wsmith
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Hey. This is my first time posting any kind of grow log here so bear with me. Also my first time having started from seed myself, the last two grows I attempted used clones from two different sources and I learned two painful lessons in putting too much light in too small a space, all kinds of problems there but it was worth the experience because I've been doing things a lot different (read better and more successful so far) as a result.
So after killing about 8 clones two weeks from the conclusion of flower my mentor in this got a little pissed off and told me to try it again, and not fuck it up. Part of the problem the last time was I was acquiring equipment and experience as I went and so timing became an issue.
I wanted to give it another shot so while smoking some Willies he accidentally crossed with Semango I grabbed a few seeds and set them aside. I have a spare closet around here that was looking like it needed a CFL in a metal drop light hood from home depot (I'm not going to bother with that photo, I think you get the idea) and some rapid rooters in it. So I dropped some seeds in a cup of water, and left them in my then dark grow room until I started seeing tap roots. As the seeds popped I put them in Rapid Rooters (awesome lil things they are) a little below the surface (I learned here that you don't want to bury the things but also keep them away from the immediate surface of the plug) that I prepped with RO water per the instructions. I'm using a Stealth RO filter that I have plumbed in to my shower head via a valve with a garden hose hookup I installed to make things easier. My main grow area is a room I constructed adjacent to my bathroom for convenience. My seedlings however, as I mentioned, are in a closet elsewhere. I kept the lil guys under a 24 hour on CFL for a little over a week (estimate, I forget exactly how long. I waited for some progress to put up this post because I didnt want it to end six days in with an OUCH) until they had about an inch of root protruding from the rooters.
I bought two bags of Atami b'Cuzz coco and soaked it for 24 hours in RO water mixed with some GH micro and Bloom, at a low concentration. My buddy has a chart posted somewhere else on ICMAG, 11908Feeding,gif or.jpg, it is in another thread, but thats the nute schedule I'm working with now and I'm happy with it.
I decided to use 2.5 gal grow bags after reading another thread and being impressed with what I saw and the convenience and cheapness make me happy.
Transplanted 7 seedlings in to the bags and put them on 20 hours on 4 hours off under a 400 watt MH lamp in my grow room. I have a separate air cooled hood with a 1000 watt Hortilux eye and another 500 watt cheapo sodium light I have on the side (not using this one unless I have to though I think its overkill) I'm planning on using for flowering these and at that point I'm planning on moving the MH light in to the closet my seedlings were in and keeping one or two of these babies in veg and cloning the christ out of them for a bit. My room can accomodate about 40 plants and you better believe I plan on filling it.
After the first two weeks I scaled my light cycle back to 18-6 and that is where I've kept it. I run the light at night because I already have entirely too much of a power bill from my central air and its not fun running essentially a 400 watt heater all day in 90 degree heat.
Sooo...according to my feed chart and my nonexistent memory I've had the babies under the MH for about three weeks (believe I'm at day 23) and here are some pictures of what is going on. I'm pretty happy I haven't had any problems so far and I can't wait to start trying my hand at cloning. I have a bubbler I built that I am dying to try out, and some surplus coco, and some more rapid rooters so I plan on trying damn near every method under the sun for the experience. All in all even when I fucked up the last crop I was so close to harvest any way that I had a nice big salad bowl of Chemdog that got me plenty stoned for over a month and I love to cook so I made my chick a lovely birthday cake with some cannabutter I used the last 1.5 oz of leaf for
tasty! I'm an ag major and I get such a kick out of watching these lil guys blow up a lil more every hour. The last time I spent so much time in my bathroom I think I was sixteen hiding in it with a porno HA HA HA. I think I have it down this time though so let's see how this all turns out.
Now for some pics!!!
So after killing about 8 clones two weeks from the conclusion of flower my mentor in this got a little pissed off and told me to try it again, and not fuck it up. Part of the problem the last time was I was acquiring equipment and experience as I went and so timing became an issue.
I wanted to give it another shot so while smoking some Willies he accidentally crossed with Semango I grabbed a few seeds and set them aside. I have a spare closet around here that was looking like it needed a CFL in a metal drop light hood from home depot (I'm not going to bother with that photo, I think you get the idea) and some rapid rooters in it. So I dropped some seeds in a cup of water, and left them in my then dark grow room until I started seeing tap roots. As the seeds popped I put them in Rapid Rooters (awesome lil things they are) a little below the surface (I learned here that you don't want to bury the things but also keep them away from the immediate surface of the plug) that I prepped with RO water per the instructions. I'm using a Stealth RO filter that I have plumbed in to my shower head via a valve with a garden hose hookup I installed to make things easier. My main grow area is a room I constructed adjacent to my bathroom for convenience. My seedlings however, as I mentioned, are in a closet elsewhere. I kept the lil guys under a 24 hour on CFL for a little over a week (estimate, I forget exactly how long. I waited for some progress to put up this post because I didnt want it to end six days in with an OUCH) until they had about an inch of root protruding from the rooters.
I bought two bags of Atami b'Cuzz coco and soaked it for 24 hours in RO water mixed with some GH micro and Bloom, at a low concentration. My buddy has a chart posted somewhere else on ICMAG, 11908Feeding,gif or.jpg, it is in another thread, but thats the nute schedule I'm working with now and I'm happy with it.
I decided to use 2.5 gal grow bags after reading another thread and being impressed with what I saw and the convenience and cheapness make me happy.
Transplanted 7 seedlings in to the bags and put them on 20 hours on 4 hours off under a 400 watt MH lamp in my grow room. I have a separate air cooled hood with a 1000 watt Hortilux eye and another 500 watt cheapo sodium light I have on the side (not using this one unless I have to though I think its overkill) I'm planning on using for flowering these and at that point I'm planning on moving the MH light in to the closet my seedlings were in and keeping one or two of these babies in veg and cloning the christ out of them for a bit. My room can accomodate about 40 plants and you better believe I plan on filling it.
After the first two weeks I scaled my light cycle back to 18-6 and that is where I've kept it. I run the light at night because I already have entirely too much of a power bill from my central air and its not fun running essentially a 400 watt heater all day in 90 degree heat.
Sooo...according to my feed chart and my nonexistent memory I've had the babies under the MH for about three weeks (believe I'm at day 23) and here are some pictures of what is going on. I'm pretty happy I haven't had any problems so far and I can't wait to start trying my hand at cloning. I have a bubbler I built that I am dying to try out, and some surplus coco, and some more rapid rooters so I plan on trying damn near every method under the sun for the experience. All in all even when I fucked up the last crop I was so close to harvest any way that I had a nice big salad bowl of Chemdog that got me plenty stoned for over a month and I love to cook so I made my chick a lovely birthday cake with some cannabutter I used the last 1.5 oz of leaf for
tasty! I'm an ag major and I get such a kick out of watching these lil guys blow up a lil more every hour. The last time I spent so much time in my bathroom I think I was sixteen hiding in it with a porno HA HA HA. I think I have it down this time though so let's see how this all turns out.Now for some pics!!!
