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Hi everybody,
I'm excited to share my third grow on here with you all. The people here have helped me immensely and hope I can do a little to give back.
My first grow was with bag seed, little preparation and just an idea of how to grow. It went well with no major issues and gave me the confidence to step it up. My second grow was with feminized purchased seeds, a better set up, more challenging growing conditions (summer heat and humidity) and much more knowledge. The buds are drying as I type, so testing is yet to come. But better quality buds in appearance for sure.
For this grow, I'm using the same flowering space as my previous grows. A closet in my 3rd floor apartment that's 6'x21" with an 8' ceiling. I've lined the walls with Mylar, installed a 165cfm extraction fan with attached carbon filter and have 4 clip desk fans for circulation. Intake air is passive through the cracks in the door and closet wall. When the door to the closet is closed, you can definitely feel the negative pressure at the bottom of the door. I also have a purchased bag of mushrooms CO2 producer hanging high on the wall. It's rated to work for the size closet I have. I haven't done any CO2 measurements due to lack of funding. I know I run a fairly hot flowering room and raising the CO2 a little can only help in my situation. It's a small effort to balance out the heat and humidity. As much as I want to monitor and better control CO2, for the cost that the improvement could bring, I'll spend my moolah on greater limiting factors with more returns. Such as lights or soils and amendments. Anyway, for this grow, I'm going to be testing COB LEDs out. After watching a tonne of youtube and reading s bunch on here, DIY COB LEDs are, overall, the way to go for me. My effort here will be (still under construction) a 5 x Citizen CLU 048-1212 90CRI 3500K run off of a MW HLG-240H-C1400B. I've got aluminium pin heat sinks and Angelina reflectors. (All of this plus the COB holders were purchased from cobkits.com. They're on RIU and solid.) Once it's up and running, pics will be uploaded with more details.
For vegging and cloning, I'm using an old wardrobe I've lined with Mylar. I've jammed 2x55W CFLs and a 200W CFL both 6500K side by side. The clones are towards the edge of the 55W lights footprint and a future mother is sitting under the 200W light. I have a small space underneath the clones for a cloning setup. With all the lights running and two small desk fans, it's about 28C inside with the doors open a crack. I can deal with that. It's certainly gonna work for me.
The first set of clones to flower will be from a Dinafem feminized purple afghan kush plant than was about 10 weeks old at the time of cloning. I took three clippings from the very bottom of the plant. I scraped the bottom 4cm of the stem and sliced it up the middle, dipped it in clonex rooting hormone and stuffed them into jiffy cubes almost to the bottom. Since they weren't taking up much room in the dome, I put the three clones in a 250mL deli and filled the rest of the reservoir with water to maintain humidity.
Underneath the dome was a heating pad always on. It helped to create some humidity in the dome. For the first 3 days, the clones got very indirect light from a 55W CFL about 65cm feet away. I also misted the leaves at least twice a day.
So far, so good. After 11 days, two out of three of the clones exploded with roots.
I transferred them to solo cups filled with 30% perlite and 70% Gaia green organic living soil blend. I've used this with all three grows and haven't run into problems. I watered with a very small amount of root innoculant, 0.65mL of fox farms kangaroots root drench to 500mL water. I have also been misting the clones. 
Some of the leaves are curling upwards a little. But I assume some transplant shock. They are sitting under 2x55W CFLs about 30cm away outside of the dome. I've got consistent readings of 27C and about 40% RH, hence the misting.
I'm excited to share my third grow on here with you all. The people here have helped me immensely and hope I can do a little to give back.
My first grow was with bag seed, little preparation and just an idea of how to grow. It went well with no major issues and gave me the confidence to step it up. My second grow was with feminized purchased seeds, a better set up, more challenging growing conditions (summer heat and humidity) and much more knowledge. The buds are drying as I type, so testing is yet to come. But better quality buds in appearance for sure.
For this grow, I'm using the same flowering space as my previous grows. A closet in my 3rd floor apartment that's 6'x21" with an 8' ceiling. I've lined the walls with Mylar, installed a 165cfm extraction fan with attached carbon filter and have 4 clip desk fans for circulation. Intake air is passive through the cracks in the door and closet wall. When the door to the closet is closed, you can definitely feel the negative pressure at the bottom of the door. I also have a purchased bag of mushrooms CO2 producer hanging high on the wall. It's rated to work for the size closet I have. I haven't done any CO2 measurements due to lack of funding. I know I run a fairly hot flowering room and raising the CO2 a little can only help in my situation. It's a small effort to balance out the heat and humidity. As much as I want to monitor and better control CO2, for the cost that the improvement could bring, I'll spend my moolah on greater limiting factors with more returns. Such as lights or soils and amendments. Anyway, for this grow, I'm going to be testing COB LEDs out. After watching a tonne of youtube and reading s bunch on here, DIY COB LEDs are, overall, the way to go for me. My effort here will be (still under construction) a 5 x Citizen CLU 048-1212 90CRI 3500K run off of a MW HLG-240H-C1400B. I've got aluminium pin heat sinks and Angelina reflectors. (All of this plus the COB holders were purchased from cobkits.com. They're on RIU and solid.) Once it's up and running, pics will be uploaded with more details.
For vegging and cloning, I'm using an old wardrobe I've lined with Mylar. I've jammed 2x55W CFLs and a 200W CFL both 6500K side by side. The clones are towards the edge of the 55W lights footprint and a future mother is sitting under the 200W light. I have a small space underneath the clones for a cloning setup. With all the lights running and two small desk fans, it's about 28C inside with the doors open a crack. I can deal with that. It's certainly gonna work for me.
The first set of clones to flower will be from a Dinafem feminized purple afghan kush plant than was about 10 weeks old at the time of cloning. I took three clippings from the very bottom of the plant. I scraped the bottom 4cm of the stem and sliced it up the middle, dipped it in clonex rooting hormone and stuffed them into jiffy cubes almost to the bottom. Since they weren't taking up much room in the dome, I put the three clones in a 250mL deli and filled the rest of the reservoir with water to maintain humidity.
Underneath the dome was a heating pad always on. It helped to create some humidity in the dome. For the first 3 days, the clones got very indirect light from a 55W CFL about 65cm feet away. I also misted the leaves at least twice a day.
So far, so good. After 11 days, two out of three of the clones exploded with roots.
I transferred them to solo cups filled with 30% perlite and 70% Gaia green organic living soil blend. I've used this with all three grows and haven't run into problems. I watered with a very small amount of root innoculant, 0.65mL of fox farms kangaroots root drench to 500mL water. I have also been misting the clones. Some of the leaves are curling upwards a little. But I assume some transplant shock. They are sitting under 2x55W CFLs about 30cm away outside of the dome. I've got consistent readings of 27C and about 40% RH, hence the misting.