Seed
Dinafem Haze 2.0 (Automatic Haze x Jack Herer Auto)
Lighting
Blackstar 240W LED for germ/veg.
Once she's tall enough to compete with the other girls in the tent, I'll move her under the 600w HPS (Hortilux) and keep her there through the end. I just use the LED for node spacing and to get some good light on the seedlings early on since my HPS setup is a pain in the neck to lower far enough down for a seedling.
Medium
Sunshine Mix #4 Advanced (soilless potting mix)
Nutes
-GH Flora series 3 part (only using 2 parts), using lucas formula for ratios http://lucasformula.com/
-GH CaliMagic
-GH pH UP
Container
2 Gallon Dirt Pot http://www.hydrofarm.com/product.php?itemid=12485
Water Source
Distilled bottled water or Reverse Osmosis purified tap water. For the initial testing, I used a 1g bottle of Deer Park distilled water to try to see if I could just blend it all together and nail the pH as per internet myth.
Day 1: Mixed 8ml of GH Micro into my gallon of water and stirred. Then mixed 16ml of GH Bloom into the jug and stirred. pH tested at 4.6 with a ppm of 917. I added 3ml of CaliMagic and shook vigorously, pH shifted to 4.57 (statistically insignificant) and ppm went up to 1000 (insignificant change if not for the fact that that's pretty high). I added 2.2 ml of GH pH UP solution (the blue stuff) and it was 5.79 (meh close enough!). I filled my container with SS#4 and watered heavily with another bottle of Deer Park distilled, until the soil was saturated, then put about 1/4 gallon of the nute mix in a jug with 1/4 gallon of dist. water and poured that over the top. Loosely buried my Haze 2.0 seed in the medium, did my typical "plastic bag tent" over the top, and threw her in the tent under the Blackstar. I'll keep a log...no pics unless something bizarre happens, I'm a little security shy as of late, but I'll make sure to document the growth as scientifically as I can (or feel like).
I think you could probably cut the nute serving in 1/2 or even 1/4 and do fine with autoflowers...that'll be my plan, as well as to use my RO for the remainder of the grow. I just wanted to use a bottle of store-bought distilled to see if this truly was an idiot-proof beginner's method...I forgot to check the pH/PPM of the water before mixing nutes, so my mediocre pH results at first might have been premature.
~Low
Dinafem Haze 2.0 (Automatic Haze x Jack Herer Auto)
Lighting
Blackstar 240W LED for germ/veg.
Once she's tall enough to compete with the other girls in the tent, I'll move her under the 600w HPS (Hortilux) and keep her there through the end. I just use the LED for node spacing and to get some good light on the seedlings early on since my HPS setup is a pain in the neck to lower far enough down for a seedling.
Medium
Sunshine Mix #4 Advanced (soilless potting mix)
Nutes
-GH Flora series 3 part (only using 2 parts), using lucas formula for ratios http://lucasformula.com/
-GH CaliMagic
-GH pH UP
Container
2 Gallon Dirt Pot http://www.hydrofarm.com/product.php?itemid=12485
Water Source
Distilled bottled water or Reverse Osmosis purified tap water. For the initial testing, I used a 1g bottle of Deer Park distilled water to try to see if I could just blend it all together and nail the pH as per internet myth.
Day 1: Mixed 8ml of GH Micro into my gallon of water and stirred. Then mixed 16ml of GH Bloom into the jug and stirred. pH tested at 4.6 with a ppm of 917. I added 3ml of CaliMagic and shook vigorously, pH shifted to 4.57 (statistically insignificant) and ppm went up to 1000 (insignificant change if not for the fact that that's pretty high). I added 2.2 ml of GH pH UP solution (the blue stuff) and it was 5.79 (meh close enough!). I filled my container with SS#4 and watered heavily with another bottle of Deer Park distilled, until the soil was saturated, then put about 1/4 gallon of the nute mix in a jug with 1/4 gallon of dist. water and poured that over the top. Loosely buried my Haze 2.0 seed in the medium, did my typical "plastic bag tent" over the top, and threw her in the tent under the Blackstar. I'll keep a log...no pics unless something bizarre happens, I'm a little security shy as of late, but I'll make sure to document the growth as scientifically as I can (or feel like).
I think you could probably cut the nute serving in 1/2 or even 1/4 and do fine with autoflowers...that'll be my plan, as well as to use my RO for the remainder of the grow. I just wanted to use a bottle of store-bought distilled to see if this truly was an idiot-proof beginner's method...I forgot to check the pH/PPM of the water before mixing nutes, so my mediocre pH results at first might have been premature.
~Low
