400 watts 3 feet above my canopy. I planted the seeds a week ago today. I followed the directions for DocBuds Kit and planted the seeds in moist soil. On friday I didnt see any signs of life and gave them all a 1/4 cup of water and went out of town for the weekend. Sunday night when I returned 5 out of 6 germinated. Today the soil was bone dry, so I mixed up 6qts of water, mixed in 2.5mils (1/2 Teaspoon) and an ounce of Transplant, and fed all plants a qt each. I also noticed 3 of the plants were stretching a bit more than I liked. After some time spent sitting in the garden I noticed I wasnt getting the best use of the light footprint so I readjusted the alignment of my plants and I think they love it.
Pics:
The Tent
The plants.. As you can see they are stretchy
Notice the low Humidity