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So here it goes..
After thinking about this for a couple of years I have decided to start growing my own medicine. It's finally legal here in Communist Canadastan so I don't have to worry about The Law kicking in my door for the electric lettuce lol.
I've been piecing together a setup for a bit and my seeds just came today.. the final piece to getting started..
Imma gunna take it slow to start.. just two auto's in 5 gallon pots.. Ordered my seeds from Ministry of Cannabis so I'm going to start with one of their freebies ( they sent be 5 free seeds) Auto Pilot 1.0
and 1 CBD Light.
For Future grows I have God's Glue (photo) and White Amnesia(Photo) CBD Star (Auto),all from MoC, and some Durban Poison seeds I have held onto for about 30 years ( if they are still viable)
Anyone is welcome to come along on this journey and this Grow Diary is an open forum so feel free to comment. Constructive criticism is welcomed...just don't be a dick about it lol
Peace, Love and good vibes y'all
Good luck! How do you plan to start the seeds? I recommend germinating and then using jiffy pellets. They are insanely easy and give seedlings a good start. Also easy to see the root development. From there you can transfer to soil, coco, or whatever. Not really the best for hydro.
Thanks for that!I'm going to try and get some pictures up soon, and I may adjust things as I get feed back here.. but here is my general direction at this point.
SOIL
100 Gallons of super soil.. I used all the big hitters..
AMENDMENTS
- Fox Farm Ocean Forrest
- Fox Farm Happy Frog
- Gaia Green Living Soil
- Sea Marine Compost
- 30 Gallons of buffered Coco
- 30 Gallons of Peat.
Also used about 30lbs of Lava Rocks. Had to smash the pieces up a bit, but I did not want to use perlite as I am intending to reuse this living living soil.
- Gaia Green 4-4-4
- Green Sand
- Rock Dust
- Mycorrhizae
- Worm Castings. (From our worm bin)
- Dolomite Lime
I will be growing clover and peas (cover crops) in the unused soil while I am learning in the 5 gallon pots.
SETUP
Two 5 Gallon Pots in a 4x4 Tent
Germinate under 60w Blurple Led
Veg under 2 1800 watt Full-spectrum LED
Bloom 2x 1800 watt LED (Bloom Setting) plus 315 watt CMH
SEEDS
1 Auto Pilot 1.0 Feminized ( Autoflower)
1 CBD Star Feminized (Autoflower)
I was intending on germinating directly in the 5 gallon pots as I have read that transplanting autos can be done its just not as productive. Does that sound about right?
Thanks Milson!. I am enjoying your input over a sshz's orange-gasm thread aswell
Yes pretty much inspired by sub cool (r.i.p)Thanks for that!
You can use jiffy pellets with autos just fine. There is no transplant shock as you place the whole pellet into the hole you signing the medium. It's really just to give you a head start while their roots are very weak so you can't really over water. The roots should pop through the bottom in around 72-96 hours from first spreading cotyledon leaves. Then you carry on as before.
So are you essentially using a super soil method ala Subcool? If so, I would just have a minimally amended layer on top of the super soil layer, or the nutrients will be too rich for the seedling. That's just my opinion. You could check by doing a soil slurry test. There are instructions on the boards.
I will lower the two LEDs for veg and leave the CMH off until Flower cycle. I'll try and keep an even canopy so when they switch to the flower cycle all three lights should be at the same height. looks good on paper anyway
of course I'm way ahead of myself considering I haven't even germinated my seeds yet... just a little excited lol
Have to laugh at my Idiotic ramblings.. I guess with Autos there are no Veg/Bloom cycles bwahaha what I meat was I will use the CMH once I see the auto's transition to their blooming phase..
It's tough to be patient! But give it another day and if you see nothing, maybe just have a very light poke around.I know it has only been two days, I am trying not to disturb the beans too much, but I do check about twice a day for temps and to make sure the pellets are moist, I've added about .25 ounce to the bottom of the dish of the same solution the pellets wicked up. as I look down into the pellet I am begging to wonder if they seeds are in there too deep... I don't want to disturb them, but I feel the need to check.. for now I have resisted tampering with the pellet.
Notes** The Tent is 80 degrees bang on, but when I did a thermal check on the pellets they were 72 and 71.. I have since placed them under the light but with the cover on to get them to warm up a touch.
Honestly I had to do the same on one of mine...just too deep. But they should be up soon!Well I did have a little poke around the pellets. One was definitely way too deep. I was very careful performing that surgery and flipped the pellet over and made a more shallow nest.
Thankfully both seeds popped and had about .5” tap roots... woot woot!!!
While I was at it, I prepared the 5 gallon pots.
Since I was poking around in there I decided to just go ahead and place the pellets in the pots.
The coco should buffer the germination stage before the roots hit the living soil.
I hope my excitement didn’t cause me to move to soon.
I placed bottles over top to keep some moisture in and create a mini greenhouse. The Atlantic weather is changing already and the nights go down to the low 60’s.... ugh,already!!
I will mist the inside of the bottles instead of trying to moisten the pellets. Will that cause any issues?
So stoked right now!
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