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Well I am presently on day like 6 of flower.
Im a first time home owner and I told my wife that I have always wanted to grow once we have a house.
Well lets just get to know me before I get into this. (If you dont wanna read my junk look for ****** which will be my mark for back to the grow)
First time smoking was my freshman year of college. Y'all I grew up in a Christian family so doing this was needless to say, rebellious. I am still Christian for sure, I just have different views than those I grew up with.
So clearly this little seemingly insignificant plant has caught my attention. Heck, I smoked a couple years before I had my first beer. I liked how cannabis is organic and you don't have any processing involved. All natural, I was all about it. I even voiced my opinion at the time that alcohol was bad but weed was good. Kinda backwards thinking for most now? Probably, though I no longer think that.
FF (Fast Forward) 2 years I am graduating college and found the love of my life. We only dated a matter of a half year but we were enthralled with each other. One thing led to another and we decided to get hitched. Move in together and end up living in two completely different apartments across a 2 year span.
The whole time we were in apartments I went on and on about how I can't wait to own a house so I can finally grow some bud.
That brings us to a couple months ago when we got a house and I immediately started growing.
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I will get some pics posted along with commentary during this growing and room building endeavor.
I built myself a little PVC and tin foil tent. I thought it was gonna be plenty for my entire grow. This thing was maybe 3.5x4.5x3
I popped some beans from some very meh bud, but the nugs were impressive in size I will say.
Ended up getting about 8 seeds to pop. Let them grow a bit in a dome, not much more than 4 inches tall then I transplanted them to solo cups. Things went well for the next 2 weeks but thats the point when I started messing up.
I transplanted them from their solo cups once they were maybe 7 inches tall and had 2 nodes. I put them in nectar for the gods #8 where I mixed in lime, EWC, bat guano, gypsum, and powdered alfalfa. Little did I know I was about to really freak my plants out. I burned them all pretty bad and I had lost hope. I think that's when I started posting on here. After everyone's input they completely bounced back. It was about 1.5 weeks after they bounced back that I had to leave the country for an extended amount of time. Got a close friend involved in helping water while I was away.
He did a great job, because once I got back my whole tent was full of life. Realized that I NEEDED a legit room to grow. I picked a spare storage room as my space. I built a false wall with a door that is hidden.
I now have a 4.5x10.5x8 room to work in. I lined the walls and ceiling of the room with some reflective insulation you can get in rolls at menards, then painted the floor white.
For lighting I started with a little 300watt viraspctra or whatever LED all in one kinda deal. It was sufficient when they were small and a few weeks of vegging but I knew I needed more.
Added a 1500watt yehsence led full spectrum board with bloom and veg switch.
JWM2 suggested utilizing my headspace, so I built a clone cabinet at head height.
FF a couple weeks and I go to a local hydro store to stock up on supplies for next grow. This was yesterday actually. The manager was a super chill dude who gave me lots of good info about lighting. We never confirmed that we grow but he threw lots of insinuating remarks that I understood and showed I kinda knew what he was talking about. He talked me into getting another light, a MH light but I will have to look at the wattage as i forgot.
What do you guys think for lighting? I dont want to deal with the heat from these kinda lights so thats why I am avoiding HPS. Is this MH light a good addition to the 1500w and 300w leds I had running already?
PICS TO COME SUNDAY NIGHT
Im a first time home owner and I told my wife that I have always wanted to grow once we have a house.
Well lets just get to know me before I get into this. (If you dont wanna read my junk look for ****** which will be my mark for back to the grow)
First time smoking was my freshman year of college. Y'all I grew up in a Christian family so doing this was needless to say, rebellious. I am still Christian for sure, I just have different views than those I grew up with.
So clearly this little seemingly insignificant plant has caught my attention. Heck, I smoked a couple years before I had my first beer. I liked how cannabis is organic and you don't have any processing involved. All natural, I was all about it. I even voiced my opinion at the time that alcohol was bad but weed was good. Kinda backwards thinking for most now? Probably, though I no longer think that.
FF (Fast Forward) 2 years I am graduating college and found the love of my life. We only dated a matter of a half year but we were enthralled with each other. One thing led to another and we decided to get hitched. Move in together and end up living in two completely different apartments across a 2 year span.
The whole time we were in apartments I went on and on about how I can't wait to own a house so I can finally grow some bud.
That brings us to a couple months ago when we got a house and I immediately started growing.
**********
I will get some pics posted along with commentary during this growing and room building endeavor.
I built myself a little PVC and tin foil tent. I thought it was gonna be plenty for my entire grow. This thing was maybe 3.5x4.5x3
I popped some beans from some very meh bud, but the nugs were impressive in size I will say.
Ended up getting about 8 seeds to pop. Let them grow a bit in a dome, not much more than 4 inches tall then I transplanted them to solo cups. Things went well for the next 2 weeks but thats the point when I started messing up.
I transplanted them from their solo cups once they were maybe 7 inches tall and had 2 nodes. I put them in nectar for the gods #8 where I mixed in lime, EWC, bat guano, gypsum, and powdered alfalfa. Little did I know I was about to really freak my plants out. I burned them all pretty bad and I had lost hope. I think that's when I started posting on here. After everyone's input they completely bounced back. It was about 1.5 weeks after they bounced back that I had to leave the country for an extended amount of time. Got a close friend involved in helping water while I was away.
He did a great job, because once I got back my whole tent was full of life. Realized that I NEEDED a legit room to grow. I picked a spare storage room as my space. I built a false wall with a door that is hidden.
I now have a 4.5x10.5x8 room to work in. I lined the walls and ceiling of the room with some reflective insulation you can get in rolls at menards, then painted the floor white.
For lighting I started with a little 300watt viraspctra or whatever LED all in one kinda deal. It was sufficient when they were small and a few weeks of vegging but I knew I needed more.
Added a 1500watt yehsence led full spectrum board with bloom and veg switch.
JWM2 suggested utilizing my headspace, so I built a clone cabinet at head height.
FF a couple weeks and I go to a local hydro store to stock up on supplies for next grow. This was yesterday actually. The manager was a super chill dude who gave me lots of good info about lighting. We never confirmed that we grow but he threw lots of insinuating remarks that I understood and showed I kinda knew what he was talking about. He talked me into getting another light, a MH light but I will have to look at the wattage as i forgot.
What do you guys think for lighting? I dont want to deal with the heat from these kinda lights so thats why I am avoiding HPS. Is this MH light a good addition to the 1500w and 300w leds I had running already?
PICS TO COME SUNDAY NIGHT