Azton
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So I'm starting a new grow. Where I live it is considered a crime I should add, so I have all the problems that comes with that and trying to be discrete. I dont know anyone I can ask about stuff or who can give me some input so I thought I would try online. This seems like a very nice forum and I am happy to be here
In the past I have grown with HPS lights, ad much space as I could ever want and two seasons outdoors. Now I am old and I just want weed for me and the missus really, but leftovers are traded and comes to good use
So I'm going LED and I want you, with your experience, to look for holes in my planning here so I can do better and get good yeilds
I have a vegging area. Its a small wardrobe with a cheap 65W Quantum board. Its one of those older ones with a switch for the red diodes. It has IR and UV if that matters. My plan is to keep a mother plant under that light in the wardrobe. Its not very well ventilated and I have to keep the door open a little. It has a small clip on fan too. I also have one of those older blurple 50W LEDs that has actually given me some bud in the past, but I dont see myself using it now, I just have it in case of future projects. It was cheap and I got it for supplemental lighting for a plant on my balcony originally. But the purple light got to my head, my entire world turned weird somehow.
My flowering area is a small growtent with a viparspectra 95W light in it and a carbon filter with an inline fan. The tent is only 1.5ftx1.5ft though which is maybe a limiting factor but if I do small pots I should be able to flower 2 smaller plants for variety, what do you think?
Next step will probably be a real vegging tent, also a tiny one like the one I have. I just cant have a big tent now so Ill go with several small ones.
I grow in soil. Wife wants to do hydro because of less mess, but I really like working with soil and I think it tastes better. But, she has a way of winning arguments. We have good water with good PH straight from the tap. But I havent read into everything that comes with hydro yet.
Nutrition: I'm thinking Ill try Bio-tabs or something similar, seems simple enough. Right now I'm still on the nutes that came with the soil. Going to get a PK booster or something like that for flowering. I want to recycle my soil.
In the past I have grown with HPS lights, ad much space as I could ever want and two seasons outdoors. Now I am old and I just want weed for me and the missus really, but leftovers are traded and comes to good use
So I'm going LED and I want you, with your experience, to look for holes in my planning here so I can do better and get good yeilds
I have a vegging area. Its a small wardrobe with a cheap 65W Quantum board. Its one of those older ones with a switch for the red diodes. It has IR and UV if that matters. My plan is to keep a mother plant under that light in the wardrobe. Its not very well ventilated and I have to keep the door open a little. It has a small clip on fan too. I also have one of those older blurple 50W LEDs that has actually given me some bud in the past, but I dont see myself using it now, I just have it in case of future projects. It was cheap and I got it for supplemental lighting for a plant on my balcony originally. But the purple light got to my head, my entire world turned weird somehow.
My flowering area is a small growtent with a viparspectra 95W light in it and a carbon filter with an inline fan. The tent is only 1.5ftx1.5ft though which is maybe a limiting factor but if I do small pots I should be able to flower 2 smaller plants for variety, what do you think?
Next step will probably be a real vegging tent, also a tiny one like the one I have. I just cant have a big tent now so Ill go with several small ones.
I grow in soil. Wife wants to do hydro because of less mess, but I really like working with soil and I think it tastes better. But, she has a way of winning arguments. We have good water with good PH straight from the tap. But I havent read into everything that comes with hydro yet.
Nutrition: I'm thinking Ill try Bio-tabs or something similar, seems simple enough. Right now I'm still on the nutes that came with the soil. Going to get a PK booster or something like that for flowering. I want to recycle my soil.