Hi all,
I'm spek. I'm a lyricist, wheatpaste street artist, Internet Engineer, activist, friend, lover and avid outdoorsman/nature lover who has migrated to western Canada from my home of Toronto.
I used to smoke a whole bunch, but rarely just dabble nowadays. My girlfriend smokes a fair amount, and I absolutely love horticulture, so I thought I'd do the Right Thing and set up my first indoor grow.
After a month of vigorous research via Google, forums, books, other growers and staff at glass & hydro stores, I bought a 2x4x5' tent, a 135w Blackstar LED, a couple humidity/temp meters, a couple of small fans, PH tester & kit and finally, 10 White Widow fem seeds (+10 free). Germ'd five seeds paper towel method, 100% germ rate. Using .14-.14-.14 MG organic, I started all five, but saw no progress. I realized that I over-packed and over-watered the first five pots, so after a few days, I did one more, this time ensuring the soil was much nicer, and finally I got a sprout.
After some tinkering, I realized that it was far too cold in my tent (with very low humidity), so I put a heat mat in the tent with a ceramic bowl of water, and put a portable heater in the room with the tent, now I'm at a stable 51% RH and 80-81F. Next day, one of the others started sprouting and today a third. The other three I had already destroyed.
So I've got two healthy plants, and one iffy, but we'll see where I go. I've ordered an entire second tent kit with fans, filters and 400w MH/HPS cool tube kit, as I already know that I'm going to want a separate flowering room and definitely want to flower with the HPS, so the original tent will stay for veg, as I don't need clean air filtering for that, just air flow (running 24/0 with the LED).
For now, I'm content, as I feel a lot more confident than I did a few days ago. Although this is exactly day 12, I am behind by about 5 days or so. I have kept a very detailed log in a notebook as I've been going.
Anyway, happy growing!
-spek
I'm spek. I'm a lyricist, wheatpaste street artist, Internet Engineer, activist, friend, lover and avid outdoorsman/nature lover who has migrated to western Canada from my home of Toronto.
I used to smoke a whole bunch, but rarely just dabble nowadays. My girlfriend smokes a fair amount, and I absolutely love horticulture, so I thought I'd do the Right Thing and set up my first indoor grow.
After a month of vigorous research via Google, forums, books, other growers and staff at glass & hydro stores, I bought a 2x4x5' tent, a 135w Blackstar LED, a couple humidity/temp meters, a couple of small fans, PH tester & kit and finally, 10 White Widow fem seeds (+10 free). Germ'd five seeds paper towel method, 100% germ rate. Using .14-.14-.14 MG organic, I started all five, but saw no progress. I realized that I over-packed and over-watered the first five pots, so after a few days, I did one more, this time ensuring the soil was much nicer, and finally I got a sprout.
After some tinkering, I realized that it was far too cold in my tent (with very low humidity), so I put a heat mat in the tent with a ceramic bowl of water, and put a portable heater in the room with the tent, now I'm at a stable 51% RH and 80-81F. Next day, one of the others started sprouting and today a third. The other three I had already destroyed.
So I've got two healthy plants, and one iffy, but we'll see where I go. I've ordered an entire second tent kit with fans, filters and 400w MH/HPS cool tube kit, as I already know that I'm going to want a separate flowering room and definitely want to flower with the HPS, so the original tent will stay for veg, as I don't need clean air filtering for that, just air flow (running 24/0 with the LED).
For now, I'm content, as I feel a lot more confident than I did a few days ago. Although this is exactly day 12, I am behind by about 5 days or so. I have kept a very detailed log in a notebook as I've been going.
Anyway, happy growing!
-spek
