Gilligans Island
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Being new to indoor growing and coming up on my first harvest in about 2 weeks I thought I would share what I think I did wrong. Maybe others can add to the list from their experiences.
1) Yellow bag Miracle Grow. While this worked fantastic for me outdoors, not so much indoors in 2 gallon pots. Really had no issue's until mid flower, then not so good. Better in 3 gallon pots on 2nd round but issue's on the horizon.
2) 2 gallon pots.
3) Started too many bag seeds. Figured out of 18 I would get 6 viable ended up with 10. Room for 6 on each cycle.
4) Started too many seeds on 2nd round. Sour Diesel and Gods Bud 6 of each. Got 12 viable. Room for 6 on each cycle!!!
5) Humidifier drain hose ended up uphill after an emptying which instead of filling the 7 gallon bucket it filled up the 70 pint resivour and shut off. Did not visit for 2 days. 98% humidity in bloom when I arrived lower growth on each plant suffered. Fortunately most would have been lollipop-ed anyways.
6) 7 gallon bucket on humidifier not big enough when pulling 2-3 gallons per day and you forget. 98% humidity when I arrived... Twice! Water flippin everywhere.
7) Wired up my led drivers in one spot on the wall with too long of wire to lights. Was losing 30% of available power.
Purchased 3 different brands of circulation fans to get a silent one.
9) Purchased a set of non mechanical back draft dampers for intake and exhaust. Can get -20 below on the Island at times so mechanical a must.
10) LED's too close.
And some how I ended up with some pretty good smoke. Yield not as good as I would have hoped for but for everything that went wrong me a happy camper. Now officially self sustainable.
1) Yellow bag Miracle Grow. While this worked fantastic for me outdoors, not so much indoors in 2 gallon pots. Really had no issue's until mid flower, then not so good. Better in 3 gallon pots on 2nd round but issue's on the horizon.
2) 2 gallon pots.
3) Started too many bag seeds. Figured out of 18 I would get 6 viable ended up with 10. Room for 6 on each cycle.
4) Started too many seeds on 2nd round. Sour Diesel and Gods Bud 6 of each. Got 12 viable. Room for 6 on each cycle!!!
5) Humidifier drain hose ended up uphill after an emptying which instead of filling the 7 gallon bucket it filled up the 70 pint resivour and shut off. Did not visit for 2 days. 98% humidity in bloom when I arrived lower growth on each plant suffered. Fortunately most would have been lollipop-ed anyways.
6) 7 gallon bucket on humidifier not big enough when pulling 2-3 gallons per day and you forget. 98% humidity when I arrived... Twice! Water flippin everywhere.
7) Wired up my led drivers in one spot on the wall with too long of wire to lights. Was losing 30% of available power.
Purchased 3 different brands of circulation fans to get a silent one.9) Purchased a set of non mechanical back draft dampers for intake and exhaust. Can get -20 below on the Island at times so mechanical a must.
10) LED's too close.
And some how I ended up with some pretty good smoke. Yield not as good as I would have hoped for but for everything that went wrong me a happy camper. Now officially self sustainable.
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