Desire to Smoke My Own

WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
I'm tired of paying for something that can be grown just like my tomatoes or cucumbers. Sadly I can't just grow this plant under the sun so I've had to setup an indoor grow. I have a 6' X 8' X 8' space in which to grow. I started with a single 400 watt HID. Since I'm working in an attic space temperature and humidity are my greatest challenge. I just recently purchased 2 LED fixtures to replace or augment the HID unit. I ducted my HVAC system into the room and I have a portable swamp cooler to help with humidity. I have a small 2' X 2' X 3' space carved out of the larger space for veg and clone. I have a 6" inline exhaust fan in the main space and a computer fan to exhaust my veg room. It has been a work in progress through the grow. Learning and modifying the environment as I go. I have a small desktop humidifier on a humidity controller in the veg room as well as a 2nd computer fan for air circulation. I also put a rheostat on my inline fan to help control temperature and humidity. I must monitor the temperature and humidity closely since I don't have things automated. Temperature swings of 20 degrees are not uncommon unfortunately. I have been able to keep the temps under 85 and above 62 while the humidity can fluctuate from 25% to 70% at times. I have been using the fan controller and swamp cooler to regulate the temperature and humidity but I must check the room 5 & 6 times a day.

I was given 3 seeds of unknown origins and managed a single female from those 3 seeds. She is now on her 38th day in flower. By her looks I'm assuming a Sativa dominate hybrid. I was able to get 3 viable clones from her and they will come into the flowering room once the first one finishes. It will be tight quarters with 3 plants and I'm sure that will bring new challenges to my program. I am very excited with the progress on this first plant and so decided to share.
 

Attachments

Ablaze

Ablaze

Well-Known Member
There is so much that can go wrong when growing our own that I'm not against buying. $70 for zero worries? But I'm with you @WxMan. Let's do it on our own. Sometimes the struggle is half the fun, at least in the beginning. Looking good and best of luck!!!
 
GBAUTO

GBAUTO

Well-Known Member
Good on you, Wxman! I suspect that you will find what it takes to grow some dank-lights,climate and TLC. I'm on my third year on indoor grows and it is evolutionary...........
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
Question: LED displays on electronics brought into the grow rooms. Do they have an impact on the flowering? My gut says their intensity is insignificant. I've read a few blogs where the author suggested it could lead to extended bloom times, hermaphrodites or poor yields. I have several red and blue ones. Thoughts?
 
MichiganMedGrower

MichiganMedGrower

Well-Known Member
WxMan said:
Question: LED displays on electronics brought into the grow rooms. Do they have an impact on the flowering? My gut says their intensity is insignificant. I've read a few blogs where the author suggested it could lead to extended bloom times, hermaphrodites or poor yields. I have several red and blue ones. Thoughts?
Click to expand...

My Titan controller has green led’s still dimly lit during the night cycle. Leaves a dim green Grow that you can barely see in. I have never had a problem from it. I believe if a green light is intense enough it would disrupt the light cycle like any light would. But just because we can see it doesn’t mean they can.
 
NinjaMaster

NinjaMaster

Well-Known Member
WxMan said:
I'm tired of paying for something that can be grown just like my tomatoes or cucumbers. Sadly I can't just grow this plant under the sun so I've had to setup an indoor grow. I have a 6' X 8' X 8' space in which to grow. I started with a single 400 watt HID. Since I'm working in an attic space temperature and humidity are my greatest challenge. I just recently purchased 2 LED fixtures to replace or augment the HID unit. I ducted my HVAC system into the room and I have a portable swamp cooler to help with humidity. I have a small 2' X 2' X 3' space carved out of the larger space for veg and clone. I have a 6" inline exhaust fan in the main space and a computer fan to exhaust my veg room. It has been a work in progress through the grow. Learning and modifying the environment as I go. I have a small desktop humidifier on a humidity controller in the veg room as well as a 2nd computer fan for air circulation. I also put a rheostat on my inline fan to help control temperature and humidity. I must monitor the temperature and humidity closely since I don't have things automated. Temperature swings of 20 degrees are not uncommon unfortunately. I have been able to keep the temps under 85 and above 62 while the humidity can fluctuate from 25% to 70% at times. I have been using the fan controller and swamp cooler to regulate the temperature and humidity but I must check the room 5 & 6 times a day.

I was given 3 seeds of unknown origins and managed a single female from those 3 seeds. She is now on her 38th day in flower. By her looks I'm assuming a Sativa dominate hybrid. I was able to get 3 viable clones from her and they will come into the flowering room once the first one finishes. It will be tight quarters with 3 plants and I'm sure that will bring new challenges to my program. I am very excited with the progress on this first plant and so decided to share.
Click to expand...
Hey dude - yes you are right about the tomato thing.
I use hydro nutes that are meant for tomatoes and they work so darn well.
Also my nutes are cheap as hell. i mean like $10 for like a years supply...
 
