123grow
Active Member
I'll be starting, hopefully very soon, my first grow. 
This will be the journal so long as the traffic to/ comments on continue throughout. I love advice, praise, criticism, and anything you feel is worth mentioning.
There'll be NO hateful remarks, racism, slander, or negativity. Along with no endless bashing of techniques, ideals, or anything else. This is a MARIJUANA forum... peace and love, bro!
Specifics:
8 - 23 Watt CFL lights (6 - 2700k: 2 - 6500k Daylight)
Miracle Grow Organic potting soil.
Miracle Grow Bloom Booster.
Super Thrive (a plant fertilizer additive??)
Grow space: 27'' x 27'' x 14'' (will need to double check this for accuracy)
Now, further information... The light fixture I've configured is rather peculiar, but I see a way I could efficiently use it's structure to my advantage. It's practically a T shape, two lights horizontally on top, one sticking down vertically. But there are 2 of these back to back, making up the 6 over head lights. The other 2 lights are on porcelain lamp holders placed on the floor of the box, to provide light from underneath as well.
The whole grow box will be lined with Mylar. I have one exhaust fan, and then another fan inside the box to circulate air. Currently I don't have an intake fan, but if that becomes a situation then it'll be corrected when the problem presents itself.
I've opted not to purchase nutrients for vegetative growth; reason being, i'll only be in vegetative growth for hopefully around a month. Miracle Grow has a bad rep with nute burn, so i think that it should be able to adequately provide for the plants up until a month or so later when i begin flowering. This'll be treated just like the intake fan... if i NEED it i'll get it.
I am using all Miracle Grow not because it's cheap or I prefer it, but because it's all convineintly located at my local Wal-Mart. So if you're here to bash Miracle Grow, you should instead focus your time on helping make this a success instead of telling the world why you hate it so much
The only thing I have yet to decide is the number of plants. Since it's the first grow, SOG or SCROG isn't an option. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. But that light fixture offers very intriguing possibilities. Should I grow one plant, and top/lst it to where I have 2+ cola's, and I could grow them around the light fixture, or should i just grow two plants on each side of it? What would be better for yeild.
P.S. I'm modeling this after SICC's Party cup grows, which is where I got the inspiration to do this. I'm using these nifty little containers I found at Wal-Mart as well. They're not very big, probably around the size of a party cup, but they have a cool lip on the bottom that let's you water directly to the bottom section/ roots. I'm interested to see how effeciently they work.
As soon as I'm finished constructing this debacle, I'll post pictures of it. And I'm a very enthuisiastic first time marijuana grower; If you guys stay interested, I'll be sure to provide lots of pictures. Tomorrow I'm working on it for sure, so I hope to have it finished and ready to go... or should I say Grow... this weekend.
1...2...3...GROW!
This will be the journal so long as the traffic to/ comments on continue throughout. I love advice, praise, criticism, and anything you feel is worth mentioning.
There'll be NO hateful remarks, racism, slander, or negativity. Along with no endless bashing of techniques, ideals, or anything else. This is a MARIJUANA forum... peace and love, bro!
Specifics:
8 - 23 Watt CFL lights (6 - 2700k: 2 - 6500k Daylight)
Miracle Grow Organic potting soil.
Miracle Grow Bloom Booster.
Super Thrive (a plant fertilizer additive??)
Grow space: 27'' x 27'' x 14'' (will need to double check this for accuracy)
Now, further information... The light fixture I've configured is rather peculiar, but I see a way I could efficiently use it's structure to my advantage. It's practically a T shape, two lights horizontally on top, one sticking down vertically. But there are 2 of these back to back, making up the 6 over head lights. The other 2 lights are on porcelain lamp holders placed on the floor of the box, to provide light from underneath as well.
The whole grow box will be lined with Mylar. I have one exhaust fan, and then another fan inside the box to circulate air. Currently I don't have an intake fan, but if that becomes a situation then it'll be corrected when the problem presents itself.
I've opted not to purchase nutrients for vegetative growth; reason being, i'll only be in vegetative growth for hopefully around a month. Miracle Grow has a bad rep with nute burn, so i think that it should be able to adequately provide for the plants up until a month or so later when i begin flowering. This'll be treated just like the intake fan... if i NEED it i'll get it.
I am using all Miracle Grow not because it's cheap or I prefer it, but because it's all convineintly located at my local Wal-Mart. So if you're here to bash Miracle Grow, you should instead focus your time on helping make this a success instead of telling the world why you hate it so much
The only thing I have yet to decide is the number of plants. Since it's the first grow, SOG or SCROG isn't an option. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. But that light fixture offers very intriguing possibilities. Should I grow one plant, and top/lst it to where I have 2+ cola's, and I could grow them around the light fixture, or should i just grow two plants on each side of it? What would be better for yeild.
P.S. I'm modeling this after SICC's Party cup grows, which is where I got the inspiration to do this. I'm using these nifty little containers I found at Wal-Mart as well. They're not very big, probably around the size of a party cup, but they have a cool lip on the bottom that let's you water directly to the bottom section/ roots. I'm interested to see how effeciently they work.
As soon as I'm finished constructing this debacle, I'll post pictures of it. And I'm a very enthuisiastic first time marijuana grower; If you guys stay interested, I'll be sure to provide lots of pictures. Tomorrow I'm working on it for sure, so I hope to have it finished and ready to go... or should I say Grow... this weekend.
1...2...3...GROW!