Daves Aerogarden grow (with pics).

daveg1i,

Your thread is the first journal thread
that I read start to finish. I now take my
time and read near complete journals start
to finish as well and just take personal notes.

One thing that you mentioned was your DIY
carbon scrubber. I too found the plans that you
spoke of and will be building the same thing. You
had mentioned that the smell would over power
the room that you grew in and you would open
the windows to vent the smell. Are you still
having that problem now?

I am doing all the research I can as I will
be changing locations very soon and most
likely be in close proximity to other tenants
and it's always best to be prepared.

Thanks.
-A.

asdfva said:

daveg1i,

Your thread is the first journal thread
that I read start to finish. I now take my
time and read near complete journals start
to finish as well and just take personal notes.

One thing that you mentioned was your DIY
carbon scrubber. I too found the plans that you
spoke of and will be building the same thing. You
had mentioned that the smell would over power
the room that you grew in and you would open
the windows to vent the smell. Are you still
having that problem now?

I am doing all the research I can as I will
be changing locations very soon and most
likely be in close proximity to other tenants
and it's always best to be prepared.

Thanks.
-A.

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thanks on the compliments, i just wanted to start a grow journal and try to say everything i did in it so one day i can come back to RIU and look back at my noobie tendacies. and to try and help people out who were in the same boat as i was. me and my buddy split a box of that carbon filter so you could even go as far as 2 boxes of filter to use intead of 1/2 of a sheet like i did.and it would definetely work better then mine, and how great of an exhaust you can create(meaning: how much air you can get to filter threw it.) im not in a crazy situation where smell is a huge problem becuase my family owns this apartment as well as the other 2 in this building, the apts. are above a store so i worried about smell but knew that if i kept it somewhat air tight in my room then i shouldnt have to worry much about smell downstairs( cops come in 2,3 times a week). i have had like 2 people say they could smell it down there but they both knew i was growing and i think its in there head. in the morning when the lights come on they seem to stink more but after that its not real bad. got im blazed cant believe i just wrote all that...did i say i love headies

Beast.
Nice work!

Just a word on what I said before about putting seeds in w/2 beginning grow tablets. Use only one. It worked great at the first grow but probably because all the tabs had seeds in them (parsley, basil, mint, etc). But now that I did weed seeds alone it seems a bit too much. I am totaly misticezed by the whole nuting thing as I already killed one grow . So, i'm rinsing my ten day old plants in pure water (at Dave's suggestion I'm going distilled this time) and I'm planning on using foxfarm nutes but only one third of what their feeding schedule suggests. Can anyone comment on that?
I know this was all discussed at another tread but someone said they are going by foxfarms feeding schedule and I'm almost positive that I'd kill them that way.
As for Dave's good work, if mine gave me only 1/2 what he's got I'd be very happy but I think I'll undernute them this time

Oh, yeah, just to add that the amount of nutes varies on the strand as aparently I got 3 different ones again. One is loving it with just one tiny brown spot, another one is showing the excess nutes and the third one's leaves are misshaped. But the first and the third one will pull thru OK, I believe. I will keep doing it until I get it done right!!!

thanks lastina, the only reason i used distilled is becuase i live in a city and you can smell and taste the chlorine in the water. so it was worth the money to me, but it does add up. i bought about 2-3 gallons a week from about week 3-4 veg. through now. but with distilled you know its clean. good luck man, any questions ask away man.

