New Grower, inside and outside grow

[George2002]

OK, I thought I would try this stuff, so far, doing ok, I guess. I started with 36 bag seeds, popped 18 out of the soil. I did the paper towel thing on them for 12 hours. Today is day 8 of popping the dirt from seed. I have 8 in 5 gallon buckets, 6 doing ok, 2 not so good. Planted 10 in outside holes, 1 washed away during unexpected thunderstorm, 1 wilted (too much water), the other 8 doing ok. Planted in a mixture of different potting soils, used Peters 13-13-13 during the hole prep a week before planting.

I ordered some seeds from The Single Seed Centre, great place, stealth shipping, got them withing 11 days. Planted 7, 2 vanilla kush, 3 white domina, 1 lemon skunk, 1 ladyburn 1974. They popped soil on Monday., got them under a 1000 watt mh light, 18/6. Prepping 5 gallon buckets for them now, trying a mixture of perlite, worm castings, mollasses, potting mix for a grow medium. These will stay under mh lights, not in a hurry to flower, want to get some size. My veg room is 5 x 8 x 8, got the 1000 watt mh in there, along with some florescents. The room is air conditioned, sitting on 78F all the time.

Once I get ready to flower, they will be moved over to the flower room, 9 x 11 x 8. Right now I have a 1000 hps light on a 6'rail mover and a 400 hps fixed light. The goal for this room is to have 4 each 1000 watt hps lights, all on rail movers. The room will be a perpetual grow, trying to get 3 - 4 plants a month, both from seeds and clones. I do have one more room that is 9 x 11 that I could make into a flower room if I need it. This is all in a small building out on my property. Luckily, I live in the country, no neighbors right up on top of me, but still have a few somewhat close...........Oh, the flower room is air conditioned also, along with a inline fan for the lights and heat exhause. Got it vented thru the ceiling and out the roof.


Any suggestions or advice will be appreciated. Right now I am growing these things like I raise my tomatoes, lol

George2002 Reviewed by George2002 on 07-02-2011. New Grower, inside and outside grow OK, I thought I would try this stuff, so far, doing ok, I guess. I started with 36 bag seeds, popped 18 out of the soil. I did the paper towel thing on them for 12 hours. Today is day 8 of popping the dirt from seed. I have 8 in 5 gallon buckets, 6 doing ok, 2 not so good. Planted 10 in outside holes, 1 washed away during unexpected thunderstorm, 1 wilted (too much water), the other 8 doing ok. Planted in a mixture of different potting soils, used Peters 13-13-13 during the hole prep a Rating: 5

[George2002]

Just an update on my first grow. Transplanted the indoor plants to 5 gallon buckets today. Started with 7 seeds, all growing ok so far. Having to move some of the outside bagseed grow. 5 gallon buckets sitting on the deck is just too hot for the seedlings. I moved 4 buckets, shaded them and covered the buckets to keep the direct sun off of them. I planted some buckets in the ground to keep them cool. I had to improve the soil on some of the ground grows, again the sun is a major problem. started with 18, got 14 left. Hoping to end up with 10 outside, more if I get really lucky. Started working holes for next years outside grow. Taking 5 gallon buckets, cutting the bottoms out, planting them in the ground, filling with some hot compost mix and soil, letting them work the rest of this year and over the winter. Will have space for 30 big plants next year. Planning on everything being from clones, so I will have a head start. IN the meantime, will be working on my indoor stuff, wanting to get about 30 plants going from 1 month up to havest, so I will have a perpetual grow going on. Also starting prepping a new room to make a couple of sogs.

[George2002]

Just got back from vacation, was gone for 8 days, plants took a beating, mainly the outside plants. No rain and no water for all this time on them, so it got pretty rough and pretty hot. The inside plants did ok, a couple wilted down pretty good, most of them came thru with flying colors.
Out of 36 bagseeds started, I now have 7 outside, doing really good. Still too soon to know if they are male or female, so time will tell. I tried a few in 5 gallon buckets, but the heat and sun was too much. I am thinking the sun baked the roots. Had the same problem with the tomatoes I was trying to grow, so it must be a pretty common thing.
I had 7 plants indoors started from seeds obtained from a seedbank, all female seeds. They are almost a month old now, doing good. They are the ones in the buckets. I have a source on clones, have decided that the majority of the plants I grow from now on will be clones, I have 5 different varieties, will keep one plant from each to be my mother plant. All of these will be indoors, but will plant about 40 or so clones outdoors next spring. I have 28 acres I can put them on, so plenty of room to keep them under wraps for an outdoor grow. My friend gave 3 a bunch of clones and 3 decent sized plants, hoping to grow the plants til the end of July, then flower them in my flower room. Any suggestions on nutes and feeding? I have feed grade molasses, epsom salts, and some 20-20-20 and 13-13-13 ferilizer. I had a lot of root burn on my outside plants, wanting to avoid the indoor plants getting burned. Inside pics would not load, will try again later

[Purple Daddy]

The bigger the hole you dig the bigger the plant, I suggest a hole large enough for you to crawl down into, you'll have HUGE plants. Trust me on this one.

[George2002]

Just a quick update. I have 7 plants left outside, all are growing nicely now. Biggest ones are about 2' high, really bushy. I topped one, didn't top the one next to it, just playing with them. Big time difference, the topped one has 2 nice stalks, and both are the same size as the one I didn't top. The other 5 are not quite as big, but doing good. If they are all female, I should have pretty good results.
Now on my inside grow, I just put 2 HoneyB's in to flower on Monday. They were 2' tall, came from clones, so I will see how they turn out. I also have 7 plants from seedbank seeds, all looking good, 4 strains, hopefully will be cloning and have the originals ready for the flower room by the end of August. I have 19 HoneyB clones, most are 6" to 1' tall, all in 6" pots. Will transplant to 5 gallon buckets the 3rde week of August, then half in flower at the end of August, the other 9 at the end of Sep. I just planted another 36 bagseeds, some are beginning to sprout today, also planted 2 vanilla kush and 2 White Domina on Monday. All the inside plants except for the bagseed are known females, so hopefully, the yield will be outstanding. This is still new to me, but hopefully, things will turn out somewhat ok. Planning on a perpetual harvest, since I have enough room for 50 - 60 big (6' - 7'tall) plants. Planning on about a 5 month grow from start to end. Had help with the clonesAttachment 277579Attachment 277580Attachment 277581Attachment 277582Attachment 277583, but cloning is the way to go for quicker results