Ebb & Flow Journal

fadrian · #1 02-18-2007, 10:46 PM

This is going to be my first grow, so bear with me. I'll be posting as much as I can, with pictures, and I'd like for you experienced growers to drop knowledge.

My grow room is a 3x3x6.5 Hydrohut, which is basically a pre-made room that can be zipped up -- very clean but limited space. In it I have a 40 gallon resevoir, which sits under a wooden frame I made of 2x4's to support the 3x3 tray that holds the goods. In the tray I have 3 rows of 4 coconut cubes and hydroton everywhere in between.

The first row is Snow Cap. The second and third rows are C-4. I bought them as clones and put them in the coconut cubes.

They are under a 1000w MH light and have been vegging for exactly a week since I got them. In my hut I also have two 50 cfm fans blowing air in through ducts and two 50 cfm fans at the top of the hut sucking air out, 4 total.

Picture 1: Setup, Picture 2: Lighting, Picture 3-5: Rows 1 2 and 3, respectively.

ablazed blunt · #2 02-18-2007, 10:51 PM

Very nice setup man. Looks like you have a lot of time in it.

fadrian · #3 02-18-2007, 10:56 PM

I'll use numbers to identify each plant. Plants 1-4 are the first row, starting with 1 in the front. 5-8 are row two, and 9-12 row three, same pattern.

Here's what row 1 (Snow Cap) looks like one week after planting the clones in the cubes:

ablazed blunt · #4 02-18-2007, 10:58 PM

I don't know too much about hydroponics but are you useing nutes yet?

fadrian · #5 02-18-2007, 10:58 PM

Row 2 (C-4):

fadrian · #6 02-18-2007, 11:00 PM

Row 3 (C-4):

fadrian · #7 02-18-2007, 11:06 PM

Thanks ablazed, I tried to plan it out as best as I could, it's cost me quite some time and money, but now that everything's set up it should be fairly simple.

Yes, I have been using nutes. At the hydro store, I got a print-out from the guy with suggested nutes for vegging and flowering stages, specific for my 40 gal res. A week into it, I can see that I should have cut back on the nutes, so I'm flushing the tray and refilling the resevoir, this time with less nutes than recommended, I'm thinking half--maybe less.

fadrian · #8 02-18-2007, 11:13 PM

Tonight is the start of week two. I flushed the tray and refilled the res. I also took some pics of the plants that seemed to be having problems. Hopefully they like the water better this time.

The pics are of plants 2 3 4 and 11, respectively.

ablazed blunt · #9 02-18-2007, 11:21 PM

Most people start nutes at 1/4 strenth and then move up.

nongreenthumb · #10 02-18-2007, 11:42 PM

A few things

1 you need ph and ec testing kit so that the nutrient fluid you give them is perfect

2 need to cover the tops of those rockwool cubes, its likely it will cause problems if you don't

3 looks like your doing a good job apart from that