PAR T5's, Bagseed, FFOF, and me!

Hey guys... been meaning to put this up since the site crashed... had it in my journal, but fuck a journal, I hate the way it doesn't let me keep everything in one thread... so here we are in the Grow Journal forum!


Grow Specs:

Lighting:

Vegged under horrible CFLs, three 6500k's, not even sure what the wattage was. Definitely not enough light. Was a matter of limitations of space at the time, though.

Flowering:
10-Bulb 48" PAR T5 setup including the following bulbs:
-4 Zoomed Flora Suns
-2 Wavepoint Coral Waves
-2 UVL Red Suns/Lifes
-2 KZ Fiji Purples


Medium:

FoxFarm's Ocean Forest blend in 5 Gallon Smart Pot bags. Supplemented with dolomitic lime, can't remember exactly how much.


Grow Space:

Vegged in a very uncomfortably cramped tiny ass space with the CFL's... then got them into a HydroHut 2x4 Silver Edition for flowering.


Ventilation:

240cfm Panasonic Whisperline 6" pulling air off the ballasts directly with this custom-mickey-moused "cooltube" jobby:



w/passive intake. No circulation fans at all. I wedged a few bits of wood between the reflectors and the ballast box so there is a little bit of wayward current created by the cooltubing.

Maintains steady about 8 degrees over room temp.

Feeding:

I am using FoxFarm's full liquid trio and solid trios in combination. I followed the chart to the T the first time and ended up with major nute overloads, so this time i started about 1/4th the chart's recommended dosages and have inched my way up. I am still feeding below the chart's recommended dosages at this point. I am also learning to read my plants better, so I am giving them what they need when they need it, rather than just shoving a bunch of food down their throats. This is working a lot better so far. I've done one flush, on about 3-31, just to be sure I'm not getting too salted up. With the full feeding amount, it felt like i was constantly flushing, then overfeeding, then flushing, back and forth. (If anyone's interested in the first grow, let me know and I will put up a separate journal that summarizes it.)

Genetics:

Bag seed baby! These are clones of bagseed actually...

Okay, so here's some background on the genetics:

I grew my first crop of 7 bag seed ladies, who all turned out female by chance. I called them my Lucky 7. Several variations in strain, and some nice options to choose from, so I made 5 clones of each plant. However... due to my ignorance, I ended up with mold growing on the clones and lost all but about 6 of them. Two of them I flowered out in solo cups 12/12 from clone, for fun, because I had never done it. 3 of them went into larger containers from the solo cups, 5 gal smart pots. And the remaining one I ended up leaving in a solo cup and growing with the 5 gal smart pots, lol. This was due to space limitations in the make-shift veg chamber I built. (Really cramped, and only 3 CFLs for light)

However, when I finally had the room, I moved the 3 5gal'ers into a larger space. I did take that solo cup rootbound lady and finally transplanted. She is now thriving in a fairly small (2 gal?) standard pot. She is really growing beautifully. It's just taken a long time for her to get back up to speed, heh. But I am surprised by how well she bounced back... so I am saving her to take clones again later. (Mommy!)

ANYWAY, the 3 5gal bags are what we are tracking in this thread. They vegged under low light CFL's and developed pretty bad canopies as a result... stretching and unevenness galore... BUT... I popped them into 12/12 under nice T5's and they bounced back considerably. Then, about 2 weeks too late, I scrogged them all as well.

They went into 12/12 on Feb. 6th. Scrogged the 22nd.

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Photo Gallery:


Here is a summary of what I've taken so far for pics... plan to update this thread regularly from now on... unfortunately the earlier shots were dislocated in the crash and I have no idea what the dates were on them... but here's where my attachments list does pick up, on 3/22:





Updated:



Macro shots on 4-5-12:



Bud shots on 4-5-12:



More to come... this is my first attempt at a grow journal so please let me know if I missed any important information! Thanks!!

-AN

Originally Posted by AltarNation

Dude, that is EXACTLY what I was looking at, Earth Juice! I love the idea of going all natural so I don't have to flush! I was thinking about building up a super soil but I have been lazy and haven't prepped it yet, so I might grab something like this for my next run! I haven't looked specifically into Sea Blast yet, but I hear great things about Earth Juice in general!

The sea blast has a really good blend in it. And the price on it is perfect for me. Doesnt cost a fortune either.