asaph
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Hello everyone, welcome to my first grow journal. This is sorta my third grow, the first was very successful but with crappy genes, the second was stopped early because good genes arrived.
Me: 30, male, in a small, hot country in the Middle East, that causes a lot of trouble compared to how small it is.
My setup: I build my own box, 130cm (4'4") high X 110 (3'8") wide X 90 (3') long.
I use a 400w HPS in side a cooltube, ducted to a centrifugal fan (that is a little bit on the weak side but seems to be doing the job); some blue fluorescents where required, and a duct fan that removes air from the room.
(tomorrow I will post a pic of the inside.
the plan is for 10 pots, 6.5l (~2gl) each, 7 with 50-50 coco-perlite medium, 3 with good potting soil I know nothing about but has been growing plants pretty nicely. The box is tilted a bit and covered with mylar on the floor of it that drains everything to the sewer hole next to the box.
My previous grows (bad genes) were all soil and grew very well, but yellowed VERY quickly in flowering. Some turned totally purple, even in the buds, before finishing. they do not have that in their genes. Due to my frustration of not being able to know what is wrong with my soil if anything, plus a very hard time adjusting pH (arid climates have very high pH both in soil and in water, even rain water measures around , I tried flushing the soil completely off its nutes, only to find out that this is exactly what coco and hydroponics are for.
So I will be manually watering my coco pots, with nutes and controlled pH and my new found friend H2o2.
I'm also starting a DWC right now, but only as an experiment, with four bagseeds (but not really crappy genes). It's a very small container, about 2gl, with 4 sites. I only realized this could be too small for 4 plants after I had drilled the holes, but no matter, I can just make some more of those so each plant will have this container. I would go hydroponics and even DWC all the way, but alas I cannot keep my reservoir below 25c (77f), and probably more towards 30c (85f). From what I understand, this renders hydroponics with bare roots impossible for me, and therefore I need the coco medium. A previous experiment I made with DWC until now was very successful and plants rooted nice.
I was wondering if the heat problem can be compensated with more air pumps and H2o2, as the reason for the heat limit in the first place is that water contains less oxygen as it gets warmer. any thoughts on this.
So today I germinated 10 seeds, in rockwool cubes, 3 of them were pre-soaked in pH 5.5 rainwater, and the rest were not. I soaked the cubes in 6.1 rain water and planted the seeds, trying to get the pointy side down. I've had seeds stuck in the rockwool before, it's not cool, so I expanded some of the holes of the cubes. The rockwool cubes were covered (7 with a light proof bowl, and 6 with the metal bowl with some little holes in it, that you pour the pasta into after it's done. some people say it's not good to seal them).
Now waiting for germination.
Me: 30, male, in a small, hot country in the Middle East, that causes a lot of trouble compared to how small it is.
My setup: I build my own box, 130cm (4'4") high X 110 (3'8") wide X 90 (3') long.
I use a 400w HPS in side a cooltube, ducted to a centrifugal fan (that is a little bit on the weak side but seems to be doing the job); some blue fluorescents where required, and a duct fan that removes air from the room.
(tomorrow I will post a pic of the inside.
the plan is for 10 pots, 6.5l (~2gl) each, 7 with 50-50 coco-perlite medium, 3 with good potting soil I know nothing about but has been growing plants pretty nicely. The box is tilted a bit and covered with mylar on the floor of it that drains everything to the sewer hole next to the box.
My previous grows (bad genes) were all soil and grew very well, but yellowed VERY quickly in flowering. Some turned totally purple, even in the buds, before finishing. they do not have that in their genes. Due to my frustration of not being able to know what is wrong with my soil if anything, plus a very hard time adjusting pH (arid climates have very high pH both in soil and in water, even rain water measures around , I tried flushing the soil completely off its nutes, only to find out that this is exactly what coco and hydroponics are for.
So I will be manually watering my coco pots, with nutes and controlled pH and my new found friend H2o2.
I'm also starting a DWC right now, but only as an experiment, with four bagseeds (but not really crappy genes). It's a very small container, about 2gl, with 4 sites. I only realized this could be too small for 4 plants after I had drilled the holes, but no matter, I can just make some more of those so each plant will have this container. I would go hydroponics and even DWC all the way, but alas I cannot keep my reservoir below 25c (77f), and probably more towards 30c (85f). From what I understand, this renders hydroponics with bare roots impossible for me, and therefore I need the coco medium. A previous experiment I made with DWC until now was very successful and plants rooted nice.
I was wondering if the heat problem can be compensated with more air pumps and H2o2, as the reason for the heat limit in the first place is that water contains less oxygen as it gets warmer. any thoughts on this.
So today I germinated 10 seeds, in rockwool cubes, 3 of them were pre-soaked in pH 5.5 rainwater, and the rest were not. I soaked the cubes in 6.1 rain water and planted the seeds, trying to get the pointy side down. I've had seeds stuck in the rockwool before, it's not cool, so I expanded some of the holes of the cubes. The rockwool cubes were covered (7 with a light proof bowl, and 6 with the metal bowl with some little holes in it, that you pour the pasta into after it's done. some people say it's not good to seal them).
Now waiting for germination.
