MyGrowTent
New Member
Hi all. New member here and a "new" grower.
I've been trying to grow since I was a kid in high school back in the late '80's / early '90's. We were always planting bag seeds, however, living in the middle of a desert with few places to hide our parents (or someone) always found our gardens before they were successful.
Back in 2016 I bought a 4x4 tent kit and realized 2 things.
1. I can't grow. I have a black thumb. Both times I had 6 plants vegging for over 12 weeks and I still had more floor than canopy. Slow, short and stunted plants is all I can grow.
and
2. It's expensive to grow floor for 20 weeks and walk away with only 4 - 6 oz. total dry.
I became disheartened and packed it all up until recently when I got the bug again and set it all back up in the spare room. Never one to settle for slight disappointment when utter failure is within grasp. I decided I wanted to do a perpetual grow this time so I bought a 2x4 tent kit and a 3x3 tent for drying. I've done two more grows now and again, unsurprisingly, they were short stunted plants.
I change things up a little every cycle looking for that "magic combination of nutes" that'll make my garden explode and I think I might have found it.
I currently just started the last leg of my fifth official grow. We are on day two of week two flower and I can't believe how big we are. I almost have the whole tent full and I still have a week or two of "stretch" so I'm hoping we can fill out the whole thing.
The key? I meticulously measured out all the nutes weekly and perfectly pH'd my water and made sure to water them at least once a day if not more. I made sure I topped them exactly on the 3rd node after growing out 5 nodes. I kept my tent at a perfect temp and humidity...
Well, not any more.
This time I've simplified everything. I threw out the temp and humidifier. I haven't given them any nutes at all, yet. I only water them once a week or every four days depending on how dry they are. When I do water I give them RO water mixed with calmag pH'd between 5.8 and 6.8 every time and every two weeks I also give them Great White microbes and a tiny shot of Myco Chum. I've also started using the dim feature on my light so I'm not blasting them. I'm still only on 50% at week 2 flower. Every 3 weeks I turn it up 25% and will be turning it up in about another week if the plants keep doing good.
What I realized?
It's a weed. It grows in a ditch on the side of the road without any care at all but somehow I was killing it. The only difference had to be the amount of care.
What I've learned? (so far)
Less is More.
Less water, less nutes, "less" light, just less time messing with them and more time staying out of their way letting them do what they do.
FLOWER TENT 4x4: Week 2, day 2
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VEG TENT 2x4: Week 2 Day 3
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I've been trying to grow since I was a kid in high school back in the late '80's / early '90's. We were always planting bag seeds, however, living in the middle of a desert with few places to hide our parents (or someone) always found our gardens before they were successful.
Back in 2016 I bought a 4x4 tent kit and realized 2 things.
1. I can't grow. I have a black thumb. Both times I had 6 plants vegging for over 12 weeks and I still had more floor than canopy. Slow, short and stunted plants is all I can grow.
and
2. It's expensive to grow floor for 20 weeks and walk away with only 4 - 6 oz. total dry.
I became disheartened and packed it all up until recently when I got the bug again and set it all back up in the spare room. Never one to settle for slight disappointment when utter failure is within grasp. I decided I wanted to do a perpetual grow this time so I bought a 2x4 tent kit and a 3x3 tent for drying. I've done two more grows now and again, unsurprisingly, they were short stunted plants.
I change things up a little every cycle looking for that "magic combination of nutes" that'll make my garden explode and I think I might have found it.
I currently just started the last leg of my fifth official grow. We are on day two of week two flower and I can't believe how big we are. I almost have the whole tent full and I still have a week or two of "stretch" so I'm hoping we can fill out the whole thing.
The key? I meticulously measured out all the nutes weekly and perfectly pH'd my water and made sure to water them at least once a day if not more. I made sure I topped them exactly on the 3rd node after growing out 5 nodes. I kept my tent at a perfect temp and humidity...
Well, not any more.
This time I've simplified everything. I threw out the temp and humidifier. I haven't given them any nutes at all, yet. I only water them once a week or every four days depending on how dry they are. When I do water I give them RO water mixed with calmag pH'd between 5.8 and 6.8 every time and every two weeks I also give them Great White microbes and a tiny shot of Myco Chum. I've also started using the dim feature on my light so I'm not blasting them. I'm still only on 50% at week 2 flower. Every 3 weeks I turn it up 25% and will be turning it up in about another week if the plants keep doing good.
What I realized?
It's a weed. It grows in a ditch on the side of the road without any care at all but somehow I was killing it. The only difference had to be the amount of care.
What I've learned? (so far)
Less is More.
Less water, less nutes, "less" light, just less time messing with them and more time staying out of their way letting them do what they do.
FLOWER TENT 4x4: Week 2, day 2
VEG TENT 2x4: Week 2 Day 3
