New Grower RQS Royal Dwarf/Northern Lights first grow (indoor).

BonsaiBerry said:

Hi all,

I've been sneaking around on autoflower.net for a couple weeks now and am finding the forums very useful. After deciding to growing my own plants, I figured I might as well make a blog about it here because it's fun and some experienced eyes watching the process never hurts ^_^.

So, i've been trying to grow 3x Royal Dwarf and one Northern lights (free seed) in a cardboard box I got my hands on. The idea of the setup is to keep things small and stealthy. I don't have much natural sunlight, so I bought an LED panel which seems to do its job very well, and an LED strip I had lying around was used as "bonus" lighting.

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I've installed 2 old GPU fans into the side of the box and made small holes at the bottom so it can cycle air.
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As i've started the process quite a while ago, this blog will start on day 12, counting day 1 as the day where seeds first touched water.
The Royal Dwarves were planted into soil plugs which i put directly into the main containers, the northern lights seed I just put beneath the dirt and watered.
So far so good, just feeding tap water and keeping lights running 24/0, this is day 12. (front right is the northern light seed, others are dwarves.

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Northern Light
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Royal dwarf (back right)
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all plants without lamp light,

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I am very curious about your opinions of how my plants are doing, as this is my first grow and i'm doing things in quite a weird way.

Hope you enjoy the blog, and your day

BonsaiBerry

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BonsaiBerry said:

Thanks!

Don't know if you live alone or if you thought about scent control
I live alone, everyone in the apartment complex smokes weed, it smells like weed here 24/7, plants or no.

Also cardboard is notorious for sucking water out of the air,
Oh I hadn't thought about that! Thanks for the information. gonna think a bit on how I make a budget non cardboard growplace

Oh and I would place a plastic divider between the plants,
Good idea, preventing serious bummers like a champ you are.

Can you tell us something about the soil/medium you are using
it's soil from local plantplace/idk what it's called. 20 liters in total, it's purposed for kitchen garden soil, lemme see if I can find soil values.
It's NPK 10-4-4 soil, and supposed to have enough nutrients for 3-4 months. (PH = 5-6,5)

I also have 100 grams of RQS easyboost nutrients lying around, I mix 1 or 2 pieces of it (like 1 gram), with the water I feed it every other day or so. (PH of 6.4)


And i'm already enjoying it haha. Everything is going better than expected so far

@DetroitDarren
Are you using 24/0 Light schedule? that's probably why mine grow faster I'm guessing
PS: Lamp is 40 or 45 watts, 25klumen LED panel I believe. full spectrum, (most white, lots of red/blue and some green
psps: I've been reading up on LST (hence the wires around the northern lights), is it worth it on the Royal dwarves for more green? I'm going to use it on the northern lights for sure to keep it low

PSPSPS Will the cardboard still get moldy and weak if I feed my plants the least water they can take? and with the fans I have pretty good air circulation. (also the front of the box just folds closed, but it isn't taped or air tight. the box is more there to keep the light out of the room as it's a 1 room studio and I have to live here as well).

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