Last Time Growing from Bagseeds

Since I've started grow a few years back I've had an aversion towards buying seeds I'd probably end up killing, so I decided to stick to bag seeds until I had a pretty good bit of experience under my belt. So, I feel I've had a bit of success, and after this grow I'm going to start buying Fem seeds. So until then, I'm going to document my last bagseed grow here. Enjoy!

My setup:
Veg room:
- 39" x 39" x 79" Grow tent with reflective insides
- 400W MH Conversion bulb on HPS Ballast
- Grow Medium: 5 parts X Spahgnum Peat Moss, 3 parts X Mushroom Compost, 2 parts X Perlite, 1 tsp per gallon X Dolomite Lime
- Nutrients: TechnaFlora's Recipe for Success line-up

Flower room:
- The closet I used before I got the tent, flat white walls
- 400W HPS bulb
- Grow Medium: Roots Organic potting soil

Starter "room"
- 4' x 2' Light Fixture I made out of 2x 4ft flouros and 2x 2 ft flouros with an old HPS reflector
- Portable!
- Only used for about a week at a time

I'll post pictures of the setup later, when I can take better pictures. The rooms each stay at around 85 degrees, but thats not bad considering everything I actually run in the same room all at once (2 HID lights, 6 fans, a High-end computer, a 32" TV, and a waterbed heater. Maybe one day I'll move it out of the bedroom).

On to the stars of the show: The plants! I only have 3 out of the ground at the moment, in the veg room. Here are the pictures from 6/12, when I moved them from the starter room. I don't remember the exact day they popped from the ground, but it was definately less than a week before this set of pictures. Maybe day 5 or 6?




From here on out I can be more accurate about the dates, since my phone remembers dates better than I can. This next set is from today, 6/22, a mere 10 days later. Two fell over so I tied them up. I gave them some nutrients about 3 days ago, they seem to like it. I'm actually a little amazed at how much they've grown in so little time. Sorry about the poor quality of the second picture, it looked better on my phone.

On the other side of the room, in the Flowering closet, I have nine seeds germinated and waiting to pop from the ground. These are going to be done 12/12 from seed to finish, since I'm not using the room for anything else at the moment. I'm using the Roots organic soil that came with my tent, since I didn't have enough of the stuff I mixed up for the other room. I'll post pictures when it gets more exciting.

One more thing worth mentioning, I also have a complete setup for a Dual-Bubble Bucket hydro system, with all the meters and and equipment and what-not. I don't want to run it under the HIDs, way too hot. I want to make a CFL "Chamber" to grow in. Just haven't researched growing with CFLs enough to start building something. Something to work towards, I guess.

So that's it for my first journal update. Hope you enjoy reading this jounal as much as I enjoy writing it.

Here are some pictures of my rooms in action. Sorry about the wierd lines on the pictures, my camera tends to do that around a lot of light.



I'll post more pictures in a few days, when things seem more photo-worthy.

Just a quick update. Six of the nine seeds germinating in the flower room have popped out of the ground. I usually use flouros for a week or so to get the plants going, but this time the light won't cover the area I started in well enough, so I'm starting them directly under the HPS.

Right now the temperature outside is at 95 degrees, a comfortable 80 degrees in the room containing both grow rooms, and 83 degrees in each room at the top of the pots. I should be good for the rest of the summer at these temps.