Hi everyone, first time around here, even though i've been reading you since a long time. First of all i have to apologize in advance if you find anything wrong or weird about my grammar but it's not my first language and i'm not certainly sure about my skills. Anyway, having said that, i'm bringing to all you my friends a journal of my first (and current) grow project, wich i've been working since a pair of weeks ago. It's a double chamber originally thought to be a perpetual grow, but since it's the very first one i decided starting with Autos. I wasn't too sure at first doing the journal, so the record starts since now, day 12, one day after moving the seedlings to the pots.
The illumination it's a DIY Led, that has been developed by an electric engineering studend friend. We've made some advances trying to define some aproximated units for it, but we keep striving with the missinformation of the fabricant and our lack of instruments, so we are a little bit running blind on this respect.
Well, let's go to the important:
Seeds: 15 seeds "Critical Bud Autoflowering", from a local bank so-called "Kundala Seeds". I bought them from a moderately well-known growshop, lured by the genetic, but mostly by the low cost (around 70 usd for all). I wasn't able to find ay reference abuout this bank on internet but a pair of growshops that sells their seeds. The description on the package claims that the strain is a crossig between a "Critical" and a "Big Bud", 60% Indica, 15% Sativa and 20% Rudelaris. The average high, 90 to 120 cm, flowering between 40 to 55 days, a "high production", high THC, and low CBD.
I can translate the rest, but it's just advertising for me, tell me if you're still interested.
Propagation chamber:
90x60x90 cm tent, DP90 from Secret Jardin
Illumination Propagation
DIY Led system. As i told you i'm not deeply involved on this part of the project, i have to make more investigation. Even though, here is the information that i can give you at first glance:
8 aluminium rows with 6 sets of 3 leds SMD 5730, 12 volts each set, 0.5 watts each light. That give us a total of 144. 4 of the rows contain 72 cold white lights and 4 are natural white, interspersed with each other. The total dimensions are 45x50 cm
More images:
https://ibb.co/kRrLtb
https://ibb.co/ma7tDb
https://ibb.co/mceUmw
https://ibb.co/dJctDb
https://ibb.co/czzJeG
https://ibb.co/guPJeG
https://ibb.co/kEfrzG
Ventilation Propagation Tent
ProFan, 5 W, Garden Pro
Extractor Green Air 150 mm, 300 m3/hr
Aluminium PVC exit duct, black recovered, 5mm thicknes
Termohigrometer, chinese stuff
https://ibb.co/iKq8u6
https://ibb.co/ngvf7R
https://ibb.co/nMxSnR
Well, here's how it looks all mounted from outside
Vegetation Chamber:
1mtx2mtx1mt tent, from Growgenetics
I still haven't bought the rest of the stuff of the vegetation chamber, but for now i can say that my decisions on here are depending on how my kids are growing and of course the advices i'll receive. At first glance i think i'll do some kind of LST, like using SCROG, but i'm still a little not well informed on this matter. I'm open to any option, specially those that promise a bigger harvest, hahaha.
Germination:
Day 1-11: The 15 seeds was submerged on water for 2 days on dark. Later they was put on Jiffys.Finally they was left next to the window recieving natural light for 9 days (It's summer here).
At day 11, the seeds had sprouted very unevenly, so three of them was throw away. At this point i still wasn't feeling very motivated on keeping the journal, so i don't have any record of here. The rest of the seedlings was transplanted to 12 square buckets of 7 liters each. The substrate chosen was a Mills Light Mix, no special treatmen or mixing was done. 12 succesfully germinated seedlings was the optimun programmed, but i would be happy with 10 too. Then i placed them on the tent, putting the samllest on the center where the light is a little bit stronger. They was named and labeled as well at this point.
KS-CBA01 "Kopi-kopi"
KS-CBA02 "Element"
KS-CBA03 "Adjetive"
KS-CBA04 "Blank Mind"
KS-CBA05 "Little Palm"
KS-CBA06 "Churro's cutter"
KS-CBA07 "Bad Iron"
KS-CBA08 "Neumatex"
KS-CBA09 "Little Penny"
KS-CBA10 "Coliform"
KS-CBA11 "Tepo-tepo"
KS-CBA12 "I didn't do it"
Here's a picture of my little kids:
There's a diference of 45 cm between the fixture and the upper rim of the pots, and the light cycle is setup for a 18/6 (any suggestion here?)
