Tracker
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Dear rollitup community,
I am finally trying my first grow. I have fantisized about this for the past 11 years. I'm very happy to be in an area decriminalized for medical purposes, and I am happy to have found a great source of information from like minded people.
I started this three weeks ago, a few weeks after receiveing my medical recommendation. I immediately discovered I overpaid for a stealth hydro system. None the less, I am learning a lot with it, and I got a lot of info to get started off the Roseman threads in addition to others. I am going with the flourescents to avoid heat issues. I'm not going for immense quantity just nice tasting potent personal supply.
First, I'll give you a background on the starting point for my hydro grow. My place is too small to set up anything here, so I set up a 3'x3'x7' grow tent at a friends house whom already has plants growing. This is very distressing because he grows in what I feel is an uneducated manner. He has not researched the methods before starting, and doesn't understand the principles behind hydro. All his plants, which are mediocre quality smoke at best, are grown in soil with a jerry rigged light. Also, I feel like a non-custodial parent with periodic visitation rights. They're my babys! I should be able to nurture them.
In addition, my project was started with 3 almost dead white widow clones. When he bought them a week prior to my setting up he planted three in small dirt pots and left three soaking in cups filled with tap water. He was keeping those and two other 2' tall seed started plants under his jerry rigged light setup. In the week they were soaking in the cups the three I ended up with were virtually lifeless. I am amazed at their transformation in the hydro system after only three weeks.
In the last three weeks I have kept the six white widows in my tent. The three dirt ones have grown nicely, and the hydro ones are bouncing back to life. I am running 3 105 watt compact flourescents 24/0, and I have a 4 inch cetrifugal fan that moves 190 cfm running for 60 sec every 3 min for ventilation, I changed the supplied airpump with a more powerful one in addition to two 12" air stones. I am running the sprayers 15on/15off.
Also, I tried to cut clones off his two 2' tall plants and only one of them survived. I didn't use the proper equipment but the one that survived is the pic (3020798 & 3020792) with medium roots. I don't think that's bad for 3 weeks experience.
Recently, I bought some supplies to start building another cheap system. The guy that sold the water pump to me gave me some good pointers on using spay heads and pvc for a quazi-aeroponic system. Today I changed the stealth system to the spray system, and I took these pics.
Please reply and tell me what you think. I appreciate the opportunity to learn something new.
I am finally trying my first grow. I have fantisized about this for the past 11 years. I'm very happy to be in an area decriminalized for medical purposes, and I am happy to have found a great source of information from like minded people.
I started this three weeks ago, a few weeks after receiveing my medical recommendation. I immediately discovered I overpaid for a stealth hydro system. None the less, I am learning a lot with it, and I got a lot of info to get started off the Roseman threads in addition to others. I am going with the flourescents to avoid heat issues. I'm not going for immense quantity just nice tasting potent personal supply.
First, I'll give you a background on the starting point for my hydro grow. My place is too small to set up anything here, so I set up a 3'x3'x7' grow tent at a friends house whom already has plants growing. This is very distressing because he grows in what I feel is an uneducated manner. He has not researched the methods before starting, and doesn't understand the principles behind hydro. All his plants, which are mediocre quality smoke at best, are grown in soil with a jerry rigged light. Also, I feel like a non-custodial parent with periodic visitation rights. They're my babys! I should be able to nurture them.
In addition, my project was started with 3 almost dead white widow clones. When he bought them a week prior to my setting up he planted three in small dirt pots and left three soaking in cups filled with tap water. He was keeping those and two other 2' tall seed started plants under his jerry rigged light setup. In the week they were soaking in the cups the three I ended up with were virtually lifeless. I am amazed at their transformation in the hydro system after only three weeks.
In the last three weeks I have kept the six white widows in my tent. The three dirt ones have grown nicely, and the hydro ones are bouncing back to life. I am running 3 105 watt compact flourescents 24/0, and I have a 4 inch cetrifugal fan that moves 190 cfm running for 60 sec every 3 min for ventilation, I changed the supplied airpump with a more powerful one in addition to two 12" air stones. I am running the sprayers 15on/15off.
Also, I tried to cut clones off his two 2' tall plants and only one of them survived. I didn't use the proper equipment but the one that survived is the pic (3020798 & 3020792) with medium roots. I don't think that's bad for 3 weeks experience.
Recently, I bought some supplies to start building another cheap system. The guy that sold the water pump to me gave me some good pointers on using spay heads and pvc for a quazi-aeroponic system. Today I changed the stealth system to the spray system, and I took these pics.
Please reply and tell me what you think. I appreciate the opportunity to learn something new.
