What's up folks? I've been growing since the early 2000s. I grow both Autos and Photos. I currently grow in soil but might be stepping up my game in the future and joining the aqua world of growing. For now I like my current medium and it serves me well. I grow indoors all year and put a few plants outdoors during the warmer Northern US months too. I grow pretty much for myself, family and friends. I make edibles out of leftovers and prefer a good bowl over a joint any day. I live in a legal state and love to grow MJ amongst other plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables. I'm just here to share my experiences and maybe meet some cool folks along the way. I currently have a Bruce Banner Auto Fem germinating so you fine folks will be able to watch her grow with me. Anyways, I'm looking forward to meeting people and getting settled in. Cheers! Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Hey welcome to the city @ShowMeYourDoobies I was gonna germ a BB#3 this time, but the White Fire has me wanting... let us know when you take some pics and start a grow journal
Will do, the seed is soaking at the moment so it'll be a few days at least before I can get some micro shots of it. I'll start up a journal once the seed cracks though for sure. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Might have to pick your brain at some point. I'd basically be doing a single or double bucket setup. I typically grow one to two plants at a time indoors. I have a list of supplies saved on Amazon and that I can buy locally.
I use soften well water. I have been using the same water for years BUT the soil buffers that. I know I will have to alter this when I move aqua. The big question is...Will my wife approve of the upgrade...Lol.
if it has too much sodium, it will be bad. Maybe better to use the unsoftened well water, but yea... RO ftw
Right, that's why my preference is soil right now . I need to get a better understanding of my water structure and the levels before I make that switch. That switch would also need to be sustainable which means I have to sway my wife. There's a few things holding me back as I said
10 plants in ten different DWC systems in flowering . Each DWC system is 20 gallons . Each plant in flowering can use up to 6 or more gallons per day . I change the water every ten days per DWC system . I USE 80 gallons per day of RO water . LOTS of things you need to know to be able to produce and store any amount of RO water .
Always good to see more growers about! I'm trying my first Banner plants (and also my first autos instead of photos) atm in dirt myself. I've not tried Banner yet, but after 8 weeks the frost looks like it might live up to the hype! Curious to see how much more they will grow over the next 4-5 weeks. Best of luck with yours mate!
That's a frosty Banner my friend! Where did you get the beans from? Mine are from Weedseedsexpress. I just popped mine in soil. The seed cracked but it didn't produce a significant root. It rather poked it's head out and said "High" today. I'll give it a week to break ground before I start another one. That shit looks really good though! What's your setup like? Nutes, etc...?
These Banners came from North Atlantic up in Maine (just their house genetics, nothing fancy) and I can say for over 3 years their seed (and resulting plant) quality, and customer service have always been above average. Strangely enough, both the two flowering banners were late starters too, had a very slow first week, but then establish very quickly. My current setup is pretty simple (I'm a lazy guy, plus I'm trying to teach my 80ish, year old dad to grow his own for a hobby {he uses it for arthritis}). I start with a 1 liter pot with just FF happy frog from the bag, soak the seed in a paper towel, then pop it in a rooter and set things to like 75% RH and 75-85F, as soon as any of them break dirt I put the lights on 16 (on) 8 (off) on low settings (like 200ish umol/sec). After about 2-3 weeks of steadily increasing light intensity, I re-pot to 5 gallon containers, filled with half FF Ocean forest from the bag, and either the purple fish compost, or orange 3.0 mix from build a soil .com I typically don't even feed them nutes until I'm ready to flip to flower around week 6-8 (photo plants) beyond a bit of silica unless they show distress. In flower I'll crank things up as high as 1,000+ umol on the canopy (I top and scrog) and typically only feed when the plants show some deficiency, and not on any manufactures schedule. If you want any of the precise details on what I do, the current grow (these two banner XXL strains plus I threw two photo gorilla glue 4s in there just to make it interesting) Thanks again for the compliments on the plants mate, its my first auto run so I've basically made a few mistakes, but overall it looks like I'll be pulling at least a few ounces off each plant around thanksgiving, as frosty as they are already, I'm really looking forward to trying it out! Bruce Banner / Gorillia Glue scrog dirt grow for octogenarians and more! Best of luck in your endeavors mate!
Its been a little stressful, everything in that tent was supposed to be on the same photo schedule, but the two banners turning out to be auto plants has kind of thrown a wrench into a lot of things, can't complain too much though, as they do seem to be producing decent buds.
I ran them all 16/8 for the first 2 months, but once I flipped the photos to 12/12 (7 weeks in), the autos naturally got cut back to 12/12 as well. I would have given them each their own tents (photos and autos) but the damn autos were unexpected, and I'm a lazy man, so I figured to try and keep it all in the same tent and see what happened due a combination of laziness and curiosity. (That un topped banner auto though, over 5 feet long on the main steam and thick as a roll of quarters all the way to the cola, I'll be coming back around to explore more into the other 18 banner seeds from that batch in a future grow.) Judging by the trich emptiness, I'd say they have at least 3, probably 4 weeks to go (at least if they were photos in flower that would be my estimate).