First, the stats and goals:
2x Blueberry Cookies fem (purchased in January 2020 and frozen until now)
Started in rockwool cubes Nov 20th, 2020
50/50 Indica Sativa
Starting as seeds
Indoor 2x4
Hydro
Spider Farmer SF2000
- Veg 3 x 4 ft, Flowering 2 x 4 ft
- Full spectrum LED using Samsung LM301b diodes and two Meanwell drivers.
- I think people are getting 200-ish watts at full power
I plan on using a simple 5 gallon DWC system. I have the 250-280gpm Pawfly air pump and 4" dome stones for bubbles.
I would like to use an Inkbird heat/cool controller to run my 6" exhaust fan, but that depends on if I can find it
All tubing is going to get run through the bucket lids for now.
Buckets will be lined with thick food-safe liners and wrapped in reflective and insulating blackout material so 1.) algae can't take hold and 2.) the solution stays cooler (hopefully).
I'm going to be using General Hydroponics nutrients
Originally I was going to use coir as my netpot medium. I might switch to hydroton as it seems far less messy.
Alright, a little bit about me and this grow:
I'm 41, a disabled vet (crushed discs in my back and shitty knees and a big juicy serving of depression and anxiety). Thus far I have managed my pain with very rare opiate use (maybe twice a year?) and yoga/tai chi. I have a personal hatred for opiates as my mom was an addict and it ended up killing her.
After my mother and grandmother died in 2014 (the entirety of my family minus my own daughter), I slipped into a severe depression. I drank every day, gained 50lbs, and was just a shitshow of a human. This continued on until 2018/19 when Michigan went legal, the VA began researching the effects of cannabis on PTSD, and my good friend gifted me some random clones. Up to that point I kinda felt weed was something the young kids and old hippies did. It never crossed my mind I would enjoy it. Alcohol was my painkiller.
Ohhhh boy was my first grow a hilariously sad affair:
This is what I think was Gelat.OG just before I harvested in 2019. I had 12 plants like this. Be jealous of my ability to produce nothing but larf!
Anyhoo, y'all probably know the story: I started smoking weed. My pain diminished and my mental health vastly improved. Oh, and all sneaky-like...cannabis halted my drinking. I have no idea how...just one day it didn't sound fun anymore. I haven't drank since the start of 2020. I'm excited about life again. I really used to think all the hullabaloo about weed changing lives was at a minimum exaggerated, but most likely nambly-pambly new-ager bunk. I apologize to the community as a whole for just assuming shit. I can be a bit of an old bitch.
THIS year I prepared a little more for my grow.
I discovered Seedsman and Leafly and spent a good amount of time researching strains. I settled on Blueberry, Blueberry Cookies, Gelat.OG, Critical Sour Diesel CBD, and Pink Kush CBD (which went immediately into flower despite being on 18/6 light). I used SubCool's Super Soil recipe and 20 gallon soft pots:
I think I did ok for my second ever grow. Here's a small portion of the harvest I got from the girls above:
So yeah, that's about it for now. Fingers crossed my seeds sprout. ONE QUESTION: How do I format image placement better when using the member gallery? I really don't like the massive one per line arrangement.
Thank you for reading and please please please critique me <3
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