Hi all - thanks for a great forum and website. First post here!
My wife's been dealing with very high chronic pain following a near fatal motorbike accident 20 odd years ago.
While she also takes prescribed meds from her doctor, over many years we've realised that she obtains far and away the most effective pain relief from cannabis. (CBD alone does very little for her) I make her a kind of 'green dragon' type tincture with a cold ethanol extraction process, mostly by just using whatever my local dealer/friend happens to have in. Apart from the ongoing expense, (which causes my wife a lot of stress and guilt), I also think we can and should dial in the strains that best suit her, which I can only do (in the UK) by growing at home. Obviously that's going to take a lot of time and experimentation.
Since I'm providing most of her care for 100+ hours a week, I have very limited time and energy. This is one reason why I thought autoflowers made sense to start with, but also why I'm posting this thread because I can't afford to screw things up too many times - can't afford it financially of course, but also in the sense that neither of us having much left in reserve.
As I'm sure people here know perfectly well already, the internet is littered with "bro science" and "info-mercials" for various products. Trying to sort and filter out the hype from the solid advice is really doing my head in and already wasted a huge amount of time. Also, I already have quite a lot of growing gear I've bought over the last 6 months - which I'd rather make use of than buy pretty much the same thing again, especially if it's only going to give me a ~10% improvement in yield.
What I'm hoping is if I layout what I have pulled together below, you lovely people will weigh in and tell me how best to make use of it? And also chime in if you really feel a specific product would really help things go better. That goes for any links to tutorials, videos etc you think are important.
I'm growing indoors, in a 3' x 3' tent with a Spider Farmer LED spec 301H EVO. I've rigged up a ventilator fan with a carbon filter and have a small oscillating fan to move the air around inside the tent.
I've also got:
5 gallon (19 litres) fabric pots
a pH testing kit
a humidity sensor probe you stick in the soil and an ambient air humidity sensor
a bag of vermiculite
a bag of perlite
a bag of worm castings
a 50 litre bag of Canna Terra Professional Plus+
a bag of clay balls (the kind used in hydroponics) - which I thought to use to line the base of the fabric pots.
I also have some Canna Coco A + B - though I suspect I've probably bought the wrong ferts.
Months ago I bought some Girl Scout Cookie feminised autos and got a 'free' Skywalker OG auto seed with them.
My primary concern right now is getting the soil right - obviously it's going to be mostly Canna Terra Pro Plus, at least with the first batch, since I have a large bag of the stuff.
Beyond sticking some clayballs in the bottom, and understanding (I think) that Terra Pro Plus alreadycontains some perlite, what else should I do to prep the soil?
What ferts should I have ready? Apart from keeping a very low nutrient area around the seedling, should the rest of the pot's soil be soaked with a nutrient solution before transplanting - I think that's a 'no' for autoflowers? What about Rhizotonic? Do autoflowers need that? Not sure what's already there in Terra Pro Plus for autos - the Canna website talks about the soil having everything that's needed for the first week of growth . . . thoughts?
Thanks to the Canna website I think I've finally got a handle on initially adding 70% water, letting the overall dry weight + water get down to 30% and then keeping it between 30 and 40% above dry weight for the duration of the grow by not adding more than 10% of the pot volume at a time. That about right?
Hopefully someone reading this waffle will know what questions I should be asking and fill in the gaps for me!
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
My wife's been dealing with very high chronic pain following a near fatal motorbike accident 20 odd years ago.
While she also takes prescribed meds from her doctor, over many years we've realised that she obtains far and away the most effective pain relief from cannabis. (CBD alone does very little for her) I make her a kind of 'green dragon' type tincture with a cold ethanol extraction process, mostly by just using whatever my local dealer/friend happens to have in. Apart from the ongoing expense, (which causes my wife a lot of stress and guilt), I also think we can and should dial in the strains that best suit her, which I can only do (in the UK) by growing at home. Obviously that's going to take a lot of time and experimentation.
Since I'm providing most of her care for 100+ hours a week, I have very limited time and energy. This is one reason why I thought autoflowers made sense to start with, but also why I'm posting this thread because I can't afford to screw things up too many times - can't afford it financially of course, but also in the sense that neither of us having much left in reserve.
As I'm sure people here know perfectly well already, the internet is littered with "bro science" and "info-mercials" for various products. Trying to sort and filter out the hype from the solid advice is really doing my head in and already wasted a huge amount of time. Also, I already have quite a lot of growing gear I've bought over the last 6 months - which I'd rather make use of than buy pretty much the same thing again, especially if it's only going to give me a ~10% improvement in yield.
What I'm hoping is if I layout what I have pulled together below, you lovely people will weigh in and tell me how best to make use of it? And also chime in if you really feel a specific product would really help things go better. That goes for any links to tutorials, videos etc you think are important.
I'm growing indoors, in a 3' x 3' tent with a Spider Farmer LED spec 301H EVO. I've rigged up a ventilator fan with a carbon filter and have a small oscillating fan to move the air around inside the tent.
I've also got:
5 gallon (19 litres) fabric pots
a pH testing kit
a humidity sensor probe you stick in the soil and an ambient air humidity sensor
a bag of vermiculite
a bag of perlite
a bag of worm castings
a 50 litre bag of Canna Terra Professional Plus+
a bag of clay balls (the kind used in hydroponics) - which I thought to use to line the base of the fabric pots.
I also have some Canna Coco A + B - though I suspect I've probably bought the wrong ferts.
Months ago I bought some Girl Scout Cookie feminised autos and got a 'free' Skywalker OG auto seed with them.
My primary concern right now is getting the soil right - obviously it's going to be mostly Canna Terra Pro Plus, at least with the first batch, since I have a large bag of the stuff.
Beyond sticking some clayballs in the bottom, and understanding (I think) that Terra Pro Plus already
What ferts should I have ready? Apart from keeping a very low nutrient area around the seedling, should the rest of the pot's soil be soaked with a nutrient solution before transplanting - I think that's a 'no' for autoflowers? What about Rhizotonic? Do autoflowers need that? Not sure what's already there in Terra Pro Plus for autos - the Canna website talks about the soil having everything that's needed for the first week of growth . . . thoughts?
Thanks to the Canna website I think I've finally got a handle on initially adding 70% water, letting the overall dry weight + water get down to 30% and then keeping it between 30 and 40% above dry weight for the duration of the grow by not adding more than 10% of the pot volume at a time. That about right?
Hopefully someone reading this waffle will know what questions I should be asking and fill in the gaps for me!
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
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...but I'm outdoor..Spain.
I would chime in…. But you’re already in good hands over here..
