Hello 420magazine!
Preface
I just want to start by giving a shout out to all of the fantastic growers here that I’ve learned so much from. Without the great outdoor Sativa-sized tree of knowledge that is 420magazine, this grow and this journal would never have been possible. Thank you all. This journal is the culmination of the years I’ve spent reading journals, how tos, and the FAQs. I feel like I’ve got myself a decent little setup that I will be more than happy to fine tuning for the follow few years before I upgrade.
My Budget
Light $88 (+140) Tent $45
Exhaust $17 Carbon filter $35
Fan $20 Medium $46
Equipment $50 nutrients $68
Total: $509
Everything I need to do this right
The Plan
This is a journal for my first real grow.
The Strain
Greenpoint’s regular Cookies n Chem; an Indica dominant hybrid.
Genetic Makeup
Girl Scout Cookies – 25%
Starfighter – 25%
Chem 4 – 25%
Chem D – 22%
Affy – 03%
Flowering length : 60-70 days
Recommended indoor or outdoor
Finishing height: short-medium
The pictures I’ve seen of this strain look sticky and crystalline; like so:
That’s one of the colas on Big Girl
The Nutrients and medium
And here’s my feeding chart, I followed the ppm at full strength except I used the ratio of grow:micro:bloom that’s on the bottle (they were different)
Preface
I just want to start by giving a shout out to all of the fantastic growers here that I’ve learned so much from. Without the great outdoor Sativa-sized tree of knowledge that is 420magazine, this grow and this journal would never have been possible. Thank you all. This journal is the culmination of the years I’ve spent reading journals, how tos, and the FAQs. I feel like I’ve got myself a decent little setup that I will be more than happy to fine tuning for the follow few years before I upgrade.
My Budget
Light $88 (+140) Tent $45
Exhaust $17 Carbon filter $35
Fan $20 Medium $46
Equipment $50 nutrients $68
Total: $509
Everything I need to do this right
The Plan
This is a journal for my first real grow.
- I have a small stash of seed. 10 random bag seed + 30 selfed nirvanas Short Rider auto but I wanted SERIOUS genetic potential.
- I now have the time to grow out some serious photoperiod genetics
- I didn’t want to use bag seed because of age, they’re over 3 years old and I didn’t want to deal with vigor and weird stretching.
- So I researched, researched, researched breeders that ship to me
- I found Greenpoint in Colorado. The genetics looked stellar, consistent and they were having a sale; so I made an order. They sent me triple what I ordered.
- Given the amount of seeds I’ve got to play with, I’m going to do a full Sensi crop before I get into making more seed.
- I wanted to get 4 females so I figured I would start with 8 seeds.
- I wanted to give each lady a decent 5 gallons worth of room for the roots
- I found a decent bag of organic potting soil and I combined it with ~30% perlite.
- I’ve read a lot of really great training techniques and seen some amazing results so I wanted to give a few of them a try, to be included; Supercropping, lst, topping, defolation, and bud backbuilding.
- 2.66”x2.66”x5.25” iPower tent 7.11sqft 37.33cuft
- maxsisun m480 LED - 203 actual wattage. Blue and red switches. May invest in another the same for flowering
- Will have to buy charcoal filtered exhaust for flower but for now intake/exhaust are passive. I ended up doing this
- Would love to get 7oz. Probably a crazy goal, but that would be .97g/watt.
- Seeds placed in water 01/01/19, chop will happen by the end of May
- I ended up flipping on 02/14
- Started in solo cups then moved to 2L containers for sexing, then on to 5 gal fabric pots
The Strain
Greenpoint’s regular Cookies n Chem; an Indica dominant hybrid.
Genetic Makeup
Girl Scout Cookies – 25%
Starfighter – 25%
Chem 4 – 25%
Chem D – 22%
Affy – 03%
Flowering length : 60-70 days
Recommended indoor or outdoor
Finishing height: short-medium
The pictures I’ve seen of this strain look sticky and crystalline; like so:
The Nutrients and medium
- Final pots for the most vigorous females will be 12” diameter 10” tall fabric
- 2 cubic feet of Black Gold organic potting soil
- 16 quarts of perlite, rinsed thoroughly
- Blue Planet Nutrients elite 3-part series
- General Hydroponics pH up and down
- Dyna-Gro neem oil for integrated pest management
- May get calmag from Blue Planet if it seems necessary for flower. I’ve heard LEDs up calcium requirements
- My water is a consistent 100-150 ppm and 6.3-6.8 pH
- I started with 1/2 strength nutes for the 2 feedings in week 3, then moved to full strength for week 4, full strength from then on according to ppm
- On 12/30 I put 8 seeds in water to soak for up to 24 hours.
- After 12 hours all 8 had cracked and showed fractions of a mm of taproot showing.
- I planted in styrofoam cups with the flat side of the seeds just barely poking out of the soil.
- After 3 days all except two had open cotyledons, #1 dried up I think and 7 grew up from the soil but waited an extra day to shed its shell.
- 2/4 was day 35 days into veg, and I plan to go another 4 weeks if necessary.Final pot size will be 5 gal fabric potsbut for now 6 of the plants are in 2 quart containers and one gal has already been transplanted
- For veg intake/exhaust were passive but I got an inline exhaust and carbon filter for the flip to flower.
- My temps stay between 75-85 during lights on and drop to about 65-70 during lights off. The RH depends on how recently they’ve been watered, but typically the range is between 20-40 if it’s been a while and 60-70 if they’ve been recently watered. I water them after a day or two of the container being light and dry. They seem healthiest and most vigorous when they are in their dry cycle so I leave them dry until I see first signs of droopiness
And here’s my feeding chart, I followed the ppm at full strength except I used the ratio of grow:micro:bloom that’s on the bottle (they were different)
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for teaching me everything that got me my yield this cycle.
