I've recently changed things up in my grow room by moving lights around and getting rid of most of my genetics, and now I want to have an all-in-one type of journal here at icmag. No more individual threads for each garden. These days I'm just interested in documenting changes that I make, or special circumstances that arise. For anyone not familiar with my previous work, just do a thread title search with my name and you can see a lot of stuff I've done over the years. I just don't have the spare time anymore to do detailed, regular journals on each individual garden. The people who have followed my threads have always been very encouraging to me, and the constant journaling helped me to be meticulous in all of my gardening affairs, so thank you, those of you.
This will be an ongoing thread where I'll post things that pertain to any of my gardens, whenever I feel inspired. To start, I'll go ahead and introduce what I'm working with...
It all starts with good genetics, and that means keeping mother plants around. This is my rather empty mother garden. I keep the plants in rockwool cubes, on a flood and drain table. The garden is lit by LEDs, and resides in a 2x2 tent. When the rockwool cubes get overgrown with roots, I replace the plants with clones of themselves. This keeps things fresh and helps everything look clean. I know it's kind of sparse at the moment, but I can eventually fit 15 bonsai moms on this table.
When a mother is selected for an upcoming grow, I remove it from the garden and put it in a dedicated space to encourage branch growth, for cuttings.
This is the veg cab. It's lit by T5 fluorescents. It takes a couple few weeks depending on the strain, but eventually I'll have as many growth tips as I need, and I'll take the cuttings. At this point the mother goes back in the mother garden, and the cuttings stay here to root, in rockwool starter cubes. They are put inside of a small humidity dome and the light is raised way up. Currently this garden is being used for starting new seeds, since I'm still in the process of rebuilding my mother plant collection.
When the clones have rooted, it's time to put them into one of the flowering gardens. I have two of these... One is a 3x3 tent lit by LEDs, and the other is a 4x4 tent lit by a 1000w HID. Both contain flood and drain systems.
The smaller garden is mostly reserved for testing new strains, pollen-chucking, and growing out private reserves. I like using scrog methods in this garden, but a tightly packed sea of green in 3 inch cubes works well too. I also use this space for revegging harvested plants, which is what's going on in there at the moment.
The larger garden tends to get the regular, daily strains that I use frequently and share with others, in order to have a never-ending supply of meds.
Typically there are one or two staple varieties at any given time period that are alternating through this tent. These tend to be varieties that were selected for being high yielders, quick flowerers, and balanced effects. All other strains I keep would typically be grown out in the smaller tent. Both of these gardens generally run continuously, with very short breaks from time to time for cleaning.
So that's how things work in my hidey hole.
This will be an ongoing thread where I'll post things that pertain to any of my gardens, whenever I feel inspired. To start, I'll go ahead and introduce what I'm working with...
It all starts with good genetics, and that means keeping mother plants around. This is my rather empty mother garden. I keep the plants in rockwool cubes, on a flood and drain table. The garden is lit by LEDs, and resides in a 2x2 tent. When the rockwool cubes get overgrown with roots, I replace the plants with clones of themselves. This keeps things fresh and helps everything look clean. I know it's kind of sparse at the moment, but I can eventually fit 15 bonsai moms on this table.
When a mother is selected for an upcoming grow, I remove it from the garden and put it in a dedicated space to encourage branch growth, for cuttings.
This is the veg cab. It's lit by T5 fluorescents. It takes a couple few weeks depending on the strain, but eventually I'll have as many growth tips as I need, and I'll take the cuttings. At this point the mother goes back in the mother garden, and the cuttings stay here to root, in rockwool starter cubes. They are put inside of a small humidity dome and the light is raised way up. Currently this garden is being used for starting new seeds, since I'm still in the process of rebuilding my mother plant collection.
When the clones have rooted, it's time to put them into one of the flowering gardens. I have two of these... One is a 3x3 tent lit by LEDs, and the other is a 4x4 tent lit by a 1000w HID. Both contain flood and drain systems.
The smaller garden is mostly reserved for testing new strains, pollen-chucking, and growing out private reserves. I like using scrog methods in this garden, but a tightly packed sea of green in 3 inch cubes works well too. I also use this space for revegging harvested plants, which is what's going on in there at the moment.
The larger garden tends to get the regular, daily strains that I use frequently and share with others, in order to have a never-ending supply of meds.
Typically there are one or two staple varieties at any given time period that are alternating through this tent. These tend to be varieties that were selected for being high yielders, quick flowerers, and balanced effects. All other strains I keep would typically be grown out in the smaller tent. Both of these gardens generally run continuously, with very short breaks from time to time for cleaning.
So that's how things work in my hidey hole.
