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Items purchased: (updated 03.12.11)
- 10 Swiss Cheese Norm / 1 Power Skunk Fem
- 400w Cooltube Kit with Digital Ballast
- Jiffy pellets (32 Count) [Will not be using these for the additional seedlings]
- 4 Jiffy starter pots (4 count @ 4' each)
- Small fan for inside the tent
- Measuring cup
- Darkroom 90 II grow tent *
- Nutes (Grow big, tiger bloom, SensiCal bloom, Earth Juice Hi-Brix molasses) *
- 10 3lb Grow Bags *
- Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil / Light Warrior
- 450cfm fan / carbon filter (6")
- pH Control kit with up/down
- Timer strip
- 6in ducting
* = Still being shipped, will arrive in approx 4 days.
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JOURNAL UPDATES
*I WILL NOT BEGIN WITH DAY 1 UNTIL ALL MY EQUIPMENT GETS HERE (IN APPROX 4 BUSINESS DAYS). THE THREE SEEDLINGS GROWING NOW ARE JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES. ONCE EVERYTHING ARRIVES I WILL BEGIN GROWING THREE ADDITIONAL SEEDLINGS*
03.06.11 - I've started three seeds in a damp paper towel in a humidity dome. I'll be moving them over into a pellet once they sprout.
03.07.11 - The seeds are bulbing up, but no sprout just yet.
03.08.11 - Placed seeds in the peat pellets for a few days.
03.12.11 - They've grown a few inches, nothing too major since there is no light source (the 400w cooltube kit hasn't arrived yet). Also, I had to move one of the seedlings to a bigger pot since its roots were expanding outside of the peat pellet mesh (?!).
03.12.11 - (18 hours later) One plant dead - I wanted to give them some lighting so I took a CFL I had lying around and placed it overhead. Turns out the CFL dropped over night and burnt the seedling's top off. No big deal, won't happen when my tent and lighting arrives. I've dropped an additional seed into a plastic cup with Light Warrior/Ocean Forest mix (50/50) just for testing purposes. I'll start three more seeds once my tent and HPS arrives and I think I'll stop there.
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PICTURES
Seeds:
03.12.11 seedlings:
03.12.11 seedlings 18 hours later:
Items purchased: (updated 03.12.11)
- 10 Swiss Cheese Norm / 1 Power Skunk Fem
- 400w Cooltube Kit with Digital Ballast
- Jiffy pellets (32 Count) [Will not be using these for the additional seedlings]
- 4 Jiffy starter pots (4 count @ 4' each)
- Small fan for inside the tent
- Measuring cup
- Darkroom 90 II grow tent *
- Nutes (Grow big, tiger bloom, SensiCal bloom, Earth Juice Hi-Brix molasses) *
- 10 3lb Grow Bags *
- Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil / Light Warrior
- 450cfm fan / carbon filter (6")
- pH Control kit with up/down
- Timer strip
- 6in ducting
* = Still being shipped, will arrive in approx 4 days.
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JOURNAL UPDATES
*I WILL NOT BEGIN WITH DAY 1 UNTIL ALL MY EQUIPMENT GETS HERE (IN APPROX 4 BUSINESS DAYS). THE THREE SEEDLINGS GROWING NOW ARE JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES. ONCE EVERYTHING ARRIVES I WILL BEGIN GROWING THREE ADDITIONAL SEEDLINGS*
03.06.11 - I've started three seeds in a damp paper towel in a humidity dome. I'll be moving them over into a pellet once they sprout.
03.07.11 - The seeds are bulbing up, but no sprout just yet.
03.08.11 - Placed seeds in the peat pellets for a few days.
03.12.11 - They've grown a few inches, nothing too major since there is no light source (the 400w cooltube kit hasn't arrived yet). Also, I had to move one of the seedlings to a bigger pot since its roots were expanding outside of the peat pellet mesh (?!).
03.12.11 - (18 hours later) One plant dead - I wanted to give them some lighting so I took a CFL I had lying around and placed it overhead. Turns out the CFL dropped over night and burnt the seedling's top off. No big deal, won't happen when my tent and lighting arrives. I've dropped an additional seed into a plastic cup with Light Warrior/Ocean Forest mix (50/50) just for testing purposes. I'll start three more seeds once my tent and HPS arrives and I think I'll stop there.
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PICTURES
Seeds:
03.12.11 seedlings:
03.12.11 seedlings 18 hours later:
