puasurfs
da kine brah
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Aloha one and all and welcome to my very first grow ev'a!
I was a bit apprehensive to begin at, well... the beginning, but some kind words here and some prompting by members has given me the courage to try.
Here's where I stand as of today (some of this is a repeat from the introduce yourself thread, but anyway, I digress):
I have a Mother Keeper grow kit from HTG that is just sweet as can be. Included were the lights: T5 HO 6500k x 4 Lumen output that I thought would be perfect for clones (eventually), seedlings, and Mom too. I set her up in a newly painted and cleared room that has many outlets on their own circuits and central a/c. Test run today with all things fired up to include temp/humidity without the fans first and then the difference it made once I turned them on, something like super low humidity 53% (?) and 77 degrees. No negligible light leaks and so we're good there.:aok:
I have 20 beans each of AK-47 & Sweet Dreams. I did not germ them I just followed what ppl said and just sowed them: 10 each. This is the part where I say I know I want all females but it'll still be plenny if only half are. I wanted to give myself the opportunity to be successful and find the strongest most viable female to clone from. See? I've been reading, reading, reading!
I saturated the peat pellets with distilled water and after a good soaking I squeezed out excess, fluffed up the peat for aeration and threw in those beauties... and they were too! All mottled and striped and cool looking... Anyway, after that I placed them into the tiny hole from my chopstick covered them slightly and lightly then added a cap full of H2O to set them in for the night.
They are currently being warm in my grow tent with all lights off and a little crack in the case for O2. I am in the process of acquiring another tent for flowering. I see I have some time before I need to worry about that but I will get it in order b/c I'm OCD that way, js!:holysheep:
I am reading everything I can find and am pretty certain that I will continue on to an organic/soil process... we'll see b/c there is still more time for me to be indecisive at but another juncture...
I am sure I will make many mistakes along the way but like my dad always said, "if ur not making mistakes then ur just not living". And the best part is I have you guys. So... lemme see if'n I can upload some pics of my empty tent... :hubba:
I was a bit apprehensive to begin at, well... the beginning, but some kind words here and some prompting by members has given me the courage to try.
Here's where I stand as of today (some of this is a repeat from the introduce yourself thread, but anyway, I digress):
I have a Mother Keeper grow kit from HTG that is just sweet as can be. Included were the lights: T5 HO 6500k x 4 Lumen output that I thought would be perfect for clones (eventually), seedlings, and Mom too. I set her up in a newly painted and cleared room that has many outlets on their own circuits and central a/c. Test run today with all things fired up to include temp/humidity without the fans first and then the difference it made once I turned them on, something like super low humidity 53% (?) and 77 degrees. No negligible light leaks and so we're good there.:aok:
I have 20 beans each of AK-47 & Sweet Dreams. I did not germ them I just followed what ppl said and just sowed them: 10 each. This is the part where I say I know I want all females but it'll still be plenny if only half are. I wanted to give myself the opportunity to be successful and find the strongest most viable female to clone from. See? I've been reading, reading, reading!
I saturated the peat pellets with distilled water and after a good soaking I squeezed out excess, fluffed up the peat for aeration and threw in those beauties... and they were too! All mottled and striped and cool looking... Anyway, after that I placed them into the tiny hole from my chopstick covered them slightly and lightly then added a cap full of H2O to set them in for the night.
They are currently being warm in my grow tent with all lights off and a little crack in the case for O2. I am in the process of acquiring another tent for flowering. I see I have some time before I need to worry about that but I will get it in order b/c I'm OCD that way, js!:holysheep:
I am reading everything I can find and am pretty certain that I will continue on to an organic/soil process... we'll see b/c there is still more time for me to be indecisive at but another juncture...
I am sure I will make many mistakes along the way but like my dad always said, "if ur not making mistakes then ur just not living". And the best part is I have you guys. So... lemme see if'n I can upload some pics of my empty tent... :hubba: