This is my first grow. I have 3 2 gallon soil plants and 2 planters in my bubble bucket setup. BB has 1/3 cup of all nutrients (GH gro,bloom, and micro). So far the BB plants are beating the soil plants in height. I have 2 100 watt equivalent cfls over the BB plants and 4 40 watt fluorescents over the soil plants. I used Vigero organic potting soil which contains fertilizer so I did not add nutes and plan not to for at least 6 weeks. Screwed up and bought 3 inch hydro pots. Was too anxious to start grow :/ hoping this won't be an issue. The roots should just grow through the planters anyways into the water. We shall find out...
Ppm of water in the BB was 130 to start with and is 594 with added nutes. I forgot to rinse off Hyrdoton before planting so excess minerals are leaching into the water. Ppm has rose to 690 in the last 4 days. PH has been dead on at 5.8 to 6.0 since the start. PH of soiled plants is around 6.8. Will continue to just add water without nutes for a while. Both set ups have 1 to 2 inch plants with 4 leaves each now. Will post current pics later. Made a new light setup for the BB plants.
Update to my system. Installed 2 more splitters to my hydro light so now I can hold 2 5000k and 2 6500k 100 watt equivalent cfls in it. Also built a light system for the soil plants. It can hold 6 cfls. I have 3 65 watt equivalent 6500k cfls and 3 100 watt equivalent 5000k cfls lights in it. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
Be careful of the type of paper towels. I lost all but 1 seed out of 12 to chemical ridden paper towels. Now I use an unbleached 100 recycled safe towel. All 4 seeds I put in germinated. The small plant is my only regret female seed that made it. It's either northern lights or white widdow. I hope the box will be enough until my auto is done and I can put the grow bulbs back in the closet. It suckered having two different kinds. Never again. It's either or simply click I only have one place to grow and I can't split it up. My last buds were at 16% the and about 1.5% cbds. Kicked my ass. Lol I take cbd oil too and that stuff works. HEMPMEDSPX.COM. GREAT STUFF. Or order it from cbdfarmacy who gets it from the main company I mentioned first, hemmedspx.com. I researched it and it's the medicinal part of the hemp plant. The USA has had a patent on it since the 1970s and it says how it is so benefiting to anyone. PLEASE READ ABOUT IT. GET IT ONLY FROM THOSE COMPANIES. It has worked for me and my pain, anxiety, depression, etc. Tell Mike at cbdfarmacy Tom sent you. He is out to help people. The blue label and gold label are the strongest and work the best. I got the small 1 Oz and I have to take 4-5 times the dose for it to work. Mabel this will help.
Yes that is exactly why I'm growing. A family member has brain cancer and the cbds are said to help. I live in the US so I can't really order stuff like that online. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
Hydro plants seem to be smoking the soil plants (no pun intended) growth wise. At least double their size. The light fixture slid down and burnt a couple leaves in the hydro setup, so one plant is a little yellow. I adjusted the soil plants lights down more. We will see if they respond better. Ppm and ph are steady in hydro around 597ppm and 6.0. Added 1/2 gallon of water. Ph in soil is steady at 6.8. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
The hydro plants will outgrow soil. If you are doing a medical grow you will need to step up the plant numbers and get some HID lighting. I Have a heck of a time keeping up with my sick people.
Ya my grow is for 1 sick person and this is an experimental grow to get the hang of it before I jump into something big. Gone for this week for work. Got someone tending to the garden. Hoping to come back to some nice plants http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
So as you can see the hydro plants have grown a lot. The soil plants not so much. Seems I'm having better luck growing mushrooms out of them lol. Added a gallon of water to hydro so far. Bumped the nutes up to aggressive vegetative growth mix. The leaves seem to be saggy. Not sure what's causing that but maybe a nute deficiency. We will see. Also there is a weird yellow line on the leaves. Thinking water got on a leave and the light was too close. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
So decided the great outdoors is the place for these soil plants lol. They just wernt working out. It's ok, I was more into the hydro anyways In other news, moved the hydro plants to the bigger light setup. We will see if 4 times the light makes em huuuuge http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
Put the plants into flowering. Did water change and put the flowering combo of nutrients into the new clean bucket. Changed 1/2 the bulbs to warm spectrum bulbs. Will change the other half when I buy some more. Light timer is set to 12 hours on 12 hours off. Will take pics tomorrow. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
. Day 3 of flowering schedule http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
The last week has been a struggle to keep the plants above 5.5 ph. Not sure why all of a sudden. Must have something to do with the size and age of the plants. Been adding ph up every morning and afternoon but it doesn't seem to be doing much. Hmmmm http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
Power went out for a bit today but it didn't seem to harm the plants at all. These hydro plants seem to be pretty rugged. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal
So I read up a bit about the drooping leaves. Lowered the water level a bit and made sure all the roots in the bottom of both planters were making it out of the planters. Both of these could cause this drooping. Also added an intake fan I will turn on when I enter the room and off when I leave. Maybe it will add some fresh air to the equation and help. http://forum.grasscity.com/index.php?/topic/1300541-My-First-Bb-And-Soil-Grow-%3A%29 My grow journal