52W w/out ventilation: laundry-hamper grow (Shiskeberry,EarlyWonderSkunk, Mandala#1F2)
hello all.
first nagging question: would any of you recommend using some form of proxy before posting threads like these from your home internet service?? /paranoia
this will be a grow journal/exhibition to document my first time growing in an artificial habitat. i've been lurking these icmag forums for about 3 or so years now since my guerilla growing buddy told me about this site. the info i learned from this micro grow section in particular has been a big inspiration for this first time indoor attempt.
here we go:
^from march 4. the "grow chamber" is merely two filing folders with their metal "hinges" clipped together and a piece of white paper as a reflector and ceiling. oh and they seedlings are skiskeberry bagseed.
^just a few prickly pear cactus seedlings ended up out-competing the way more numerous wolfberry/goji seedlings. proof how cactus can be uber. i would regularily FLOOD these plants, knowing that the wolfberry/goji like to grow by stream banks in flood-originated silty soils. the cactus seedlings still turned out on top. may be due to different pH preferences, with the wolfberry prefering alkaline and the cacti prefering a little acidity ( i assume).
ANYWAYS:
after 2 weeks of filing folder action, i upgraded my setup to a cardboardbox. i've also upgraded the transparent container volumes by using glass pasta-sauce jars and plastic containers..
^filling up the box.
made another upgrade by taking advantage of some light-socket-splitters lately (Y-splitter, for light bulbs).
the increased heat from the lights was a concern despite that they're CFL lights, so i bought a 2$ thermometer. i was doing some calculations:
1 26W 6700K 1600lumen + two 13W 4100K("cool white") 800 lumen = 3200 lumen total spread out over a 0.15m^2 area (30cm x 50cm) = ~21,333 lux units. bright enough to be slightly blinding is bright enough to grow plants i`d say.
note:
all of the pics posted so far (except for the last one, which was taken on 3/31/2010),were taken on or before March 26.
i've since transplanted the whole communiity from the disarrono cup into a bigger transparent container with a little more soil:
Updates from march 30:
^crowding experiment, 5 seeds in a jar planted sometime around march 4-10th. a bit after the disarrono cup experiment.
see how crowded they are? i decided to see if i could induce them to stretch under some incadescent kitchen lights over 2 days, and it worked:
^look at the jar in the front, bottom right of pic. after 2 days of stretching under
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a few days ago, a $9 laundry hamper i saw at a dollar store changed my life. dimensions are 14(l) x 14(w) x 25(h) inches. the cardboard growing chamber box that i was previously using had about the same area (it was 0.3m x 0.5m, roughly ~ a pc case) , but was less tall, probably 18 inches tall at most:
52W of CFL so far with minimal ventilation. no fans being used for airflow at this time. temps averaging between 29-35 degrees C at the moment.
the laundry hamper was my step towards committing towards this as a potential indoor grow. before the laundry hamper, i had considered this all just an experimental vegging space/experiment on growing cactus and wolfberries indoors.
a kind of a crowding competition experiment too.
i will be neglecting this growth chamber for 3 days over the course of this long weekend. flooded with their last drinking friday afternoon (yesterday afternoon), and then set on a 14/10 light schedule. will see them again on monday or tuesday (growing away from home) to see how they fair
in order to generate an element of suspense like a pro icmag micro-growing exhibitionist (or so i hope), i will wait to reveal the innards of my laundry hamper "cab" for the next series of pics. hope you've enjoyed viewing so far. if anyone's got any questions just ask.
i plan to feed with diluted organic-blackstrap-unsulphured-molasses and worm(compost)-juice.
may also use super-dilute Advanced Nutrients "Bud Blood" and "Big Bud" during flowering on half of the plants as an experiment.
also am supplementing with Dr.Hornby's "Pirrahna" (spelt that wrong dammit) and "Tarantula" Mycorrhizal and Beneficial-bacteria innoculants.
oh and the genetics:
-shiskeberry/shiskaberry (couldn't figure out which spelling is more official!?) bagseed (x2 in the container with all the leeks, onions, prickly pear cactus and wolfberry)
-mandala #1 (f2 from a not quite sensimilla outdoor grow last year)
-mandala #1 x unknown "lillooet" strain from cross pollinating with friend's male (F1?)
