The Apprentice
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What's up everyone!
This will be my second grow and am uber excited to keep this journal going strong. My first grow was a two plant outdoor grow with synthetic nutes (Emerald Harvest) and it went quite alright but I have finally finished the research and set up my new indoor tent set up. Going fully organic after much reading on this forum (thank you guys btw).
I'll be running 7 plants/strains total all from seed. 3 are autoflower and 4 are feminized. I'll elaborate on why I did this and the theory behind it below the strain and consumables information below.
I'm doing something that I have not found a journal for before so maybe I am the first one... but probably not so if there are any tips or advice please lay them on me! I will probably need some help/advice in the areas of pest prevention, temperature and humidity issues but at this moment in the seedlings lives, I don't think what I currently have is unacceptable and I can wait a couple weeks to get a humidifier or another fan.
For this set up my equipment is as follows:
Equipment
4X4 Gorilla Grow Tent (Not using the extension due to roof limits)
NextLight Mega LED lighting. 650W actual draw but claims 1000W equivalency
Vortex S-Line 6" Fan (This thing looks like a plane engine and is pretty quiet!)
Can-Lite Filter
3, 3 Gallon GeoPot G-Lite pots and 4, 5 gallon G-lite Pots (But one 3 gallon pot is not the G-Lite version and is a bit thicker since the store gave me this one on accident)
I've also got two non-oscillating fans, one pointed at the LED and one pointed at the plants. This part of the set up may change as I figure out the temperature situation.
Now onto the other good stuff...
Consumables
(I really really REALLY wanted to grow some Chiquita Banana or GG#4.. GG4 was clone only and I couldn't get my hands on Chiquita as Utopia Farms and RB haven't released it to the masses so I decided to go with the best strains available in seed. I can still switch up if someone wants to send me one of the mentioned strains.....
lol )
Soil King Big Rootz organic soil
Mr. B's Green Trees Growth and Mr. B's Green Trees Bloom granular top dress
Autoflower strains: Fastbuds Pineapple Express, Fastbuds Girl Scout Cookies, and Cream of the Crop Cash Crop
Feminized strains: Reserva Privada Kosher Kush, Elemental Seeds Honey Bananas, CannaVenture Cookie Wreck, and BlimBurn Seeds Chemdog #4
I started the autoflower strains 1.5 weeks before starting the feminized seeds. The idea behind this is that since autoflower don't need the light to be switched in order to flower, I am going to base my lighting needs on the feminized seeds and let the autos come along for the ride. I'll be going 18/6 for as long as I think the feminized seeds need and I am assuming the autoflowers will be flowering halfway through the veg cycle of the regular plants. When I switch to 12/12 the autos should be a good way through their flowering so when the autos are "done," I'll pull and process them which will leave more light and room for the four photoperiod plants.
I hope that sounds as clever as it did when I thought of that idea... maybe I was just stoned but I'm going to run with it lol.
I also put the autos in the 3 gallon geopots so they will be somewhat more dwarfed.
I don't plan on using much of the Mr. B's Growth since the super soil that I got is supposed to contain everything that my plants need. I might just throw a little bit of it here and there for giggles. I will be using the bloom formula though at full strength when the time comes for flowering.
This picture is sideways but it is the filter and my light
Also sideways, but this is my light panel from NextLight. Doesn't get very hot at all and is always cool to the touch
Sideways but shows the distance of my light and the seedlings. Yeah.... Probably not the best idea to put seedlings under a 650W LED but that is why the height is so far away. I'll move the light to a proper distance when I transplant the 4 photoperiod plants into their 5 gallon pots. Haven't noticed much stretch and they seem happy.
This will be my second grow and am uber excited to keep this journal going strong. My first grow was a two plant outdoor grow with synthetic nutes (Emerald Harvest) and it went quite alright but I have finally finished the research and set up my new indoor tent set up. Going fully organic after much reading on this forum (thank you guys btw).
I'll be running 7 plants/strains total all from seed. 3 are autoflower and 4 are feminized. I'll elaborate on why I did this and the theory behind it below the strain and consumables information below.
I'm doing something that I have not found a journal for before so maybe I am the first one... but probably not so if there are any tips or advice please lay them on me! I will probably need some help/advice in the areas of pest prevention, temperature and humidity issues but at this moment in the seedlings lives, I don't think what I currently have is unacceptable and I can wait a couple weeks to get a humidifier or another fan.
For this set up my equipment is as follows:
Equipment
4X4 Gorilla Grow Tent (Not using the extension due to roof limits)
NextLight Mega LED lighting. 650W actual draw but claims 1000W equivalency
Vortex S-Line 6" Fan (This thing looks like a plane engine and is pretty quiet!)
Can-Lite Filter
3, 3 Gallon GeoPot G-Lite pots and 4, 5 gallon G-lite Pots (But one 3 gallon pot is not the G-Lite version and is a bit thicker since the store gave me this one on accident)
I've also got two non-oscillating fans, one pointed at the LED and one pointed at the plants. This part of the set up may change as I figure out the temperature situation.
Now onto the other good stuff...
Consumables
(I really really REALLY wanted to grow some Chiquita Banana or GG#4.. GG4 was clone only and I couldn't get my hands on Chiquita as Utopia Farms and RB haven't released it to the masses so I decided to go with the best strains available in seed. I can still switch up if someone wants to send me one of the mentioned strains.....
lol )Soil King Big Rootz organic soil
Mr. B's Green Trees Growth and Mr. B's Green Trees Bloom granular top dress
Autoflower strains: Fastbuds Pineapple Express, Fastbuds Girl Scout Cookies, and Cream of the Crop Cash Crop
Feminized strains: Reserva Privada Kosher Kush, Elemental Seeds Honey Bananas, CannaVenture Cookie Wreck, and BlimBurn Seeds Chemdog #4
I started the autoflower strains 1.5 weeks before starting the feminized seeds. The idea behind this is that since autoflower don't need the light to be switched in order to flower, I am going to base my lighting needs on the feminized seeds and let the autos come along for the ride. I'll be going 18/6 for as long as I think the feminized seeds need and I am assuming the autoflowers will be flowering halfway through the veg cycle of the regular plants. When I switch to 12/12 the autos should be a good way through their flowering so when the autos are "done," I'll pull and process them which will leave more light and room for the four photoperiod plants.
I hope that sounds as clever as it did when I thought of that idea... maybe I was just stoned but I'm going to run with it lol.
I also put the autos in the 3 gallon geopots so they will be somewhat more dwarfed.
I don't plan on using much of the Mr. B's Growth since the super soil that I got is supposed to contain everything that my plants need. I might just throw a little bit of it here and there for giggles. I will be using the bloom formula though at full strength when the time comes for flowering.
This picture is sideways but it is the filter and my light
Also sideways, but this is my light panel from NextLight. Doesn't get very hot at all and is always cool to the touch
Sideways but shows the distance of my light and the seedlings. Yeah.... Probably not the best idea to put seedlings under a 650W LED but that is why the height is so far away. I'll move the light to a proper distance when I transplant the 4 photoperiod plants into their 5 gallon pots. Haven't noticed much stretch and they seem happy.
