gcosta
Active Member
Ok, so I've been dreaming of taking another shot at growing for a long time and it's finally here. The other grow was about 8 years ago and also relied on cfl, but with puny amounts of light and both brand seeds gave in about 50 days into ugly veg. Let's see how this one fares.
The cab is 71x74x120 cm (28x29x47 in) with an adjustable hood that's currently locked at about 70 cm high due to a venting duct. I started with 4 59w 6400K CFLs rated at 3374 lumens each for a total of about 13500 lm or 2500lm/sq ft. Last night finished fitting 4 30w 2700K builbs at 1721 lm each, so now it's 20384 lm and 3845lm/sq ft. It can fit 9 7,5-liter (2-gallon) buckets with homemade soil, but only 5 are currently in with 6 plants and 4 clones. Lights are on 18/6 so to avoid the scorching heat of the afternoon under a ceramic tile roof. Temps are never below 85-90F, and that's at night. There are 4 PC fans at 45 cfm each which pull air from a cooler corner of the roof, but I need to add another exaust fan to balance things a bit.
These plants will hopefully take me through Indoor Farming 101 without too much of a hassle and have a bit of a story behind them.
There's a barbecue area outside the house and, after several joints smoked and seeds thrown in this kind of vase, a few plants sprouted. There was a tree on there already, still young and short, but very bushy, so the cannabis seedlings were in the shade. The seeds sprouted around April this year, a couple of months before winter, so they soon flowered and some of them hermied. The resulting seeds fell on the dirt and one day I counted 28 seedlings, of which only 10 had survived about a month later, in August. Some had a very stunted growth -- maybe because the soil was not that great anyway -- while others grew quite tall, reaching two feet in not long in trying to reach light. I took a few clones from these and 3 of the living 4 are doing ok.
The plants are about 4 months old but where transplanted and put under lights on Nov. 22nd. The clones are between 1.5 and 2 months old and took forever to pick up, but now show tight nodes, beautiful branching and one of them has flowers at vegging just like it's mother! I might keep this and the two other clones in the same vase vase as mothers for a future grow.
Although I built the cab tall, I always intended to keep the hood as close to the pots as possible. The thing is, the extra height came in handy with these tall plants plus the tall pots. I didn't want to waste the plants so I threw them in the cab, but the next growth is to be a SOG in another cab, I figured a perpetual harvest is well worth the trouble for having fresh smoke all the time, plus it's just so damn efficient!
Well, I intend to keep this space for both sharing and getting info, experience and help. Oh, and all around praising the plants just for the sake of it!
Here are some pics from last Tuesday, Dec 16th. I have since put up more lights and raised some pots, I will see about an update soon.
General view of the cab.
2 tall plants. The taller one I think is a male, the top branches were tied but are now free, two tops have been fimmed about a week ago. The other plant is mother to one of the surviving clones and, like it, is showing flowers!
Fimmed top.
Short plant, looks indicaish by the leaves.
Other short plant. Shitty performance.
Clone that had top burned on the light and now has beautiful arms! They're being held down to keep the plant wider.
Same clone and a stretchy plant in the background, looks different from the other ones.
3 clones in a vase. Two bigger ones might become good mothers, the one to the right shows flowers and it's only veg!
Such flowers!
Beautiful trichs on clone's mother! Anything to worry about if plants flower while on 18/6? I mean, does it make it a not adequate strain for mothering and cloning?
Sweet looks!
Tips have been showing these burns, which have increased inwards. I compared pics with help pages and it seems like nitrogen toxicity due to acid pH. Anyone agrees or suggests anything?
This one plant shows these curly leaves, but other plants also have scarred-like leaves. pH? What's best to lower it? No tester available, sorry.
The cab is 71x74x120 cm (28x29x47 in) with an adjustable hood that's currently locked at about 70 cm high due to a venting duct. I started with 4 59w 6400K CFLs rated at 3374 lumens each for a total of about 13500 lm or 2500lm/sq ft. Last night finished fitting 4 30w 2700K builbs at 1721 lm each, so now it's 20384 lm and 3845lm/sq ft. It can fit 9 7,5-liter (2-gallon) buckets with homemade soil, but only 5 are currently in with 6 plants and 4 clones. Lights are on 18/6 so to avoid the scorching heat of the afternoon under a ceramic tile roof. Temps are never below 85-90F, and that's at night. There are 4 PC fans at 45 cfm each which pull air from a cooler corner of the roof, but I need to add another exaust fan to balance things a bit.
These plants will hopefully take me through Indoor Farming 101 without too much of a hassle and have a bit of a story behind them.
There's a barbecue area outside the house and, after several joints smoked and seeds thrown in this kind of vase, a few plants sprouted. There was a tree on there already, still young and short, but very bushy, so the cannabis seedlings were in the shade. The seeds sprouted around April this year, a couple of months before winter, so they soon flowered and some of them hermied. The resulting seeds fell on the dirt and one day I counted 28 seedlings, of which only 10 had survived about a month later, in August. Some had a very stunted growth -- maybe because the soil was not that great anyway -- while others grew quite tall, reaching two feet in not long in trying to reach light. I took a few clones from these and 3 of the living 4 are doing ok.
The plants are about 4 months old but where transplanted and put under lights on Nov. 22nd. The clones are between 1.5 and 2 months old and took forever to pick up, but now show tight nodes, beautiful branching and one of them has flowers at vegging just like it's mother! I might keep this and the two other clones in the same vase vase as mothers for a future grow.
Although I built the cab tall, I always intended to keep the hood as close to the pots as possible. The thing is, the extra height came in handy with these tall plants plus the tall pots. I didn't want to waste the plants so I threw them in the cab, but the next growth is to be a SOG in another cab, I figured a perpetual harvest is well worth the trouble for having fresh smoke all the time, plus it's just so damn efficient!
Well, I intend to keep this space for both sharing and getting info, experience and help. Oh, and all around praising the plants just for the sake of it!
Here are some pics from last Tuesday, Dec 16th. I have since put up more lights and raised some pots, I will see about an update soon.
General view of the cab.
2 tall plants. The taller one I think is a male, the top branches were tied but are now free, two tops have been fimmed about a week ago. The other plant is mother to one of the surviving clones and, like it, is showing flowers!
Fimmed top.
Short plant, looks indicaish by the leaves.
Other short plant. Shitty performance.
Clone that had top burned on the light and now has beautiful arms! They're being held down to keep the plant wider.
Same clone and a stretchy plant in the background, looks different from the other ones.
3 clones in a vase. Two bigger ones might become good mothers, the one to the right shows flowers and it's only veg!
Such flowers!
Beautiful trichs on clone's mother! Anything to worry about if plants flower while on 18/6? I mean, does it make it a not adequate strain for mothering and cloning?
Sweet looks!
Tips have been showing these burns, which have increased inwards. I compared pics with help pages and it seems like nitrogen toxicity due to acid pH. Anyone agrees or suggests anything?
This one plant shows these curly leaves, but other plants also have scarred-like leaves. pH? What's best to lower it? No tester available, sorry.
Do you have a journal or more pics?