Weedoozie's 1st (ADVICE WELCOME!)

Hey RIU,
I'm a medical marijuana patient in California who has embarked on my 1st grow after reading A LOT on the subject. I'm trying to be as organic as possible.

Thought its time to start my grow journal. I haven't had time to start until now so my babies are a bit far along on their journey to bud but I have pictures that I will post from seedling until now which would be the middle of 5th week of vegetative cycle.

I began keeping a written log on February 11th, 2010, when my first seeds began to break ground.

I started my grow from bagseed that I have collected over the past couple years. I only kept the seeds from the dankest bags so I have a feeling my kids are going to be mid-grade to high-grade strains.

MEDIUM: A friend of mine has a compost that has been marinating for the past 20 years, I took a few buckets of their composted soil for my grow. I started with a mixture of 1/2 organic Happy Frog soil and 1/2 friend's compost. I put the medium in 2 party cups and a 10" pot I found in my garage that I sterilized before using. I germinated 7 seeds but only 3 became seedlings. I have a feeling the other 4 were unsuited for the environment I have here.

Oh right, the ENVIRONMENT: I am currently growing indoors as my backyard is visible to a main road in my town, otherwise, I'd be growing there. I live in Northern California, the Bay Area so my region is best suited for a Indica leaning strain. I do believe that is what I have growing. I've been growing in my closet since seedling stage and plan to continue until flowering. I know that the plants do grow another 1/3-1/2 during the flowering phase and my closet would be too cramped for that. You can see from the pictures that its getting a tiny cramped now, although I'm going to give them another 2 weeks in the closet before moving them to the flowering room.

REFLECTIVITY: The closet is covered with 2mm Mylar sheets that go around 4 faces of the cube in which I am growing. The other 2 faces are covered with white particle board and white sheets that I can remove to get in there.

AIR CIRCULATION: I have 2 fans, 1 stationary fan facing directly into the grow cube and 1 moving fan that circulates the air around the closet and room. I leave the closet doors (which are mirrors that slide) slightly ajar on both sides to let air circulate better. I also let the window of the room where the closet is slightly open so old air can escape and new air can come in.

LIGHTS: Inside the closet, I have 6 differnt CFL's. I have 2 65w 4100k CFL's that generate 300w each and 3,800 Lumens each. I have 2 Daylight 40w CFL's that generate 150w each and 2,700 Lumens each. And 2 23w 2,700k CFL's that generate 100w each and 1,650 Lumens each.

Total Lumens= 16,300 Lumens...I've read that above 15,000 lumens should be good enough for growing Cannabis

NAMES: The first to sprout from soil was one that I named Syd, short for Sydney. The second I named Fedora because the little thing still had its seed perched on top of it's first leaf like a hat . The last I called GG because I used a small amount of my Grandfather's Garden homemade fertilizer in the soil mixture as well as the 10" pot that I found out later was his. Syd and Fedora were both growing in party cups.

STRAIN SPECULATION: I had a radiator on in the room for a while during the beginning because it was still winter then and cold but because my electricity bill went up by a LOT, I decided to stop that after the first 2 weeks of veg. I noticed that Syd was flourishing nicely in the radiated environment. After the first day without the radiator though, GG and Fedora went through growth spurts while Syd only grew a little. I think this shows that Syd is probably a more tropical plant, so leaning towards Sativa, while GG and Fedora are probably leaning more on the Indica side.

WATER: Luckily for me, the town I live in has a set pH of 7 for tap water. At first, I added a little pH down to make it about pH 6.7 but since week 2 of veg, I've been getting more towards pH 7 water. I let the tap water sit out for 2-3 days before I give it to my plants so to let the chlorine evaporate. I do foliar spraying with a fine mist sprayer but I haven't begun foliar feeding at all. I'm still unsure if I want to do that.

Okay, I'm going to post some beginning pictures and then update with more recent pictures later. The pictures I am posting now are from mid February, seedling stage

Originally Posted by Weedoozie

I think Fedora might be female because she has the tear drop shape to her preflower and it looks like it has 2 greenish hairs coming out!!!

I'm not certain but it does seem like a female

Crossing my fingers for ya! Hope all goes well. Scribed and thanks for stopping by the thread.

Keep em green!!!

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