Well another day without work and I am bored as hell. So I thought Id write up a mini-log like so many people are doing these days. I love reading them and its an easy way to look back and see progress; since I look at them everyday they look the same to me. I dont have as many plants/information as some of you, but what the hell!

I am not 100% new to growing, but this was the first time I have never used seeds. I have always used clones. This was also the first time I have done a little closet grow. Before I had 2 rooms (1 veg, 1 flower). I had a much better control over the environment and pampered them. I also had very good help from someone with experience. This time around, I wanted to experiement with seeds, do the whole "sexing" thing, and generally see how the plants managed without stellar care.

I planted a total of about 30 seeds from a friend who left his crop unattended to long and didnt catch a male in time. Out of the 30, about 25 grew. Out of those, I slowly began to weed out the slower growing or unhealthy plants. Unfortunetly I think this may limit some of the females but... I planted multiple plants per pots because I wanted to maximize the number of females, however after doing some research I found this is not neccessarily a good idea so I slowly weeded them down again to a final 12 plants. The grow area is a small closet without much ventillation. Essentially I use a large fan to control the tempature of my room, which in turn controls the tempature inside the grow room, which has 2 ventillation holes and one fan moving air around in side and on the plants. I am using a 250 watt HPS I had around because I dont want to deal with any more heat.

Fairly generic soil mix, nothing special, a fairly equal across the board low NPK. No perlite, I didnt have time in the beginning and Ive been lazy to mix it in, but its fairly airey to begin with. I used no nutrients and no pH balance in the first 4 weeks of growth. We also had a 2.5 week 105 degree heatwave come through here and my entire area sold out of fans, so they were subject to strong heat for quite awhile.

In general I was not satisfied with the growth rate, however there were many factors that could be limiting it. And like I said, I gave them no special soil, no nutrients, nothing, just filtered water. At about 4 weeks I moved to a 12/12 flowering schedule because I am moving out of this apartment in 2 months and I both wanted to hurry along the sex and limit their final size.

Well I finally was able to get into my storage unit so I started to give them some GH Flora Nova I had around, pHed the water and found it has been on about 8 for the first half of growing. The last week they have recieved pH'ed water and nutes. Ive started at a fairly weak approx ppm and moved up to around 800 right now. Still no burn so I guess I can keep going, but I am finally moving to flowering nutes now that they are showing sex.

After 11 days of flowering, my first male showed up yesterday (July 30th). It was the fastest growing plant and had reached over 15". Today, July 31, my first female showed. She is a stumpy little fucker, but no matter. I have my eye on another one that I think is female. The rest, except for a smaller one, look like they will be male (from general guessing of course).

The overall goal of this experiment, was to see how the plants faired with little pampering, without great soil, without a lot of light and ventilation, and to see how sexing works and how long it can take. If I end up with 2 small females and get 7 grams or something in yield...Ill be perfectly happy. My new place I am moving into has the grow room already being setup. You can check out my thread in "Grow Room" about it.

That said, here are pictures from the beginning to now.
Racerx Reviewed by Racerx on . Racerx's First Closet Seed Grow Mini-Log Well another day without work and I am bored as hell. So I thought Id write up a mini-log like so many people are doing these days. I love reading them and its an easy way to look back and see progress; since I look at them everyday they look the same to me. I dont have as many plants/information as some of you, but what the hell! I am not 100% new to growing, but this was the first time I have never used seeds. I have always used clones. This was also the first time I have done a Rating: 5