First Medical Grow: Soilless

[dray86man]

Here's what I've got going:

Strain - Barney's Farm Acapulco Gold and some clone my neighbor gave me (Brand X).
# of Plants - 32 (20 Gold, 12 Brand X)
Grow Type - Soil
Grow Stage - Flower
Bucket Size - 5 Gallon "nursery sized"
Lights - 1 1000K on a Light Rail 2.0
Nutrients - General Hydronponics Flora Nova Series w/ Kool Bloom, home brewed compost tea and home brewed willow water.
Medium - Pro Mix BX
PPM -
PH - Shoot for low 6's in nute mix
RH - About 50%
Room Temperature - 70-71F day, 66F nite
Nute Temperature - 62-66F
Room Square Footage - 14' x 6.5' x 8' high
Pests - None Known
Pest Control Regimen: Hot Shot Pest Strips, one per 200 cubic feet of grow space.
Ventilation Exhaust: Can Fan 6", variable speed
Ventilation Supply: Passive or Can Fan 6", variable speed.
Began flower: 11-11-12.

Clone Room, 5' x 5' walk in closet w/ T5 bank or 125W CFLs:

Main grow room:

Exhaust:

Supply:

Clone after moving to main room:

Ten days after moving into clone room:

About 16 days after flowering.

 

[Sativa3]

Looking good man Keep up the great work!

 

[dray86man]

Can't forget about the next garden. Here's the

Wave of the Future

 

[dray86man]

Compost Tea Time

Bit bored this afternoon, so decided to brew a batch of compost tea for use this weekend. Mine's pretty simple:

10 gal water treated to remove chloramine, about 75-80F

150 ml Aquashield

2 scoops ZHO powder

1 sock fulla' worm castings

250g sugar

Adjust ph of water, brew, and serve to soilless plants in flower & mother plants. Also a couple of gallons for the neighbor.

 

[dray86man]

Trim the Fan Leaves?

Nope. Not me. Doesn't make sense; fan leaves provide much more energy to the plant; they're not "suckers" that require removal.

 

[dray86man]

Flower, Day 19

We be rockin' man!

Hittin' ALL my marks in terms of nutes, light, air, and temps. Grow room performing better than I could have imagined during design phase.

 

[dray86man]

Ten gallons of compost tea fed only about 20 of 32 plants.

Made up another 10 gallon bath for use 12-3-12 p.m. after work.

Note to self: be certain large nute tank is available next go-round so we's can brew up 20 gallons of compost tea.

 

[Truth Seeker]

How did this grow turn out?

We would love to be updated with some pictures and info!

How about posting a 420 Strain Review?

If you need any help with posting photos, please read the photo gallery tutorial:
Photo Gallery Guide - How to Resize, Upload & Post Photos

I am moving this to Abandoned Journals until we get updates.

Thanks and hope all is well in your world.

Love and respect from all of us here at 420 Magazine.

 

[dray86man]

Sorry for not keeping things current.

The first grow was an utter disaster. Small, stringy bud, no density, and leggy plants.

Mistake #1: crowding too many plants into too small a space.

Mistake #2: using Micro Coat pot coating. The coating stunted the root growth, interfered w/ nutrient uptake, and basically stunted the overall growth of the plants.

Super discouraging after the successes I enjoyed w/ cloning & the beginnings of the vegetative phase.

Unsure if I want to continue growing after that major meltdown. Hundreds of dollars and untold hours spent on grow room design & build. Hundreds of dollars and countless hours spent on the grow, only to have it tank.


All that time researching and attempting to do things correctly, and nothing. The shit I grew couldn't get a flea high.