just.blaze
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It's been five years away from growing but I'm finally back at it! After navigating through a turbulent living situation I'm finally in a position to start cultivating cannabis again. I'm really starting up from scratch and improvising as I go, but I hope to make it work for my personal (medicinal) needs :cool:
My setup is simple, small and certainly on the budget end, but so far it has been treating my plants well.
My goal is to harvest an even quarter pound, however i've never grown on this small of a scale before, so we will see :lurking:
SETUP:
60x60cm Mammoth Classic Grow Tent
250w MH/HPS Sonlight Digital Ballast
105CFM Helical Extractor Fan + 100mm Can-Lite Carbon Filter
BioGreen Light-Mix
CELLMAX Nutrients + BioBizz Algamic & Bud Candy for Flower
SEEDS:
2 x Original Strawberry Cough feminized by Dinafem Seeds (Kyle Kushman clone bx)
2 x Black Destroyer feminized by Original Sensible Seeds (Black Domina X AK-47)
Sept 1 - Seeds soaked in water for 12 hours and placed in peat pellets
Sept 4 - 4/4 Germinated, taproots sprouted and first cotelydons emerged, mixture of sunlight and flouros for the first 48 hours
Sept 6 - Seedlings fully rooted and pellets transplanted into 0.25L pots w/ Light-Mix and placed in tent
Sept 9 - Seedlings given first feeding of rootbooster (50% strength)
Sept 14 - 5-blade leaves emerged, given light feeding of rootbooster & earth grow
Sept 17 - Transplanted into 11L pots (next time I will add 10L of expanded clay pellets to the Light-Mix in order to fill the pot completely and add extra soil aeration)
Sept 20 - 3 plants topped at 5th node, the runty SBC was topped at 4th node
Sept 23 - 6 Days after transplant, first full strength feeding of earth grow, LST begun
Sept 27 - 1 week after topping, next time I will top and LST about 1 week earlier, flipping to flower soon
Sept 30 - The tent is filling out nicely so I gave them first feeding of bloom nutes... HPS bulb screwed in and 12/12 started :)
Black Destroyer in back, Strawberry Cough in front:
I've been running a 16/8 veg cycle to let the undergrowth stretch a little after topping/LST and to save power. I water as needed with tap water adjusted to 6.2-6.4 pH and they have been on a gradually increasing feeding schedule. No EC meter yet, so I cant comment on ppm levels. The first two weeks I was battling an indian summer and the tent hit 88F (3-4 degrees above ambient room temps). Since mid September the temps have stayed around 78F, dropping to 66F at night, and humidity ranging from 40-65%.
Node spacing is nice and tight and the plants have definitely taken well to their 11L pots. One strawberry was slightly stunted in the beginning but did pretty well in catching up after the transplant. Phenotypes from both strains also seem fairly uniform in structure, but i'll write up a pheno report during flowering. All four plants smell very pungent and hazy, the SBC fruity, the BD more earthy/musky.
Stay Tuned
- just.blaze :cigar:
My setup is simple, small and certainly on the budget end, but so far it has been treating my plants well.
My goal is to harvest an even quarter pound, however i've never grown on this small of a scale before, so we will see :lurking:
SETUP:
60x60cm Mammoth Classic Grow Tent
250w MH/HPS Sonlight Digital Ballast
105CFM Helical Extractor Fan + 100mm Can-Lite Carbon Filter
BioGreen Light-Mix
CELLMAX Nutrients + BioBizz Algamic & Bud Candy for Flower
SEEDS:
2 x Original Strawberry Cough feminized by Dinafem Seeds (Kyle Kushman clone bx)
2 x Black Destroyer feminized by Original Sensible Seeds (Black Domina X AK-47)
Sept 1 - Seeds soaked in water for 12 hours and placed in peat pellets
Sept 4 - 4/4 Germinated, taproots sprouted and first cotelydons emerged, mixture of sunlight and flouros for the first 48 hours
Sept 6 - Seedlings fully rooted and pellets transplanted into 0.25L pots w/ Light-Mix and placed in tent
Sept 9 - Seedlings given first feeding of rootbooster (50% strength)
Sept 14 - 5-blade leaves emerged, given light feeding of rootbooster & earth grow
Sept 17 - Transplanted into 11L pots (next time I will add 10L of expanded clay pellets to the Light-Mix in order to fill the pot completely and add extra soil aeration)
Sept 20 - 3 plants topped at 5th node, the runty SBC was topped at 4th node
Sept 23 - 6 Days after transplant, first full strength feeding of earth grow, LST begun
Sept 27 - 1 week after topping, next time I will top and LST about 1 week earlier, flipping to flower soon
Sept 30 - The tent is filling out nicely so I gave them first feeding of bloom nutes... HPS bulb screwed in and 12/12 started :)
Black Destroyer in back, Strawberry Cough in front:
I've been running a 16/8 veg cycle to let the undergrowth stretch a little after topping/LST and to save power. I water as needed with tap water adjusted to 6.2-6.4 pH and they have been on a gradually increasing feeding schedule. No EC meter yet, so I cant comment on ppm levels. The first two weeks I was battling an indian summer and the tent hit 88F (3-4 degrees above ambient room temps). Since mid September the temps have stayed around 78F, dropping to 66F at night, and humidity ranging from 40-65%.
Node spacing is nice and tight and the plants have definitely taken well to their 11L pots. One strawberry was slightly stunted in the beginning but did pretty well in catching up after the transplant. Phenotypes from both strains also seem fairly uniform in structure, but i'll write up a pheno report during flowering. All four plants smell very pungent and hazy, the SBC fruity, the BD more earthy/musky.
Stay Tuned
- just.blaze :cigar:
