PakaCordova
New Member
So here we go. My first journal for my first grow!
Since I am new to this, any advice would be greatly appreciated if you see me doing something completely wrong. I am not a master grower but I hope to be one some day and today marks the start of that journey.
My Goals
I want to be able to provide myself with my own top notch natural medication. I am not looking to go big, just a nice self sustaining perpetual system to supply the myself with the meds that I need. I want to learn all there is to know about this wonderful plant and ways to produce the best possible yields from it. I hope to learn a lot from fellow enthusiasts so please feel free to lend me any advice you may have that could help me along the way.
Future Plans
Light is being provided by CFLs (I will have pics below) but I would love to step up my lights to LEDs. I have heard a lot of great things about them and I think CFLs may limit my final harvest from reaching it's maximum potential.
I also want to try hydroponics. Whether it is deep water culture, ebb and flow, aeroponics, the soiless growing method fascinates me. I think I will go for a simple DWC setup on my first attempt. Something like this: Viagrow Black Bucket Deep Water Culture Hydroponic System-V1DWC - The Home Depot I need to do a lot more homework before trying it out though. I still need to learn about feeding, nute balancing, ppms, water info etc.
My Current Setup For This Grow
Feminized Beans by Dinafem - Strain is Blue Kush 55% Sativa / 45% Indica Blue Kush – Buy Blue Kush feminized cannabis seeds
Tent #1 / Lighthouse Hydro 4' x 2' - vegging
Tent #2 / Lighthouse Hydro 4' x 2' - flowering
Lights / 2 banks of 4x23W Daylight CFLs in each tent (hope to upgrade soon)
Air is extracted by a 440 CFM fan pulling from both tents to a central scrubber box housing the carbon filter
Soil / Foxfarm Ocean Forest + Roots Organic + Perlite + Dolomite Lime mixed
Nutes / Foxfarm Nutrient Trio
Water / Tap balanced to around 6.0 ph
Let's get to it!
Since I had 2 smaller tents, I didnt want to have 2 carbon filters so I drew up a diagram for my airflow. It has changed slightly from this but this is the basic layout. The only difference now is my drying box feeds into my flowering tent and then it is pulled from the flowering tent to the scrub box. 4" duct from veg tent to scrub box, 6" duct from flower tent to scrub box and 4" duct from drying box to flower tent.
Here is my fan and filter that I will be using once you start smelling that good stink.
Here is a shot of my veg tent right after I set it up. SO MUCH SPACE FOR ACTIVITIES!
My light is produced by CFLs and I hope to step up my game to some LEDs. Preferrably Mars Hydro
Nov 29, 2014
I picked up my Dinafem Feminized Blue Kush beans
Nov 30, 2014
The next day I decided to germ using wet paper towels. It worked pretty well because within 12 hours I had this little guy.
Dec 3, 2014
ITS ALIVE, ITS ALIVE!
This is not my Foxfarm soil. I moved to Foxfarm a bit later because I wasn't happy with this initial soil.
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 6, 2014
Dec 7, 2014
Dec 8, 2014
Oh cool, green moss growing on the inside of my flower pot...WAIT WTF!!! I thought I was a genius that I started my plant in a clear painters cup so I could see how wet the soil was. Yeah, don't do that or you will get some green moss growing in your soil. I think it may have screwed up my soil for a bit. Stupid me.-
-
I grabbed a roll of black duct tape and taped the out side of my pot. Hopefully this fixes it.
Dec 10, 2014
Dec 11, 2014
Dec 12, 2014
Dec 13, 2014
Dec 14, 2014
That mossy soil was still in the back of my mind so I grabbed a 0.7 gallon pot and transplanted her. This is where I used my new soil mix of Foxfarm Ocean Forest mixed with Roots Organic + perlite + dolomite lime.
Dec 15, 2014
Dec 16, 2014
Dec 17, 2014
First topping!!
She didn't like that at all...sad girl.
Dec 18, 2014
She's all good!
Ok, so I took a lot of pictures. I have pics from pretty much every day but I will skip a few days because this is getting ridiculous. I love my plant and I dont want to bore you with pics from every single day lol.
Dec 19, 2014
As I post the next day's picture...
Dec 21, 2014
Dec 23, 2014
The wrinkling of the leaves were driving me crazy but I was assured that it was nothing to worry about.
