Animal Chin
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Howdy Farmers!
Welcome to my first diary on the Farm!
I run a personal mono crop style grow op in a 10'x10' spare bedroom with a 4' x 10' footprint dedicated to growing the garden on one side and the other side is a grow tent built into a drying tent space.
Been working in this room for many years, tweaked it and rebuilt it several times over as new tech and ideas comes along.
At this point in the game it's fairly tricked out with a fair share of fancy tech mixed with simplicity.
I built this room to be very user friendly but also perform at a very high level to get both quality and quantity from each crop. The room has also been built out to handle stretching plants easily and also grow a speedy garden using regular seeds as I dont mess with feminized or autoflower seeds very often if at all.
The goal is to get a seed to harvest haul in roughly 90-110 days. I dont really have goals for yield because if grown well and efficiently, a good yield usually happens without it being a main focus of concern.
Between each crop the room is cleaned and ozone purified for bug prevention and equipment is checked and repaired, replaced, or adjusted for the next grow.
Lights are 2 California Lightworks Solar System LEDs w/ spectrum controller, several Illumitex LED rails, and a 315 watt CMH. The CLWs and CMH are on a lightrail 4.20 mover and the LED rails are side perimeter lights that raise and lower via remote controlled winches.
Air & climate is all thermostat controlled with AC, 4" inline air intake, several air mover fans, a ceiling fan, dual 6" inline exhaust fans, and an ozone generator on the outgoing exhaust.
Soils are Roots Greenfields for starting seeds then upcan into Fox Farm Happy Frog Soil. I start seeds using toilet paper layers standing vertical in a dvd case then plant them into 1 gallon airpots when they have taps. After about 30 days of life they go into 7 gallon plastic pots and set to flower.
Nutes are a local brand of Liquid Fish and Seaweed fertilizer, Trinity by Aurora, and Great White. I also make up a top dressing with soils reclaimed from the culled males mixed with Uprising Bloom from Aurora.
Water source is city supplied tap water filtered thru a dechlorinator then a Hydrologic RO system with a 1:1 restrictor. It's held in a 50 gallon barrel with aeration. No pH adjustments
Seeds are from Greenpoint...Strains are Eagle Scout, Tomahawk, Tombstone, Madi Largo, and Bodega Bubblegum.
I dropped 20 seeds, got 18 plants of which 11 are females. Males have been culled and killed.
I started the seeds during the 1st week of June, taking pics along the way up to today, the first week of 12/12 light cycle
7-10 days old
2 weeks old, beginning to snip, prune, & direct growth
3 weeks old
4 weeks old, day before males are culled
Current pics as of last night, early this morning. Males are out and 11 ladies remain. I'll rearrange them one more time, get some more space between them then try to get either a net in there or run some hemp string and kinda make a sort of trellis so they dont fall over later
Thanks for stopping in and feel free to post any questions, comments, and concerns!
Peace, Love, and Happy Ganja Farming!
Welcome to my first diary on the Farm!
I run a personal mono crop style grow op in a 10'x10' spare bedroom with a 4' x 10' footprint dedicated to growing the garden on one side and the other side is a grow tent built into a drying tent space.
Been working in this room for many years, tweaked it and rebuilt it several times over as new tech and ideas comes along.
At this point in the game it's fairly tricked out with a fair share of fancy tech mixed with simplicity.
I built this room to be very user friendly but also perform at a very high level to get both quality and quantity from each crop. The room has also been built out to handle stretching plants easily and also grow a speedy garden using regular seeds as I dont mess with feminized or autoflower seeds very often if at all.
The goal is to get a seed to harvest haul in roughly 90-110 days. I dont really have goals for yield because if grown well and efficiently, a good yield usually happens without it being a main focus of concern.
Between each crop the room is cleaned and ozone purified for bug prevention and equipment is checked and repaired, replaced, or adjusted for the next grow.
Lights are 2 California Lightworks Solar System LEDs w/ spectrum controller, several Illumitex LED rails, and a 315 watt CMH. The CLWs and CMH are on a lightrail 4.20 mover and the LED rails are side perimeter lights that raise and lower via remote controlled winches.
Air & climate is all thermostat controlled with AC, 4" inline air intake, several air mover fans, a ceiling fan, dual 6" inline exhaust fans, and an ozone generator on the outgoing exhaust.
Soils are Roots Greenfields for starting seeds then upcan into Fox Farm Happy Frog Soil. I start seeds using toilet paper layers standing vertical in a dvd case then plant them into 1 gallon airpots when they have taps. After about 30 days of life they go into 7 gallon plastic pots and set to flower.
Nutes are a local brand of Liquid Fish and Seaweed fertilizer, Trinity by Aurora, and Great White. I also make up a top dressing with soils reclaimed from the culled males mixed with Uprising Bloom from Aurora.
Water source is city supplied tap water filtered thru a dechlorinator then a Hydrologic RO system with a 1:1 restrictor. It's held in a 50 gallon barrel with aeration. No pH adjustments
Seeds are from Greenpoint...Strains are Eagle Scout, Tomahawk, Tombstone, Madi Largo, and Bodega Bubblegum.
I dropped 20 seeds, got 18 plants of which 11 are females. Males have been culled and killed.
I started the seeds during the 1st week of June, taking pics along the way up to today, the first week of 12/12 light cycle
7-10 days old
2 weeks old, beginning to snip, prune, & direct growth
3 weeks old
4 weeks old, day before males are culled
Current pics as of last night, early this morning. Males are out and 11 ladies remain. I'll rearrange them one more time, get some more space between them then try to get either a net in there or run some hemp string and kinda make a sort of trellis so they dont fall over later
Thanks for stopping in and feel free to post any questions, comments, and concerns!
Peace, Love, and Happy Ganja Farming!