Dr.J20
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Hey everybody,
I just wanted to get up and rolling here at the farm so I'm going to jump right in on day 10 of flowering for this year's first grow. I will just keep this thread going for all of my growing until I hear otherwise from someone better versed in the culture here.
So, without further ado, here's what I'm doing:
Environment: 4'x2'x6' Tent
Avg Temps: Started off chilly but have gotten right in tune, 68-73F; i do get spikes and dips but its generally within a 20* range (pic shows the 81-61 swing I had over Monday night) but that is minimizing as the weather stabilizes.
Avg Humidity: 40-60%
Lights: 1x Pro Par420 Indagrow 420w Induction lamp, 2x Fluorogrow 4' x4bulb HOT5 rigged out with 7 zoomed flora suns and 1 6500K (which will be changed to another Flora Sun today)
Ventilation: Tjernlund 540cfm extraction fan on a controller (right now running at 50%) vented to separate room, and then from there outside; will be adding my carbon filter sometime next week
Medium: Organic Soil mix modeled off of subcool's supersoil and 3LB's soil mix. recipe below*
Container: 5gal smartpots
Genetics: 1x Strawberry Sour Diesel (Devil's Harvest) 1x Power Flower (Royal Queen) 1x Kerala x Skunk 1 (herbies freebie, maybe World of Seeds?)
I like to use AACT, floral nutrient teas, sprouted seed teas (mostly barley, but i'm testing out wheatgrass in the veggie garden, and i'm going to start with lactobacillus culturing via russian kvass to make some fermented plant extracts. i'll pop up a thread on russian kvass if there's interest) and aloe vera juice dilutions (both soil drench and foliar), and I've recently been in the habit of using a light, strained kelp tea for foliar feeds in between waterings. Oh, yeah, and I top at the 2nd node once they've got about 5-6 nodes to get 4 colas--of course, in the cold, this meant having smaller plants for my first run of the year.
I'm always happy to answer other questions, but I think this is enough detail for right now. I generally try to update every 10 days in flowering( and usually only put up 3-4 pics/updates all of veg).
Full setup
Strawberry Sour Diesel
Kerala x Skunk 1
Power Flower
You may notice the 3 3L bottles in the collective setup pic. They're bagseed I just threw in there for a little extra production in a 12/12FS methodology.
I've also got some Hawaiian Skunk Haze (a strain we were collectively trying to document at RIU, and if anyone has this freebie from Herbies, let me know because I'd love to start a knowledge amalgamation project over here for that strain!) another Kerala x Skunk 1, and a bagseed going under a Quantum Badboy 4' 4bulb T5 with florasuns and 6500K lights in my veggie starting room. Those girls (hopefully) will veg under that light until my flowering room is ready. Kinda nice to have the girls mingle with all of my other veggie starts for the season, and the veggies absolutely LOVE the Badboy.
Well that's enough from me for right now. Please feel free to comment, question, discuss, or otherwise contribute here, so long as it is respectful!
Be easy,
Dr. J
I just wanted to get up and rolling here at the farm so I'm going to jump right in on day 10 of flowering for this year's first grow. I will just keep this thread going for all of my growing until I hear otherwise from someone better versed in the culture here.
So, without further ado, here's what I'm doing:
Environment: 4'x2'x6' Tent
Avg Temps: Started off chilly but have gotten right in tune, 68-73F; i do get spikes and dips but its generally within a 20* range (pic shows the 81-61 swing I had over Monday night) but that is minimizing as the weather stabilizes.
Avg Humidity: 40-60%
Lights: 1x Pro Par420 Indagrow 420w Induction lamp, 2x Fluorogrow 4' x4bulb HOT5 rigged out with 7 zoomed flora suns and 1 6500K (which will be changed to another Flora Sun today)
Ventilation: Tjernlund 540cfm extraction fan on a controller (right now running at 50%) vented to separate room, and then from there outside; will be adding my carbon filter sometime next week
Medium: Organic Soil mix modeled off of subcool's supersoil and 3LB's soil mix. recipe below*
Container: 5gal smartpots
Genetics: 1x Strawberry Sour Diesel (Devil's Harvest) 1x Power Flower (Royal Queen) 1x Kerala x Skunk 1 (herbies freebie, maybe World of Seeds?)
I like to use AACT, floral nutrient teas, sprouted seed teas (mostly barley, but i'm testing out wheatgrass in the veggie garden, and i'm going to start with lactobacillus culturing via russian kvass to make some fermented plant extracts. i'll pop up a thread on russian kvass if there's interest) and aloe vera juice dilutions (both soil drench and foliar), and I've recently been in the habit of using a light, strained kelp tea for foliar feeds in between waterings. Oh, yeah, and I top at the 2nd node once they've got about 5-6 nodes to get 4 colas--of course, in the cold, this meant having smaller plants for my first run of the year.
I'm always happy to answer other questions, but I think this is enough detail for right now. I generally try to update every 10 days in flowering( and usually only put up 3-4 pics/updates all of veg).
Full setup
Strawberry Sour Diesel
Kerala x Skunk 1
Power Flower
You may notice the 3 3L bottles in the collective setup pic. They're bagseed I just threw in there for a little extra production in a 12/12FS methodology.
I've also got some Hawaiian Skunk Haze (a strain we were collectively trying to document at RIU, and if anyone has this freebie from Herbies, let me know because I'd love to start a knowledge amalgamation project over here for that strain!) another Kerala x Skunk 1, and a bagseed going under a Quantum Badboy 4' 4bulb T5 with florasuns and 6500K lights in my veggie starting room. Those girls (hopefully) will veg under that light until my flowering room is ready. Kinda nice to have the girls mingle with all of my other veggie starts for the season, and the veggies absolutely LOVE the Badboy.
Well that's enough from me for right now. Please feel free to comment, question, discuss, or otherwise contribute here, so long as it is respectful!
Be easy,
Dr. J
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