Tommysalami
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Firstly sorry for the long winded first post and any grammatical mistakes I make, I can’t edit posts yet so bear with me for now! This first post will be mostly back story, current stuff will be coming shortly after.
Secondly I hope this thread can be an open discussion, feel free to offer constructive criticism, suggestions, your own experience etc. Anything you feel brings value and furthers the never ending educational experience that growing this plant offers.
A little of my history:
I’ve been growing continually for the last 8 years in med-legal state. I have a purpose built grow room in my home offering complete stealth, hidden door, completely sound insulated and smell free. Basically anyone can come in my house at any time and have no clue there’s a full on grow op running in the basement. 4 years in this house an not even a single question. I am legal to grow but I try to keep that separate from my family life as much as possible. Plus I would hate to answer the “are you growing pot” question from a guest. I’m a one man show all the way through and occasionally have someone help me trim if the help is available. For the record I hate trimming, it’s tedious and boring to me. Plus when you’re pulling 1-2lbs every month for years on end and doing it all yourself it gets old quick.
My room is approx. 10’x11’ with a 4’x5’ closet carved out of that for veg. A single 400w MH runs veg. My current flower space ends up at approx 7’ x 4’ covered by 2k watts. I have equipment and space to double that to 4K should I ever feel like it. So far I haven’t had the need or the time with family life though it might happen in the future if I can pick up another patient.
For years I’ve grown what I call poor mans hydro. Pro-mix and either dynagro or JR Peters for nutrients. After years of running both I much prefer the jacks classic 20-20-20 supplemented with pro-tekt. Both brands are very high quality and reasonably priced and I never had much issue hitting the 1g/w make when running my pride and joy strain (more on that later). I’ve always hand watered, I’ve never trusted a pump to not flood my room so I kept it simple.
When I had kids I found I didn’t have the time to maintain the garden properly using this method so I decided to make the switch to a water only organic type of grow.
My last grow was using a super soil style recipe (not subs recipe but similar and using the same layering methodology). It grew some dank weed but came with a whole slew of issues that I wasn’t prepared for since I’d never grown this way before. I ended up with bulb mites from a bag of cheap worm castings, the worst fucking pest I’ve ever encountered. I ended up finishing everything and removing every plant from the room, tossed every thing in the room down to pots and stakes scissors etc. everything. I was able to save my genetics thank god so not a total loss. I used the down time to mud, sand a paint all the unfinished drywall in the room which needed to happen any how. But still....fuck bulb mites.
Next post will detail my current setup, the mistakes I’ve made and how I’m going to continue pushing forward. I hope you all enjoy the show and can teach me some new things about this no-till methodology in the process. Stay tuned!
Secondly I hope this thread can be an open discussion, feel free to offer constructive criticism, suggestions, your own experience etc. Anything you feel brings value and furthers the never ending educational experience that growing this plant offers.
A little of my history:
I’ve been growing continually for the last 8 years in med-legal state. I have a purpose built grow room in my home offering complete stealth, hidden door, completely sound insulated and smell free. Basically anyone can come in my house at any time and have no clue there’s a full on grow op running in the basement. 4 years in this house an not even a single question. I am legal to grow but I try to keep that separate from my family life as much as possible. Plus I would hate to answer the “are you growing pot” question from a guest. I’m a one man show all the way through and occasionally have someone help me trim if the help is available. For the record I hate trimming, it’s tedious and boring to me. Plus when you’re pulling 1-2lbs every month for years on end and doing it all yourself it gets old quick.
My room is approx. 10’x11’ with a 4’x5’ closet carved out of that for veg. A single 400w MH runs veg. My current flower space ends up at approx 7’ x 4’ covered by 2k watts. I have equipment and space to double that to 4K should I ever feel like it. So far I haven’t had the need or the time with family life though it might happen in the future if I can pick up another patient.
For years I’ve grown what I call poor mans hydro. Pro-mix and either dynagro or JR Peters for nutrients. After years of running both I much prefer the jacks classic 20-20-20 supplemented with pro-tekt. Both brands are very high quality and reasonably priced and I never had much issue hitting the 1g/w make when running my pride and joy strain (more on that later). I’ve always hand watered, I’ve never trusted a pump to not flood my room so I kept it simple.
When I had kids I found I didn’t have the time to maintain the garden properly using this method so I decided to make the switch to a water only organic type of grow.
My last grow was using a super soil style recipe (not subs recipe but similar and using the same layering methodology). It grew some dank weed but came with a whole slew of issues that I wasn’t prepared for since I’d never grown this way before. I ended up with bulb mites from a bag of cheap worm castings, the worst fucking pest I’ve ever encountered. I ended up finishing everything and removing every plant from the room, tossed every thing in the room down to pots and stakes scissors etc. everything. I was able to save my genetics thank god so not a total loss. I used the down time to mud, sand a paint all the unfinished drywall in the room which needed to happen any how. But still....fuck bulb mites.
Next post will detail my current setup, the mistakes I’ve made and how I’m going to continue pushing forward. I hope you all enjoy the show and can teach me some new things about this no-till methodology in the process. Stay tuned!