Howdy!
My 3rd grow, first one where I had the cash to invest in completing my setup with ventilation, filter, and other goodies.
Using:
Started seeds off in the peat-moss pellets under two 40w florescent tubes, and transplanted into 1-gallon containers as roots developed.
Used some cheap soil I found at local hardware store, BIG MISTAKE. It had way too much clay in it and was infested with ants. I thought it may be okay at first, but coupled with starting the seeds in a closet before I had the tent completely setup led to some mold problems on the soil (little white specs where soil was touching air), along with development of quite alot of gnats.
The seedlings started to suffer from the soil holding way too much water, and a few of them had severe yellowing all over, and growth was at a near standstill (seedleaves and first single petal leaves for over a week w/o growth)
Eventually they started to grow some (very slowly) and I became fed up with the progress and repotted them into some fox farm ocean blend soil. I could tell the difference in the soil types immediately.
This is where my journal will pickup, comments on my setup are welcome, and will start to update after the seedlings start recovering from transplant shock.
Oh, at 12 plants at the moment. 8 from a very good bag of mid grade, 3 from a friends assorted collection of high-grade plants, and one silver haze. I do not have as much hope for the higher-grade plants as they may be hermaphrodite seeds.
Window A/C in room provides inside/outside exchange and cooling, tent uses passive intakes and plants stay around 75-80 degrees and humidity 50-60 (humidifier doesn't quite last the entire day)
Attached are a few pics of my grow, and the plants as they are just being transplanted.
My 3rd grow, first one where I had the cash to invest in completing my setup with ventilation, filter, and other goodies.
Using:
- 400w HPS magnetic ballast/bulb
- Sunleaves auroa reflector with lens/flanges
- 435cfm inline centrifugal fan w/ variable speed fan controller
- 4x4x7 mylar grow tent
- Fox Farm Ocean soil w/ some sunleaves soil sweetener lime(as of today....Never trying a cheap one again)
- Fox Farm trio nutes
- Generic small carbon filter, rated around 200cfm
- Cheap Wal-mart humidifier + oscillating fan
Started seeds off in the peat-moss pellets under two 40w florescent tubes, and transplanted into 1-gallon containers as roots developed.
Used some cheap soil I found at local hardware store, BIG MISTAKE. It had way too much clay in it and was infested with ants. I thought it may be okay at first, but coupled with starting the seeds in a closet before I had the tent completely setup led to some mold problems on the soil (little white specs where soil was touching air), along with development of quite alot of gnats.
The seedlings started to suffer from the soil holding way too much water, and a few of them had severe yellowing all over, and growth was at a near standstill (seedleaves and first single petal leaves for over a week w/o growth)
Eventually they started to grow some (very slowly) and I became fed up with the progress and repotted them into some fox farm ocean blend soil. I could tell the difference in the soil types immediately.
This is where my journal will pickup, comments on my setup are welcome, and will start to update after the seedlings start recovering from transplant shock.
Oh, at 12 plants at the moment. 8 from a very good bag of mid grade, 3 from a friends assorted collection of high-grade plants, and one silver haze. I do not have as much hope for the higher-grade plants as they may be hermaphrodite seeds.
Window A/C in room provides inside/outside exchange and cooling, tent uses passive intakes and plants stay around 75-80 degrees and humidity 50-60 (humidifier doesn't quite last the entire day)
Attached are a few pics of my grow, and the plants as they are just being transplanted.
