Shackleford.R
Well-Known Member
Hello and welcome to my grow journal.
I debated starting a grow journal and put it off for a good while. So to catch you up to speed...
I had picked up a germination tray for my outdoor vegetable garden months ago, and it actually arrived post planting time for my area, so it was more or less a waste. Out of interest, don't all grows start this way?, I decided to germ some bag seeds. I gathered up 10 seeds from my stash box and dotted them into the germ kit. Wouldn't you know it, 3 sprouts, before the tomatoes, before the peppers, before the squash... All told I ended up with 5 good sprouts.
Once the first true leaves poked up their little heads I moved them all to a modded AeroGarden. By modded I mean, I didn't expect to anything to sprout, so I didn't have the stupid little AG cages you snap in the top tray. Instead I removed the tray, filled with a mix of 60% Hydrotron expanded clay pebbles and 40% Miracle-Gro potting soil. I disconnected the lamp hood wire from the base power adapter, and picked up a lamp wire from Radio Shack and plugged it into an independent timer.
Before any gets on me for doing this to a fairly decent prebuilt aeroponic system. Understand that it was an act of desperation, and not planned intention. I needed to transplant to something, and I knew I needed light, that bastard system was the child of my necessity.
Moving right along... After about a week in the ghetto AG, I added some more lights, CFL's ranging in wattage... Then a few fan leaves later we find ourselves here...
A little closer up view under my "hood"...
So the system is running nicely now, after a possible nute burn I flushed the system with distilled water, and filled the tank with straight pH proper Spring Water. I'm about to be out of town for a few days, so I plan on leaving the system like this till I return. Anyone know anything about spring water? Does it bring anything to the party? I assume some trace minerals, basically I'm just trying to wash the roots, and get them a little stronger before I return the nute barrage.
Also I picked up some maxicrop liquid seaweed today. I plan to fortify the spring water with this, I hear its awesome for root development which is what my main concern is now.
Here are some photos of the leaf damage...
and a little closer...
Also, I have all 5 plants in the same water farm. I'm hoping for at least 3 females out of the bunch. Once sexed, I plan on doing some LST to maximize the yield of the (hopeful) 3 plants in the one WaterFarm unit.
I'm on a 18/6 light cycle and watering every other hour during the light cycle, pump on one hour, pump off one hour, repeat...
Any questions or comments are more than welcome.
Keep checking back as I plan to update fairly regularly.
Good day, and happy growing!
I debated starting a grow journal and put it off for a good while. So to catch you up to speed...
I had picked up a germination tray for my outdoor vegetable garden months ago, and it actually arrived post planting time for my area, so it was more or less a waste. Out of interest, don't all grows start this way?, I decided to germ some bag seeds. I gathered up 10 seeds from my stash box and dotted them into the germ kit. Wouldn't you know it, 3 sprouts, before the tomatoes, before the peppers, before the squash... All told I ended up with 5 good sprouts.
Once the first true leaves poked up their little heads I moved them all to a modded AeroGarden. By modded I mean, I didn't expect to anything to sprout, so I didn't have the stupid little AG cages you snap in the top tray. Instead I removed the tray, filled with a mix of 60% Hydrotron expanded clay pebbles and 40% Miracle-Gro potting soil. I disconnected the lamp hood wire from the base power adapter, and picked up a lamp wire from Radio Shack and plugged it into an independent timer.
Before any gets on me for doing this to a fairly decent prebuilt aeroponic system. Understand that it was an act of desperation, and not planned intention. I needed to transplant to something, and I knew I needed light, that bastard system was the child of my necessity.
Moving right along... After about a week in the ghetto AG, I added some more lights, CFL's ranging in wattage... Then a few fan leaves later we find ourselves here...
A little closer up view under my "hood"...
So the system is running nicely now, after a possible nute burn I flushed the system with distilled water, and filled the tank with straight pH proper Spring Water. I'm about to be out of town for a few days, so I plan on leaving the system like this till I return. Anyone know anything about spring water? Does it bring anything to the party? I assume some trace minerals, basically I'm just trying to wash the roots, and get them a little stronger before I return the nute barrage.
Also I picked up some maxicrop liquid seaweed today. I plan to fortify the spring water with this, I hear its awesome for root development which is what my main concern is now.
Here are some photos of the leaf damage...
and a little closer...
Also, I have all 5 plants in the same water farm. I'm hoping for at least 3 females out of the bunch. Once sexed, I plan on doing some LST to maximize the yield of the (hopeful) 3 plants in the one WaterFarm unit.
I'm on a 18/6 light cycle and watering every other hour during the light cycle, pump on one hour, pump off one hour, repeat...
Any questions or comments are more than welcome.
Keep checking back as I plan to update fairly regularly.
Good day, and happy growing!
thats awesome, make sure you keep a note of the recipe so this time next grow you can use the same mix.
