pitchforksandtorches
Well-Known Member
G'day!
This is my very own, old-timey low-ish budget and semi-stealth grow using the crappiest of crappy cheepo chinese led's. Woot!
So i did a few grows under very different circumstances several years ago with a 400w... then had an alarming "trust" issue and have missed it like long-lost boobs ever since
I have a new location now but still have a need for occasional stealth when certain rello's etc visit at Chrimbo, so i built me a box, just over a meter tall/wide/long which doubles as a work bench/materials box for my crafty projects, which triples as some shit so boring to most folk that they will lose interest as soon as i start droning on about my dull hobbies. The fools!
I had next to no budget, a most trusted friend lent me some cash for the crappy lights and the box was made of left over tongue and groove flooring and some timber that was lying around. No pics of the outside of the box- you never know!
I got leds due to lack of height, and lack of initial funds for extraction of heat from HIDS (i'll get extraction over the next couple of weeks). They have 216w's of bulbs each so maybe in reality about 80w-100w each? i have 3 at the mo, another on the way soon, and then 2 red 125 cfls to be borrowed later as well. They were initially raised under household cfls.
The little babies are 8 Ball Kush from Barneys - picked due to their low advertised height, and good experiences with their Morning Glory way back when. Obvs since buying them i came across the less than stellar online rep they now enjoy.
Yeak, i know. Enough typie-typie.
First the dreaded blurple:
so, yeah, four plants. It's my first time in coco (previous grows were soil) and one got killed, i think via an over feed when just a seedling. Been "a bit" of an adjustment from soil grows.
These were all planted from seed on the sixth october iirc, so about a month old.
So these were potted up into their final pots in 2 separate batches. They are in big pots (up to about18L) as i often go away for 2 or 3 nights.
They have a little nute burn in some lower leaves as i adjusted to the inert medium. Current feeds are just cal-mag and formulex (i planned to get some veg food but *i think* the formulex seems fine).
These 8 Ball Kush are a pure indica and i've only grown indica/sativa hybrids before - their short internodal length has made me be a bit more cautious in LST'ing them but they are now all under my thumb to various degrees. One actually had a fim attemp, but i think i under-did it, will try to put another pic of it up later.
The lonesome seedling is a San Fernando Valley Kush that was a freebie, hoping to get some cuts off of it in a few weeks (i have a cfl mother cupboard in the making) and then maybe keep this as a 12/12 zone, and move over to a more SOG-like arrangement. Hopefully i can get good cuts off these 8 Balls too.
Yar, and these obvs grew slower than i was used to under a HID, and i may veg for between 2-4 more weeks before i flip.
Been an interesting experiment so far, busy reading about COBS in the meantime for future ref
I think that covers it, ta for reading
This is my very own, old-timey low-ish budget and semi-stealth grow using the crappiest of crappy cheepo chinese led's. Woot!
So i did a few grows under very different circumstances several years ago with a 400w... then had an alarming "trust" issue and have missed it like long-lost boobs ever since
I have a new location now but still have a need for occasional stealth when certain rello's etc visit at Chrimbo, so i built me a box, just over a meter tall/wide/long which doubles as a work bench/materials box for my crafty projects, which triples as some shit so boring to most folk that they will lose interest as soon as i start droning on about my dull hobbies. The fools!
I had next to no budget, a most trusted friend lent me some cash for the crappy lights and the box was made of left over tongue and groove flooring and some timber that was lying around. No pics of the outside of the box- you never know!
I got leds due to lack of height, and lack of initial funds for extraction of heat from HIDS (i'll get extraction over the next couple of weeks). They have 216w's of bulbs each so maybe in reality about 80w-100w each? i have 3 at the mo, another on the way soon, and then 2 red 125 cfls to be borrowed later as well. They were initially raised under household cfls.
The little babies are 8 Ball Kush from Barneys - picked due to their low advertised height, and good experiences with their Morning Glory way back when. Obvs since buying them i came across the less than stellar online rep they now enjoy.
Yeak, i know. Enough typie-typie.
First the dreaded blurple:
so, yeah, four plants. It's my first time in coco (previous grows were soil) and one got killed, i think via an over feed when just a seedling. Been "a bit" of an adjustment from soil grows.
These were all planted from seed on the sixth october iirc, so about a month old.
So these were potted up into their final pots in 2 separate batches. They are in big pots (up to about18L) as i often go away for 2 or 3 nights.
They have a little nute burn in some lower leaves as i adjusted to the inert medium. Current feeds are just cal-mag and formulex (i planned to get some veg food but *i think* the formulex seems fine).
These 8 Ball Kush are a pure indica and i've only grown indica/sativa hybrids before - their short internodal length has made me be a bit more cautious in LST'ing them but they are now all under my thumb to various degrees. One actually had a fim attemp, but i think i under-did it, will try to put another pic of it up later.
The lonesome seedling is a San Fernando Valley Kush that was a freebie, hoping to get some cuts off of it in a few weeks (i have a cfl mother cupboard in the making) and then maybe keep this as a 12/12 zone, and move over to a more SOG-like arrangement. Hopefully i can get good cuts off these 8 Balls too.
Yar, and these obvs grew slower than i was used to under a HID, and i may veg for between 2-4 more weeks before i flip.
Been an interesting experiment so far, busy reading about COBS in the meantime for future ref
I think that covers it, ta for reading
