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So, I decided to give it a go at growing again. I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing but it’s worth a try. I’ve had maybe 4 or 5 successful grows under my belt and wanted to see what the growing world has to offer these days. I have a very wide variety of seeds in my little bank. Some very, very rare and others fairly common.
What I decided on trying my luck on was some Kandy Kush and Chemmy Jones.
These are both bag seeds dispensary weed, but I figured it was worth it if I managed to f#%! these up as they were technically free anyway. 50/50 chance of them being females. The Chemmy Jones was testing at 33% thc and the Kandy Kush at mid 24% thc.
So far I’m about 1 1/2 months along in veg. I started off with popping seeds via the paper towel and ziploc baggie method with success. Then I transferred to mini cardboard looking seedling pots with coco and used an old retro fitted blue ole cob box led that I had redid the cob and drivers. I basically rewired 2 100watt drivers to run 4 100 watt cob leds (3 @ 5000k & 1 @ 3000k) I had lying around from a different project. Running them at half the rate made them run extremely efficient and incredibly cool to the touch with no heat at all. I was also using Jacks Hydro 321 formula for the nutrients. Seemed to work out for the time I was using them until I could order different leds, a tent, in-line fan, buckets for dwc, air pumps, air stones, an and different nutrients. Basically a whole new set up.
The first month was REALLY rocky and slow growing when I transferred the seedlings to net pots with grow stones as the medium. I was struggling with the Jacks nutes in dwc. No matter what ratio I used the plants always showed signs of deficiencies or excess nutes.
For about 5 days I tried using some 3 or 4 year old cyco nutes I’ve had lying in storage but I think it made things worse lol.
I ordered a 2in1 grow tent that just so happened to fit the dimensions of the space I wanted to be growing in (4’x3’). Arrived March 14th. I did not use the “baffle” used to split the grow tent in two that wayI could leave the whole tent open. Worked great for me and my needs. I didn’t set up the grow tent until I received my led lights, though.
My led lights that I ordered on alibaba came in on March 17 and I installed them on the following day. I did not go with the lm301 boards as I didn’t want any “hot spots” of light beaming down. So I went with individual lm301 led strips, each with their own Meanwell drivers. They are about 39” long which spreads the length of the grow tent. I bought 3 of those led lights at a pretty reasonable price I believe. I’ll probably end up buying two more of them and I’ll probably buy some bloom booster “Emerson effect” leds, too. I’m only running two of these lights on in veg. With all 3 of them on it seemed too much for these little plants.
I also did top both of the plants at some point, but not at the same time. I also did some heavy lst on the Kandy Kush and very light lst with the Chemmy Jones. As you can tell, the Kandy Kush is the bigger plant of the two.
What I decided on trying my luck on was some Kandy Kush and Chemmy Jones.
These are both bag seeds dispensary weed, but I figured it was worth it if I managed to f#%! these up as they were technically free anyway. 50/50 chance of them being females. The Chemmy Jones was testing at 33% thc and the Kandy Kush at mid 24% thc.
So far I’m about 1 1/2 months along in veg. I started off with popping seeds via the paper towel and ziploc baggie method with success. Then I transferred to mini cardboard looking seedling pots with coco and used an old retro fitted blue ole cob box led that I had redid the cob and drivers. I basically rewired 2 100watt drivers to run 4 100 watt cob leds (3 @ 5000k & 1 @ 3000k) I had lying around from a different project. Running them at half the rate made them run extremely efficient and incredibly cool to the touch with no heat at all. I was also using Jacks Hydro 321 formula for the nutrients. Seemed to work out for the time I was using them until I could order different leds, a tent, in-line fan, buckets for dwc, air pumps, air stones, an and different nutrients. Basically a whole new set up.
The first month was REALLY rocky and slow growing when I transferred the seedlings to net pots with grow stones as the medium. I was struggling with the Jacks nutes in dwc. No matter what ratio I used the plants always showed signs of deficiencies or excess nutes.
For about 5 days I tried using some 3 or 4 year old cyco nutes I’ve had lying in storage but I think it made things worse lol.
I ordered a 2in1 grow tent that just so happened to fit the dimensions of the space I wanted to be growing in (4’x3’). Arrived March 14th. I did not use the “baffle” used to split the grow tent in two that wayI could leave the whole tent open. Worked great for me and my needs. I didn’t set up the grow tent until I received my led lights, though.
My led lights that I ordered on alibaba came in on March 17 and I installed them on the following day. I did not go with the lm301 boards as I didn’t want any “hot spots” of light beaming down. So I went with individual lm301 led strips, each with their own Meanwell drivers. They are about 39” long which spreads the length of the grow tent. I bought 3 of those led lights at a pretty reasonable price I believe. I’ll probably end up buying two more of them and I’ll probably buy some bloom booster “Emerson effect” leds, too. I’m only running two of these lights on in veg. With all 3 of them on it seemed too much for these little plants.
I also did top both of the plants at some point, but not at the same time. I also did some heavy lst on the Kandy Kush and very light lst with the Chemmy Jones. As you can tell, the Kandy Kush is the bigger plant of the two.