Gardengineer's Journal of Goodness

[Gardengineer]

Welcome everyone. This is my first grow journal, which I am starting just before flower of my first ever grow. They are at 2 months from seed in vegging stage. Monday will kick off flowering when I install a bulb in my flowering room. Bare with me on this one guys.

My setup consists of 3 rooms, the Seed/Clone Room, Veg. Room, and Flower Room. Details about the setup below.

Seed/Clone Room - 2' deep, 4' wide, 2' tall. Dampered passive air intake from outside, passive intake into the Veg. Room. Lights are 3, 4' shop lights with 3 Daylight T8s, and 3 Warm White T8s, accompanied by 4, 26w (100w) Daylight CFLs. Room is lined with Panda.

Veg. Room - 2' deep, 4' wide, 4' tall. Dampered passive air intake from outside, exhausted into the Flower Room thru a MaxWing hood that has been tapped for cooling. Using a "dimmable" 6" 250CFM duct booster. Also a 6" fan and a 10" fan to circulate air and keep temps down. Entire room is lined with Panda and lighting is a 400w Philips Retro-White ceramic metal halide.

Flower Room - 4' deep, 5' wide, 6' tall. Dampered passive air intake from outside, exausted thru a 12" X 6" DIY carbon filter to outside, powered with a "dimmable" 6" 250CFM duct booster. A 10" fan on the floor blowing staight up at lights, and a 10" fan on the ceiling pointing towards lights and plants. Using vertical bulbs, a 400w Growbright HPS and a 400w Philips Retro-White ceramic metal halide. Room is lined with Panda.

All 3 lights are powered by 400w HPS DIY ballast kits, seed and veg are on 18/6 time, flower is 12/12. Nutes are MG Plant Food w/ blackstrap molasses. 1/2 strength nutes, 24-7-14, 1tbs molasses per gallon of water that has sat 24-48 hrs. Using mainly a mix of 50% FFOF, 25% FFLW, and 25% chunky perlite.



This complete setup is brand new, the T8s and CFLs just weren't doing it anymore. I've got 8 plants in the Veg. room right now that are all bagseed. 2 plants are about 3 months old, the other 6 are 2 months old, all with be flowered beginning of this coming week. I also just started 4 Northern Lights seeds and 4 Chronic seeds last night. Planning on 2 weeks in the Seed/Clone Room, 6 weeks in the Veg. Room, and finally 8 weeks in the Flower room, which should give me a harvest every 2 months if it all works out right.


Let me know what you guys think, or if I need to change/improve anything. Suggestions, comments, questions welcome.

[Vader Haze]

Damn, thats a sweet set up.


Cant wait to see some Buds.


Good Luck.

[Gardengineer]

Thanks Vader. The plants vegging are my first ever, never flowered before... going to be curious how that goes. Actually, never grew any kind of plant before, should be interesting.

The new grow room setup was built after 2 months using a cheapy setup I built with the T8s/CFLs and some mylar... ran out of room and decided to spend some cash and build something good.

I hope it works alright.

[Gardengineer]

Recieved my vertical Philips Retro-White today, tonight after the 18/6 cycle, all 8 girls will be moved into the flower room and then put onto that cycle. Can't wait!

[Gardengineer]

N.L. #4 has popped the surface already, less than 3 full days, expecting to see the rest of them pop by tomm. night.

Fired the Flower Room and the 8 plants spent their first day in it. Thought about full darkness for 2 days straight before lights, but just went straight into lights,.. little bit trigger happy I guess.

One shot is an up close of a nice little lady showing sex, nice long pistols from a pre-flower.

[newgrowNY]

Looking good/nice setup

Thats gona be one sweet room filled with buds

[Gardengineer]

Thanks Newgrow, and I sure do hope so!

[absense]

Your plants look great! Haven't seen a grow arranged quite like this before. Very interested in your op. Best of luck!

[Gardengineer]

Originally Posted by absense

Your plants look great! Haven't seen a grow arranged quite like this before. Very interested in your op. Best of luck!

Thanks! Being my first go at this, I had my fair share of little messups here and there, minor nuteburn when very young, a potassium deficiency (damn MG), not enough light penetration, minor overwatering of 2 of the plants, but its all been straightened out, and I can't even believe they look at good as they do. I am going to say the result of that is the LST for one, and a transplant into the FF mix I made, and I can't forget the molasses... once I started all of this they started to grow like mad and healthy right up good.

[Gardengineer]

Did a considerable amount of pruning to all 8 plants last night, before they went to far into flower mode.

All 4 of the Northern Lights seeds have germinated and popped, all looking good. Only 1 Chronic has popped so far, so we'll see how that goes.

I'll have some pics posted later tonight.

[chiefton8]

i don't believe that this is your first grow!

that's a great setup there, and plants look beautiful. where'd you get the northern lights and chronic seeds from?

good luck dude.

[Hawaiian Haze]

Wowza.

[Gardengineer]

Thanks guys.

It is honestly my first grow. I jumped on and did a considerable amount of research before I started doing anything. After I had already started the first batch (the ones in flowering now), I pretty much crash-coursed myself on what I needed to know to be fairly successful, or so I hope anyways.

As far as the N.L. and Chronic seeds, a buddy of mine grows. I have burned with him for quite a while but he just showed his setup a few months ago. He gave me the seeds, they are supposed to be feminized.

[Gardengineer]

And, here are some pics... not very good this time around. 1 photo of the 4 N.L.s that are up, and the one Chronic... not sure whats up with the other 3 Chronic seeds, oh well, I've got more if needbe. Not a real good photo though.

Other 2 pics are just after lights off. You'll see a few of the plants are a little wilted in the back, no worries... they got watered. Having to up my volume per watering a little so they make it thru the last 1/2 day before their next watering w/o drooping a little. And, you can see some LST done from ground level, one was topped also.

[Gardengineer]

Yesterday morning, just at lights on I checked the 3 non-germinated seeds in the soil... nothing. SO, I popped them out, and replaced with 3 other good looking seeds. If I am correct, I am expecting them to pop by tomm. night or Monday sometime. The other 5 seeds that are up look very good, N.L.s all look nice. The lone Chronic that is up has some silly shaped leaves, but healthy regardless.

I will try to gets some more pics tomm. sometime.