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This is my first grow journal. Hopefully this will help me to keep more organized this time through. I have set up a garden that will produce clones only (none of these plants will be flowered by me). I currently have 3 main strains: New York City Diesel, Blue Dream, and Green Crack. I have also sprouted some Cherry Bomb seeds about 2 days ago and they are doing just fine, all six popped. I'll eventually add some OGs, probably Swerve's seeds as I have grown the SFV OG Bx2 and the Raskal's OG before and loved the structure of the plants and amazing flowers they produce.
The mother plants are in small 1g pots because they will each only be alive for 4-6 weeks. I am using low wattage lights (T5s and CFLs) and want the plants to be relatively leggy so that after 4-6 weeks I can clone the plants to death and replace that plant with a freshly rooted clone. I will clone 2-3 plants per week and be able to produce a good number of clones in a very limited space with limited electricity usage.
I know people will say "why not use a 1000 MH lamp and clone 2-3 plants every other day instead of each week? Why not have only a few moms and grow them much larger?" I need to use very little electricity, very little space, and need to not have to use the a/c, so this system works perfectly for me.
As for grow medium, I am using Pure Earth Indoor Aeration Formula. This was not my first choice but it was all the shop had at the time. I prefer to use a mix of about half Roots Organics Soil and half Ocean Forrest or Black Gold potting soil. I've also added some additional earthworm castings and some other stuff. This soil doesn't seem to have as high of a nutrient content as others but does drain nicely. I had to add more perlite as well.
At week 4 I have been adding a full veg nutrient program which includes nutri+ grow a and b, regeneroot, atomic wall (potassium silicate), and Gen Organics Cal/Mag. Sometimes I will add superthrive or hormex as well. The Nutri+ is from Canada and has a higher p content than most US products, allowing the plants to stretch a bit more.
As for foliar feeding I've been trying a new product call Optic Foliar which is a three part spray that "opens stomata,... exponentially increases the amount of light energy being utilized and processed by the plant,... and helps a plant maintain its highly accelerated growth and flowering rates, resulting in greener and healthier plants, as well as higher-quality crop yields." It seems to work well, as the leaves have grow much larger and node spacing has become much closer together.
This is before I cleaned all of the plants up and rearranged the room today.
This is after.
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Moms
Moms
If you have any advice I would love to hear it, or anyone with experience using Optic Foliar or the Nutri+ line.
The mother plants are in small 1g pots because they will each only be alive for 4-6 weeks. I am using low wattage lights (T5s and CFLs) and want the plants to be relatively leggy so that after 4-6 weeks I can clone the plants to death and replace that plant with a freshly rooted clone. I will clone 2-3 plants per week and be able to produce a good number of clones in a very limited space with limited electricity usage.
I know people will say "why not use a 1000 MH lamp and clone 2-3 plants every other day instead of each week? Why not have only a few moms and grow them much larger?" I need to use very little electricity, very little space, and need to not have to use the a/c, so this system works perfectly for me.
As for grow medium, I am using Pure Earth Indoor Aeration Formula. This was not my first choice but it was all the shop had at the time. I prefer to use a mix of about half Roots Organics Soil and half Ocean Forrest or Black Gold potting soil. I've also added some additional earthworm castings and some other stuff. This soil doesn't seem to have as high of a nutrient content as others but does drain nicely. I had to add more perlite as well.
At week 4 I have been adding a full veg nutrient program which includes nutri+ grow a and b, regeneroot, atomic wall (potassium silicate), and Gen Organics Cal/Mag. Sometimes I will add superthrive or hormex as well. The Nutri+ is from Canada and has a higher p content than most US products, allowing the plants to stretch a bit more.
As for foliar feeding I've been trying a new product call Optic Foliar which is a three part spray that "opens stomata,... exponentially increases the amount of light energy being utilized and processed by the plant,... and helps a plant maintain its highly accelerated growth and flowering rates, resulting in greener and healthier plants, as well as higher-quality crop yields." It seems to work well, as the leaves have grow much larger and node spacing has become much closer together.
This is before I cleaned all of the plants up and rearranged the room today.
This is after.
Babies
Moms
Moms
If you have any advice I would love to hear it, or anyone with experience using Optic Foliar or the Nutri+ line.
