Hi peeps,
After long and thoughtful consideration, that has lasted a good 13 years, I have come to the conclusion that the time has come for me to start a grow diary.
This run I have procured myself
(over the years as I am broke AF due to disability):
a mylar tent 90cm x 90cm x 180cm
(present from a friend, had it a few years now)
EDIT:
a marsh idro 150W LED meant to cover 1mx1m
(admittedly I have been starving myself to make enough money to afford this one)
the MH has been moved to a different tent, it was briefly supplanted by a V-Tac Outdoors beam 200W 3000k-5000k
And now by a DIY LED solution which will yield better results from now on.
a 100W UFO LED
(yup, them old cans still works after 10 years)
a 9pot blumat system
(got that off a farmer that was moving to hydro, not my friend)
a 200L bag of the finest grass soil
(a week worth of food)
Perlite
(friend)
Vermiculite
(also friend)
Diatomecious earth
(no beer for 2 weeks)
GHE nutrients, the usual 3 cans of N+micronutes, full spectrum, and P+K buffer
(friend)
almost forgot:
Bathroom vent and fan to move the air (the house I live in)
20 random seeds from my bag of "seeds I find around the house after seed runs" and the genetics vary wildly from Dutch skunks, Landraces, Heirloom and crosses I myself have made of these over the years.
(priceless)
so yeah, after years of growing with the cheapest (often dangerous) solutions and conditions that would make you want to tear your hair from your scalp just thinking about it, I decided to try and do things better, this time around, and pamper myself, and my plants, and let the selection over the years express itself in its full glory.
(or not, as this is a quality control run tbh)
I started with 20 seeds between wet toilet paper sheets, I ended up with 15 seeds popping.
I will let these grow straight into 12/12 without vegetative phase, this is both meant to test the reaction of the plants to photoperiod as I have some autoflower mixes in there and to keep the more wild NLD from growing too tall. I will further select for vigour and rate of growth....kinda sad now that this is a flower run...oh well.
This is what it looks like a week in (the white stuff is diatomecious earth that I mix with water and spray over the young ones so that thrips, nematodes or any other little fucker don't eat my babies as I do not sterilize the soil.
(I am a proud Live Soil proponent when it comes to growing weed for quality and not quantity, the flavour and medicinal power just aint the same when grown hydro, but that is just my own very not humble opinion)
and now, without further ado, here are the babies
I'm also growing some bamboo I was gifted by a friend and a tobacco plant (the tobacco keeps thrips and fungus gnats from taking over the tent, works better than fly paper) and yes, there is a San Pedro in the back (it's actually healthy, dunno why it looks brown), I apologize for the sepia color but I was using the old samsung COB and that has 2000K light I use for blooming and the camera for some reason made it look gloomy as hell.
Here's a better one under the Marsh I draw
I hope to find at least 6 strong females to make me some bud ^^^
I will be posting every week with updates.
After long and thoughtful consideration, that has lasted a good 13 years, I have come to the conclusion that the time has come for me to start a grow diary.
This run I have procured myself
(over the years as I am broke AF due to disability):
a mylar tent 90cm x 90cm x 180cm
(present from a friend, had it a few years now)
EDIT:
(admittedly I have been starving myself to make enough money to afford this one)
the MH has been moved to a different tent, it was briefly supplanted by a V-Tac Outdoors beam 200W 3000k-5000k
And now by a DIY LED solution which will yield better results from now on.
a 100W UFO LED
(yup, them old cans still works after 10 years)
a 9pot blumat system
(got that off a farmer that was moving to hydro, not my friend)
a 200L bag of the finest grass soil
(a week worth of food)
Perlite
(friend)
Vermiculite
(also friend)
Diatomecious earth
(no beer for 2 weeks)
GHE nutrients, the usual 3 cans of N+micronutes, full spectrum, and P+K buffer
(friend)
almost forgot:
Bathroom vent and fan to move the air (the house I live in)
20 random seeds from my bag of "seeds I find around the house after seed runs" and the genetics vary wildly from Dutch skunks, Landraces, Heirloom and crosses I myself have made of these over the years.
(priceless)
so yeah, after years of growing with the cheapest (often dangerous) solutions and conditions that would make you want to tear your hair from your scalp just thinking about it, I decided to try and do things better, this time around, and pamper myself, and my plants, and let the selection over the years express itself in its full glory.
(or not, as this is a quality control run tbh)
I started with 20 seeds between wet toilet paper sheets, I ended up with 15 seeds popping.
I will let these grow straight into 12/12 without vegetative phase, this is both meant to test the reaction of the plants to photoperiod as I have some autoflower mixes in there and to keep the more wild NLD from growing too tall. I will further select for vigour and rate of growth....kinda sad now that this is a flower run...oh well.
This is what it looks like a week in (the white stuff is diatomecious earth that I mix with water and spray over the young ones so that thrips, nematodes or any other little fucker don't eat my babies as I do not sterilize the soil.
(I am a proud Live Soil proponent when it comes to growing weed for quality and not quantity, the flavour and medicinal power just aint the same when grown hydro, but that is just my own very not humble opinion)
and now, without further ado, here are the babies
I'm also growing some bamboo I was gifted by a friend and a tobacco plant (the tobacco keeps thrips and fungus gnats from taking over the tent, works better than fly paper) and yes, there is a San Pedro in the back (it's actually healthy, dunno why it looks brown), I apologize for the sepia color but I was using the old samsung COB and that has 2000K light I use for blooming and the camera for some reason made it look gloomy as hell.
Here's a better one under the Marsh I draw
I hope to find at least 6 strong females to make me some bud ^^^
I will be posting every week with updates.
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A surprise Grow!
). This here is a 4 way cross between Alien Gorilla, Kerala Auto Xtreme and Orange Bud at 75 days from seed.
aufwiederzen mein freund, Ich didz Nazi dis koming
