cherryhaze
New Member
This is my first grow and I am taking the grow journal posts I have made on Roll it Up and bringing them here. Hope this is OK!
This is a Jack Diesel Sativa, grown from seed and in a Wilma Big 4 Dripper system, hydro, 4 plants, in pebbles.
I am using Hesi Hydro Grow Schedule and products, I feed 6 x a day for 15 mins under a 400W Sodium Lamp.
So far been in Veg for 62days, plan on another 7 or so - until they are about 35cm tall from the top of the pot, due to space constraints. I have a 1mx1mx1.80m tent w a big fan and carbon filter. I don't know the details on them with out looking.
I use a small fan to keep the air cool when light is on and to strengthen the stalks w movement. The Res is 50ltrs and the pots are massive for a large root base.
I keep the PH at around 5.7 to 5.9 (5.8 is Positronics' recommended level for veg, then 6 for bloom) and the EC around 1.2 at the moment.
The plants have built VERY slowly up to full strength nutes and showing no problems. I hope they stay like that!
Because they are a sativa dom strain I used the LST method using floristry wire to manipulate the plants to grow around the edge of the pots until the whole surface area was covered using a version of the crop circle of bud method, giving me multiple bud sites and controlling the height of the plants. My light is about 12"from the plants but moves about daily.
The CCOB done with pretty aggressive LST (IMO which is zero) has created an almost even canopy but one of the ladies is refusing to grow evenly
That's it I think - I feed every few days depending on evaporation and refill, and dump water every 10 days. I have scrubbed the whole system out once.
Here are some pictures from day one to today
Germination, week one, week two, week 4 week 8 roughly
I am always looking to learn from people about growing
This is a Jack Diesel Sativa, grown from seed and in a Wilma Big 4 Dripper system, hydro, 4 plants, in pebbles.
I am using Hesi Hydro Grow Schedule and products, I feed 6 x a day for 15 mins under a 400W Sodium Lamp.
So far been in Veg for 62days, plan on another 7 or so - until they are about 35cm tall from the top of the pot, due to space constraints. I have a 1mx1mx1.80m tent w a big fan and carbon filter. I don't know the details on them with out looking.
I use a small fan to keep the air cool when light is on and to strengthen the stalks w movement. The Res is 50ltrs and the pots are massive for a large root base.
I keep the PH at around 5.7 to 5.9 (5.8 is Positronics' recommended level for veg, then 6 for bloom) and the EC around 1.2 at the moment.
The plants have built VERY slowly up to full strength nutes and showing no problems. I hope they stay like that!
Because they are a sativa dom strain I used the LST method using floristry wire to manipulate the plants to grow around the edge of the pots until the whole surface area was covered using a version of the crop circle of bud method, giving me multiple bud sites and controlling the height of the plants. My light is about 12"from the plants but moves about daily.
The CCOB done with pretty aggressive LST (IMO which is zero) has created an almost even canopy but one of the ladies is refusing to grow evenly
That's it I think - I feed every few days depending on evaporation and refill, and dump water every 10 days. I have scrubbed the whole system out once.
Here are some pictures from day one to today
Germination, week one, week two, week 4 week 8 roughly
I am always looking to learn from people about growing