choop
Well-Known Member
hey everyone, ordered the equipment not long ago to start this grow. this week it all came in and my babies are already sprouted so here we go.
first ill give you a run down of my equipment
-400w Cool Tube MH/HPS w/ digital ballast (Apollo brand i believe)
-22"x36"x68" generic tent i got online
-4" 190CFM rated inline fan with carbon filter combo
-fox farm nutrients (to be purchased)
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i planted the following [ALL FEMINIZED; from attitude seed bank]
3x Afghan Kush Ryders
1x C99 Hybrid
1x Bubblegummer
1x Barney's Farm Liberty Haze
1x Dinafem Sweet Deep Grapefruit
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7 Total Plants
i forget the brand of soil (i'm away on business; will update when back), but I'm using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage.
EDIT- this is a link to the soil i used as a base before mixing perlite and peat moss:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_350614-79138-POTMM64SG_4294707723__?productId=3354246&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1
* the Afghan Ryders will be done in 3.5 Liter pots since they will ostensibly be smaller than the others.
the mixture was about 70% soil with the other 30% split 1/2 and 1/2 with perlite and peat moss. the soil i got says it feeds for 9 months so idk how this will affect my planned nute cycles (i'm afraid i'll get nute burn) but that is a subject to be discussed somewhat further down the line when i reach that point, i suppose. i wanted to use fox farm ocean forest but time dictated that i not wait for it to be shipped to me.
right now, the babies are still in the seed starter cells that i used to get em going. i plopped those beans right in the soil and let them do their thing instead of germinating w/ the paper towel method. they are under 2x40 watt fluorescent daylight tubes until i get home this weekend and can setup the tent and 400 watt, etc. after 3 days in the soil they all had sprouted with the exception of the Sweet Deep Grapefruit. Also, the Bubblegummer did something quite strange. i planted the seeds all about 1/4" under the soil and the Gummer's root appears to have sprouted through the surface instead of heading down into the soil. this seems quite weird and backwards to me as i would expect mother nature to dictate which direction the root goes once they pop. i can't imagine why the root would have come upwards towards the light.. in any case, i let the root looking thing sit out in the light on top for a day or two to see what happened and i am pretty confident that doing so screwed that plant because i added more soil over it once i realized nothing was happening and there is still no new sprout a couple days down the line.
no sign of life from the grapefruit after 5 days.
since the other 4 babies are rocking and rolling already, i plan on starting an OG Kush bean as well as another two (of my friends choice since i am out of beans at the moment) to substitute for our losses and keep them not far behind the others since 7 plants is really what we wanted to do with this op. the plan is to do 3 auto flower (the afghan kush ryders) so that we can crop those after 2 months and then have the other 4 big girls still finishing under the 400 by themselves for another month. this way, we get some smoke after a short period and still manage to give the other girls the attention and space that they need by themselves in the grow tent.
if there is anything else i forgot to add in terms of this first post ill try and add the info. anyone is free to comment and question or critique this grow through its entirety. this is my second grow and is way more professional than my first so i am hoping to get some quality medicine at the end of it. it isn't hugely important but i am growing for medicinal purposes. i was in a physically traumatic accident a couple years ago that has since left me with chronic back pain everyday. purchasing the amount of product I've ended up needing has become too burdensome financially so this is the route i'm taking.
thanks for stopping by i look forward to hearing from everyone. pix of the babies to come later today!
first ill give you a run down of my equipment
-400w Cool Tube MH/HPS w/ digital ballast (Apollo brand i believe)
-22"x36"x68" generic tent i got online
-4" 190CFM rated inline fan with carbon filter combo
-fox farm nutrients (to be purchased)
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i planted the following [ALL FEMINIZED; from attitude seed bank]
3x Afghan Kush Ryders
1x C99 Hybrid
1x Bubblegummer
1x Barney's Farm Liberty Haze
1x Dinafem Sweet Deep Grapefruit
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7 Total Plants
i forget the brand of soil (i'm away on business; will update when back), but I'm using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage.
EDIT- this is a link to the soil i used as a base before mixing perlite and peat moss:
http://www.lowes.com/pd_350614-79138-POTMM64SG_4294707723__?productId=3354246&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1
* the Afghan Ryders will be done in 3.5 Liter pots since they will ostensibly be smaller than the others.
the mixture was about 70% soil with the other 30% split 1/2 and 1/2 with perlite and peat moss. the soil i got says it feeds for 9 months so idk how this will affect my planned nute cycles (i'm afraid i'll get nute burn) but that is a subject to be discussed somewhat further down the line when i reach that point, i suppose. i wanted to use fox farm ocean forest but time dictated that i not wait for it to be shipped to me.
right now, the babies are still in the seed starter cells that i used to get em going. i plopped those beans right in the soil and let them do their thing instead of germinating w/ the paper towel method. they are under 2x40 watt fluorescent daylight tubes until i get home this weekend and can setup the tent and 400 watt, etc. after 3 days in the soil they all had sprouted with the exception of the Sweet Deep Grapefruit. Also, the Bubblegummer did something quite strange. i planted the seeds all about 1/4" under the soil and the Gummer's root appears to have sprouted through the surface instead of heading down into the soil. this seems quite weird and backwards to me as i would expect mother nature to dictate which direction the root goes once they pop. i can't imagine why the root would have come upwards towards the light.. in any case, i let the root looking thing sit out in the light on top for a day or two to see what happened and i am pretty confident that doing so screwed that plant because i added more soil over it once i realized nothing was happening and there is still no new sprout a couple days down the line.
no sign of life from the grapefruit after 5 days.
since the other 4 babies are rocking and rolling already, i plan on starting an OG Kush bean as well as another two (of my friends choice since i am out of beans at the moment) to substitute for our losses and keep them not far behind the others since 7 plants is really what we wanted to do with this op. the plan is to do 3 auto flower (the afghan kush ryders) so that we can crop those after 2 months and then have the other 4 big girls still finishing under the 400 by themselves for another month. this way, we get some smoke after a short period and still manage to give the other girls the attention and space that they need by themselves in the grow tent.
if there is anything else i forgot to add in terms of this first post ill try and add the info. anyone is free to comment and question or critique this grow through its entirety. this is my second grow and is way more professional than my first so i am hoping to get some quality medicine at the end of it. it isn't hugely important but i am growing for medicinal purposes. i was in a physically traumatic accident a couple years ago that has since left me with chronic back pain everyday. purchasing the amount of product I've ended up needing has become too burdensome financially so this is the route i'm taking.
thanks for stopping by i look forward to hearing from everyone. pix of the babies to come later today!
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