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I'm a California Prop 215 Cannabis patient and caregiver. I do not support the recreational use of cannabis.
I bought four 126W LED lights from LEDGirl a couple months ago when her thread was heating up here. She gave me a considerable discount if I agreed to post a journal after week four of flowering. So I'm getting it started now a little late, but I've been really busy lately, so here it is finally.
I'm running three aero/nft units with four plant sites each. These were inspired by the Stinkbud "Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks" thread, with some modifications to make it fit nicely in my spare bathtub. I'm running the Botanicare line as recommended by stink in his system, keeping ph at 5.8 and ppm between 1600-2000 depending on strain.
I built a cab that rests on the tub rails, sealed it, mylar, exhaust, and a hydrogen miniGen co2 generator. Temps are between 65-85, 90 at the top of the canopy. Humidity stayed between 40 and 50% until a couple weeks ago, and it was getting into the 60% range, so I have exhaust running all the time to keep it under 50%. I just added the third rack five days ago, and the older two racks just finished week six. They are strawberry couch and soma sour diesel. There's also one cheese plant in there but it sucks and I'll never grow it again.
The older plants vegged for 4 weeks under a 2ft 4 bulb HO T5 and the younger plants vegged 18 days under that same light. I'd love to be vegging under the LED also to do a full LED experiment, but I don't have the money right now to buy one and the T5's work great.
I had two incidents where I forget to turn my pumps back on and the girls went without water for 12 hours, they bounced back quick but I'm sure it was stressful. Also, last week when I got home from a road trip my exhaust fan had not been keeping up with humidity and I had a pretty nasty powdery mildew problem in my lower branches. I dealt with that with a milk spray and cut a bunch out. I still need to add a dehumidifier, but in the mean time my co2 hasn't been running the last couple weeks because exhaust is on constantly. Since I just added co2 in the middle of the grow, and now it's not working, I'd say these first two racks can't really be considered to have been grown with supplemental co2. I had a small calcium deficiency early on, but dealt with it when I put them on full bloom nutes in week three.
These are all the problems I've had to give you a good idea of how the grow is going. I'm in no way a pro, so these results should be what you can expect from someone with a couple soil grows under his belt doing his first aero and LED experiment
Pictures attached are from veg to the end of week 6. All plants were started from clones.
Okay, apparently I can't upload photos right now due to system maintenance, so I'll try to add them later.
I bought four 126W LED lights from LEDGirl a couple months ago when her thread was heating up here. She gave me a considerable discount if I agreed to post a journal after week four of flowering. So I'm getting it started now a little late, but I've been really busy lately, so here it is finally.
I'm running three aero/nft units with four plant sites each. These were inspired by the Stinkbud "Harvest a Pound Every Three Weeks" thread, with some modifications to make it fit nicely in my spare bathtub. I'm running the Botanicare line as recommended by stink in his system, keeping ph at 5.8 and ppm between 1600-2000 depending on strain.
I built a cab that rests on the tub rails, sealed it, mylar, exhaust, and a hydrogen miniGen co2 generator. Temps are between 65-85, 90 at the top of the canopy. Humidity stayed between 40 and 50% until a couple weeks ago, and it was getting into the 60% range, so I have exhaust running all the time to keep it under 50%. I just added the third rack five days ago, and the older two racks just finished week six. They are strawberry couch and soma sour diesel. There's also one cheese plant in there but it sucks and I'll never grow it again.
The older plants vegged for 4 weeks under a 2ft 4 bulb HO T5 and the younger plants vegged 18 days under that same light. I'd love to be vegging under the LED also to do a full LED experiment, but I don't have the money right now to buy one and the T5's work great.
I had two incidents where I forget to turn my pumps back on and the girls went without water for 12 hours, they bounced back quick but I'm sure it was stressful. Also, last week when I got home from a road trip my exhaust fan had not been keeping up with humidity and I had a pretty nasty powdery mildew problem in my lower branches. I dealt with that with a milk spray and cut a bunch out. I still need to add a dehumidifier, but in the mean time my co2 hasn't been running the last couple weeks because exhaust is on constantly. Since I just added co2 in the middle of the grow, and now it's not working, I'd say these first two racks can't really be considered to have been grown with supplemental co2. I had a small calcium deficiency early on, but dealt with it when I put them on full bloom nutes in week three.
These are all the problems I've had to give you a good idea of how the grow is going. I'm in no way a pro, so these results should be what you can expect from someone with a couple soil grows under his belt doing his first aero and LED experiment
Pictures attached are from veg to the end of week 6. All plants were started from clones.
Okay, apparently I can't upload photos right now due to system maintenance, so I'll try to add them later.
Keep up the good work, and I appreciate you taking the time to post your progress and results.