BozoTheClown5224
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Alright everybody This is my very first grow (and post).
My buddy brought me a LA Confidential clone on sunday. My grow cab wasn't quite done at that point so I put her under cfls 24hrs a day in a red Dixie cup with rockwool and watered her with water that had been left out for a few days. I have read that leaving tap water out for a while allows most of the minerals to evaporate out and that it is better to water plants with.
Here's how she started.
The Dixie cup has holes in the bottom for drainage. you can see the second cup (green) that it drained into.
There she stayed until this afternoon. After a trip to the hydro store (and a blown up differential in my car) I had everything I needed to move her to a better environment.
This is where she lives now.
My cab is basically based on this http://www.420magazine.com/forums/cabinet-closet-grow-room-setup/65884-grow-box-construction.html The only real difference is that I have a shelf instead of a light chamber. I've got a 96Cfm computer fan venting out the back corner. I wired it up to be variable speed thinking it would be a cool touch. Now I realize there really wont ever be a time that I don't want it running at 100% Oh well
Anyways she is on a basic 5 gallon bucket DWC system. There are two airstones coming from the blue airpump in the corner. I have a watering ring around the edge of the net pot that will eventually be put on a timer.
I will be using Floragrow floramicro and florabloom from GH just because that's what there was at the hydro store. The guy called it cool-aid
My bucket has 3 gallons of DI water and I put in enough nutes for 2 gallons. I didn't know if I should give her the full reccomended dose yet since she is new to nutes. I'v also read that a lot of people give fractions of the dosages on the bottles. What do you guys think? should I toss in the extra gallons worth? Oh and the res it at 5.5-6.0 PH. I don't have an electric tester. Just the color comparison kind so that's about as accurate of a reading as I can get.
She seems to be a little bit droopy compared to when I got her. What do you think the problem is/ is there a problem?
Here's some pics. Compare em to the one from the dixie cup and you'll see what I mean.
here's one with just camera flash to show her colors. Colorwise she looks great. she's just droopy.
I've heard droopy=overwatering. how often do you guys water with rockwool. This stuff seems like it's gonna be a pain in the ass compared to expanded clay/hydrocorn
I guess that's it for now. I'll keep this updated regularly.
~Bozo
My buddy brought me a LA Confidential clone on sunday. My grow cab wasn't quite done at that point so I put her under cfls 24hrs a day in a red Dixie cup with rockwool and watered her with water that had been left out for a few days. I have read that leaving tap water out for a while allows most of the minerals to evaporate out and that it is better to water plants with.
Here's how she started.
The Dixie cup has holes in the bottom for drainage. you can see the second cup (green) that it drained into.
There she stayed until this afternoon. After a trip to the hydro store (and a blown up differential in my car) I had everything I needed to move her to a better environment.
This is where she lives now.
My cab is basically based on this http://www.420magazine.com/forums/cabinet-closet-grow-room-setup/65884-grow-box-construction.html The only real difference is that I have a shelf instead of a light chamber. I've got a 96Cfm computer fan venting out the back corner. I wired it up to be variable speed thinking it would be a cool touch. Now I realize there really wont ever be a time that I don't want it running at 100% Oh well
Anyways she is on a basic 5 gallon bucket DWC system. There are two airstones coming from the blue airpump in the corner. I have a watering ring around the edge of the net pot that will eventually be put on a timer.
I will be using Floragrow floramicro and florabloom from GH just because that's what there was at the hydro store. The guy called it cool-aid
My bucket has 3 gallons of DI water and I put in enough nutes for 2 gallons. I didn't know if I should give her the full reccomended dose yet since she is new to nutes. I'v also read that a lot of people give fractions of the dosages on the bottles. What do you guys think? should I toss in the extra gallons worth? Oh and the res it at 5.5-6.0 PH. I don't have an electric tester. Just the color comparison kind so that's about as accurate of a reading as I can get.
She seems to be a little bit droopy compared to when I got her. What do you think the problem is/ is there a problem?
Here's some pics. Compare em to the one from the dixie cup and you'll see what I mean.
here's one with just camera flash to show her colors. Colorwise she looks great. she's just droopy.
I've heard droopy=overwatering. how often do you guys water with rockwool. This stuff seems like it's gonna be a pain in the ass compared to expanded clay/hydrocorn
I guess that's it for now. I'll keep this updated regularly.
~Bozo
