Welcome all of you from the 420magazine.com family and any guests who happen to be in the neighborhood! This is the start of what I know (with confidence) will be a great and fruitful (and yet, very low budget) Northern Lights #5 grow!
For those of you that know me from my Mazar Afghan Grow Photo Journal, or perhaps it should have been titled something like, 'general shoot the breeze, b*ll - sh*t and pretty much miscellaneous discussion thread', the wait is over!
This grow will be a place that both you and I will learn and also a place to just hang out and have a good time and discuss related stuff in between my updates. Just grab your 'favorite stuff' sit back and 'fire it up' (I'll be doing most of the work). Feel free to 'pipe in' when ever you feel like it
Enough talk here's the set up:
Most of you know about NL, but for those that don't here is a very generic explanation from my seed source:
"Northern Lights is one of the world's most famous marijuana strains. Very popular for indoor growing and produces large crystalline buds. Has a high flower to leaf ratio. Northern Lights seeds won Indica cups in 88, 89 and 90 and is one of the most acclaimed strains of all time. Highly recommended for indoor growing. Northern Lights seeds can be grown outdoor too."
Homemade tent made from PVC and black plastic lawn bags.
Small 3 speed fan from Wally's MJ Supply Store, Using passive air intake and exhaust. (low budget remember)
Lights and ballasts courtesy of Lowe's MJ Supply Store and eBay:
For Veg: 100w MH and 8 x 26w Daylight CFL's. 19/5 @ for about a month.
Flower: 100w HPS and 8 x 26w soft white CFL's 12/12 until at least 50/50 amber trichs
Ferts: Fish Emulsion for veg and Fox Farm Tiger Bloom for flowering along with molasses.
I use only distilled water (Wally's)
Non-feminized seeds
Fox Farm Ocean Forest and Happy Frog soils. Peat Moss and Vermiculite are at hand (only if I don't have enough of the FF and HF)
Trying for at least three females out of five seeds. The seeds were germinated in wet paper towels and one week ago I started planting them in 16oz Styrofoam cups. Three came up with no problem, but the fourth came up with only one Cotyledon (first leaves after opening). You will see it in a photo on my next post. Lastly, my fifth seed did not want to open, so I relented and started another seed (now I only have 4 left for my summer outside grow). Today I put the 5th seed into it's cup and that is the only one that has not broken ground yet.
The exact start date is questionable since some of the babies were born one day and some the next, etc. etc. So lets say to avg them out and to be within a day or two here or there.... last Sunday was day 1 (the 24th of Jan. 2010). I never really counted the veg days as it doesn't really matter (unless your doing a Journal I guess).
Photos coming right up as soon as they are uploaded.
For those of you that know me from my Mazar Afghan Grow Photo Journal, or perhaps it should have been titled something like, 'general shoot the breeze, b*ll - sh*t and pretty much miscellaneous discussion thread', the wait is over!
This grow will be a place that both you and I will learn and also a place to just hang out and have a good time and discuss related stuff in between my updates. Just grab your 'favorite stuff' sit back and 'fire it up' (I'll be doing most of the work). Feel free to 'pipe in' when ever you feel like it
Enough talk here's the set up:
Most of you know about NL, but for those that don't here is a very generic explanation from my seed source:
"Northern Lights is one of the world's most famous marijuana strains. Very popular for indoor growing and produces large crystalline buds. Has a high flower to leaf ratio. Northern Lights seeds won Indica cups in 88, 89 and 90 and is one of the most acclaimed strains of all time. Highly recommended for indoor growing. Northern Lights seeds can be grown outdoor too."
Homemade tent made from PVC and black plastic lawn bags.
Small 3 speed fan from Wally's MJ Supply Store, Using passive air intake and exhaust. (low budget remember)
Lights and ballasts courtesy of Lowe's MJ Supply Store and eBay:
For Veg: 100w MH and 8 x 26w Daylight CFL's. 19/5 @ for about a month.
Flower: 100w HPS and 8 x 26w soft white CFL's 12/12 until at least 50/50 amber trichs
Ferts: Fish Emulsion for veg and Fox Farm Tiger Bloom for flowering along with molasses.
I use only distilled water (Wally's)
Non-feminized seeds
Fox Farm Ocean Forest and Happy Frog soils. Peat Moss and Vermiculite are at hand (only if I don't have enough of the FF and HF)
Trying for at least three females out of five seeds. The seeds were germinated in wet paper towels and one week ago I started planting them in 16oz Styrofoam cups. Three came up with no problem, but the fourth came up with only one Cotyledon (first leaves after opening). You will see it in a photo on my next post. Lastly, my fifth seed did not want to open, so I relented and started another seed (now I only have 4 left for my summer outside grow). Today I put the 5th seed into it's cup and that is the only one that has not broken ground yet.
The exact start date is questionable since some of the babies were born one day and some the next, etc. etc. So lets say to avg them out and to be within a day or two here or there.... last Sunday was day 1 (the 24th of Jan. 2010). I never really counted the veg days as it doesn't really matter (unless your doing a Journal I guess).
Photos coming right up as soon as they are uploaded.
Quick question. How deep did you plant those after your tap root showed?
+reps
