lootznbootz
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HELLO, WELCOME & THANK YOU! 
First of all, thank you for taking the time to click my journal and giving me a moment of your time.Hopefully you find it interesting enough to stick around for the long haul, and if not, I appreciate the read regardless!
A little background into my growing experience...
I first started growing as an attempt to save money and stop risking my freedom having to go buy it.
Go figure!My first attempt was primitive to say the least and looking back its amazing I was able to harvest anything at all.
Aside from my lungs, there was a fire that started in me when I did eventually light up my first bowl.
So naturally my initial motivation of saving money didn't matter and I became obsessed.
As time went on my harvest and journals were able to justify upgrades and I landed at COBs. Which I journaled as well here.
Unfortunately, soon after I Life just kind of happened and I never got the real opportunity to grow the way I wanted to...
until now
I probably moved 10 times since my last grow and no matter where i moved my equipment followed!
I always knew I would grow again, and I guess I've always had the opportunity to throw a tiny tent in the corner, but I didn't want to jump back in it unless I knew I was able to really put in the time/attention this hobby deserves.
That includes keeping a journal.
In the past I have slacked on the updates maybe been a little to nonchalant about it as a whole and i regret it now.
Because the information I do have has been invaluable going back and reading through.
With that said this journal will lack for nothing I can afford!
I will do my best to update more than necessary for the sake of future grows and for the sake of the readers and followers if any who take the time to give input as well.
With that out the way let's get to it shall we?
What strain is it? Purple Bubba Kush, Purple Gorilla Cookies, Coffee Crisps (GreenPoint Seeds)
I do plan on getting more seeds and adding as we go for now
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages? Click names for linked descriptions
Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Seeds on the way
Indoor or outdoor? Indoor
If indoor...Dimensions (L x W x D) of grow space?
Tent 1 2'7"x2'7"x70"
Tent 2 48"x36"x70"
Tent 3 48"x24"x70" (A/C Infinity)
Soil or Hydro? Soil
If soil... what is in your mix? Roots organic original soil
If soil... What size pot? Plan to flower in no larger than 3 gallon pots maybe smaller to fit perpetual cycle
Size of light? (2) 130w Iongrids from A/C Infinity & (5) Citizen CLU048 COBs @1.4a (prebuilt kit from Timber Grow Lights years ago)
Is it aircooled? A/C Infinity 6" Inline fan & filter combo w/ smart controller
Temp of Room/cab? 73F
RH of Room/cab? 45% - 65%
Type and strength of ferts used? Will be using Roots Organics Bottled nutrient line minus a couple of bottles to KISS.
The Setup
So The plan is to have a perpetual garden across multiple tents.Plants will start off in Tent 1 (left) and be put into Tent 2 (Middle) & Tent 3 (right) to flower.
Tent 3 is A/C Infinity's 2x4 but instead of buying the kit I bought it individually so I could get certain specs I felt would be better for what I wanted to do.
To start I went with 2 of their 2x2 lights, instead of the single board they sell with this size kit. I felt it gave me more flexibility over light height, coverage and dealing with multiple strains heights while strain hunting.
Next this tent comes with a 4 in inline fan combo and my first thought was would that be enough.
I tend to err on the side of caution and buy bigger and use less with the ability to have extra room banked just in case.
What's the old saying? "Better to have and not need, than to need and not have."
So, I decided to go with the 6" combo instead.
This tent also has the smart controller, so everything is controlled by that timer's, humidity and temp controls etc.
I have been playing around with the system for a while trying to get an idea of how easy it will be to control the environment in those critical days for the grow and I have to say so far I'm very impressed and excited.
its overall very good quality equipment especially for the new grower or like me those getting back into it and needing new equipment.
The Drivers on these lights are also detachable so when I set everything up I made sure to do that right out the box.
the closet is the perfect spot for it to everything fits so cleanly, which is a major focus with this grow.
Tent 2 is from my Not so Rookie Anymore Journal. It's a basic 4x3 tent from the "global superstore" that has the ability to have a separate 1x4 chamber but I won't be using it.
I will be getting another 6" inline combo w/ smart controller for this tent as well to somewhat retro fit this.
The lights for this tent will be the COBs from my CLU journal. I've had great success with these lights in the past and outside of a few bent pins on a heatsink or two its ready to go.
