Smokey Raven
New member
Hello everyone. Let me start off by saying that this is my first post and first ever attempt to grow and I figured I would share it with you all because it was other journals on this forum that inspired me to undertake this little experiment. Many thanks to users like Aerohead and ScrubNinja whose posts I have found every educational.
And So...
Ive decide to take a minimalists approach to this grow concerning space, lighting, materials etc. my goal is to complete this grow with a system that consumes less than 50 watts and for this first round I well be using bag seed. My light is The 21X-PRO LED Grow Light http://www.hydrogrowled.com/21X-PRO---36W-LED-Grow-Light-P96C60.aspx and I am using PC fans for my ventilation. Ive also bought a heating pad for cold nights. I have an old box for an amplifier which I put a piece of plywood on top to be used as a table and is a very discreet grow chamber that's detentions are 15"w 20"l 22"h. the light sits on top of the box in a my Trailer Park Boys cheese burger locker which holes cut to accommodate.
I didn't know what to expect from my collection of 10 bagseeds of which I forget exactly which batches I pulled them from. Anyways with luck 9/10 germinated within 24hrs and where planted in 2L milk jugs cut in half with drainage holes and covered with aluminum tape ( later I recovered them with black gorilla tape cause the aluminum was cold to the touch). All seeds sprouted within 3 days but unfortunately one was buried too deep and didnt make it...
day of sprout:
For the first week they were on 24hr light and grew very quickly
soon it became obvious that some girls weren't keeping up to the rest and were sickly so went from nine to six plants. For second week switch to 16/8 lighting because I heard a little less light promotes more female sexing. Also bought first fertz which are all organic fish juice 5-1-1, sea weed juice .1-.04.-6.5 and blood and bone meal (very stinky!)
heres day 14 from sprout
and heres my #1 girl!
Now its getting a bit cramped in there so I am itching to switch to 12/12 so I can find and remove any male plants and prioritize on just one or two girls and move the rest into a separate veg chamber. Im looking for some constructive input here, is it too soon to switch to 12/12? all girls have sprouted 4th or 5th node and are starting to grow leafs at the node. also if I switch to 12/12 well I be able to re-veg and re-pot one or two of the girls so i can begin to LST and ScrOG? or is it still possible to train for a bushy plant under 12/12?
And So...
Ive decide to take a minimalists approach to this grow concerning space, lighting, materials etc. my goal is to complete this grow with a system that consumes less than 50 watts and for this first round I well be using bag seed. My light is The 21X-PRO LED Grow Light http://www.hydrogrowled.com/21X-PRO---36W-LED-Grow-Light-P96C60.aspx and I am using PC fans for my ventilation. Ive also bought a heating pad for cold nights. I have an old box for an amplifier which I put a piece of plywood on top to be used as a table and is a very discreet grow chamber that's detentions are 15"w 20"l 22"h. the light sits on top of the box in a my Trailer Park Boys cheese burger locker which holes cut to accommodate.
I didn't know what to expect from my collection of 10 bagseeds of which I forget exactly which batches I pulled them from. Anyways with luck 9/10 germinated within 24hrs and where planted in 2L milk jugs cut in half with drainage holes and covered with aluminum tape ( later I recovered them with black gorilla tape cause the aluminum was cold to the touch). All seeds sprouted within 3 days but unfortunately one was buried too deep and didnt make it...
day of sprout:
For the first week they were on 24hr light and grew very quickly
soon it became obvious that some girls weren't keeping up to the rest and were sickly so went from nine to six plants. For second week switch to 16/8 lighting because I heard a little less light promotes more female sexing. Also bought first fertz which are all organic fish juice 5-1-1, sea weed juice .1-.04.-6.5 and blood and bone meal (very stinky!)
heres day 14 from sprout
and heres my #1 girl!
Now its getting a bit cramped in there so I am itching to switch to 12/12 so I can find and remove any male plants and prioritize on just one or two girls and move the rest into a separate veg chamber. Im looking for some constructive input here, is it too soon to switch to 12/12? all girls have sprouted 4th or 5th node and are starting to grow leafs at the node. also if I switch to 12/12 well I be able to re-veg and re-pot one or two of the girls so i can begin to LST and ScrOG? or is it still possible to train for a bushy plant under 12/12?