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Nathindica
Hello everyone.
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me out on my first grow of NYCD. It turned out pretty well for my first attempt. I ended up with just a few grams shy of half a lb from 5 plants.... but I KNOW I can do much, much better. I've built a new cab and I'm all set. Oh well enough talk. Here are some pics.
A Jack Herer bagseed I was holding onto for a few months...looked extra beautiful. Only seed I found in the ounce of top notch bud.
Here she is sprouted in a jiffy pellet.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770934&ppuser=41661
And here's where she is now.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770930&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770931&ppuser=41661
As you can see, I'm trying my hand at hydroponics this time around withe just the JH for now. But more on that later...
Right now this seedling is in a jiffy pellet (peat) nestled in a homemade net pot (plastic flower pot with a bunch of holes drilled in the bottom and sides), which sits comfortably in a small sized pitcher. There's an airstone and a thermometer in the very small rez. Just plain PH'd water for now at 5.8... and it's working!
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770932&ppuser=41661
So here's the little Jack Herer seedling at 9 days old.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770935&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770933&ppuser=41661
As you can see.... things aren't QUITE perfect. I'm a little concerned with the seedlings leaves feeling a bit papery, and it has some uneven coloring and a bit of leaf twisting. I gave it some nutes (lucas formula dosed in literally drops per gallon, really weak) for about half a day before i decided it was way too early and gave it fresh ph'ed RO from then on. Anyways we'll see how things progress. That light it's under is about 45 watts. I try to keep the daytime temps at about 25 C... and the RH around 55%. There's a small computer fan on a speed controller circulating the air around in the small box it's in. One question I have about this bubbler thing... Should I be moving the water level down as the roots grow to lure them out of the pot? Or will they just keep growing into the water just fine and dandy? I intend on transferring this JH seedling to a waterfarm. I'm currently soaking the hydroton to stabilize the pH at 5.8. It's pretty close to being completely stable after 3 days of intense washing and soaking. I can't imagine having to wash all that crap out of tables upon tables worth of that stuff. Must be a lot of work. Props to those that do it. Anyways here's the waterfarm and bucket of soaking hydroton.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770925&ppuser=41661
I'm really excited to try my hand at the waterfarm. I'm going with the lucas formula with GH micro and bloom being the only additives to my bubbled tap water (soft). Maybe a touch of liquid karma. Good idea?
I don't know if it's appropriate or whatever, but I'm going to give some props to upgradeshafted and his thread which made me go out and buy a waterfarm the day after reading through 60+ pages of his thread....http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=76893&highlight=upgradeshafted
For anyone who hasn't seen the glory of that thread... I highly recommend it. It inspired the shit out of me.
Moving on.... Heres a shot of the new stealthified flowering cab.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770926&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770927&ppuser=41661
And inside we have...
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770928&ppuser=41661
600 W HPS in a cooltube powered by a 6'' vortex. and a handy little odorsock on there for all those lovely smells.
BUT don't think for a second that I've abandoned my precious soil completely! Oh no.I've got a little sumthin sumthin planned to go alongside the JH in the waterfarm. I ordered a pack of Federation's Island Sweet Skunk. One of my all time favorite smokes so we'll see if I can do it justice.
I put 6 in a paper towel, saved 4 as emergency genetics, and so far thre of the six have popped.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770936&ppuser=41661
They are in rapid rooters. I decided to try these instead of the usual jiffy pucks to see what happens. The group of three on the right are the ISS. The one on the left is a Lowryder #2 my roommate is experimenting with. He's tossing the other seeds in his aerogarden too see what happens. But that belongs in another thread. THIS one is for MY grow.
I plan on growing out the ISS in soil. Well... soiless if you want to be technical about it. LC's soiless mix #1 to be exact.
5 parts peat
3 parts perlite
2 parts WC
2 tablespoons dolomite per gallon
I'll be going with the PBP grow and bloom for the soil grow as I already have the nutes. I was using a whole bunch of AN additives and all sorts of crap which I'm going to leave out entirely this time. I was nowhere near experienced enough to be throwing all that crap into my water and feeding it to my plants. This time I'm going to rock the simplicity.
So anyways once I get some roots comin out of the rapid rooters I'll plant them into beer cups until they get a set of real leaves... then into one gallons and finally into 3 gallons just in time for flowering. From the best looking female of the bunch... I'll be taking clones to raise the next crop of ISS. ONE of those clones will be put into the waterfarm to see some serious growth alongside her sister clones in dirt. THAT I'm excited for.
The purpose of the JH seedling is to test my skill at the waterfarm and try to get the hang of it before the great waterfarm/soil side by side. I know its just a single bagseed... i know it could be male... i know very well what could happen... but it's for experimentation's sake. But hey, if it's a female... it should be AWESOME. Here's to hopin.
Welcome to my first grow diary. Thanks for checkin my pics and reading through all my rambling... and I ALWAYS appreciate some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. After all, it's only my second grow and I have a LOT to learn. But I'll never learn if the more experienced and knowledgeable offer their expertise... so let's hear it! I'm open to all and anything.
