AfghanBoy
Well-Known Member
Helooo everyone, the attached pics show my first harvest. The box is a large shoe box (for ladies boots).
This is my first grow, I used Hydro in a grow tent.
SPEC:
600watt metal halide lamp, PH 5.8 -6.2 throughout, watered on a drip system 3 times a day, LAMP ON 18/6 for veg and 12/12 for flowering. Flushed for the last 7 days of flowering. Used Cannadian Express Nutes.
Grew from seeds, started on 1st feb 2009 and harvested on 1st June 2009.
Had nine plants in total, only three turned out to be females. All Afghan Gold strain.
My HOT tips for all Newbies:
1. Read this forum well before you start, I learnt everything from this site.
2. Bought all my equipment from e-bay for around £300.00.
3. Check your PH throughout the grow. I checked weekly (i couldnt believe how much the PH fluctuated). I think this is fundamentally one of the most important factors. Get this simple part wrong and your fu*ked regardless of whatelse you do. get a digital PH meter. Bought from my e-bay for £2.50.
4. If you have ANY questions no matter how dumb you think it is, just ask, the people on this site are bloody marvelous and helped me so much. Particulary when i was flowering i asked opinions on how much more time i should allow them to flower.
5. If you are growing from seed, buy Femanised seeds to prevent wastage or better still clone.
6. Flushing definatly made the end result better - i know there is some debate about this, but for me it made a big difference. I was taking small cuttings from one of the flowering plants because i was desperate to try and it tasted shit. After flushing they tasted lovely.
7. I didn't use C02, but on sunny days I placed the plants outside for a few hours and i think this made a difference, they were noticebly looking more healthy after a stint in the fresh air.
8. Resist telling anyone at all about your grow, keep it a secret because there are people, even those close to you, who will say stuff and it might come back to you one day.
9. Give your plants love, affection and time, resist cutting bits off to smoke before they are ready - i didnt resist and the cuttings i took were crap, bugger all THC content and tasted rough. The longer you leave it the better they will be.
10. And lastly when people on this site help you, give them respect and a big thank you's. Everyone here is doing this for the love of smoking and helping other individuals - no one is getting paid
11. Oh and lastly (apologies in advance if this upsets anyone but i had to say it) - I admire anyone who has a faith but I am a total atheist. Im not a nutter or anything, well groomed middle class white colour worker who understands that that this universe is much much greater and more complicated than the Bible's story of a creator. My one point to anyone who beleives in a creator is that the Bible says that God created everything in seven days, roughly 6-10,000 years ago. But we have masses and I do mean masses of evidence to suggest that the earth itself is at least 5 billion years old (there are several atomic clocks that all point roughly to the same date) this coupled with massive fossil evidence and the now DNA evidence. To beleive that the earth was created 10,000 years ago and that all the fossil evidence and DNA evidence is rubbish is to me maddness. Like i say i wholly respect anyone who follows a faith and I would never talk down to them or try and talk them around. But look at it like this : If it were in a Court of law and you were arguing the case for either God or a universe that has evolved of billions and billions of years, the God theory has a book ( for which we have no way of authenticating) and science has millions of bits of evidence - who do you beleive?
That's it got my rant over with, happy growing friends.
This is my first grow, I used Hydro in a grow tent.
SPEC:
600watt metal halide lamp, PH 5.8 -6.2 throughout, watered on a drip system 3 times a day, LAMP ON 18/6 for veg and 12/12 for flowering. Flushed for the last 7 days of flowering. Used Cannadian Express Nutes.
Grew from seeds, started on 1st feb 2009 and harvested on 1st June 2009.
Had nine plants in total, only three turned out to be females. All Afghan Gold strain.
My HOT tips for all Newbies:
1. Read this forum well before you start, I learnt everything from this site.
2. Bought all my equipment from e-bay for around £300.00.
3. Check your PH throughout the grow. I checked weekly (i couldnt believe how much the PH fluctuated). I think this is fundamentally one of the most important factors. Get this simple part wrong and your fu*ked regardless of whatelse you do. get a digital PH meter. Bought from my e-bay for £2.50.
4. If you have ANY questions no matter how dumb you think it is, just ask, the people on this site are bloody marvelous and helped me so much. Particulary when i was flowering i asked opinions on how much more time i should allow them to flower.
5. If you are growing from seed, buy Femanised seeds to prevent wastage or better still clone.
6. Flushing definatly made the end result better - i know there is some debate about this, but for me it made a big difference. I was taking small cuttings from one of the flowering plants because i was desperate to try and it tasted shit. After flushing they tasted lovely.
7. I didn't use C02, but on sunny days I placed the plants outside for a few hours and i think this made a difference, they were noticebly looking more healthy after a stint in the fresh air.
8. Resist telling anyone at all about your grow, keep it a secret because there are people, even those close to you, who will say stuff and it might come back to you one day.
9. Give your plants love, affection and time, resist cutting bits off to smoke before they are ready - i didnt resist and the cuttings i took were crap, bugger all THC content and tasted rough. The longer you leave it the better they will be.
10. And lastly when people on this site help you, give them respect and a big thank you's. Everyone here is doing this for the love of smoking and helping other individuals - no one is getting paid
11. Oh and lastly (apologies in advance if this upsets anyone but i had to say it) - I admire anyone who has a faith but I am a total atheist. Im not a nutter or anything, well groomed middle class white colour worker who understands that that this universe is much much greater and more complicated than the Bible's story of a creator. My one point to anyone who beleives in a creator is that the Bible says that God created everything in seven days, roughly 6-10,000 years ago. But we have masses and I do mean masses of evidence to suggest that the earth itself is at least 5 billion years old (there are several atomic clocks that all point roughly to the same date) this coupled with massive fossil evidence and the now DNA evidence. To beleive that the earth was created 10,000 years ago and that all the fossil evidence and DNA evidence is rubbish is to me maddness. Like i say i wholly respect anyone who follows a faith and I would never talk down to them or try and talk them around. But look at it like this : If it were in a Court of law and you were arguing the case for either God or a universe that has evolved of billions and billions of years, the God theory has a book ( for which we have no way of authenticating) and science has millions of bits of evidence - who do you beleive?
That's it got my rant over with, happy growing friends.