Dude dave your aerogarden inspires me To grow big fat buds, how much did the air pump cost and i think you said u used the nutes that came with it, which nutes the tommato

lastianjc said:

Just a word on what I said before about putting seeds in w/2 beginning grow tablets. Use only one. It worked great at the first grow but probably because all the tabs had seeds in them (parsley, basil, mint, etc). But now that I did weed seeds alone it seems a bit too much. I am totaly misticezed by the whole nuting thing as I already killed one grow . So, i'm rinsing my ten day old plants in pure water (at Dave's suggestion I'm going distilled this time) and I'm planning on using foxfarm nutes but only one third of what their feeding schedule suggests. Can anyone comment on that?
I know this was all discussed at another tread but someone said they are going by foxfarms feeding schedule and I'm almost positive that I'd kill them that way.
As for Dave's good work, if mine gave me only 1/2 what he's got I'd be very happy but I think I'll undernute them this time

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Hey I started with one nute tablet of the starting nutes, and 2/4 of my plants got burned. One wasn't so bad, but the other totally stunted it's growth and now it's a midget female that looks so pretty, but too bad she's gonna always be short. I'd recommend using no nutes for the first two weeks.

Dave I am new to this site but i am apart of another Pot Community. Now since i seen the aero garden, while toking, on the infomercials i have always wondered about growing pot in them but was skeptical THANK YOU for clearing skepticisms about this process. Now as we speak i am finding ways to replicate this process. And very Nice Buds too.

hey thanks for the comliments. i did this journal to help everyone else out who ever wants to grow wit the ag. they should put the journal on the commercial, for all the pot smokers who have always wanted to grow some dro. fun shit man. good luck, any ?'s ask away man.

i have something to think about..lol
i want to use this as a mother system and possibly a cloner or seed starter. i was trying to think of the best way to transfer the babies into bigger net pots once they have established themselves. any ideas?

well actually i have a couple of questions A) What do you think of Bubbleponics ,and is it as effective, or more? B) Do you think it is possible to replicate the system with out buying the Aero-Garden? I have grown outdoors and i have grown a few indoors with the use of soil and i also tried a hydro lab but i was not sold on it and i think the aero will be a not necessarily less maintenance but maybe it is i am not so sure cause i have not messed with the areo garden style as i said but anyways thanks for taking the time to answer my questions

daveg1i said:

i found some new shit on this shitty camera so ive been tryin to figure the best settings for bud pics, so here are some pics from today...

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try the flower symbol, if your camera has one.
btw nice buds.

felix said:

i have something to think about..lol
i want to use this as a mother system and possibly a cloner or seed starter. i was trying to think of the best way to transfer the babies into bigger net pots once they have established themselves. any ideas?

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its hard for me to answer this question because i started with clones that were'nt rooted, but i figure that if worst came to worst you could take the pod out and place it in a soil pot covering the pod with soil,or you could prob. just cut away the plastic pod and place just the spunge in.
goodluck man

K4i2l0L said:

well actually i have a couple of questions A) What do you think of Bubbleponics ,and is it as effective, or more? B) Do you think it is possible to replicate the system with out buying the Aero-Garden? I have grown outdoors and i have grown a few indoors with the use of soil and i also tried a hydro lab but i was not sold on it and i think the aero will be a not necessarily less maintenance but maybe it is i am not so sure cause i have not messed with the areo garden style as i said but anyways thanks for taking the time to answer my questions

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honestly i dont know much about bubbleponics. i dont know if you have seen any of the DIY systems people show how to build on rollitup, but they seem good and cheap. thats honestly what i would of done if i was part of this site before i bought the ag. nothin against the ag, its pretty expensive for what it is. but iys a very sick way to grow, peace man

crazy-mental said:

try the flower symbol, if your camera has one.
btw nice buds.

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thanks man, ill try that out.
i picked a bud last week and smoked it yesterday, holly shit so smooth and taisty. im cuttin these ho's down wednesday. cant wait

^^Post flicks and use the Macro setting,
like crazy said... the button/setting that
looks like a flower, for you up close trich
shots. Can't wait!

yea man im gonna try that out at some point today. my camera is old so i dont know if it has that setting but if it does ill shoot some in that setting as well as my usual pics.

i trich mik'd a leaf i removed tonight and im at 1/2 to 3/4 amber trichs,
i plan on choppin down the colas and bigger buds wednesday. i bought a pack of masonry jars from wallyworld today to cure the girls in. cant wait to smoke it up....

damn those look great!!!!!!!!!!!!