Miss Pawnsworth
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Greetings, fellow botanics!
I have lurked about on these here boards for quite some time, but figured I should join in on the fun and got myself an account
I have started on my third op (first one being a windowsill experiment and the second one a single plant-closet quest), which is planned to be a two-chamber SOG setup which I plan to harvest continually on a monthly basis. My rough outline is as follows:
VEG CHAMBER
125W LE bulb
Manual ventilation and CO2 injection twice a day
Light: 24/7 (BBB schedule, or "Burn Baby Burn")
Size: Variable (several options depending on how many I want to veg)
FLOWER CHAMBER
Sylvania Grolux 400W
Active circulation of air 16 hours/day, passive during mommy's sleep hours (That's Me)
Light: 12/12 (Dark half of the day)
Size: W80xH200xD60 cm (~W30xH80xD23 inch.)
VEGGING
I will have maybe 4-6 plants in the smaller veg chamber on continuous vegging, 24/7 lighting. They will be topped and trained so that they hopefully will survive an (in theory) infinite veg period.
Is there something I should take note of regarding this kind of vegging? Some plants might be left in there for quite a while, just to have alive and maybe select for flowering + harvesting later on. As I am using soil for medium, will I have to change the soil every X months to keep it fresh? I am unsure about the effects of long vegging and would like some pointers if there are any
FLOWERING + HARVEST SCHEDULE
Two plants in the flowering chamber, 12/12 lighting, 20x20" pots. They will not be of same age, as I plan to harvest one of them monthly — I will select one plant from the veg chamber every 30 days that will get bumbed up to the flower chamber and put on 12/12 lighting. This way I can adjust the process for my smoking habits the way I see it fit for the moment. Depending on how the flower chamber handles those two flowers I might even add a third one so that I can rotate and harvest maybe every third week or so.
Any ideas or suggestions for this plan?
SO FAR...
I grew 15 seeds in toilet paper:
After they sprouted they were transplanted from the paper medium to Root!t cubes and put in the veg chamber. I had one casualty, rest his or her soul...
I let them sit in the veg chamber on 24/7 for about a month before realizing the root systems were all over the place (tangled together under the root cube tray). Not a problem - I was planning to transplant them anyway.
So after that first month in root cubes they got transplanted to 5x5" pots and I wet the soil properly with nutrient-powered water. Since they are so many in this initial phase (before seeding out the males and continuing with clones on the females), I am currently using the flower chamber for all the plants - but with 24/7 lighting from the 400W flower HPS bulb.
They've been growing slowly in their new environment. It's been two weeks since they were moved from root cubes to new pots, and a way bigger lamp, but I worried there's something unusual here. My last project (single plant in same flower chamber) grew double the size of these in a matter of days, but that plant also had a 20x20" pot by itself.
The plants were topped right before this picture was shot. Cut the top branches to even out the overall height, as well as to induce branched tops.
Please don't mind the two poor babies that are standing to the left, that's the cashcrop strain I mentioned earlier and it hasn't been happy at all. I think it might be an outdoors strain, from what I could tell when I tried it.
Should I be worried about their slow growth, or just wait along? I'm simply comparing to the previous plant so maybe I shouldnt worry too much.
UPDATE: It seems that the topping made wonders, they stretched a bit just over night and looks much more healthy now. I will leach through the soil tonight to make sure I haven't over-nuted them, since some of the leaves have started to get a yellowish tone and curl up. Better leach through the soil and take it a little easier on the nutes, I guess
UPDATE: Post-topping update, all the plants looks so much happier now!
UPDATE: Switched the flowers to the 18/6 photoperiod today since their genitalia is taking too long to wait for in 24/0.
Anyway, hi again and thanks in advance ^______^
Regards,
Pawny
I have lurked about on these here boards for quite some time, but figured I should join in on the fun and got myself an account
I have started on my third op (first one being a windowsill experiment and the second one a single plant-closet quest), which is planned to be a two-chamber SOG setup which I plan to harvest continually on a monthly basis. My rough outline is as follows:
VEG CHAMBER
125W LE bulb
Manual ventilation and CO2 injection twice a day
Light: 24/7 (BBB schedule, or "Burn Baby Burn")
Size: Variable (several options depending on how many I want to veg)
FLOWER CHAMBER
Sylvania Grolux 400W
Active circulation of air 16 hours/day, passive during mommy's sleep hours (That's Me
)Light: 12/12 (Dark half of the day)
Size: W80xH200xD60 cm (~W30xH80xD23 inch.)
VEGGING
I will have maybe 4-6 plants in the smaller veg chamber on continuous vegging, 24/7 lighting. They will be topped and trained so that they hopefully will survive an (in theory) infinite veg period.
Is there something I should take note of regarding this kind of vegging? Some plants might be left in there for quite a while, just to have alive and maybe select for flowering + harvesting later on. As I am using soil for medium, will I have to change the soil every X months to keep it fresh? I am unsure about the effects of long vegging and would like some pointers if there are any
FLOWERING + HARVEST SCHEDULE
Two plants in the flowering chamber, 12/12 lighting, 20x20" pots. They will not be of same age, as I plan to harvest one of them monthly — I will select one plant from the veg chamber every 30 days that will get bumbed up to the flower chamber and put on 12/12 lighting. This way I can adjust the process for my smoking habits the way I see it fit for the moment. Depending on how the flower chamber handles those two flowers I might even add a third one so that I can rotate and harvest maybe every third week or so.
Any ideas or suggestions for this plan?
SO FAR...
I grew 15 seeds in toilet paper:
- 4 Pink Jack x Critical Mass
- 4 Critical Mass x Cheese
- 4 G13 Haze x Critical Mass
- 2 Expensive as fuck cashcrop street weed bag seed from a visit to Sweden
After they sprouted they were transplanted from the paper medium to Root!t cubes and put in the veg chamber. I had one casualty, rest his or her soul...
I let them sit in the veg chamber on 24/7 for about a month before realizing the root systems were all over the place (tangled together under the root cube tray). Not a problem - I was planning to transplant them anyway. So after that first month in root cubes they got transplanted to 5x5" pots and I wet the soil properly with nutrient-powered water. Since they are so many in this initial phase (before seeding out the males and continuing with clones on the females), I am currently using the flower chamber for all the plants - but with 24/7 lighting from the 400W flower HPS bulb.
They've been growing slowly in their new environment. It's been two weeks since they were moved from root cubes to new pots, and a way bigger lamp, but I worried there's something unusual here. My last project (single plant in same flower chamber) grew double the size of these in a matter of days, but that plant also had a 20x20" pot by itself.
The plants were topped right before this picture was shot. Cut the top branches to even out the overall height, as well as to induce branched tops.
Please don't mind the two poor babies that are standing to the left, that's the cashcrop strain I mentioned earlier and it hasn't been happy at all. I think it might be an outdoors strain, from what I could tell when I tried it.
Should I be worried about their slow growth, or just wait along? I'm simply comparing to the previous plant so maybe I shouldnt worry too much.
UPDATE: It seems that the topping made wonders, they stretched a bit just over night and looks much more healthy now. I will leach through the soil tonight to make sure I haven't over-nuted them, since some of the leaves have started to get a yellowish tone and curl up. Better leach through the soil and take it a little easier on the nutes, I guess
UPDATE: Post-topping update, all the plants looks so much happier now!
UPDATE: Switched the flowers to the 18/6 photoperiod today since their genitalia is taking too long to wait for in 24/0.
Anyway, hi again and thanks in advance ^______^
Regards,
Pawny
