Hey All: Fairly new to this site. Have been checking in regularly and thought I should go ahead and register and post my progress of my first grow. I will give a general description of our grow and our cloning progress and attach pics at bottom. Don't really know enough to ask questions so if anything pops out at any of you, feel free to comment. Sorry in advance for lengthy post. Will read up on rules of posting to see if I'm doing something wrong.
This is our first grow which began (from clones) on 4/15/11. Don't know if I would do this again until I know what we are doing, however, we started with mixed strains, a couple of which I couldn't find anything about so don't know exactly what they are. The strains are: (2) Yellow Kush -- couldn't find anything on the net as to what these are so any hints here would be appreciated; (2) Koos Kush (??) Same as above but don't even know if we got the name right; (1) Purple Kush; (1) Lavender. The purple kush and lavender are known for certain as came from a known source.
The reason I wouldn't do this again is all strains did their own thing in their own time and left us second guessing our every move. We would make changes that some responded favorably to while others didn't and then vica versa. The exception was the lavender which didn't seem to mind anything. As the plants mature, however, they are all getting into synch with each other. In short, the lavender made us feel like genuises while the others have kept us humbled.
Here are the details of the grow room etc..
GROW ROOM -- Approx 5'W x 7'6"L x 7'H; Mylar covered inner walls, industrial strength black plastic outer cover.
EQUIPMENT --
Lighting 1000W MH lamp and recently added (5/30/11) 400W dual spectrum HPS lamp.
Air Conditioning -- window mounted air conditioner for 13'x20' room
Circulation - 6" in-line fan for cooling lamps (rated 400cfm); 6" in-line duct fan for pushing air out (rated 160cfm); oscillating fan for air ciruclation.
GROW MEDIUM, etc.
Recirculating hydroponic drip system; 6" rockwool cubes with hydrotons; (6) three gallon buckets; (1) 5 gallon master bucket; (1) 22 gallon resevoir.
Climate -- maintained 67 to 71 degree F temp throughout grow.
NUTRIENTS (changed every 7 to 10 days)
We are using General Hydroponics Flora system (Flora Micro, Flora Grow, Flora Bloom, and Floralicious)
PH - Targeted 5.5 to 5.8PH. In first weeks of grow PH always creeped upward so at 6.1PH added PH down. In last 3 weeks PH is consistently creeping downward and at 5.1 add H20 to resevoir to avoid using PH up solution.
PPM -- Started out using 80% of recommended nute mixes provided by GH. Started out with mild growth formula and have gradually increased to 80% solution of "Aggressive Growth" recommendation on chart. PPM's started out averaging 950 PPM's and in last three weeks have ridiculous PPM's of around 1850 using a TDS/PPM conversion of 0.5.
NOTE ABOUT WATER: -- We are using tap water which is extremely hard (557 PPM; 7.4PH) and seems to be chlorinated as when filling the resevoir we seem to smell the chlorine.
For results I will just post pics of plants six weeks in. Let me know what you all think.
First Grow 01.jpg -- Day One of First Grow. Plants are clockwise from bottom right: Purple Kush (one leafer at this point; Yellow Kush?; Yellow Kush?; Koos Kush??(is there such a thing?); koos kush; lavender
First Grow 02 -- Yellow Kush -- center of pic. Our most sickly one in background.
First Grow 03 -- Yellow Kush -- See some yellowing of leaves
First Grow 04 -- Purple Kush -- Took some time to get past one leaf stage but really started kicking in last couple weeks
First Grow 05 -- Lavender -- Seems to be doing really well. Don't know but bottom branches seem to be getting leggy. Don't know if that is normal or needs something (i.e. more light).
First Grow 06 -- Koos Kush -- Not a good pic but center. Seems to be doing well now but was a bit sickly first 3 weeks in.
First Grow 07 -- Koos Kush -- Our really sickly one. Never really took off. Really spindly with sparse skinny taco shaped leaves, some curled under
First Grow 08 -- Three recent purple kush clones in ebb 'n' flow system.
First Grow 09 -- Tried to get as much of grow room as possible in pic to give idea of setup. The 400W dual spectrum bulb was just added yesterday. 'Til then all plants were under one 1000W MH but Lavender was outpacing others so much was hard to manage.
First Grow 10 -- Pics of recent cloning. Did a piss poor job (I think) of clipping as was first time trying. Tried earlier batch with help from someone. Used rockwool with clonex. They all died. Couldn't figure out watering frequency, vents open/close, etc.. Watered by misting leaves. Upon inspection it didn't appear any even started to grow roots. The clones in the pic were put in peat pellets with clonex again. Soaked peat pellets in very mild nutrient solution (1/2litre purified water; 10ml Flora Grow, 5ml Flora Bloom, 5ml Flora Micro, few drops Floralicious, and few drops H202).
