Time to start up again now that summer is winding down. This time around I will be growing sativa dominate hybrids and since I am stocked up on flower at the moment I can take my time with this grow.
Genetics are all Nirvana. I have had great luck with them in the past and quite frankly their shipping stealth is about as good as it gets.
The lineup is made up of:
Sour Diesel – Flower time 9-11 weeks
Amnesia Haze - Flower time 11-13 weeks
Blue dream - Flower time 9-11 weeks
Raspberry Cough - Flower time 9-11 weeks
The growing medium will be GH Cocotek in 3 gallon fabric pots. The nutrient lineup will be Advanced Nutrients PH perfect coco formula in both grow and flower. The additions being Great White for the root development, calmag and silica blast. The nutrient levels are going to be 1/4 strength to start (once they are out of the seedling stage) and then 1/2 strength max unless the plants tell me otherwise.
I run 2 tents. A small 2.5’ x 2.5’ x 5’ for the vegetative phase and a 4’ x 4’ x 7’ for bloom. The lighting in the little tent is (2) 300 watt (130 watt actual draw) Viparspectra high penetration series lights. The big tent is running a Mars Hydro Epistar 320 740 watt draw from the wall in bloom. Both tents are using carbon extraction for order and fresh air. I have misc. small fans for additional air circulation inside the tents.
I thought I would share my method of trying to reduce the mess of rehydrating and rinsing my coco. Basically I take a sawzall and cut the brick into 4 sections. The reason I do this is to be able to rehydrate sections of it at a time and it falls in line with my next step. Hospitals use disposable bedding in a lot of instances these days and the pillow cases are great for this. I place each section in a pillow case and let them soak in a large tub. Once hydrated I rinse the crap out of each case until the runoff is clear. Then I pretreat it for use. There is very little mess with this method and the pillow cases are just tossed when I am done with them.
I started out trying to use rapid rooters for the first time after reading the success a lot of people had with them. I am not sure what I did wrong but I got a big goose egg on the germination with them in a propagation dome. I went back to the old soak and paper towel method and got all 4 to pop a tap root so into coco in solo cups to see what we get. I just put them in today so I don’t expect much until the end of the week. I really don’t like this part of the grow because the seedlings are fragile but we are on our way now.
Not much to show yet but I hope to see some green soon.
Genetics are all Nirvana. I have had great luck with them in the past and quite frankly their shipping stealth is about as good as it gets.
The lineup is made up of:
Sour Diesel – Flower time 9-11 weeks
Amnesia Haze - Flower time 11-13 weeks
Blue dream - Flower time 9-11 weeks
Raspberry Cough - Flower time 9-11 weeks
The growing medium will be GH Cocotek in 3 gallon fabric pots. The nutrient lineup will be Advanced Nutrients PH perfect coco formula in both grow and flower. The additions being Great White for the root development, calmag and silica blast. The nutrient levels are going to be 1/4 strength to start (once they are out of the seedling stage) and then 1/2 strength max unless the plants tell me otherwise.
I run 2 tents. A small 2.5’ x 2.5’ x 5’ for the vegetative phase and a 4’ x 4’ x 7’ for bloom. The lighting in the little tent is (2) 300 watt (130 watt actual draw) Viparspectra high penetration series lights. The big tent is running a Mars Hydro Epistar 320 740 watt draw from the wall in bloom. Both tents are using carbon extraction for order and fresh air. I have misc. small fans for additional air circulation inside the tents.
I thought I would share my method of trying to reduce the mess of rehydrating and rinsing my coco. Basically I take a sawzall and cut the brick into 4 sections. The reason I do this is to be able to rehydrate sections of it at a time and it falls in line with my next step. Hospitals use disposable bedding in a lot of instances these days and the pillow cases are great for this. I place each section in a pillow case and let them soak in a large tub. Once hydrated I rinse the crap out of each case until the runoff is clear. Then I pretreat it for use. There is very little mess with this method and the pillow cases are just tossed when I am done with them.
I started out trying to use rapid rooters for the first time after reading the success a lot of people had with them. I am not sure what I did wrong but I got a big goose egg on the germination with them in a propagation dome. I went back to the old soak and paper towel method and got all 4 to pop a tap root so into coco in solo cups to see what we get. I just put them in today so I don’t expect much until the end of the week. I really don’t like this part of the grow because the seedlings are fragile but we are on our way now.
Not much to show yet but I hope to see some green soon.
