Perfect Sun LED
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Okay, so I am doing a few things here. First, I am using a 4x4x7 tent, brand lighthouse. It's a strong durable tent I bought on Ebay for like $130.
I will be doing three plants in soil and three in coco, two under LED, 4 under CFL, hopefully replacing the cfls with a 400watt HPS.
Equipment
FloraKleen, for when I do flushes every two weeks.
Plastic tray's to catch runoff $2.50 each at the local hydro store.
Smart Pots 3 gal, about $3 a piece, using six of them.
Lights: Right now using a 900 watt DIY CFL hood. 12,600 lumes at 1 foot away, so I guess that increases at 6 inches away, but I am unsure if that is correct.
300 watt LED, plus two 200watt splash CFLs.
Nutrients: Floragrow, florabloom, floramicro, florablend, and botanicare's Calmax plus, mainly for the coco pots.
Extreme Gardening Mykos Drops.
Medium/soil: For the three soil pots; FoxFarm Ocean Forest mixed with FoxFarm Light Warrior. I mixed both bags together. The light warrior is used to make the soil more airy and more drainable. I added one cup of fine, dolomite lime.
Coco; bitanicare Cocogro mixed with 10% Rocks growing medium and 1 cup of fine, dolomite lime. The lime is to help the PH. I was going to use 10% hydroton, but the rocks were cheaper and pretty much do the same thing.
Floramite to prevent spidermites, and hopefully help kill powdery Mildew. I will be getting some SNS 244 for PM.
I have 1x1 inch x 4 foot pieces of wood laying across the trays so that the pots get air under them. Two pieces of wood across 3 trays, like railroad tracks. I will try to get a picture of that if anyone is interested.
PLANTS: 2x Northern Lights, 2X White Widow, 1X Lucy, 1X Mendicino Purple.
Right now the plants are still in their 1gal pots. I will be transplanting after I treat plants with SNS and Floramite because some show signs of PM. The others might have it but not showing signs yet. This is because I bought the clones from a dispensary. So much better to grow your own clones. Oh well. I was in a rush. These are 4 to 6 weeks old, and so saves me time.
I will be placing 3 plants in the soil and three in the coco. At the bottom of each smart pot, I will place 1inch of rocks. At the top of the coco pots, I will use a layer of coco coir cubes to keep flies away. I decided to use the cubes instead of sand, because sand stops more nuts from flowing and gets salt build up easier. It also doesn't breath as well as the cubes.
Before transplanting, I will flush the soil in the 1gal pots. First, I am letting them dry out. Then I will gently shake off as much soil as possible. Then I will flush three of them and place them into the 3gal smart pots. The other three, I will place into a 30 gal tote full of PH 6.0 water. I will lighting move them around to remove as much excess soil as possible, then place them in the coco smart pots.
Before I place them in their new mediums, I will rip open one of the mykos drops/bags and sprinkle the mykos all over the hole in the soil. This bacteria helps roots.
Watering Schedule
Soil:, First watering, just tap water, perhaps PH'd a bit to 6.8, probably not needed as soil balances itself out. I might let the tap water sit out over night to evaporate chlorine.
After a week or two, I will start adding nuts, unless they tell me they need them sooner. Reason is, the soil has at least a weeks worth of nutrients. I will pretty much follow the same feeding as soil, but not ph's to 6.0.
Coco: Ph water 6.0 with added nutrients, very low at first. I am not sure if I am going to even veg at all, but if so, I will feed with a bit of floragrow + rapid start + Floramicro + calmax, all at 1/4th strength. For the bloom, I will change floragrow with florabloom.
I will be using florablend during bloom only. The reason is because I don't care for plants to get super huge during veg. I prefer to keep my plants short. But used during flowering to get bigger better buds.
I think that covers it for now. Thanks for watching.
I will get more pictures of the plants before I transplant.
In the next post, I will also talk more about my tent, fans, and general set up with pics.
I will be doing three plants in soil and three in coco, two under LED, 4 under CFL, hopefully replacing the cfls with a 400watt HPS.
Equipment
FloraKleen, for when I do flushes every two weeks.
Plastic tray's to catch runoff $2.50 each at the local hydro store.
Smart Pots 3 gal, about $3 a piece, using six of them.
Lights: Right now using a 900 watt DIY CFL hood. 12,600 lumes at 1 foot away, so I guess that increases at 6 inches away, but I am unsure if that is correct.
300 watt LED, plus two 200watt splash CFLs.
Nutrients: Floragrow, florabloom, floramicro, florablend, and botanicare's Calmax plus, mainly for the coco pots.
Extreme Gardening Mykos Drops.
Medium/soil: For the three soil pots; FoxFarm Ocean Forest mixed with FoxFarm Light Warrior. I mixed both bags together. The light warrior is used to make the soil more airy and more drainable. I added one cup of fine, dolomite lime.
Coco; bitanicare Cocogro mixed with 10% Rocks growing medium and 1 cup of fine, dolomite lime. The lime is to help the PH. I was going to use 10% hydroton, but the rocks were cheaper and pretty much do the same thing.
Floramite to prevent spidermites, and hopefully help kill powdery Mildew. I will be getting some SNS 244 for PM.
I have 1x1 inch x 4 foot pieces of wood laying across the trays so that the pots get air under them. Two pieces of wood across 3 trays, like railroad tracks. I will try to get a picture of that if anyone is interested.
PLANTS: 2x Northern Lights, 2X White Widow, 1X Lucy, 1X Mendicino Purple.
Right now the plants are still in their 1gal pots. I will be transplanting after I treat plants with SNS and Floramite because some show signs of PM. The others might have it but not showing signs yet. This is because I bought the clones from a dispensary. So much better to grow your own clones. Oh well. I was in a rush. These are 4 to 6 weeks old, and so saves me time.
I will be placing 3 plants in the soil and three in the coco. At the bottom of each smart pot, I will place 1inch of rocks. At the top of the coco pots, I will use a layer of coco coir cubes to keep flies away. I decided to use the cubes instead of sand, because sand stops more nuts from flowing and gets salt build up easier. It also doesn't breath as well as the cubes.
Before transplanting, I will flush the soil in the 1gal pots. First, I am letting them dry out. Then I will gently shake off as much soil as possible. Then I will flush three of them and place them into the 3gal smart pots. The other three, I will place into a 30 gal tote full of PH 6.0 water. I will lighting move them around to remove as much excess soil as possible, then place them in the coco smart pots.
Before I place them in their new mediums, I will rip open one of the mykos drops/bags and sprinkle the mykos all over the hole in the soil. This bacteria helps roots.
Watering Schedule
Soil:, First watering, just tap water, perhaps PH'd a bit to 6.8, probably not needed as soil balances itself out. I might let the tap water sit out over night to evaporate chlorine.
After a week or two, I will start adding nuts, unless they tell me they need them sooner. Reason is, the soil has at least a weeks worth of nutrients. I will pretty much follow the same feeding as soil, but not ph's to 6.0.
Coco: Ph water 6.0 with added nutrients, very low at first. I am not sure if I am going to even veg at all, but if so, I will feed with a bit of floragrow + rapid start + Floramicro + calmax, all at 1/4th strength. For the bloom, I will change floragrow with florabloom.
I will be using florablend during bloom only. The reason is because I don't care for plants to get super huge during veg. I prefer to keep my plants short. But used during flowering to get bigger better buds.
I think that covers it for now. Thanks for watching.
I will get more pictures of the plants before I transplant.
In the next post, I will also talk more about my tent, fans, and general set up with pics.