Bonz`s Dutch Treat 12/12 cfl grow

this will be a 12/12 from seed completely cfl grow from seed to harvest.
my cabinet is shown in my signature below.

this will be an organic soilless mix grow.
Strain: Dutch Treat
Soil: sunshine mix #4
Addatives: 35% perlite, 15% vermiculite. mixed that thouroghly then,
30% worm castings, 1/4 cup sea kelp. then mixed thouroghly.

pots size: 6 inch grower pots with 1 inch of stones in the bottom. have run ph`d water through it twice now, with no plants in it yet.

Nutrients : botanicare, pure blend pro. veg, bloom, liquid karma, cal-mag.
high phosphorus bat guano. (more to come)

Lights: 8, phillips marathon 23 watt cfl`s. 2700 k, and 2700 lumens each.
4 spliters for lights.
Venting: 450 cfm 6 inch Elicent AXC 150 b ( over kill)
filter: 6 inch odor sock. ( for now)
Temps: high 32 deg, min 22.4 deg. ( need to lower )
Humidity: max 54%, min 19%. ( need to raise )
Misc: 2 temp/humidity meters, 1 small room fan

SEEDLING SIDE:

Lights: 4, 20 watt phillips natural daylight 2 foot t12 flouo`s
Venting: 80 cfm bathroom fan, carbon fiter sheets

here`s my seeds and some supplies going into this effort.

Outstanding bonz......outstanding.

once the seeds pop i will veg till they get thier second or 3 rd node then flower them. there are a few different ways i may go with this, just lst, scrog, or nothing. it will depend on thier hight. cab is knda small for hight. thats why i am trying the cfl thing.

bonz your my hero!!

well seeds went into water last night and are already starting to crack the seeds on some.

Good luck with the grow bonz! i will be watching to see how you get on with much interest! as i have only ever grown autoflowering strains before! you sound like you really know your stuff! i have read your posts on veg time and yeild with normal strains is there any way to predict how tall a plant will become when you start flowering it under hps? as height space is a problem for me any advice would be greatly appreciated as im thinking of doing a normal strain this time and only have about 180cm of height to play with!

when you are ready to go 12/12 figure it will grw 2 to 3 times that in the flower time.
i usualy do it around 1 to 1.5 feet tall. i end up with about 3 to 4 feet.
my last chemop grow they were about 7 top 10 inches only and went 12/12

here are some of my soil goodies i am mixing. i have explained my mix above on the first post.


this of thier first home. i mixed the soil early and started to water it to activate the goodies inside it.
i will be only keeping my best 6 girls. anything else i will put into another box and seed the hell out of them for another day. i will also be saving some pollen for the future.

this morning i am just waiting for 2 more seeds to pop open. then into soil.

ok i got my seeds into soil today. they didn`t pop like i wanted. they opened but thats it no tap root came out on any of them, dude at the store said it`s ok, just put into soil. should be ok.
anyway, a few more shots. in one of them you can see my camera set up for thwe time laps video i`ll make for the entire grow.
i will be covering the doors. i had to replae the original ones as they were to heavy and a little light leaky.
i will try to get my little home made ac done tonight and show it if it works. i`ll be using a small cooler with the gelled ice packs in it to cool the air. i had them ladt for 10 hours in the direct sun before so it may work. just need 2 sets and alternate them. a pc fan to blow the air into the box

nice set up

watching with interest bonz. all the best.

thx people.

SEPT 03/08

Day 2 in soil.

Room temps: max 24.5/ min 18.6.
Humidity: max 51%/ min 35%
Put the cups into the clon dome today for better temps and humidity.
Lights and fan on 24/7 for now.
Misted today twice with plain water.

Looking good Bonz

worked late tonight so not much of an update. 3 seeds have shown through the soil today though.
fingers crossed for the rest. i`ll take pic`s tomorrow

Well glad to see you got them started. Been waiting for you to get them in the dirt. Will be along for the ride if you don't mind.. Good luck be safe.

well got up thismorning and so far 9 out of 10 have shot ou of the soil. i fuked uo, i lost track what cups i put seeds into so i ended up with 2 in 1.....oops

i`m going out for a bit, when i get back i will take some pic`s and i got my tike time laps cam going last night to, looks cool wtching the new seeds come up out of the soil