It's a rainy day in my neck of the woods, so a perfect day to blow off other stuff and put my first try out there.
Info on the set up.
Genetics: This is a clone grow. Of the seven plants, six were purchased directly from a local clone vendor. That's where the Pose2B comes in. I don't really believe they are what they are labelled, that'd be a little too lucky. It doesn't matter really. It's my first grow. If they're not true, I learn how to grow. If they are true and I don't kill everything, well, that's a score.
From the clone vendor, I got 2 teens of Dubtech 7, two clones of Adubb and two clones of Gorilla Glue #4.
The last clone is a mystery clone given to me by one of growers I met at the San Diego's Finest meet and greet last weekend. I'm calling it the Elefino cut. It's kind of more fun not knowing what it is. I don't have any pre-conceptions about it but I'm also flying blind in terms of culture. The other strains have encyclopedic amounts of growers' wisdom already posted. For the gift clone, I'm basically going to be a stress tester: Can this strain handle being grown by an idiot?
Grow space: This will be a tent grow in a Secret Jardin 5'x5'x7' 9". The tent was chosen because it came the closest to my ceiling height of 8'. I'll deal with the mismatch in floor area and typical light footprint later. I wanted to provide the most head room possible as some of the plants I was daydreaming about growing are stretchers
The Tent is in a bedroom near the garage. The overall room size is roughly 15' x 15' x 8', including a small half bathroom. The tent dominates the space, kind of like the monoliths in 2001: A Space Odessey
Lighting: The light fixture will be a Grower's Choice 630 DE CMH. I read about it through Hammerhead in the CMH elite thread.
The bulb is their 3K with a lamp shield to protect against potential badness if there is a bulb failure.
Growing medium: I plan on using coco medium with no amendments. I'm aiming at 2 gallon fabric bags as my final pot size. For now, the smaller plants are in Solo cups. The brand of coco is the one my local hydro guy had. I used bagged version, not blocks, and I boiled it before use to try to prevent gnat hatching, as per Stankybeamer's suggestion
Nutrients: My nutrients will be Veg+Bloom, cause that's what Dansbud uses. I've tried to learn what I can from reading threads and whatnot but sometimes it's easiest to follow a model. He's mine.
Water: I was going to try to "get away" with using tap water and using the Veg+Bloom Tap/Hard version but my tap has 350ppm and I just worried I'd run into more problems with lockouts or whatever using that than if I went with R/O. That said, several of the folks at the SDF get together said they grow using tap water and not R/O.
For now, my volume needs are still low, so I'm holding off on buying an R/O system until I can read more about what i need. It's the item that least fits my grow space. I can set it up in the garage eventually and just haul water in. I can get 1-5 gallon jug fills of R/O water at the grocery store for a bit. Hassle but, it's an expense I can defer for a while.
Ventilation: I'm starting out with a Can 66 with a Hurricane 6" 435 cfm. I had to go get those on the hop because those little-assed closes are already stinking up the room. I newb-ily thought I'd have a couple of weeks before that issue came up. The fan does cleanse the whole room for now. Later it will go in the tent, hopefully hung from the tent beams. I'll need to test the weights of the light and filter/fan. It'll be close to 100lb, I'm pretty sure.. I anticipate needing to get a separate fan and filter to keep the room clean because having that odor drifting through the house is not going to fly with the head of household. If I can't keep it under control, I may have to shift things out to the garage. I don't want to do so in mid grow, but I'll roll with the punches (hopefully figuratively).
I still have learning to do with regards to ventilation, especially on the intake side of things as well as figuring out how to balance odor reducing outflow without ruining the temp and humidity of the space.
IPM: I've sprayed with Spinosad and Neem so far. I was wanting to dip and spray everything twice with a variety of things ("Go nuclear" the local hydro guy told me) over three to five days with anti-fungals and anti-bug-als. I'm still on the fence on how what other agents to use and for how long before putting the plants into the tent. So far, no visible bugs. I haven't gotten a hand held microscope though.
Since I started with clones rather than with my initial plan of using seeds, I decided to stay out of the tent until I could go through a quarantine of sorts.
For now, I have the clones in an open closet space next to the tent on a cheap metal shelf thing you find at any hardware store. I put together a 4' powerstrip with 8 outlets. I put in eight Phillips 8.5W LED bulbs (Immense thanks to Blynx and Terpene for your great information on this approach.) The bulbs put out zero heat. In this immediate case, that hasn't been that helpful, as it's been pretty cool here at night. I bought a space heater when the donated clone started to look like it wanted to die. That seems to have helped.
Accumulating all this stuff adds up quickly. I about crapped when they told me how much the fans and filters for ventilation cost. I wanted to get a quiet version of the fan, and still might--that Hurricane sucker is just too loud--but I can't throw that kind of money down right now with everything else too. I'm having to make "Do I really need that right now?" kind of choices that I wish I didn't have to
I'm already going on way too long with this. I'll fill in more details as I go.
My first try at inserting pics (damn Iphone and its sideways BS):
The Pose2B Family
Pose2B Dubtech 7 teen
Pose2B Adubb
Pose2B GG#4
Info on the set up.
