I guess you cant just lurk all the time and not let everyone have a chance to laugh at your sad little grow. So I will get this caught up and off and running from here. Where's here? Day 15. I will try to post a couple of threads to get this caught up and see if I can't stay on top of it from here.
Germinated them in Paper towel for around 36 hours until I saw the first signs of more than a bump showing form the seeds. Planted in 4 gallon cans (recycled) that have been converted to airpots courtesy of an old soldering iron and a great deal of bourbon. I am using a soil mix that is roughly 60% Fafard BX and 30% cocoa with an additional 10% of Perlite.
Culture wise I gave them water sparingly from the start with a ppm of around 110.. The only water I use (and will use) is aged tapwater. The local water supply runs around 7.2ph but this will not play a substantial part in my grow before I make adjustments to bring it down.
At day 6 I started to give them a VERY gently feeding (175ppm total) of Dynagro 9-3-6. Dynagro is the only thing I use, and yes there are some mighty fine fertilizers out there, but I like the KISS method. And Dynagro gets it done.
Each watering is from this point provided as needed and I try to move my watering pattern a little further from the trunk and further out into the soil. This will encourage root development and hopefully get me a nice spread quickly.
At day twelve I started doing things a bit differently with the watering build. Tap water, only half of the volume is made up of Twice brewed coffee grounds that have been allowed to age just as the water has. The coffee is a bit of a wild card as it is contingent on the type of coffee and strength of the left over grounds. But my PH has been brought down to a livable 6.5 and the ppm with Dynagro is now in the range of 250ppm.
So day 15 is the start of my further adjustment. I am now using a ppm of 325 give or take and Things are running nicely for the most part. I am a bit concerned and disappointed with the GSC but the guys at Fast Buds assured me that these should sort themselves out shortly. We shall see.
Oh, and the lights? One Mars 300 and 244 watts of e27 grow bulbs along with another 60 watts of CFL cool whites. These lights are destined to be replaced this cycle but they are the same lights I used last winter and that netted me some tasty buds. Greater lighting should give me a better weight and that means I can jar it up and not run out during the summer. I only grow for around 7 months as the summers are ferocious and I just dont want to pay for the electric.
So stand by this should be good for a laugh. Pics to follow in a subsequent post.
Happy days... Happydaze
Germinated them in Paper towel for around 36 hours until I saw the first signs of more than a bump showing form the seeds. Planted in 4 gallon cans (recycled) that have been converted to airpots courtesy of an old soldering iron and a great deal of bourbon. I am using a soil mix that is roughly 60% Fafard BX and 30% cocoa with an additional 10% of Perlite.
Culture wise I gave them water sparingly from the start with a ppm of around 110.. The only water I use (and will use) is aged tapwater. The local water supply runs around 7.2ph but this will not play a substantial part in my grow before I make adjustments to bring it down.
At day 6 I started to give them a VERY gently feeding (175ppm total) of Dynagro 9-3-6. Dynagro is the only thing I use, and yes there are some mighty fine fertilizers out there, but I like the KISS method. And Dynagro gets it done.
Each watering is from this point provided as needed and I try to move my watering pattern a little further from the trunk and further out into the soil. This will encourage root development and hopefully get me a nice spread quickly.
At day twelve I started doing things a bit differently with the watering build. Tap water, only half of the volume is made up of Twice brewed coffee grounds that have been allowed to age just as the water has. The coffee is a bit of a wild card as it is contingent on the type of coffee and strength of the left over grounds. But my PH has been brought down to a livable 6.5 and the ppm with Dynagro is now in the range of 250ppm.
So day 15 is the start of my further adjustment. I am now using a ppm of 325 give or take and Things are running nicely for the most part. I am a bit concerned and disappointed with the GSC but the guys at Fast Buds assured me that these should sort themselves out shortly. We shall see.
Oh, and the lights? One Mars 300 and 244 watts of e27 grow bulbs along with another 60 watts of CFL cool whites. These lights are destined to be replaced this cycle but they are the same lights I used last winter and that netted me some tasty buds. Greater lighting should give me a better weight and that means I can jar it up and not run out during the summer. I only grow for around 7 months as the summers are ferocious and I just dont want to pay for the electric.
So stand by this should be good for a laugh. Pics to follow in a subsequent post.
Happy days... Happydaze
