Novel_Pirate
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First and foremost, HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all my celebrating brothers and sisters!!!
As we surpass my favorite holiday and near legalization date, I’m starting to gear up!
Like the title says, this is my first grow! Actually, the truth is I tried a CFL grow once, 15 years ago, but had to harvest before it was ready, way before, so I never completed the grow. I've been planning this grow for a few weeks now (since legality), and I'm about to start germinating some beans!!. I’d like to share my journal/progress with you all if you’ll have me.
I think I will be germinating 3 beans to start. If I can get all 3 to germinate, I will obviously be planting all 3. For my beans, I placed an order for 12(and received 4 free) with multiversebeans. The order came quickly, and came with 2 hand written notes thanking me for my purchase. It was very nice.
If you’re unable to see the pics below for some reason, the beans I ordered are all Feminized photoperiod beans. I have 3 of each: GG#4, Cinderella 99, Critical Widow, and G13. They also sent “Large berry” and “Gummibears”. I think those are both auto fem, but the Large berry doesn’t give any info, and I can’t find anything about it really. I think I'll start by germinating 2 Cindy99's and 1 Critical Widow.
I’ve 3D printed a germination station, and will be placing it on the plant heating pad (all pictured below). I’ve tested it out, and the pad is able to warm the inside of the box and its reservoir of water. I don’t have a handheld thermometer, or one small enough to fit in there, so I haven’t tested the actual temperature yet, but it’s warm without being close to hot. I’ll just be using moist paper towels since I successfully germinated 3/3 seeds in my first grow attempt that way. Check out the germination station below. I will be taking extra precaution to keep it in the dark.
I’ve decided to go with a 4x4x6 tent, with a 400w Sonlipo SPF4000. I’m taking a bit of a risk here on this LED, but it’s about half the price of similar “name brand” L.E.D.s. Based on what I’ve read and advice I’ve received, and as far as I can tell, I think it has everything I need. It even has switches specifically for veg and bloom, to change the spectrum of the lights being used. Anyway, finishing off the basic setup is a iPower 6 Inch (395 CFM) inline fan with a prefiltered carbon filter. I’ll be adding all the small stuff shortly, like a fan, thermometer, small cabinet…. A bunch of things I cant think of at the moment without going and looking at it, lol.
Oh yea, and I’m going with foxfarms ocean forest soil, which I know can be risky on seedlings and brand new plants, but I’ve read a bit and found a good tutorial on here that I believe will help me be successful. Ill be starting other nutes probably later on, in veg, surely in bloom.
Anyway, here’s some pics of the basic setup:
Being that the tent is only 6 feet tall, and the lights and fan take off another 2 feet or so, Im thinking of implementing a SCROG grow with some of these beans, as I believe some can get fairly tall. I may experiment with some LST stuff again as well with these free seeds when I get around to it.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and well I’m sorry I don’t have any plant pics yet, but I’m so excited to get started. I’m also kinda hoping that you guys will see these pics and tell me if it’s a horrible light, or if I have something setup wrong, or even how I can just improve my setup, before I actually get to the caring of plants.
Thanks again everyone!
As we surpass my favorite holiday and near legalization date, I’m starting to gear up!
Like the title says, this is my first grow! Actually, the truth is I tried a CFL grow once, 15 years ago, but had to harvest before it was ready, way before, so I never completed the grow. I've been planning this grow for a few weeks now (since legality), and I'm about to start germinating some beans!!. I’d like to share my journal/progress with you all if you’ll have me.
I think I will be germinating 3 beans to start. If I can get all 3 to germinate, I will obviously be planting all 3. For my beans, I placed an order for 12(and received 4 free) with multiversebeans. The order came quickly, and came with 2 hand written notes thanking me for my purchase. It was very nice.
If you’re unable to see the pics below for some reason, the beans I ordered are all Feminized photoperiod beans. I have 3 of each: GG#4, Cinderella 99, Critical Widow, and G13. They also sent “Large berry” and “Gummibears”. I think those are both auto fem, but the Large berry doesn’t give any info, and I can’t find anything about it really. I think I'll start by germinating 2 Cindy99's and 1 Critical Widow.
I’ve 3D printed a germination station, and will be placing it on the plant heating pad (all pictured below). I’ve tested it out, and the pad is able to warm the inside of the box and its reservoir of water. I don’t have a handheld thermometer, or one small enough to fit in there, so I haven’t tested the actual temperature yet, but it’s warm without being close to hot. I’ll just be using moist paper towels since I successfully germinated 3/3 seeds in my first grow attempt that way. Check out the germination station below. I will be taking extra precaution to keep it in the dark.
I’ve decided to go with a 4x4x6 tent, with a 400w Sonlipo SPF4000. I’m taking a bit of a risk here on this LED, but it’s about half the price of similar “name brand” L.E.D.s. Based on what I’ve read and advice I’ve received, and as far as I can tell, I think it has everything I need. It even has switches specifically for veg and bloom, to change the spectrum of the lights being used. Anyway, finishing off the basic setup is a iPower 6 Inch (395 CFM) inline fan with a prefiltered carbon filter. I’ll be adding all the small stuff shortly, like a fan, thermometer, small cabinet…. A bunch of things I cant think of at the moment without going and looking at it, lol.
Oh yea, and I’m going with foxfarms ocean forest soil, which I know can be risky on seedlings and brand new plants, but I’ve read a bit and found a good tutorial on here that I believe will help me be successful. Ill be starting other nutes probably later on, in veg, surely in bloom.
Anyway, here’s some pics of the basic setup:
Being that the tent is only 6 feet tall, and the lights and fan take off another 2 feet or so, Im thinking of implementing a SCROG grow with some of these beans, as I believe some can get fairly tall. I may experiment with some LST stuff again as well with these free seeds when I get around to it.
Thanks for taking the time to read, and well I’m sorry I don’t have any plant pics yet, but I’m so excited to get started. I’m also kinda hoping that you guys will see these pics and tell me if it’s a horrible light, or if I have something setup wrong, or even how I can just improve my setup, before I actually get to the caring of plants.
Thanks again everyone!
