My Parijuanas. DWC Ghetto Style

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Welcome to my Ghetto Parijuanas!

This is my attempt at growing some seeds that I picked up from a seed dealer at last year's Hempfest. At Hempfest I make these really cool maple pipes on my wood turning lathe and give them out or trade them for stuff. (I'll post pics of the pipes later).

Anyway, I asked the guy for some good indoor hydro seeds and he gave me a bag of (10) Kali Mist X Thitantic in trade for one of my pipes.

So, the fun began. I took 4 of the seeds and did the wet paper towel thing in styrofoam cups. I covered the cups with cling-wrap to keep the moisture in. I sat the cups on top of my server's monitor. I use my server's monitor because it is never on...it just sits in standby mostly and emits less heat than an active screen.

I also had a baggie of seeds I collected over the past year that I affectionately called my Happy Hippy Fun Trail Mix.

So, I got these little styrofoam cups all over my house now just hoping something good will happen. Prior to this, my luck with plants hasn't been good. I couldn't grow ice cubes in Alaska.

So anyway then I wait a few days.....

Well, not 1 of my Trail Mix seeds sprouted. But all 4 of my good seeds got their tap root out in 3 days. Joy!

That's great I said! But...I had no soil...no pots...no lights...no nutes....no money...nothing. So, I had to think fast of something to do.

I got my shovel and went out in the back yard and dug up some grass where the dog doesn't pee and filled my blue recycling bin with dirt and worms I shook out of the grass. (My blue bin is now my permanent compost bin / worm farm and it's doing surprisingly well with many new baby worms over the past month and lots of castings.)

I had no pots either, so I cut the bottoms off 500ml water bottles, turned them upside down, and filled them with some of the dirt I baked in the oven. (yummy)

I really didn't want to use dirt but I had no other medium to start a hydro grow.

My next problem was to build something for my "net pots" to sit in. The first thing I used was a wallpaper tray with a styrofoam cover with holes cut into it.

After that, I "found" a bigger tray and made a custom top out of slats of MDF.

I didn't have an air pump and the pet store in the mall closed down and I was stuck. I called my dad up and told him I needed the air pump from the old aquarium. My excuse was that my friend gave my his piranhas. Hence....my Parijuanas were born! Whenever I need a ride to the pet store or hydro store I just blame it on something I need for the fish. :cool:

Pics of roots

Pic of roots floating in nutes with water pump splashing making the bubbles to provide O2.

This plant here got really stressed out because the pH was right out of whack for the first month. I started this grow with no Ph tester at first. When I finally got the Ph kit, I was totally off the chart on the high end. The plant started to go a bright light green on all new growth.

When I got the Ph lowered, the plant started growing dark green again. You can see the dark green new growth since Ph is now maintained.

My pH Test Kit

My Nutes

General Hydroponics 3 part and Mother Earth Organic Grow Tea or some crap.

thats pretty decent :thumbsup:
Plants look good for the ghetto set up
1/2 Soil grow 1/2 Hydro
what kind of Nutes did you use?

When I first started this grow I had no lights to use. So I did what anyone would do...went down to the basement and ripped out the 4 foot shop light flouros and mounted them above the "fish tank". When my friend saw my sorry ass set up he donated a 400w MH to the cause. Whoopee! So, with more lights, I felt at ease to germanate the rest of my good seeds and I made another tray.

Just for fun, I'm trying to grow a few with no media at all except for a half a chunk of rockwool. These photos are about a week old and the plants have since exploded in growth and the roots are crazy. In fact, the ones with no media are growing faster than the ones in half dirt. But will they survive? We'll have to see!

haha youre crazy. i love it!
roots are a little on the brown side though it seems

I love these ghetto grows.Goes to prove you don't have to spend a lot of money to have some nice smoke.:jointsmile: