WeednFeed
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I'd be remiss in starting my journal without having thanked the proprietors and users of this board... without whom I could not have even begun. This knowledge base of considerate like-minded people in deed and need have been a real inspiration and source of encouragement to me. To date I have largely been a reader. I now hope to contribute so that others can learn from my experiences and missteps.
Now that I have thanked the academy and all the little people who have made this evening possible... I give to you my humbly submitted journal.
It begins with no growing experience whatsoever. The sticky "How to Grow Marijuana - Everything You Need to Know!" and other's experience have gotten me through to today.
Being somewhat overwhelmed by the newness of the process, my journal begins today, with the following plants having been germinated 11/18 & 11/22 from feminized seeds.
2- Dutch Passion White Widow
2- Dutch Passion The Ultimate
2- Dutch Passion Euphoria
You'll find that the cart came before the horse in my case, as this began as what was to be a discreet medical grow in a BCNL Producer with another DIY cab for Mothers and cloning, became a full grow room. Which I must say I am not in the least disappointed about as I can really see getting into this and very quickly outgrowing the Producer. It may one day be relegated to a veg box. Time will tell.
Temps in here tend toward upper 70's day mid 60's night.
After delivery of the Producer I decided to convert an area of the basement for growing. More elbow room and greater discretion were now in mind. I finished the room in mid-November and started feminized seeds on the 18th and 22nd.
I then decided that in a better effort to experience a wider variety that I would need to house more mothers. So this cab was adapted. Temps here are low-mid 80's day and mid-upper 60's night.
If I'm successful, there will be 4 moms in there. So far so good:
Having read quite a bit about water quality I decided to go with R/O to reduce that problem set.
Humidity is maintained usually between 45 & 68
The seeds were started in paper towel at 100% germination... all in a day. They were then placed in 6oz red cups with Fox Farms Ocean Forest and given 6.0-6.2 ph water. As I want to keep smaller, squat mothers I skipped intermediate size transplant containers and went directly to 1-Gal pots with glass marble drainage in bottoms. After that transplant the plants seemed to stall a bit as they waited for their roots to find the confines of their new homes. They now have adequate tree trunks... at least in the cabinet of four. Running 6 26w 6500k's, 18/6.
The two in the taller cab have slowed and nearly halted it seems. Each of these two seem to have their own peculiarities. BTW, they're under 18/6 of 4 2' t5 daylights. The WW has been showing yellow on the lower leaves this week.
...and the Ult is showing curled in lower leaves.
All plants are now receiving a bit of calmag and 50% of the recommended Mother Earth Tea every other water. I water when the pots get light to the lift.
Here's the layout:
...and a little color for good measure:
Today I took two cuttings from each plant, dipped in rooting compound, scraped the bottom 1/2" and placed them in my DIY aerocloner.
Ph-5.8, temp-75 via aquarium heater, aerated with a stone and 396 gph pump running continuous.
Sorry for not having documented and shot pics of the early going... but as you can see, the seeds took.
Thanks for taking your time to read this. I look forward to any and all critiques, advice and opinions. I hope you stay tuned.
Now that I have thanked the academy and all the little people who have made this evening possible... I give to you my humbly submitted journal.
It begins with no growing experience whatsoever. The sticky "How to Grow Marijuana - Everything You Need to Know!" and other's experience have gotten me through to today.
Being somewhat overwhelmed by the newness of the process, my journal begins today, with the following plants having been germinated 11/18 & 11/22 from feminized seeds.
2- Dutch Passion White Widow
2- Dutch Passion The Ultimate
2- Dutch Passion Euphoria
You'll find that the cart came before the horse in my case, as this began as what was to be a discreet medical grow in a BCNL Producer with another DIY cab for Mothers and cloning, became a full grow room. Which I must say I am not in the least disappointed about as I can really see getting into this and very quickly outgrowing the Producer. It may one day be relegated to a veg box. Time will tell.
Temps in here tend toward upper 70's day mid 60's night.
After delivery of the Producer I decided to convert an area of the basement for growing. More elbow room and greater discretion were now in mind. I finished the room in mid-November and started feminized seeds on the 18th and 22nd.
I then decided that in a better effort to experience a wider variety that I would need to house more mothers. So this cab was adapted. Temps here are low-mid 80's day and mid-upper 60's night.
If I'm successful, there will be 4 moms in there. So far so good:
Having read quite a bit about water quality I decided to go with R/O to reduce that problem set.
Humidity is maintained usually between 45 & 68
The seeds were started in paper towel at 100% germination... all in a day. They were then placed in 6oz red cups with Fox Farms Ocean Forest and given 6.0-6.2 ph water. As I want to keep smaller, squat mothers I skipped intermediate size transplant containers and went directly to 1-Gal pots with glass marble drainage in bottoms. After that transplant the plants seemed to stall a bit as they waited for their roots to find the confines of their new homes. They now have adequate tree trunks... at least in the cabinet of four. Running 6 26w 6500k's, 18/6.
The two in the taller cab have slowed and nearly halted it seems. Each of these two seem to have their own peculiarities. BTW, they're under 18/6 of 4 2' t5 daylights. The WW has been showing yellow on the lower leaves this week.
...and the Ult is showing curled in lower leaves.
All plants are now receiving a bit of calmag and 50% of the recommended Mother Earth Tea every other water. I water when the pots get light to the lift.
Here's the layout:
...and a little color for good measure:
Today I took two cuttings from each plant, dipped in rooting compound, scraped the bottom 1/2" and placed them in my DIY aerocloner.
Ph-5.8, temp-75 via aquarium heater, aerated with a stone and 396 gph pump running continuous.
Sorry for not having documented and shot pics of the early going... but as you can see, the seeds took.
Thanks for taking your time to read this. I look forward to any and all critiques, advice and opinions. I hope you stay tuned.
Look at all that space!
Well done Hash! REALLY neat, concise, informative and cool! Did I say entertaining and educational? From what I see so far you have done a brilliant job combatting unruly temps. As you probably noticed, my aerocloner is of Stinkbuds (pass the love on) design. I admire that flowering system and very nearly went that route before that Producer. It looks like just plain fun to build let alone operate! It makes perfect economic and logistical sense. I'm going back to reading it now... Notes and questions to follow I'm sure.
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