Undercover Cop
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<-- current grow, week6Greetings to all and welcome. I am not a cop, despite my name (should have been UNDERCOVER CrOP). Please dont come here and hate me if officer Doofey busted you when you were a teen.
Im starting this thread with the hopes of collecting a few intelligent types that would ride along with me as I go through my second grow. I have several years of growing under my belt, most of it being several years in the past so Ive forgotten quite abit over the years. I have since then moved, and have set up my new grow room and am currently in week 6 of my first grow (I will post pics here to show some bud porn before I chop her). I've re-learned alot, both from usual hard way and also from alot of good people here. There are alot of friendly experienced growers here who love to help, I thank you all. I hope that I can help a few people here with this thread, either setting up their first grow or questions about my techniques (or if you have suggestions for me, Im always learning)
I grow for myself (obviously lol) and for my mother who suffers from chronic pain due to degenerative disk disease and R.A. MMJ has only recently been legalized in AZ and they still dont have a plan for licensing dispensaries. If anyone has any suggestions for how best to go about getting a patient card in AZ (my moms main doc said he doesnt approve of MMJ... prob cuz he's a money hungry pill pusher that loves his kickbacks from Pharm mfgs... ugh thats another forum tho) or tips on getting my AZ caregiver's card, please leave your input here. Much appreciated.
So the reason Im excited for this grow, besides finally having a respectable setup and dedicated grow room, is that I finally have good genetics. Due to the fact I only know 2 people beside my mom who smoke herb, finding good seeds is next to impossible. I was VERY apprehensive about ordering seeds (an intercepted pkg actually could mean issues for me where it wouldnt for others, Ill leave it there) But I was finally able to get some seeds from the Attitude during their Lucky7 promo in Jan.
So this grow Ill be raising...
1. Delicious Seeds "Fruity Chronic Juice (FCJ)"*fem
2. G13 Labs "Blueberry Gum"*fem
3. Kannabia Seeds "AutoHobbit"*fem
4. I already had germinated a seed that I was told was Purple Urkle, which Ive since learned is a clone only strain, so I am going to assume it is actually a Blue Cheese which is very common around here and is what I currently have flowering.
I also have 11 other mexican bagseed sativas which are baby seedlings, and will soon be thinned down to 6 which will then go directly into 12/12. They are only a week old so I will consider them 12/12 from seed for the sake of argument/experimentation. So I will also be documenting my "12/12 from seed!" grow here, however I have been burned sooooooo many times by bullshit fucking mexican cartel brick bagseeds going hermie, that I wont be suprised if they all turn hermie. This last grow I germinated 15 total seeds, and EVERY SINGLE ONE except the quality Blue Cheese indica ended up hermie/male. I almost didnt want to grow until I got good genetics, I coldnt take the headache of watching my jungle thin down to 1 single lonely plant in my 6x6 flowering box.
My room consists of a 2nd floor 12x12 bedroom. I will be installing a portable 2 tube air conditioner soon (I HAVE to before summer) and will then be sealing the room and using CO2.
For seedlings I have a homemade 28Wx32Hx26D nursery box with 2 homemade cfl reflector fixtures with 13 total 26w cfl's. I hope to soon upgrade to 2 2' T5 fixtures w/ PAR specific tubes.
For veg I have a homemade 52Wx40Hx28D box with a 4ft 8 bulb Radiion T5 fixture with a PAR specific blend of bulbs. (recently upgraded from a 4bulb fixture)
For flowering I have a homemade 6'Hx6'Wx40"D box with a 400w HPS/MHc in a 6"cooltube (I will likely be getting another 400w/cooltube to run inline with the current one, same exhaust fan sucking, just plug another tube/light onto the open end of the existing tube... ever seen a 4ft long cool tube before???) I also have 2 4ft 4bulb Radiion T5 fixtures with PAR specific bulbs for flowering to supplement the HPS on either side.
I will be running a sterile DWC hydroponic system, no organics. I see no benefit to using organics when using hydroponics, I give my plants exactly what they want without relying on a bio-subculture of microbes/fungi etc to process organic nutrients into useable food for the plants. I give them what they want, nothing more nothing less. Ill be using 3.5/5 gallon buckets with homemade lids to accomidate Emily Garden net pots (I like em lol).
For Nutes, Ill be using GH Flora series 3part as the primary nutes, along with the occasional use of ... H2O2, epsom salts, superthrive, hygrozyme, koolbloom, GH PH up/down, blackstrap molasses.
I promise to post lots of pics (I love my camera!) and try to keep this updated alot more frequently than I did my journal. I think it will be alot easier to post a quick update than to sit and write out a big long summary of the last week or two. All questions/comments/compliments/shared knowledge/friends/frenimies... ALL are welcome, just be respectable and bring the love.
Now..... BUDPORN!
(all from my current week6 Indica ?blue cheese?)
Happy Growing
I wouldt really recommend using them in veg, Ive read that the IR can induce flowering early even under a long photoperiod (I know the deep red wavelengths, 700+ are highly involved in triggering the flowering phase) In my flowering box I basically use them as a blue bulb with the benefit of the IR. I also have a ExoTerra ReptiSun 10.0 26w cfl at about 8" to provide UVB, I dont have much to compare to but I see no ill effects and the tops are frosting up nicely... I plan to add another for coverage when I flower these 4 indica seedlings.
