Jerry Garcia
Well-Known Member
Hello and welcome to my second grow journal. I began my first grow (using bagseed) in February of this year...that harvest is finishing up the cure right now. I think I did pretty well for my first go round. A link can be found here.
Armed with the knowledge I gained from this experience, I have embarked on my second grow, this time with seeds purchased from the Attitude seedbank. Actually, the only seeds I purchased were the blue cheese...the PPP and Thai Super Skunk were freebies. I split an order of seeds with a friend, thinking we would be dividing them evenly...only to find he wanted to keep the feminized autoflowering ak-47/lowryder#2 all for himself, despite them being $40 more expensive and we split the cost...
SEEDS: 2 feminized blue cheeses, 1 feminized ppp, and 2 regular thai super skunk. I also have 4 bagseed plants about a month old now that have been topped (and were previously growing in 24oz plastic cups). I repotted them in 5" square pots yesterday, and I think they are pretty happy about it.
SOIL/NUTRIENTS: I'm using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, and the fox farm line of nutrients (Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Cha Ching) as well as molasses. Water is tap water filtered using a brita faucet filter and stored in 1 gallon jugs. I keep the pH of the water and the nutrient solutions around 6.5.
LIGHTS: For veg I'm using 6 26watt 6500k cfls and 4 23watt 2700k cfls (only because I broke/ran out of the 26watters...but they give a nice spectrum mix...). For flower I have a 360w HPS conversion bulb I run in a 400w MH system. I also have a 400w MH bulb that came with it, but it gets to freaking hot with that thing on and I don't want to run it for 18 hours a day--oh yeah, I'm doing 18/6. It worked well for my last grow, so I'm using it again. I also have a 150watt HPS ballast/fixture that I used for most of my first grow...it is sitting in a box doing nothing right now...my plan was to use it to grow out the autoflowering seeds in the veg room, but that situation sort of fell through (as discussed above).
GROW SPACE: This grow is taking place in my bathroom. The veg room is half of my closet, and the flower room is tucked behind my shower...both are small. I currently have one plant in the flower room, using only 2 24w 3000k t5's. That plant is the top I have taken from one of the 4 currently in the veg room and used as a clone...it was really just an experiment to see if I can clone (which it turns out I can) so I don't care too much about it. Certainly not enough to run the HPS.
VENTILATION: 12" oscillating fan that blows directly on the veg room, keeping temps around 86-87 with the lights on. I purchased a portable a/c that is in the room as well if the temp gets above 88. I needed it to finish off the last grow. Works well, but I try not to use it as much as possible, so this round of plants sometimes get warm.
That's about it. I've got some yeast/sugar water containers for co2 production, but haven't placed them in the veg room yet. I'll do it today--it helps the plant grow at higher temps, and higher temps are what I've got...
I planted the seeds directly in the soil on June 6th. No germinating on paper towels or in water, just pop em in the soil and give some water.
This picture was taken June 16th. Not sure exactly how old they are, but it took them a couple days to break the surface. Growth was pretty slow for the first week or so.
Also the 16th...
Here they are 2 days later.
Also the 18th...
This was 6/23...5 days later...PPP is the front right square pot, blue cheeses are in the other 2 square pots and the Thai SS are in the cups.
This is them today...6/28...about 3 weeks old.
PPP
Blue Cheese B...
Blue Cheese A...much shorter than B...not sure why
One of the Thai SS...looks a little wind blown because the fan is blowing them.
Here's a group shot.
I also attached some pictures from my last grow, just before harvest.
Any/all comments are appreciated and welcome!
Armed with the knowledge I gained from this experience, I have embarked on my second grow, this time with seeds purchased from the Attitude seedbank. Actually, the only seeds I purchased were the blue cheese...the PPP and Thai Super Skunk were freebies. I split an order of seeds with a friend, thinking we would be dividing them evenly...only to find he wanted to keep the feminized autoflowering ak-47/lowryder#2 all for himself, despite them being $40 more expensive and we split the cost...
SEEDS: 2 feminized blue cheeses, 1 feminized ppp, and 2 regular thai super skunk. I also have 4 bagseed plants about a month old now that have been topped (and were previously growing in 24oz plastic cups). I repotted them in 5" square pots yesterday, and I think they are pretty happy about it.
SOIL/NUTRIENTS: I'm using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil, and the fox farm line of nutrients (Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Cha Ching) as well as molasses. Water is tap water filtered using a brita faucet filter and stored in 1 gallon jugs. I keep the pH of the water and the nutrient solutions around 6.5.
LIGHTS: For veg I'm using 6 26watt 6500k cfls and 4 23watt 2700k cfls (only because I broke/ran out of the 26watters...but they give a nice spectrum mix...). For flower I have a 360w HPS conversion bulb I run in a 400w MH system. I also have a 400w MH bulb that came with it, but it gets to freaking hot with that thing on and I don't want to run it for 18 hours a day--oh yeah, I'm doing 18/6. It worked well for my last grow, so I'm using it again. I also have a 150watt HPS ballast/fixture that I used for most of my first grow...it is sitting in a box doing nothing right now...my plan was to use it to grow out the autoflowering seeds in the veg room, but that situation sort of fell through (as discussed above).
GROW SPACE: This grow is taking place in my bathroom. The veg room is half of my closet, and the flower room is tucked behind my shower...both are small. I currently have one plant in the flower room, using only 2 24w 3000k t5's. That plant is the top I have taken from one of the 4 currently in the veg room and used as a clone...it was really just an experiment to see if I can clone (which it turns out I can) so I don't care too much about it. Certainly not enough to run the HPS.
VENTILATION: 12" oscillating fan that blows directly on the veg room, keeping temps around 86-87 with the lights on. I purchased a portable a/c that is in the room as well if the temp gets above 88. I needed it to finish off the last grow. Works well, but I try not to use it as much as possible, so this round of plants sometimes get warm.
That's about it. I've got some yeast/sugar water containers for co2 production, but haven't placed them in the veg room yet. I'll do it today--it helps the plant grow at higher temps, and higher temps are what I've got...
I planted the seeds directly in the soil on June 6th. No germinating on paper towels or in water, just pop em in the soil and give some water.
This picture was taken June 16th. Not sure exactly how old they are, but it took them a couple days to break the surface. Growth was pretty slow for the first week or so.
Also the 16th...
Here they are 2 days later.
Also the 18th...
This was 6/23...5 days later...PPP is the front right square pot, blue cheeses are in the other 2 square pots and the Thai SS are in the cups.
This is them today...6/28...about 3 weeks old.
PPP
Blue Cheese B...
Blue Cheese A...much shorter than B...not sure why
One of the Thai SS...looks a little wind blown because the fan is blowing them.
Here's a group shot.
I also attached some pictures from my last grow, just before harvest.
Any/all comments are appreciated and welcome!
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lookin good man! nice and green and bushy...Ive been wondering how that cheese is cuz those brits seem to be going bonkers over it. Ill be watching! 