HerbertoChiba
New Member
Hi everyone, hope you are all well. My name is Herberto and I have been a long time watcher of the forum. After many years of dreaming and planning I finally have the chance to grow my own medicine for my chronic pain. Was hoping the government in Canada would have changed the laws to allow all patients to grow by now but they haven't. Costs my family way to much to constantly buy so I need to grow to be healthy. I just got things started and I was writing everything down but I thought it would be a good idea to start a journal here since the energy is quite positive here 
and I obviously will need some help since it is my first time growing. It is a pleasure to be here on the forum. So, enough of the introductions, onto the grow.
For my first grow I selected some Crop King Seeds Autoflowers so that I could have a crop sooner so as to stop buying from LP's or dispensaries. I went with:
Northern Lights Auto- 70I/20S/10R
Trainwreck Auto- 60S/30I/10R
Germinated 4 NL and 4 TW seeds as per CKS instructions and all seeds have popped through the soil.
3 NL and 3 TW were planted in 3 Gallon fabric pots. 1 NL in a modified 5 Gallon fabric pot and 1 TW in a 3 Gallon plastic pot. Wasn't expecting all the seeds to germinate so I may have too many plants in this tent.
All seeds were planted in Promix BX with added perlite, earthworm castings, and 2 Tbl.sp./gallon of dolomite. Perlite and earthworm castings were each 9L bags divided amongst they 8 pots. Thankyou BurnOne for posting your soil mix recommendations. Followed it with what I had. Picked up some General Organics nutrients to feed. I know some people don't like them but I needed something to feed them with the money I had left. Didn't want to go broke and find out that I can't grow worth a damn.
Growing in a Mars Hydro 4x4x7 tent
Lights (for now) are 2x Mars Hydro 300's
Small fan for air circulation
Dehumidifier set up outside the tent as the humidity is very high here
Temp stays at around 73F when lights are on and the RH is around 66%. It goes up to 78% at times but I think the inline fan will help a lot as there is not a lot of air circulation now and the dehumidifier will be placed closer to the tent. Lights are on a 20/4 schedule to start but my drop back to 18/6 but not sure if it is a good idea or not?
I have an 6 in inline fan and carbon filter coming and will be adding another fan to circulate.
I will also be ordering some more lights but I am a little stuck on this. I was going to order 2 more Mars hydro 300 but I was wondering if it would be better to order a Mars hydro Reflector 96 instead? Or maybe a bunch of CFL's? Do not have tons of money left and the reflector would be the limit I could spend.
Any help is greatly appreciate and welcomed. Hope to have more updates soon. Thanks for stopping by.
and I obviously will need some help since it is my first time growing. It is a pleasure to be here on the forum. So, enough of the introductions, onto the grow.For my first grow I selected some Crop King Seeds Autoflowers so that I could have a crop sooner so as to stop buying from LP's or dispensaries. I went with:
Northern Lights Auto- 70I/20S/10R
Trainwreck Auto- 60S/30I/10R
Germinated 4 NL and 4 TW seeds as per CKS instructions and all seeds have popped through the soil.
3 NL and 3 TW were planted in 3 Gallon fabric pots. 1 NL in a modified 5 Gallon fabric pot and 1 TW in a 3 Gallon plastic pot. Wasn't expecting all the seeds to germinate so I may have too many plants in this tent.
All seeds were planted in Promix BX with added perlite, earthworm castings, and 2 Tbl.sp./gallon of dolomite. Perlite and earthworm castings were each 9L bags divided amongst they 8 pots. Thankyou BurnOne for posting your soil mix recommendations. Followed it with what I had
. Picked up some General Organics nutrients to feed. I know some people don't like them but I needed something to feed them with the money I had left. Didn't want to go broke and find out that I can't grow worth a damn.
Growing in a Mars Hydro 4x4x7 tent
Lights (for now) are 2x Mars Hydro 300's
Small fan for air circulation
Dehumidifier set up outside the tent as the humidity is very high here
Temp stays at around 73F when lights are on and the RH is around 66%. It goes up to 78% at times but I think the inline fan will help a lot as there is not a lot of air circulation now and the dehumidifier will be placed closer to the tent. Lights are on a 20/4 schedule to start but my drop back to 18/6 but not sure if it is a good idea or not?
I have an 6 in inline fan and carbon filter coming and will be adding another fan to circulate.
I will also be ordering some more lights but I am a little stuck on this. I was going to order 2 more Mars hydro 300 but I was wondering if it would be better to order a Mars hydro Reflector 96 instead? Or maybe a bunch of CFL's? Do not have tons of money left and the reflector would be the limit I could spend.
Any help is greatly appreciate and welcomed. Hope to have more updates soon. Thanks for stopping by.
