SoilGirl
Well-Known Member
Hi Everyone! - I'm finally ready to start my Indoor Grow Journal... keeping everything short and simple, of course. lol ;]
Before I get started I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here that has welcomed me in the last few months, and shared their great humor, compassion, and endless information with me. You guys rock. I wish I could meet you awesome people and actually get to know you in person, and share a few smokes/vapes along the way
but I can settle for sharing our experiences here. 
Now, in this journal, I will be growing meds for myself and my family, and probably will share some with friends of mine. My Dad has Chronic Traumatic Encephalitis (a concussive brain injury, CTE), chronic back pain, blood clots that could become a pulmonary embolism, insomnia, all sorts of psychological disorders (Ie; aggressive bipolarism, depression, rage problems), and to top it all off, seizures. For him, I got a strain from Medicann called Blue Blood, high in CBD.
For myself, I'm not picky. If it tastes good and it medicates one way or another, I'm happy.
Some things I use medical cannabis for: anxiety, depression, nausea, headaches, pain, insomnia and general boredom.. lol.
My goal for this grow is basically to perpetually grow high quality organic cannabis through the winter and spring, hopefully never running out of buds, or keeping dry spells short, and sharing the ride along the way. I also want to look into CBD oils and ways to use the CBD for my Dad. Finally when time to go back outdoors comes, I want to have some established plants ready to go outside and force flower. I may or may not keep the indoor grow going during my next outdoor grow, we'll see if I can build up a stockpile of meds or not. I will be doing all sorts of LST/HST/possibly Fluxing, topping and fimming, defoling, hand training and etc. I'm all about manipulating plants to get the most reward
My only worry for this grow is that I won't have enough air cooling power for the rooms, and that they'll run too hot. Hopefully not.
Now, to the bullet points.
*What strain is it? So far I have: 1 Medicann Blue Blood, (their cut of OG Kush x a 1998 Blueberry of theirs) which they say to have 15-20% THC and 10% CBD, a 6-10 week flowering time, and medium yield.
I also have 2 Corleone Kush (San Fernando OG Kush cut x Pre-98 Bubba) going, seeds from a friend in NorCal, who thinks they were self pollinated or hermied (these seeds were from a plant he grew from a Cali Connection seed) 8 weeks flower, med/high yield...
1 Red Cherry Berry (BF's best skunk x old school California Indica) from the same guy. It could either be a self-pollination or it might have been pollinated by his hermie Corleone...
1 Ghost OG (a cerebral high OG pheno with lots of rumor and hearsay in its genetic history lol) from a seed I found in a bud from Trill Alternatives, Boulder CO about a year ago.
1 OG Kush from the Greenest Green's (Boulder, CO) Private Reserve. The bud I found the seed in was some of the most phenomenal weed I've ever had. I am freaking stoked that the seedling is growing. Their private reserve is basically their own back-crossed strains, that they sell above top shelf price because it is truly, truly, to-die-for, connoisseur level bud.
1 Euphoria, a clone left from my summer grow, from a seed originally from Trill Alternatives. I've looked up the genetics on euphoria on about a dozen sites, and got a dozen different answers, and Trill's budtender's weren't very knowledgeable so let's leave it at a tasty, citrusy but skunky, Indica Dom. hybrid that turned out to be top shelf meds, but medium yield. Here's that plant:
1 Black Bubba Kush (Black Russian x Bubba Kush) clone left from my summer grow, from a seed originally from Trill Alternatives also. 8-9 weeks flowering time, up to 20% thc, high yielder. Here's that plant:
1 DinaFem Diesel (there's some speculation about genetics here as well, some say it is a Super Skunk-Mexican Sativa x Northern Lights-Afghani with a particularly diesel-fuelly pheno, some say it is bred from the original Soma NYCD, frankly Idk.) donated by that same friend from NorCal. 60-70 day flowering time, fairly mold resistant, high yield.
I'm sure I will also add some strains and maybe stop growing others as time goes by, I'll introduce and announce farewell as we go
*Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?Blue Blood - 70/30 Indica Dominant, Corleone Kush - Indica Dominant 80/20, Red Cherry Berry - sounds like its probably a little indica dominant but with good clarity from the skunk. My friend from Norcal who gave it said "it's a great daytime get-things-done high with indica mellowness." Ghost OG - 70/30 Indica Dominant, OG Kush PR - heavy indica, at least 80% if not more, Euphoria - 80/20 Indica Dominant, Black Bubba Kush - 70/30 Indica Dominant, DinaFem Diesel - Sativa Dominant
*Is it in Veg or Flower stage? All are either seedlings or just starting to veg.
