lwells2000
Active Member
Hi all, welcome to my thread. Please feel free to post advice as this is my first real grow attempt. I've spent many hours studying grows and advice her at RIU and feel like an expert even though I haven't got a crop yet lol.
I started out 4 or 5 weeks ago with an Aerogarden in a cheap tent I bought on ebay with some low rider seeds I got somewhere on the net (I think attitude). It got way to hot in the tent and I think the tent was toxic too as they started wilting nearly as soon as I put them in and I removed them after a few days and put them in my closet. I only had 2 survivors and both of those ended up male. I was about to start some more when a friend dropped by and gave me several starts.
There is a little history to these starts. The seeds originally came from Denmark and my friend, who lives in Pompei part of the year, wanted to bring some good weed to the Islands. They managed to find someone to smuggle them in and grew several varieties. After 3 or 4 generations he collected seeds from the best strains. He called them White Witch and Purple something (he couldn't remember) and brought them back to the states. They are both Indica strains. I think the ones he gave me are all the Purple xxxxx variety.
He gave me a total of 12 plants. They were in 4" pots and several were falling over, but several were very healthy. They were different sizes, but generally around 8" tall looking a little stretchy with 3-4 nodes. I quickly re-arranged my closet and re-potted them in 8" pots. I could squeeze 8 of the pots in the closet and gave the 4 shortest and weakest ones to my nephew to see if he could save them (nope!). I made a mistake I think in using Miracle Grow soil as all of them showed nute burn after transplanting and my nephews four plants died and 2 of mine are are currently stems in dirt! One is probably not going to make it but the other has gotten some leaves so it may make it still. 6 plants are healthy and plenty for my closet if not too much.
My friend told me to go ahead and send them into flowering so after a couple days getting used to the new soil I put them to 12/12. I regret this now as I wanted to scrog, and found out I should do that during vegging. Trying it anyway to see what happens.
I'm using several cfls and 2 90W tri-spectrum LEDs that the plants totally love. There is air coming in from the crawl with intake fan and exhausting into the attic as well as a fan on the plants. I have a diy carbon filter as well as a diy co2 bottle.
The pics with this post include the orignaly Aerogarden pic of the plants that died and/or turned male and the other 3 are after a week of flowering or so.
The aerogarden now has some newly germinated low rider auto flowers in it so I'm going to grow those on the top shelf while the lower plants are flowering.
Please feel free to comment and give advice if its not hater talk!
Thanks for dropping by
I started out 4 or 5 weeks ago with an Aerogarden in a cheap tent I bought on ebay with some low rider seeds I got somewhere on the net (I think attitude). It got way to hot in the tent and I think the tent was toxic too as they started wilting nearly as soon as I put them in and I removed them after a few days and put them in my closet. I only had 2 survivors and both of those ended up male. I was about to start some more when a friend dropped by and gave me several starts.
There is a little history to these starts. The seeds originally came from Denmark and my friend, who lives in Pompei part of the year, wanted to bring some good weed to the Islands. They managed to find someone to smuggle them in and grew several varieties. After 3 or 4 generations he collected seeds from the best strains. He called them White Witch and Purple something (he couldn't remember) and brought them back to the states. They are both Indica strains. I think the ones he gave me are all the Purple xxxxx variety.
He gave me a total of 12 plants. They were in 4" pots and several were falling over, but several were very healthy. They were different sizes, but generally around 8" tall looking a little stretchy with 3-4 nodes. I quickly re-arranged my closet and re-potted them in 8" pots. I could squeeze 8 of the pots in the closet and gave the 4 shortest and weakest ones to my nephew to see if he could save them (nope!). I made a mistake I think in using Miracle Grow soil as all of them showed nute burn after transplanting and my nephews four plants died and 2 of mine are are currently stems in dirt! One is probably not going to make it but the other has gotten some leaves so it may make it still. 6 plants are healthy and plenty for my closet if not too much.
My friend told me to go ahead and send them into flowering so after a couple days getting used to the new soil I put them to 12/12. I regret this now as I wanted to scrog, and found out I should do that during vegging. Trying it anyway to see what happens.
I'm using several cfls and 2 90W tri-spectrum LEDs that the plants totally love. There is air coming in from the crawl with intake fan and exhausting into the attic as well as a fan on the plants. I have a diy carbon filter as well as a diy co2 bottle.
The pics with this post include the orignaly Aerogarden pic of the plants that died and/or turned male and the other 3 are after a week of flowering or so.
The aerogarden now has some newly germinated low rider auto flowers in it so I'm going to grow those on the top shelf while the lower plants are flowering.
Please feel free to comment and give advice if its not hater talk!
Thanks for dropping by
