GreatWhiteBud
Well-Known Member
Hello from Northern Canada!
First off, sorry to anyone who was following my last journal, I ended up having to go out of town for a work for a while. I finished the grow and was pretty happy with the harvest, but life simply got in the way of the journal. I work concrete work spring to fall so i am off all winter, so this time around, i am looking forward to updating this often for my own records as well as anyone else interested in the strain, light, nutrients, etc.
Strains:
- 3 x CKS Green Crack
- 2 x CKS White Cookies
Equipment:
- Secret Jardin 4x4 grow tent
- Sunplix 315 CMH (dimmable ballast; operates at 150 - 400 watts)
I am loving this full spectrum light so far. The plants also seem to respond better to it than the LED i was using to start veg. I am running it at 315 during veg and will boost it to 350 for flower. I talked to the manufacturer and the sunplix mode is designed to be run 1-2 hours a day, full time use would lower bulb life. So that is what i will be doing during my 11/13 flower cycle, creating a high noon effect bumping it up to 400 watts for an hour in the middle of each lights on cycle.
- 7 Gallon Vivosun fabric pots
- 4" inline fan and carbon filter for exhaust w/ passive intake
- Tower fan
- Trouble light w/ Green Hornet LED
- Home made CO2 generator (sugar + yeast)
I run my extraction fan pretty low and it is drawing from the top of the tent so i am hoping with CO2 being heavier, it has some benefit. This might be futile, and without a CO2 meter i have no real idea if it adds anything, but it doesn't hurt anything either and sugar and yeast are cheap. i have it set up to exit into my fan and blow over the plants.
- Radio (playing local station, mostly classical music)
Soil mix (organic):
- 80 liters pro-mix organic vegetable and herb garden soil
- 40 liters Bluesky organics super soil
- 30 liters perlite
Nutrients:
General Organics line (minus biomarine):
- Biothrive grow and bloom
- CaMg+
- BioRoot
- Bioweed
- Diamond Black
- BioBud
Advanced Nutrients:
- Rhino Skin
- Sensizym
- Voodoo Juice
- Pirahna
NPK Industries:
- RAW ominA: acids
- RAW B-Vitamins
Xtreme Gardening:
- Mykos
*Citric acid as a PH down.
I am finding i need to water every 4-5 days at this point about 1.5-2 gallons each pot to get a little run off. I am also alternating between feedings and waterings, with being PH'd to 6.3.
Growing style:
I started 4 plants ealier and they are being main lined for 4 colas, with one being started later that was just topped and will be LST'd. I was pondering topping the main lines for more colas but these strains seem to have a lot of side branching through veg so i don't want them to get over crowded during flower.
General info:
- I still have 2-3 weeks of veg left, and the temps are good and the humidity has been very stable since adding a humidifier.
Light on: 75 degrees F / 55-60% RH
Lights off: 69 degrees F / 60-65% RH
- It is about minus 20 outside right now (again, northern Canada) so pests are not a huge worry but i did notice some missing chunks off of a leaf on one plant. I haven't seen anything and not sure if it was just stress or what not, but to be safe i picked up some Neem oil for pest prevention and gave em a spray the other day.
- I have been reading about 11/13 light cycles boosting flavors, aroma and phenotype expression, so i thinking about giving it a try this flowering cycle. If anyone has any feedback on this subject, feel free to chime in.
- Also in general, comments and conversation are more than welcome.
First off, sorry to anyone who was following my last journal, I ended up having to go out of town for a work for a while. I finished the grow and was pretty happy with the harvest, but life simply got in the way of the journal. I work concrete work spring to fall so i am off all winter, so this time around, i am looking forward to updating this often for my own records as well as anyone else interested in the strain, light, nutrients, etc.
Strains:
- 3 x CKS Green Crack
- 2 x CKS White Cookies
Equipment:
- Secret Jardin 4x4 grow tent
- Sunplix 315 CMH (dimmable ballast; operates at 150 - 400 watts)
I am loving this full spectrum light so far. The plants also seem to respond better to it than the LED i was using to start veg. I am running it at 315 during veg and will boost it to 350 for flower. I talked to the manufacturer and the sunplix mode is designed to be run 1-2 hours a day, full time use would lower bulb life. So that is what i will be doing during my 11/13 flower cycle, creating a high noon effect bumping it up to 400 watts for an hour in the middle of each lights on cycle.
- 7 Gallon Vivosun fabric pots
- 4" inline fan and carbon filter for exhaust w/ passive intake
- Tower fan
- Trouble light w/ Green Hornet LED
- Home made CO2 generator (sugar + yeast)
I run my extraction fan pretty low and it is drawing from the top of the tent so i am hoping with CO2 being heavier, it has some benefit. This might be futile, and without a CO2 meter i have no real idea if it adds anything, but it doesn't hurt anything either and sugar and yeast are cheap. i have it set up to exit into my fan and blow over the plants.
- Radio (playing local station, mostly classical music)
Soil mix (organic):
- 80 liters pro-mix organic vegetable and herb garden soil
- 40 liters Bluesky organics super soil
- 30 liters perlite
Nutrients:
General Organics line (minus biomarine):
- Biothrive grow and bloom
- CaMg+
- BioRoot
- Bioweed
- Diamond Black
- BioBud
Advanced Nutrients:
- Rhino Skin
- Sensizym
- Voodoo Juice
- Pirahna
NPK Industries:
- RAW ominA: acids
- RAW B-Vitamins
Xtreme Gardening:
- Mykos
*Citric acid as a PH down.
I am finding i need to water every 4-5 days at this point about 1.5-2 gallons each pot to get a little run off. I am also alternating between feedings and waterings, with being PH'd to 6.3.
Growing style:
I started 4 plants ealier and they are being main lined for 4 colas, with one being started later that was just topped and will be LST'd. I was pondering topping the main lines for more colas but these strains seem to have a lot of side branching through veg so i don't want them to get over crowded during flower.
General info:
- I still have 2-3 weeks of veg left, and the temps are good and the humidity has been very stable since adding a humidifier.
Light on: 75 degrees F / 55-60% RH
Lights off: 69 degrees F / 60-65% RH
- It is about minus 20 outside right now (again, northern Canada) so pests are not a huge worry but i did notice some missing chunks off of a leaf on one plant. I haven't seen anything and not sure if it was just stress or what not, but to be safe i picked up some Neem oil for pest prevention and gave em a spray the other day.
- I have been reading about 11/13 light cycles boosting flavors, aroma and phenotype expression, so i thinking about giving it a try this flowering cycle. If anyone has any feedback on this subject, feel free to chime in.
- Also in general, comments and conversation are more than welcome.
*pics to come*
... and here we go!
looking nice! Subbed want to see how CMH performs might invest 3 of them my self for next grow!