ANC

ANC

Well-Known Member
WxMan said:
Question: LED displays on electronics brought into the grow rooms. Do they have an impact on the flowering? My gut says their intensity is insignificant. I've read a few blogs where the author suggested it could lead to extended bloom times, hermaphrodites or poor yields. I have several red and blue ones. Thoughts?
Click to expand...
Our last batch of cheese was done at 52 days.

I also use the cheap stuff, powdered fertilizer salts. About $8 for a fuckload. The expensive bottles are standing there, I just get into issues when I use it. The cheap shit puts down a little less ppms than the expensive ones. I might do the occasional watering with the other set of nutes just to increase the range of elements I feed them with.

Other things I use is Calmag+ (with nutes and foliar), amino acid, silica, mycos and trichoderma, EWC tea. All pretty cheap shit.
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
Several of you took my comments about tomatoes and cucumbers wrong. I wasn't referring to the nutrients I use but the fact that I can't grow pot outside. I'm using Fox Farms nutrients at the recommended levels. I'm keeping my lights at a respectable distance and as GBAUTO said giving plenty of TLC. I added a shot of the room. I have 3 clones that will take her place soon.
 

Attachments

NinjaMaster

NinjaMaster

Well-Known Member
WxMan said:
Several of you took my comments about tomatoes and cucumbers wrong. I wasn't referring to the nutrients I use but the fact that I can't grow pot outside. I'm using Fox Farms nutrients at the recommended levels. I'm keeping my lights at a respectable distance and as GBAUTO said giving plenty of TLC. I added a shot of the room. I have 3 clones that will take her place soon.
Click to expand...
Thats really nice hey.
Very clean, well put together grow room.
Sure you will grow awesome stuff.
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
Today is Day 42 of flowering for my young lady of unknown origins. The buds are getting so heavy I've had to tie her up and I'm sure she still has another 2 or 3 weeks to go.
Yesterday I introduced her first of three offspring to the flowering room.
1stPaulaClone Day2Flower.jpgPaulaDay42.jpgPaulaDay42a.jpg
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
Thank you Ablaze. She was looking a bit off so I did the safest thing I could come up with. I flushed her today. I only recently started pHing the water and then I introduced the LED lights just a few days ago. Some of her sugar leaves were presenting clawed, dark green and curled under leaves. Less than a dozen or so really. So not being positive if it's the lights or change in pH and therefore nutrient concentration I went with a flushing for starters. The pH of the water I flushed was 5.7/5.8 and I've been pHing the water to 6.0 before adding nutes. City water is 7.2. Adding nutes pushed the pH back to 6.5. My other thought was the intensity of the COB LED lights. They are about 20" above the main canopy. I would imagine any bleaching would start to occur within a few days. The tips of other leaves do show some nutrient burn though minor IMO. Overall she looks very healthy. In fact I was shocked at how top heavy she has gotten. So I decided flushing her couldn't be a bad thing. I'm keeping my new LED light, for the just introduced clone, at 36" with plans to slowly lower it to 20" over the next 7-10 days. There isn't a ton of documentation on LED lighting like there is for HID. That and I don't have the money to drop on a par meter. I'm using my standard gardening light meter and watching how the plants react. Exciting, nerve wracking and challenging this endeavor is.
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
This is my veg space that is within my grow room. I have an i-Venoya 150W LED grow light and a Morsen 80W LED Grow bulb in an 8" aluminum reflector. I have a small humidifier connected to a humidity controller to keep humidity around 65%. I built my own light box to allow the main rooms air to to exchange with the veg room but block the light. I have a computer fan for exhaust and another near the top for circulation. Running an 18/6 light cycle My veg room is full. I have 3 clones from my current plant in addition to 3 more. Clone #1 is doing great. She was transplanted to a 5gal smart pot last week and is now in the flowering room. Clone #2 seems to be suffering from light or nutrient burn. Clone #3 I took around the 2nd week of flowering. She has been deformed looking from the moment she started to grow. All 3 clones were cloned directly into soil under a dome for nearly a month, so they've struggled to make it this far. It is amazing how different each one has reacted under the same conditions. I have another seed of unknown origins and 2 feminized Mazar seeds I purchased.
 

Attachments

Ablaze

Ablaze

Well-Known Member
WxMan, you may already know what I'm going to say. First, you're doing awesome. Second, for a soil grow the more you do the more you are risking causing problems. I'm not saying this is ideal, but you could literally put a seed in the soil, add water and light, and end up with a nice harvest.

Feel free to continue what you're doing. There are benefits to the things you're trying and manipulating. But you may want to ease up before you don't know what's going on anymore.
 
WxMan

WxMan

Well-Known Member
I hear you Ablaze. I don't want to overcrowd my plants and risk bugs or diseases. My grow room location means soil is really my only option and I'm very comfortable with potted plants. Those plants in veg will be the last for now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top