Red Eyed Willie
Active Member
Hello everybody,
I am a new patient to medical marijuana, hence this is my first real stab at growing marijuana. I decided to use the aero garden after seeing the late night paid advertising bullshit and thought, I can use that for medicine. Anyway, I bought the aero garden deluxe 200 and immediately saw that the water needed aeration, so i bought a small aquarium air pump, along with an airstone. I bought 3 shiva skunk, 2 purple kush, and 2 bubblegum clones from the Oaksterdam dispenery in Oakland. I planted the 3 shiva's on 04/22/08, the 2 purples on 04/28/08 (tiny clones), and the bubblegums on o5/04/08. I have the intention to keep all 7 plants vegetative until the bubblegums have grown at least 6 nodes. OK, What I did....I got some liquid ironite with a mix of 7-6-6. This claims to be for indoor and outdoor plants. The directions said to use 1-1/2 tablespoons per 5 gallons. I used 1/2 tablespoon. I also got this shit called SUPERthrive. This says it's a fertilizer additive. The directions said to use 1 ml per gallon. I used that quantity.
I changed thewater on 04/28 using distilled water and the aformentioned nute cocktail.... i watched eagerly to see my garden grow,yet after some days, the leaves grew brown spots and began to curl under. After looking at my notes, I noticed I doubled the ingredients to the nute cocktail...So today, i took all the plants out of the tray, emptied the filmy reservoir, and flushed it out. I also noticed I clogged the wter pump. I rinsed it out and ran clean water through the pump to clear it. I then rinsed all the ladies roots with bottled drinking water. I then re-filled the reservoir with bottled drinking water and no nutes. I'm going to run these ladies one watering cycle (7 days) with only bottled drinking water. I didn't use distilled water, because I know there are no suspended metals in distilled water. I knew spring water might be ok, but I don't have a relyable ph and ppm testers, so I chose bottled drinking water. I put all the ladies back into the reservoir and started it back up. I added two 26 watt cfl's, one on either side, respectively. Also I bought a red-blue LED light bulb, and placed that a few inches over my drooping bubblegum baby. So that's where I am. quite an eventful first couple of weeks. I know these babies are gowing to want more water than this reservoir can hold. I'm thinking of a good way to drip supplamental water in from another source. I'll keep yiou posted.
I'll attach photos from today some other time, I have pix,but i have to edit them down to upload on the site,and I spent more time on this tonight than I wanted to. Imma go blow some smoke on these ladies. I look forward to hearing back from you guys. I'll post pix, promise.
I am a new patient to medical marijuana, hence this is my first real stab at growing marijuana. I decided to use the aero garden after seeing the late night paid advertising bullshit and thought, I can use that for medicine. Anyway, I bought the aero garden deluxe 200 and immediately saw that the water needed aeration, so i bought a small aquarium air pump, along with an airstone. I bought 3 shiva skunk, 2 purple kush, and 2 bubblegum clones from the Oaksterdam dispenery in Oakland. I planted the 3 shiva's on 04/22/08, the 2 purples on 04/28/08 (tiny clones), and the bubblegums on o5/04/08. I have the intention to keep all 7 plants vegetative until the bubblegums have grown at least 6 nodes. OK, What I did....I got some liquid ironite with a mix of 7-6-6. This claims to be for indoor and outdoor plants. The directions said to use 1-1/2 tablespoons per 5 gallons. I used 1/2 tablespoon. I also got this shit called SUPERthrive. This says it's a fertilizer additive. The directions said to use 1 ml per gallon. I used that quantity.
I changed thewater on 04/28 using distilled water and the aformentioned nute cocktail.... i watched eagerly to see my garden grow,yet after some days, the leaves grew brown spots and began to curl under. After looking at my notes, I noticed I doubled the ingredients to the nute cocktail...So today, i took all the plants out of the tray, emptied the filmy reservoir, and flushed it out. I also noticed I clogged the wter pump. I rinsed it out and ran clean water through the pump to clear it. I then rinsed all the ladies roots with bottled drinking water. I then re-filled the reservoir with bottled drinking water and no nutes. I'm going to run these ladies one watering cycle (7 days) with only bottled drinking water. I didn't use distilled water, because I know there are no suspended metals in distilled water. I knew spring water might be ok, but I don't have a relyable ph and ppm testers, so I chose bottled drinking water. I put all the ladies back into the reservoir and started it back up. I added two 26 watt cfl's, one on either side, respectively. Also I bought a red-blue LED light bulb, and placed that a few inches over my drooping bubblegum baby. So that's where I am. quite an eventful first couple of weeks. I know these babies are gowing to want more water than this reservoir can hold. I'm thinking of a good way to drip supplamental water in from another source. I'll keep yiou posted.
I'll attach photos from today some other time, I have pix,but i have to edit them down to upload on the site,and I spent more time on this tonight than I wanted to. Imma go blow some smoke on these ladies. I look forward to hearing back from you guys. I'll post pix, promise.