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First the infos:
Strains:
1 x Nirvana's Jock Horror - feminized
1 x Nirvana's Bubblicious - feminized
Germination Rate:
Jock Horror - 1/1 germmed
Bubblicious - 3/3 germmed, had to abandon the first 2 iterations due to poor environment while moving to my new setup.
Planting Dates:
Jock Horror - Feb 16, 2011 - named "Jock Horror #1"
Bubblicious - Mar 5, 2011 - named "Bubblicious #1
Cabinets:
Veg: Black and Decker plastic utility cabinet
Flower: Closetmaid Base Cabinet - 34-3/4 in. high x 24 in. wide x 15-1/4 in. deep
Lights:
Veg: Up to 4x 26w 6500K CFLs per plant
Flower: 4x 26w 2700K CFLs; 2x42w 2700K CFLs; 1x68w 2700K CFL
Soil/Nutes:
Starting Soil: Jiffy soil-less seed starting mix
Growing Soil: Miracle Grow "feeds for 3 months" potting soil.
Nutes: Schultz 20-30-20 starting at 1/4 strength and working up
Temps:
Veg: 95-100F - I will be working to remedy this tonight with a new 6" circulation fan I just received.
Flower: 85F +/- 3F - Will also be adding a 6" circulation fan to this environment.
Now a little write up:
This is my first grow with anything that amounts to better-than-bagseed-genetics. I know many people have issues with Nirvana, and their genetics are claimed to be not-so-stable. Honestly, I am still learning - so I really don't care. I am growing for me and the wife only, so this grow and future grows are on the small/micro scale.
A little background on my grows so far. I have successfully grown two females from bagseed, with my first being the obligatory oldschool "plant in the attic under some lights". IT was a beast for what it was. 4' tall and bush as heck. I topped it quite a bit (including topping tops of tops of tops), so it had growth everywhere. I managed to burn 50% of it up with a space heater, and didn't have enough light for the rest of it. The bud sucked.
The second grow was in a cabinet, downstairs, in one of those potato salad canisters you get from the grocery's deli. I pulled 1/2 oz off of it, and it was better than the bud the seeds came from. I ended up with headaches from it though.
For this grow, JockHorror #1 started out as a bushy stick. It didn't grow horizontally much at all. Unfortunately, I have no pics of that. I topped her a few nights ago and am expecting to have about 5 "main branches" (I got a little too clumsy with the razor and chopped one branch below the top site - yup, I was high). It's hard to tell, because she is so bushy and the nodes are pretty tight right now. I am will be LSTing her, as you can see in the pics. She is currently growing in a 2.5 gallon container.
Bubblicious #1 is looking to be a little runty right now. She had a little yellowing on the first sets of leaves - Not quite sure what that is from. It started before I transplanted her into the MG soil - so it was while she was in the Jiffy soil-less starting mix.
My watering schedule is "as needed" using the lift-the-pot method to determine when to water. I am feeding on average every other watering. Though on Bubblicious #1 I am trying a variant of the 'Make It Rain' method I saw on RIU. Essentially, flush with 1 gallon tap water (ph is around 6.5-7.0, it's well water) and then chase it will nutes. I just did this for the first time last night
I will be keeping an updated log below.
2/16 - Planted Jock Horror #1
2/17 - Jock Horror #1 sprouted and stretched a lot this day - it was in the closet with a single 2' tube flouro about 2 feet above it.
3/5 - Planted Bubblicious #1 into seed starting mix
3/21 - Topped Jock Horror #1, expecting ~5 main branches (due to my clumsiness)
3/22 - Fed Jock Horror #1 with 3/4 strength nutes
3/23 - Fed Bubblicious #1 with 1/3 strength nutes
Strains:
1 x Nirvana's Jock Horror - feminized
1 x Nirvana's Bubblicious - feminized
Germination Rate:
Jock Horror - 1/1 germmed
Bubblicious - 3/3 germmed, had to abandon the first 2 iterations due to poor environment while moving to my new setup.
Planting Dates:
Jock Horror - Feb 16, 2011 - named "Jock Horror #1"
Bubblicious - Mar 5, 2011 - named "Bubblicious #1
Cabinets:
Veg: Black and Decker plastic utility cabinet
Flower: Closetmaid Base Cabinet - 34-3/4 in. high x 24 in. wide x 15-1/4 in. deep
Lights:
Veg: Up to 4x 26w 6500K CFLs per plant
Flower: 4x 26w 2700K CFLs; 2x42w 2700K CFLs; 1x68w 2700K CFL
Soil/Nutes:
Starting Soil: Jiffy soil-less seed starting mix
Growing Soil: Miracle Grow "feeds for 3 months" potting soil.
Nutes: Schultz 20-30-20 starting at 1/4 strength and working up
Temps:
Veg: 95-100F - I will be working to remedy this tonight with a new 6" circulation fan I just received.
Flower: 85F +/- 3F - Will also be adding a 6" circulation fan to this environment.
Now a little write up:
This is my first grow with anything that amounts to better-than-bagseed-genetics. I know many people have issues with Nirvana, and their genetics are claimed to be not-so-stable. Honestly, I am still learning - so I really don't care. I am growing for me and the wife only, so this grow and future grows are on the small/micro scale.
A little background on my grows so far. I have successfully grown two females from bagseed, with my first being the obligatory oldschool "plant in the attic under some lights". IT was a beast for what it was. 4' tall and bush as heck. I topped it quite a bit (including topping tops of tops of tops), so it had growth everywhere. I managed to burn 50% of it up with a space heater, and didn't have enough light for the rest of it. The bud sucked.
The second grow was in a cabinet, downstairs, in one of those potato salad canisters you get from the grocery's deli. I pulled 1/2 oz off of it, and it was better than the bud the seeds came from. I ended up with headaches from it though.
For this grow, JockHorror #1 started out as a bushy stick. It didn't grow horizontally much at all. Unfortunately, I have no pics of that. I topped her a few nights ago and am expecting to have about 5 "main branches" (I got a little too clumsy with the razor and chopped one branch below the top site - yup, I was high). It's hard to tell, because she is so bushy and the nodes are pretty tight right now. I am will be LSTing her, as you can see in the pics. She is currently growing in a 2.5 gallon container.
Bubblicious #1 is looking to be a little runty right now. She had a little yellowing on the first sets of leaves - Not quite sure what that is from. It started before I transplanted her into the MG soil - so it was while she was in the Jiffy soil-less starting mix.
My watering schedule is "as needed" using the lift-the-pot method to determine when to water. I am feeding on average every other watering. Though on Bubblicious #1 I am trying a variant of the 'Make It Rain' method I saw on RIU. Essentially, flush with 1 gallon tap water (ph is around 6.5-7.0, it's well water) and then chase it will nutes. I just did this for the first time last night
I will be keeping an updated log below.
2/16 - Planted Jock Horror #1
2/17 - Jock Horror #1 sprouted and stretched a lot this day - it was in the closet with a single 2' tube flouro about 2 feet above it.
3/5 - Planted Bubblicious #1 into seed starting mix
3/21 - Topped Jock Horror #1, expecting ~5 main branches (due to my clumsiness)
3/22 - Fed Jock Horror #1 with 3/4 strength nutes
3/23 - Fed Bubblicious #1 with 1/3 strength nutes