Hello and welcome to my second journal here at 420.
My first was with 5 OG kush clones that yielded 259 grams of the most potent OG kush I have ever smoked. Some of you may remember. I started out as a total indoor newbie, did a lot of DIY'ing and a hell of a lot of reading.. Started with CFL's even though I had access to HID's. Well let's just say that I have awoke, and I have seen the light my brothers and sisters, and it's called HPS! Not like I need to preech to you guys how rad these lights are, you already know that right? Well hopefully by the end of this journal if you were on the fence about jumping in with HID lighting, you'll understand why everyone's always going off about them. it is the commercial standard and highest yielding lighting for a reason. They produce!! I switched from CFL's at the end of my Veg and busted into a single, vertical mounted, 1000 watt dimable HPS light. when I flipped the lights to 12/12. Don't ask me why I decided to this. I guess I really wanted to try something different right off the start. I don't regret mounting it like I did, and I ended up getting really good harvest running that setup. But I've grown to learn a lot about dispersal rates. And have discovered, I can do better..
Enough about the last grow, let's get into the new one!
This is going to be 10 OG kush clones that I took from the previous batch. All were vegged under a SunBlaze 4 foot 4 light HO floro light bank, and my good old 10 light CFL bank that I made for my first grow. The babies went into a new Jardin 5x5x6 tent to veg for a few weeks and then in went the HPS mounted horizontally (this time.) in a 6" cooltube reflector. The ladies given a good flush to get rid of left over veg nutes, and were put to sleep for 24 hours before the flip to kickstart flowering. And wow did it ever work. I saw white hairs 4 days after flipping. This is how I have my tent set up. 290 CFM elicent exhaust fan with speed controller scrubbing through a Carbon filter through the cooltube, and outside.. Since I had such a hard time with Powdery Mildew on the last one. I decided to make sure I had plenty of exhaust power so I don't have to run a fresh air intake. There is a huge Maple tree in our back yard that is completely infected with PM. (took me 2 sprayings to figure out I was sucking that shit straight into my room.) As soon as I noticed it last time I plugged everything up and started running a passive intake using the house as an intake filter, without any more PM problems at all. So that's kinda how it's going down in this tent too. Although the grow has moved to another part of the house, I have set up a veg room in a close by closet that will also triple as a clone room/labratory. I light sealed up the window in the closet and put a 6" hose off it to "slowly' draw clean air in. I think I'm going to try and DIY some sort of Heppa filter to connect to that passive intake so I can filter out that PM that's lurking around the house. Then another exhaust fan with speed controller sucking out air from Veg tent into the flowering tent. Seems to be working pretty good, cuz that Sunblaze doesn't produce much heat. But might have to change things as it gets colder outside. The flowering ladies are on a nocturnal schedule right now so lights on can be at night when it's coldest out. Since I blocked up all heating vents to the room, it got cold in there in mornings and through day whilst they slept. (67F) So I put a Cruise temp controller into the tent running an oil heater outside the tent in the room. This keeps everyone nice and toasty for their tuck in and sleepytime. (now 70-80F)
I guess that's pretty much it for now. I know I'm a little behind in this journal starting it a week and a half into flowering, but I will catch you all up. Plus flowering is the most exciting time! so think of it as I spared you the boring parts.
So here's the deets, and some photos. oldest to newest. Enjoy, I know I will!!
What strain is it? OG Kush clones
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?Indica Hybrid
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Flower
If in Veg... For how long? NA
If in Flower stage... For how long? 12 days
Indoor or outdoor? indoor
Soil or Hydro? Soil
If soil... what is in your mix? Sunshine mix
If soil... What size pot? 3 gallon
Size of light? 1- 1000 watt HPS Quantum digital dimable ballast.
