New Grower Medimadness’ rotating garden of lunacy.

[Medimadness]

Hey AFN,

Long time lurker, medical and occasionally recreational cannabis user and horticulture student/ landscaping assistant. I have a fair amount of practical knowledge and experience with quite a few edible and display plants including cultivation via a permaculture format. Sadly while all the basic skills are similar, indoor growing takes some getting used to, especially with limited space.

So I am just starting off doing a small grow in a 60x60x140 tent, with 300w full spectrum lighting with planned CFL supplementation a little further into the life cycle (had some issues with power supply safety, old wiring, so until I've sorted that out I'm trying not to overload the circuit) and to also get a long rectangular tent so that I can have a plant or 2 harvested every 2-4 week.

To you UK growers out there I'd love to hear from you about potential reliable suppliers for the kit!

So right now I'm about 2 weeks into my Blueberry Auto purchased from Zamnesia Seeds as I've been happy with their auto versions of the classics that I cropped for a friend with arthritis. And also around 5 days into a critical cheese auto from the same supplier. Seem like pretty strong genetics with 100% in medium germ and despite a pretty stupid mistake with a fan the recovery from windburn on the blueberry was incredible. Even the one with pretty bad deformity and stunting seems to be coming on though I'm keeping it in a 2ltr pot simply out of curiosity of what will happen.

I initially planted into 2ltr pots as was advised to and luckily I'm a crack hand at transplantation and see almost 100% success with little to no shock but I will be experimenting with final pot germination In the future. Transplanted into the same medium (6prts lightmix 2prts perlite 1pt vermiculite) into 11litre fabric pots.

Below is pics of my grow, the first one of the blueberry is the day of transplant and the second shows significant growth within 24hrs. And also the windburned plant and the small seedling is the critical cheese.

 

[Medimadness]

Here's showing growth after transplant

 

[Medimadness]

And here's the whole op

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

Hi and welcome im a cupboard grower 50x100x160 ish.get everything from a well known auction site bar seeds and lights.
Good luck n keep er lit

 

[Medimadness]

@archie gemmill yeah I do the same, great deals online for kit these days. Do you tend to buy lights in hydro stores? Or specialist? I find the stores too dear but the specialist sites confusing lol

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

I been pretty cheap with lights till now,my last 2 were marshydro £110 ish latest is gn telos £336
Seeds hard to look padt mephisto but when i do its dinafem/dutch passion direct.
No stores near me im in the arsehole of nowhere on a lil island.
Good luck

 

[MickJ]

Good luck with the grow, I will tag along.

Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

 

[Medimadness]

@Rollin_along glad to have another set of more experienced eyes taking a look

 

[Medimadness]

Hey guys just a quick update here.

Had a few more problems with adequate air circulation but @archie gemmill gave me some advice and everything is better.

Have now switched to Using Nutes and have started giving my Blueberry biobizz grow formula (.5-1ml/1ltre) and she seems to be taking to it really well and growing like mad now. Looking very healthy

 

[Medimadness]

And here we have the critical cheese that is also beginning to take off now!

I have also began to germinate some reg seeds I had in my sock drawer from around 8/10 years ago haha soaked for 36hrs and all that began to pop we transfered to egg box lined with tissue paper for propagation. Not sure of the stain but I was looking at keeping in veg for a while so I can practice some training techniques and seed cultivation.

As always will keep you updated to my progress, excited to use the knowledge I'm gaining to impress my tutors