*If in Veg... For how long? Blue Blood's probably been in veg 2 weeks now.
*If in Flower stage... For how long? ~~~
*Indoor or outdoor? I think the title covers this haha.
*Soil or Hydro?...and this
*If soil... what is in your mix? This is my formal declaration of procrastination, I'll cover this in a follow-up post very soon.
*If soil... What size pot? Basically every size up to 10 gallons. I have 4 10 gallon fabric smart pots, 2 10 gallon air pots, 1 7 gallon air pot, and tons of normal pots 7 gallon sized and down. For seedlings, a Solo cup or like-sized plastic container. I'll go more in depth as to what size pot for which plant as we go.
*Size of light? I have one Mars II 1600w LED and 2 Old Model 100x3w LED's from our sponsor, Top LED's. I also have one 240w Blackstar Hydro Flowering LED Panel, one 90w High Power GrowUFO from Sunshine Systems, one 125w fluorescent bulb with reflector, and half a dozen clamp CFL's.
*Is it aircooled? Kind of. There's two air conditioning vents in the garage, one inside the flowering room. Otherwise no, no fancy ducting or anything like that. I just hope it will be enough, along with the winter weather.
*Temp of Room/cab? Mid 70's so far
*RH of Room/cab? Fluctuates between 30% and 55% so far
*PH of media or res? pH is something I make a point of avoiding checking now that I'm all organic and know better. All I'm going to worry about is keeping my soil alive, so it can keep the pH under control by itself.
*Any Pests ? Random gnats, houseflies, and the random unwelcome UFO invader every once in a while. I had spider mites inside my ghetto fabulous clone dome, I'm not using it anymore so, hopefully they're gone.. I found a cockroach in the veg room too.. :O
*How often are you watering? Whenever the top layer of soil gets crusty and dry while my seedlings are still small. When they're older I use the first knuckle rule: if its dry to the first knuckle it needs water, if it isn't, it typically doesn't. Otherwise I just watch for a little slight droop that tells me its time to water.
*Type and strength of ferts used? Oh you mean that smelly gunky liquid stuff they sell in bottles that you have to mix in every watering? I also now make a point of avoiding those lol. All the nutrition my plants need to thrive is in their soil, being made available throughout the grow. I amend my soils and let them cook for some time, and use them in three stages like PeeJay does; seedling, veg, and flowering soils that totally pamper your plants for each stage of their life, naturally and organically. I won't need to do anything but add clean water, although I may brew a couple teas and do a few top dressings.
Alright now lets take a look at the grow rooms and their construction, I'll introduce the plants soon.
Before I get to the pictures lol, sorry for the old pics, you can tell which ones were from my phone and which were from my camera. I recently got a camera and I think eveyone here is happy about that lol. I wasn't much of a phone photographer as you'll soon see...
OK, grow rooms, I'll start at the beginning for those who didn't follow my summer journal. I have to use half of our 2 car garage as my grow space. This wasn't ideal but I needed to make it work so first things first, I had to make sure no light would escape and give me away. Colorado or no, I don't want to advertise my growing. And my garage door is a nightmare scenario for this... its so full of holes and cracks I just said there's no patching it and, first, I covered the whole thing (and several feet of wall around it) with a few layers of moving blankets, stapled and taped in around the wall so they will stay up. then I moved all the shelves and toolboxes and crap in our garage (did I mention I had to clean our full-of-junk garage out?) that had to stay in there against the garage door, its not opening any time soon so it's just another wall now. This gave me a pretty spacious area to grow... you can see the covered garage door and shelves in front of it in this pic:
I later covered that with another layer of mylar where my veg room was walled by the garage door. No light leaks. yay!
The next step in blocking any light leaks was light proofing the door to the garage, and a window that was in the flowering room. There's cardboard under the tape.
Here was the veg area before it got any attention, just a little spilled over mylar from setting up the flowering room.
and here was the flowering room after the first day of setting it up.
To hang the mylar space blankets (lol hey, not all of us can afford those fancy mylar rolls!) I had to MacGuyver some cardboard to the ceiling with a staple gun, then tape and staple the mylar to the bottom of the cardboard. Pretty? No. But it will help grow pretty things, and that's good enough for me!
To hang the lights I found some studs and screwed in some bike hooks to the ceiling. Then I did the same thing on the wall to use as an anchor, and a big rope to tie my Mars II 1600 (32 lbs!) up. Maybe 4 yo-yo's could hold that light lol, but 1, fat chance.
