georgeisabamf
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So I'm starting this thread/journal now basically as a place to save and share my grow experience. I have only grown indoors once before and that plant is actually in flowering now. I just want to get these guys underway and make this experience a lot better than the first (IE: greater yield).
With that being said I would greatly appreciate advice and help on anything. I'm no experienced grower at any rate, but I feel after going at it once (basically as a test run), I can make this out to be a good one. But only with you alls help!
So without farther ado, here is what's up thus far. I recently obtained 7 seeds from a friend of mine. The seeds came out of three different bags of "dro" that my friend and I had smoked. I have them labeled as follows in the picture below:
Bag #1 are seeds I just obtained. The herb it came from was some good smoke, however it just had seeds in it for no reason. All of these seeds are in good quality though, in other words they don't break when pinched. Bag #2 is just a random seed, honestly no idea what the source was as I don't recall smoking this bud. Bag #3 is from a very nice sativa dominant strain that my friend got from someone who ordered offline and grows on his own. I'm not sure of it's origin to be honest, but I am hoping that maybe it will be genetically well-off, if that makes sense.
So tonight I have put the seeds into germination using paper towels (100% success for me), and will be transferring them once they pop.
My grow set up is going to be redone entirely hopefully. My recent set up was just a standard cardboard box, and was pretty "ghetto-rigged." This time around I plan to get a good cabinet that has a lot of room and will add very good ventilation and design it well. All of this needs to be done on a semi-tight budget however.
The lights I am using are CFL obviously. I run ~160 watts (6500k) for veg, and run a mixture of ~140 watts (2700k) + 40 watts (6500k) for flowering. I can always add more if money allows it, but for now this is what my set up will consists of. For ventilation I currently use just two basic fans I purchased at walmart. They are of decent size and put out some air. I plan to rig them (via AC tubing) to become exhaust ports out the top of the box. I may purchase more fans as needed.
My feeding schedule/pattern is still in the air. I don't plan to feed anything with NPK based ferts anytime soon. I want them to play out themselves before I give them a boost. I do own numerous organic ONLY (and I stress this, as I like it this way) ferts to choose from, I'll post more about this as the time comes.
As far as medium is concerned, I really am in the air. I've tried coco coir, and soil. Though I love both (and coir can be hella nice if you do it right), I feel with the nutrients I own, soil is the better choice. I swear by Fox Farm's Oceans Forest so this will more than likely be what these seedlings are goin' into.
Sorry if the post is long, but those who will stick around could become great help. I'm keeping this grow journal well documented just so I can reflect and learn a lot. This is easily the biggest grow I've tried thus far, and with that comes a lot of different things I can learn from.
With that being said I would greatly appreciate advice and help on anything. I'm no experienced grower at any rate, but I feel after going at it once (basically as a test run), I can make this out to be a good one. But only with you alls help!
So without farther ado, here is what's up thus far. I recently obtained 7 seeds from a friend of mine. The seeds came out of three different bags of "dro" that my friend and I had smoked. I have them labeled as follows in the picture below:
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Bag #1 are seeds I just obtained. The herb it came from was some good smoke, however it just had seeds in it for no reason. All of these seeds are in good quality though, in other words they don't break when pinched. Bag #2 is just a random seed, honestly no idea what the source was as I don't recall smoking this bud. Bag #3 is from a very nice sativa dominant strain that my friend got from someone who ordered offline and grows on his own. I'm not sure of it's origin to be honest, but I am hoping that maybe it will be genetically well-off, if that makes sense.
So tonight I have put the seeds into germination using paper towels (100% success for me), and will be transferring them once they pop.
My grow set up is going to be redone entirely hopefully. My recent set up was just a standard cardboard box, and was pretty "ghetto-rigged." This time around I plan to get a good cabinet that has a lot of room and will add very good ventilation and design it well. All of this needs to be done on a semi-tight budget however.
The lights I am using are CFL obviously. I run ~160 watts (6500k) for veg, and run a mixture of ~140 watts (2700k) + 40 watts (6500k) for flowering. I can always add more if money allows it, but for now this is what my set up will consists of. For ventilation I currently use just two basic fans I purchased at walmart. They are of decent size and put out some air. I plan to rig them (via AC tubing) to become exhaust ports out the top of the box. I may purchase more fans as needed.
My feeding schedule/pattern is still in the air. I don't plan to feed anything with NPK based ferts anytime soon. I want them to play out themselves before I give them a boost. I do own numerous organic ONLY (and I stress this, as I like it this way) ferts to choose from, I'll post more about this as the time comes.
As far as medium is concerned, I really am in the air. I've tried coco coir, and soil. Though I love both (and coir can be hella nice if you do it right), I feel with the nutrients I own, soil is the better choice. I swear by Fox Farm's Oceans Forest so this will more than likely be what these seedlings are goin' into.
Sorry if the post is long, but those who will stick around could become great help. I'm keeping this grow journal well documented just so I can reflect and learn a lot. This is easily the biggest grow I've tried thus far, and with that comes a lot of different things I can learn from.