New here and a beginner grower

[DirtyDave1990]

What’s up y’all I’m excited to be here. I did my first two grows about 9 years when I was 21 but I was living in a one bedroom apartment and it wasn’t a safe space to continue to grow in. I got a house a few years ago and finally got a space set up for growing. I have two strawnana plants that are doing very well in some fox farm soil. I started with 6 but only two made it past seedling. Not sure if that was my fault or the seeds I bought. Anyways I was planning on doing a small sea of green setup with 6 plants in a 2.5’x3.5’ area. But since I’m down two I ended up tipping them and letting them get a tad bigger before I switched to flowering. Seeds went in the soil 4/20/20 plants went to flowering 6/21/20. I started them inside and then converted an old garage tool cabinet into a small/medium grow box. I started five clones off my fav strawnana plant but they all died ( I have a different thread started about that if anyone wants to read it and see if they can throw some pointers my way.) I’ll upload some photos of my modified grow box later and keep adding photos as flowering starts

 

[LittleDabbie]

Welcome dave! :D

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

What’s up y’all I’m excited to be here. I did my first two grows about 9 years when I was 21 but I was living in a one bedroom apartment and it wasn’t a safe space to continue to grow in. I got a house a few years ago and finally got a space set up for growing. I have two strawnana plants that are doing very well in some fox farm soil. I started with 6 but only two made it past seedling. Not sure if that was my fault or the seeds I bought. Anyways I was planning on doing a small sea of green setup with 6 plants in a 2.5’x3.5’ area. But since I’m down two I ended up tipping them and letting them get a tad bigger before I switched to flowering. Seeds went in the soil 4/20/20 plants went to flowering 6/21/20. I started them inside and then converted an old garage tool cabinet into a small/medium grow box. I started five clones off my fav strawnana plant but they all died ( I have a different thread started about that if anyone wants to read it and see if they can throw some pointers my way.) I’ll upload some photos of my modified grow box later and keep adding photos as flowering starts

Since I can't find that other thread

Home made bubble cloner. Old ice cream bucket with an air stone and half full of water. I do with half strength hydro nutes but will work with just plain water.

The bottles are a Kratky set up. Nute water up to the bottom of the baskets while plant stems are in rockwool after being dipped in root hormone. Both have worked well for me this summer.

A tip on clones, cut and immediately place cut end in water.

Looking forward to your flowers!

 

[DirtyDave1990]

Here’s some pictures of the two girls in their box. I lined it with Mylar and have a 4” exhaust fan and carbon filter. Also have the air intake through the bottom and underneath their I have some stuff to condition the incoming air. It’s hard to see in the pic but I had just topped a few weeks ago and started to train the top two buds on each plant outwards instead of up. My box isn’t very tall which is why I wanted to do sea of green and flower them early when they were shorter.

 

[DirtyDave1990]

My buds are fattening up and smell great! This plant takes about 7-9 weeks to flower and I switched the lights on 6/21 so I’m thinking about starting to flush soon since we’re at about week 6 but I still have tons of white hairs and I’m hoping my buds keep fattening. I’m wondering if I should wait a little while or how quickly they’ll start to turn. I don’t want to wait to long to flush and have my buds be salty or have to wait to cut them and have bud that gives me couchlock but I also don’t want to cut nutes too early and miss out on bud production

 

[DirtyDave1990]

Starting chopping my plants down on Wednesday 9-2 and finished chopping, trimming and hanging by 9-3. Put them in the grow box and took my oscillating fan out. Cycling my exhaust fan on and off every fifteen minutes to not let humidity get too low

 

[sambapati]

Starting chopping my plants down on Wednesday 9-2 and finished chopping, trimming and hanging by 9-3. Put them in the grow box and took my oscillating fan out. Cycling my exhaust fan on and off every fifteen minutes to not let humidity get too low

I'm glad to hear that....there is so much drying curing information out there hope you have a good plan. I'm thinking 60 degrees and 60% humidty for 2 weeks than jars...praying...walking around...This is the grow status...as of yesterday. T-minus...

 

[DirtyDave1990]

I'm glad to hear that....there is so much drying curing information out there hope you have a good plan. I'm thinking 60 degrees and 60% humidty for 2 weeks than jars...praying...walking around...This is the grow status...as of yesterday. T-minus...View attachment 1025679

Unfortunately at this time I can’t keep the temps or humidity at exact areas. I am able to keep temps between 60-70 and humidity between 47-58. I can’t stop those swings but I’ve kept it to where with minimal daily adjustments I can keep it in that range. And yes was planning on 10-14 days drying then jars for 6-8 weeks

 

[blit98]

welcome nice photos im new also.

 

[DirtyDave1990]

I only took pics of the first 2 buds that I trimmed. I’ll take more after the drying and curing and give an update with overall dry weight for the 2 plants after drying is done.