To separate the flowering room from the veg, I used a similar approach to the garage door. I stapled in a bunch of moving blankets to either side of a ceiling beam that seemed like it was in the perfect spot to use as a separator, and hung them down until just 2 feet off the floor. For the last 2 feet at the bottom I stacked a bunch of flattened boxes against each other. then I put another layer of blankets on the other side to keep the boxes standing, like a sandwich lol. Then over the blankets went mylar space blankets. blankets on blankets, lol. And eventually a veg room emerged.
But the flowering room still was an empty shell for quite a while.
After a while I got things straightened out. The flowering room got its mylar drapes finished so it is pretty much light proof, more hooks got hung in the ceiling and LED's and CFL's went up, and I gathered my electrical stuff to get the timers and extension cords hooked up. All that I needed was plants to fill either room up, which is what we're getting to now! I also got a new camera hahaha, here's the flowering room as of today.
So the flowering room is rectangular, 11 ft. 6 inches long against the back wall, then 10 ft long along the outer drapes (there's a sink that takes up a foot and a half of that on one side), and is about 6 feet wide. The Veg room is a 5 by 8 ft. area.
In these pics you can see how I'm using the garage door roller bar that was there as a beam to tie my clamp CFL's to towards the back of the veg room. lol. And well.. that's pretty much it for grow room set up, I have many more crappy phone pics of the whole thing but I will spare you guys them.
Now with no further ado, it's time to introduce you to the plants. (hopefully ladies!)
Here is.... Blue Blood #1! I didn't get any seedling pics of her, but she sprouted 9-23-14. Now she's in early veg, I also topped her twice very early. Signs of some kind of deficiency/issue, but I'm not very worried, I'm sure it will straighten out soon. BB#1 is the oldest plant inside so far.
This is Corleone Kush #1!
This one is my little mutant, my first ever mutant. Maybe the heat during germination caused it. Dunno. Maybe she'll straighten out, if not I still think the buds will end up good... with any luck. The first cotyledons died early, but the tiny serrated leaves somehow survived, though it stunted it. In the first pic she is the front row on the right, dark green pot. Born (sprouted) 10-08-14
ok... I'll continue on another post, that's enough for one lol. Like I said, short and simple.
Before I get started I just wanted to say thanks to everyone here that has welcomed me in the last few months, and shared their great humor, compassion, and endless information with me. You guys rock. I wish I could meet you awesome people and actually get to know you in person, and share a few smokes/vapes along the way
but I can settle for sharing our experiences here. Now, in this journal, I will be growing meds for myself and my family, and probably will share some with friends of mine. My Dad has Chronic Traumatic Encephalitis (a concussive brain injury, CTE), chronic back pain, blood clots that could become a pulmonary embolism, insomnia, all sorts of psychological disorders (Ie; aggressive bipolarism, depression, rage problems), and to top it all off, seizures. For him, I got a strain from Medicann called Blue Blood, high in CBD.
For myself, I'm not picky. If it tastes good and it medicates one way or another, I'm happy.
Some things I use medical cannabis for: anxiety, depression, nausea, headaches, pain, insomnia and general boredom.. lol.
My goal for this grow is basically to perpetually grow high quality organic cannabis through the winter and spring, hopefully never running out of buds, or keeping dry spells short, and sharing the ride along the way. I also want to look into CBD oils and ways to use the CBD for my Dad. Finally when time to go back outdoors comes, I want to have some established plants ready to go outside and force flower. I may or may not keep the indoor grow going during my next outdoor grow, we'll see if I can build up a stockpile of meds or not. I will be doing all sorts of LST/HST/possibly Fluxing, topping and fimming, defoling, hand training and etc. I'm all about manipulating plants to get the most reward
My only worry for this grow is that I won't have enough air cooling power for the rooms, and that they'll run too hot. Hopefully not.
Now, to the bullet points.
*What strain is it? So far I have: 1 Medicann Blue Blood, (their cut of OG Kush x a 1998 Blueberry of theirs) which they say to have 15-20% THC and 10% CBD, a 6-10 week flowering time, and medium yield.
I also have 2 Corleone Kush (San Fernando OG Kush cut x Pre-98 Bubba) going, seeds from a friend in NorCal, who thinks they were self pollinated or hermied (these seeds were from a plant he grew from a Cali Connection seed) 8 weeks flower, med/high yield...
1 Red Cherry Berry (BF's best skunk x old school California Indica) from the same guy. It could either be a self-pollination or it might have been pollinated by his hermie Corleone...
