MIMedGrower said:

Looks great. What strain?

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SkunkyDunk said:

Sensi Seeds Skunk #1. We are getting ready to pop a batch of Sensi Seeds Maple Leaf Indica next.
Love these old fashion strains.

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SkunkyDunk said:

So I wanted to explain my setup as it has taken me years to settle on a system that produces greatly the flowers I'm seeking for our meds.

What the wife and I have built is a 8' wide X 12' long x 11' high room.
We've installed an 6' light rail (Guala) and hung 2 modified Sun Systems Magnum XXXL 6 reflectors. Each reflector has an additional socket mounted perpendicular to the stock socket at opposite ends so each reflector has a 600 watt HPS and a 600 watt MH conversion bulb.
Then each bulb has an appropriate Sun Systems light diffuser on them.
This allows us to get them about 18" from the canopy.
This gives us 1200 watts per reflector.
These are set with a 35 second delay at each end of travel on the rail.
During veg the MH bulbs are on 24-7 but we stagger the HPS bulbs, 1 comes on for 3 1/2 hours then later the second one comes on for 3 1/2 hours. This happens 3 times during the day.
Then during flower we reverse this by running the HPS bulbs for 12 hours then stagger the MH bulbs in 4 1/2 hour intervals.
Our thinking on this is the fall sky has more red light so it kind of has a sunrise and sunset spectrum then the MH bulbs simulate the noon sky with more blues.
These reflectors are kept about

The reflectors are vented by a 6" Fantech fan pulling through charcoal filter.
Then the room itself is vented by pulling through another matching fan and filter.
Then a couple 9" fans blowing under the canopy.

We soil grow from seed every grow and use Fox Farm HP and OF in a 50 50 mix.
This is placed in a Smart Pot 6' long bag which holds 7 bags of soil.

Nutes are guano teas, sea kelp and micronutrients in a molasses brew.

We always run a minimum of 7 weeks veg, that's after 2 weeks of seedling stage so actually minimum of 9 weeks from sprouts.
We try to keep the temps under 75* with lights on and 65* with lights out by adjusting fan speeds.

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SkunkyDunk said:

Howdy all, I've been creeping around here for awhile and finally registered recently.
So,,,, im not a new grower by any stretch, been doin it since the early 70's in Cali.
Any of you old guys (gals) remember growing under T12's?
Anyhow, I started a thread in the wrong sub forum about my grow and want to begin here now even though I'm 5 weeks into my Skunk #1 grow.
I really love some of the old Mexican we used to get when it was good and then in the 80's when the first Skunks started to show up from domestic farmers, oh it was so good.
I do like the older strains, the smells and flavors were, well delicious.
I really hate the 15 minute Buzz from the dispensary "kind" offerings.
So this will be my grow diary, I usually don't do the newest and greatest strains because, well I've not been real impressed.
Maybe it's because I'm old? I can't get the "high" anymore?
No, I guess I just like the old genetics.

5 weeks into my organic indoor grow.

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