danklover79
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Welcome to my journal, I started off with a shot adrenaline (Athena), my oldest girl, who is now 60 days old. Next came the second shot adrenaline (Shorty), who is now 58 days old. Last was the Pakistan Ryder (Medusa), who is now 56 days old and mysteriously is more mature than shorty. Athena was started in a 3 inch pot with FFOF soil and was transplanted to a 1 gallon pot at 13 days old. Shorty and Medusa were started in blue solo cups and transplanted on day 12 for Shorty and day 11 for Medusa. All plants were vegged under a 65 watt CFL, 6500K lamp. I later acquired a 125 watt CFL, 2700K lamp and made a ghetto reflector using corner pieces of roof flashing. I since have purchased a proper wing reflector and redesigned my grow space by mounting the reflector to a piece of plywood that hangs from the clothes rod, also mounted to the plywood is 2 small fans for circulation. As the plants grew larger, I installed 4, 13 watt CFL's for side lighting. These plants are amazing for first time growers, with my climate being severely hot and dry the plants have had to endure temperatures of up to 100 degrees for hours at a time, to aid in keeping my humidity up I purchased a KuulAire portable swamp cooler. I would turn it on high and cool and it kept my humidity between 50 to 65 percent. To help cool temperature in the grow space at times I would put ice in the reservoir of the swamp cooler. I have not encountered any fungus as of yet however I have had a few little visits from some pests. Leaf eaters and fungus gnats from the soil were frequenting my plants, until I spoke with my local nursery and they recommended using Triple action plus with neem oil. Also even though I know they don't hurt anything they get on my nerves, Flies always seem to wanna hang out on my leaves. Again my local nursery came to rescue by recommending that I use Permethrin, after spraying for the first time the gnats and flies fell all over the bottom of the grow space. Now the flies detour themselves away from the grow space thanks to the wonderful stuff.