howdy everyone, figured it was time i start posting and stop lurking. i've been on the board for a few years now, but had to take a little hiatus while finding a better spot. new spot has been found, i am all moved in, and we are well under way 
first off, i guess i should go over the room design, equipment, medium, and genetics. i have a 12x8 room that i framed out in my basement with 2x4's, black poly, & mylar. i started off with (2) 1000w, and (4) 400w air cooled hoods ducted thru 3 lines of insulated ducting. for flowering we added an additional (2) 1000w air cooled hoods.
as far as genetics go, i received 18 cuttings of white widow, skunk#1, and lemon skunk. unfortunately my buddy mixed up their ID tags during an early transplant
so we don't know what is what anymore. for my soil mix i went with BurnOne's mix:
- 3.8cf bag of ProMix
- 2cf bag of Roots Organic
- 1/4 bag of FFOF
- 1c FF blood meal
- 1c FF bone meal
- 1/2c dolomite lime
- 1.5c FF kelp meal
- 20% chunky perlite
i am a little late starting this thread, being that i have been in flowering for 21 days. but its okay since i have pictures ;x i just selected a few to recap early veg tonight, but if ppl want more i can always put them up.
VEG:
so i vegged these ladies out for about 2.5 months @ 3600w, it was a little slow at first rooting in a cold basement in a veg cab. dealt with a couple problems during veg, mainly rootbinding, finding out some blood meal was accidentally forgotten in the original mix (small pots), oh and i did not correctly prepare the soil by watering for a few weeks ahead. things moved quicker than i would have liked so we had no choice but to mix and go. all was well after a few weeks tho, and everything took OFF!
FLOWER:
so after 2.5 months of soaking up 24/0 light @ 3600w, these girls were HUGE and growing fast. the original intention was to get them into 12 gallon buckets, but many did not receive their final transplant into 5 gallons until a few days before the flip. So i opted to just run it out in the 5 gals, if i see rootbinding in any of them ill throw them into a 7 gal to give the roots somewhere to move.
since they were so big, about 36" at the time of the flip, and bushy.. and getting crowded, i decided to bring another 2000w to the room. The setup for veg had two 1kw lights in a row, flanked by a parallel row on either side of two 400w lights. With the additional 2kw, i decided to move each 1kw light to a "corner" and then run a straight line of four 400s down the middle.
i was going to keep the feeding to strictly what was in the soil mix, but ive since decided to give them a light feeding schedule. for nutes i will be using Budswel, AN Mother Earth Bloom Tea, AN Nirvana, and blackstrap molasses. feeding schedule is as follows:
A. Budswel + Nirvana
B. Plain water + molasses
C. AN Mother Earth Bloom Tea
D. Plain water + molasses
Alrighty, well on with the pictures i guess. Now that i am doing this thread i will start taking better pictures, get some with lights off.. with 5600w it's so bright! the pictures are a summary of clone - veg - early flowering (14 days most recent)
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read thru, and thanks to all those who have supplied me with answers to my frequent questions.
first off, i guess i should go over the room design, equipment, medium, and genetics. i have a 12x8 room that i framed out in my basement with 2x4's, black poly, & mylar. i started off with (2) 1000w, and (4) 400w air cooled hoods ducted thru 3 lines of insulated ducting. for flowering we added an additional (2) 1000w air cooled hoods.
as far as genetics go, i received 18 cuttings of white widow, skunk#1, and lemon skunk. unfortunately my buddy mixed up their ID tags during an early transplant
so we don't know what is what anymore. for my soil mix i went with BurnOne's mix:- 3.8cf bag of ProMix
- 2cf bag of Roots Organic
- 1/4 bag of FFOF
- 1c FF blood meal
- 1c FF bone meal
- 1/2c dolomite lime
- 1.5c FF kelp meal
- 20% chunky perlite
i am a little late starting this thread, being that i have been in flowering for 21 days. but its okay since i have pictures ;x i just selected a few to recap early veg tonight, but if ppl want more i can always put them up.
VEG:
so i vegged these ladies out for about 2.5 months @ 3600w, it was a little slow at first rooting in a cold basement in a veg cab. dealt with a couple problems during veg, mainly rootbinding, finding out some blood meal was accidentally forgotten in the original mix (small pots), oh and i did not correctly prepare the soil by watering for a few weeks ahead. things moved quicker than i would have liked so we had no choice but to mix and go. all was well after a few weeks tho, and everything took OFF!
FLOWER:
so after 2.5 months of soaking up 24/0 light @ 3600w, these girls were HUGE and growing fast. the original intention was to get them into 12 gallon buckets, but many did not receive their final transplant into 5 gallons until a few days before the flip. So i opted to just run it out in the 5 gals, if i see rootbinding in any of them ill throw them into a 7 gal to give the roots somewhere to move.
since they were so big, about 36" at the time of the flip, and bushy.. and getting crowded, i decided to bring another 2000w to the room. The setup for veg had two 1kw lights in a row, flanked by a parallel row on either side of two 400w lights. With the additional 2kw, i decided to move each 1kw light to a "corner" and then run a straight line of four 400s down the middle.
i was going to keep the feeding to strictly what was in the soil mix, but ive since decided to give them a light feeding schedule. for nutes i will be using Budswel, AN Mother Earth Bloom Tea, AN Nirvana, and blackstrap molasses. feeding schedule is as follows:
A. Budswel + Nirvana
B. Plain water + molasses
C. AN Mother Earth Bloom Tea
D. Plain water + molasses
Alrighty, well on with the pictures i guess. Now that i am doing this thread i will start taking better pictures, get some with lights off.. with 5600w it's so bright! the pictures are a summary of clone - veg - early flowering (14 days most recent)
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read thru, and thanks to all those who have supplied me with answers to my frequent questions.
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