ChiefinFire420
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This will be me and my roommates first grow journal on this site. So I hope a lot of you more experienced growers will subscribe and pitch in any helpful tips and information you have learned from your own grows.
This is the first tents set up. The tent is 5x3x3 and there is an Apollo 400 MH/HPS light system with the reflective hood set to 18/6 on 50 percent power. The seeds were germinated for 48 hours in a paper towel and then planted into Fox Farms Ocean Forest. There are 6 seeds in all, 4 of them are in 4.02 gallon pots and the other 2 are in 1 gallon pots only because they were extras and I am not sure if I am going to keep them or not. The seeds were bag seeds but if I remember correctly the strain is "Chernobyl", which is some pretty stank smoke. They have taken root and I expect to see sprouts start popping up tomorrow morning. The pot way in the back in the middle of the two 4 gallon pots has Jalapeno seeds in it lol. I enjoy peppers and wanted to see if I could successfully grow some in the tent
The second tent is a bit larger, 7x5x3. Right now it has a 150 Watt CFL with a reflective hood on 24/0. There are 4 clones in there at the moment with more on the way soon. I am not sure what strains they are, Ill have to ask him later lol. I do not believe they have taken root yet and they are looking a little sad but hes got high hopes for the front 2 and is going to give them another week or 2 to start growing. When they are ready for flower a couple months from now he has a 1000 watt HPS with a big reflective hood ready to go in the tent.
Both of the tents have ducting but not the proper type of fans for good ventilation. We have all ready picked inline fans out and are going to have them quickly shipped. But for now there is no issue seeing as how none of the plants are growing yet and there is no overheating in the room. Temps stick around 75 to 82 and will steady out around 72 to 75 once we get our inline fans hooked up.
This will be me and my roommates first grow journal on this site. So I hope a lot of you more experienced growers will subscribe and pitch in any helpful tips and information you have learned from your own grows.
This is the first tents set up. The tent is 5x3x3 and there is an Apollo 400 MH/HPS light system with the reflective hood set to 18/6 on 50 percent power. The seeds were germinated for 48 hours in a paper towel and then planted into Fox Farms Ocean Forest. There are 6 seeds in all, 4 of them are in 4.02 gallon pots and the other 2 are in 1 gallon pots only because they were extras and I am not sure if I am going to keep them or not. The seeds were bag seeds but if I remember correctly the strain is "Chernobyl", which is some pretty stank smoke. They have taken root and I expect to see sprouts start popping up tomorrow morning. The pot way in the back in the middle of the two 4 gallon pots has Jalapeno seeds in it lol. I enjoy peppers and wanted to see if I could successfully grow some in the tent
The second tent is a bit larger, 7x5x3. Right now it has a 150 Watt CFL with a reflective hood on 24/0. There are 4 clones in there at the moment with more on the way soon. I am not sure what strains they are, Ill have to ask him later lol. I do not believe they have taken root yet and they are looking a little sad but hes got high hopes for the front 2 and is going to give them another week or 2 to start growing. When they are ready for flower a couple months from now he has a 1000 watt HPS with a big reflective hood ready to go in the tent.
Both of the tents have ducting but not the proper type of fans for good ventilation. We have all ready picked inline fans out and are going to have them quickly shipped. But for now there is no issue seeing as how none of the plants are growing yet and there is no overheating in the room. Temps stick around 75 to 82 and will steady out around 72 to 75 once we get our inline fans hooked up.
. I am happy about that and happy to finally get this journey started. Temps in the seedling tent at the moment is 78 degrees Fahrenheit and dropping, humidity is steady at 39 percent. Humidity always jumps up when the light is off, usually around 80 percent
. I am gonna need a dehumidifier for flower but that is a long ways down the road. All of the soil in the pots is nicely saturated with distilled water I bought from the store. I will be keeping the Metal Halide light on 18/6 for the duration of veg.
. We are not to worried about it because we have a stock pile of clones from the same 3 strains. Plus other plants in other locations. So these have less than 2 weeks to show a change or they will get moved aside and scrapped so that fresh plants can be put in. But I like the look of a couple of them
. Yea this will be like a test run for our next grows, just to see what kind of quality and quantity we can produce with these tents and lights. Were going to remove the 150 watt CFL and stuff the 1000 watter into the 5x3 tent probably within the next week. As well as set up the ducting and inline fan for it. After this grow we plan on using the 5x3 to flower and the 3x3 to veg in a perpetual grow. Best way to do it lol
It has definitely had an impact on the temps in the entire room. We had to do some trial and error with the ducting in and out of the room. The temps are now usually between 84 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and still drop to 63 at night.
