Snickerdoodle
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Silly name, I know... I think I'm clever!!! 
So this is it, the Narnia grow. A joint effort by me and my husband to grow medicine. It started with a wardrobe and quickly became two. (okay so one isn't really a wardrobe, its a TV cabinet converted into a grow box, but it looks like it could be a wardrobe, and it makes sense being in the bedroom).
Things are going well despite a few nasty set backs. We're about 2 months into veg with the grow. We had a months worth of setbacks due to spidermites, bad dirt (which became a stressful transplant) and high ph. Things are on track and we are rocking now!!! Our simple grow became a little more high tech as we went. We're using low stress training to maximize our space as much as possible and added a yeast co2 factory to increase our growth. (more about that below)
The Lights - CFL's... don't hate!! 4 26watt 6500k "daylight" CFL bulbs per section. These will be switched out for "warm whites" when we go to flower, but that's not for another month or so
We're using power strips with socket converters. This was super easy to do, cheap and not nearly as much of a fire hazard as some of the wonky set ups I've seen. We move our plants to the lights, rather than moving the lights around the plants. It's just easier for us in our short space.
We plan to add a few tubes (t5's I think) that we have to the back of the box to increase light to the mid-section and add another spectrum to the mix before we head into flower.
The Weed - Eight lovely ladies! All from clones. No babies from seed yet, though I have some I'm itching to pop!!
Afgooey - Afghani #1 x Maui Haze - True Afgoo!! We have two of these lovely ladies from the same mother. Both plants are growing oddly different, I'm suspecting different phenotypes from different locations on the mother. For reference purposes I call them A & B. I was told she is a pleasure to have in your garden and it's true! This strain is fantastic to grow!
Afghooey - Picked this lady up from a local dispensary. For sure a different strain than the other afghoo. This one has thinner leaves, maybe a bit more sativa in this cross? We call this Afgoo S for reference
Brain's Escape - We almost lost her due to ph issues but now she's back on track and making up for lost time!! This girl roots like nobody's business! Should be an easy one to clone!!
Californian Orange - Another lovely lady! We call her Cali. She's supposed to be a skunk cross with buds more orange than green. She's been fun to LST!
M.K. Ultra - G-13 x O.G. Kush - We also have two of these lovely ladies. Very hardy, short, stocky little girls. A & B for reference
Matanuska Thunder Fuck - Beautiful plant! Trying to be taller than our space can take. Shes growing leggy and filled with branches everywhere you look! She's taking training rather well. She was a bit taller than we'd have liked when we got her but she took training well. Still we might have to top her! She's a crazy one!! We refer to her as MTF for short.
The Wardrobe - the original wardrobe is actually my husbands. We wanted to grow and didn't have much for space at the time but figured we could create a nice controlled environment in there to grow at least a plant or two in. The larger wardrobe was a TV cabinet that we picked up at the goodwill for cheap. We'd been searching for something to fit the alcove in our bedroom specifically to grow in and ran across this. The price was right as was the size, so we set out to turn it into a grow box.
I covered the walls in mylar, so tight you can see yourself in it. No joke! It's like a mirror! I have to be careful not to catch myself when I take photos it's that good! To complete this I used emergency blankets and a hot glue gun. It takes some skill to get it up that tight and I'd be lying if I said I didn't burn myself a few times doing it but the light reflection is fantastic and it makes a huge difference in the brightness overall.
We installed two large CPU fans (120mm I believe) for air, an intake on the bottom and out up top. Since heat rises we figured the top would be the best place to expel the hot air from all those lights! We still overheat if our room gets above 70, so we might be changing this again soon... it's an ongoing battle of temperature it seems. I think the easiest solution would be to turn the bottom fan into an out fan as well (easy enough by just turning the fan around) and install a smaller intake fan towards the bottom in a corner. Any suggestions on heat reduction would be appreciated, we've found this to be one of the hardest parts! We're doing okay right now, but the box is about 10+ degrees higher than our room. One day last week we got up to 75 in our room and the box reached 90... too hot for our babies!! We quickly opened the slider in our room to lower the temp, but once it starts to get warmer this could become a problem! We've also got oscillating fans mounted to the shelves to keep the air rotating and flowing. This also helps stabilize the temps and do away with hot spots.
co2 factory!
