OK.......This is my first row ever. After hitting a certain point in my life and not having to worry about being tested I decided to try MJ again. After making a few purchases and experimenting a decided that yes....I really want to do this again. :icon_smile:
The problem is that I am a professional and really have to keep this close to the vest. I live in Florida so no medical MJ is available and I really don't like buying from the public market. I really don't know anyone here to connect with and the purchases I did make were a bit dodgey. So after spending a kabillion hours on the web researching this I decided to do it.
I picked an autoflowering strain due to a couple of factors. One, they seem the least trouble which is what I wanted in a first grow. Second, the limitations of space I will have for the next 6 months or so.
So I opened up the seeds I ordered from the seed company (5 Lowryder 2's and 2 freebies. The service was prompt considering overseas shipment.
The seeds were in a test tube type vial. I little tricky to take the cap off as all five of the seeds went bounding out over the kitchen island and onto the floor. After crawling around on hands and knees with a giant flashlight I got them back into the vial. Lesson number one learned.......open vial over light colored smooth cloth so if seeds are dropped they won't bounce all over and can be easily spotted.
I will propagate 2 seeds between paper towel sections today and tonight.
PH'd the water to about 5.6-6.0. Using test strip. Made note to buy a meter as the strip leaves too much guess work. And another lesson learned is only add a bit of the up or down chemical to water or else you wind up going back and forth to get the water to balance.
The following feeding schedule is what I am going to try. NOTE:this was "borrowed" from another LR2 grow from Edsthread's Grow Journal on rollitup.
Here is my feeding schedule:
WEEK 0 (Day 1-7) PH'd WATER ONLY - PH = 5.8
WEEK 1 (7 DAYS FROM SEED) FORMULEX (2.5ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 2 (14 DAYS FROM SEED) FORMULEX (5ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 3 (21 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (1.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZO'
WEEK 4 (28 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 5 (35 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 6 (42 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 7 (49 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 8 (56 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA FLUSH (4ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 9 (63 DAYS FROM SEED) HARVEST
GROWING MEDIUM: CANNA COCO NATURAL MIXED WITH 30% PERLITE
Ph: 5.8 / 6.2
More on grow tent, light, and hardware tomorrow.
The problem is that I am a professional and really have to keep this close to the vest. I live in Florida so no medical MJ is available and I really don't like buying from the public market. I really don't know anyone here to connect with and the purchases I did make were a bit dodgey. So after spending a kabillion hours on the web researching this I decided to do it.
I picked an autoflowering strain due to a couple of factors. One, they seem the least trouble which is what I wanted in a first grow. Second, the limitations of space I will have for the next 6 months or so.
So I opened up the seeds I ordered from the seed company (5 Lowryder 2's and 2 freebies. The service was prompt considering overseas shipment.
The seeds were in a test tube type vial. I little tricky to take the cap off as all five of the seeds went bounding out over the kitchen island and onto the floor. After crawling around on hands and knees with a giant flashlight I got them back into the vial. Lesson number one learned.......open vial over light colored smooth cloth so if seeds are dropped they won't bounce all over and can be easily spotted.
I will propagate 2 seeds between paper towel sections today and tonight.
PH'd the water to about 5.6-6.0. Using test strip. Made note to buy a meter as the strip leaves too much guess work. And another lesson learned is only add a bit of the up or down chemical to water or else you wind up going back and forth to get the water to balance.
The following feeding schedule is what I am going to try. NOTE:this was "borrowed" from another LR2 grow from Edsthread's Grow Journal on rollitup.
Here is my feeding schedule:
WEEK 0 (Day 1-7) PH'd WATER ONLY - PH = 5.8
WEEK 1 (7 DAYS FROM SEED) FORMULEX (2.5ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 2 (14 DAYS FROM SEED) FORMULEX (5ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 3 (21 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (1.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZO'
WEEK 4 (28 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 5 (35 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 6 (42 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 7 (49 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA A+B (3.5ML PER LITRE) + 2ML OF RHIZOTONIC
WEEK 8 (56 DAYS FROM SEED) CANNA FLUSH (4ML PER LITRE)
WEEK 9 (63 DAYS FROM SEED) HARVEST
GROWING MEDIUM: CANNA COCO NATURAL MIXED WITH 30% PERLITE
Ph: 5.8 / 6.2
More on grow tent, light, and hardware tomorrow.