So I received my seeds today in the mail. Only took 11 days from auction end, can't complain about the speed. I ordered CH9's Jack Fem and I also received 5 seeds Mazar I Sharif. I am growing in a closet which has been sectioned off into a grow area and an equipment area, plan to make the very top shelf of the closet into a florescent clone/mother area. I will be running a 600W HPS with homemade cooltube, homemade carbon filter (only till first pay day then buying a much better can filter), and exhausting with a Stanley blower. Running a 4 plant ebb and flow utilizing an 18 gallon res and plan to install a scrog screen that has 2" holes and the screen will be 2'x2' allowing for 144 tops. I will be running General Hydroponics Flora Series using the lucas ratios. I have four of the CH9 Jacks germing right now, hope to have the system up and running very soon. Here are some pics of the setup without scrog screen and sadly it is missing the plants still.
Moving on up (to the closet from the cab)
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bagseed77
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Well I finally put the seedlings into the system last night. Set the lighting to an 18/6 schedule. The water is simply straight tap water. I am flooding the table every 2 hours for 15 minutes when lights on and once in the middle of the dark cycle, this seems to be too much flooding though. I am going to reset the flood times to maybe once every 3-4 hours of lights on as the rockwool needs to air out alittle more I think, and possibly not at all during the lights off. Well here are some pics I took, not the best quality but not much to see yet:
Well today is day 8 of veg. Nothing much has happened. Got the first set of real leaves. All look good though. I have the PH at 5.8 and the PPM at 300. The temp is at 76* lights on and 65* lights off. Have adjusted the flood tray up further above the res as it was quite difficult to access before. I flood every 4 hours lights on currently none while lights off and seems to be fine. Will increase the flood times as the plants demand more. Here are some pics.
sativa_cyborg13
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nice clean work basement.cant wait to see this operation develop.
BobbleheadJed
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Good work, B420. Fitting our lovely ladies in tight spaces takes a lot of time, but its worth it. It'll be fun to see that closet fill up so thanks for sharing and good luck with this run.
Well time for another update, not much happening here yet. PH at 5.8 and PPMs at 345. Temps around 73* lights on 68* lights off. Bobbleheadjed thanks for stopping by fitting them in this closet has been way easier than in the last cab. GruneErd - I leave the door cracked very slightly and i intake from the bottom of the door, in the fourth pic in this thread you can see the intake grate.
Two weeks later and abit larger plants, though not much bigger. PPMs are only at 430 but I plan to up them this afternoon to something more like 500-600 range. I have topped them all and they stunted abit but are now starting to take back off, I also had some fan trouble and had to shut down the hps for a few days and only was able to get them under a shop light for awhile. So all in all going alright, hope to top once more soon and then put into flowering and weave them into a scrog screen that I have to get built this weekend. Here are some pics, and it is during lights out so they are a little droopy. They perk up after the light is on.