Is it aircooled? cooltube
Temp of Room/cab? 75-85 F
RH of Room/cab? 30-45%
PH of media or res? 6.2
Any Pests ? not yet
How often are you watering? Once every 3 days. On feed, feed, water schedule
Type and strength of ferts used? All General Hydroponics, Flora series- Gro-Micro-Bloom. Floralicious plus, Liquid Koolbloom, Bio Root, Blackstrap Molasses on water days, music..
about a week before flip:
day 4 of flowering, already showing Thrichs!
day 5 of flower
day 6 of flower
day 7 flower
day 11 of flower
My first was with 5 OG kush clones that yielded 259 grams of the most potent OG kush I have ever smoked. Some of you may remember. I started out as a total indoor newbie, did a lot of DIY'ing and a hell of a lot of reading.. Started with CFL's even though I had access to HID's. Well let's just say that I have awoke, and I have seen the light my brothers and sisters, and it's called HPS! Not like I need to preech to you guys how rad these lights are, you already know that right? Well hopefully by the end of this journal if you were on the fence about jumping in with HID lighting, you'll understand why everyone's always going off about them. it is the commercial standard and highest yielding lighting for a reason. They produce!! I switched from CFL's at the end of my Veg and busted into a single, vertical mounted, 1000 watt dimable HPS light. when I flipped the lights to 12/12. Don't ask me why I decided to this. I guess I really wanted to try something different right off the start. I don't regret mounting it like I did, and I ended up getting really good harvest running that setup. But I've grown to learn a lot about dispersal rates. And have discovered, I can do better..
Enough about the last grow, let's get into the new one!
This is going to be 10 OG kush clones that I took from the previous batch. All were vegged under a SunBlaze 4 foot 4 light HO floro light bank, and my good old 10 light CFL bank that I made for my first grow. The babies went into a new Jardin 5x5x6 tent to veg for a few weeks and then in went the HPS mounted horizontally (this time.) in a 6" cooltube reflector. The ladies given a good flush to get rid of left over veg nutes, and were put to sleep for 24 hours before the flip to kickstart flowering. And wow did it ever work. I saw white hairs 4 days after flipping. This is how I have my tent set up. 290 CFM elicent exhaust fan with speed controller scrubbing through a Carbon filter through the cooltube, and outside.. Since I had such a hard time with Powdery Mildew on the last one. I decided to make sure I had plenty of exhaust power so I don't have to run a fresh air intake. There is a huge Maple tree in our back yard that is completely infected with PM. (took me 2 sprayings to figure out I was sucking that shit straight into my room.) As soon as I noticed it last time I plugged everything up and started running a passive intake using the house as an intake filter, without any more PM problems at all. So that's kinda how it's going down in this tent too. Although the grow has moved to another part of the house, I have set up a veg room in a close by closet that will also triple as a clone room/labratory. I light sealed up the window in the closet and put a 6" hose off it to "slowly' draw clean air in. I think I'm going to try and DIY some sort of Heppa filter to connect to that passive intake so I can filter out that PM that's lurking around the house. Then another exhaust fan with speed controller sucking out air from Veg tent into the flowering tent. Seems to be working pretty good, cuz that Sunblaze doesn't produce much heat. But might have to change things as it gets colder outside. The flowering ladies are on a nocturnal schedule right now so lights on can be at night when it's coldest out. Since I blocked up all heating vents to the room, it got cold in there in mornings and through day whilst they slept. (67F) So I put a Cruise temp controller into the tent running an oil heater outside the tent in the room. This keeps everyone nice and toasty for their tuck in and sleepytime. (now 70-80F)
I guess that's pretty much it for now. I know I'm a little behind in this journal starting it a week and a half into flowering, but I will catch you all up. Plus flowering is the most exciting time! so think of it as I spared you the boring parts.
So here's the deets, and some photos. oldest to newest. Enjoy, I know I will!!
What strain is it? OG Kush clones
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?Indica Hybrid
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Flower
If in Veg... For how long? NA
If in Flower stage... For how long? 12 days
Indoor or outdoor? indoor
Soil or Hydro? Soil
If soil... what is in your mix? Sunshine mix
If soil... What size pot? 3 gallon
Size of light? 1- 1000 watt HPS Quantum digital dimable ballast.
Is it aircooled? cooltube
Temp of Room/cab? 75-85 F
RH of Room/cab? 30-45%
PH of media or res? 6.2
Any Pests ? not yet
How often are you watering? Once every 3 days. On feed, feed, water schedule
Type and strength of ferts used? All General Hydroponics, Flora series- Gro-Micro-Bloom. Floralicious plus, Liquid Koolbloom, Bio Root, Blackstrap Molasses on water days, music..
