KingleyPappageorgio
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Hey everyone,
I've been reading the site for a week, and it's been really helpful. I've already made a couple of changes to my plan, adjusting it as best I can to what I seem to understand as ideal growing conditions. I have been practicing with tomatoes, but now that I have my Cali pot smoking license, I'm ready to rock and roll. It was a bit of a last minute idea, and I'm working with what I've got (and it's the winter!) so please keep all that in mind as I explain my plan.
My landlord has been encouraging me to grow since I moved in, and I'm sure that the roof of the house is the best place. When my plants are mature enough (I've started them indoors) I plan to move them outside. Perhaps you can suggest the right time.
I've planted 11 Deadhead OG (reg) seeds from Cali Connection in a higher end organic soil I purchased at Orchard Supply Hardware. I got excited and didn't germinate them in water first, which I regret. So far, I have 7 healthy looking seedlings, and no sign from the other 4. I'll attach a picture.
I'm not sure if the other are going to sprout because the first 7 all did so in rapid fire. They were planted on Sunday afternoon, and I stupidly let them spend the night outside, but then I read that a little cold before germination is actually a good thing.
The first one to sprout, Sugar Meg (they're all named after ladies of Grateful Dead, and as Deadhead OG are being played it every day without fail) sprouted on Wednesday night. She's about 3 inches tall now (Friday).
They were under a ridiculous GE Plant bulb that some jackass sold me, but I'm returning that bulb and have already replaced it with a Daylight (7200K - I work in film and was taught that is daylight... should I be using 6000?) CFL and seem to be very happy.
So my plan is to keep them indoors for a few weeks and stimulate growth as much as I can contain them in my room, then move them outside. I was planning to put as much light as necessary on them with a christmas light timer to come on at dusk and supplement the daylight until I get to 18/6, then pull the plug and let them learn to love the Cali winter light cycle. Will this work? What can I do to maximize my yield and potency, knowing that I only have the roof to work with and a natural 1130/1230 cycle right now. I have power up there and can hit them with light to keep them lit through the early evening every day.
Aside from taking a friends plant and controling it's light cycle through flowering, I'm a complete noob. But I'm been doing my research.
I've been reading the site for a week, and it's been really helpful. I've already made a couple of changes to my plan, adjusting it as best I can to what I seem to understand as ideal growing conditions. I have been practicing with tomatoes, but now that I have my Cali pot smoking license, I'm ready to rock and roll. It was a bit of a last minute idea, and I'm working with what I've got (and it's the winter!) so please keep all that in mind as I explain my plan.
My landlord has been encouraging me to grow since I moved in, and I'm sure that the roof of the house is the best place. When my plants are mature enough (I've started them indoors) I plan to move them outside. Perhaps you can suggest the right time.
I've planted 11 Deadhead OG (reg) seeds from Cali Connection in a higher end organic soil I purchased at Orchard Supply Hardware. I got excited and didn't germinate them in water first, which I regret. So far, I have 7 healthy looking seedlings, and no sign from the other 4. I'll attach a picture.
I'm not sure if the other are going to sprout because the first 7 all did so in rapid fire. They were planted on Sunday afternoon, and I stupidly let them spend the night outside, but then I read that a little cold before germination is actually a good thing.
The first one to sprout, Sugar Meg (they're all named after ladies of Grateful Dead, and as Deadhead OG are being played it every day without fail) sprouted on Wednesday night. She's about 3 inches tall now (Friday).
They were under a ridiculous GE Plant bulb that some jackass sold me, but I'm returning that bulb and have already replaced it with a Daylight (7200K - I work in film and was taught that is daylight... should I be using 6000?) CFL and seem to be very happy.
So my plan is to keep them indoors for a few weeks and stimulate growth as much as I can contain them in my room, then move them outside. I was planning to put as much light as necessary on them with a christmas light timer to come on at dusk and supplement the daylight until I get to 18/6, then pull the plug and let them learn to love the Cali winter light cycle. Will this work? What can I do to maximize my yield and potency, knowing that I only have the roof to work with and a natural 1130/1230 cycle right now. I have power up there and can hit them with light to keep them lit through the early evening every day.
Aside from taking a friends plant and controling it's light cycle through flowering, I'm a complete noob. But I'm been doing my research.