1 Ghost OG (a cerebral high OG pheno with lots of rumor and hearsay in its genetic history lol) from a seed I found in a bud from Trill Alternatives, Boulder CO about a year ago.
1 OG Kush from the Greenest Green's (Boulder, CO) Private Reserve. The bud I found the seed in was some of the most phenomenal weed I've ever had. I am freaking stoked that the seedling is growing. Their private reserve is basically their own back-crossed strains, that they sell above top shelf price because it is truly, truly, to-die-for, connoisseur level bud.
1 Euphoria, a clone left from my summer grow, from a seed originally from Trill Alternatives. I've looked up the genetics on euphoria on about a dozen sites, and got a dozen different answers, and Trill's budtender's weren't very knowledgeable so let's leave it at a tasty, citrusy but skunky, Indica Dom. hybrid that turned out to be top shelf meds, but medium yield. Here's that plant:
1 Black Bubba Kush (Black Russian x Bubba Kush) clone left from my summer grow, from a seed originally from Trill Alternatives also. 8-9 weeks flowering time, up to 20% thc, high yielder. Here's that plant:
1 DinaFem Diesel (there's some speculation about genetics here as well, some say it is a Super Skunk-Mexican Sativa x Northern Lights-Afghani with a particularly diesel-fuelly pheno, some say it is bred from the original Soma NYCD, frankly Idk.) donated by that same friend from NorCal. 60-70 day flowering time, fairly mold resistant, high yield.
I'm sure I will also add some strains and maybe stop growing others as time goes by, I'll introduce and announce farewell as we go
*Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages?Blue Blood - 70/30 Indica Dominant, Corleone Kush - Indica Dominant 80/20, Red Cherry Berry - sounds like its probably a little indica dominant but with good clarity from the skunk. My friend from Norcal who gave it said "it's a great daytime get-things-done high with indica mellowness." Ghost OG - 70/30 Indica Dominant, OG Kush PR - heavy indica, at least 80% if not more, Euphoria - 80/20 Indica Dominant, Black Bubba Kush - 70/30 Indica Dominant, DinaFem Diesel - Sativa Dominant
*Is it in Veg or Flower stage? All are either seedlings or just starting to veg.
*If in Veg... For how long? Blue Blood's probably been in veg 2 weeks now.
*If in Flower stage... For how long? ~~~
*Indoor or outdoor? I think the title covers this haha.
*Soil or Hydro?...and this
*If soil... what is in your mix? This is my formal declaration of procrastination, I'll cover this in a follow-up post very soon.
*If soil... What size pot? Basically every size up to 10 gallons. I have 4 10 gallon fabric smart pots, 2 10 gallon air pots, 1 7 gallon air pot, and tons of normal pots 7 gallon sized and down. For seedlings, a Solo cup or like-sized plastic container. I'll go more in depth as to what size pot for which plant as we go.
*Size of light? I have one Mars II 1600w LED and 2 Old Model 100x3w LED's from our sponsor, Top LED's. I also have one 240w Blackstar Hydro Flowering LED Panel, one 90w High Power GrowUFO from Sunshine Systems, one 125w fluorescent bulb with reflector, and half a dozen clamp CFL's.
*Is it aircooled? Kind of. There's two air conditioning vents in the garage, one inside the flowering room. Otherwise no, no fancy ducting or anything like that. I just hope it will be enough, along with the winter weather.
*Temp of Room/cab? Mid 70's so far
*RH of Room/cab? Fluctuates between 30% and 55% so far
*PH of media or res? pH is something I make a point of avoiding checking now that I'm all organic and know better. All I'm going to worry about is keeping my soil alive, so it can keep the pH under control by itself.
*Any Pests ? Random gnats, houseflies, and the random unwelcome UFO invader every once in a while. I had spider mites inside my ghetto fabulous clone dome, I'm not using it anymore so, hopefully they're gone.. I found a cockroach in the veg room too.. :O
*How often are you watering? Whenever the top layer of soil gets crusty and dry while my seedlings are still small. When they're older I use the first knuckle rule: if its dry to the first knuckle it needs water, if it isn't, it typically doesn't. Otherwise I just watch for a little slight droop that tells me its time to water.
*Type and strength of ferts used? Oh you mean that smelly gunky liquid stuff they sell in bottles that you have to mix in every watering? I also now make a point of avoiding those lol. All the nutrition my plants need to thrive is in their soil, being made available throughout the grow. I amend my soils and let them cook for some time, and use them in three stages like PeeJay does; seedling, veg, and flowering soils that totally pamper your plants for each stage of their life, naturally and organically. I won't need to do anything but add clean water, although I may brew a couple teas and do a few top dressings.
