Welcome to my first grow ever. I've done my research and am already a couple weeks in, just been too busy to post a journal already, still on a bit of fine tuning.
History:
I've been around weed for a couple decades now. I dont smoke personally (well on slight occasion) but all my closest friends do. So I thought, why not put my patients, and my vast experience as a chef to good use for for everyone benefit. About 3-4 months ago I started researching everything so what makes successful grows. I covered as much as I thought came to mind. Read through hundreds of grow journals, checked out my friends plants, and read 3 very extensive books, the cannabis grow bible, ed rosenthal's growers handbook, and marijuana horticulture fundamentals.
While researching I build up my expandable funds and bought everything I needed to get started. So here we go with the specs.
Setup:
4x4 grow tent
412 cam 6" exhaust fan
6" x 18" carbon filter
5" duct fan intake
Mars hydro TWS 2000W LED light
FFOF ocean forest 4:1 perlite
6" monkey fan
Autopots 15L x4
4x white widow
I am growing at my best friends place since I live in a shoebox. I wanted an enclosed tent with enough room to max out with 4 plants. After setting up the tent with the exhaust and light it was looking great but had too much negative pressure so I picked up the 5" intake and brought the pressure to just a little negative which is perfect. The carbon filter might be a bit much, but it should really knock out the odors and leaves room for expansion. I'm not going to be able to check on my plants every single day as my best friend lives an hour away. And after doing some more research I found the perfect solution. I picked up the autopots 4x15l system, and going to transplant into that in a week or 2. I also picked up a smart power bar and smart hydrometer to be able to monitor and adjust my tent when I cant make it there. Essentially trying to automate the growth with a live checking in and filling the reservoir twice a week.
Now onto the start:
After setting up my tent I placed the 4 seed directly into a small 1/2 liter mix of perlite and FFOF 75% and perlite mixture. The were popped and about 1inch tall after the first week. I had my buddy taking care of the watering till I made it to his place. After looking at his plants I'm looking at some colouring issues and his auto flowers just arent going into flowering yet. I'm thinking it's a ph problem. Get a ph pen and its 7.8ph. It's been another week, I'm noticing my girls are doubling In size every other day. I've only got a few pictures to start but I'm loving the growth, I've potted them up into 2g containers, and in a week or 2 I'm going to put up again into the autopot I'm just waiting to be delivered tomorrow before going to get new pics of my plants.
Heres the porn for everyone
History:
I've been around weed for a couple decades now. I dont smoke personally (well on slight occasion) but all my closest friends do. So I thought, why not put my patients, and my vast experience as a chef to good use for for everyone benefit. About 3-4 months ago I started researching everything so what makes successful grows. I covered as much as I thought came to mind. Read through hundreds of grow journals, checked out my friends plants, and read 3 very extensive books, the cannabis grow bible, ed rosenthal's growers handbook, and marijuana horticulture fundamentals.
While researching I build up my expandable funds and bought everything I needed to get started. So here we go with the specs.
Setup:
4x4 grow tent
412 cam 6" exhaust fan
6" x 18" carbon filter
5" duct fan intake
Mars hydro TWS 2000W LED light
FFOF ocean forest 4:1 perlite
6" monkey fan
Autopots 15L x4
4x white widow
I am growing at my best friends place since I live in a shoebox. I wanted an enclosed tent with enough room to max out with 4 plants. After setting up the tent with the exhaust and light it was looking great but had too much negative pressure so I picked up the 5" intake and brought the pressure to just a little negative which is perfect. The carbon filter might be a bit much, but it should really knock out the odors and leaves room for expansion. I'm not going to be able to check on my plants every single day as my best friend lives an hour away. And after doing some more research I found the perfect solution. I picked up the autopots 4x15l system, and going to transplant into that in a week or 2. I also picked up a smart power bar and smart hydrometer to be able to monitor and adjust my tent when I cant make it there. Essentially trying to automate the growth with a live checking in and filling the reservoir twice a week.
Now onto the start:
After setting up my tent I placed the 4 seed directly into a small 1/2 liter mix of perlite and FFOF 75% and perlite mixture. The were popped and about 1inch tall after the first week. I had my buddy taking care of the watering till I made it to his place. After looking at his plants I'm looking at some colouring issues and his auto flowers just arent going into flowering yet. I'm thinking it's a ph problem. Get a ph pen and its 7.8ph. It's been another week, I'm noticing my girls are doubling In size every other day. I've only got a few pictures to start but I'm loving the growth, I've potted them up into 2g containers, and in a week or 2 I'm going to put up again into the autopot I'm just waiting to be delivered tomorrow before going to get new pics of my plants.
Heres the porn for everyone
