Hi folks, Kush here with yet another DIY ghetto grow.
I will be growing Dinafem "Critical+ Autoflowering CBD" andSweet Seeds "Sweet Skunk Auto" side by side.
The beans were soaked in water yesterday and today the Critical+ Autoflowering CBD showed a tap root and was placed directly in the 11 liter fabric pot.
The Sweet Skunk Auto was not showing any signs of sprouting, so I cracked it by hand. I hope I have not damaged it while I was cracking it open. Will know by tomorrow. If it turns out that I have killed the seed, I will soak another Sweet Skunk Auto bean.
Here is info about the grow:
Strains: "Critical+ Autoflowering CBD" by Dinafem and"Sweet Skunk Auto" by Sweet Seeds
Grow medium: Soil
Pots: White autopruning fabric pots
Lights: a DIY light fixture that was made by me from regular LED bulbs with their globes removed. A total of 15 bulbs, 9 Watts each = 135 Watts from the wall.
I can tell you, this thing puts out 65 000 Lux one foot away like a champ.
Currently I have cold temp bulbs on. Will replace them with warmer temp bulbs come flowering time.
Grow box: homemade out of three large cardboard boxes. Lots of labor and lots of glue involved. Size of the grow box is 150cm tall, 75cm wide and 45cm deep (approximately 5 feet tall, 2,5 feet wide and 1,5 feet deep). The grow box is lined with highly reflective Mylar sheets, taken from survival blankets.
Ventilation: I have two exhaust fans in this box. One is a PC fan that will be used for veg. And the other is a larger mixed flow fan with a carbon filter attached to it that will be used for the flowering stage. The reason I am not using the large fan from the very beginning of the grow is because the box is in my bedroom and that mixed flow fan is very noisy. I will only use it if it is absolutely necessary to filter out the smell.
No intake fans.
Light schedule: 20/4 for the first two weeks of veg and 24/0 for late veg and flowering (because the plant started to reek during the lights off periods, so I had to keep the system running 24/0)
Training: I plan to let them grow naturally. No LST, no FIM, no topping.
Check out 5 photos of my DIY setup below:
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I will be growing Dinafem "Critical+ Autoflowering CBD" and
The beans were soaked in water yesterday and today the Critical+ Autoflowering CBD showed a tap root and was placed directly in the 11 liter fabric pot.
The Sweet Skunk Auto was not showing any signs of sprouting, so I cracked it by hand. I hope I have not damaged it while I was cracking it open. Will know by tomorrow. If it turns out that I have killed the seed, I will soak another Sweet Skunk Auto bean.
Here is info about the grow:
Strains: "Critical+ Autoflowering CBD" by Dinafem and
Grow medium: Soil
Pots: White autopruning fabric pots
Lights: a DIY light fixture that was made by me from regular LED bulbs with their globes removed. A total of 15 bulbs, 9 Watts each = 135 Watts from the wall.
I can tell you, this thing puts out 65 000 Lux one foot away like a champ.
Currently I have cold temp bulbs on. Will replace them with warmer temp bulbs come flowering time.
Grow box: homemade out of three large cardboard boxes. Lots of labor and lots of glue involved. Size of the grow box is 150cm tall, 75cm wide and 45cm deep (approximately 5 feet tall, 2,5 feet wide and 1,5 feet deep). The grow box is lined with highly reflective Mylar sheets, taken from survival blankets.
Ventilation: I have two exhaust fans in this box. One is a PC fan that will be used for veg. And the other is a larger mixed flow fan with a carbon filter attached to it that will be used for the flowering stage. The reason I am not using the large fan from the very beginning of the grow is because the box is in my bedroom and that mixed flow fan is very noisy. I will only use it if it is absolutely necessary to filter out the smell.
No intake fans.
Light schedule: 20/4 for the first two weeks of veg and 24/0 for late veg and flowering (because the plant started to reek during the lights off periods, so I had to keep the system running 24/0)
Training: I plan to let them grow naturally. No LST, no FIM, no topping.
Check out 5 photos of my DIY setup below:
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Never had any gnat issues with this soil before. Guess they have lowerd their quality control.
