Hey there guys,
Okay so this is my first grow and I really wanted to document my journey along the way.
So here are my supplies:
6 43 watt 6500k daylight CFLs in those clamp light things (will be switching these out for diff. temp when flowering)
Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil with added MG Perlite
Fox Farms Big Bloom, Grow Big, and Tiger Bloom nutes
The fan I have is a small door frame fan
I'm going to be growing in my basement which is cool and dry, but the small grow room is cordoned off with two heavy duty tarps.
You can see pics below of my setup and supplies.
I'm hoping to grow 6 plants so that I can get at least 2 or 3 females. To start with I germed around 13 seeds. For my germing method what I did was I kind of messed up, I was trying the paper towel method but after two days of not seeing anything I decided to try soaking them in water for a few hours and then go ahead and plant them in soil.
So the seeds (I got 8 out of the 13) are just bagseed, from a pretty decent stash. They basically spent about 36 hours in a dark cabinet between two wet paper towels. Then I sunk them in water for about 3 hours before planting them into styrafoam cups. (I did this method with all 13, but 5 didn't sink after being in the water so I figured they were duds.)
None of the seeds were cracked when I planted them, but I made sure to plant them around 1/4-1/2 inch into dirt. I was having some issues with temperature, when the lights were on at about 1.5 inches away from the cup the temp was high at about 82, so then I messed around and raised the lights so that the temp was down to between 70-78. It was fluctuating pretty wildly due to our air conditioner being on, but for the past day it's been around 71 pretty steadily.
Anyway, so the seeds sat under the lights and fan on the regular 18/6 timer for two days before I realized that the lowered temp at night might be stoping their growth. So what I did was turned the lights on all night last night and all day today. I was worried about the amount of light on the plants when I woke up, but I really wanted the temperature to be right so I left the lights on, but covered the cups with a thick piece of dark fabric, thus giving the plants darkness but keeping the temp up. (Our basement gets down to the low 60's in the dark.) So low and behold when I checked them this evening, after they were covered up number 3 had popped out of hiding. I was like super excited when I saw this. I've got a pic below.
One thing I'm not sure on is early seedling lighting. I was afraid that since one seedling had popped with lights off that maybe the others needed the lights off, but then I got worried about how much light should be on the number 3. So What I'm going to do is just keep them on a 19/5 lighting schedule until I get the majority popped up, then back to 18/6.
When I went down to adjust the timer before making this post I could see that number 1 and number 6 were on the brink of sprouting. Hopefully there will be more to see tomorrow.
Anyway, here are some pics of my setup and number 3.
Grow room with the lights off at night. The material around the area are heavy duty tarps. One side is silver the other is white.
Thanks for reading!
Okay so this is my first grow and I really wanted to document my journey along the way.
So here are my supplies:
6 43 watt 6500k daylight CFLs in those clamp light things (will be switching these out for diff. temp when flowering)
Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil with added MG Perlite
Fox Farms Big Bloom, Grow Big, and Tiger Bloom nutes
The fan I have is a small door frame fan
I'm going to be growing in my basement which is cool and dry, but the small grow room is cordoned off with two heavy duty tarps.
You can see pics below of my setup and supplies.
I'm hoping to grow 6 plants so that I can get at least 2 or 3 females. To start with I germed around 13 seeds. For my germing method what I did was I kind of messed up, I was trying the paper towel method but after two days of not seeing anything I decided to try soaking them in water for a few hours and then go ahead and plant them in soil.
So the seeds (I got 8 out of the 13) are just bagseed, from a pretty decent stash. They basically spent about 36 hours in a dark cabinet between two wet paper towels. Then I sunk them in water for about 3 hours before planting them into styrafoam cups. (I did this method with all 13, but 5 didn't sink after being in the water so I figured they were duds.)
None of the seeds were cracked when I planted them, but I made sure to plant them around 1/4-1/2 inch into dirt. I was having some issues with temperature, when the lights were on at about 1.5 inches away from the cup the temp was high at about 82, so then I messed around and raised the lights so that the temp was down to between 70-78. It was fluctuating pretty wildly due to our air conditioner being on, but for the past day it's been around 71 pretty steadily.
Anyway, so the seeds sat under the lights and fan on the regular 18/6 timer for two days before I realized that the lowered temp at night might be stoping their growth. So what I did was turned the lights on all night last night and all day today. I was worried about the amount of light on the plants when I woke up, but I really wanted the temperature to be right so I left the lights on, but covered the cups with a thick piece of dark fabric, thus giving the plants darkness but keeping the temp up. (Our basement gets down to the low 60's in the dark.) So low and behold when I checked them this evening, after they were covered up number 3 had popped out of hiding. I was like super excited when I saw this. I've got a pic below.
One thing I'm not sure on is early seedling lighting. I was afraid that since one seedling had popped with lights off that maybe the others needed the lights off, but then I got worried about how much light should be on the number 3. So What I'm going to do is just keep them on a 19/5 lighting schedule until I get the majority popped up, then back to 18/6.
When I went down to adjust the timer before making this post I could see that number 1 and number 6 were on the brink of sprouting. Hopefully there will be more to see tomorrow.
Anyway, here are some pics of my setup and number 3.
Grow room with the lights off at night. The material around the area are heavy duty tarps. One side is silver the other is white.
Thanks for reading!