Since I am new to this, any advice would be greatly appreciated if you see me doing something completely wrong. I am not a master grower but I hope to be one some day and today marks the start of that journey.
My Goals
I want to be able to provide myself with my own top notch natural medication. I am not looking to go big, just a nice self sustaining perpetual system to supply the myself with the meds that I need. I want to learn all there is to know about this wonderful plant and ways to produce the best possible yields from it. I hope to learn a lot from fellow enthusiasts so please feel free to lend me any advice you may have that could help me along the way.
Future Plans
Light is being provided by CFLs (I will have pics below) but I would love to step up my lights to LEDs. I have heard a lot of great things about them and I think CFLs may limit my final harvest from reaching it's maximum potential.
I also want to try hydroponics. Whether it is deep water culture, ebb and flow, aeroponics, the soiless growing method fascinates me. I think I will go for a simple DWC setup on my first attempt. Something like this: Viagrow Black Bucket Deep Water Culture Hydroponic System-V1DWC - The Home Depot I need to do a lot more homework before trying it out though. I still need to learn about feeding, nute balancing, ppms, water info etc.
My Current Setup For This Grow
Feminized Beans by Dinafem - Strain is Blue Kush 55% Sativa / 45% Indica Blue Kush – Buy Blue Kush feminized cannabis seeds
Tent #1 / Lighthouse Hydro 4' x 2' - vegging
Tent #2 / Lighthouse Hydro 4' x 2' - flowering
Lights / 2 banks of 4x23W Daylight CFLs in each tent (hope to upgrade soon)
Air is extracted by a 440 CFM fan pulling from both tents to a central scrubber box housing the carbon filter
Soil / Foxfarm Ocean Forest + Roots Organic + Perlite + Dolomite Lime mixed
Nutes / Foxfarm Nutrient Trio
Water / Tap balanced to around 6.0 ph
Let's get to it!
Since I had 2 smaller tents, I didnt want to have 2 carbon filters so I drew up a diagram for my airflow. It has changed slightly from this but this is the basic layout. The only difference now is my drying box feeds into my flowering tent and then it is pulled from the flowering tent to the scrub box. 4" duct from veg tent to scrub box, 6" duct from flower tent to scrub box and 4" duct from drying box to flower tent.
Here is my fan and filter that I will be using once you start smelling that good stink.
Here is a shot of my veg tent right after I set it up. SO MUCH SPACE FOR ACTIVITIES!
My light is produced by CFLs and I hope to step up my game to some LEDs. Preferrably Mars Hydro
Nov 29, 2014
I picked up my Dinafem Feminized Blue Kush beans
Nov 30, 2014
The next day I decided to germ using wet paper towels. It worked pretty well because within 12 hours I had this little guy.
Dec 3, 2014
ITS ALIVE, ITS ALIVE!
This is not my Foxfarm soil. I moved to Foxfarm a bit later because I wasn't happy with this initial soil.
Dec 4, 2014
Dec 6, 2014
Dec 7, 2014
Dec 8, 2014
Oh cool, green moss growing on the inside of my flower pot...WAIT WTF!!! I thought I was a genius that I started my plant in a clear painters cup so I could see how wet the soil was. Yeah, don't do that or you will get some green moss growing in your soil. I think it may have screwed up my soil for a bit. Stupid me.-
-
I grabbed a roll of black duct tape and taped the out side of my pot. Hopefully this fixes it.
Dec 10, 2014
Dec 11, 2014
Dec 12, 2014
Dec 13, 2014
Dec 14, 2014
That mossy soil was still in the back of my mind so I grabbed a 0.7 gallon pot and transplanted her. This is where I used my new soil mix of Foxfarm Ocean Forest mixed with Roots Organic + perlite + dolomite lime.
Dec 15, 2014
Dec 16, 2014
Dec 17, 2014
First topping!!
She didn't like that at all...sad girl.
Dec 18, 2014
She's all good!
Ok, so I took a lot of pictures. I have pics from pretty much every day but I will skip a few days because this is getting ridiculous. I love my plant and I dont want to bore you with pics from every single day lol.
Dec 19, 2014
As I post the next day's picture...
Dec 21, 2014
Dec 23, 2014
The wrinkling of the leaves were driving me crazy but I was assured that it was nothing to worry about.
