Femora
Member
Hello there ICMAG!
I've been lurking around for almost a year on CB-forums. This one mostly, looking for inspiration and ideas and I think I finally found out what I want to do!
This thread is something like a warmup for what there is to come but I still wanna share my story and with you and get feedback on my acts. Fails as well as genious moves!
And I really hope I have something to bring to the community!
Learn by misstakes if nothing else!
Well! Here goes nothing!
I live in Sweden at 60+ lat. (Yeah, polarbears roam the streets and its -40C all around the year, or something...)
I got tired of all the people around me that "talk the talk" about growing weed and never doing anything more then talk. So I ordered some AF-seeds from a domestic seedshop last spring. The seeds were from a new breeder called "nordenseeds". AK47x. According to a thread on swecan is it AK47 from Serious seeds & Lowryder#1.
Should suit my cold climate! Perfect!
I hunted down 7 different spots to plant at. I really tried to think about putting them moisty enough after Ive read that dehydration was "common".
Little did I know that the "summer" would bring like more rain then the last 5 all together. When July ended I had 4 plants still alive. The rest was planted probably to wet from the start, and after this spring/summer there was no chance for them...
I can plant them outdoor around 3-4 june if I see a week of sun commin up. There is some old saying that its possible to see frost as late as 8 june.
I thought about it and planted 1 (one poor soul...) high up on a mountain as frost-compensation. Far away from any moist and water in the lowland and guess wich one grew best?
In mid may I pre-vegged my 32(?) babies in a bookshelf at a window.
It was quite a fail. After 3 weeks they hadnt fully rooted the cups 0.4 liters. Not even close acctually, and I recon almost all of them got some root-damage when I transplanted the in the (soon to be mud) earth. I gave each plant about 10 liters of regular plant-soil from the grocerystore.
Due to paranoia didnt I take alot of pics. The final result gave me about 35grams.
Even thou I had to harvest way to early cus of really shitty weather I was more then happy with the outcome concidering my knowledge and experience. The lack in harvest was so compensated by gained experience!
This is some pics from 13-20 aug.
I felt I had to try something again with a few seeds I had left.
Said and done!
I built a box 120*120*160 (4'x 4'x 5'4') and added a 600W HPS, a small bathroom-ventilationfan since smell is not a problem.
1 tablefan just for moving the air around in the box.
Temps between 14-26 degrees.
The 5 ladies stand in 12liter buckets. About 2 liters of claypebbels in the bottom, a mix of 4 liters soil, 1 liter of perlite, 1 liter vercumilite, 1 liter pebbles.
As nutrition ive used orchiid-nutrition for blooming orchids.
On top of that Ive added ½ strength of AN Bud Candy week 1-5 in flower.
I was planning to go all Hydro with another 600w, but this plan failed. Since Im stuck with soil ill get some GHE Maxibloom till next round.
Brb!
I've been lurking around for almost a year on CB-forums. This one mostly, looking for inspiration and ideas and I think I finally found out what I want to do!
This thread is something like a warmup for what there is to come but I still wanna share my story and with you and get feedback on my acts. Fails as well as genious moves!
And I really hope I have something to bring to the community!
Learn by misstakes if nothing else!
Well! Here goes nothing!
I live in Sweden at 60+ lat. (Yeah, polarbears roam the streets and its -40C all around the year, or something...)
I got tired of all the people around me that "talk the talk" about growing weed and never doing anything more then talk. So I ordered some AF-seeds from a domestic seedshop last spring. The seeds were from a new breeder called "nordenseeds". AK47x. According to a thread on swecan is it AK47 from Serious seeds & Lowryder#1.
Should suit my cold climate! Perfect!
I hunted down 7 different spots to plant at. I really tried to think about putting them moisty enough after Ive read that dehydration was "common".
Little did I know that the "summer" would bring like more rain then the last 5 all together. When July ended I had 4 plants still alive. The rest was planted probably to wet from the start, and after this spring/summer there was no chance for them...
I can plant them outdoor around 3-4 june if I see a week of sun commin up. There is some old saying that its possible to see frost as late as 8 june.
I thought about it and planted 1 (one poor soul...) high up on a mountain as frost-compensation. Far away from any moist and water in the lowland and guess wich one grew best?
In mid may I pre-vegged my 32(?) babies in a bookshelf at a window.
It was quite a fail. After 3 weeks they hadnt fully rooted the cups 0.4 liters. Not even close acctually, and I recon almost all of them got some root-damage when I transplanted the in the (soon to be mud) earth. I gave each plant about 10 liters of regular plant-soil from the grocerystore.
Due to paranoia didnt I take alot of pics. The final result gave me about 35grams.
Even thou I had to harvest way to early cus of really shitty weather I was more then happy with the outcome concidering my knowledge and experience. The lack in harvest was so compensated by gained experience!
This is some pics from 13-20 aug.
I felt I had to try something again with a few seeds I had left.
Said and done!
I built a box 120*120*160 (4'x 4'x 5'4') and added a 600W HPS, a small bathroom-ventilationfan since smell is not a problem.
1 tablefan just for moving the air around in the box.
Temps between 14-26 degrees.
The 5 ladies stand in 12liter buckets. About 2 liters of claypebbels in the bottom, a mix of 4 liters soil, 1 liter of perlite, 1 liter vercumilite, 1 liter pebbles.
As nutrition ive used orchiid-nutrition for blooming orchids.
On top of that Ive added ½ strength of AN Bud Candy week 1-5 in flower.
I was planning to go all Hydro with another 600w, but this plan failed. Since Im stuck with soil ill get some GHE Maxibloom till next round.
Brb!