Tom Bombodil
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My very first post on 420mag! I hope readers will be patient, for the time being all posts are from my smartphone. This will be my second grow, the first having been 8 years ago. The results of that first were successful beyond hope, despite having to harvestharvest early due to circumstances. I'm still setting up the crux of the grow, but my mothers have been begat.
Germinated: 12 mothers from two varieties of seed. All brick weed, cheap stuff. I had a hell of a time getting ANYTHING to germ. I seriously tried over 100 beans from several old bags saved over the years. Tempted to give up, but figured maybe I was paying my cosmic dues for getting back to the craft. The last time I grew it was like Midas' touch, but shortly after a personal tragedy resulted in years before any attempt at gardening of any sort. The growing had nothing to do with it, but in some ways became a metaphor for that lost time, the unattainable past. Back in the present, imagine my excitement at finding sprouts on 11/16 after 4 days of germ! Woohoo!
Lighting: so far just 2 x 55w CFLs in a re-purposed DIY shop light. That project was fun
, learned about the diff between self-ballasted CFLs versus unballasted, but thats a good topic for a separate thread. I have a 400w HPS and 2 x 1000w switchable HPS/MH magnetic ballasts along with 2 x SuperSun I reflectors. Still building the flower chamber, but those are tbe tools at my disposal here at the beginning of bombodil's bumbling fumble in the jungle.
The 12 sprouts will all be mommies. Plan to take 2 clones from each, flower & sex, cull any manyales along with any associated daddies, and evaluate the plan forward based upon the number and characteristics of the remaining moms.
Proposed RDWC: 2 or 3 18gal totes, 3 in net pots + hydroton, totes with 1" thru-hull connections and a automatic float valve with each tote having its on 1/2" overfill protection going straight to drain. For the recirculation, I havent decided whether to run a pump from the master rez to 1/4" feeder lines, perhaps using on or more of those 6-port manifolds, or whether to fabricate a piped system with pressurized sprinkler heads in each tote. Will keep posted, comments welcome. Thats all for now, extensive typing on a smartphone sucks.
Germinated: 12 mothers from two varieties of seed. All brick weed, cheap stuff. I had a hell of a time getting ANYTHING to germ. I seriously tried over 100 beans from several old bags saved over the years. Tempted to give up, but figured maybe I was paying my cosmic dues for getting back to the craft. The last time I grew it was like Midas' touch, but shortly after a personal tragedy resulted in years before any attempt at gardening of any sort. The growing had nothing to do with it, but in some ways became a metaphor for that lost time, the unattainable past. Back in the present, imagine my excitement at finding sprouts on 11/16 after 4 days of germ! Woohoo!
Lighting: so far just 2 x 55w CFLs in a re-purposed DIY shop light. That project was fun
, learned about the diff between self-ballasted CFLs versus unballasted, but thats a good topic for a separate thread. I have a 400w HPS and 2 x 1000w switchable HPS/MH magnetic ballasts along with 2 x SuperSun I reflectors. Still building the flower chamber, but those are tbe tools at my disposal here at the beginning of bombodil's bumbling fumble in the jungle.
The 12 sprouts will all be mommies. Plan to take 2 clones from each, flower & sex, cull any manyales along with any associated daddies, and evaluate the plan forward based upon the number and characteristics of the remaining moms.
Proposed RDWC: 2 or 3 18gal totes, 3 in net pots + hydroton, totes with 1" thru-hull connections and a automatic float valve with each tote having its on 1/2" overfill protection going straight to drain. For the recirculation, I havent decided whether to run a pump from the master rez to 1/4" feeder lines, perhaps using on or more of those 6-port manifolds, or whether to fabricate a piped system with pressurized sprinkler heads in each tote. Will keep posted, comments welcome. Thats all for now, extensive typing on a smartphone sucks.