First Grow First Room Grow Jornal

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Here goes nothing :weed:
Starting with
- 6x6x6 room. 3x2x4 mother/clone chamber
-t5 ho 6500k 2x4 light, planning 3 2ft sunblaster 6500k for chamber
- 70 cfm exaust, osc fan, small heater, humidifyer, planning on DIY carbon filter
- planing on DIY c02 generation more into vegging

seeds are of unknown variety.
soil is # 4 sunshine mix
nutes are General Hydroponics Floranova grow and flower

My goal is to have a room with an easily controled invironment, to not spend tons of cash, and to grow some sticky bud for personal enjoyment.

So far on the room and grow supplys I have spent about $500. This was for what I have listed above. Every thing was bought new exept some of the building material which I had laying around the house.
 

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I am going with a "Only the Strong Survive" method. I am hoping for a female to put into the chamber for cloning and some females to flower out of what I have started. I have put 25 geminated seeds to sprout. When the time comes to transplant I will select the 10 best and prey for 5 females.
This first grow is going to be mostly experimental. I want to try things and see if this will work before splurging on some good seeds. Looking forward to some Blueberry!:hump:

Please feel free to coment as I go. Looking for any tips relating to T5 light grows.
 

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Start of Winter here and levels were reading in the 30s. I read that seedlings like a moisture to get started. I can get it to about 60 to % in 10 minutes
 
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ya i need more humidity too, but my box is so small.. someone told me to put an airstone in a cup of half full water and let it run to get some humidity, i haven't tried it yet.. i think it'll work though ;p
 
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I noticed when my fan was blowing over some water I was letting stand to bring up to room temp the humidity rose about 15%. you could try that.
 
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So far all but 3 have sprouted. The Quest for Females begins:hump: I think of re-naming this project to the T5 Experiment! I have searched high and low and havnt seen any pics or current journals at least through to bud. I am going to try to flower with the T5s and see what happens.
 
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All seeds have sprouted except 2. I have put them out of their misery and transplanted 2 sprouts that were in a multi seeded pot. I was amazed to to the root was already to the bottom of the 4inch pot. Next time I will use deeper pots:cry: I am thinking I should transplant all seedlings into bigger pots ASAP before the roots get to established? Insert advise here.
 
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Everthing is going nicely...looks like I will drop 2 more seedlings as they are not looking good. Plan moving forward is to transplant seedlings tonight into deep 8inch pots and the leftovers into a 10inch together. Just want to see what happens with the multi plant pot. This wiil give me 12 plants to get to sexing stage.
 
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Transplanted 12 seedlings into the bigger pots and I had 4 left over that were doing well so I put them all together in a bigger pot to see what happens. Ideally I would like to get 5 females out of the bunch. I hope to know in 3 to 4 weeks.
I think my vision of flowering with a t5s are fading and I am coming to realization that I will need a 400w hps cooltube set up. I still can find any threads that have done the t5 flowering successfully.:?
 

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Decided to go with the 400w hps cooltube set up. I found a 6 " inline duct fan I am going to try for heat evacuation from the light. only $30. Also picked a de-humidistat so I can take my room exaust off the timer. Should work better to keep the humidity at a constant level. The babies are progressing well. Starting on the second set of leaves.:-P
 
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The baby plants are growing well under the t5s. Today I will give them there first recomended dose of nutes. As I had said in past posts I was never confident that the t5s would take me all the way...so I now have a 400w hps with cooltube installed.:lol: WOW! what a difference. Cant wait to start flowering. I chose the "hortilux eye" for the bulb. I have lost track of the exact $ spent but I think its around $1000 to date. Couple of baby pics and an up to date of the room.:bigjoint:
 

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I am giving the babes both light sources for a few hours of day, the t5s are on for the full cycle and for now the hps is on from when I get home f to bedtime. Dont know if this will do anything but it will give me a chance to get the atmosphere just right while burning the hps. The hps seems to give off radiant heat that I am counteracting with more humidity to trigger more exaust. With both lights going I can balance 79deg at 50-60% humidity. No signs of any stress from yesterdays nute-ing. The little buggers seam to be flourishing.:lol:
 

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So this mourning I have rearranged the babies a bit and put the 400w hps into the game. I am still running the t5 but as a side light. All looks to be going quite well as every day there is noticeable growth. I am thinking at this rate I could turn to 12/12 around xmas day. Then I can ask Santa for lots of females out of this bunch.:hump:
 

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