First Grow journal

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Hi Everyone. Thanks for joining me on this journey. I'm really curious how this is going to turn out. I have always wanted to chronical a grow from beginning to end and this is a great way to get me to do that.

First, I'm starting 29 seeds. Yeah, odd number, but that's life. Im starting 10 querkle seeds from subcool, 10 ak48 seeds from Nirvana, 6 chocolop seeds from DNA, and 3 freebies from attitude seeds, 1 lemon skunk seed and 1 hash plant/haze from DNA, and 1 roadrunner from Dinafem. I can't wait til they are done.

I start all my seeds in papertowels. Its pretty cheap, easy, and I get 99% germination on average. I mainly use it to make sure the seed is going to root before i waste any time, money, and energy on it. I mix up a solution that is a 1 drop of superThrive, 2 drops of schultz plant food plus, and 2 drop of root stimulator to a liter/quart of water to soak the paper towels in.

They usually start showing roots in 3 up to 10 days. Then plant them in sunshine mix #4 in tiny 8 - 10 oz cups and give them very light nuts and put them into veg. They end up sprouting 3-6 days after that.

I'm hoping they stick to the timeline, but you never know til it happens. I'll post again when they root and i put them into some dirt. Here's some pics til next time.

 

[Layzieboy]

Ill be in for this one, i wanna watch the chocolope, been pondering about the strain for my next grow....

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

I wanna see all of em' they are all the opposite ends of the spectrum. Some are mostly indica, some are mostly sativa, purple is in there too, even a autoflower which im curious about the hype. What were you thinkin of getting?

 

[Layzieboy]

I wanna see all of em' they are all the opposite ends of the spectrum. Some are mostly indica, some are mostly sativa, purple is in there too, even a autoflower which im curious about the hype. What were you thinkin of getting?

Chocolope, i read thru like 50 pages of strains and chocolope really caught my attention
Ill probably order some seeds after im done with my current grow, hopefully i can learn some from your experience with the strain

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Chocolope, i read thru like 50 pages of strains and chocolope really caught my attention
Ill probably order some seeds after im done with my current grow, hopefully i can learn some from your experience with the strain

What are you doing now I have a few I grow already. JackFrost, the ghost, and white widow

 

[Layzieboy]

What are you doing now I have a few I grow already. JackFrost, the ghost, and white widow

Do you have any pics of your previous grows? I would like to see white widow (another one on my to-grow list)

Right now Ive got 3 green crack, 1 blue dream, 1 ice, and 1 sour grape, all from clone.

Journal link is in my sig. got vids n everything on there.

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Its about 60 hours (2 1/2 days) into it and all but 2 seeds have shown roots. I have all but the two in coco cat discs. I choose the coco cat discs cause they are 15 cents a piece and I don't have $50 for a bale of Sunshine mix until tues. I'll be putting them under 20/4 light today. I normally go 18/6 to help with power costs, but they recommend 20/4 for the roadrunner and that will also work well for veg.

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

I'll get some pics for you I don't normally take pics. I don't want anyone just finding them and asking questions. But the next time I take pics I will post them for ya

 

[Layzieboy]

I'll get some pics for you I don't normally take pics. I don't want anyone just finding them and asking questions. But the next time I take pics I will post them for ya

kool thnx

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Sweet! Its day 3 and all 29 of my seeds have roots. Tomorrow they go into the veg room to get some sun.

 

[Shrubs First]

I'll be checkin out, what's your environment like?

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Day 4

I put the seeds underlight and I can see the little seedlings are going to start springing up probubly late tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll have pics tomorrow if I can remember to bring my camera

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

I'll be checkin out, what's your environment like?

for veg I have a 1000w mh cool bule umbrella. I grow in sunshine mix #4, I use BlueMoon nuts rootstimulator and bio-active stimulant, My temps stay beween 60 and 80. Pretty much the norm.

flower with 3 1000 hps and a 1000w mh with a warm/red bulb. temps about the same, humidity 50-60%, same nuts without the root stimulator and add budblaster the last half of flower. my co2 is about is about 1800ppm

I'm attempting to make the leap to aeroponics it is just going to take some time to get all done with soil

 

[Shrubs First]

Damn, how do you keep your temperature so consistent? With my two 600 watts, If i didnt have the intake and exhausts working so well My temps would probably be around 88

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

I use a combination of things I have all air cooled hoods with a 300cfm fan suckin air. I have a a/c unit that controls both my temp and humidity. and i also have a heater for cold days if it gets too cold.

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

So its day 5 and I have 3 sprouting up and a few getting ready. here are some pics

the seedlings

kool thnx

heres the white widow about 2 weeks into bud



bud a mix of 2 weeks in and 2 weeks to go


veg a mix from a few days in to a week or so


this is a collection of the ghost and white widow 2 weeks in

 

[Bucket head]

cool beans...

 

[jackdirty]

i love our room

 

[Dr.GreenBuds]

Hahaha thanx any input on making it better is always appriciated

 

[Shrubs First]

Looks great.. the plants look healhy... only thing i would suggest is to raise the plants up off of the ground, more control over soil temp, and less bugs will be getting to them.. Your White widdow looks very similar to mine! I like that, makes me confident its the real deal