Erdericks Grow Journal

Starting at the 50% Mark here kinda,..

My Plants are currently half in blooming day 1 and some still in veg, all veg are goiina goto bloom since they are just bagseed anyhow, my next GJ Will be from start to finish on my white widow / Carmalicious Grow. This GJ S for me as a practice and hopefully help anyone with similar setup's and or situations..

My Veg area is a Dripper hydro setup.
Big plastic tray with drains back to plastic tub. Pump to tubing to drippers to my plants that will each be in a pot with hydroton pellets.
with 6 4' Flourcent T12 fixtures using 1x 6500k 1x 2300k bulb per fixture


My Bloom area is a Ebb / Flow System
Bigger taller sided Plastic tray holding a ton of hydroton and a pump to fill the tray and drain tube to collect before overflow.
With a 1000Watt HPS With blue spectrum (Extra expensive bulb) Figured a little extra veg during bloom would be good.

Homemade Carbon air filter, I Upsized it and hooked up 2 inline duct boosters 6" inline with the 1000w Light.

I was Worried about moving the plants from the pots with hydroton to bloom area. Leave the pot on / take it off.. I ended up removing the pots fairly easily with little to no loss of roots that had come through the pot into the plastic tray. these plants were not handled correctly by myself. I had planted them in dirt, then setup the hydro system, then rinsed their roots then put them into hydroton, for clones I would have used my ready rooters as well as seedlings. That will be for my next grow.

After burying them in my bloom area setup, I set my timer for 30min on 2hrs off, Hope I have not overdone it there, with 12/12. Co2 Running for the same 30min feed cycle. and my fan on 24/7 for exhaust and a fan for air circulation. Whole area is Covered in mylar. Trying to remember everything. I'll take photo's in the morning when the lights are on.

So for right now I have 8 plants in my veg area still all at about week 5 now I believe. 2 are still tiny but just started to shoot up in size a little. and I have 6 in Blooming area as of 4hrs ago. Full strength Bloom and liquid karma. Gonna send my others from veg to bloom later today in the other side of the bloom area. Dont have enough Bloom or LK to make another 20gal up, might plumb the 2 seperate trays to the 1 tote, but would rather keep them seperate. besides I dunno if 20 gal is enough to fill both trays at once.
if not ill take the nutes from my veg area that are currently 50/50 grow/bloom oah and Liquid karma and put them into the other bloom reservoir and just run it. then I'll have to get more for next week, Since I'm not too worried about a high yeild this batch, ya think I can get away with 2 weeks with nutes? maybe add water and nutes,. I do have ph and nute meters. not sure if thats safe or not. time to sleep

well Got my Velcro installed for the Door between the veg area and blooming area, still want to move the whole operation to my heated garage. but Dunno, Gonna wait and see how this setup works out.. Sealed up the bloom room completely now, no light leak at all. Gonna be weird to have only 3 clones in the veg area.. Still waiting on my seeds to get here.. starting to get nervous. hope they were not seized at customs or something crazy..

Ordered them on the 16th and they were shipped on the 18th. Likely held up cause the holidays..

Hmm what else did I do so far today,.. oah replaced a crap extension cord with Romex. Cant get more safe than wiring a new outlet w/ 20amp wire. Don't Worry I'm an electrical guy. Don't wanna harm the ladies or burn down my house.
Still gotta move the last of my ladies (hopefully ladies) to the blooming room, and move the nutes with them. will replace all the nutes next week. Gotta ask in newbie central about not changing nutes but adding water and nutes to keep the ppm up and ph where it needs to be.

Well it's been 8? Days in Bloom 12/12 Light cycle / room and so far 2 males popped up, and are now gone...
Hopefully not many more will appear,. got a few I am fairly certain are female.

2 in back row Males and now Gone.. 7 on the left tray no clue sex.
4 in front right row fairly certain are female with 2 more in the back undetermined.

Got 2 seeds of White Widow, 2 of Carmalicious, and 2 of the free Seeds in wet paper towels on my warming pad in the dark.

Starting to feel Robbed LOL Grew up 2 Strong big GUYS...... Grrrrr.
wastin the Nutes that coulda gone to the Girls..

Well, Got more bad news. 2 More Males..

so far only see 2 Definite Females..
But 1 Of my WW has a root coming outta the seed.
Both of the carmalicious Have sprouted out of the seed.
Forgot to check the Freebie seeds... Using that HERB.IQ Program to keep track of everything, so far its pretty good. Some parts dont seem to work, but Eh.