RawFishTankTopHat
Active Member
Hello everyone!!!
We( husband and wife) have been exploring this site for a few weeks and thought we would step up and say hi.
We're planing-out our first potential grow. We have lots of odds and ends of potentially useful things lying around. Either from our houseplant hobby, our aquarium hobby(freshwater fish&plants), or our newer Tarantula hobby. We can't really afford much since I lost my job (factory layoff) so we're trying to do everything on a super-trim budget, and work with what we've got as much as possible.
With that criteria established, we're going with random, old bagseed. Indoor 400WHps. 10sqft growroom, walls painted flat white with a small exhaust fan (unknown CFM at the moment). 5-6 plants. We want to use 1/3 plain dirt (not MiracleGro, We can get some no nutes soil that's on the sandy side), 1/3 coco fiber, 1/3 perlite. Fertilize with liquid nutes (see specifics below) What are your opinions on this mix for the purposes of aeration? We were thinking it would be good, but I'm curious if anyone thinks vermiculite would be better than one of the other ingredients? or if there is even any reason to use 'clean slate' dirt mixed in with the coco fiber and perlite, or should we just use more coco fiber? I don't want to try organics yet, seems too complex for our first time.
We have 2 diff garden center ferts. For vegetation: 24-8-16, for flowering: 15-30-15. I know I'll have to use them at 1/4 strength and move up in small increments and (correct me if I'm wrong) never give them full strenth.
I know that a grow scheme can always be improved upon, but this is cheapest on the budget and it will be our first grow. We already have most of this other stuff too, which makes the HPS the only big investment to be made. We're thinking other variables can be tweaked in later crops. So, how is this sounding? Any glaring mistakes?
We're planing-out our first potential grow. We have lots of odds and ends of potentially useful things lying around. Either from our houseplant hobby, our aquarium hobby(freshwater fish&plants), or our newer Tarantula hobby. We can't really afford much since I lost my job (factory layoff) so we're trying to do everything on a super-trim budget, and work with what we've got as much as possible.
With that criteria established, we're going with random, old bagseed. Indoor 400WHps. 10sqft growroom, walls painted flat white with a small exhaust fan (unknown CFM at the moment). 5-6 plants. We want to use 1/3 plain dirt (not MiracleGro, We can get some no nutes soil that's on the sandy side), 1/3 coco fiber, 1/3 perlite. Fertilize with liquid nutes (see specifics below) What are your opinions on this mix for the purposes of aeration? We were thinking it would be good, but I'm curious if anyone thinks vermiculite would be better than one of the other ingredients? or if there is even any reason to use 'clean slate' dirt mixed in with the coco fiber and perlite, or should we just use more coco fiber? I don't want to try organics yet, seems too complex for our first time.
We have 2 diff garden center ferts. For vegetation: 24-8-16, for flowering: 15-30-15. I know I'll have to use them at 1/4 strength and move up in small increments and (correct me if I'm wrong) never give them full strenth.
I know that a grow scheme can always be improved upon, but this is cheapest on the budget and it will be our first grow. We already have most of this other stuff too, which makes the HPS the only big investment to be made. We're thinking other variables can be tweaked in later crops. So, how is this sounding? Any glaring mistakes?
