balactus
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone this is my 2nd attempt and creating a grow journal. I tried doing it the way the site intended but it was too complicated for me and before someone starts telling me "Oh but all you gotta do is..." Its fine I am here now and sticking with this. After seeing cl!cks grow journal I wanted to do the same thing.
Anyways so what I have done is created a PC Grow Box from scratch that I have been working on for the past week. Last night I did a lot of electrical work and changing the set up a bit. I had a light trap inside but it was a fail and I didn't wanna build another one. It had tiny leaks that were hard to get to with how I put it together. I installed 2 more fans into it because the heat was simply getting too high in there. The other day I came home and it was at about 100 in there. I'm glad they are still small while I was having the problems. Now with only 1 new exhaust fan it is running at a nice 85 degrees in there. I used the old exhaust that came with the case and taped it to the front to blow air over my bulbs towards the exhaust. I haven't even turned on the 2nd new fan that I stacked onto the exhaust. There was some minor problems with that that I will have to deal with when I get home from work later.
There is the rear, I fit on the aluminum tubing to use as a way to block light, but obviously still not done yet with that. The exhaust fans were from Micro Center and are Aero Cool Shark 120mm fans. Since the sprouts are still on 24/0 I am not too concerned about that. Also the intake is still wide open with no light proofing. But I have it facing into my closet with a black shirt draped over the front.
Here is what the inside looks like at the moment. And yeah I am aware of the books I am using to stack with...I've read a bit of them all. My intake is a 200mm Cooler Master and the fan above it is a 140mm Cooler Master. The lights I am using are 3 CFLs which I don't think is enough for the 3 plants I have in there. I really only planned on growing one and was hoping germinating 3 would save me some time and hopefully because they are 3+ year old seeds they wouldn't work...but they did -__- so now I am probably gonna have to think fast and move flowering up. I dunno how long I should veg. I know they are gonna shoot up with flowering. I am thinking a ScOG would be best. The CFLs btw I am using are 2 6500K 23w and 1 2700K 26w. Depending on how well my 2nd fan does when I run it later. I may look at adding another bulb into there if possible.
I am using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil and FF Grow Big and Tiger Bloom. I still haven't used any of the Grow Big, not sure when I should. I am not sure if I need more nutrients than this either. I've watched a couple Jorge Cervantes vids as well as have the Grow Bible handy but I haven't read through too much of it yet since I got it in the mail after I started growing and everything.
And this is the first one that had germinated. Already turning a nice green and showing those signature leaves. The others still only have their seed leaves.
And here is some bud and keef I've saved up that I've been smoking while doing this little project. Straight sativa, dunno the name but it keeps me focused and wired..which is why I only had 5 hours of sleeping working on this damn thing all night.
That is the majority of what I can think of putting here right now. If anyone has any questions or comments they would be greatly appreciated. Blaze on
Anyways so what I have done is created a PC Grow Box from scratch that I have been working on for the past week. Last night I did a lot of electrical work and changing the set up a bit. I had a light trap inside but it was a fail and I didn't wanna build another one. It had tiny leaks that were hard to get to with how I put it together. I installed 2 more fans into it because the heat was simply getting too high in there. The other day I came home and it was at about 100 in there. I'm glad they are still small while I was having the problems. Now with only 1 new exhaust fan it is running at a nice 85 degrees in there. I used the old exhaust that came with the case and taped it to the front to blow air over my bulbs towards the exhaust. I haven't even turned on the 2nd new fan that I stacked onto the exhaust. There was some minor problems with that that I will have to deal with when I get home from work later.
There is the rear, I fit on the aluminum tubing to use as a way to block light, but obviously still not done yet with that. The exhaust fans were from Micro Center and are Aero Cool Shark 120mm fans. Since the sprouts are still on 24/0 I am not too concerned about that. Also the intake is still wide open with no light proofing. But I have it facing into my closet with a black shirt draped over the front.
Here is what the inside looks like at the moment. And yeah I am aware of the books I am using to stack with...I've read a bit of them all. My intake is a 200mm Cooler Master and the fan above it is a 140mm Cooler Master. The lights I am using are 3 CFLs which I don't think is enough for the 3 plants I have in there. I really only planned on growing one and was hoping germinating 3 would save me some time and hopefully because they are 3+ year old seeds they wouldn't work...but they did -__- so now I am probably gonna have to think fast and move flowering up. I dunno how long I should veg. I know they are gonna shoot up with flowering. I am thinking a ScOG would be best. The CFLs btw I am using are 2 6500K 23w and 1 2700K 26w. Depending on how well my 2nd fan does when I run it later. I may look at adding another bulb into there if possible.
I am using Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil and FF Grow Big and Tiger Bloom. I still haven't used any of the Grow Big, not sure when I should. I am not sure if I need more nutrients than this either. I've watched a couple Jorge Cervantes vids as well as have the Grow Bible handy but I haven't read through too much of it yet since I got it in the mail after I started growing and everything.
And this is the first one that had germinated. Already turning a nice green and showing those signature leaves. The others still only have their seed leaves.
And here is some bud and keef I've saved up that I've been smoking while doing this little project. Straight sativa, dunno the name but it keeps me focused and wired..which is why I only had 5 hours of sleeping working on this damn thing all night.
That is the majority of what I can think of putting here right now. If anyone has any questions or comments they would be greatly appreciated. Blaze on