First Grow, Feel the love

Hey all. I'm another smoker that has over time gotten the urge to attempt a grow. After spending a couple months on many forums researching, i have finally gotten all the materials needed. I also chose these forums because everyone here seems so helpful.

My goal is a small, personal, cheap grow, and to learn as much as i can for possible future grows. It started with some bagseed of what i believe may be Granddaddy purple, but I'm not positive. I will be doing LST on these plant(s).

The cabinet is about 3 feet tall, 22" wide, and 11" deep. For vegging i am using 5 20 watt cfl's (will have 7 brighter bulbs for flowering) I an currently vegging 4 plants expecting 2 or 3 males. I'm still deciding to grow 1 or 2 plants.

The seeds were put in organic unfertilized soil in party cups, and will be put in fox farm soil when ready, I'm still trying to find square pots (how odd)

My current box.

8/27 - having a small heat problem (high 80's), my guess is that its because my intake hole is smaller then my exhaust, will try and fix asap. (i will have to find a way to keep too much light from coming out of it, the intake hole is about 2" away from the closet wall, kinda tricky)


8/22 - germinated 4 seeds
8/24 - placed in party cups
8/26 - first sprouts (one of my happiest days in a while)


8/26 -


I'm going to try and keep this updated as much as i can. This will be my log, and feel free to chime in with any advise or questions you have. I know one thing though, I'm very happy that its actually working

Welcome to the forum. You have done some research, good job. VV

Thank you Victor

I opened up the hole more and its still running a bit hot (high 80's), ill be picking up another fan at bestbuy later.

Seedlings

8/27

Remember you will need to replace any air you take out. If you use passive intake two times the amount of space. VV

welcome to rollitup. nice sprouts.

High 80's aren't so bad.....use some co2

welcom grandaddy purp sounds nice happy growwina

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Thanks all for the replies.

VictorVIcious said:

Remember you will need to replace any air you take out. If you use passive intake two times the amount of space. VV

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I currently have an 80mm fan at the top that goes into a 90* black pvc elbow as a light trap, and a 70mm sitting next to the intake (its raised off the ground) Here is a picture of what i mean.



What i plan to do is mount that fan on the wall (original plan) and have it blowing along all of the lights and into the exhaust fan, and also strengthen the stems for later LST.




If anyone have ever wondered on how to mount a computer fan on a wall, i found this to be very effective if you are somehow drill-less (mine crapped itself 1/2 way through building)

Heres a simple picture to explain it. I cut up a CD case, and made little feet for the screws, then put that on a larger sheet of cd case. and you can glue it to the wall very easily.



So should i make my intake even bigger? Or should i just buy another fan and put in in there as an intake. The reason i need to do this is because my fans are having to be run at 12v to keep the temps OK, but its a bit loud. I have an adjustable voltage for the fans, and 9-7.5v is much quieter, but it leads to high 80's temps.

craziness dude... good luck!

looking good. I m no expert or nothing but i think more air would come in if you recess the fan in the intake hole. I dont know maybe not. Good luck with your grow. I will check on it regularly to see the progress.

8/28



Will have an update on the temps soon.

Sorry if I mislead you. Passive intake needs to be twice as large. Fan driven isn't passive. You are doing the right things and that is one nice little fan holder you made. Props. VV

Ok i cant get a good pic and i gotta run to work but i discover something amazing.

The bottom the the leaves on #3 and #4 are PURPLE. #3 is very purple, and #4 is starting to turn. What is this?? It is actually very beautiful, and ill try to get a good pic when i come back.

might be a nitrogen def but i dont know wat nutes your using

Edit: Double Post

The plants look very healthy, but one has purple on the bottom of the leaves. It looks really cool in person. I'm using organic, unfertilized soil for the seedlings and store bought water. I will switch to fox farm ocean soul when they get bigger.

Man these pics were tricky. But its sooo worth it, you can really see what i mean.




New Exhaust. I switched fans for exhaust/intake because it worked out better. I didn't have to modify the hole to fit what used to be the exhaust fan so i used that.






And heres how there looking

8/29

Alright I'm just going to leave the setup like this for now. The lights are running a lot cooler to the touch with the fan on the right. Its actually the most powerful fan of all 3 (it came out of an xbox, those usually run at 7 volts, not 12) So ill just keep the plants updated now.



I'm considering a 150watt hps system for flowering, ill think about it while at work.

More of Mr. Purple. Its starting to affect all of the plants. Sure hope its related to the strain



Everyone looks happy, as am i.

#4 is looking kinda cruddy. I transplanted into new pots and made a new hanging system (a picture frame and string). Those first round seedling leaves die off normally right?



Ill be honest, while in party cups he was once dropped/fell off box. My guess is was a rather big shock for him so lets see what he does.




I bought a combo moisture/light/ph meter at home depot for 8$. At least now i can test the dampness of the soil. The thing is the ph meter is either cruddy, or my ph is about 7-8. I put it in the soil and it does not seem to move.

I'm going to go and buy distilled water to water them with instead of mineral water. There in black gold organic soil with about 30% perlite.

hi ang good luck with it all,its not a bad thing to adapt your ideas as you go along, theres only so mutch you can read without practiceing with the real thing,my second grow is mutch beter than my first, so keep the faith watever happens