Hello one and all! Let me first say a BIG thank you to all who have helped me up to this point, It's made things a lot easier starting up on my first adventure. Seriously thank you, you know who you are and you've probably been tagged into this post anyway. Now strap in, cause this is a big first post people!
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Let me start off with what I'm working with here..
- 36x36x64 Vivosun Tent inside a double slider door closet in my upstairs office area
- 6 Inch Carbon Filter to 440cfm Vivosun fan, built in dial (doesn't slow it down much though) this exhausts through the right wall outside the tent, turns a soft right and exits right out the house through a vent I installed. (unfortunately had to go to a 4" reducer, but dear god it doesn't seem to slow this bad boy down)
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- MARS Hydro 600w (planning on upgrading to 4x COBs soon)
- 2x Humidifers, because it's been very hard to keep humidity up, can't currently leave my exhaust on constantly, hopefully this will change with the season.
- Also picked up this sweet heater at Home Cheapo for $49 on sale due to winter being over but you really wouldn't know it, it's been pretty cold here in the North East still.
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- 10 inch fan outside (pulling in) along with a 6 inch clip on fan inside (may add another)
- Digital pH pen, digital TDS pen, Control Wizard Soil Probe
While I was in the crawl space doing the duct work I found a few things, including this sweet original Mason jar! Cleaned it up real nice and I have a spare airtight lid for it, you know I'm gonna add a 'lil something something to it soon enough!
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- 3 Gallon Vivosun Grow Bags (I know Vivosun everything, didn't even mean to tbh)
- Black Gold All Natural Mix (75%) + Perlite (25%)
- Fox Farm Trio + CalMag + Optic Foliar Overgrow Spray (none used yet, 3-7-17)
- 3x AK-47 Auto-Fem from I<3GrowingMarijuana (I've also got some DP seeds on the way for after this grow!)
This part below may be boring, really more for detail that may be useful later...
Friday Morning (3-3) Dropped all 3 into distilled water in a plexiglass container, left lid slightly open for small humidity escape, covered with hand towel and put on...wait for it... Vivosun seedling heated mat (I'm not sponsored I swear...it's Amazon's fault)
Friday Late Night (3-3) All 1 had sunk, tapped the other two gently, they sunk as well. Drained most of the distilled water, soaked paper towel in container so it was mushy, put 3x seeds in and covered it again, left on the mat of which we do not speak it's manufacturer.
Saturday Morning (3-4) Tiny tails sticking out, barely, leaved them alone. Prepared the 3x Soil mixes and pre-wet with pH'd 6.5 water, let it run through 2 times, plenty of run off. Cleaned them up and put into the tent to warm up.
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Saturday Late Night (3-4) Tails grew 3 or 4 times in length, can barely make out greenish/brown of the tap root. Put them in soil, squeezed pH'd water tiny bit on them and sprayed a few times.
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Sunday Morning (3-5) Barely make out a seed head, barely (I did cover them loosely) Getting temperatures and RH right. Spray tops of soil every few hours (2-3 sprays, pH'd water) Put humidity domes on.
Sunday Afternoon (3-5) Take humidity domes off as I hear that could be detrimental to such young seedlings. Continue to spray every few hours. Can barely see all 3 heads.
Monday Morning (3-6) Spray and trickle a little bit of water from paper towel to wet center area.
Monday Night (3-6) Starting to see little bit of stems, trying to stand up. Spray them a little.
-Temp for the days in germination were 85-88 sitting on mat.
-Temp for the days in soil was between 74-80 / RH 55-70
-pH seems to be around 6.5 for the first 4-5 inches then goes down to 5.6 around center of grow bag or lower, hopefully this is normal or will adjust with continued water feedings of 6.5 to come.
so I figured there's always room for one more. Right?
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Yeah ill take all the bonuses I can! It truly is an adventure! -Stalker out! *crunchy static noise*
