L A K E S I D E
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What's up everyone, So I browsed around the forum for a while to get information on how to go about setting up my first grow and figured I would make a profile and contribute. The Rundown:
Strain: Lemon Sour Diesel (LSD) wanted a nice sativa as it seems harder to come by vs indica dominate strain.
Grow Medium: Currently plan on using Happy Frog for germination/seedling and final transplant going into Ocean Forest.
Water: I'm currently watering when top inch is dry, water is tap (de-chlorinated) PH'd to ~6.8 with a small amount of molasses mixed in to feed the microbes in the soil.
Environment: Targeting 70-72 degrees and humidity in the high 50s to low 60s for seedlings. I plan on monitoring CO2 soon and implementing a DIY bioreactor for supplementing.
Tent: Spider Farmer 4x4
Light: Spider Farmer SF4000 and have a Mars Hydro TS 600 to add in for flower. I also will be adding in either a 150w HPS or a 100w Amazon blurpie as well for a total of 3 lights in flower targeting ~600watts of true power.
Air Circulation: AC Infinity T4 with 2 Amazon 7in fans.
Others: Tent is also equipped with a Humidifier and a heater since its in my garage which I keep at about 65 degrees.
Day 1 - 8
I began the grow by germinating 4 LSD seeds from ilovegrowingmarijuana.com using a 24 hour soak in a ball jar at the end of the soak the seeds had all sunk and were beginning to split open. The next day I prepared the cups which I filled with Fox Farms Happy Frog soil straight from the bag no amendments or mixing. Next I thoroughly watered the soil before planting and sewed the seeds about half an inch deep. I watered the with a spray bottle until some drops came out the bottom twice a day. I first put the pots in makeshift humidity dome using sandwich bags but decided against this opting to increase the humidity in the entire tent with the AC infinity fan. By day 4 all four seeds had germinated and broke ground so I switched to a watering when dry (top 1in) and began to incorporate the molasses. Day 6 saw two of the seedlings begin to become leggy so the light was lower from 24 to 18 in and turned up from 10% to 25%. I also began to incorporate a 8 degree~ cooler temperature inside the tent during the first two hours of lights on to encourage more horizontal growth on day 7. Day 8 (Today) the plants have seemed to stop stretching and are growing larger leaves. The two shorter plants were dry so I watered those and the leggy ones were about 75% to the point of where I water so I just gave them a light mist. The leggy plants also got pipe cleaners to help support them until there stems fatten up. The overnight temps got up to 78 and the humidity tanked this was mainly because of the vent fan is triggered off of high humidity so if the humidifier runs out of water (which it did) the ventilation fan doesn't run. Thankfully this was only for a couple of hours.
Thanks for reading! Questions and suggestions are always appreciated...
Strain: Lemon Sour Diesel (LSD) wanted a nice sativa as it seems harder to come by vs indica dominate strain.
Grow Medium: Currently plan on using Happy Frog for germination/seedling and final transplant going into Ocean Forest.
Water: I'm currently watering when top inch is dry, water is tap (de-chlorinated) PH'd to ~6.8 with a small amount of molasses mixed in to feed the microbes in the soil.
Environment: Targeting 70-72 degrees and humidity in the high 50s to low 60s for seedlings. I plan on monitoring CO2 soon and implementing a DIY bioreactor for supplementing.
Tent: Spider Farmer 4x4
Light: Spider Farmer SF4000 and have a Mars Hydro TS 600 to add in for flower. I also will be adding in either a 150w HPS or a 100w Amazon blurpie as well for a total of 3 lights in flower targeting ~600watts of true power.
Air Circulation: AC Infinity T4 with 2 Amazon 7in fans.
Others: Tent is also equipped with a Humidifier and a heater since its in my garage which I keep at about 65 degrees.
Day 1 - 8
I began the grow by germinating 4 LSD seeds from ilovegrowingmarijuana.com using a 24 hour soak in a ball jar at the end of the soak the seeds had all sunk and were beginning to split open. The next day I prepared the cups which I filled with Fox Farms Happy Frog soil straight from the bag no amendments or mixing. Next I thoroughly watered the soil before planting and sewed the seeds about half an inch deep. I watered the with a spray bottle until some drops came out the bottom twice a day. I first put the pots in makeshift humidity dome using sandwich bags but decided against this opting to increase the humidity in the entire tent with the AC infinity fan. By day 4 all four seeds had germinated and broke ground so I switched to a watering when dry (top 1in) and began to incorporate the molasses. Day 6 saw two of the seedlings begin to become leggy so the light was lower from 24 to 18 in and turned up from 10% to 25%. I also began to incorporate a 8 degree~ cooler temperature inside the tent during the first two hours of lights on to encourage more horizontal growth on day 7. Day 8 (Today) the plants have seemed to stop stretching and are growing larger leaves. The two shorter plants were dry so I watered those and the leggy ones were about 75% to the point of where I water so I just gave them a light mist. The leggy plants also got pipe cleaners to help support them until there stems fatten up. The overnight temps got up to 78 and the humidity tanked this was mainly because of the vent fan is triggered off of high humidity so if the humidifier runs out of water (which it did) the ventilation fan doesn't run. Thankfully this was only for a couple of hours.
Thanks for reading! Questions and suggestions are always appreciated...
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