Unas369
420 Member
Hello, and welcome to my grow journal. I believe you will enjoy this one since you don't see too many "poor man's" grows here 
. I mean, when is the last time you saw a CFL, bag seed grow? Obviously, all comments (critique, advice, thoughts) are more than welcome.
Setup:
Grow box: H 45 x W 32 x D 23 (inch), painted white (the height is irrelevant because I put bags and things under my plants as a way of manipulating the distance from the lights, so there is plenty of vertical space left unused)
Lights: 6 white and 4 red spectrum CFLs for now. They are all 20, 23 and 24 watts, so that's aprox 220+W. I'm planing on adding more and more red spectrum as the flowering progresses.
Medium: standard cheap potting soil for flowers mixed in with some crushed polystyrene for better drainage.
Pots: 3 gallon plastic buckets painted black to keep light from disturbing the roots
Ventilation: 1x 4.5inch pc fan for intake and 2x for out, plus one 3inch pc fan inside the box to help the air circulation
Temp: daytime temps vary from 80F to 90Fmax. Night time temps around 75-77F
Humidity: day 30-40% RH, night 40-50% RH
Ph: Looks like it tends to rise to some 7.5 and even more, so the only thing I can do is water them with 5.8-6.0ph tap water that I let sit in open bottles for 24 hours. I bring the ph down with lemon.
Watering schedule: When the top inch of soil is completely dry (every 8-9 days on average)
Ferts: Some cheap universal vegetative fertilizer (NPK 6-3-6)
Schedule: I fed them once with 1/4th the amount prescribed, when they were about 3 weeks old.
Plants are about a month old from seed and there were 5 of them until I took one male plant out yesterday. I will be making leaf tea and root topical cream from the male, so he's not just wasted.
I also just switched to 12/12 today so they are now officially in flowering stage. But check this out: one plant started flowering on its own after about 15 days of 18/6 and has not yet shown any intentions of stopping. She is now ahead of them all by some two weeks. The chance of it being autoflowering are very very slim. What do you think is going on here?
The rest of the girls have shown female preflowers in the last couple of days. I was so happy to get 4 out of 5, although im still not 100% on 2 of them, but they look like female preflowers to me - check the photos.
I hope I got all important info covered. And now, last but not least, the photos!
In case you are wondering, those other plants are: garlic, Lamb's Quarter (Chenopodium album) and two apple seedlings I also have one clone that I just put in the soil to see if it would root on its own with no special treatment. Other cups are there to hopefully bump up the humidity levels.
btw. this was supposed to be Skunk x Haze grow but the seeds were too old and just wouldn't germinate.
Looking forward to meeting you fellow greenthumbs and exchanging (mostly gaining
) valuable info with y'all.
. I mean, when is the last time you saw a CFL, bag seed grow? Obviously, all comments (critique, advice, thoughts) are more than welcome.Setup:
Grow box: H 45 x W 32 x D 23 (inch), painted white (the height is irrelevant because I put bags and things under my plants as a way of manipulating the distance from the lights, so there is plenty of vertical space left unused)
Lights: 6 white and 4 red spectrum CFLs for now. They are all 20, 23 and 24 watts, so that's aprox 220+W. I'm planing on adding more and more red spectrum as the flowering progresses.
Medium: standard cheap potting soil for flowers mixed in with some crushed polystyrene for better drainage.
Pots: 3 gallon plastic buckets painted black to keep light from disturbing the roots
Ventilation: 1x 4.5inch pc fan for intake and 2x for out, plus one 3inch pc fan inside the box to help the air circulation
Temp: daytime temps vary from 80F to 90Fmax. Night time temps around 75-77F
Humidity: day 30-40% RH, night 40-50% RH
Ph: Looks like it tends to rise to some 7.5 and even more, so the only thing I can do is water them with 5.8-6.0ph tap water that I let sit in open bottles for 24 hours. I bring the ph down with lemon.
Watering schedule: When the top inch of soil is completely dry (every 8-9 days on average)
Ferts: Some cheap universal vegetative fertilizer (NPK 6-3-6)
Schedule: I fed them once with 1/4th the amount prescribed, when they were about 3 weeks old.
Plants are about a month old from seed and there were 5 of them until I took one male plant out yesterday. I will be making leaf tea and root topical cream from the male, so he's not just wasted.
I also just switched to 12/12 today so they are now officially in flowering stage. But check this out: one plant started flowering on its own after about 15 days of 18/6 and has not yet shown any intentions of stopping. She is now ahead of them all by some two weeks. The chance of it being autoflowering are very very slim. What do you think is going on here?
The rest of the girls have shown female preflowers in the last couple of days. I was so happy to get 4 out of 5, although im still not 100% on 2 of them, but they look like female preflowers to me - check the photos.
I hope I got all important info covered. And now, last but not least, the photos!
In case you are wondering, those other plants are: garlic, Lamb's Quarter (Chenopodium album) and two apple seedlings
I also have one clone that I just put in the soil to see if it would root on its own with no special treatment. Other cups are there to hopefully bump up the humidity levels.btw. this was supposed to be Skunk x Haze grow but the seeds were too old and just wouldn't germinate.
Looking forward to meeting you fellow greenthumbs and exchanging (mostly gaining
) valuable info with y'all.
I will be needing your opinions on the deficiency and UV light because im thinking of adding one reptile light in there for more resin production. I have been reading a lot about UV lights but couldn't find a definitive answer. I need experienced greenthumbs and I know there's not a shortage of 'em here.