In all the thing I am most uncertain about is the cloning. Just don't have a good intuitive sense of things yet. First batch was fine for a few days then I first noticed change in smell (seemed to smell real musty). The stems turned brown, thin and then lilted. Thought I overwatered but then rockwool seemed almost completely dry. Don't really have any questions for you all yet but when I know enough to ask I will do so.
This is our first grow which began (from clones) on 4/15/11. Don't know if I would do this again until I know what we are doing, however, we started with mixed strains, a couple of which I couldn't find anything about so don't know exactly what they are. The strains are: (2) Yellow Kush -- couldn't find anything on the net as to what these are so any hints here would be appreciated; (2) Koos Kush (??) Same as above but don't even know if we got the name right; (1) Purple Kush; (1) Lavender. The purple kush and lavender are known for certain as came from a known source.
The reason I wouldn't do this again is all strains did their own thing in their own time and left us second guessing our every move. We would make changes that some responded favorably to while others didn't and then vica versa. The exception was the lavender which didn't seem to mind anything. As the plants mature, however, they are all getting into synch with each other. In short, the lavender made us feel like genuises while the others have kept us humbled.
Here are the details of the grow room etc..
GROW ROOM -- Approx 5'W x 7'6"L x 7'H; Mylar covered inner walls, industrial strength black plastic outer cover.
EQUIPMENT --
Lighting 1000W MH lamp and recently added (5/30/11) 400W dual spectrum HPS lamp.
Air Conditioning -- window mounted air conditioner for 13'x20' room
Circulation - 6" in-line fan for cooling lamps (rated 400cfm); 6" in-line duct fan for pushing air out (rated 160cfm); oscillating fan for air ciruclation.
GROW MEDIUM, etc.
Recirculating hydroponic drip system; 6" rockwool cubes with hydrotons; (6) three gallon buckets; (1) 5 gallon master bucket; (1) 22 gallon resevoir.
Climate -- maintained 67 to 71 degree F temp throughout grow.
NUTRIENTS (changed every 7 to 10 days)
We are using General Hydroponics Flora system (Flora Micro, Flora Grow, Flora Bloom, and Floralicious)
PH - Targeted 5.5 to 5.8PH. In first weeks of grow PH always creeped upward so at 6.1PH added PH down. In last 3 weeks PH is consistently creeping downward and at 5.1 add H20 to resevoir to avoid using PH up solution.
PPM -- Started out using 80% of recommended nute mixes provided by GH. Started out with mild growth formula and have gradually increased to 80% solution of "Aggressive Growth" recommendation on chart. PPM's started out averaging 950 PPM's and in last three weeks have ridiculous PPM's of around 1850 using a TDS/PPM conversion of 0.5.
NOTE ABOUT WATER: -- We are using tap water which is extremely hard (557 PPM; 7.4PH) and seems to be chlorinated as when filling the resevoir we seem to smell the chlorine.
For results I will just post pics of plants six weeks in. Let me know what you all think.
First Grow 01.jpg -- Day One of First Grow. Plants are clockwise from bottom right: Purple Kush (one leafer at this point; Yellow Kush?; Yellow Kush?; Koos Kush??(is there such a thing?); koos kush; lavender
First Grow 02 -- Yellow Kush -- center of pic. Our most sickly one in background.
First Grow 03 -- Yellow Kush -- See some yellowing of leaves
First Grow 04 -- Purple Kush -- Took some time to get past one leaf stage but really started kicking in last couple weeks
First Grow 05 -- Lavender -- Seems to be doing really well. Don't know but bottom branches seem to be getting leggy. Don't know if that is normal or needs something (i.e. more light).
First Grow 06 -- Koos Kush -- Not a good pic but center. Seems to be doing well now but was a bit sickly first 3 weeks in.
First Grow 07 -- Koos Kush -- Our really sickly one. Never really took off. Really spindly with sparse skinny taco shaped leaves, some curled under
First Grow 08 -- Three recent purple kush clones in ebb 'n' flow system.
First Grow 09 -- Tried to get as much of grow room as possible in pic to give idea of setup. The 400W dual spectrum bulb was just added yesterday. 'Til then all plants were under one 1000W MH but Lavender was outpacing others so much was hard to manage.
First Grow 10 -- Pics of recent cloning. Did a piss poor job (I think) of clipping as was first time trying. Tried earlier batch with help from someone. Used rockwool with clonex. They all died. Couldn't figure out watering frequency, vents open/close, etc.. Watered by misting leaves. Upon inspection it didn't appear any even started to grow roots. The clones in the pic were put in peat pellets with clonex again. Soaked peat pellets in very mild nutrient solution (1/2litre purified water; 10ml Flora Grow, 5ml Flora Bloom, 5ml Flora Micro, few drops Floralicious, and few drops H202).
In all the thing I am most uncertain about is the cloning. Just don't have a good intuitive sense of things yet. First batch was fine for a few days then I first noticed change in smell (seemed to smell real musty). The stems turned brown, thin and then lilted. Thought I overwatered but then rockwool seemed almost completely dry. Don't really have any questions for you all yet but when I know enough to ask I will do so.
