So I decided to post a thread now that I have something to look at.
First I want to say thank you to all the guys and gals here who have answered questions for me, and posted their grow's for me to borrow info and tips from.
This is my second grow. Last year I did 4 plants (2 cheese & 2 Blue Dream) that were given to me late (end of July I think) but they were already about 4 feet tall. I knew pretty much nothing when I started. The plants were in crap soil, got too much shade from my fence, and I used some Fox Farm nutes but I don't think I gave them enough. When I read 1 tbsp per gallon on the bottle, I thought that meant to give each plant 1 gallon of nutes... but I managed about 2lbs and about another 1lb of popcorn and fluffy stuff for butter and hash. Mostly I learned a lot.
This year I'm going bigger. 8 clones, and hopefully 4 girls from seed, for a planned 12 plants.
I'll be using Maxsea for nutes, I've been using some GH FloraNova for early veg. The Maxsea starts this week. I'm also using a little bit of Dyna-Gro Protekt.
4 OG clones, this is a friends prized OG cutting that he run's indoors. After his grow was decimated by some rippers with badges last winter, One broken clone was found on the floor. Someone brought me a smashed rockwool cube late one night with a broken clone in it. She had 2 leaves left and not much else. I spent the winter nursing her back to health. She's thriving now, and I have 4 cuttings from her growing currently. 4 to flower, 1 to keep as a mom.
4 Blackberry Kush clones from Craigslist. I have 6, I'm keeping 2 as mom's.
here are the clones from a couple days ago. These have been outside since 4/28, they were spending their nights indoors with some extra lighting until 5/8. I use this old metal shelf when they are small to keep them up where my dog's won't knock them over.
Here are my White Widow seedlings and my mom's enjoying some sun. I currently have 8 seedlings. 1 is a runt and probably will die, but I'm letting it do it's thing till it does. The rescued OG clone is the mom in the small pot. The one to her right is one of her clones.
To prep this year I installed a bug zapper, and put up some bamboo privacy screens on my fence. Don't mind the weeds, That area is getting covered with wood chips soon.
This week I bought some soil.
1 yard of organic garden potting soil from a local soil producer. This is probably more than I need. The extra will be used for my wife's flower beds.
1/2 yard of 420 mix from the same local soil company:
I mixed the 2 together in a 2:1 ratio with 25% perlite, some garden lime, some worm compost, and some neem seed meal. I then started filling up some Geopots.
Some pictures from yesterday:
oh, and here is my crack security team:
I plan to have all the clones in their final pots tomorrow or Monday. I'll post some more pics then.
Any suggestions are welcome!
First I want to say thank you to all the guys and gals here who have answered questions for me, and posted their grow's for me to borrow info and tips from.
This is my second grow. Last year I did 4 plants (2 cheese & 2 Blue Dream) that were given to me late (end of July I think) but they were already about 4 feet tall. I knew pretty much nothing when I started. The plants were in crap soil, got too much shade from my fence, and I used some Fox Farm nutes but I don't think I gave them enough. When I read 1 tbsp per gallon on the bottle, I thought that meant to give each plant 1 gallon of nutes... but I managed about 2lbs and about another 1lb of popcorn and fluffy stuff for butter and hash. Mostly I learned a lot.
This year I'm going bigger. 8 clones, and hopefully 4 girls from seed, for a planned 12 plants.
I'll be using Maxsea for nutes, I've been using some GH FloraNova for early veg. The Maxsea starts this week. I'm also using a little bit of Dyna-Gro Protekt.
4 OG clones, this is a friends prized OG cutting that he run's indoors. After his grow was decimated by some rippers with badges last winter, One broken clone was found on the floor. Someone brought me a smashed rockwool cube late one night with a broken clone in it. She had 2 leaves left and not much else. I spent the winter nursing her back to health. She's thriving now, and I have 4 cuttings from her growing currently. 4 to flower, 1 to keep as a mom.
4 Blackberry Kush clones from Craigslist. I have 6, I'm keeping 2 as mom's.
here are the clones from a couple days ago. These have been outside since 4/28, they were spending their nights indoors with some extra lighting until 5/8. I use this old metal shelf when they are small to keep them up where my dog's won't knock them over.
Here are my White Widow seedlings and my mom's enjoying some sun. I currently have 8 seedlings. 1 is a runt and probably will die, but I'm letting it do it's thing till it does. The rescued OG clone is the mom in the small pot. The one to her right is one of her clones.
To prep this year I installed a bug zapper, and put up some bamboo privacy screens on my fence. Don't mind the weeds, That area is getting covered with wood chips soon.
This week I bought some soil.
1 yard of organic garden potting soil from a local soil producer. This is probably more than I need. The extra will be used for my wife's flower beds.
1/2 yard of 420 mix from the same local soil company:
I mixed the 2 together in a 2:1 ratio with 25% perlite, some garden lime, some worm compost, and some neem seed meal. I then started filling up some Geopots.
Some pictures from yesterday:
oh, and here is my crack security team:
I plan to have all the clones in their final pots tomorrow or Monday. I'll post some more pics then.
Any suggestions are welcome!
