Old Dog with New Tech

Discussion in 'Indoor Grow Journals' started by PufferLungs, Sep 27, 2023.

  1. #1 PufferLungs, Sep 27, 2023
    Last edited: Sep 27, 2023
    I figured I'd stick my head up and document this one. I'm not sure how many of grows I've got left in me. I've got an incurable blood cancer and limited time. Years, not decades.


    I have new modern equipment and done on a micro scale
     
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  2. The dog jumped in my lap and I punched the Reply button accidentally.

    Enough of the pity party. We all gotta go sometime, I just didn't think I'd be goin out so soon. I want to document as many of my grows as I can now. I've never been too concerned with posting pics or showing anybody what I was doin. Didn't matter. I still don't think it matters, but my wife has been insistent that I "pass on the knowledge". I'm not sure what I can pass on. This kind of growing is all new to me. (LEDs & auto-flowering) I'm not doing anything the way I've done it in the past, so I'm expecting to make some mistakes and even have some outright failures.

    I'm growing autos in a small tent with LEDs and bag soil. I've never grown in anything this small. I've never used LEDs and I've never grown autos. I'm hoping this is fun, and not a mess.

    I'm running Royal Queen Seeds to start. Why? They're cheap and proven.

    Royal Cheese auto and Northern Lights auto. Sewn on Sep 08, 2023. Both popped up 13/14th September.

    The soil is FF Ocean Forest that's been mixed with a cheap organic soil, vermiculite, perlite and some peat. This is very close to the recommended soil mix published by Royal Queen, for their auto seeds. The idea is to keep it light and airy. 3g fabric pots.

    I'm sprouting under dual 42w 5000k LED strips. I'm getting 300 PPFD and 26 DLI under those 2.

    I'm going to veg under a couple cheap black boxes from amazon. They're 65w apiece and have 4 dimmer settings. No PPFD or DLI readings yet.

    I'm flowing under a cheap white box from amazon. It's only ON/OFF and has 2 switches. 1 for veg light and 1 for flower light. I plan to run them both during flower. It's 239w total. No PPFD or DLI readings yet.

    The tent is a vivosun 5x4 with 2 chambers. The right side is 12x48x80 inches and the flowering side is 48x48x80 inches.

    I usually use Dyna-Gro nutrients. I won't even look at those until my plants start showing signs of hunger. I'm pretty confident the FFOC will feed an auto for 6--10 weeks in veg. We'll see and adjust as needed. For now, just using a pH adjuster with my water.

    These pics are a few days old. I haven't been to the tent today. They should be on their 4th set by now.

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  3. Nice and healthy but I was wondering what white and black boxes are?
     
  4. Good on ya! Make hay while your sun still shines. Well, maybe not hay, but good grass! :love-m3j:
     
  5. Cheap "no-name" black box LED or in this case, one of them is white.
     
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  6. oh ok lol thanks and good luck
     

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