Hey there , welcome to my first LED grow. Its actually gonna be the first in a 3+ grow part series. So heres hows its gonna go. I'm doing it this way to test different "variables" I guess you could say to how well these LED's perform. The first grow in this series I'll be growing 5x Barneys Farm bluecheese, 5x Barneys Farm Sweet Tooth auto, I'm gonna veg 20/4 for 3-4 weeks so the photo's can get a little age/growth and also so the beneficials can start to do their thang. Then i'm gonna initiate flower, now i've been contemplating this. I can either keep the light schedule at 20/4 and see if i can make a divider in the room so I can "shade" the photo's so the Auto's can get plenty of light. Or just go 12/12 and see what these lights can do with the Auto's . Like I said i want to see variables not the usual testing (to those who have their own tests know what im saying lol). Oh yeah there were 2 other strains! The Chocolope Kush and acapulco gold, well they are gonna veg for 3 weeks with the other ladies then i'm gonna take them to a special room for the time being and they are gonna become mother plants for the second installment of my series. CLONES!! come on we gotta do a clone run and these are 2 kick ass strains i'm excited about the Chocolope kush I hope it will have more of the Chocolate Thai pheno then the Kosher Kush. Either way its a winner so its cool Gonna end with this pic, more details to come
Well Seeds cracked today and I put them into small containers for the time being (Yes even the auto's im aware of the risk its just gonna be for a couple days .) Anyway tomorrow im gonna take some pics hopefully some girlies will have their cotyledons above ground
By the looks of it 8/12 has broke ground so far [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHEza1zxww&feature=youtu.be[/VIDEO]
Small update, Mother nature can be cruel sometimes, 1 BC and 1 AST has yet to crack, i might put them back in water. The rest are doing fine and the pre-test seed i'm using to see how far away to keep the lights is doing well and growing green Still has the bleached parts but not getting the damage anymore. I'm gonna be taking some pics here soon the Chocolope Kush is looking nice, thats gonna be one tough plant to beat! I wanted to try to harden them off a little but its been rainy and crap around here . They'll be fine though they are going in bigger pots tomorrow, mainly because of the Auto's. Got some Voodoo Juice, Piranha, Tarantula, and Bud Candy otw For growing medium i'm using: Peat moss Perlite Dolomite lime (I dont measure it out, just go with it )
So got some photos, gonna give a quick summary of things. One of the 2 Acapulco Gold clones made it through, I'm glad one did the plant they came off of was going down and fast from nute burn and over watering. when I first cur her the bottom 2 leaves that you see are damaged were on her and I think one more leaf but that fell off. All the rest are new and she has been under the LED the whole time pretty much. She is looking very good nice short inter-nodes can tell she is gonna want some nutes soon looking a bit light. the bag seed is doing good as well besides the discoloration, short inter-nodes as well was a little surprised since its from seed. So far these lights from Growevolution.com are doing very nice. I will be transplanting today (the auto's for sure), the Acapulco gold seed is growing kinda slow, also had to help it get the seed shell off of it since it was clamping the cotyledons together (mean seed!!). Ok so got the other 2 that didnt even crack yet back in water. I dug around and checked em out nothing was happening
Damn man you on this site too? I'll follow here as well. I like the way things are goin. Keep us posted
Cool thx bro, yeah tek and I started looking for new sites cause of the way RIU is getting. This is one of em I came across Good to see ya! here's what i'm starting with for nutes, kinda nice AN broke the nutrients down into smaller bottles. Gonna get the 1L's got the 250ml's to get going
not really much of an update, but something interesting So after i switched to Advanced Nutrients PH perfect technology I donated my PH meter to a good friend. I bought the old ol reliable liquid tester since i would just be testing the water not the nutrient mix. when i start seeds its a routine thing I Buy a jug of good water i usually look for spring each store seems to have various kinds of water (distilled, spring, drinking, etc) At publix i go for the purified water at walmart its spring. I first went to walmart bought 3 gallons of the spring, this is so routine that i dont check the PH nomore but its always the same has been for a long time. Upon trouble shooting I was had to think about PH its something you can never rule out until you ran every possible outcome. Well I found an abnormality, I tested the spring water and the PH's color on the chart was the highest of the PH!! Ok so we have the culprit right? Wrong answer lol, I dont worry about PH as i said so i dont have ph down but i do have white distilled vinegar for just in case times. Poured a little in then tested, no change. Put in a little moren tested again no change. poured a cap in the jug, no change...... So i tested my tap water, did the exact same thing. To publix I went, came home with the purified water. Tested it and it was yellow, thats the lowest color on the ph list for my tester!! I tried to bring it up no change I opened another just of the purified, no change. How about i went out and bought a new tester and ph down thinking this one has gone bad from age and it did the exact same thing and dropped 20 drops of ph down and still no change in the spring, I was baffled. Needless to say i ordered a ph meter earlier. The temps dropped pretty low in my area think that might have an impact on the tester? I ordered a digi one was going to in Jan anyway didn't really have the cash to shell out atm but oh well. More seeds are otw as well, still have a couple BC so ordered 5 Cheesus from Big Buddha and got a couple others. Stay Tuned
They should be in the mail today says out for delivery , gonna be so happy to get back on track. New meter, Root Riot plugs and great genetics along with a bag of green makes one good weekend Hope everyone is being safe and having a good time!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Small update I was gonna take some pics but said screw it I can do a short vid . [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Q_gShnbTk&feature=youtu.be[/video] Yeah that crazy looking one is the Acapulco Gold seed. I have no idea what its doing but I planted it like the rest. That real strong looking one obviously is the Chocolope Kush The test plant is starting to take off very nice green The poor Acapulco Gold clone I was able to save from my dad's plant he pretty much killed with MG and over watering is finally starting to look good towards the top nice fuller growth. Sativa Dominant she is so she is gonna be finicky but thats cool I couldn't expect anything less from a Legendary strain Now theres a couple I have yet to mention, mostly because they are a couple seeds I tossed out in the garden with a bunch of wild flower seeds. Got a few good pics of the one and I can only hope at least the first pic of them looks as wicked as it does on my monitor as yours. I only say that cause I have a digital vibrance setting on my led monitor not sure it will turn up on yours. Anyways lie I said its a couple seeds i tossed out there didnt really take care of it that much Merry Xmas guys plz be safe and ty for all who have stuck around and have been part of this thread.