This has been a fantastic experiment and so easy to do!! I love science!! Simple yeast (buy the big bag!! it'll save you $) sugar and water and we've got enough co2 to make a big difference in growth. Since we're growing in a small space with little outside air, we figured this might actually benefit our girls. We had no idea it would make such a difference! The increase in growth after we added the co2 factory was stellar! When we needed to switch to a larger bottle and stopped using it for a few days, the growth slowed noticeably after 2 days without it. I'm sold on co2 for my plants. I haven't been able to find a meter below $200 to monitor my levels but I doubt we can get anywhere hazardous with this method.
co2 factory set up
1 gallon water jug with a hole drilled in the lid, insert surgical tubing through the hole. Now ours has a nice lip on it and is tight enough to be air tight around the hole but you can use hot glue to seal it if you need to. Direct hose to bubble through a glass of water to monitor the frequency of production. This helps you know when it needs changing and also prevents foreign objects from entering your factory. Our current recipe is 1/2 gallon of water, 1 table spoon yeast, 1 cup sugar. To refresh it you dump out half the water and replace with fresh luke warm water and add a cup of sugar. Check it in 10 minutes, if it's not reacting add another tablespoon or so of yeast to add new life to the culture. We bubble like mad with this!! The girls just love the added co2 and the growth difference is worth the hassle! It does require "stirring" every 8 hours or so to keep it going and daily refreshing but the benefits could shock you!
Our current plan is to veg for another week or two depending on the plant, then cut clones. We'd like to see the girls branch a little more before we head them into flowering and cutting clones should cause some of our tops to double. We'll allow them another week or two in veg before we put them into flower.
Feel free to comment, we're up to hearing outside input. We're really enjoying this new hobby and look forward to reaping the benefits
So this is it, the Narnia grow. A joint effort by me and my husband to grow medicine. It started with a wardrobe and quickly became two. (okay so one isn't really a wardrobe, its a TV cabinet converted into a grow box, but it looks like it could be a wardrobe, and it makes sense being in the bedroom).
Things are going well despite a few nasty set backs. We're about 2 months into veg with the grow. We had a months worth of setbacks due to spidermites, bad dirt (which became a stressful transplant) and high ph. Things are on track and we are rocking now!!! Our simple grow became a little more high tech as we went. We're using low stress training to maximize our space as much as possible and added a yeast co2 factory to increase our growth. (more about that below)
The Lights - CFL's... don't hate!! 4 26watt 6500k "daylight" CFL bulbs per section. These will be switched out for "warm whites" when we go to flower, but that's not for another month or so
We're using power strips with socket converters. This was super easy to do, cheap and not nearly as much of a fire hazard as some of the wonky set ups I've seen. We move our plants to the lights, rather than moving the lights around the plants. It's just easier for us in our short space.
We plan to add a few tubes (t5's I think) that we have to the back of the box to increase light to the mid-section and add another spectrum to the mix before we head into flower.
The Weed - Eight lovely ladies! All from clones. No babies from seed yet, though I have some I'm itching to pop!!
Afgooey - Afghani #1 x Maui Haze - True Afgoo!! We have two of these lovely ladies from the same mother. Both plants are growing oddly different, I'm suspecting different phenotypes from different locations on the mother. For reference purposes I call them A & B. I was told she is a pleasure to have in your garden and it's true! This strain is fantastic to grow!
Afghooey - Picked this lady up from a local dispensary. For sure a different strain than the other afghoo. This one has thinner leaves, maybe a bit more sativa in this cross? We call this Afgoo S for reference
Brain's Escape - We almost lost her due to ph issues but now she's back on track and making up for lost time!! This girl roots like nobody's business! Should be an easy one to clone!!
Californian Orange - Another lovely lady! We call her Cali. She's supposed to be a skunk cross with buds more orange than green. She's been fun to LST!
