NG2k
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Welcome all to my Northern Lights Organic Stealth Grow The setup:
Grow space of 2’(w) x 1.5’(d) x 4.5’(w).... totalling 3 sq.ft
Lighting is currently a 70W HPS and an extra 80W of CFL’s giving me 50W/sq.ft. but yesterday I bought a 150W HPS which I will use through flower instead of the rest.
Medium is bio-bizz allmix with extra perlite and vermiculite.
Nutes are currently bio-bizz bio-grow and bio-bloom
Ventilation is using an AKASA 120mm PC fan as my exhaust and a PC fan to vent room. Even with all 5 bulbs on temps stay at about 24-28*C during 24/0.
The story:
This is only my second grow but this time round I have tried to use a few of the more advanced techniques just to get some experience under me belt and try something new. I had 3 nirvana northern lights seeds and I vegged them until I found a girl. I was left with 2 boys and a girl so I kept her vegging for about 24 weeks (due to me being lazy and having trouble with cloning) before axing her.
My first batch of clones (wick cloner) died after rooting and the second batch (also in wick cloner) didn’t root. The third (time lucky) batch was a really half-assed effort and I just took some cuttings and put them straight into soil in a seed tray insert. yet these came out the best
. I took 15 cuts off the mother, 4 died immediately after being cloned. Then 3 more died whilst rooting…. Being left with 8, I transplanted up and after a week or so of vegging I chose the best 6 of the bunch and transplanted up again to a mix of 80% All-mix 20% Perlite.
I vegged a week and a half more before transplanting to their finishing pot. After finding out that nuts and seeds contain lots of micronutrients and being in an area with very “hard” water (south UK) some of these can get “locked out”. So I did some research into it and what seeds/nuts contained what and how much etc. and talking to a few growers in chat I finalized these plans and decided to make a little nut/seed recipe to add to my soil….. and make a little experiment of it as it goes.
2 of the clones are kept as a “control” in 80% all-mix 15% Perlite 5% Vermiculite
2 of the clones are in the same mix but with an added low mix of the “recipe”
And 2 of the clones are in the same mix but with a higher mix of the “recipe”
The nut/seed mix was ground up as best as I could but sesame seeds are very small and not all got crushed. I did not realise that they were still viable seeds and that they hadn’t been cooked…. 3 days on when the soil started lifting up round the edges of the pot I then realised when I saw hundreds of little sesame seedlings
. still the experiment goes on I’ll just kill as many as I can. They are now 3 weeks old and ive topped and LST’d many times and it shouldn’t be too long before I add the screen and flip the switch to 12/12. just gotta install that 150W HPS first.
The Pics:
The Space:
The Mother:
The Cuttings:
The Clones Today:
I don’t think ive missed anything out and ive try to include all the pics I can of the mother, the rooting clones and during vegging up until present. Any questions…. Ask away!
Peace NG2k
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