170x120x70 cm tent home made wooden frame inside 2x 50w T5 dual fittings, (only 1 switched on right now) big buddha cheese and sour Cheese seedlings, (nearly small plants now), from cannazon - original Cheese is doing better, (the bigger one) small acorns...
been shopping... like my fan? ... and the silencers? ... quietest I could find. I live in an apartment, top floor. It will go in the attic / loft. I'll make a hole in the ceiling inside the bedroom cupboard, (I'm renting so don't want to f*** the place up too much). That fan, on low speed, with the silencers, in the loft, rest it on bubble wrap... "The B2 stealth bomber fan"... (which means shit if you tell the wrong person). Otherwise the original cheese is doing well, really moving, (1 litre hempy bucket, coco and perlite all the way down. Roots going mental... The sour cheese is not doing that well, (slow). Anyways... I'll keep going... need to mount the fan and take the clones this weekend. This resurrection brings mixed feelings. :-|
Also... Better state it now... This will be a multi-layered, LED strip, (the 5050s), perpetual, sea of green. In that 170x120x70 cm tent Will initially target 4 per week over 10 weeks, hopefully 5 grams each for 20 grams per week, that should be one layer. Ultimately... (probably after some learning)... There's enough space in the tent for 3x layers. That fan is 50w, the T5s I'm running now are 54w each, (but I may replace with LED strips). Long story, can't type it all now, but... I'm hoping to get good grams per watt, (weekly, perpetual harvest), in the small tent. We'll see what happens...
She's mounted in the loft. I still need to run a bit of duct between ceiling and tent, but the room feels better already, lovely and fresh. I'll clone tomorrow night, Friday 8th May.
Been shopping again... 5m RGB 5050 LED strip with controller, from a Chinese shop for $50 US . I've not used this before, so I want to test it out first. Watts, lumins and heat are all factors I must consider.
took 2 clones, 0.75% peroxide, 5.8ph, little plastic coco and perlite cups, (cut off trays), in a little plastic humidity done. Scraped and spilt stem with scissors, hands washed, sprayed most stuff with the peroxide, dip in the peroxide water then in the powder rooting hormone, indol buteric dome is on heating pad with thermostat set to within 2 degrees of 28, but I've not seen it drop below 27 yet, (I must run the last piece of ventilation duct to the tent. clipped the leafs, gave final peroxide spray on base of stem. closed dome. covered now for 12 -24 hours darkness. Will expose to light tomorrow. Will keep lid on dome for 7 days, (sterile I there now), after 7 days they will have some roots and I'll slowly expose them to dry air. Also been working on the led strips.... For another post
I've made this. ... 110 watts 4 strips a little under 30 watts each... I think it needs 2 more strips to make it 160 watts over a 120x60 cm area. I've made it 30 cm high. It will be a perpetual sea of green clones looking good also repotted the sour Cheese - it maybe small in stature but it had serious roots. Despite its slower growth I'm starting to prefer it to the original cheese, the original cheese seems a bit lanky. My wood frame is skew, I really need to do an engineering day on the frame, straighten it and add the extra strips but I don't really have time or money right now. I'm just going to build up the plant stock with what I have for now. I also got some free seeds I might try germinate
The sour cheese has come on a fair bit since the weekend, (Tuesday today). Finding a good strain can be a mission, but I fairly sure this is a good one, (the one on the right of the picture), big buddha, sour Cheese via cannazon. 10 week flower, but I don't care, I'll plant 4 every week initially. The original cheese, the one left in the photo, although a fast grower does seem a bit lanky. I'll still give it a try but I'm less hopeful. Also just cracked a chem dog seed, free seed. Reminds me I must get ready to pot it
soaked 2 chem dog and 2 Canadian lemon seeds recently. I've never been so good with seeds but it seems these are all working well. I'm planting the best one now I'll plant the other 3 in days to come all ph6 tap water, (it has chlorine and Calcium by default), stops Mold and fungus and provides a little nurturent salt Also... I'm using cheap agricultural nurturent, powder. (3 parts, hydro powder, calcium nitrate powder and pk powder), $5 per kilo, that ph down and occasionally peroxide and sometimes Epsom salts. That's all.
gave the clones some air today, also potted one canadian lemon, only one seed of that cracked. got 2 chem dog and one canadian lemon in soil now everything seems like it's going pretty well. I'm planning to add another 10m of 5050 rgb led strips soon and start flowering. We'll see what each strain is like, I'll keep the good and ditch the kak
took 2 clones from the sour cheese, smells amazing. I'm almost definitely going to throw out the original cheese, (no point growing it compared to the sour cheese). Also the chem dogs are sprouting nicely, which isn't too say they won't f*** up, I'm not so good with seeds
I covered the seedlings with a clear plastic jug, (give them more humidity), they're doing really well. They should have little leafs in the next day or two. The original cheese clones are rooted and basically ready to transplant, (9 days since cutting them), but I'll only transplant them on the weekend, (I like sticking to a 2 week clone time). The sour cheese clones taken on the weekend, 2 days ago, are also doing well. The sour cheese mother will be ready to give 2x more clones next weekend. Soon I'll have 5x sour cheese plants, (at which stage I'll start cloning for flowering; still need to make a few adjustments to the set up before flowering, (duct extention, extra led strips, suspend the fan on bungee cords, (I can hear it too much when I trying to sleep), but... I'm sure I'll be flowering with 4 plants per week perpetual cycle by the end of June, (in about 5 weeks time), then be cropping 4 per week by end of September, (takes time to grow this stuff). Hopefully be 5 grams per plant , hopefully 100 grams per months. I'll post pictures of rooted clones, leafy seedlings and the sour cheese ready to provide two more clones this evening.
put the final piece of ducting in temps are good, although I will add more LEDs soon. seedlings got leafs, I'll uncover 2 of 3 giving the older clones some air now the tent is vented I can zip it up, and not worry about the purple light got my analogue timer all systems go... I'll start putting plants in flower this weekend put the final piece of ducting in temps are good, although I will add more LEDs soon. seedlings got leafs, I'll uncover 2 of 3 giving the older clones some air now the tent is vented I can zip it up, and not worry about the purple light got my analogue timer all systems go... I'll start putting plants in flower this weekend
seems like the original cheese is being eaten by pyphium. I've given them both a feed with 1% peroxide. It should bring them right, we'll see in a day or two