LadyKimi
Well-Known Member
Hello All! Here goes Nothing!!
First things first.
I am writing this more for me right now although I hope someday someone can learn from it. I may ramble occasionally and I t4end to talk to myself so I am sure I will "type" to myself as well. I may also leave stuff unfinished and come back when I can finish hours or days later. I will mark these things with a
CFL Grow: 6500 k for Flowering, 2700 K for Vegging, exact wattage will be added later when I can get out of bed.
18/6 Light cycle
4 plants: Femmed seeds from Attitude. 1 each of Sour Cream, Cheisel, Rocklock and Sensi Star.
Medium: Sunshine Mix #8 mixed 50/50 with perlite. Mix #4 is recommended but I bout a boat load of 8 when I first started growing before I knew what the what was but the Perlite takes care of the drainage issue. It is a "soil-less" mix (I actually did not realize this until 2 weeks after I started growing, U can def tell I have never grown anything in my life)
Nutrients: Jacks Classic for both vegging and growing
Grow is being housed in a 4.5'x3' closet. I have an entire room but my 1st grow (which had a hermie caught late that pollinated all 7 plants) was on a table with a blacked out window. Among the other mistakes, that may get referenced through out the journal, I think this was 1, I had a very very mild light leak from the edge of the window, it was so minor I did not think it would be an issue. Also the space under the door was blocked with a blanket the the dogs would occasionally play with and cause light leak # 2. Something caused the hermies, no guarantee that this was not the cause.
I also think I will "lose" less light by using a smaller confined place. I will also have less trouble keeping this area totally sterile (another possible mistake, with my back, I can not always clean things up immediately. The best examle I can think of is after transplanting the last 7 girls at 1 week into flower due to being root bound, after the tp I could hardly stand, yet alone bend over so the dirt and such stayed on the plastic in the middle of the floor for 3 days.)
Now 4 The Grow!
Germinated over night in tap water that had been left out for well over 24 hours. They were then planted into Jiffy Peat Pellets and placed under a cheap blue spectrum grow light for 24 hours and then switched to a 26w 6500k CFL.
Sour Cream popped soil in 5 hours
Cheisel in 11
Rocklock took 17 hours
Sensi Star is just now poking her head out at day 4, was just about to break her out myself when she peaked out.
We are now turning the lights out on day 4, the current plan is to plant the pellets at day 10 of breaking earth into the growing medium. The logic is that the stems will have some strengthening time and I will have enough time to finish the sterilising of the grow room. My first grow was not really ready to be replanted at 10 days ( if memory serves and it doesn't always) so I may revisit this. I see pics online of 15 day old girls with 3 or more nodes and I KNOW I did not have that with the first grow..
I plan on writing SOMETHING every day. It may not be much on slow does but I am trying to build habits here
Till Tomorrow! Pics will be added tomorrow then periodically....
First things first.
I am writing this more for me right now although I hope someday someone can learn from it. I may ramble occasionally and I t4end to talk to myself so I am sure I will "type" to myself as well. I may also leave stuff unfinished and come back when I can finish hours or days later. I will mark these things with a
CFL Grow: 6500 k for Flowering, 2700 K for Vegging, exact wattage will be added later when I can get out of bed.
18/6 Light cycle
4 plants: Femmed seeds from Attitude. 1 each of Sour Cream, Cheisel, Rocklock and Sensi Star.
Medium: Sunshine Mix #8 mixed 50/50 with perlite. Mix #4 is recommended but I bout a boat load of 8 when I first started growing before I knew what the what was but the Perlite takes care of the drainage issue. It is a "soil-less" mix (I actually did not realize this until 2 weeks after I started growing, U can def tell I have never grown anything in my life)
Nutrients: Jacks Classic for both vegging and growing
Grow is being housed in a 4.5'x3' closet. I have an entire room but my 1st grow (which had a hermie caught late that pollinated all 7 plants) was on a table with a blacked out window. Among the other mistakes, that may get referenced through out the journal, I think this was 1, I had a very very mild light leak from the edge of the window, it was so minor I did not think it would be an issue. Also the space under the door was blocked with a blanket the the dogs would occasionally play with and cause light leak # 2. Something caused the hermies, no guarantee that this was not the cause.
I also think I will "lose" less light by using a smaller confined place. I will also have less trouble keeping this area totally sterile (another possible mistake, with my back, I can not always clean things up immediately. The best examle I can think of is after transplanting the last 7 girls at 1 week into flower due to being root bound, after the tp I could hardly stand, yet alone bend over so the dirt and such stayed on the plastic in the middle of the floor for 3 days.)
Now 4 The Grow!
Germinated over night in tap water that had been left out for well over 24 hours. They were then planted into Jiffy Peat Pellets and placed under a cheap blue spectrum grow light for 24 hours and then switched to a 26w 6500k CFL.
Sour Cream popped soil in 5 hours
Cheisel in 11
Rocklock took 17 hours
Sensi Star is just now poking her head out at day 4, was just about to break her out myself when she peaked out.
We are now turning the lights out on day 4, the current plan is to plant the pellets at day 10 of breaking earth into the growing medium. The logic is that the stems will have some strengthening time and I will have enough time to finish the sterilising of the grow room. My first grow was not really ready to be replanted at 10 days ( if memory serves and it doesn't always) so I may revisit this. I see pics online of 15 day old girls with 3 or more nodes and I KNOW I did not have that with the first grow..
I plan on writing SOMETHING every day. It may not be much on slow does but I am trying to build habits here
Till Tomorrow! Pics will be added tomorrow then periodically....
), and were grown with similar lights that u use, and I was happy. Now with a 250w hps I see that what I was thinking was great was not even close! They really love that light, short, bushy and growing like hell! You should try it out, bought my system here in Spain for 70euro including ballast and a gro&flo agrolite bulb.....