Day 12: The seedlengs was hydrated with 400 cc of clean demineralizated water and then with 400 cc of water mixed with vegetative fertilizer from a local brand called "Wonderland" and the root stimulant "Bcuzz", from Atami, both half of the recomended dose. Each plant recieved 800 cc. On this matter i'm not very sure if this is too little or too much, i've read contradictory opinions, please help!
Substrate: https://ibb.co/fxDNMm
Fertilizer vegetative: https://ibb.co/mhCSnR
Root Stimulator: https://ibb.co/cWT07R
Today i also did a photographic record of each plant and a measurement.
KS-CBA01 "Kopi-kopi": 30 mm
KS-CBA02 "Element": 25 mm
KS-CBA03 "Adjective": 10 mm
KS-CBA04 "Blank Mind": 20 mm
KS-CBA05 "Little Palm": 60 mm
KS-CBA06 "Churros's cutter": 15 mm
KS-CBA07 "Bad Iron": 20 mm
KS-CBA08 "Neumatex": 40 mm
KS-CBA09 "Little Penny": 50 mm
KS-CBA10 "Coliform": 50 mm
KS-CBA11 "Tepo-tepo": 25 mm
KS-CBA12 "I didn't do it": 40 mm
The only one that is worrying me about a little bit is "Adjective", it's being lagging back on size, let's see how it develops the next days, i'm afraid it could be covered by the rest when i move it to the other tent. opinions?
In a day or two i'll buy a ph-meter and the next irrigation wil be controlled. I don't think i'm looking at the electroconductivity i'm running low on budget, but i'm not pretty sure about the importance of this.The temperature has been variating between 22 and 26 C°, and the humidity between 40 and 60%, i've been trying to keep it high sprying water inside but it doesn't seems to make too much difference, should i buy an humidifier??. I don't know if i'm missing something, i think that's all for now guys. I'll be waiting cheerfully for your comentaries, suggestions or questions, anything is welcomed.
Thanks for reading!
The illumination it's a DIY Led, that has been developed by an electric engineering studend friend. We've made some advances trying to define some aproximated units for it, but we keep striving with the missinformation of the fabricant and our lack of instruments, so we are a little bit running blind on this respect.
Well, let's go to the important:
Seeds: 15 seeds "Critical Bud Autoflowering", from a local bank so-called "Kundala Seeds". I bought them from a moderately well-known growshop, lured by the genetic, but mostly by the low cost (around 70 usd for all). I wasn't able to find ay reference abuout this bank on internet but a pair of growshops that sells their seeds. The description on the package claims that the strain is a crossig between a "Critical" and a "Big Bud", 60% Indica, 15% Sativa and 20% Rudelaris. The average high, 90 to 120 cm, flowering between 40 to 55 days, a "high production", high THC, and low CBD.
I can translate the rest, but it's just advertising for me, tell me if you're still interested.
Propagation chamber:
90x60x90 cm tent, DP90 from Secret Jardin
Illumination Propagation
DIY Led system. As i told you i'm not deeply involved on this part of the project, i have to make more investigation. Even though, here is the information that i can give you at first glance:
8 aluminium rows with 6 sets of 3 leds SMD 5730, 12 volts each set, 0.5 watts each light. That give us a total of 144. 4 of the rows contain 72 cold white lights and 4 are natural white, interspersed with each other. The total dimensions are 45x50 cm
More images:
https://ibb.co/kRrLtb
https://ibb.co/ma7tDb
https://ibb.co/mceUmw
https://ibb.co/dJctDb
https://ibb.co/czzJeG
https://ibb.co/guPJeG
https://ibb.co/kEfrzG
Ventilation Propagation Tent
ProFan, 5 W, Garden Pro
Extractor Green Air 150 mm, 300 m3/hr
Aluminium PVC exit duct, black recovered, 5mm thicknes
Termohigrometer, chinese stuff
https://ibb.co/iKq8u6
https://ibb.co/ngvf7R
https://ibb.co/nMxSnR
Well, here's how it looks all mounted from outside
Vegetation Chamber:
1mtx2mtx1mt tent, from Growgenetics
I still haven't bought the rest of the stuff of the vegetation chamber, but for now i can say that my decisions on here are depending on how my kids are growing and of course the advices i'll receive. At first glance i think i'll do some kind of LST, like using SCROG, but i'm still a little not well informed on this matter. I'm open to any option, specially those that promise a bigger harvest, hahaha.
