bioBilly
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I'm a little late getting this journal started. I'm just not that good at multi-tasking, and have been focused on getting everything set up after almost nine years of not being able to grow. When I started I thought I was simply going to buy a tent, put it in a corner of my office and plant some seeds in soil. Well, she who must be obeyed, said no way she wanted that stuff stinking up the house and she didn't want to hear about carbon filters and venting through the preexisting vent to the attic.
So I was banished out to my old grow room in the back of a 1967 Dodge Motor Home. While this space has some advantages, like running water within feet of the grow room, it is a tight space to work in for someone with degenerative joints and neuropathy. Here is what it looked like in one of my grows in this space from April 2012.
So now on to what I'm doing now. I decided this time around I would go with LED lights since heat is a major factor in this space. Currently I have a 500W equivalent in what is the flower room and a 250W equivalent in the veg room which is actually the bathroom. I ended up going with DWC and have four buckets in the flower room, one in the veg room with my first rooted clone. The seeds are from a film canister I have had in my drawer with a mix of unknown origin and genetics. I put fifteen of them between wet paper towels and was surprised when seven of them germinated. I put them in small pots with potting soil because at that point I still thought I was going with soil. Of the seven that popped, one never broke out of the soil, one came up but never broke out of the shell and did not survive my attempt at removing it, one shot up but after a couple of days it flopped over and all of my attempts to revive it failed. That left four that have survived my many attempts at killing them, particularly when I transferred them from soil to the DWC buckets. I didn't take any pictures in the early stages for some unknown reason but this is what one looked like after the transfer, it was taken on January 18 2021.
This is what they looked like on February 10 2021
I did not start this grow with Blue Planet Nutrients, mainly because my addled old brain was having a hard time remembering the name of the nutrients I was using back in 2012. I came to 420 Magazine looking for clues in December but to no avail, so I bought enough of another brand to get me started. Sure enough after I went broke buying lights, buckets and all, their ads showed up on this site. So after a long wait for my next paycheck to drop I finally was able to place my order. I got my order Saturday of the Two Part BlueMax High Yield System. I used the Two Part back in 2012 and remember getting massive roots in my one hydro bucket. With my current nutrients I'm just not seeing that.
One other issue I have that may be effecting root growth is water quality. I knew the water was hard but didn't realize how hard until I got a TDS meter last month. At 400ppm out of the tap I knew I had to do something. So I broke down and bought a RO system and will be hooking that up later this morning.
One of the four survivors showed female preflowers pretty early on, so I cut four clones and put it in flower mode two weeks ago.
And I left three in the veg room, two of them are showing female and one I'm still not absolutely sure of but leaning toward believing it to be female.
Now that I have my preferred nutrients and one of the clones has a good set of roots, I have decided to go ahead and put the other three plants in the flower room. My main motivation for this is I need some bud since I have been using the money I normally spend at the dispensary for over priced under whelming medication on this project. Since the dispensary a couple of miles down the street opened up for recreational sales they have raised their prices by 110% and turned their backs on the medical patients that have made them very rich. Oh well they're not getting any more of my money.
So now my flower room, which is still a work in progress, looks like this:
And the veg room looks like this, with my one rooted clone.
This first grow, in way to many years, is basically a test run just to workout the bugs and figure out what I need to make this work. I'm still trying to decide if I should put a screen over this grow and how best to do it, or let it go and hope I don't run out of room up top. I'm thinking I'll need another light in the flower room if I put a screen over the grow. Fortunately the four survivors seem to be an Indica strain, and hopefully will not get to tall.
I'll be doing some trimming today to hopefully get more light to the lower part of the plants, and cutting a few more clones from the other ladies before they go to much further into flower.
So that is where I'm at so far. I can't believe that after lurking around this site for so many years, reading and learning so much, I have actually managed to sit down and write a journal. Happy growing everyone.
So I was banished out to my old grow room in the back of a 1967 Dodge Motor Home. While this space has some advantages, like running water within feet of the grow room, it is a tight space to work in for someone with degenerative joints and neuropathy. Here is what it looked like in one of my grows in this space from April 2012.
So now on to what I'm doing now. I decided this time around I would go with LED lights since heat is a major factor in this space. Currently I have a 500W equivalent in what is the flower room and a 250W equivalent in the veg room which is actually the bathroom. I ended up going with DWC and have four buckets in the flower room, one in the veg room with my first rooted clone. The seeds are from a film canister I have had in my drawer with a mix of unknown origin and genetics. I put fifteen of them between wet paper towels and was surprised when seven of them germinated. I put them in small pots with potting soil because at that point I still thought I was going with soil. Of the seven that popped, one never broke out of the soil, one came up but never broke out of the shell and did not survive my attempt at removing it, one shot up but after a couple of days it flopped over and all of my attempts to revive it failed. That left four that have survived my many attempts at killing them, particularly when I transferred them from soil to the DWC buckets. I didn't take any pictures in the early stages for some unknown reason but this is what one looked like after the transfer, it was taken on January 18 2021.
This is what they looked like on February 10 2021
I did not start this grow with Blue Planet Nutrients, mainly because my addled old brain was having a hard time remembering the name of the nutrients I was using back in 2012. I came to 420 Magazine looking for clues in December but to no avail, so I bought enough of another brand to get me started. Sure enough after I went broke buying lights, buckets and all, their ads showed up on this site. So after a long wait for my next paycheck to drop I finally was able to place my order. I got my order Saturday of the Two Part BlueMax High Yield System. I used the Two Part back in 2012 and remember getting massive roots in my one hydro bucket. With my current nutrients I'm just not seeing that.
One other issue I have that may be effecting root growth is water quality. I knew the water was hard but didn't realize how hard until I got a TDS meter last month. At 400ppm out of the tap I knew I had to do something. So I broke down and bought a RO system and will be hooking that up later this morning.
One of the four survivors showed female preflowers pretty early on, so I cut four clones and put it in flower mode two weeks ago.
And I left three in the veg room, two of them are showing female and one I'm still not absolutely sure of but leaning toward believing it to be female.
Now that I have my preferred nutrients and one of the clones has a good set of roots, I have decided to go ahead and put the other three plants in the flower room. My main motivation for this is I need some bud since I have been using the money I normally spend at the dispensary for over priced under whelming medication on this project. Since the dispensary a couple of miles down the street opened up for recreational sales they have raised their prices by 110% and turned their backs on the medical patients that have made them very rich. Oh well they're not getting any more of my money.
So now my flower room, which is still a work in progress, looks like this:
And the veg room looks like this, with my one rooted clone.
This first grow, in way to many years, is basically a test run just to workout the bugs and figure out what I need to make this work. I'm still trying to decide if I should put a screen over this grow and how best to do it, or let it go and hope I don't run out of room up top. I'm thinking I'll need another light in the flower room if I put a screen over the grow. Fortunately the four survivors seem to be an Indica strain, and hopefully will not get to tall.
I'll be doing some trimming today to hopefully get more light to the lower part of the plants, and cutting a few more clones from the other ladies before they go to much further into flower.
So that is where I'm at so far. I can't believe that after lurking around this site for so many years, reading and learning so much, I have actually managed to sit down and write a journal. Happy growing everyone.
Question: do you think the carpet will be an issue?
