nolem1234
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Hey Guys, just thought I'd throw this up here to see if anyone wanted to follow along during my first attempt at growing. I had it in the DWC section but I think this is a better location for the thread.
I built a 4'x2'x4' two room box to fit snugly into a closet of my house. A vertical wall in the middle divides the inside into 2 chambers taking up 1/3 and 2/3 of the space each. The smaller one is for vegetation using a 10 gallon dwc with 5 or 6 net pot locations. Right now however I'm using the space to flower a Sour Candy clone in soil that I have.
The bigger chamber will be for flowering the plants prepped in the veg side, and right now I have 2 plants going, they are in an 18 gallon dwc. One white widow big bud that I ordered a pack of, and one free seed that was labelled OG.
The sour candy clone I've had for about 2 months, and since then I have grown out its canopy and transplanted it into a 3 gal pot. The soil I have it in is pretty basic, so I include Bonticare plant food when watering, using the ppm suggestions from the label, seems to be doing pretty well. It is about 2 weeks into flower now and I recently cut back the shaded undergrowth to increase ventilation and get the lower bud sites more direct light.
On to the DWC, which I plan on solely doing once the Sour Candy is done.
Both seeds were germinated in rockwool, then at 1.5 weeks put into the 3 inch net pots with hydroton,
They are 4 weeks old now and have been growing well as far as I can tell, both were up to their 5th or 6 nodes, and today I made the decision to top the white widow at it's 5th node to get it's growth shoots a chance to beef up, higher up it had a set of canopy leaves that were blocking a lot of light.
The other plant is an "OG", not sure about any details beyond that. It is also 4 weeks old, had a lot of healthy looking growth, huge fan leaves, and I decided to try out main-lining on it. So today I topped it at the 3rd node, exposing those growth shoots which had been in the shade, those will hopefully become the start of the manifold. I know with my limited space I will want a flat even canopy to maximize yield, that is why I'm interested in techniques that promote that.
-It took some trial and error to get the cabinet ventilation the way I wanted it, so there were a few temperature swings up 100 degrees for short periods, but they seem to have survived fine. Now I have the temps stabilized in both chambers, 75-85 during the day, down to mid 60s at night.
-Humidity ranges from 20-50%. I'm in Colorado with very dry air, so I found two Vicks Cool Mist machines for a couple dollars at the local GoodWill, and they increase the humidity nicely in the closet, thus increasing the humidity in the cabinet as well.
-My tap water tests at 7-8 on the pH level, so I make sure to get it down to 5.5-6.5 when prepping the nutrient solution for the tank and watering the clone. PPMs in the DWC right now are 720.
-For lighting I'm using fluorescents, one 125 watt flowering bulb that i have on the Sour Candy, and one 125 watt vegetation bulb that is on the two in dwc. Using timers I have the sour candy on 12/12 and the other two on 20/4 light cycles.
-The nutrients I'm using are the KIND line from Botanicare liquid plant food. I got a free set of the whole line, a bottle of the tea, base, grow and bloom each from the local store.
Comments welcome, happy toking.
I built a 4'x2'x4' two room box to fit snugly into a closet of my house. A vertical wall in the middle divides the inside into 2 chambers taking up 1/3 and 2/3 of the space each. The smaller one is for vegetation using a 10 gallon dwc with 5 or 6 net pot locations. Right now however I'm using the space to flower a Sour Candy clone in soil that I have.
The bigger chamber will be for flowering the plants prepped in the veg side, and right now I have 2 plants going, they are in an 18 gallon dwc. One white widow big bud that I ordered a pack of, and one free seed that was labelled OG.
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The sour candy clone I've had for about 2 months, and since then I have grown out its canopy and transplanted it into a 3 gal pot. The soil I have it in is pretty basic, so I include Bonticare plant food when watering, using the ppm suggestions from the label, seems to be doing pretty well. It is about 2 weeks into flower now and I recently cut back the shaded undergrowth to increase ventilation and get the lower bud sites more direct light.
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On to the DWC, which I plan on solely doing once the Sour Candy is done.
Both seeds were germinated in rockwool, then at 1.5 weeks put into the 3 inch net pots with hydroton,
They are 4 weeks old now and have been growing well as far as I can tell, both were up to their 5th or 6 nodes, and today I made the decision to top the white widow at it's 5th node to get it's growth shoots a chance to beef up, higher up it had a set of canopy leaves that were blocking a lot of light.
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The other plant is an "OG", not sure about any details beyond that. It is also 4 weeks old, had a lot of healthy looking growth, huge fan leaves, and I decided to try out main-lining on it. So today I topped it at the 3rd node, exposing those growth shoots which had been in the shade, those will hopefully become the start of the manifold. I know with my limited space I will want a flat even canopy to maximize yield, that is why I'm interested in techniques that promote that.
![](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fdx02o9qyabukr.cloudfront.net%2F333cdd93-1b95-4a1b-9cd7-eccbd1c53f13%2F2bd4f25d-a4f1-4dab-8833-89e8a79e4d01%2F706_2bd4f25d-a4f1-4dab-8833-89e8a79e4d01.jpg%3FExpires%3D1400259549%26Signature%3DfAhyVHmXMT6F7mwViCt4%7Ea7IdkzQI4ufOXiWreig7IRIEGyfnMYwr8tEJgapoN7Dhx4QvsrByVxc8bHHso7tbY498cwIHJxPZQ5A-Dw8KAI1q4T-xCIWJU0hMHs%7EiWpazsseY29gZU7RJThvDfC3XafKXBKp0zhDaFlUmSpNbXY_%26Key-Pair-Id%3DAPKAJHWMISAIRUOD7MQQ&hash=016ff99760fbeed0b1d06b2f8fc2a487)
-It took some trial and error to get the cabinet ventilation the way I wanted it, so there were a few temperature swings up 100 degrees for short periods, but they seem to have survived fine. Now I have the temps stabilized in both chambers, 75-85 during the day, down to mid 60s at night.
-Humidity ranges from 20-50%. I'm in Colorado with very dry air, so I found two Vicks Cool Mist machines for a couple dollars at the local GoodWill, and they increase the humidity nicely in the closet, thus increasing the humidity in the cabinet as well.
-My tap water tests at 7-8 on the pH level, so I make sure to get it down to 5.5-6.5 when prepping the nutrient solution for the tank and watering the clone. PPMs in the DWC right now are 720.
-For lighting I'm using fluorescents, one 125 watt flowering bulb that i have on the Sour Candy, and one 125 watt vegetation bulb that is on the two in dwc. Using timers I have the sour candy on 12/12 and the other two on 20/4 light cycles.
-The nutrients I'm using are the KIND line from Botanicare liquid plant food. I got a free set of the whole line, a bottle of the tea, base, grow and bloom each from the local store.
Comments welcome, happy toking.
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