Dr Jay Rolla
New Member
...anyone willing to offer any help during my grow its encouraged....
Setup
3'x3'x6' Grow Tent
400w HPS...used for whole grow (I bought an MH to use during veg next grow)
190cfm Vantech Exhaust fan with odor sok filter...connected to the top wall outlet port and exhausts from top of tent.
6" electric fan for fresh air intake...hooked into my bottom inlet port.
Big electric fan inside to provide circulation....its on same side of tent as fresh air intake(so they work together)
Lights ON Temps 70-77 degrees
Lights ON Humidity 35%-55%
Lights OFF Temps 60-62 degrees
Lights OFF Humidity 50%-65%
7 plants total
(5) 3 gallon pots
(2) 2 gallon pots
Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil 75%......perlite 25%
GH FloraNova 'Grow' and 'Bloom'....may purchase liquid kool bloom as well
3 Northern Lights
1 Big Bud X Northern Lights
3 Auto Pipis....all seeds bought from Herbies
...my tent is setup in my basement...roughly 50-60 degrees and 45% humidity is the basement atmosphere.
Germination
Since i knew nothing about germination or growing at all.....i started searching online. The results i came up with was that germination was one of the toughest if not the toughest part of growing.
So...i bought the propagator pro with sponge pots. The sponge pots already have a compost in them thats specifically made for germination. They worked great....the first time.
I popped 6 seeds down in the sponge pots....watered them with the bacto mix that comes with it...
...put them in the propagator and the stored that in my dark cool closet.
....3 days later they were already coming up....
Right away 4 of them were over an inch in 5 days....i figured they were streching so i planted those 4 in their final pots on day 6. They other 2 were planted 2 days later in their final pots.(1 went into a 1 gallon pot and was later transplanted to a 3 gallon....and 1 ended up dying a day later..which gave me an extra 3 gal pot)
So i hit 6 out of 6 on germination.......but 1 died very shortly after.
5 plants left and i figure some may be male....
...so i pop 6 more in the propagator.......this time i only get 2 out 6.....but i put the propagator in my grow tent with the light on for this 2nd batch......so thats prolly where i messed up.....but i just felt like the light LED light the propagator comes with wasnt enough.
So now ive got 7 plants....and all turned out to be FEMALE!!!
2 of them are 1 week behind the other 5.
4 out of my first 5 plants went into 3 gallon pots....
1 of them went into 1 gallon pot since it was all i had at the time....transplanted into that extra 3 gallon pot at 4 weeks....roots were coming out bottom of the 1 gal pot.
I bought 2 gallon pots for the other 2 plants.....
for those 2 plants....an Auto Pipi strain and a Northern Light strain i did the solo cup method...where i planted a solo cup with the bottom cut out in there final pot and then the seedling was planted into the solo cup...its a method to get water to the roots better when the plant is younger, basically i just watered into the solo cupfor the first 2 weeks...i just tried it to see if it helped any....
i can tell you that the auto pipi doesnt look the greatest right now.....but the Northern Light has already started to flower at 4 weeks and it looks very very happy.
As for the other 5 plants....
The BigBudxNorthern Light is looking very healthy and happy.....the other 2 Northern Lights are coming along really well.....and i have 2 more Auto Pipis that are looking better and better everyday.
I just gave them all water for the first 4 weeks of the 5 older ones and the first 3 weeks for the 2 younger ones(i gave them all their first nutes at the same time)
It was 1/8 dose GH Grow....then it was plain water.....then they all got an even smaller dose of GH Grow....then plain water....then the 2 younger got 1/4 dose grow/and the 5 older got 1/4 dose GH Bloom.....
and thats where im at now........oldest plants just entered week 6 today
this is my first grow ever.......im definitely learning as i go.......any help is encouraged!
if u need any other info just holla.....
i would have added a photo but i dont know how. Sorry.
Setup
3'x3'x6' Grow Tent
400w HPS...used for whole grow (I bought an MH to use during veg next grow)
190cfm Vantech Exhaust fan with odor sok filter...connected to the top wall outlet port and exhausts from top of tent.
6" electric fan for fresh air intake...hooked into my bottom inlet port.
Big electric fan inside to provide circulation....its on same side of tent as fresh air intake(so they work together)
Lights ON Temps 70-77 degrees
Lights ON Humidity 35%-55%
Lights OFF Temps 60-62 degrees
Lights OFF Humidity 50%-65%
7 plants total
(5) 3 gallon pots
(2) 2 gallon pots
Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil 75%......perlite 25%
GH FloraNova 'Grow' and 'Bloom'....may purchase liquid kool bloom as well
3 Northern Lights
1 Big Bud X Northern Lights
3 Auto Pipis....all seeds bought from Herbies
...my tent is setup in my basement...roughly 50-60 degrees and 45% humidity is the basement atmosphere.
Germination
Since i knew nothing about germination or growing at all.....i started searching online. The results i came up with was that germination was one of the toughest if not the toughest part of growing.
So...i bought the propagator pro with sponge pots. The sponge pots already have a compost in them thats specifically made for germination. They worked great....the first time.
I popped 6 seeds down in the sponge pots....watered them with the bacto mix that comes with it...
...put them in the propagator and the stored that in my dark cool closet.
....3 days later they were already coming up....
Right away 4 of them were over an inch in 5 days....i figured they were streching so i planted those 4 in their final pots on day 6. They other 2 were planted 2 days later in their final pots.(1 went into a 1 gallon pot and was later transplanted to a 3 gallon....and 1 ended up dying a day later..which gave me an extra 3 gal pot)
So i hit 6 out of 6 on germination.......but 1 died very shortly after.
5 plants left and i figure some may be male....
...so i pop 6 more in the propagator.......this time i only get 2 out 6.....but i put the propagator in my grow tent with the light on for this 2nd batch......so thats prolly where i messed up.....but i just felt like the light LED light the propagator comes with wasnt enough.
So now ive got 7 plants....and all turned out to be FEMALE!!!
2 of them are 1 week behind the other 5.
4 out of my first 5 plants went into 3 gallon pots....
1 of them went into 1 gallon pot since it was all i had at the time....transplanted into that extra 3 gallon pot at 4 weeks....roots were coming out bottom of the 1 gal pot.
I bought 2 gallon pots for the other 2 plants.....
for those 2 plants....an Auto Pipi strain and a Northern Light strain i did the solo cup method...where i planted a solo cup with the bottom cut out in there final pot and then the seedling was planted into the solo cup...its a method to get water to the roots better when the plant is younger, basically i just watered into the solo cupfor the first 2 weeks...i just tried it to see if it helped any....
i can tell you that the auto pipi doesnt look the greatest right now.....but the Northern Light has already started to flower at 4 weeks and it looks very very happy.
As for the other 5 plants....
The BigBudxNorthern Light is looking very healthy and happy.....the other 2 Northern Lights are coming along really well.....and i have 2 more Auto Pipis that are looking better and better everyday.
I just gave them all water for the first 4 weeks of the 5 older ones and the first 3 weeks for the 2 younger ones(i gave them all their first nutes at the same time)
It was 1/8 dose GH Grow....then it was plain water.....then they all got an even smaller dose of GH Grow....then plain water....then the 2 younger got 1/4 dose grow/and the 5 older got 1/4 dose GH Bloom.....
and thats where im at now........oldest plants just entered week 6 today
this is my first grow ever.......im definitely learning as i go.......any help is encouraged!
if u need any other info just holla.....
i would have added a photo but i dont know how. Sorry.