Maat Aatack
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Hello hello community. I wanted to share this grow because I would like to try to give back since i have gained much from the people and information you all present in these great forums.
Like I said it's been a while, but I have been growing on and off for the past 25 years or so. Most of my grows have been outdoors, but a few of them have been inside. All of them until this point have been illegal, but this one i am currently is not.This is a completely above-board medical garden. The only people that are not aware of it and i have to hide it from are my kids, so i have locks on everything
The setup is as follows: two rooms, veg and flowering, 5 x 8 and 13 x 8 respectively. I am working with Galaxy DE balasts and SunSystems BOSS hoods with phillips 1000w bulbs in both rooms. Active air exchange with both intake and exhause fans in the veg room are 6" inline fans connected to a variable day and night temperature thermostat.
I am growing a White Widow x Big Bud cultivar called 'Mangolicious'; feminized, from Amsterdammarajuanaseeds.
The first batch of 10 seeds was germinated using the paper towel-in-a-closed-tupperware-container on a seed sprouting mat method. . .overkill and not even as efficient. I got 8 seeds to germinate. 6 of them are very healthy and two are kinda deformed looking possibly due to mishandling between the container and the soil. The seed germination medium was 2 parts seed mix and one part FFOF. The plants began to show nutrient defficiency after about a week, but recovered after transplanting to the solo cup. The solo cup i used was clear, and they were inlaid into 1 gallon containers filled with the soil they would be next moved into. The clear cups allowed easy viewing of the roots (during lights out of course), while the dirt surrounding them protected the roots from the light during daytime. When i went to move the plants from the cup to the gallon, it was a very simple procedeure (round peg in round hole) and the plants suffered virtually no transplant shock. Since they have been in the new gallon containers I've given them one watering of 16oz of full strength Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow and Liquid Karma by the same company. At 23 days old today, I may give them some straight up water at lights out.
The second batch of 10 were all sewn directly into FFOF filled 2" peat cups, under a dome with a sprouter mat, and i got 100% germination and emergence.
I'm currently running my ballast at 750watts, up from 600watts just since i needed a bigger area for the new seedling dome. The hood is about a foot and a half from the canopy.
Ok I think that gets this thread more or less current. Ok now for some pictures.
Like I said it's been a while, but I have been growing on and off for the past 25 years or so. Most of my grows have been outdoors, but a few of them have been inside. All of them until this point have been illegal, but this one i am currently is not.This is a completely above-board medical garden. The only people that are not aware of it and i have to hide it from are my kids, so i have locks on everything
The setup is as follows: two rooms, veg and flowering, 5 x 8 and 13 x 8 respectively. I am working with Galaxy DE balasts and SunSystems BOSS hoods with phillips 1000w bulbs in both rooms. Active air exchange with both intake and exhause fans in the veg room are 6" inline fans connected to a variable day and night temperature thermostat.
I am growing a White Widow x Big Bud cultivar called 'Mangolicious'; feminized, from Amsterdammarajuanaseeds.
The first batch of 10 seeds was germinated using the paper towel-in-a-closed-tupperware-container on a seed sprouting mat method. . .overkill and not even as efficient. I got 8 seeds to germinate. 6 of them are very healthy and two are kinda deformed looking possibly due to mishandling between the container and the soil. The seed germination medium was 2 parts seed mix and one part FFOF. The plants began to show nutrient defficiency after about a week, but recovered after transplanting to the solo cup. The solo cup i used was clear, and they were inlaid into 1 gallon containers filled with the soil they would be next moved into. The clear cups allowed easy viewing of the roots (during lights out of course), while the dirt surrounding them protected the roots from the light during daytime. When i went to move the plants from the cup to the gallon, it was a very simple procedeure (round peg in round hole) and the plants suffered virtually no transplant shock. Since they have been in the new gallon containers I've given them one watering of 16oz of full strength Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow and Liquid Karma by the same company. At 23 days old today, I may give them some straight up water at lights out.
The second batch of 10 were all sewn directly into FFOF filled 2" peat cups, under a dome with a sprouter mat, and i got 100% germination and emergence.
I'm currently running my ballast at 750watts, up from 600watts just since i needed a bigger area for the new seedling dome. The hood is about a foot and a half from the canopy.
Ok I think that gets this thread more or less current. Ok now for some pictures.
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