OK so i'm gonna try and set up a bit of a grow journal. this is my first attempt at growing and my first attampt at a journal so don't expect too much but over the course of the grow i'll try to give as much information so that hopefully you lot can lend me your opinions.

So far i'm in early stages, still waiting for germination results.
The seeds i'm growing are all feminised and all from greenhouse seeds. I chose them because of the guarantee they offered and they had some good reviews and a good history. so i have -
10 Alaskan Ice
10 The Church
and 5 Trainwreck
altogether costing £120

was a little wary of the church after hearing about germination problems with an old batch but i've been promised thats been fixed now. (fingers crossed)

The growroom i have is a totally concealed room surrounded on 5 sides by unused rooms and a concrete floor. the walls are very thick and insulated with 2x2, plasterboard, double r foil backed insulation and thin black carpet on the walls. The size i've given to growing is about 7' x 14' x 7',
so far i've just vacuumed thoroughly but may need to consider a light bleach spraying of the carpetted walls.
The lights i'm gonna use to start are 3 x 600w hps but more will be added if necessary.
The fans are gonna be the next step to creating the room as well as the mylar to cover the walls and ceiling. the floor will hopefully be thicker white visqueen if i can manage to get some without buying a whole giant roll. managed to get a load of cheap buckets at morrisons today that'll be perfect for when the plants are larger. they were supposed to be 8 for £1 but the cashier didn't notice them stacked in each other and ended up with 48 for the price of 16! bargain, first bit of good luck! saved about £60 on pots

so i'll try and keep on top of this journal with photos and updates etc but apologies if i'm a bit slow, i'm not the smartest with computers and i'm also usually very stoned...

so today i sprayed the walls with diluted bleach, hopefully this will help prevent any kind of mould developing cos i definately don't want any of that. also picked up 16 20w cfls from tescos for 10p each, dunno whether to use these as some kind of side lighting or maybe part of a small cupboard grow elsewhere. or just not at all, let me know what you think.
So far its been nearly a week since germination and they have all germinated but 2 which is no big loss. gonna get more seeds next weekend too just to keep things interesting.
off topic, i smoked some real weird tasting stuff earlier, like nothing i've ever had. tasted very strong but very hashy, not too great a smoke but screwed my head right up! very white looking bud but no idea what it was. too bad. gotta get some more of that though!!
should have some photos up in a week or so of what a medium sized grow room should look like. until then, smoke me a kipper, i'll be back in time for breakfast!

OK things actually got moving today!!, started the build of the grow room, got some 2x2 to rig up a false wall, got 20m of diamond reflective mylar and some velcro for sealing the door.

2x2 £16
mylar £80
velcro £10

we've decided for the time being to just have one grow room and keep any mothers in another location. Eventually we're gonna add a seperate vegging area for the next batch

the room is now about 8'x14'x8' with the diamond mylar around the walls, this stuff is supposed to be the best reflective material so we decided to pay a bit extra and get the best. just stapled it all around. didn't cover the ceiling or the floor cos not much light will be reflected from up there and we have another plan for the floor but i'll get to that again.

tomorrow i'm gonna make a couple of mylar racks on wheels using a few old costume rails i found. think of it like the screens they wheel around beds in hospitals. These are gonna be moved around the seedlings to reflect more light on them and can be moved easily as the plants grow.

Took some photos of the room so far, not great pics, they came off my phone but i'll post better ones when i get some batteries for my camera. if you have any suggestions or comments please share
enjoy for now...

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just a pic of a load of buckets. £4 for the lot!
also found some old bagseeds stashed last night, germinating them now. hopefully at least a couple will work but no loss if not

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moved the plants into the room today and set up 1 600w hps with a 200w cfl over 19 seedlings. Pics tomorrow.

one seedling had bent so i've held it up with a piece of wire and hopefully it'll pull through. they are looking quite stretched so far but i think thats because they've been growing under only the CFL and it's been a bit too far away from the plants. I'll put some pics up tomorrow and you can see what you think

7x Ice, 7x Church and 5 trainwreck going so far, 1 of each gonna be kept as mothers. the random bag seed still not germinated yet.

looks good man!

subscribed.......

hope you reach your goal and get to travel, as you said you planned to.

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Repotted all the girls today, labelled em up and got them under a new setup - 2x 600w hps and a 200w cfl

watered them a little but i think we should've given them more for the 2 gallon pots they're in but i'll water again first thing

One of the stems has bent over on an ice and i've held it up with a support so hopefully it'll pull through but will this make the plant stunted or give it slow growth? you can see it in the second pic.

also an idea for you is to make some small cardboard reflective sheets using some leftover mylar, placed between the plants should reflect light back up to the leaves, we're gonna make ones that will fit around all the plants stems soon so hardly any light will miss the leaves

also fixed all wires, cables etc up high to keep from any water spills and added some mylar close up and 2 fans to move air about. all the girls are twitching now in the breeze, you can see we left a gap under the temporary screen to let air pass up under and a fan at either end

The soil we used was just B&Q own brand shit, would've liked something better but it was a good price £10 for 300litres, also picked up a few bags of perlite and mixed it all in a large container about at about a 4 to 1 mix
Pay no attention to the thermometer reading, that pic was taken before the new setup but we're using a portable heater to keep temps up and left a bucket of water to help create some more humidity.

til tomorrow...

shit, i'm gettin really pissed off with this picture upload system, this is the 3rd time i've had to individually upload them only to have them vanish

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this may help someone, i noticed having 1 600w and a heater running at half power used about 0.3 of a kw in 24 hours. a lot cheaper than i thought, i'll check it again later and see how the current setup affects the meter

so i think the power use is about 2kw a day for the 2 hps and 1 cfl plus a heater and 2 fans
gonna need to install the ducts and fans soon so that will up it a bit and especially when we get more lights

didn't do much today except help support a few that were bending and give them a watering. one seems to have slightly yellow tips on the first leaves though, hope this isn't too bad but when we start feeding them nutes hopefully we can adjust the balance

ph is around 6.5 at the moment. gonna invest in a PPM/EC meter and hopefully one that does Ph as well. Anyone know if the cheap 7 in 1 meters on ebay work well or not?

Here's a few new pics of the yellowing one

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