-early wonder skunk (most recently germinated seedlings ~ march 14-20)
-unidentified `lillooet` seeds
hello all.
first nagging question: would any of you recommend using some form of proxy before posting threads like these from your home internet service?? /paranoia
this will be a grow journal/exhibition to document my first time growing in an artificial habitat. i've been lurking these icmag forums for about 3 or so years now since my guerilla growing buddy told me about this site. the info i learned from this micro grow section in particular has been a big inspiration for this first time indoor attempt.
here we go:
^from march 4. the "grow chamber" is merely two filing folders with their metal "hinges" clipped together and a piece of white paper as a reflector and ceiling. oh and they seedlings are skiskeberry bagseed.
^just a few prickly pear cactus seedlings ended up out-competing the way more numerous wolfberry/goji seedlings. proof how cactus can be uber. i would regularily FLOOD these plants, knowing that the wolfberry/goji like to grow by stream banks in flood-originated silty soils. the cactus seedlings still turned out on top. may be due to different pH preferences, with the wolfberry prefering alkaline and the cacti prefering a little acidity ( i assume).
ANYWAYS:
after 2 weeks of filing folder action, i upgraded my setup to a cardboardbox. i've also upgraded the transparent container volumes by using glass pasta-sauce jars and plastic containers..
^filling up the box.
made another upgrade by taking advantage of some light-socket-splitters lately (Y-splitter, for light bulbs).
the increased heat from the lights was a concern despite that they're CFL lights, so i bought a 2$ thermometer. i was doing some calculations:
1 26W 6700K 1600lumen + two 13W 4100K("cool white") 800 lumen = 3200 lumen total spread out over a 0.15m^2 area (30cm x 50cm) = ~21,333 lux units. bright enough to be slightly blinding is bright enough to grow plants i`d say.
note:
all of the pics posted so far (except for the last one, which was taken on 3/31/2010),were taken on or before March 26.
i've since transplanted the whole communiity from the disarrono cup into a bigger transparent container with a little more soil:
Updates from march 30:
^crowding experiment, 5 seeds in a jar planted sometime around march 4-10th. a bit after the disarrono cup experiment.
see how crowded they are? i decided to see if i could induce them to stretch under some incadescent kitchen lights over 2 days, and it worked:
^look at the jar in the front, bottom right of pic. after 2 days of stretching under
_______________________________
a few days ago, a $9 laundry hamper i saw at a dollar store changed my life. dimensions are 14(l) x 14(w) x 25(h) inches. the cardboard growing chamber box that i was previously using had about the same area (it was 0.3m x 0.5m, roughly ~ a pc case) , but was less tall, probably 18 inches tall at most:
52W of CFL so far with minimal ventilation. no fans being used for airflow at this time. temps averaging between 29-35 degrees C at the moment.
the laundry hamper was my step towards committing towards this as a potential indoor grow. before the laundry hamper, i had considered this all just an experimental vegging space/experiment on growing cactus and wolfberries indoors.
a kind of a crowding competition experiment too.
i will be neglecting this growth chamber for 3 days over the course of this long weekend. flooded with their last drinking friday afternoon (yesterday afternoon), and then set on a 14/10 light schedule. will see them again on monday or tuesday (growing away from home) to see how they fair
in order to generate an element of suspense like a pro icmag micro-growing exhibitionist (or so i hope), i will wait to reveal the innards of my laundry hamper "cab" for the next series of pics. hope you've enjoyed viewing so far. if anyone's got any questions just ask.
i plan to feed with diluted organic-blackstrap-unsulphured-molasses and worm(compost)-juice.
may also use super-dilute Advanced Nutrients "Bud Blood" and "Big Bud" during flowering on half of the plants as an experiment.
also am supplementing with Dr.Hornby's "Pirrahna" (spelt that wrong dammit) and "Tarantula" Mycorrhizal and Beneficial-bacteria innoculants.
oh and the genetics:
-shiskeberry/shiskaberry (couldn't figure out which spelling is more official!?) bagseed (x2 in the container with all the leeks, onions, prickly pear cactus and wolfberry)
-mandala #1 (f2 from a not quite sensimilla outdoor grow last year)
-mandala #1 x unknown "lillooet" strain from cross pollinating with friend's male (F1?)
-early wonder skunk (most recently germinated seedlings ~ march 14-20)
-unidentified `lillooet` seeds
for sure. this reminds me that i have beautiful captive instrument that i must rescue. i started breeding by culling an early flowering shishkeberry male a couple days ago on a whim, to free up more light for the prickly pear cactus below. 
. however i'm really curious to see how potent and how much yield of buds may finish with this extra CFL wattage, compared with the buds under the single desk-lamp T-dawg was growing with. then again, there's always winter. veg-chamber or micro grow... is still a question.
