5*White Widow feminized. Coco.

[Puffzter]

Hello.

I stared my first ever grow of anything really a while back will from now on log it here for you that might be interested.

My setup is:
100*100*200 cm grow tent,
Coco 7litre pots (might replant to 13 litre later).
125W LE Veg light for veg and 600W HPS for bloom.
280m^3/h ventillation (controlled by dimmer) and a table fan.

Sorry for confusing all yanks with metric information hehe.

Anyway, my growth is logged day by day in a diary that will be continiously updated in this thread every 4-7 days or so so you all can follow my plants step by step in detail if you so choose.
Pictures will be added often as well natrually.

Right now they are in their 9th day above ground and are all doing well. They have slowed down conciderably in above ground growth the last 2-3 days but all look well so I asume that root growth is what they are concentrating on atm.

Here is the 1st link to my diary sheet.
Enjoy and all input is welcome, this is my first grow after all.

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Puffzter

Puffzter Reviewed by Puffzter on 07-14-2008. 5*White Widow feminized. Coco. Hello. I stared my first ever grow of anything really a while back will from now on log it here for you that might be interested. My setup is: 100*100*200 cm grow tent, Coco 7litre pots (might replant to 13 litre later). 125W LE Veg light for veg and 600W HPS for bloom. 280m^3/h ventillation (controlled by dimmer) and a table fan. Rating: 5

[Puffzter]

Here are some pics from the grow so far:

Grow tent in my walk in closet:


All five above ground, all visible with a bit of good will.


Day 6:


Day 9:


That's just to start you started on my road to yield or failure.

Puffzter

[painretreat]

Just love it. Nice grow tent, first one I've seen the whole thing from the outside. Looks like something, I might want to try out! Plants look nice, green and healthy!

Will you use same for veg. flower-etc. through out grow? What is your light schedule, at present. I don't think I am a Yank, but guess that is what we all are to someone outside USA! It doesn't matter much on the west coast though! Anyway, the metric, does screw me up, I have to think! dah lol!

I will continue to enjoy your thread and your pics are very nice, please keep it up and as informative as you can be. I know a lot of these people are very experienced, but I am a novice and reading all I can and results to set up my room one time only--right! I've yet to see anyone that doesn't improve. But, my health says, one and only one! I appreciate you very much and keep posting bro! many thanks and please do not forget your nut schedule with the lights, etc??? If u don't mind?

Here's a tok to a successful gro! :thumbsup:

[Puffzter]

I did extensive research during a month before I started concerning almost all aspects of this.
Everything from medium to light, nutes, photosynthesis etc etc. I haven't taken anything as a fact until I have seen it from different sources that dont have the same origin.

My light is on 24h/day.
I have seen a few reports here about 20/4 being more effective but they all come from the same guy that did empiric research in the area.
I have found many other as well researched reports stating 24h/day as better so I went with that for this first grow.
However:
I am using a veg light of 125W LE. I also have a 600W flower light that I am contemplating to use for vegg as even though only 30% of that light is effective for Vegg it is still more than the 80% of the spectra that is effective for veg from the LE light. Any opinions in thios matter guys?

As for my pots they are 1.8 gallon pots and I use coco so dont need the vcolume you do when growing in dirt, however I will contemplate replanting into 3 gallon pots at a later point in time, maybe.

All information about day to day grow is in the excel sheet in my first post and it will show up in my posts now and then updated during this grow.
I have updated my sheet with conversions between US and metric systems so next time I post an update the information to do these conversions will be in the sheet.

Everything from watering, nutes, light, temp, humidity and specific plant day-to-day information are in those sheets. Personally I add this information every single day but I will only post a new file every 4-7 days or so so I don't flood you with posts and links.



Puffzter.

[painretreat]

Thanks, enjoy the info! Perhaps you should do some 'flooding' of posts to get your subscription site on to get more viewing! So far, any posts have been very informative. I read one grow that is over 150 posts (by all) and still going! If it is interesting and informative, it doesn't matter. REgardless of length, you cannot stop reading and viewing! Good luck and will be watching!:thumbsup:

[hudson88]

Wow puffzter, i'm really impressed with the amount of hard work you've put into research, your setup looks wicked and the records you're keeping in the excel file are gonna be really handy (i'll have to install excel on my laptop so i can view it lol)

Good luck, tho i don't think you'll need it

[Puffzter]

Oh I have done research and collected tons of knowledge from it in theory.
I do however need to translate that into a practical "feel" for growing and learn to see tendancies and read signs.
That will natrually be easier with the teoretical knowledge as a base.
I hope it will turn out well but I have no illusions it will be problemfree. hehe

Puffzter

[Puffzter]

With some extra calculations done it seems my 600W HPS is many times more effective than my 125W LE veg light.

In the blue spectra I get aprox a 100% gain from pure wattage. But in the rest (and yes plants even in Veg use a lot of light outside the blue as well) the gain is about 8-10 times.

So, in no spectras is the gain less than 100% and in the rest the gain can be multiplied many times.
Only loss is that I have to run 600W instead of 125W 24 hours a day which is a bit more expensive but electricity is quite cheap in sweden anyway. Grow grow plants.
I'll take my cooltube apart later tonight or tomorrow and get the sun for my plants tuned up a bit hehe.

Puffzter

[jakezking]

Puffzter, I am already a fan of your log. I'm looking at setting up an indoor system at some point, so I'm interested in not only the growth of your plants, but the setup as well - much like painretreat, I'd like to set up an indoor grow 1 time (mainly because I'm lazy and won't want to continually mess with it).

Your detailed note taking will come in handy, no doubt. As for the lighting issue, I've seen a lot of people use MH for vegetative stage. Does your cooltube support a MH conversion bulb? I have much research to do on lighting before I decide on anything.

Good luck, and thanks for starting up your log - I will be following along!

[Puffzter]

Thanks for the support.
About MH conversion I don't know. It was always gonna be HPS for flower and then I stumbled over this LE in the grow shop that was plug-n-play with my cooltube so I got it to try out.

Now after some further research it seems HPS is better all the way so I will change. However, if I had a 250 LE it would be doubtful if it had been worth to change.
A MH would be good for sure but then again I could just as well go with HPS. A HPS gives as much light (and more) so the only reason for MH over HPS in my book would be if you could save money by using them and I just cant see that as they need high wattage to perform just as a HPS.
So for me it is either a high performance LE for vegg or HPS all the way.

About my excel sheet:
Does it hold all information you guys would like on a day to day basis or should I add something?
This is my first grow and I want a diary I can work with for many growths so before this is over I want a template that is close to complete and that dont need any major changes so I can collect and compare data from earlier grows in an easy way.

I was thinking about saving each grow in a folder with a completed excel sheet and all pictures (dated to show progress in different stages).
After a while these folders might be valuable to find out if something new I try out is good or bad compared to what I have done before. Made accessible to the community as large they also might make life easier for first time growers in the future, as I am now.
I don't know, I guess I just like numbers and organizing stuff. :P

Puffzter

ps, I also love writing a lot, snap me on my noose if it becomes too much guys