Not my first time growing but my previous grow was way back in 2000. So much more info. is available now vs. then that I decided I wanted to start again. This is my first attempt at a grow journal so sorry if I leave anything out or post anything irrelevant.
Here's the basic info:
Strains: (3)Girl Scout Cookies, (2) King Louie XIII, and (3) XXX 9 clones total Supposed flowering time 8-9 weeks
I got the clones from House of Clones in Van Nuys on 11/22/14
I placed the rooted clones into 6" hugo rockwool cubes and placed them into 9" buckets with hydroton at the bottom and sides around the cubes. Placed the 9 plants into a home made flood and drain system.
Light: 430W Son Agro HPS
Grow Space: It's inside a shower space 4x3x8, the home made flood table is only about 3x2
Ventilation comes from a window in bathroom left open during light cycle with a window fan blowing in fresh air into room also 1 oscillating fan blowing air over canopy.
Day temperature usually 75-80, humidity 55-60%
Night temperature drops drastically at night in So. Cal but the room temp drops about 10 degrees to about 65 degrees. I was getting high humidity at night due to closing window at night to prevent light leakage. One night it was at 90% so I now leave the window open at all times and just make sure to cover the opening to prevent light. So far so good. The humidity at night stays below 60%. Ideally I would be using a dehumidifier. Im hoping to get one in the next few days to try and drop the humidity down to under 40% in hopes of increasing resin on the plants.
Nutrients: GH Flora 3 part, FF Open Sesame, M.O.A.B., Bud Candy
For feeding I've been following the Useless's GH feeding schedule.
The clones were in vegetation for a little over 4 weeks. They were flipped to 12/12 on Christmas day 12/25.
They were put to flower when they were about 10 inches in height. Not sure because I've been using LST on them from the beginning to get them to grow out and wide so it was hard to determine the actual height had they not been LST'd. The Girl Scout Cookies grew bushy with alot side branches and bud sites that with using LST have become colas. They are about 24 inches in height when I untie the branches.The XXX's are short stocky plants that stayed short pretty even after putting into flower. The 2 King Louie's struggled early on. It took forever for them to grow roots out the bottom of the cubes. I would say it took a good 3 weeks to see roots finally come out of the cubes. They barely had branches or leaves, very viney looking plant, thin weak branches. I top hand fed them for a while until they established good roots and they started to look alot better with no sign of deficiencies but it took a while to figure it out and by that time the others were ready to put into flower so I went ahead and put the King Louie's into flower and happy I didn't get rid of them when I thought they were dying in veg.
The first week of flowering I added FF Open Sesame to my base nutrients. I got some samples of M.O.A.B. from my local hydro store and started using it at 1tsp per 5 gallons and reduced my base nutrient by 50% in week 4.
Week 5 I stopped using M.O.A.B. and added Bud Candy at 2.5 ml per liter to full strength nutes. Week 6 same. Now currently in week 7 I added M.O.A.B. at 2tspns per 5 gallons and base nutrients at 50% along with the Bud Candy PPM at 1600 -1700 PH 5.8. I've seen alot of bud sites on the plants but hadn't seen much fattening up until now in week 7. Don't know if it's the PK spike from the M.O.A.B. or if it's just the week they're in. There are still alot of white hairs on the plants although alot have turned brown. Need to pick up a hand held microscope to look at trichomes and check them constantly. I don't like couch lock weed so I want to harvest when the trichomes are cloudy not amber.
Here's the basic info:
Strains: (3)Girl Scout Cookies, (2) King Louie XIII, and (3) XXX 9 clones total Supposed flowering time 8-9 weeks
I got the clones from House of Clones in Van Nuys on 11/22/14
I placed the rooted clones into 6" hugo rockwool cubes and placed them into 9" buckets with hydroton at the bottom and sides around the cubes. Placed the 9 plants into a home made flood and drain system.
Light: 430W Son Agro HPS
Grow Space: It's inside a shower space 4x3x8, the home made flood table is only about 3x2
Ventilation comes from a window in bathroom left open during light cycle with a window fan blowing in fresh air into room also 1 oscillating fan blowing air over canopy.
Day temperature usually 75-80, humidity 55-60%
Night temperature drops drastically at night in So. Cal but the room temp drops about 10 degrees to about 65 degrees. I was getting high humidity at night due to closing window at night to prevent light leakage. One night it was at 90% so I now leave the window open at all times and just make sure to cover the opening to prevent light. So far so good. The humidity at night stays below 60%. Ideally I would be using a dehumidifier. Im hoping to get one in the next few days to try and drop the humidity down to under 40% in hopes of increasing resin on the plants.
Nutrients: GH Flora 3 part, FF Open Sesame, M.O.A.B., Bud Candy
For feeding I've been following the Useless's GH feeding schedule.
The clones were in vegetation for a little over 4 weeks. They were flipped to 12/12 on Christmas day 12/25.
They were put to flower when they were about 10 inches in height. Not sure because I've been using LST on them from the beginning to get them to grow out and wide so it was hard to determine the actual height had they not been LST'd. The Girl Scout Cookies grew bushy with alot side branches and bud sites that with using LST have become colas. They are about 24 inches in height when I untie the branches.The XXX's are short stocky plants that stayed short pretty even after putting into flower. The 2 King Louie's struggled early on. It took forever for them to grow roots out the bottom of the cubes. I would say it took a good 3 weeks to see roots finally come out of the cubes. They barely had branches or leaves, very viney looking plant, thin weak branches. I top hand fed them for a while until they established good roots and they started to look alot better with no sign of deficiencies but it took a while to figure it out and by that time the others were ready to put into flower so I went ahead and put the King Louie's into flower and happy I didn't get rid of them when I thought they were dying in veg.
The first week of flowering I added FF Open Sesame to my base nutrients. I got some samples of M.O.A.B. from my local hydro store and started using it at 1tsp per 5 gallons and reduced my base nutrient by 50% in week 4.
Week 5 I stopped using M.O.A.B. and added Bud Candy at 2.5 ml per liter to full strength nutes. Week 6 same. Now currently in week 7 I added M.O.A.B. at 2tspns per 5 gallons and base nutrients at 50% along with the Bud Candy PPM at 1600 -1700 PH 5.8. I've seen alot of bud sites on the plants but hadn't seen much fattening up until now in week 7. Don't know if it's the PK spike from the M.O.A.B. or if it's just the week they're in. There are still alot of white hairs on the plants although alot have turned brown. Need to pick up a hand held microscope to look at trichomes and check them constantly. I don't like couch lock weed so I want to harvest when the trichomes are cloudy not amber.
