MrWashington
420 Member
Hello, brothers and sisters! To keep myself sane while on quarantine during these difficult times, I decided to start my first Indoor grow. I've had some experience doing balcony grows, but this time I want to take it a little more seriously! Here's what I have so far and what's been going on.
31.03.2020 - 24h later both seeds germinated, but I decided to leave them for another 12h to get better roots (one of them barely showed itself);
01.04.2020 - Seeds were placed in Root Riot cubes, and root riot cubes were placed in Plagron Batmix, lightly watered and covered with plastic boxes for the greenhouse effect).
02.04.2020 - Both seedlings sprouted with their coats on. I quickly noticed that instead of growing though Root Riot, Unknown Kush’s (later Cristina) root actually pushed the seedling out of the cube. I took her out using tweezers, made a bigger hole, placed her back in the cube and made 2 holes to put some pressure on the root. => back in the greenhouse.
03.04.2020 - Helped Critical Jack (later Meredith) to get her coat off. Every 2-3 hours I put a drop of water on Cristina to help her to get her coat off. 10 hours later => she’s free!
04.04.2020 - Girls straightened out. Gave them 300ml each of tap + root booster. Watered in a circle near the edges of the pot.
05.04.2020 - Not much growth - I believe 300 ml was a little too much. Sprayed some water on top of the soil to give em some humidity, otherwise, no watering today.
06.04.2020 - Some visible growth! My light cycle is 18/6. Fed them roughly 200 ml of tap on the edges of the pots.
07.04.2020 - Temp is around 24-26C, humidity - 30%. Kinda hard to do something about it now, and humidifier makes the water drip from the fan. Buck it! Finally some pictures!
Some mistakes I made so far:
1) Skipping small pots, placing them in 15L fabric pots and overwatering a little in the beginning.
I guess we can call it a start!
EQUIPMENT:
80х80х180 cm grow tent;
400+ cubic m vent;
Some basic fan for a nice breeze;
5L humidifier;
Mechanical timer;
TDS meter and some Chinese PH paper strips (will get an electronic PH meter later);
I will add a charcoal filter sometime in the future.
LIGHT:
250W HPS in a cooltube for vegetative and flowering stages. I am planning to use additional 4x36W fluorescent lights for the flowering stage (OSRAM FLUORA), as well as switching to 400W HPS for flowering. I like big buds and I cannot lie.
GROWING MEDIUM:
PLAGRON BATMIX Soil.
NUTRITIONS:
Local root booster and fungicide suitable for cannabis;
CANNABIOGEN DELTA 9;
Based on Plagron Batmix reviews, I won’t be needing any feeding for the vegetative period,
but I have some local nutes that will do the job, just in case
I still haven’t decided on the nutritions for the flowering,
I would very much appreciate your advice here, looking for something low-medium priced.
Total investments so far: 300$
STRAINS:
1) UNKNOWN KUSH FEM by DELICIOUS SEEDS
2) CRITICAL JACK FEM (Unconfirmed bank since it didn’t arrive in a branded package)
FIRST DAYS:
30.03.2020 - Seeds were placed to germinate (wet cotton face wipes, ziplock, dark box);80х80х180 cm grow tent;
400+ cubic m vent;
Some basic fan for a nice breeze;
5L humidifier;
Mechanical timer;
TDS meter and some Chinese PH paper strips (will get an electronic PH meter later);
I will add a charcoal filter sometime in the future.
LIGHT:
250W HPS in a cooltube for vegetative and flowering stages. I am planning to use additional 4x36W fluorescent lights for the flowering stage (OSRAM FLUORA), as well as switching to 400W HPS for flowering. I like big buds and I cannot lie.
GROWING MEDIUM:
PLAGRON BATMIX Soil.
NUTRITIONS:
Local root booster and fungicide suitable for cannabis;
CANNABIOGEN DELTA 9;
Based on Plagron Batmix reviews, I won’t be needing any feeding for the vegetative period,
but I have some local nutes that will do the job, just in case
I still haven’t decided on the nutritions for the flowering,
I would very much appreciate your advice here, looking for something low-medium priced.
Total investments so far: 300$
STRAINS:
1) UNKNOWN KUSH FEM by DELICIOUS SEEDS
2) CRITICAL JACK FEM (Unconfirmed bank since it didn’t arrive in a branded package)
FIRST DAYS:
31.03.2020 - 24h later both seeds germinated, but I decided to leave them for another 12h to get better roots (one of them barely showed itself);
01.04.2020 - Seeds were placed in Root Riot cubes, and root riot cubes were placed in Plagron Batmix, lightly watered and covered with plastic boxes for the greenhouse effect).
02.04.2020 - Both seedlings sprouted with their coats on. I quickly noticed that instead of growing though Root Riot, Unknown Kush’s (later Cristina) root actually pushed the seedling out of the cube. I took her out using tweezers, made a bigger hole, placed her back in the cube and made 2 holes to put some pressure on the root. => back in the greenhouse.
03.04.2020 - Helped Critical Jack (later Meredith) to get her coat off. Every 2-3 hours I put a drop of water on Cristina to help her to get her coat off. 10 hours later => she’s free!
04.04.2020 - Girls straightened out. Gave them 300ml each of tap + root booster. Watered in a circle near the edges of the pot.
05.04.2020 - Not much growth - I believe 300 ml was a little too much. Sprayed some water on top of the soil to give em some humidity, otherwise, no watering today.
06.04.2020 - Some visible growth! My light cycle is 18/6. Fed them roughly 200 ml of tap on the edges of the pots.
07.04.2020 - Temp is around 24-26C, humidity - 30%. Kinda hard to do something about it now, and humidifier makes the water drip from the fan. Buck it! Finally some pictures!
Some mistakes I made so far:
1) Skipping small pots, placing them in 15L fabric pots and overwatering a little in the beginning.
I guess we can call it a start!