Hey guys,
This is going to be my second attempt to grow. My first attempt the seeds were "unusable" I should really contact the place I bought them and ask for new ones. Now I am starting to grow again in my new Stealth box. I'm using a "printer paper" box (example http://online-art-school.com/images_products/printer_paper_by_b3424.jpg ). I chose this as opposed to a regular shipping box cause I've found them much more strong then shipping boxes. The seeds I'm using are Mendocino Madness from TH Seeds regular (hopefully male cause I want to collect the pollen and possibly make some seeds with my northern lights) and Nirvana Northern Lights Feminized. Trying to make my own super breed marijuana lol. I bought some ultra silent I think their 18dba 1500rpm 120mm fans to cool my lights. I left both of them at the top cause its more efficent cooling the grow lights plus if the intake is at the bottom temperatures go from 23-24 degrees to 30-50 degrees which is way too hot. Also I created light traps for the fans in the which is coated on the inside with some sort of black material that absorbs a lot of light, very little light comes out of the bottom now. I will be lining the box with "emergency blankets" when I stop off at Canadian Tire or Walmart hopefully in a week or two, I'm sure as hell my plants will survive. Its been day 3 since I started germination of my Nirvana Northern Lights (on the left), I let the tap root grow about 1-1.5cm and placed it in the soil and covered the top will a little bit of soil, hopefully it will sprout by tomorrow night. I started germination on my Mendocino Madness on Sunday and I already see the sprout its coming out so I moved it from my drawer to a light proof box to increase the temps from 20 degrees to 23 degrees hopefully will allow the seed to grow faster ( when I checked the seeds after 3 hours of moving the tap root moves from a very small maybe 2mm to almost 1cm ) so by 10 hours from now I might be able to plant it if not ill wait till the morning tomorrow. The soil is Scotts Premium Potting Mix its the only soil I could find, i'm going to assume its not going to nute burn my plants hopefully ( http://www.homedepot.ca/product/scotts-premium-potting-mix-283-litre/917495 ). I will be adding another bulb just right now I left two 6500k 26watt bulbs just to give the plants a little bit of lighting. I'm going to be using 3x26watt bulbs (2700k for flower and 6500k for veg), its really difficult to find 42watt bulbs where I live :S hopefully I can find one or two. The box dimensions are 1'x0'10"x1'6"
Day 3 Pictures:
I will probably transplant my northern lights into a bigger pot, the Mendocino madness will probably be in the party cup as im not giving it as much attention as my northern lights. If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free? Also did I plant the seed right I made a little hole put the about 1.5cm tap room in left the top of the seed showing and put a little soil ontop ?
Thanks
This is going to be my second attempt to grow. My first attempt the seeds were "unusable" I should really contact the place I bought them and ask for new ones. Now I am starting to grow again in my new Stealth box. I'm using a "printer paper" box (example http://online-art-school.com/images_products/printer_paper_by_b3424.jpg ). I chose this as opposed to a regular shipping box cause I've found them much more strong then shipping boxes. The seeds I'm using are Mendocino Madness from TH Seeds regular (hopefully male cause I want to collect the pollen and possibly make some seeds with my northern lights) and Nirvana Northern Lights Feminized. Trying to make my own super breed marijuana lol. I bought some ultra silent I think their 18dba 1500rpm 120mm fans to cool my lights. I left both of them at the top cause its more efficent cooling the grow lights plus if the intake is at the bottom temperatures go from 23-24 degrees to 30-50 degrees which is way too hot. Also I created light traps for the fans in the which is coated on the inside with some sort of black material that absorbs a lot of light, very little light comes out of the bottom now. I will be lining the box with "emergency blankets" when I stop off at Canadian Tire or Walmart hopefully in a week or two, I'm sure as hell my plants will survive. Its been day 3 since I started germination of my Nirvana Northern Lights (on the left), I let the tap root grow about 1-1.5cm and placed it in the soil and covered the top will a little bit of soil, hopefully it will sprout by tomorrow night. I started germination on my Mendocino Madness on Sunday and I already see the sprout its coming out so I moved it from my drawer to a light proof box to increase the temps from 20 degrees to 23 degrees hopefully will allow the seed to grow faster ( when I checked the seeds after 3 hours of moving the tap root moves from a very small maybe 2mm to almost 1cm ) so by 10 hours from now I might be able to plant it if not ill wait till the morning tomorrow. The soil is Scotts Premium Potting Mix its the only soil I could find, i'm going to assume its not going to nute burn my plants hopefully ( http://www.homedepot.ca/product/scotts-premium-potting-mix-283-litre/917495 ). I will be adding another bulb just right now I left two 6500k 26watt bulbs just to give the plants a little bit of lighting. I'm going to be using 3x26watt bulbs (2700k for flower and 6500k for veg), its really difficult to find 42watt bulbs where I live :S hopefully I can find one or two. The box dimensions are 1'x0'10"x1'6"
Day 3 Pictures:
I will probably transplant my northern lights into a bigger pot, the Mendocino madness will probably be in the party cup as im not giving it as much attention as my northern lights. If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free? Also did I plant the seed right I made a little hole put the about 1.5cm tap room in left the top of the seed showing and put a little soil ontop ?
Thanks
thank god its winter I highly doubt ill see spider mights well hopefully
I'm leaving it 247 on to compensate for the stretching.
