stretch1988
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Currently starting a 15 plant medical marijuana grow in washington state. I want to post my plans and techniques used, for critiqueing. I'll also be using pictures and descriptions to document a real non-biased first time grow.
-as it lies
I currently have a dark room propagator with a 10 x 20" cut tray and dome,seedling heat mat and a 24" t5.
In this setup i have 8 seeds. I believe only 5 are going to be useable. Of the three that haven't responded well to my care 1 i beleive was just a bad seed. I used the water cup for two days technique and its the one seed that never popped. The other two seed not propogating are the result of newb mistake number one. When using the water cup technique i divided my strains into four different water cups.Dutch passion orange bud(with one deficient seed), DP blueberry, DP mazar and a freebie gift of afghan x yumboldt. Of the four strains i started with the first to pop were the freebie gift afghan x yumboldt which ill refer to as Ay. After not even 24 hours in the water cup this strain popped and had a 2-3 mm root visible. I moved this strain to the paper towel ziploc bag technique while leaving all the other in the water cup. after another day in the ziploc bag the root was almost an inch long but i had yet to buy anything to put them into. I panicked and put them into a small solo cup with some water leaving the ziploc bag over top as a humidity dome. after another day all three other strains were ready to go from water cup to ziploc bag. After another day i purchased a 10 x 20" root riot pack, a 7" humidity dome, a heat mat and a 24" t5. I transplanted every strain into the root riot cut tray (removing 42 of the plugs to save for later use). When transplanting the AY from soil to plug i noticed the roots had not grown at all since being in the soil and have not sprouted since being in the plugs. So i chalk those two up as a loss for not being prepared and putting seedlings into soil and drowning them. All other strains have sprouted and when i get home ill take pictures of my setup and post them next weekend (landlord disabled drug sites from the wifi but my flower room has unlimited wifi).
-plans
Along with my dark room prop i also have a dp 90 3x3 which i plan to use to veg my seedlings to mother hood. I plan on using a 2 tube t5 (or three of what i already have because it runs the same price) so they dont get out of control. After nurturing my seedlings to motherhood and selecting one from each strain i plan on running a 12 site under current dwc setup using five gallon buckets or a built system from current culture if i have a little extra dough. My current grow room is 8.5' x 15.5' but is limited by a 20 amp fuse. I plan on running 3 600 watt lamps and a 6 inch exhaust system running 400cfm. Because of my limited electricity i dont think running a perpetual grow will be beneficial.
Room limitations are
20 amp fuse
8.5' x 15'
colder temps of washington state. so a 1500 watt heater will be used on a night only setting so to not trip the fuse when the lights are on.
15 plant max (possibly moving to 30 in the near future) under washington state law i believe clones count as a plant so will be keeping 3 mothers and cloning 12 at a time.
current nutrient ive aquired are dyna-grow, grea white, and a bud candy sample pack.
Any recomendations or tips on what ive described would be much appreciated and pictures and replies will be on a weekend only status.
-as it lies
I currently have a dark room propagator with a 10 x 20" cut tray and dome,seedling heat mat and a 24" t5.
In this setup i have 8 seeds. I believe only 5 are going to be useable. Of the three that haven't responded well to my care 1 i beleive was just a bad seed. I used the water cup for two days technique and its the one seed that never popped. The other two seed not propogating are the result of newb mistake number one. When using the water cup technique i divided my strains into four different water cups.Dutch passion orange bud(with one deficient seed), DP blueberry, DP mazar and a freebie gift of afghan x yumboldt. Of the four strains i started with the first to pop were the freebie gift afghan x yumboldt which ill refer to as Ay. After not even 24 hours in the water cup this strain popped and had a 2-3 mm root visible. I moved this strain to the paper towel ziploc bag technique while leaving all the other in the water cup. after another day in the ziploc bag the root was almost an inch long but i had yet to buy anything to put them into. I panicked and put them into a small solo cup with some water leaving the ziploc bag over top as a humidity dome. after another day all three other strains were ready to go from water cup to ziploc bag. After another day i purchased a 10 x 20" root riot pack, a 7" humidity dome, a heat mat and a 24" t5. I transplanted every strain into the root riot cut tray (removing 42 of the plugs to save for later use). When transplanting the AY from soil to plug i noticed the roots had not grown at all since being in the soil and have not sprouted since being in the plugs. So i chalk those two up as a loss for not being prepared and putting seedlings into soil and drowning them. All other strains have sprouted and when i get home ill take pictures of my setup and post them next weekend (landlord disabled drug sites from the wifi but my flower room has unlimited wifi).
-plans
Along with my dark room prop i also have a dp 90 3x3 which i plan to use to veg my seedlings to mother hood. I plan on using a 2 tube t5 (or three of what i already have because it runs the same price) so they dont get out of control. After nurturing my seedlings to motherhood and selecting one from each strain i plan on running a 12 site under current dwc setup using five gallon buckets or a built system from current culture if i have a little extra dough. My current grow room is 8.5' x 15.5' but is limited by a 20 amp fuse. I plan on running 3 600 watt lamps and a 6 inch exhaust system running 400cfm. Because of my limited electricity i dont think running a perpetual grow will be beneficial.
Room limitations are
20 amp fuse
8.5' x 15'
colder temps of washington state. so a 1500 watt heater will be used on a night only setting so to not trip the fuse when the lights are on.
15 plant max (possibly moving to 30 in the near future) under washington state law i believe clones count as a plant so will be keeping 3 mothers and cloning 12 at a time.
current nutrient ive aquired are dyna-grow, grea white, and a bud candy sample pack.
Any recomendations or tips on what ive described would be much appreciated and pictures and replies will be on a weekend only status.