derkommissar
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Goal: To harvest 3+ oz per plant in a 70 day max grow using available items/space from my existing grow rooms with out interfering with the regular grows. This will hopefully add up to a 150-200oz harvest. It’s shooting for the stars but I feel good about my odds here. If nothing else I haven’t seen anyone try this...
Stain: Heavyweight Seeds ‘Fast and Vast’ advertised as “... reach its full potential in 7 careful weeks” Not sure what careful is....
Method.
Working this in and around my existing grows to maximize the rooms potential and also try other things....
This might seem all schizophrenic now but trust me, there is a plan behind all this:
week 1: seed starting in root riots. (Currently in day 3)
weeks 2-4ish using my currently empty 48x60 flood table I will place the plugs in 4x4 rockwool cubes and let them veg under 8x4' T-5s using a shallow flood and drain method. The end of this cycle will be determined by the needs of my next regular grow cycles need for the table. I currently have a problem-child grow in what is normally my bloom room which I converted to a high powered veg room by changing the HPS for MH and adjusting the timers. Had some mysterious issues that all but stopped growth. We think it was over watering...but that’s another post.
Whatever it was they’re doing better now and they are out of my way for the time being.
Weeks 5-8
This where things get creative. I am building break-down 12'x7' cold frames from 2x4 & ½" pvc and some other off the shelf items. 2 of these mini-greenhouses will be used to accommodate a total of 50 plants. The greenhouses will be used in the late April/early may months when it’s really to cold to put them directly outdoors.
Each of these will feature 8-10 23w 6500k CFLs running along the top of the greenhouse which will be lit as supplemental light at night running off my generator (read my first grow if that generator statement is surprising) it’s not a lot of light but it’s some light, this, combined with the sun should bump yields up.
The plant’s, already in rockwool will be CAREFULLY planted in 3 gal pots in promix with some additives (bone meal/worm castings etc). Note the word carefully and check the post in the future about this transplant.... careful is good.
Weeks 8-X
the plants will be moved to a hillside and mixed in with some scrubby brush and honeysuckle until they reach harvest time. I’m hoping to have them outdoors by the 3rd week in May and have them harvested by the last week in June.
For Nutrients I will be using Greenleaf A/N knockoffs, specifically their version of B-52, Bud Ignitor, Bud candy, Bid Bud and a few others, pretty much the majority of the A/N products. For base I will use Advanced sensi grow/bloom... no sense being silly about it.
I have already done the basic cutting and drilling for 1 greenhouse but then the weather went shitty so tomorrow I will assemble and start figuring out the covering.
The seeds are planted and sprouted (49 of 50 so far and I think #50 will pop too)
The 3 gallon buckets, ProMix, Worm Shit, Bone Meal, etc is in the barn ready to go as is the nutrients. The light bulb bases and bulbs are in the shop too so aside from the other materials for cold frame #2 and some little shit I have the vast majority of this bought and ready.
Any questions or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
Stain: Heavyweight Seeds ‘Fast and Vast’ advertised as “... reach its full potential in 7 careful weeks” Not sure what careful is....
Method.
Working this in and around my existing grows to maximize the rooms potential and also try other things....
This might seem all schizophrenic now but trust me, there is a plan behind all this:
week 1: seed starting in root riots. (Currently in day 3)
weeks 2-4ish using my currently empty 48x60 flood table I will place the plugs in 4x4 rockwool cubes and let them veg under 8x4' T-5s using a shallow flood and drain method. The end of this cycle will be determined by the needs of my next regular grow cycles need for the table. I currently have a problem-child grow in what is normally my bloom room which I converted to a high powered veg room by changing the HPS for MH and adjusting the timers. Had some mysterious issues that all but stopped growth. We think it was over watering...but that’s another post.
Whatever it was they’re doing better now and they are out of my way for the time being.
Weeks 5-8
This where things get creative. I am building break-down 12'x7' cold frames from 2x4 & ½" pvc and some other off the shelf items. 2 of these mini-greenhouses will be used to accommodate a total of 50 plants. The greenhouses will be used in the late April/early may months when it’s really to cold to put them directly outdoors.
Each of these will feature 8-10 23w 6500k CFLs running along the top of the greenhouse which will be lit as supplemental light at night running off my generator (read my first grow if that generator statement is surprising) it’s not a lot of light but it’s some light, this, combined with the sun should bump yields up.
The plant’s, already in rockwool will be CAREFULLY planted in 3 gal pots in promix with some additives (bone meal/worm castings etc). Note the word carefully and check the post in the future about this transplant.... careful is good.
Weeks 8-X
the plants will be moved to a hillside and mixed in with some scrubby brush and honeysuckle until they reach harvest time. I’m hoping to have them outdoors by the 3rd week in May and have them harvested by the last week in June.
For Nutrients I will be using Greenleaf A/N knockoffs, specifically their version of B-52, Bud Ignitor, Bud candy, Bid Bud and a few others, pretty much the majority of the A/N products. For base I will use Advanced sensi grow/bloom... no sense being silly about it.
I have already done the basic cutting and drilling for 1 greenhouse but then the weather went shitty so tomorrow I will assemble and start figuring out the covering.
The seeds are planted and sprouted (49 of 50 so far and I think #50 will pop too)
The 3 gallon buckets, ProMix, Worm Shit, Bone Meal, etc is in the barn ready to go as is the nutrients. The light bulb bases and bulbs are in the shop too so aside from the other materials for cold frame #2 and some little shit I have the vast majority of this bought and ready.
Any questions or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
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