Alright now lets take a look at the grow rooms and their construction, I'll introduce the plants soon.
Before I get to the pictures lol, sorry for the old pics, you can tell which ones were from my phone and which were from my camera. I recently got a camera and I think eveyone here is happy about that lol. I wasn't much of a phone photographer as you'll soon see...
OK, grow rooms, I'll start at the beginning for those who didn't follow my summer journal. I have to use half of our 2 car garage as my grow space. This wasn't ideal but I needed to make it work so first things first, I had to make sure no light would escape and give me away. Colorado or no, I don't want to advertise my growing. And my garage door is a nightmare scenario for this... its so full of holes and cracks I just said there's no patching it and, first, I covered the whole thing (and several feet of wall around it) with a few layers of moving blankets, stapled and taped in around the wall so they will stay up. then I moved all the shelves and toolboxes and crap in our garage (did I mention I had to clean our full-of-junk garage out?) that had to stay in there against the garage door, its not opening any time soon so it's just another wall now. This gave me a pretty spacious area to grow... you can see the covered garage door and shelves in front of it in this pic:
I later covered that with another layer of mylar where my veg room was walled by the garage door. No light leaks. yay!
The next step in blocking any light leaks was light proofing the door to the garage, and a window that was in the flowering room. There's cardboard under the tape.
Here was the veg area before it got any attention, just a little spilled over mylar from setting up the flowering room.
and here was the flowering room after the first day of setting it up.
To hang the mylar space blankets (lol hey, not all of us can afford those fancy mylar rolls!) I had to MacGuyver some cardboard to the ceiling with a staple gun, then tape and staple the mylar to the bottom of the cardboard. Pretty? No. But it will help grow pretty things, and that's good enough for me!
To hang the lights I found some studs and screwed in some bike hooks to the ceiling. Then I did the same thing on the wall to use as an anchor, and a big rope to tie my Mars II 1600 (32 lbs!) up. Maybe 4 yo-yo's could hold that light lol, but 1, fat chance.
To separate the flowering room from the veg, I used a similar approach to the garage door. I stapled in a bunch of moving blankets to either side of a ceiling beam that seemed like it was in the perfect spot to use as a separator, and hung them down until just 2 feet off the floor. For the last 2 feet at the bottom I stacked a bunch of flattened boxes against each other. then I put another layer of blankets on the other side to keep the boxes standing, like a sandwich lol. Then over the blankets went mylar space blankets. blankets on blankets, lol. And eventually a veg room emerged.
But the flowering room still was an empty shell for quite a while.
After a while I got things straightened out. The flowering room got its mylar drapes finished so it is pretty much light proof, more hooks got hung in the ceiling and LED's and CFL's went up, and I gathered my electrical stuff to get the timers and extension cords hooked up. All that I needed was plants to fill either room up, which is what we're getting to now! I also got a new camera hahaha, here's the flowering room as of today.
So the flowering room is rectangular, 11 ft. 6 inches long against the back wall, then 10 ft long along the outer drapes (there's a sink that takes up a foot and a half of that on one side), and is about 6 feet wide. The Veg room is a 5 by 8 ft. area.
In these pics you can see how I'm using the garage door roller bar that was there as a beam to tie my clamp CFL's to towards the back of the veg room. lol. And well.. that's pretty much it for grow room set up, I have many more crappy phone pics of the whole thing but I will spare you guys them.
Now with no further ado, it's time to introduce you to the plants. (hopefully ladies!)
Here is.... Blue Blood #1! I didn't get any seedling pics of her, but she sprouted 9-23-14. Now she's in early veg, I also topped her twice very early. Signs of some kind of deficiency/issue, but I'm not very worried, I'm sure it will straighten out soon. BB#1 is the oldest plant inside so far.
This is Corleone Kush #1!
This one is my little mutant, my first ever mutant. Maybe the heat during germination caused it. Dunno. Maybe she'll straighten out, if not I still think the buds will end up good... with any luck. The first cotyledons died early, but the tiny serrated leaves somehow survived, though it stunted it. In the first pic she is the front row on the right, dark green pot. Born (sprouted) 10-08-14
ok... I'll continue on another post, that's enough for one lol. Like I said, short and simple.
.... we are in quite a lot more of an environmental dilemma then most people realize... I digress though... lol. 
