EvilCowboy420
10-13-2007, 02:39 AM
Alright I decided to grow in my closet. Due to low resources I ended up not having a lot of stuff I needed and killing a few seedlings. This is mainly due to me getting over zealous and thinking I could grow with water a pot and a light. Boy was I wrong.
After spending a lot of time trying to master keeping the plant alive I think I finally got one that is pretty decent. Now I warn that the plant did stretch a bit due to having the wrong lights and other problems that I corrected one at a time. All that said I am starting my little grow log for this little experiment.
The experiment:
I wanted to see how well I could grow cannabis under all natural materials. (Except for lights and wind.) Meaning I didn't want to add anything to my soild mix and anted to make my own compost. So I did some reading about various plants and came up with a compost mixture that I later added to the soil to try to give it a good amount of nutrients.
Ingredients:
My Compost:
1/4 cup coffee grounds (used)
3 crushed and dried egg shells
a nice potting soild with perlite in it I bought from the store(I forgot the brand) I used this stuff on a christmas cactus that was almost dead and on an almost dead african violet. Both now bloom indoors almost all year round.
1/2 cup peat moss.
And I topped the entire mixture after the plant started to grow with some nice fertilized wood chips. The kind used around plants at the bank and walmart and places like that. (Not sure what effect this will have on the plant.
An I finally added worms.
I came up with this mixture due to reading gardening techniques around google about this plant and others. I wanted to see if this mix had a more positive effect or negative on the plant as opposed to one just buried in potting soil.
Well now so far I have 2 plants one is barely out of the dirt and was started 2 days later than the one in the picture below. I couldn't get a picture of that on cause it is too small and not doing so hot (it was the one buried in just dirt.) So both are fairly close in age about 2 1/2 weeks old. I started the LST technique on the one below to help strenghten the stem (mainly because both like I mentioned before are stretched a bit)
I have stopped the stretching completely by making sure the lights are always only 2 inches from the plants at all times. So The are continuing to grow out and not up. (Big thanks to a lot of searches here on getting started.)
Anyhow have a look tell me what you think and if I am missing something here. Oh yeah this is an entirely CFL growgot the 3 pack at walmart for 6 bucks and started the plants with 1 light per plant and the older they get the more lights I am adding I have 4 in total of 40 watts (not the cool whites but the other more orange color ones.)
The LST training was started today and you may be able to see the top already starting to bend back up. I didn't want to stress it too much so I did a very small bend. Like I said to mainly strengthen the stem. I also have a fan on low in there now ocilating. (yet another rookie mistake)
Again any input is appreciated. Thanks again to all the posts on this board.
Again the plant is 2 1/2 weeks old.
Oh yeah my PH tester still hasn't arrived in the mail so I am using water from the tap but aging it 2 days before pouring it on plants. Right now the plants are on an 18/6 light cycle as well.
Also the picture makes the plant look a little lighter than it really is due to the lights being on it hence the glow on the plant.
After spending a lot of time trying to master keeping the plant alive I think I finally got one that is pretty decent. Now I warn that the plant did stretch a bit due to having the wrong lights and other problems that I corrected one at a time. All that said I am starting my little grow log for this little experiment.
The experiment:
I wanted to see how well I could grow cannabis under all natural materials. (Except for lights and wind.) Meaning I didn't want to add anything to my soild mix and anted to make my own compost. So I did some reading about various plants and came up with a compost mixture that I later added to the soil to try to give it a good amount of nutrients.
Ingredients:
My Compost:
1/4 cup coffee grounds (used)
3 crushed and dried egg shells
a nice potting soild with perlite in it I bought from the store(I forgot the brand) I used this stuff on a christmas cactus that was almost dead and on an almost dead african violet. Both now bloom indoors almost all year round.
1/2 cup peat moss.
And I topped the entire mixture after the plant started to grow with some nice fertilized wood chips. The kind used around plants at the bank and walmart and places like that. (Not sure what effect this will have on the plant.
An I finally added worms.
I came up with this mixture due to reading gardening techniques around google about this plant and others. I wanted to see if this mix had a more positive effect or negative on the plant as opposed to one just buried in potting soil.
Well now so far I have 2 plants one is barely out of the dirt and was started 2 days later than the one in the picture below. I couldn't get a picture of that on cause it is too small and not doing so hot (it was the one buried in just dirt.) So both are fairly close in age about 2 1/2 weeks old. I started the LST technique on the one below to help strenghten the stem (mainly because both like I mentioned before are stretched a bit)
I have stopped the stretching completely by making sure the lights are always only 2 inches from the plants at all times. So The are continuing to grow out and not up. (Big thanks to a lot of searches here on getting started.)
Anyhow have a look tell me what you think and if I am missing something here. Oh yeah this is an entirely CFL growgot the 3 pack at walmart for 6 bucks and started the plants with 1 light per plant and the older they get the more lights I am adding I have 4 in total of 40 watts (not the cool whites but the other more orange color ones.)
The LST training was started today and you may be able to see the top already starting to bend back up. I didn't want to stress it too much so I did a very small bend. Like I said to mainly strengthen the stem. I also have a fan on low in there now ocilating. (yet another rookie mistake)
Again any input is appreciated. Thanks again to all the posts on this board.
Again the plant is 2 1/2 weeks old.
Oh yeah my PH tester still hasn't arrived in the mail so I am using water from the tap but aging it 2 days before pouring it on plants. Right now the plants are on an 18/6 light cycle as well.
Also the picture makes the plant look a little lighter than it really is due to the lights being on it hence the glow on the plant.