Dads first grow in a new room. 2ea 1000hps, 12x12x9 indoor, pro-mixhp zone5a USA

Hi Dadswieser. I just found your journal. Happy Thanksgiving to you too. I think you and I are working with about the same amount of space as far as room goes. We started a few years ago and converted an unused bedroom into our grow space...about 1/3 veg and 2/3 grow. We're running 4 1000 watt haps lights for flower right now with plans to throw some LED into the mix after the first of the year. It's been a learning experience for sure, but some of the most fun I've had in awhile. LOL I too got mixed up with a so called "partner" for a little while in the beginning. He was supposedly the one with the grow knowledge and knew how to set everything up. I was the one with the cash. I realized several months into the whole thing that he was a blooming idiot and I was just wasting my time with him. Luckily, I found out he was on probation so I kind of had him by the balls and was able to rid my world of him without any issues. I then found myself at square one after making a HUGE investment in equipment, and had to either learn it on my own or throw up my hands and quit. Never having been one to not give anything a good try, I dove in with all four feet. It took me about a year of researching along with trial and error to figure it out, but it kind of clicked somewhere along the way and we've been going strong now for 4 years or so. Wish I had a bunch of money and a lot more space so I could amp this thing up like I want to, but it's not legal in my state yet and I really have no desire to do any serious time in prison. My hope is that when it does go legal here I can throw up a Butler building in the pasture and grow for real. One can dream can't they? LOL Hope you and yours have a great holiday and I'll be following along from now on since I found you. TWW

 

Rough storm! Glad everything made it!

 

Lol... I'll think of a name for the timeout box... I like names that are appropriate in some way...



You're really convinced of the 48 hrs darkness and an increase in resin huh?

 

I trim the fans as I pull the legs... I wash immediately in a bath of H202, also on occasion, I have tried a lemon juice bath after that. Does an incredible job of removing of removing dust and other contaminants. I hang and dry it with as fan on for an hour or so, until it's no longer physically wet, and I wet trim from there. Then it all goes on hangers still on the legs, and into the cure tent. Humidity here has never been an issue and I can easily hang for 7-10 days in my tent until stems snap when I bend them. The idea is to dry as slow as possible closer to the 10 days is better. The slower you go the more you preserve the terpines you want. Without those you have hay flavored psychoactive compounds. Once they snap on the vine I snip them into jars and I cure them for 2 weeks to two months depending... If growing this incredible plant wasn't art enough, drying and curing is equally critical, but often relegated to the back burner. If you did it all right it's just as easy to piss the best work you've ever done away in just a few days of bad dry/cure. Once in jars I check them regularly and burp them to release excess moisture being pulled from the center of the flower.




Lol... I'm so baked it sick right now... hahaha... No one has ever asked what I do, perhaps I should put that up front somewhere or delineate my steps better...


I'll come back to some of this later mango!


~GHG~

 

Fox tailing ~ presumably from stress like heat. I have been lifting my lights toward the end of flower to see if that makes a difference. But I wonder if other stressors, like PH can have that affect...

 

Sone strains seem to foxtail more than others. No worries, just when you get a funny braid popping out of the top it just doesn't have that nice aesthetic look.