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Thanks Staple. My yield is going to be much lower than I should have gotten, but I know where I went wrong before and I'm constantly making adjustments. I figure after my third run, I'll be a bit more dialed in.Looks great bro on my first grow as well!
I'm all about the yield - It cost a lot of money to get this set up and if I'm only going for quality, the net cost per ounce will be way too high for me. Don't get me wrong, I want quality, but I know these plants could have done better. I did have a hard time keeping them healthy due to the RA and a sudden change in weather that made me have to switch to lights on at night in order to keep the flower room below 100°. - I have since been able to maintain 82°/72° and about 50% rh since then though. It uses much less power to do that too, I just have to be on the ball with getting in there to check them first thing in the morning and ready to do maintenance late in the evening.Nah bro any successful first grow is great I’ve been seeing so many diaries where individuals can’t maintain healthy plants and it seems you’ve done exactly that be proud! Plus if you’re trying to (donate) the weed to others I get yeild for sure but sometimes getting that quality shit might be worth it too I’ve been debating that myself for as I have completely crammed my tent for yield
This is your FIRST grow? Wow! Is this typical for you when you endeavor into a new hobby?Hello all,
I have been reading these forums for a while and decided to start my own grow diary even though I'm nearing harvest (round 2 coming up soon). After losing my job last year and having a forest fire take most of our rural area but missing our home, we decided to take advantage of no longer having close neighbors and do our own medical grow. We don't get good sun here, so we started with a 4x8 tent, but I quickly decided to make use of an old woodshed and rebuilt it into an 8x16 grow room.
I am using LED lights for veg and flower.
My whole first grow started off by getting two spotted spider mites right when I was getting close to switching to flower. Since my partner works in the industry and we didn't want to take chances, rather than toss everything, I cut it all down to stalks with four small branches each, and only kept the stalks. After treatment, these stayed in a garage quarantine for about two months, with me not really caring if they lived or died, until I was ready to rehabilitate them. They are currently in my veg tent with others and doing quite well.
- Enlite Ceres 780 (1 in veg tent, 2 in flower room)
- Growers Choice roi-e680 (Flower)
- Growers Choice roi-e720 (Flower)
- Each pulls the stated number in watts, if not a little more
- Portable 12k AC (WiFi controlled)
- Portable heater (WiFi controlled)
- 8" CAN exhaust (controlled by InkBird controller)
- 3 gallon humidifier (controlled by InkBird controller)
- Purple Punch (2 different genomes from different sources)
- Triple Chocolate
- Punch Breath
- MAC
- One PP in 5 gallon pot, the rest are in 10 gallons.
- using super soil based on Coot's recipe
- Feeding with Roots organics dry amendments
- 4 plants under each light
The real troubles started when we had our first insect invasion in the area. I had my new flowers going and was suddenly infested with root aphids. This caused a lot of stress on the plants, and I'm sure I would have ended with better results without them, but I decided to just do my best to limit them and finish the run. Rove beetles, predator mites, and Beauveria bassiana cut down the numbers drastically though.
The Purple Punch and Punch Breath are both coming down this week, and I have to move the MAC and Triple Chocolate into the tent to make room for the veg plants to get into flower.
Sorry about the lights on in the photos - these were just taken for my own reference. I'll try to get in and take good pics tonight.
Security camera view April 8 - flipping to flower
View attachment 1134186
Triple Chocolate May 18View attachment 1134194
Purple Punch May 18View attachment 1134196
Same Triple Chocolate May 18View attachment 1134197
MAC May 18View attachment 1134199
Punch Breath May 18View attachment 1134208
Veg tent nearly a month ago - overgrown already.View attachment 1134209
I did pull the sickly one and have it going strong again in my clone area where I can give it attention.
This is FIRST grow? Wow! I grew a plant in my closet on the fly for my first. That’s really impressive! What’s even more impressive to me is the pre-planning and thought that went in to starting a new hobby! Talk about not getting your feet wet first!Hello all,
I have been reading these forums for a while and decided to start my own grow diary even though I'm nearing harvest (round 2 coming up soon). After losing my job last year and having a forest fire take most of our rural area but missing our home, we decided to take advantage of no longer having close neighbors and do our own medical grow. We don't get good sun here, so we started with a 4x8 tent, but I quickly decided to make use of an old woodshed and rebuilt it into an 8x16 grow room.
I am using LED lights for veg and flower.
My whole first grow started off by getting two spotted spider mites right when I was getting close to switching to flower. Since my partner works in the industry and we didn't want to take chances, rather than toss everything, I cut it all down to stalks with four small branches each, and only kept the stalks. After treatment, these stayed in a garage quarantine for about two months, with me not really caring if they lived or died, until I was ready to rehabilitate them. They are currently in my veg tent with others and doing quite well.
- Enlite Ceres 780 (1 in veg tent, 2 in flower room)
- Growers Choice roi-e680 (Flower)
- Growers Choice roi-e720 (Flower)
- Each pulls the stated number in watts, if not a little more
- Portable 12k AC (WiFi controlled)
- Portable heater (WiFi controlled)
- 8" CAN exhaust (controlled by InkBird controller)
- 3 gallon humidifier (controlled by InkBird controller)
- Purple Punch (2 different genomes from different sources)
- Triple Chocolate
- Punch Breath
- MAC
- One PP in 5 gallon pot, the rest are in 10 gallons.
- using super soil based on Coot's recipe
- Feeding with Roots organics dry amendments
- 4 plants under each light
The real troubles started when we had our first insect invasion in the area. I had my new flowers going and was suddenly infested with root aphids. This caused a lot of stress on the plants, and I'm sure I would have ended with better results without them, but I decided to just do my best to limit them and finish the run. Rove beetles, predator mites, and Beauveria bassiana cut down the numbers drastically though.
The Purple Punch and Punch Breath are both coming down this week, and I have to move the MAC and Triple Chocolate into the tent to make room for the veg plants to get into flower.
Sorry about the lights on in the photos - these were just taken for my own reference. I'll try to get in and take good pics tonight.
Security camera view April 8 - flipping to flower
View attachment 1134186
Triple Chocolate May 18View attachment 1134194
Purple Punch May 18View attachment 1134196
Same Triple Chocolate May 18View attachment 1134197
MAC May 18View attachment 1134199
Punch Breath May 18View attachment 1134208
Veg tent nearly a month ago - overgrown already.View attachment 1134209
I did pull the sickly one and have it going strong again in my clone area where I can give it attention.
Sad face? Not worthy of the sad face! You did a good job and those buds look great! Not every harvest will be perfect, but every harvest is worth it. Best of luck on your future grows.For my main 4 strains, each had 2x4 space, sharing a 4x4 light. Each of them yielded about 190 grams. I know I could have done better and am working on techniques now.
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