hi welcome to the bungalow, ensconced in a leafy 'burb with the usual characters and crafty squirrels. I am planning a high brix grow but got gifted the joys of transmission rebuild costs along with suspension rebuild as well (self employed in a rough trade and the truck takes a beating) so most likely the clones i want to cut from GDP will be headed to that luxury later. Fair warning syntax grammar spelling and lines of logic - all up for grabs in this mans hands so if your inner grammar nazi is easily triggered an extra hit or two of th Indica is reasonable before browsing further. Oh also I repeat things from time to time, brain damage and it's many gifts just keeps giving.
So what is the breakdown? Whelp, ive got a HO CFl light that's is fairly old at this point and the seeds cracked under that And in fact GDP (day three) is still under it. but the long term grow is as follows
Lights; Mars II 300 w and a 280w
Soil is a homemade LOS, that is all the soil I have used (FoxFarms Ocean) mixed with egg shells banana peels some mulch and garden waste mixed and composted with bat guano some lime and crushed rock aged about six months and tested out at 6.0 PH two days ago. Not at all as bad ass as a High Brix but given the circumstances it will do I hope.
Grow Space; yeah that is an evolving situation but it is a PVC 40 x 40 inch 8 foot tall frame lined with reflective thermal blankets and awaiting the light proof dark plastic as soon as I wash dry and re assemble it from last winter's grow. Set up is in my office no filters as of yet but its in the works.
Water; good old rain water usually though I also use filtered tap (5.9 ish as tested over the year.) which as soon as I can order up a sunleaves bubbler pump I shall be making teas and just aerating the water as well.
The Seeds: Bonza Seed Bank provided the services, well done folks. Sweet Seeds Dark Devil Auto, Grand Daddy Purp Original GDP with the freebies Blue Mammoth Auto and Jock Horror Fem. That will do nicely enough eh?
Nutes: for DD probably little to none the rest get the fox farms treatment, though Biobizz looks interesting the try pack on e tay for about 23 dollars. we'll see
Autos: get topped and LST'd
Photos: bent and bent again till silly. longer veg period. restraints will be used.
So far one hiccup, my first Dark Devil on day two suffered an attack from an insect terrorist organization cell housed in my soil. Cue the scene of my sifting soil this am in me undies on the back porch rooting out the jackals and sending them to the yarden for re education. Yesterday I started soaking DD2 in paper towels this morning the seed was just barely getting the tap root out. Impressive timeline as i usually find myself waiting days for results. After pondering what to do about any further attacks I recalled the use of cloches back in the days of my youth and decided some of the larger drinking glasses around the house looked good upside down so currently one is over the new seedling which sits in it's only container for the grow a 5 gallon fabric pot, which is the same size for the Blue Mammoth auto as well. GDP gets a beefy 7 gallon as I'm turning that into a total topped and LST'd monstah should I get it that far. The Jock Horror will wait on the sidelines most likely for a Spring Summer outdoorsy effort.
Oh shoot yeah another thing I ran a hybrid program last run Orange Bud male x Zamaldelica and one of the seeds is in soil hopefully germinating as I type this. If it is a male I will keep the pollen for some experiments. Also am def ordering more DD seeds.
I am in debt to Sweet Sue and Arteekay for their incredible journals and efforts contained therein; their efforts sparked this.
photos once I can show you something other than dirt and a gdp seedling.
So what is the breakdown? Whelp, ive got a HO CFl light that's is fairly old at this point and the seeds cracked under that And in fact GDP (day three) is still under it. but the long term grow is as follows
Lights; Mars II 300 w and a 280w
Soil is a homemade LOS, that is all the soil I have used (FoxFarms Ocean) mixed with egg shells banana peels some mulch and garden waste mixed and composted with bat guano some lime and crushed rock aged about six months and tested out at 6.0 PH two days ago. Not at all as bad ass as a High Brix but given the circumstances it will do I hope.
Grow Space; yeah that is an evolving situation but it is a PVC 40 x 40 inch 8 foot tall frame lined with reflective thermal blankets and awaiting the light proof dark plastic as soon as I wash dry and re assemble it from last winter's grow. Set up is in my office no filters as of yet but its in the works.
Water; good old rain water usually though I also use filtered tap (5.9 ish as tested over the year.) which as soon as I can order up a sunleaves bubbler pump I shall be making teas and just aerating the water as well.
The Seeds: Bonza Seed Bank provided the services, well done folks. Sweet Seeds Dark Devil Auto, Grand Daddy Purp Original GDP with the freebies Blue Mammoth Auto and Jock Horror Fem. That will do nicely enough eh?
Nutes: for DD probably little to none the rest get the fox farms treatment, though Biobizz looks interesting the try pack on e tay for about 23 dollars. we'll see
Autos: get topped and LST'd
Photos: bent and bent again till silly. longer veg period. restraints will be used.
So far one hiccup, my first Dark Devil on day two suffered an attack from an insect terrorist organization cell housed in my soil. Cue the scene of my sifting soil this am in me undies on the back porch rooting out the jackals and sending them to the yarden for re education. Yesterday I started soaking DD2 in paper towels this morning the seed was just barely getting the tap root out. Impressive timeline as i usually find myself waiting days for results. After pondering what to do about any further attacks I recalled the use of cloches back in the days of my youth and decided some of the larger drinking glasses around the house looked good upside down so currently one is over the new seedling which sits in it's only container for the grow a 5 gallon fabric pot, which is the same size for the Blue Mammoth auto as well. GDP gets a beefy 7 gallon as I'm turning that into a total topped and LST'd monstah should I get it that far. The Jock Horror will wait on the sidelines most likely for a Spring Summer outdoorsy effort.
Oh shoot yeah another thing I ran a hybrid program last run Orange Bud male x Zamaldelica and one of the seeds is in soil hopefully germinating as I type this. If it is a male I will keep the pollen for some experiments. Also am def ordering more DD seeds.
I am in debt to Sweet Sue and Arteekay for their incredible journals and efforts contained therein; their efforts sparked this.
photos once I can show you something other than dirt and a gdp seedling.
I feed our birds and squirrels a lot, especially in the winter. This year our squirrels took some of the corn and planted it in front of my house. Only a couple stalks grew so we let them keep it. They're not very good farmers though. They harvested way too early. Only one little corn cob is left now. 
like the spirit Fuzznutter.