Genetics: This is a clone grow. Of the seven plants, six were purchased directly from a local clone vendor. That's where the Pose2B comes in. I don't really believe they are what they are labelled, that'd be a little too lucky. It doesn't matter really. It's my first grow. If they're not true, I learn how to grow. If they are true and I don't kill everything, well, that's a score.
From the clone vendor, I got 2 teens of Dubtech 7, two clones of Adubb and two clones of Gorilla Glue #4.
The last clone is a mystery clone given to me by one of growers I met at the San Diego's Finest meet and greet last weekend. I'm calling it the Elefino cut. It's kind of more fun not knowing what it is. I don't have any pre-conceptions about it but I'm also flying blind in terms of culture. The other strains have encyclopedic amounts of growers' wisdom already posted. For the gift clone, I'm basically going to be a stress tester: Can this strain handle being grown by an idiot?
Grow space: This will be a tent grow in a Secret Jardin 5'x5'x7' 9". The tent was chosen because it came the closest to my ceiling height of 8'. I'll deal with the mismatch in floor area and typical light footprint later. I wanted to provide the most head room possible as some of the plants I was daydreaming about growing are stretchers
The Tent is in a bedroom near the garage. The overall room size is roughly 15' x 15' x 8', including a small half bathroom. The tent dominates the space, kind of like the monoliths in 2001: A Space Odessey
Lighting: The light fixture will be a Grower's Choice 630 DE CMH. I read about it through Hammerhead in the CMH elite thread.
The bulb is their 3K with a lamp shield to protect against potential badness if there is a bulb failure.
Growing medium: I plan on using coco medium with no amendments. I'm aiming at 2 gallon fabric bags as my final pot size. For now, the smaller plants are in Solo cups. The brand of coco is the one my local hydro guy had. I used bagged version, not blocks, and I boiled it before use to try to prevent gnat hatching, as per Stankybeamer's suggestion
Nutrients: My nutrients will be Veg+Bloom, cause that's what Dansbud uses. I've tried to learn what I can from reading threads and whatnot but sometimes it's easiest to follow a model. He's mine.
Water: I was going to try to "get away" with using tap water and using the Veg+Bloom Tap/Hard version but my tap has 350ppm and I just worried I'd run into more problems with lockouts or whatever using that than if I went with R/O. That said, several of the folks at the SDF get together said they grow using tap water and not R/O.
For now, my volume needs are still low, so I'm holding off on buying an R/O system until I can read more about what i need. It's the item that least fits my grow space. I can set it up in the garage eventually and just haul water in. I can get 1-5 gallon jug fills of R/O water at the grocery store for a bit. Hassle but, it's an expense I can defer for a while.
Ventilation: I'm starting out with a Can 66 with a Hurricane 6" 435 cfm. I had to go get those on the hop because those little-assed closes are already stinking up the room. I newb-ily thought I'd have a couple of weeks before that issue came up. The fan does cleanse the whole room for now. Later it will go in the tent, hopefully hung from the tent beams. I'll need to test the weights of the light and filter/fan. It'll be close to 100lb, I'm pretty sure.. I anticipate needing to get a separate fan and filter to keep the room clean because having that odor drifting through the house is not going to fly with the head of household. If I can't keep it under control, I may have to shift things out to the garage. I don't want to do so in mid grow, but I'll roll with the punches (hopefully figuratively).
I still have learning to do with regards to ventilation, especially on the intake side of things as well as figuring out how to balance odor reducing outflow without ruining the temp and humidity of the space.
IPM: I've sprayed with Spinosad and Neem so far. I was wanting to dip and spray everything twice with a variety of things ("Go nuclear" the local hydro guy told me) over three to five days with anti-fungals and anti-bug-als. I'm still on the fence on how what other agents to use and for how long before putting the plants into the tent. So far, no visible bugs. I haven't gotten a hand held microscope though.
Since I started with clones rather than with my initial plan of using seeds, I decided to stay out of the tent until I could go through a quarantine of sorts.
For now, I have the clones in an open closet space next to the tent on a cheap metal shelf thing you find at any hardware store. I put together a 4' powerstrip with 8 outlets. I put in eight Phillips 8.5W LED bulbs (Immense thanks to Blynx and Terpene for your great information on this approach.) The bulbs put out zero heat. In this immediate case, that hasn't been that helpful, as it's been pretty cool here at night. I bought a space heater when the donated clone started to look like it wanted to die. That seems to have helped.
Accumulating all this stuff adds up quickly. I about crapped when they told me how much the fans and filters for ventilation cost. I wanted to get a quiet version of the fan, and still might--that Hurricane sucker is just too loud--but I can't throw that kind of money down right now with everything else too. I'm having to make "Do I really need that right now?" kind of choices that I wish I didn't have to
I'm already going on way too long with this. I'll fill in more details as I go.
My first try at inserting pics (damn Iphone and its sideways BS):
The Pose2B Family
Pose2B Dubtech 7 teen
Pose2B Adubb
Pose2B GG#4
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