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:spit:I'm new to the forum and wanted to post pictures of our set up and past harvests. Right now, my man and I are vegetating our third crop in our Homebox XS with 400 W HPS Hortilux with a 400W Sunleaves ballast.
Our first crop (what my man calls the proof of concept as in can this really work? Like, for real? Like, we can really grow our own?) was in the kitchen cupboard, which we lined with gutted mylar baloons. I threw a bunch of bag seeds into two eight inch plastic pots from the grocery store filled with Miracle Gro Moisture Control and put them under 24 hrs of fluorescent light (the twisty regular light bulb kind) until they were ready to flower when we switched it to 12/12 (manually, every day). I wasnt expecting this to work. (see the picture of the lady waving hello from the cupboard?):woohoo:
It was successful beyond my wildest dreams, in so far as we got several ladies and some chronic smoke out of it --- we killed all the males at the perfect time just by dumb luck and wound up with no seeds and the stickiest buds I had ever felt after 2 weeks of drying ..
[Bear with me, because Im new to the site and uncertain how to add photos---I hope it works and if it doesn't, i'll keep trying!]
For our second garden, we planted bag seeds again, only we invested in them further:
We bought the Homebox XS, the lighting system, a timer, a small fan, and some solo cups and Miracle Gro Moisture control again. We put the box in our bedroom, so our babies could absorb all the love-vibes. We planted two seeds in each of the 36 cups that could fit in there. They were too crowded and didnt have enough room inside the cups. We still had a substantial (well, much bigger than the first time!) harvest [even though a hermaphrodite snuck in there and impregnated all our virgin ladies!] :hairpull:
Now were on our third harvest. Weve made some improvements this time so far:
We started them on 20hrs of light and 4 hrs off so the seedlings seemed much healthier in their initial days (i think the 2nd crop was stressed out by too much light!).
We picked seeds just from one strain of weed, not just a mixed bag. We saved them from a particularly good batch of . street pharmaceuticals one that really primed us for love-making and enhanced the experience (not that such enhancements are necessary, just, fun!) [the weed was not a pure strain, and definitely unknown, but goooood, so were hoping to propagate the original groovy-ness of the smoke]. Were calling it The Sex Weed, and hoping for the best. [I did read the site rules about offensive material, and let me know if I am stepping out of bounds here
I dont mean to be crude or offend anyone
my fiancé and I are getting married in May and we strive to live our lives based on love, and love-making is a huge and beautiful part of that, and our beautiful home-grown ladies are our love-children!]
We also picked seeds that were produced by mistake during our second crop. In our second crop, we had a plant that we called The Princess because she grew so perfectly and had the biggest, juiciest top bud. We planted some of her seeds too, and one germinated this time around! Were calling it Princess too, and hoping for another beautiful girl like her mother ;-)
Three other plants in our current garden were produced from seed from our second crop. We have 18 current plants, and they have been vegetating for 2 weeks as of today! I just transplanted the 8 strongest (well, the 7 strongest and The Princess) into 6 inch pots, and 10 of them are still in Solo cups (with holes punched in the bottom). I need to buy more pots, but the store was out, and Im kinda curious to see the size difference between the plants grown in the smaller and bigger containers and their eventual yield!:yay:
Suggestions ALWAYS welcome--please, please please!!! :-D We're in a small one-bedroom apartment, and the Homebox XS is all we have room for right now :fid:
Let me know if you can or can't see the 10 photo attachments --- i'm on a mac:holysheep:
Our first crop (what my man calls the proof of concept as in can this really work? Like, for real? Like, we can really grow our own?) was in the kitchen cupboard, which we lined with gutted mylar baloons. I threw a bunch of bag seeds into two eight inch plastic pots from the grocery store filled with Miracle Gro Moisture Control and put them under 24 hrs of fluorescent light (the twisty regular light bulb kind) until they were ready to flower when we switched it to 12/12 (manually, every day). I wasnt expecting this to work. (see the picture of the lady waving hello from the cupboard?):woohoo:
It was successful beyond my wildest dreams, in so far as we got several ladies and some chronic smoke out of it --- we killed all the males at the perfect time just by dumb luck and wound up with no seeds and the stickiest buds I had ever felt after 2 weeks of drying ..
[Bear with me, because Im new to the site and uncertain how to add photos---I hope it works and if it doesn't, i'll keep trying!]
For our second garden, we planted bag seeds again, only we invested in them further:
We bought the Homebox XS, the lighting system, a timer, a small fan, and some solo cups and Miracle Gro Moisture control again. We put the box in our bedroom, so our babies could absorb all the love-vibes. We planted two seeds in each of the 36 cups that could fit in there. They were too crowded and didnt have enough room inside the cups. We still had a substantial (well, much bigger than the first time!) harvest [even though a hermaphrodite snuck in there and impregnated all our virgin ladies!] :hairpull:
Now were on our third harvest. Weve made some improvements this time so far:
We started them on 20hrs of light and 4 hrs off so the seedlings seemed much healthier in their initial days (i think the 2nd crop was stressed out by too much light!).
We picked seeds just from one strain of weed, not just a mixed bag. We saved them from a particularly good batch of . street pharmaceuticals one that really primed us for love-making and enhanced the experience (not that such enhancements are necessary, just, fun!) [the weed was not a pure strain, and definitely unknown, but goooood, so were hoping to propagate the original groovy-ness of the smoke]. Were calling it The Sex Weed, and hoping for the best. [I did read the site rules about offensive material, and let me know if I am stepping out of bounds here
I dont mean to be crude or offend anyone
my fiancé and I are getting married in May and we strive to live our lives based on love, and love-making is a huge and beautiful part of that, and our beautiful home-grown ladies are our love-children!]We also picked seeds that were produced by mistake during our second crop. In our second crop, we had a plant that we called The Princess because she grew so perfectly and had the biggest, juiciest top bud. We planted some of her seeds too, and one germinated this time around! Were calling it Princess too, and hoping for another beautiful girl like her mother ;-)
Three other plants in our current garden were produced from seed from our second crop. We have 18 current plants, and they have been vegetating for 2 weeks as of today! I just transplanted the 8 strongest (well, the 7 strongest and The Princess) into 6 inch pots, and 10 of them are still in Solo cups (with holes punched in the bottom). I need to buy more pots, but the store was out, and Im kinda curious to see the size difference between the plants grown in the smaller and bigger containers and their eventual yield!:yay:
Suggestions ALWAYS welcome--please, please please!!! :-D We're in a small one-bedroom apartment, and the Homebox XS is all we have room for right now :fid:
Let me know if you can or can't see the 10 photo attachments --- i'm on a mac:holysheep:
