Howard Stern
Well-Known Member
Here is my first grow journal and also my first grow. I am also a proud owner of a medical marijuana card, so this is a legal grow too!!!
Medium: Fox Farm Ocean Forest, but I started in cheap soil. Growing in 5 gal buckets, with hydroton balls at the bottom for good drainage, and some on the top to help keep the soil from being disturbed when I water. Using Fox Farm nutes ¾ strength following light schedule.
Light: 600x MH/HPS switchable ballast. I have a Hortilux HPS in there right now.
Room: 3ft x 4ft x 6 ½ ft.
Fans: I have one 400 cfm fan for exhaust one oscillating fan to move air around, and a 4 in fan to bring in fresh air.
Seeds: Nirvana’s Northern Lights Feminized.
Water: Distilled water
Alright here we go I started on 6/5/10 with ten seeds. I over watered them and killed all but two of them before they could break ground. So luckily I had 10 more seeds on the way from Nirvana.
6/24/10 That is when my new seeds broke the dirt. All ten germinated and broke dirt so now I think I am doing ok. Here are some pictures of them at 4 days old. In my CFL seedling box under 700 total watts.
![6-28-10.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792601-deec0cdb158d0f292c25a1666dc0ca57.jpg)
I thought I was doing fine but then my leaves started to curl and get some brown/yellow spots on them. So I tested my ph of my water and it was 5.0 and my runoff was bad too! They were still in the shitty soil. So I ran up to my horticulture store and got my FFOF soil and transplanted them into bigger pots and got them under my big light.
Before good soil and good PH
![07-06-10.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792602-0db9b15fb925ae3db54d927e00ab4afb.jpg)
After transplant.
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Here they are 7/21/10 six days after transplanting them! Bounced right back.
![07-21-10-1.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792606-f6094972eb1e4d9cecb7655dda9e30a0.jpg)
![07-21-10-2.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792608-3083f74774f76727052dcab2e941aeb9.jpg)
![07-21-10-4.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792607-afb444ed0606bd9e9ee7e620ddec7c99.jpg)
The big one is the survivor of my fist botched grow. I picked my six best ones and fim'd three of them and topped the other three. I have read up on both of them so I am going to try a side by side on them. I only have pruned dead or problem leaves. Here are some pics.
![100_3850.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792611-650a8ecd6d0f7bdaa862b200499c9319.jpg)
![100_3849.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792612-030b6129b873063d38889b08575103c1.jpg)
Three days later on the new growth
![7-27-10-1.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792618-bb33d6087cb1beedc067b959d1ee7035.jpg)
![7-27-10-4.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792619-c9be9643d5b9d883bb95adb786eaa6fc.jpg)
They were around 40 days old and between 14-16 inches. I gave them a 24 hr dark period before switching them to flower. Within two days one had white hairs showing and now 4 days into flowering 4 have pistils. I just hope they don't go hermi on me from that early PH stress I put them through! Here are some current pic's.
four days into flowering plants are 44 days old.
![100_3874.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792624-f95b43ed71b9a310dfd954b2a4eb916d.jpg)
![100_3872.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792625-d61c040721920e7a9f8fb880b17b27a8.jpg)
![100_3875.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792626-9d269c66227ba9126f92840764bf7de6.jpg)
![100_3876.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792627-40112c179961ad5707f4869ba7556809.jpg)
The tall one on the end is 21 inches tall and It is the morning of the fourth day of flowering so it stretched 5 inches in three days. They love the Hortilux bulb! I will be posting pictures every week so feel free to track my grow. And any comments are welcome. I will be posting wet weight and dry weight of my harvest. It will be interesting to see what produced more, topped or fim'd plants.
Medium: Fox Farm Ocean Forest, but I started in cheap soil. Growing in 5 gal buckets, with hydroton balls at the bottom for good drainage, and some on the top to help keep the soil from being disturbed when I water. Using Fox Farm nutes ¾ strength following light schedule.
Light: 600x MH/HPS switchable ballast. I have a Hortilux HPS in there right now.
Room: 3ft x 4ft x 6 ½ ft.
Fans: I have one 400 cfm fan for exhaust one oscillating fan to move air around, and a 4 in fan to bring in fresh air.
Seeds: Nirvana’s Northern Lights Feminized.
Water: Distilled water
Alright here we go I started on 6/5/10 with ten seeds. I over watered them and killed all but two of them before they could break ground. So luckily I had 10 more seeds on the way from Nirvana.
6/24/10 That is when my new seeds broke the dirt. All ten germinated and broke dirt so now I think I am doing ok. Here are some pictures of them at 4 days old. In my CFL seedling box under 700 total watts.
![6-28-10.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792601-deec0cdb158d0f292c25a1666dc0ca57.jpg)
I thought I was doing fine but then my leaves started to curl and get some brown/yellow spots on them. So I tested my ph of my water and it was 5.0 and my runoff was bad too! They were still in the shitty soil. So I ran up to my horticulture store and got my FFOF soil and transplanted them into bigger pots and got them under my big light.
Before good soil and good PH
![07-06-10.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792602-0db9b15fb925ae3db54d927e00ab4afb.jpg)
After transplant.
View attachment 1082694
Here they are 7/21/10 six days after transplanting them! Bounced right back.
![07-21-10-1.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792606-f6094972eb1e4d9cecb7655dda9e30a0.jpg)
![07-21-10-2.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792608-3083f74774f76727052dcab2e941aeb9.jpg)
![07-21-10-4.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792607-afb444ed0606bd9e9ee7e620ddec7c99.jpg)
The big one is the survivor of my fist botched grow. I picked my six best ones and fim'd three of them and topped the other three. I have read up on both of them so I am going to try a side by side on them. I only have pruned dead or problem leaves. Here are some pics.
![100_3850.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792611-650a8ecd6d0f7bdaa862b200499c9319.jpg)
![100_3849.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792612-030b6129b873063d38889b08575103c1.jpg)
Three days later on the new growth
![7-27-10-1.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792618-bb33d6087cb1beedc067b959d1ee7035.jpg)
![7-27-10-4.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792619-c9be9643d5b9d883bb95adb786eaa6fc.jpg)
They were around 40 days old and between 14-16 inches. I gave them a 24 hr dark period before switching them to flower. Within two days one had white hairs showing and now 4 days into flowering 4 have pistils. I just hope they don't go hermi on me from that early PH stress I put them through! Here are some current pic's.
four days into flowering plants are 44 days old.
![100_3874.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792624-f95b43ed71b9a310dfd954b2a4eb916d.jpg)
![100_3872.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792625-d61c040721920e7a9f8fb880b17b27a8.jpg)
![100_3875.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792626-9d269c66227ba9126f92840764bf7de6.jpg)
![100_3876.jpg](/data/attachments/792/792627-40112c179961ad5707f4869ba7556809.jpg)
The tall one on the end is 21 inches tall and It is the morning of the fourth day of flowering so it stretched 5 inches in three days. They love the Hortilux bulb! I will be posting pictures every week so feel free to track my grow. And any comments are welcome. I will be posting wet weight and dry weight of my harvest. It will be interesting to see what produced more, topped or fim'd plants.