My first grow guys!
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Popcorn900
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Of course they are and yes excuse me for hijacking your thread twice now.
I'm just excited I'm learning some.
Matt420Aus
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Those girls are looking really nice, getting bigger every day.
i put ppm up to high, so had to drop it back and am now growing much more conservative with nutrients. Yeh I have about 4 tops coming up on the white widows, I'm going to train those and cut the lower growth on week 2 of flower I think, need to let the other girls catch up a bit, two weeks into flower can keep training, get an even scrog then let them shoot upwards. Going to be interesting, first hydro grow, first scrog, first indoor grow...many firsts
i put ppm up to high, so had to drop it back and am now growing much more conservative with nutrients. Yeh I have about 4 tops coming up on the white widows, I'm going to train those and cut the lower growth on week 2 of flower I think, need to let the other girls catch up a bit, two weeks into flower can keep training, get an even scrog then let them shoot upwards. Going to be interesting, first hydro grow, first scrog, first indoor grow...many firsts
Greenthumbntraining
Member
I trim bottom of plants,I don't want mites on my plants even though I don't have them its just cautionary that I trim the bottoms
Greenthumbntraining
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@ matt wut plants r u growing?
Greenthumbntraining
Member
Yes I m proud,now I think ur ready for the feminized seeds bro,ur grows look great u got alota info now,plus u have us along the way
cdd10
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Hell yeah! Lol and I think so too, I can't wait to grow that special queen! I'm grateful you guys are here for me!
Greenthumbntraining
Member
At 1 point we all were here,im still learning,my next grow is hydro but I have no clue on how to do it,need info from matt,my next check im gona by all equipment
cdd10
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Can't wait to see that journey!
Greenthumbntraining
Member
Me 2 I hope I don't make a mess out of it,I get the concept of it but I need help along the way
cdd10
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Yeah lol at least you know something about it though not totally in the dark
Matt420Aus
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Im growing in soil either Ice or White widow x skunk #1 not sure cause I just mixed the 20 seeds together.
In hydro I have 2 white widow xskunk #1(reg)
1 northern lights(fem)
2 ice (reg)
1 sage n sour (fem)
1 darkstar (fem)
Im happy to help although ill admit im not the most experienced at hydro, years and years of experience with soil growing of all sorts of things, had fruit orchards and all sorts, few cannabis grows like 10 years back in soil, but they went well.
Hydro I have learned is all about stability and increasing things slowly, trying to keep everything at the same levels every day unless you increase them purposely. Once you have it set up it is actually relatively straight forward, the key is not to mess with it to much. PH is way more important than in soil grows and I monitor that twice a day, have to use PH down every single day to keep it 5.5-5.8. Reservoir changes every 7-14 days depending on how much you want to push the plants. Its a lot more work than soil, that's for sure, at the end of your grow you have to pull everything apart and flush cleaner through lines etc. So expect a day of cleaning at least after each grow.. keeping things clean is important.
Any questions just ask ill try to answer with what I know.
I just checked my soil grow outside, the leaves are looking better after I sprayed them with plain water earlier, I think it was just the bug spray. They also are stretching like crazy 2 inches on one stem overnight, reaching for the light.
White widow touched the screen already , by tomorrow ill be training it, its growing at a rate of about an inch or so a day now.
In hydro I have 2 white widow xskunk #1(reg)
1 northern lights(fem)
2 ice (reg)
1 sage n sour (fem)
1 darkstar (fem)
Im happy to help although ill admit im not the most experienced at hydro, years and years of experience with soil growing of all sorts of things, had fruit orchards and all sorts, few cannabis grows like 10 years back in soil, but they went well.
Hydro I have learned is all about stability and increasing things slowly, trying to keep everything at the same levels every day unless you increase them purposely. Once you have it set up it is actually relatively straight forward, the key is not to mess with it to much. PH is way more important than in soil grows and I monitor that twice a day, have to use PH down every single day to keep it 5.5-5.8. Reservoir changes every 7-14 days depending on how much you want to push the plants. Its a lot more work than soil, that's for sure, at the end of your grow you have to pull everything apart and flush cleaner through lines etc. So expect a day of cleaning at least after each grow.. keeping things clean is important.
Any questions just ask ill try to answer with what I know.
I just checked my soil grow outside, the leaves are looking better after I sprayed them with plain water earlier, I think it was just the bug spray. They also are stretching like crazy 2 inches on one stem overnight, reaching for the light.
White widow touched the screen already , by tomorrow ill be training it, its growing at a rate of about an inch or so a day now.
Matt420Aus
Member
Im glad with any info I can give, there are many more experienced people out there but its nice to have some quick replies when your worried about something and just want to find out how to fix it easily without having to read through 100 pages of forum posts
Matt420Aus
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I built a lot of my system because I realized in the future im going to have a house of my own and I did not want to invest for an expensive system (although saying that I have bought more than $2500 worth of stuff for growing, between both hydro and soil equipment), its usually just little bits that all add up. Lighting systems, fans etc were the most expensive, nutrients $250 (I have a whole lot of nutes that fit hydro growing, could be done much cheaper I believe).
I hope you don't mind me posting this Cdd but here is my idea for my future system when I have my own house, will need to buy a house with either a large basement (not easy to find in Australia) or 2 spare bedrooms, perhaps one big bedroom.. to fit:
Grow Lab 120Large
[h=4]Specifications:[/h]Perfect for holding one 3' x 6' tray, this room works great with two 600 watt lighting systems.
Material:
Interior: reflective silver film
Exterior: waterproof black canvas
Recommended lighting:
400 or 600 watt HPS or MH system
Dimensions:
Assembled: 3'11" wide x 7'11" deep x 6'7" tall / 47" x 94.4" x 78.75" tall / 240 x 120 x 200cm
Packed: 4' wide x 1.2' deep x 0.56' tall / 48.4" x 14.5" x 6.7 " tall / 123 x 37 x 17cm
Ports:
Intake/Exhaust: (3) - 10" / 254mm (all ports adjust to fit smaller-diameter ducting and equipment as well)
Reflector Cooling: (2) - 8" / 203mm (all ports adjust to fit smaller-diameter ducting and equipment as well)
Cord access: (4) - 4" / 101mm
Miscellaneous:
Intake windows: 4
Doors/Access Windows: 2
Waterproof floor panels: 2
Clear viewing windows: 2
Flower room with 2 600w lights or 2 LED lights, not sure yet, but if I have the money will be going with LEDs for power saving
Grow Lab 120
[h=4]Specifications:[/h]Perfect for holding one 3' x 3' tray, this room works great with one 400 or 600 watt lighting system.
Material:
Interior: reflective silver film
Exterior: waterproof black canvas
Recommended lighting:
400 or 600 watt HPS or MH system
Dimensions:
Assembled: 3'11" wide x 3'11" deep x 6'7" tall / 47 " x 47 " x 78.75 " tall / 120 x 120 x 200cm
Packed: 3.9' wide x 1.3' deep x 0.36' tall / 48" x 15.7 " x 4.3 " tall / 123 x 40 x 11cm
Ports:
Intake/Exhaust: (5) - 8" / 203mm (2 ports for air-cooling of reflector plus 3 additional ports; all ports adjust to fit smaller-diameter ducting and equipment as well)
Cord access: (2) - 4" / 101mm
Miscellaneous:
Intake windows: 3
Doors: 1
Veg Room 1 400w MH light or 1 LED
Clone Lab
[h=4]Specifications:[/h]Ideal for holding four 10x20" Seedling Trays per level (2x levels total) , this room works great with multiple 4' T5 fluorescent lighting system (an 8 lamp fixture works best).
Material:
Interior: reflective silver film
Exterior: waterproof black canvas
Recommended lighting:
multiple T5 fluorescent systems
Dimensions:
Assembled: 4'1" wide x 2'1" deep x 3'11" tall / 49.2" x 25.6" x 47.2" tall / 125 x 65 x 120cm
Packed: 4.2' wide x 2.3' deep x 0.47' tall / 50.8" x 27.2" x 5.6 " tall / 129 x 69 x 14.3cm
Ports:
Intake/Exhaust: (3) - 8" / 203mm (port adjusts to fit smaller-diameter ducting and equipment as well)
Reflector Cooling: (2) - 4" / 101mm (port adjusts to fit smaller-diameter ducting and equipment as well)
Cord access: (2) - 4" / 101mm
Miscellaneous:
Intake windows: 3
Doors: 1
Clear viewing windows: 2
Clone and mother room with 2 80w CFLs (hooded).
Probably going to cost a small fortune to set this up but that's the plan for the future (long time down the road, but got to have a dream, haha).
I think I could probably run about 6-12 plants in this set up depending how long I wanted to veg for.
Was considering cutting 4 clones at a time and moving 4 plants into veg tent, move 4 plants into flower tent, they flower for 4 weeks while 4 more clones have been moved to veg tent, after 4 weeks they move into flower tent and 4 more plants into veg. So if that worked I would be harvesting 4 plants a month. Would be able to have an unbelievable amount of turn over, perhaps 5-15 ounces a month. Would run a fair amount as BHO and the rest cure and store.
Would probably grow out many new strains from seed also and just keep some primo mothers.
Sounds great when I think about it but all depends on money etc.
Matt420Aus
Member
what ? its cdds thread