First of all, thanks to everyone who helped me out on my first grow of NYCD. It turned out pretty well for my first attempt. I ended up with just a few grams shy of half a lb from 5 plants.... but I KNOW I can do much, much better. I've built a new cab and I'm all set. Oh well enough talk. Here are some pics.
A Jack Herer bagseed I was holding onto for a few months...looked extra beautiful. Only seed I found in the ounce of top notch bud.
Here she is sprouted in a jiffy pellet.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770934&ppuser=41661
And here's where she is now.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770930&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770931&ppuser=41661
As you can see, I'm trying my hand at hydroponics this time around withe just the JH for now. But more on that later...
Right now this seedling is in a jiffy pellet (peat) nestled in a homemade net pot (plastic flower pot with a bunch of holes drilled in the bottom and sides), which sits comfortably in a small sized pitcher. There's an airstone and a thermometer in the very small rez. Just plain PH'd water for now at 5.8... and it's working!
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770932&ppuser=41661
So here's the little Jack Herer seedling at 9 days old.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770935&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770933&ppuser=41661
As you can see.... things aren't QUITE perfect. I'm a little concerned with the seedlings leaves feeling a bit papery, and it has some uneven coloring and a bit of leaf twisting. I gave it some nutes (lucas formula dosed in literally drops per gallon, really weak) for about half a day before i decided it was way too early and gave it fresh ph'ed RO from then on. Anyways we'll see how things progress. That light it's under is about 45 watts. I try to keep the daytime temps at about 25 C... and the RH around 55%. There's a small computer fan on a speed controller circulating the air around in the small box it's in. One question I have about this bubbler thing... Should I be moving the water level down as the roots grow to lure them out of the pot? Or will they just keep growing into the water just fine and dandy? I intend on transferring this JH seedling to a waterfarm. I'm currently soaking the hydroton to stabilize the pH at 5.8. It's pretty close to being completely stable after 3 days of intense washing and soaking. I can't imagine having to wash all that crap out of tables upon tables worth of that stuff. Must be a lot of work. Props to those that do it. Anyways here's the waterfarm and bucket of soaking hydroton.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770925&ppuser=41661
I'm really excited to try my hand at the waterfarm. I'm going with the lucas formula with GH micro and bloom being the only additives to my bubbled tap water (soft). Maybe a touch of liquid karma. Good idea?
I don't know if it's appropriate or whatever, but I'm going to give some props to upgradeshafted and his thread which made me go out and buy a waterfarm the day after reading through 60+ pages of his thread....http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=76893&highlight=upgradeshafted
For anyone who hasn't seen the glory of that thread... I highly recommend it. It inspired the shit out of me.
Moving on.... Heres a shot of the new stealthified flowering cab.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770926&ppuser=41661
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770927&ppuser=41661
And inside we have...
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770928&ppuser=41661
600 W HPS in a cooltube powered by a 6'' vortex. and a handy little odorsock on there for all those lovely smells.
BUT don't think for a second that I've abandoned my precious soil completely! Oh no.I've got a little sumthin sumthin planned to go alongside the JH in the waterfarm. I ordered a pack of Federation's Island Sweet Skunk. One of my all time favorite smokes so we'll see if I can do it justice.
I put 6 in a paper towel, saved 4 as emergency genetics, and so far thre of the six have popped.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=770936&ppuser=41661
They are in rapid rooters. I decided to try these instead of the usual jiffy pucks to see what happens. The group of three on the right are the ISS. The one on the left is a Lowryder #2 my roommate is experimenting with. He's tossing the other seeds in his aerogarden too see what happens. But that belongs in another thread. THIS one is for MY grow.
I plan on growing out the ISS in soil. Well... soiless if you want to be technical about it. LC's soiless mix #1 to be exact.
5 parts peat
3 parts perlite
2 parts WC
2 tablespoons dolomite per gallon
I'll be going with the PBP grow and bloom for the soil grow as I already have the nutes. I was using a whole bunch of AN additives and all sorts of crap which I'm going to leave out entirely this time. I was nowhere near experienced enough to be throwing all that crap into my water and feeding it to my plants. This time I'm going to rock the simplicity.
So anyways once I get some roots comin out of the rapid rooters I'll plant them into beer cups until they get a set of real leaves... then into one gallons and finally into 3 gallons just in time for flowering. From the best looking female of the bunch... I'll be taking clones to raise the next crop of ISS. ONE of those clones will be put into the waterfarm to see some serious growth alongside her sister clones in dirt. THAT I'm excited for.
The purpose of the JH seedling is to test my skill at the waterfarm and try to get the hang of it before the great waterfarm/soil side by side. I know its just a single bagseed... i know it could be male... i know very well what could happen... but it's for experimentation's sake. But hey, if it's a female... it should be AWESOME. Here's to hopin.
Welcome to my first grow diary. Thanks for checkin my pics and reading through all my rambling... and I ALWAYS appreciate some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. After all, it's only my second grow and I have a LOT to learn. But I'll never learn if the more experienced and knowledgeable offer their expertise... so let's hear it! I'm open to all and anything.