Germination:
Day 1-11: The 15 seeds was submerged on water for 2 days on dark. Later they was put on Jiffys.Finally they was left next to the window recieving natural light for 9 days (It's summer here).
At day 11, the seeds had sprouted very unevenly, so three of them was throw away. At this point i still wasn't feeling very motivated on keeping the journal, so i don't have any record of here. The rest of the seedlings was transplanted to 12 square buckets of 7 liters each. The substrate chosen was a Mills Light Mix, no special treatmen or mixing was done. 12 succesfully germinated seedlings was the optimun programmed, but i would be happy with 10 too. Then i placed them on the tent, putting the samllest on the center where the light is a little bit stronger. They was named and labeled as well at this point.
KS-CBA01 "Kopi-kopi"
KS-CBA02 "Element"
KS-CBA03 "Adjetive"
KS-CBA04 "Blank Mind"
KS-CBA05 "Little Palm"
KS-CBA06 "Churro's cutter"
KS-CBA07 "Bad Iron"
KS-CBA08 "Neumatex"
KS-CBA09 "Little Penny"
KS-CBA10 "Coliform"
KS-CBA11 "Tepo-tepo"
KS-CBA12 "I didn't do it"
Here's a picture of my little kids:
There's a diference of 45 cm between the fixture and the upper rim of the pots, and the light cycle is setup for a 18/6 (any suggestion here?)
Day 12: The seedlengs was hydrated with 400 cc of clean demineralizated water and then with 400 cc of water mixed with vegetative fertilizer from a local brand called "Wonderland" and the root stimulant "Bcuzz", from Atami, both half of the recomended dose. Each plant recieved 800 cc. On this matter i'm not very sure if this is too little or too much, i've read contradictory opinions, please help!
Substrate: https://ibb.co/fxDNMm
Fertilizer vegetative: https://ibb.co/mhCSnR
Root Stimulator: https://ibb.co/cWT07R
Today i also did a photographic record of each plant and a measurement.
KS-CBA01 "Kopi-kopi": 30 mm
KS-CBA02 "Element": 25 mm
KS-CBA03 "Adjective": 10 mm
KS-CBA04 "Blank Mind": 20 mm
KS-CBA05 "Little Palm": 60 mm
KS-CBA06 "Churros's cutter": 15 mm
KS-CBA07 "Bad Iron": 20 mm
KS-CBA08 "Neumatex": 40 mm
KS-CBA09 "Little Penny": 50 mm
KS-CBA10 "Coliform": 50 mm
KS-CBA11 "Tepo-tepo": 25 mm
KS-CBA12 "I didn't do it": 40 mm
The only one that is worrying me about a little bit is "Adjective", it's being lagging back on size, let's see how it develops the next days, i'm afraid it could be covered by the rest when i move it to the other tent. opinions?
In a day or two i'll buy a ph-meter and the next irrigation wil be controlled. I don't think i'm looking at the electroconductivity i'm running low on budget, but i'm not pretty sure about the importance of this.The temperature has been variating between 22 and 26 C°, and the humidity between 40 and 60%, i've been trying to keep it high sprying water inside but it doesn't seems to make too much difference, should i buy an humidifier??. I don't know if i'm missing something, i think that's all for now guys. I'll be waiting cheerfully for your comentaries, suggestions or questions, anything is welcomed.
Thanks for reading!
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