KushmasterJ
Dont panic, its organic
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Alright so this is the second garden that I've set up and so far things are going beautifully. I'm starting this journal about a month into the grow, my strains are Dabney Blueberry, Sour Diesel, and UK Cheese (I'm growing 2 of each). All grown from clones attained from a medical marijuana vendor who deals only with clones. The Dabney Blueberry's have about a 3 week head start on the other 4 plants.
I'm growing in a walk-in closet with a single 1000 watt light running off a lumatek digital ballast. The walls are lined with mylar and the floor and lower part of the walls are lined with panda film. The bulb is water cooled using the Best Coast Growers Fresca Sol fixture, this elminates virtually all heat radiated from the bulb and is simply amazing(if anyone has any questions about this product i will be more than willing to share what i know), there is a 5-7% reduction in lumens but using it enables me to place the light much closer to plant tops which more than makes up for the loss. The room is cooled using a 14,000 BTU portable air conditioner, I also run a 20 inch oscilating fan for the plants and a carbon filter with a vortex fan placed on top to elminate odor. I'm able to keep the room temperature at around 75 degrees never rising above 80. My room is completely sealed and is supplemented with a CO2 tank, I'm using the arbitrary(but still very effective) method of running the regulator on a timer with intervals until I am able to afford a controller. Another very important element in my garden is the godsend known as Gorilla Tape.
Im growing all 6 plants in 15 gallon pots (completely unnecessary for my two month veg period, i got them for free but still wish I would have used 10 gallon pots instead). Im using fox farm ocean forest soil with some extra worm castings, bat guano, and finely powdered dolomite lime added to the mix. I supplement the soil with Earth Nectar/Earth embrosia Mychorrizal fungi, one is the fungi the other is what the fungi eat. All of the nutrients I use are organic: Earth Juice Grow,Bloom, and Microblast, General Hydroponics Floralicious Grow and Bloom (as a foliar spray), I also occasionally use some Liquid Karma. As a preventative measure I use Green Cure Fungicide, an organic fungicide. I store the water in a 20 gallon Brute trashcan, the water is run through a reverse osmosis filter, ph adjusted, and temperature adjusted with a fishtank heater. One of the benefits of growing in such large containers is the near impossibility of overwatering, it is very easy to judge when they need their food and with so much soil I can give them half to a full gallon of water every other day or so without having to worry about it being too much and they seem very satisfied.
All plants are grown using the LST method and coiled around the inside of the pots, held down with rubber coated wire hanger's and some plant ties.
In the first attached thumbnail which shows all six plants, the two big ones on the left are the Dabney Blueberry's, the Sour Diesels are in the middle, and the UK Cheeses are in the back... once again the DB's have a head start, the Sour Diesels are growing a little faster than the cheeses, all of the plants are rotated regularly. I plan on switching to flower after they have been growing for 2 months or so, the DB's will have close to 3 months under their belts.
I'm growing in a walk-in closet with a single 1000 watt light running off a lumatek digital ballast. The walls are lined with mylar and the floor and lower part of the walls are lined with panda film. The bulb is water cooled using the Best Coast Growers Fresca Sol fixture, this elminates virtually all heat radiated from the bulb and is simply amazing(if anyone has any questions about this product i will be more than willing to share what i know), there is a 5-7% reduction in lumens but using it enables me to place the light much closer to plant tops which more than makes up for the loss. The room is cooled using a 14,000 BTU portable air conditioner, I also run a 20 inch oscilating fan for the plants and a carbon filter with a vortex fan placed on top to elminate odor. I'm able to keep the room temperature at around 75 degrees never rising above 80. My room is completely sealed and is supplemented with a CO2 tank, I'm using the arbitrary(but still very effective) method of running the regulator on a timer with intervals until I am able to afford a controller. Another very important element in my garden is the godsend known as Gorilla Tape.
Im growing all 6 plants in 15 gallon pots (completely unnecessary for my two month veg period, i got them for free but still wish I would have used 10 gallon pots instead). Im using fox farm ocean forest soil with some extra worm castings, bat guano, and finely powdered dolomite lime added to the mix. I supplement the soil with Earth Nectar/Earth embrosia Mychorrizal fungi, one is the fungi the other is what the fungi eat. All of the nutrients I use are organic: Earth Juice Grow,Bloom, and Microblast, General Hydroponics Floralicious Grow and Bloom (as a foliar spray), I also occasionally use some Liquid Karma. As a preventative measure I use Green Cure Fungicide, an organic fungicide. I store the water in a 20 gallon Brute trashcan, the water is run through a reverse osmosis filter, ph adjusted, and temperature adjusted with a fishtank heater. One of the benefits of growing in such large containers is the near impossibility of overwatering, it is very easy to judge when they need their food and with so much soil I can give them half to a full gallon of water every other day or so without having to worry about it being too much and they seem very satisfied.
All plants are grown using the LST method and coiled around the inside of the pots, held down with rubber coated wire hanger's and some plant ties.
In the first attached thumbnail which shows all six plants, the two big ones on the left are the Dabney Blueberry's, the Sour Diesels are in the middle, and the UK Cheeses are in the back... once again the DB's have a head start, the Sour Diesels are growing a little faster than the cheeses, all of the plants are rotated regularly. I plan on switching to flower after they have been growing for 2 months or so, the DB's will have close to 3 months under their belts.