M.K. Ultra - G-13 x O.G. Kush - We also have two of these lovely ladies. Very hardy, short, stocky little girls. A & B for reference
Matanuska Thunder Fuck - Beautiful plant! Trying to be taller than our space can take. Shes growing leggy and filled with branches everywhere you look! She's taking training rather well. She was a bit taller than we'd have liked when we got her but she took training well. Still we might have to top her! She's a crazy one!! We refer to her as MTF for short.
The Wardrobe - the original wardrobe is actually my husbands. We wanted to grow and didn't have much for space at the time but figured we could create a nice controlled environment in there to grow at least a plant or two in. The larger wardrobe was a TV cabinet that we picked up at the goodwill for cheap. We'd been searching for something to fit the alcove in our bedroom specifically to grow in and ran across this. The price was right as was the size, so we set out to turn it into a grow box.
I covered the walls in mylar, so tight you can see yourself in it. No joke! It's like a mirror! I have to be careful not to catch myself when I take photos it's that good! To complete this I used emergency blankets and a hot glue gun. It takes some skill to get it up that tight and I'd be lying if I said I didn't burn myself a few times doing it but the light reflection is fantastic and it makes a huge difference in the brightness overall.
We installed two large CPU fans (120mm I believe) for air, an intake on the bottom and out up top. Since heat rises we figured the top would be the best place to expel the hot air from all those lights! We still overheat if our room gets above 70, so we might be changing this again soon... it's an ongoing battle of temperature it seems. I think the easiest solution would be to turn the bottom fan into an out fan as well (easy enough by just turning the fan around) and install a smaller intake fan towards the bottom in a corner. Any suggestions on heat reduction would be appreciated, we've found this to be one of the hardest parts! We're doing okay right now, but the box is about 10+ degrees higher than our room. One day last week we got up to 75 in our room and the box reached 90... too hot for our babies!! We quickly opened the slider in our room to lower the temp, but once it starts to get warmer this could become a problem! We've also got oscillating fans mounted to the shelves to keep the air rotating and flowing. This also helps stabilize the temps and do away with hot spots.
co2 factory!
This has been a fantastic experiment and so easy to do!! I love science!! Simple yeast (buy the big bag!! it'll save you $) sugar and water and we've got enough co2 to make a big difference in growth. Since we're growing in a small space with little outside air, we figured this might actually benefit our girls. We had no idea it would make such a difference! The increase in growth after we added the co2 factory was stellar! When we needed to switch to a larger bottle and stopped using it for a few days, the growth slowed noticeably after 2 days without it. I'm sold on co2 for my plants. I haven't been able to find a meter below $200 to monitor my levels but I doubt we can get anywhere hazardous with this method.
co2 factory set up
1 gallon water jug with a hole drilled in the lid, insert surgical tubing through the hole. Now ours has a nice lip on it and is tight enough to be air tight around the hole but you can use hot glue to seal it if you need to. Direct hose to bubble through a glass of water to monitor the frequency of production. This helps you know when it needs changing and also prevents foreign objects from entering your factory. Our current recipe is 1/2 gallon of water, 1 table spoon yeast, 1 cup sugar. To refresh it you dump out half the water and replace with fresh luke warm water and add a cup of sugar. Check it in 10 minutes, if it's not reacting add another tablespoon or so of yeast to add new life to the culture. We bubble like mad with this!! The girls just love the added co2 and the growth difference is worth the hassle! It does require "stirring" every 8 hours or so to keep it going and daily refreshing but the benefits could shock you!
Our current plan is to veg for another week or two depending on the plant, then cut clones. We'd like to see the girls branch a little more before we head them into flowering and cutting clones should cause some of our tops to double. We'll allow them another week or two in veg before we put them into flower.
Feel free to comment, we're up to hearing outside input. We're really enjoying this new hobby and look forward to reaping the benefits
Ran out of Sugar Daddy on Saturday and are almost out of BC Grow. Once those arrive it's pre-flush and double veg nutes time 
Sugar leaves are starting to load up with trich's and the smell is heavenly! Light but still a little skunky like someone just toked up, lol Good thing our inline is on it's way! The plan is to build a pencil cup carbon filter. 
Looking good.