LowPower4Life
New Member
Hello fellas, this is my first post, after 3 months of growing weed and reading you I've finally decided to join.
To help you understand why I have such a lame ass setup I'll give you a little bit of backstory, I live with my parents and they're totally against me drawing too much power from the network, therefore I cannot use much wattage. I don't want to grow a huge tree, but 2-3 small plants so that they support my 2-3 weekly joints.
The plants are in my bedroom, there is a space about 2x2 foot between my closet and the wall that makes a nice corner that I use to grow my ganja. I have a 35W SANSI led Full Spectrum light and a regular 20W 6000K UFO led that you would use to light your household. I have 2 fem and 1 auto, all indicas. Like I said I don't want monster plants, is there any chance that I can get by the flowering phase with this settup? My auto is theoretically blooming in 10 days or so, do you think with this power it will be able to synthetise the buds matter?
I'm planning on changing the 20W ufo for another 35W sansi I'll buy when the fems flower, what do you think?
Also there's no ventilation or anything, I just open the window 24/7, and in the night I have 2 makeshift cardboard things that I put around the plants to seal the little corner where I grow'em so I can sleep (the air circulation is highly crippled on night because of this, but the thing itself is not 100% sealed, air can enter through various openings).
I don't now if I explain myself correctly.
The temp is at 18-20 Cº on average even on night as the cardboard thing helps with the lower temperatures of the night.
I don't check pH but I'm planning on getting those pH checkers made of paper that kids use on chem class. The mineral water I give them is pH 7 and I add the 25% of the recomended nutes from time to time, 4/5 times I water them is just plain water.
The soil itself is a pretty generic soil, has cow shit in it and perlite ( I don't know if I said it right, those white stones that have oxigen dissolved in them or something like that).
The pots are made of 1.5L waterbottles with lots of holes on the bottom for drainage, I've read that I should cover the plastic because of the light but roots have not reached the plastic yet.
And I think that's all guys, tomorrow I'll probably upload some pics of my babies, one fem and one auto are 3 weeks old, around 15-20cm tall with 4 3-bladed leaves each and growing 2 more. I gotta say the fem is looking really pretty and healthy the auto is slightly droopy and the points on the newer leaves are getting brown colored, I associate this to the fact that I have yet to found a good frequency to water them.
The third plant is another story, it's almost 3 months old, 1 foot tall, I've cutted all the sets of leaves that turned nasty yellow and now it it's just a stretchy thing with lots of leaves conentrated at the top, it litterally resembles a stick with a green ball on top, kinda like a lollipop, and of top of that the leaves are deformed and super ugly, I guess it's because the plant didn't have any light for the 10 first days of his life, then I added a 5W bulb that my father used to grow turtles, then I added the 20W ufo when the plant was around 1 month and a half and I changed the 5W buld with the 35W sansi just a week and a half ago. I don't know how she's still alive with all the mistakes I've done to her. I don't even know if I should try to flower her already and start with a new one.
What are your thoughts on this?
To help you understand why I have such a lame ass setup I'll give you a little bit of backstory, I live with my parents and they're totally against me drawing too much power from the network, therefore I cannot use much wattage. I don't want to grow a huge tree, but 2-3 small plants so that they support my 2-3 weekly joints.
The plants are in my bedroom, there is a space about 2x2 foot between my closet and the wall that makes a nice corner that I use to grow my ganja. I have a 35W SANSI led Full Spectrum light and a regular 20W 6000K UFO led that you would use to light your household. I have 2 fem and 1 auto, all indicas. Like I said I don't want monster plants, is there any chance that I can get by the flowering phase with this settup? My auto is theoretically blooming in 10 days or so, do you think with this power it will be able to synthetise the buds matter?
I'm planning on changing the 20W ufo for another 35W sansi I'll buy when the fems flower, what do you think?
Also there's no ventilation or anything, I just open the window 24/7, and in the night I have 2 makeshift cardboard things that I put around the plants to seal the little corner where I grow'em so I can sleep (the air circulation is highly crippled on night because of this, but the thing itself is not 100% sealed, air can enter through various openings).
I don't now if I explain myself correctly.
The temp is at 18-20 Cº on average even on night as the cardboard thing helps with the lower temperatures of the night.
I don't check pH but I'm planning on getting those pH checkers made of paper that kids use on chem class. The mineral water I give them is pH 7 and I add the 25% of the recomended nutes from time to time, 4/5 times I water them is just plain water.
The soil itself is a pretty generic soil, has cow shit in it and perlite ( I don't know if I said it right, those white stones that have oxigen dissolved in them or something like that).
The pots are made of 1.5L waterbottles with lots of holes on the bottom for drainage, I've read that I should cover the plastic because of the light but roots have not reached the plastic yet.
And I think that's all guys, tomorrow I'll probably upload some pics of my babies, one fem and one auto are 3 weeks old, around 15-20cm tall with 4 3-bladed leaves each and growing 2 more. I gotta say the fem is looking really pretty and healthy the auto is slightly droopy and the points on the newer leaves are getting brown colored, I associate this to the fact that I have yet to found a good frequency to water them.
The third plant is another story, it's almost 3 months old, 1 foot tall, I've cutted all the sets of leaves that turned nasty yellow and now it it's just a stretchy thing with lots of leaves conentrated at the top, it litterally resembles a stick with a green ball on top, kinda like a lollipop, and of top of that the leaves are deformed and super ugly, I guess it's because the plant didn't have any light for the 10 first days of his life, then I added a 5W bulb that my father used to grow turtles, then I added the 20W ufo when the plant was around 1 month and a half and I changed the 5W buld with the 35W sansi just a week and a half ago. I don't know how she's still alive with all the mistakes I've done to her. I don't even know if I should try to flower her already and start with a new one.
What are your thoughts on this?
