Xander
Well-Known Member
S I have had my box almost a year now and I have had two shortcoming grows, but I have decided to give some Autos a try. I got five EasyRyder from the Joint Dr at Attitude and received my seeds 7 days after my order.
To get to know the crib a bit, I have a homemade box, posing as a fish tank stand, that is 36wx36hx18d. It is made out of wood with everything inside the box minus the intake light trap and noise reducer on the back side. I am using an eight gallon plastic restaurant sized Tupperware as a hydro res, with a 12 in rock, ten gallon air pump, and two holds cut out of a ten gallon rubbermaid lid for my two little ladies to grow in.
I am running a 250W HPS through a cool tube with a 178cfm rated fan all from HTG Supply. Excellent company, by the way. I have a carbon filter straped in on the far right side acting as the intake of the cool tube. My temps stay in the low eighties unless the ac is off in the apt. I have a small 120mm computer fan for the intake, which, I plan on replacing when funds are up.
I feel as if my set up is, fairly, on par and should be producing high quality results. However, I have as of yet produced any. With that said, I am with much distress and eagerness to ask the RIU community to walk with me through this journal.
Since I received my beans, I have been on the ball. I germinated them first day. They sprouted the next day, however, having company they remained in the small tupperware I germinated them in. On their second day I potted them in hydroton and modified my set up from the last operation. They are currently ending their third day with a 20/4 schedule under plastic cups. I have been watering them roughly every 12 hours from their res while it splashed up from the bottom. The temps have remained under 88F with the average of 82F. Humidity hasn't been under 40% and my pH, although been increasing daily, has averaged out to the 6.0-6.5 range on my test sheet. I do plan to lower my pH to a milky orange once I introduce my nutes.
All is currently going as planned. However, I assail that my previous blunders came from lack of light and nutes. My nute balancing solution for my testing probe never came in so I was only able to provide what the back-of-the-box told me. Didn't turn out to well and I believe I had bad N deficiency. I believe the light deficiency came from 12/12 bagseed on the other side of the coin.
So with this grow I look to focus and improve on those two aspects. I also, have made some minor adjustments to the plan; like adding chicken wire for a circular SCRoG because space is limited vertically, using plastic cups for the first 5-7 days because light is harshly bright, and scheduled out a feeding schedule. The feeding schedule is at day 21 to switch out for fresh water introducing nutes, after day 42, switch out fresh water for more nute water, and on day 63 switch of for just fresh water for flushing. Basically, week 2, 6, and 9 and I do believe I have a big enough res to do it.
Anyways, I am going to post some more tomorrow. I did bring some pics although they are low quality. I am currently working on that.
Pics are in reverse order. They uploaded from day 3-1, but these ladies -feminized seeds, of course- are Kim and Kloe. The tall lanky bitch wrapped around the white support is Kloe, meanwhile, the compact one is Kim.
Enjoy,
-X
To get to know the crib a bit, I have a homemade box, posing as a fish tank stand, that is 36wx36hx18d. It is made out of wood with everything inside the box minus the intake light trap and noise reducer on the back side. I am using an eight gallon plastic restaurant sized Tupperware as a hydro res, with a 12 in rock, ten gallon air pump, and two holds cut out of a ten gallon rubbermaid lid for my two little ladies to grow in.
I am running a 250W HPS through a cool tube with a 178cfm rated fan all from HTG Supply. Excellent company, by the way. I have a carbon filter straped in on the far right side acting as the intake of the cool tube. My temps stay in the low eighties unless the ac is off in the apt. I have a small 120mm computer fan for the intake, which, I plan on replacing when funds are up.
I feel as if my set up is, fairly, on par and should be producing high quality results. However, I have as of yet produced any. With that said, I am with much distress and eagerness to ask the RIU community to walk with me through this journal.
Since I received my beans, I have been on the ball. I germinated them first day. They sprouted the next day, however, having company they remained in the small tupperware I germinated them in. On their second day I potted them in hydroton and modified my set up from the last operation. They are currently ending their third day with a 20/4 schedule under plastic cups. I have been watering them roughly every 12 hours from their res while it splashed up from the bottom. The temps have remained under 88F with the average of 82F. Humidity hasn't been under 40% and my pH, although been increasing daily, has averaged out to the 6.0-6.5 range on my test sheet. I do plan to lower my pH to a milky orange once I introduce my nutes.
All is currently going as planned. However, I assail that my previous blunders came from lack of light and nutes. My nute balancing solution for my testing probe never came in so I was only able to provide what the back-of-the-box told me. Didn't turn out to well and I believe I had bad N deficiency. I believe the light deficiency came from 12/12 bagseed on the other side of the coin.
So with this grow I look to focus and improve on those two aspects. I also, have made some minor adjustments to the plan; like adding chicken wire for a circular SCRoG because space is limited vertically, using plastic cups for the first 5-7 days because light is harshly bright, and scheduled out a feeding schedule. The feeding schedule is at day 21 to switch out for fresh water introducing nutes, after day 42, switch out fresh water for more nute water, and on day 63 switch of for just fresh water for flushing. Basically, week 2, 6, and 9 and I do believe I have a big enough res to do it.
Anyways, I am going to post some more tomorrow. I did bring some pics although they are low quality. I am currently working on that.
Pics are in reverse order. They uploaded from day 3-1, but these ladies -feminized seeds, of course- are Kim and Kloe. The tall lanky bitch wrapped around the white support is Kloe, meanwhile, the compact one is Kim.
Enjoy,
-X
