newbie2323
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Day 10 since I flipped on the lights. Since it's looking like this actually might work, I figure I might as well document it and get input from this fine community of cannabis cultivars as I go.
This is my first real attempt at growing some bud. I dreamed of growing weed in high school (20 something years ago) but never managed to get beyond the seed leaves before either I killed them from too much attention, or my parents found them and stifled my horticultural creativity.
So here I am, on the eve of 40, wife, kid, house, nice car, good job, and finally, FINALLY some top grade ganja plants growing under my house.
My dilemma, and the reason it took me over two decades to get here, is threefold. 1. I live in a state where growing pot is a crime, 2. My wife would kill me if she knew, and 3. I travel a lot, sometimes up to two weeks at a time. Someone might say, dude, just buy some and forget growing it yourself. But that person would be completely missing the point. My goal is not to have some bud. To be completely honest, I don't even like pot enough to smoke it more than a couple time a year. No, what I want is to enjoy the process of nurturing a tiny seed into a half a pound of the dankest nugs I've ever seen.
Here's a high level overview of my setup. Cheap 260 watt PARFACTWORKS LED in a 2x2x4 tent burried 2 feet deep under my house.
One 7.5 gallon res under the tent connected to a 20 gallon external res 5 feet away. 220 GPH pump flows water from the little res to the big one and gravity takes the water back via a second hose. 4 air stones in each res. Fresh, declorinated water is fed into little res using a small water level switch. An additional 220 GPH submersible pump lives in the space under the little res taking overflow and drainage out the side of the house.
Dry, CO2 rich air is brought in from the house via one of the floor registers in my livingroom, with a backdraft damper keeping the smell inside the tent when the fan kicks off. Air exits via a 4 inch AC Infinity fan and carbon filter.
PH is held between 5.8 and 6 using a Milwaukee Instruments PH controller wired to a solenoid that opens up a slow drip of PH Down anytime PH rises above 5.9.
There's a tiny dehumidifier and ceramic heater in the tent as well for the cool, humid nights
The two tiny plants are Critical Kush seeds that sprouted about two weeks ago. I'll be removing the smaller of the two once it's clear the larger one is going to survive.
Feeding them with the GH trio at about 25% recomended amount, and a dash of calmag. Current ppm is 200.
The roots are already branching out like crazy and reaching the bottom of the res. I've got a live feed streaming from the tent so I can watch em grow from wherever I happen to be.
So far so good!
Here a pic from day 10...
Please feel free to contribute!
This is my first real attempt at growing some bud. I dreamed of growing weed in high school (20 something years ago) but never managed to get beyond the seed leaves before either I killed them from too much attention, or my parents found them and stifled my horticultural creativity.
So here I am, on the eve of 40, wife, kid, house, nice car, good job, and finally, FINALLY some top grade ganja plants growing under my house.
My dilemma, and the reason it took me over two decades to get here, is threefold. 1. I live in a state where growing pot is a crime, 2. My wife would kill me if she knew, and 3. I travel a lot, sometimes up to two weeks at a time. Someone might say, dude, just buy some and forget growing it yourself. But that person would be completely missing the point. My goal is not to have some bud. To be completely honest, I don't even like pot enough to smoke it more than a couple time a year. No, what I want is to enjoy the process of nurturing a tiny seed into a half a pound of the dankest nugs I've ever seen.
Here's a high level overview of my setup. Cheap 260 watt PARFACTWORKS LED in a 2x2x4 tent burried 2 feet deep under my house.
One 7.5 gallon res under the tent connected to a 20 gallon external res 5 feet away. 220 GPH pump flows water from the little res to the big one and gravity takes the water back via a second hose. 4 air stones in each res. Fresh, declorinated water is fed into little res using a small water level switch. An additional 220 GPH submersible pump lives in the space under the little res taking overflow and drainage out the side of the house.
Dry, CO2 rich air is brought in from the house via one of the floor registers in my livingroom, with a backdraft damper keeping the smell inside the tent when the fan kicks off. Air exits via a 4 inch AC Infinity fan and carbon filter.
PH is held between 5.8 and 6 using a Milwaukee Instruments PH controller wired to a solenoid that opens up a slow drip of PH Down anytime PH rises above 5.9.
There's a tiny dehumidifier and ceramic heater in the tent as well for the cool, humid nights
The two tiny plants are Critical Kush seeds that sprouted about two weeks ago. I'll be removing the smaller of the two once it's clear the larger one is going to survive.
Feeding them with the GH trio at about 25% recomended amount, and a dash of calmag. Current ppm is 200.
The roots are already branching out like crazy and reaching the bottom of the res. I've got a live feed streaming from the tent so I can watch em grow from wherever I happen to be.
So far so good!
Here a pic from day 10...
Please feel free to contribute!
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