mlano1
Active Member
Hey all,
I'm restarting my indoor growing after a long hiatus, I've been growing going on five years now, now that I'm eighteen. I started growing a week after I first smoked when I was thirteen, and decided I wanted to be a ten year veteran by the time I was twenty-three. My grandpa has bought my weed for the last few years. Its a part of our family. Whilst I was just in Europe for the last month, and Amsterdam for twelve days, my father was back here in California maintaining my plants for me.
Unfortunately I do not have so many photos of the plants when they were small. To start, I topped them and pulled the branches down and left for a month, came back and the plants looked like the first photos, right after I transplanted them. Its been over a week now, I got back January 31st.
I have an all-digital setup this time:
-Autopilot digital co2 controller
-1000w Hortilux Platinum Series digital ballast
-fan speed controller
-ppm meter for water
-ph meter for water
-digital temperature gauge
-8" can lite which can accomidate 1000cfm
-8" max fan 667 cfm
-4x4 hydrohut
-20lb co2 tank and regulator
-Sunlight Supply Luxor 8" vertical reflector
-Gorilla Grow 5x9 tent with height extension
-14k btu portable dual hose air conditioner. I have not decided exactly which to buy yet.
-lots of dabs and California produce to sustain myself through the work
I started the XJ-13 clones I purchased from Harborside Health Center in 1 gallon pots, they got rootbound in those within a month, I transplanted them to 3 gallon plastic pots, I will transplant them one more time in three weeks before I flower, to seven gallon cloth/fabric pots. I am using Botanicare Readygro.
I am using Cutting Edge Solutions 3-part for nutrients plus FoxFarm bloom boosters. I am using them before I switch to all-organic compost tea based on Stinging Nettle, Comfrey, and Horsetail. For now, I am simply getting back in the groove with my chemical fertilizers I've used for so long.
I am currently maintaining all this myself now. Just having got back from Europe, repotting my plants, and training them back into alignment (because my father did not train them, he simply watered them and raised the light) takes a bit to get back into the rhythm. First, I pulled off any nasty crap lower growth, old leaves, 80% of the lower nodes I removed. Then, I pulled the branches out by bending them and using training wire, which I took off now. I topped them, and I'm bushing them out now.
I plan to veg them out for the month of February, then start flowering in March, through April, harvest in mid to late May. Ready to smoke in June.
Hortilux's BLUE bulb says it is to be used for flowering. I will try it.
I recently purchased a dehumidifier and have been maintaining humidity below 50% for the last few days. The temperature has been in the low 90s/ upper 80s, which is why I need the air conditioner, because this is the middle of winter, and I want to add another 1200 watts of lighting, so I am going to need an A/c running most of the time especially when it warms up around summer. I'm talking with my landlord about adding at least one more circuit breaker.
I'm restarting my indoor growing after a long hiatus, I've been growing going on five years now, now that I'm eighteen. I started growing a week after I first smoked when I was thirteen, and decided I wanted to be a ten year veteran by the time I was twenty-three. My grandpa has bought my weed for the last few years. Its a part of our family. Whilst I was just in Europe for the last month, and Amsterdam for twelve days, my father was back here in California maintaining my plants for me.
Unfortunately I do not have so many photos of the plants when they were small. To start, I topped them and pulled the branches down and left for a month, came back and the plants looked like the first photos, right after I transplanted them. Its been over a week now, I got back January 31st.
I have an all-digital setup this time:
-Autopilot digital co2 controller
-1000w Hortilux Platinum Series digital ballast
-fan speed controller
-ppm meter for water
-ph meter for water
-digital temperature gauge
-8" can lite which can accomidate 1000cfm
-8" max fan 667 cfm
-4x4 hydrohut
-20lb co2 tank and regulator
-Sunlight Supply Luxor 8" vertical reflector
-Gorilla Grow 5x9 tent with height extension
-14k btu portable dual hose air conditioner. I have not decided exactly which to buy yet.
-lots of dabs and California produce to sustain myself through the work
I started the XJ-13 clones I purchased from Harborside Health Center in 1 gallon pots, they got rootbound in those within a month, I transplanted them to 3 gallon plastic pots, I will transplant them one more time in three weeks before I flower, to seven gallon cloth/fabric pots. I am using Botanicare Readygro.
I am using Cutting Edge Solutions 3-part for nutrients plus FoxFarm bloom boosters. I am using them before I switch to all-organic compost tea based on Stinging Nettle, Comfrey, and Horsetail. For now, I am simply getting back in the groove with my chemical fertilizers I've used for so long.
I am currently maintaining all this myself now. Just having got back from Europe, repotting my plants, and training them back into alignment (because my father did not train them, he simply watered them and raised the light) takes a bit to get back into the rhythm. First, I pulled off any nasty crap lower growth, old leaves, 80% of the lower nodes I removed. Then, I pulled the branches out by bending them and using training wire, which I took off now. I topped them, and I'm bushing them out now.
I plan to veg them out for the month of February, then start flowering in March, through April, harvest in mid to late May. Ready to smoke in June.
Hortilux's BLUE bulb says it is to be used for flowering. I will try it.
I recently purchased a dehumidifier and have been maintaining humidity below 50% for the last few days. The temperature has been in the low 90s/ upper 80s, which is why I need the air conditioner, because this is the middle of winter, and I want to add another 1200 watts of lighting, so I am going to need an A/c running most of the time especially when it warms up around summer. I'm talking with my landlord about adding at least one more circuit breaker.
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