Hello,
Thank you for showing intereset in my grow log.
This is my first grow and I am very excited about it. I ordered my seeds (Big Bud) from dutch-seeds.com, prices there are average, I paid 30 euros for 10 seeds.
Now let's see what kind of growbox I have. The box is located in a room which is 16c warm constantly. The box is 90cm long and 60cm wide, and 50cm in height. Looks like a rectangle. The growbox has no cover whatsoever, but for better light reflectivity I have painted the walls with white paint.
The plants are growing under a 400w HPS lamp. Constant temperature in the box is about 26-28c degrees.
By the way, out of 10 seeds, I got only 4 plants whos sex are yet to be determined (feminized seeds are for the win). Now that I find really weird. I was germinating seeds by using the "paper towel" method, 8/10 seeds had the roots, then, I planted them into a growing medium, about 1cm deep in the soil. Out of 8 seeds only 4 turned into seedlings. When I planted germinated seeds into mediums, I kept them under some 5x CFL's and the average temp. in the room was 16c, perhaps that's the reason why 4x seeds died.
About the soil. At the moment the best I could get was a peat/perlite mix, I'm yet working on finding the right ingredients for a soil mix.
Meanwhile I've been thinking about adding nutrients. As far as I know, nutrients should be started to add when the plant starts the vegetative stage, about 2 weeks after turning into a seedling. I would like to know if that is correct, though.
And yes, I forgot to mention that I have a ventilator blowing air, the fan is like the one you see in bath rooms, which sucks all the hot air out, only thing is I've put the fan backwards and now it is sucking air from the room where is 16c and blowing air into growbox and there is another pipe where half of the air goes out. The reason why I bought such ventilator was its cheap price and I tought it could well fit into growbox. The ventilator is on all the time when light is on, because without it, the temp. inside the box warms up till 30c which is, of course, too hot. And yes, air exchange is needed too.
What concerns me also is the fact, that at the dark period which is 6 hours the temp. in growbox lowers to stable 16c and stays at that low, I was wondering if such a temperature change can somehow negatively affect my plants?
Everything cannot be explained in the words, therefore I will add some pictures too. But that after a couple of hours.
I will try to keep this growlog updated so it is interesting for both, you and me, my reader. Also, I believe this growlog will deepen my knowledge about this great plant marijuana which we cultivate.
Thanks for reading, pics inc. soon.
Almost forgot to mention, the plants are currently 6 days old and they have developed 4-6 leaves each.
