Sweaty Gorilla
04-08-2011, 09:56 PM
Hi everyone, and welcome to my log. This will be my first grow, and consequentially my first grow log. Set up is rather basic, but I am only growing for myself, and as long as I end up with a decent medicine that is at least as good as the bag weed I medicate with now, and gain some experience, then I will be satisfied. I have studied hard and prepared as well as I can, and??? buckle up??.here we go???.. Excited yet? ???I am!!!!
Any criticism, advice, or guidance along the way would be extremely helpful. Thanks.
This Log is for my own benefit, and will be kept for reference material; my additional commentary or questions segment will be added to the version posted here. Likewise, any useful guidance I receive on here as the grow progresses will be saved to my log at home.
This will be an all soil, indoor grow in FF happy frog, using the FF nutrient trio on their recommended dosage schedule with only a slow tapered start as opposed to their recommended doses at start. Additionally, during flower I will also add FF soluble trio at recommended schedule. I have three 4ft T5 racks, 4 lamp each, for vegging in a 3.25 ft. x 4.25 ft. x 4ft tall veg room. A single 1k watt HPS w/ 4x4 hexagonal reflector will be used in a 6x6x6.75 tall flower room. May need to learn low height techniques, not sure if this is enough clearance? Also concerned I may run out of space prematurely to sexing in my Veg room. So I??m prepared to kill a few weaklings. Veg room is vented into flower room with a light sealed duct through a 4inch turbine can fan. Flower is vented out through 8inch turbine can charcoal filter combo. Both fans are adjustable speed. I have dehumidifier, humidifier, heater, and AC. 16 inch oscillating fan for air movement in flower, 8inch oscillator in veg. Walls are Mylar lined. PH testing is done with a combination of strips and droplet test, I??m trying both methods. Not satisfied, and probably going to buy a ph. pen. Hydro-something or other brand ph. down is used to adjust water. All water is tap water allowed to set for at least one day before use.
Based on my desired yield, and knowing that several would die, and wanting ability to weed out a few, and planning for 50% female ratio?..I started 25 fat ??tiger striped? seeds using paper towel method. Two never popped tails while the rest were ready to go, so 23 germinated seeds were planted in Rockwool moistened with ph. adjusted water, under one rack of 4 ft. T5 on a 18/6 schedule, and on a heated seedling mat under a humidity dome, kept at 80 degrees F. 18 popped up within a few hours, four of them never had the seed leaves come apart and stayed curled up and I let them die. All remaining seedlings spent next 5 days in rockwool under above conditions. Log Starts after that.
I have 14 seedlings from bag weed of unknown genetics, been saving all the ripe ones from the times I get a bag that seems stronger than normal ??..side note, Im not talking about Mexican brick weed. Where I live almost all bag weed is field grown locally in mountain valleys with clear stream water, local legend among the few growers I have met is that the origins of most Canadian field weed grown today was originally seeded with a few potent hybrids that came out of WA state, and BC in the late 80??s. They say it??s some kind of High altitude SW Asian indica x South American sativa, IDK? But I do know that it??s much better medicine than the Mexican that makes it up here every once in a while when the local crop is short?????. Already one of them looks much more indica than the others, it is definitely just as developed, but proportionately the leaves just look more compact and fat.. IDK??
I know it may be too early to tell on any of them, and really it doesn??t matter, there all bag seed, I??m just learning.
4/7/2011 Seedling day 1:
Color is healthy looking green on all plants. Humidity 50% and temp of 77 degree F. Transplanted all seedlings into ½ gallon pots. Labeled my plants A-N. Placed in two rows of seven, each row under one 4 ft. 4 lamp T5 Rack, Lights are 18/6 and about 3 inches above tops of plants Watered. Runoff on all plant saucers is slightly above 6.5 I turned on my humidifier and set to 60%.
Question of the day:
I have placed three Agromax grow bulbs, and one Agromax bloom bulb in each rack. I know they need more blue green lights right now, but I think they are getting enough, and I did this to provide some spectrum balance based on reading I have done, if I am off base with this, then please give your advice.
Plants A and B are noticeably stunted in growth, and if they don??t do a quick turnaround I am afraid the matrix will find out and they will be processed for termination. But seriously, all other seedlings are between 1 ½ and 2 inches tall and starting second set of true leaves. Strange? plants A & B are about half size of the rest in every aspect, leaf size, stem thickness and length, yet they are starting second set of leaves as well. It is almost as if they are just as developed as the rest, but half size?
4/8/2011 Seedling day 2:
All plants color is visually healthy. Soil feels slightly damp on surface. Today I??m reading humidity 60%, Temp 90.5 degree F. No runoff to test. Ventilation duct got partially blocked by a carelessly placed water pot yesterday. Not sure how long plants were exposed to that temperature. I moved the pot and temp stabilized at 77.4 within 5-10 minutes. Some plants have leaf tips looking crisp and pointed towards the lights, some have leaf tips looking a little less crisp and ever so slightly curled downward, and a few others are prominently curled down?
Question of the day:
I have not started any nutrients yet even though FF feeding schedule says that their Big Bloom (0 .01-0.3-0.7), is safe for seedlings at all stages? Is this true or should I continue to wait another 8-10 days as planned? Has anyone used this product on early stage seedlings? If so, At what dose? How did they tolerate it? Was there any noticeable growth improvement as opposed to waiting until two weeks
Any criticism, advice, or guidance along the way would be extremely helpful. Thanks.
This Log is for my own benefit, and will be kept for reference material; my additional commentary or questions segment will be added to the version posted here. Likewise, any useful guidance I receive on here as the grow progresses will be saved to my log at home.
This will be an all soil, indoor grow in FF happy frog, using the FF nutrient trio on their recommended dosage schedule with only a slow tapered start as opposed to their recommended doses at start. Additionally, during flower I will also add FF soluble trio at recommended schedule. I have three 4ft T5 racks, 4 lamp each, for vegging in a 3.25 ft. x 4.25 ft. x 4ft tall veg room. A single 1k watt HPS w/ 4x4 hexagonal reflector will be used in a 6x6x6.75 tall flower room. May need to learn low height techniques, not sure if this is enough clearance? Also concerned I may run out of space prematurely to sexing in my Veg room. So I??m prepared to kill a few weaklings. Veg room is vented into flower room with a light sealed duct through a 4inch turbine can fan. Flower is vented out through 8inch turbine can charcoal filter combo. Both fans are adjustable speed. I have dehumidifier, humidifier, heater, and AC. 16 inch oscillating fan for air movement in flower, 8inch oscillator in veg. Walls are Mylar lined. PH testing is done with a combination of strips and droplet test, I??m trying both methods. Not satisfied, and probably going to buy a ph. pen. Hydro-something or other brand ph. down is used to adjust water. All water is tap water allowed to set for at least one day before use.
Based on my desired yield, and knowing that several would die, and wanting ability to weed out a few, and planning for 50% female ratio?..I started 25 fat ??tiger striped? seeds using paper towel method. Two never popped tails while the rest were ready to go, so 23 germinated seeds were planted in Rockwool moistened with ph. adjusted water, under one rack of 4 ft. T5 on a 18/6 schedule, and on a heated seedling mat under a humidity dome, kept at 80 degrees F. 18 popped up within a few hours, four of them never had the seed leaves come apart and stayed curled up and I let them die. All remaining seedlings spent next 5 days in rockwool under above conditions. Log Starts after that.
I have 14 seedlings from bag weed of unknown genetics, been saving all the ripe ones from the times I get a bag that seems stronger than normal ??..side note, Im not talking about Mexican brick weed. Where I live almost all bag weed is field grown locally in mountain valleys with clear stream water, local legend among the few growers I have met is that the origins of most Canadian field weed grown today was originally seeded with a few potent hybrids that came out of WA state, and BC in the late 80??s. They say it??s some kind of High altitude SW Asian indica x South American sativa, IDK? But I do know that it??s much better medicine than the Mexican that makes it up here every once in a while when the local crop is short?????. Already one of them looks much more indica than the others, it is definitely just as developed, but proportionately the leaves just look more compact and fat.. IDK??
I know it may be too early to tell on any of them, and really it doesn??t matter, there all bag seed, I??m just learning.
4/7/2011 Seedling day 1:
Color is healthy looking green on all plants. Humidity 50% and temp of 77 degree F. Transplanted all seedlings into ½ gallon pots. Labeled my plants A-N. Placed in two rows of seven, each row under one 4 ft. 4 lamp T5 Rack, Lights are 18/6 and about 3 inches above tops of plants Watered. Runoff on all plant saucers is slightly above 6.5 I turned on my humidifier and set to 60%.
Question of the day:
I have placed three Agromax grow bulbs, and one Agromax bloom bulb in each rack. I know they need more blue green lights right now, but I think they are getting enough, and I did this to provide some spectrum balance based on reading I have done, if I am off base with this, then please give your advice.
Plants A and B are noticeably stunted in growth, and if they don??t do a quick turnaround I am afraid the matrix will find out and they will be processed for termination. But seriously, all other seedlings are between 1 ½ and 2 inches tall and starting second set of true leaves. Strange? plants A & B are about half size of the rest in every aspect, leaf size, stem thickness and length, yet they are starting second set of leaves as well. It is almost as if they are just as developed as the rest, but half size?
4/8/2011 Seedling day 2:
All plants color is visually healthy. Soil feels slightly damp on surface. Today I??m reading humidity 60%, Temp 90.5 degree F. No runoff to test. Ventilation duct got partially blocked by a carelessly placed water pot yesterday. Not sure how long plants were exposed to that temperature. I moved the pot and temp stabilized at 77.4 within 5-10 minutes. Some plants have leaf tips looking crisp and pointed towards the lights, some have leaf tips looking a little less crisp and ever so slightly curled downward, and a few others are prominently curled down?
Question of the day:
I have not started any nutrients yet even though FF feeding schedule says that their Big Bloom (0 .01-0.3-0.7), is safe for seedlings at all stages? Is this true or should I continue to wait another 8-10 days as planned? Has anyone used this product on early stage seedlings? If so, At what dose? How did they tolerate it? Was there any noticeable growth improvement as opposed to waiting until two weeks