First Grow

[PhatJay]

but I'm thinking of 4 months veg time before flowering, so I might be flowering small trees!

I would rethink that if I were you, my current plants vegged for 28 days and they are 3ft tall including the pots (currently 4 weeks into flower). Flourescent lights have poor light penetration, if you vegged for 4 months, the bottom of the plants would be so far away from the lights they would produce very little.

[canniwhatsis]

Good point,... I can use CFL's around her when she gets bigger, I"m gonna get a HPS setup for flowering.

I'm gonna have to wait for my next pay cycle to kick in before I can start getting supplies to build my proper grow room.

[PhatJay]

Even if you got better lighting, you would get a larger more consistent harvest with a shorter veg time. Keeping a low and even canopy is one of the secrets to getting a good harvest. Thats why scrog, sog, lst, and fim are such popular techniques for indoor growers.


4 weeks veg + 9 weeks flower = 13 weeks
16 weeks veg + 9 weeks flower = 25 weeks

You can get 2-4oz a plant with a 28 day veg period. You could grow 2 crops in the same time it took you to grow 1 crop with a 4 month veg period. If you set up a seperate veg room you can crop every 9 weeks.

[canniwhatsis]

Maybe somewhere in the middle then?

I'm only allowed 6 plants at any time, and a max of 3 can be flowering. I'm only growing for my house, and the amount of smoke per month is fairly low, around an ounce or so.:jointsmile:

LST is on my list of things to do,... possibly SCROG but for this first grow we are going all natural.:hippy:


I was thinking that when I get the proper grow room setup, I would grow 2 strains (3 each) and offset their life cycles by a month,.... So I'd harvest 1 plant each month, Just after harvesting the plant, I'm down to 5, so cut a clone off of the next plant of that strain to go into flowering, puting me back up to 3 of that strain,... Doing it this way would actually give me about 18 weeks of veg per strain, but still harvest every month or so.:weedpoke:


Probably an ill-conceived NOOB plan that won't work.

[TruePyroman]

Have you ever seen the video 'Mr. Greens I Grow Chronic' ? He Harvests 4 oz every 2 months, with a 400w hps, co2, in a ebb and flow grow system.

it is on piratebay.org.

hope this helps!

[canniwhatsis]

Yep, that vid inspired the layout of my grow room!:thumbsup:


I'm keeping everything in soil tho,... if I have any overgrow the dispensary's that I've talked to want "Organic" so they've gotta be grown in soil.:hippy:

I'm not sure I want to keep a "Mother" plant of each strain,... tho if the long veg time's don't work out well I might just do it that way:rasta:

[PhatJay]

LST is on my list of things to do,... possibly SCROG but for this first grow we are going all natural.:hippy:

I get the "all natural" thing, I did the same with my 1st grow. I was scared to try anything fancy and just wanted to watch and learn. I vegged for 39 days and I regret it, this time round I vegged for 28 and the plants are just as big as when I vegged for 39. I am even considering dropping to 21 days for my next grow. A friend of mine veggies for 14 days and gets 3-4oz a plant.

Aim for 4 or 5 weeks, I think you will regret vegging for longer.

[canniwhatsis]

Total No0B question, WTF is Coco? By reading your logs your running Hydroponic? :wtf:


At the end of week one she's really small,.... but under the new light she's getting lots of branches starting. I guess I'm gonna play this grow by ear.


Has anyone used Happy Frog soil? The Hydro store said I shouldn't need any nutes for a month at least, and only really need them for flowering "IF" I wanted to use them, kinda made it sound like I didn't really need anything to boost yeild/ increase potency.:wtf:



I gotta get back into the basement,... must build RC airplanes to crash at events over the next couple months.

[PhatJay]

Total No0B question, WTF is Coco? By reading your logs your running Hydroponic?

Coco is ground up coconut shells, it looks like soil but it isn't and is considered a hydroponic medium. It has certain advantages...

1, It contains no nutrients, this means you can control what your plants are feeding on very precisely and rectify problems quickly (if you get any). A lot of the pre-mixed fertilised soils are designed for other plants and are too strong for cannabis.
2, It maintains a good air/water ratio. It is very hard to overwater when growing in coco.


Basically, coco is a great beginners grow medium and is easier to grow in than soil.

As far as disadvantages...

1, Coco is supposed to produce less dense fluffier buds. (less dense, not less bud).
2, If you get soil growing right it is meant to give a better taste.


you can also get organic coco, if you wanted to go the organic route.

heres a thread that will tell you a bit more about coco...

http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...questions.html

[canniwhatsis]

I'll keep that in mind if I ever go the Hydro way,.... thanks for the quick answer!

I'd give you some props,... but I have to spread the love a little!