Hi all I'm new here thought I'd sign up to get some advice from more experienced growers and share my experience. I just built my grow room and I'm 5 weeks in to my first grow. I started with two clones and then purchased some seeds and started another two - this may cause me problems with height later when I need to switch to flower. Here are some pics of where I'm at currently. This is where I started two T5's Then I built my grow room Re potted and started low stress training I unfortunately found that the clones I purchased from the dispensary had an powdery mildew infection, I researched options to kill the pm infection- I ended up using Safers Defender Unfortunately the mix I made was way to strong and severely burnt the plants But thankfully they recovered I got my nutrients and started a feeding program I bought a cheap PH test kit to get a rough idea of my PH after mixing my nutrients- I was around 5.5 I started training them more aggressively I finally received my seeds that I ordered from Old school breeders association Shop - Old School Breeders Association I however do not suggest purchasing from them as their customer service is terrible and their advertised promotions are a lie - I will talk more on their terrible customer service later. I germinated my seeds in a damp paper towel inside a ziplock bag. One of them failed to germinate and I had to start another. Planted them in smaller pots and watered with plain tap water. The clones I planted in a mix of coco and soil The new seedlings I germinated I planted in a peatmoss, perlite, coco and sea soil mix When I repotted my seedlings the roots looked good I used 7 gal soft pots for the seedlings to help prevent root rot I was having trouble keeping humidity in my grow room so I ordered a humidifier - TaoTronics Cool Mist Humidifier I got tired of filling it so I modified the reservoir with a float valve Finally got my humidity in a descent range Now to address the dropping night time temperatures I ordered a heater from amazon: Honeywell HZ-7300C Digital heater. I was able to keep the temps reasonably constant when the light turned off. I am running a 18 - 6 light schedule but my basement gets pretty cold without the heat of the 1000watt Metal Hailide. I installed a sink with a pump to pump the waste water to my drain line from the grow room. I purchased a 3ft x 3ft drainage tray from Pacific Northwest Garden Supply - those guys are awesome, friendly, knowledgable customer service I installed a condensate pump to pump all the waste nutrients to the sink I installed.
Ho man, happy to follow. I have almost finished my first grow. Lots of help is to be had here Sent from my ANE-LX2 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Update: I'm starting to regret my choice using soil for the two larger clones, it takes a long time and a lot of nutrients to be able to get a good flow out of the bottom of the pots so I know I'm exchanging my nutrients and won't get salts building-up. whereas my peat moss and Coco soil mix drains perfectly and stays moist for a long time. I don't think I will grow from clone again as the seedlings are a lot more robust and healthy-looking and the stems are quite thick and quite large, also you never know what a clone is infected with. My low-stress training is paying off, the clones are getting quite bushy and I am going to build a frame out of PVC to install a scrog net soon. Here's a quick video of my adventure up until now:
20190428_144842 by Cangrows posted Apr 28, 2019 at 10:18 PM 20190428_211607 by Cangrows posted Apr 28, 2019 at 10:18 PM 20190428_144854 by Cangrows posted Apr 28, 2019 at 10:18 PM This plant is a bit of a mutant