It's a prebuilt 250w kit from a company called timber grow lights that I unfortunately can't find anymore.
Its 5 CLU048 chips on a meanwell driver at 1.4a
The outside 4 are 4000k
The inside 1 is 3000K
Tent 1 is from my Clu journal. Its 2'7"x2'7" so just slightly under a 3x3 and for this grow will be used as a veg chamber
For this tent we will be vegging under a diy LED bulb fixture that I constructed in a previous grow.
In time I plan on getting another Iongrid light from AC and a 4in inline combo w/smart controller as well so that all 3 tents will be "retrofit".
This will make monitoring all stages and tents much easier and cleaner to be on the same system.
There's no rush on this tho as for now we will be operating solely out of tent 3 until we need room.
At that time well get tent 2 running then tent 1 and hopefully be fully perpetual!
Another Important element to my new setup that I should have invested in years ago!
Having my own source of R/O water is a MAJOR upgrade for me.
My tap water is unusable to say the least. 500+ ppm out the tap and who knows what's in there?!
With this my water is 18ppm and supplies me with about 5 gallons or so a day.
I will still have a routine of making sure to fill up jugs to have a larger supply on hand, but it beats having to go to the store and carry back 20+ gallons every week if not more.
Along with this we will be using the Roots Organic Line with their original soil
Minus one or two bottles that my local shop didn't have in stock this is basically what we'll be using throughout the entire grow at least for the first cycle while we get our feet wet.
Something else I thought was really cool and wanted to mention was AC Infinity their tents and equipment is really well done.
I was completely blown away by the quality and presentation.
Also, their app is pretty useful and once you get the hang of it the data you can see gives a much clearer picture of what's going on inside your tent at all times.
Hopefully with this info well be able to maintain perfect environmental conditions throughout the entire grow and at every stage.
This was all set up and completed and I've been running the system and just tinkering with it letting it equalize and seeing what effects temps humidity etc.
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So originally, I planned on using seeds that I had purchased years ago. I started them in shot glasses saw taproots moved them to solo cups and some went in rapid rooters and then everything kinda just fizzled out.
I don't believe I overwatered or anything like that. (tho it has been some time since I grew, I don't think I'm that rusty)
Then it was suggested I check out Greenpoint Seeds. I Drooled over every single strain I saw.
My original order messed up over the weekend I emailed to cancel it so i can reorder. woke up Monday morning to a cancelation email.
Made my new purchase of Purple Bubba Kush, Purple Gorilla Cookies, and Ponderosa Cookies.
Well then i got wind that there was a black Friday sale going on and so I went ahead and grabbed feminized 6 packs and a 10 pack of regular for these...
- Coffee Crisps
- Bananimal
- Catalina Wine Mixer
- Gelazzi
- Rum Runner
- Texas Toasted
- Fritter dawg (regular)
But when they arrived, I was surprised to see the seeds from my first cancelled order in there as well!
So, I got a free pack of Purple Bubba Kush PLUS every pack of 6 seeds came with 7...
So, idk if they can't count at greenpoint or they are just really generous and believe in their product (I'm sure it's the latter)
So NOW I'll be starting
- 2 Purple Bubba Kush Pre '98 Bubba Kush x Purple Punch
- 2 Purple Gorilla Cookies Purple Punch x Animal Cookies x Gorilla Glue #4
- 2 Coffee Crisps (when it arrives) Pre '98 Bubba Kush x Animal Cookies
- Short flowering indica hybrids perfect for perpetual cycles.
- Greenpoint uses Purple Punch and Animal Cookies for their crosses these 3 give us a good idea of those crosses across 3 different strains as you can see above.
- Black D.o.G
- Cheeslicious
- Fruit SLAP
- Blue OG
- Love Machine (bag seed i started 11/22 from some fire that I'm currently smoking so name is probably wrong asf but that's what we're calling it)
Greenpoint is the star of the show now so well see how they perform.
I am going to start them as they say on their website.
Shot glass of R/O water until they sink once they do Rapid Rooters and a heat mat in the humidity dome in the tent and undisturbed until they poke their heads.
That is where we're at for now. Nothing else to do but wait for the seeds to pop and then we'll have more updates as they come.
Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read and hope to see you all along for the ride!
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