No one likes my grow journal any more.... :(. Wait, GreenGalaxy is here....
Just kidding, and I said I wasn't gonna post 100 pictures of seedlings day after day. After this grow and I shake off the rust, things will get tighter and more focused. Still loose and fun......but the growing part will get better and tighter.....after this we'll have the summer/outdoor plants. That should be cool because I'll let a Sativa get to 15 feet, a hybrid to 10 feet, and a couple of Indicas in their full shape and glory. I'm torn. Part of me is rooting for a fall like last year where I harvested by Nov 1st. But that means another unnatural, global warming year. It means another year of a big fake ladybug swarm, and it means another hot, humid summer and fall in New York City, where it still goes to 90 in September, still hits 80 in October, and November is eerily the way September used to be..... :(
After the summer, I'll get a real indoor schedule going, with hopefully 3 full grows with full maturity from Sept 15th through June 15th.
So next up now is taking these ancient seedlings that are so old, cave men wrote on walls about how I sprouted in paper towels, and it was in the 60s........and they laughed and laughed.......as cave people do. Cave women too, they also laugh at me....
So sometime in the next week these will all be transplanted.....actually only 20 of the best ones will be transplanted, hopefully with the same full variety that I planted, including various Skunks, Blueberry, Mazar, White Widow, my Strawberry/Widow x Indica, Road Kill Skunk, these Divine Banana cuttings, and a few other interesting varieties. The electrician is coming on Monday to finish all the work, we will hang the 2 Scorpion lights, the Diablo and the Rspec, I'm ordering a UVB light to work in later this month, and 20 of these best pnes will be transplanted into the 11 gallon pots, put on saucers, then on the wheels, everything else will be moved out of the closet except for the water line, the mist heater, and a fan. Mylar will be wrapped around. 2 fire suppression tanks/balls will be placed above the lights in the ceiling below the next floor. There is already natural cooling and air flow, the basement has never gone above 69 degrees at the highest even at the end days of summer. Right now in the adjacent fun part of the basement it's 58 degrees and 25% humidity. It's like a movie theater.......with an actual movie theater......even in July and August we put on a sweatshirt to watch TV or listen to the stereo or......whatever else we do down here.... :). It can be 94 degrees for 3 days in a row in August, and it will still be 66 degrees and dry in the basement. We also have a dehumidifier that runs in the summer.
Above the closet all around the ceiling it's open.......enough to let air flow freely up and out, but not enough to let light in. I'm not worried because no other lights will be on in the boiler area anyway. When I set up the 6' x 6' seedling/veg starter area/ overflow area next year outside the closet, I'll probably have to block that side so there won't be any light leaking into the closet during flowering.
So by next week, there will be 20 11gallon pots in the otherwise empty closet, the 2 large lights will be hung, with probably 3feet of diatance to start, and at 20% power. I will probably only run the Diablo light for the first week or so, run it up to 100% over a couple of weeks or so, then add the RSpec at 40%, run that up to 100% over a couple more weeks.......then......flip.
I'm excited. :)