Hello everyone, here's my journal. I'm not very experienced to growing, yet no amateur. Decided to do a micro grow after couple of years absence of growing. I'm doing this for fun, so we'll see how it goes.
I build a small chamber in a pc chassi where i will both veg and flower. It's complete with a bubbler, scrubber and ~22w of non top bin leds. I decided to use the Osram golden dragon leds for the easy acess and slim design.
I have a single 120mm fan for outtake of unkown capacity and it keeps the case at 84F or 28C. Theres also one 120mm fan keeping the heatsink cool to the touch, im very happy with the temperature achieved and hopes it stays this way.
The strain is freebies from Seedsman. They are unmarked but i have a slight memory of them being 2x blueberry feminized seeds. I can't verify but we'll see once i get into flowering if they're feminized or if im just lucky. I used the paper method and they popped after 2 days. Put directly into rockwool and into the bubbler.
I use GHE nutes grow, bloom and micro. Im running the bubbler at ~350 ppm from day 1, the water had around 150 before any nutes. I will up as i go on. The first week i kept ph steady around 5,8-6,0. But i've decided to let it go up to 6,5 before taking it down once more hoping to cure yellow spots on leafs. Rh is at 35% i will not try to raise this at any point. I check levels daily.
Alright let's get to the pictures;
I use a small standard PSU wich i soldered a wire to so i can use a single intake cable.
The passive intake will be one of these. The box is not 100% lightproof, but close to it. With a few tweaks it would be no problem getting there.
Heres the led panel. It uses 3x 6500ks 2x royal blue 6x 623 red 6x 660 red. Uses 43,8V fed with 500mA wich should draw 21,9w give or take some. I have not verified it. How many lumens it puts out i have no idea, osram choose to not release the chips based on bins and therefor its hard to calculate a good number.
The scrubber. It's pretty big and should let air through without a hassle.
Dressed with mylar, im happy with how it turned out. The space i have to work with is ~7,5x10,5x16,5 inch or 19x27x42 cm. It's a small space but we'll see how it turns out.
The bubbler. I tried using airstones but i was very unhappy with the amound of noice it made so i decided to simply drill some small holes in the standard silicone tube since the sound was alot more quite with more resistance, it still makes more noice than i would like to but its alot better. Maybe i will do dirt for next grow, then it would barely put out any sound.
Here is where i started counting days. I call it day 2, becouse i forgot how many days since it popped.
Day 4
Day 7 you can see some small yellow spots on the leaf of the bigger grill. I have yet to collect the experience to know what this is, if anyone have some ideas they sure would be welcome.
Day 8
Day 9 here i tried take some pics of the yellow spots, they're yet only visible on one plant. Roots look healthy.
Day 10 I'm surprised by the low amound of stretch. They're sitting about 4 inch, 10 cm from leds.
Yellow spots now on both grills.
I think that was all, feel free to throw me some questions if i missed anything. Happy growing to all of you.
I build a small chamber in a pc chassi where i will both veg and flower. It's complete with a bubbler, scrubber and ~22w of non top bin leds. I decided to use the Osram golden dragon leds for the easy acess and slim design.
I have a single 120mm fan for outtake of unkown capacity and it keeps the case at 84F or 28C. Theres also one 120mm fan keeping the heatsink cool to the touch, im very happy with the temperature achieved and hopes it stays this way.
The strain is freebies from Seedsman. They are unmarked but i have a slight memory of them being 2x blueberry feminized seeds. I can't verify but we'll see once i get into flowering if they're feminized or if im just lucky. I used the paper method and they popped after 2 days. Put directly into rockwool and into the bubbler.
I use GHE nutes grow, bloom and micro. Im running the bubbler at ~350 ppm from day 1, the water had around 150 before any nutes. I will up as i go on. The first week i kept ph steady around 5,8-6,0. But i've decided to let it go up to 6,5 before taking it down once more hoping to cure yellow spots on leafs. Rh is at 35% i will not try to raise this at any point. I check levels daily.
Alright let's get to the pictures;
I use a small standard PSU wich i soldered a wire to so i can use a single intake cable.
The passive intake will be one of these. The box is not 100% lightproof, but close to it. With a few tweaks it would be no problem getting there.
Heres the led panel. It uses 3x 6500ks 2x royal blue 6x 623 red 6x 660 red. Uses 43,8V fed with 500mA wich should draw 21,9w give or take some. I have not verified it. How many lumens it puts out i have no idea, osram choose to not release the chips based on bins and therefor its hard to calculate a good number.
The scrubber. It's pretty big and should let air through without a hassle.
Dressed with mylar, im happy with how it turned out. The space i have to work with is ~7,5x10,5x16,5 inch or 19x27x42 cm. It's a small space but we'll see how it turns out.
The bubbler. I tried using airstones but i was very unhappy with the amound of noice it made so i decided to simply drill some small holes in the standard silicone tube since the sound was alot more quite with more resistance, it still makes more noice than i would like to but its alot better. Maybe i will do dirt for next grow, then it would barely put out any sound.
Here is where i started counting days. I call it day 2, becouse i forgot how many days since it popped.
Day 4
Day 7 you can see some small yellow spots on the leaf of the bigger grill. I have yet to collect the experience to know what this is, if anyone have some ideas they sure would be welcome.
Day 8
Day 9 here i tried take some pics of the yellow spots, they're yet only visible on one plant. Roots look healthy.
Day 10 I'm surprised by the low amound of stretch. They're sitting about 4 inch, 10 cm from leds.
Yellow spots now on both grills.
I think that was all, feel free to throw me some questions if i missed anything. Happy growing to all of you.