First Grow - Fem Snow White

This is the diary of my first cannabis grow and I would like to share my experience with you nice people on this forum.

I’m not telling any of my mates about this grow for obvious reasons, so I need to talk about it with someone or I’ll go mad. Only my girlfriend knows, and that’s only cos we live together, so I’ve got little choice there really.

I plan to document the entire process in this grow diary. I wanted to share my experience in confidence with other like minded peeps and would be very grateful of help/advice along the way from you experienced growers out there. Respect and fair play to you all!

I love my herb and have wanted to grow my own stuff for years, but never really did anything about it…..till now!!!

My main motivation, apart from my love of this beautiful plant…...is this so called “grit weed” that has flooded and ruined the UK marijuana market!!! See this article: Warning issued over cannabis adulterated with glass beads | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

I could rant about this shit for ages cos it makes me sooooo angry, but that is not the purpose of this thread, so I will leave it there and get back to my grow…..BUT DON”T SMOKE THIS GRIT SHIT!!!!

I have chosen to attempt to grow a feminised Snow White Indica/Sativa mix, purchased from Nirvana seeds. Reason for this choice after much deliberation….mostly because it said “good for beginners”! HA! I fuckin’ hope so!

I plan to grow in a top quality organic potting soil and will be using organic nutes when needed. My growing area is just a regular office stationary style cupboard.

My Check List:

10 x Snow White Fem Nirvana Seeds
1 x Office Stationary Cupboard (W 790mm, D 400mm, H 1597mm)
1 x Single Envirolite Reflector
1 x 125W Envirolite (blue - growth)
1 x 125W Envirolite (red - flowering)
6” Oscillating Fan (air circulation)
2 x 80cm PC Fans connected to variable DC adapter (ventilation)
Reflective Sheeting
Soil Moisture/ PH Meter
Canna Professional Potting Mix
Organic Nutrients etc for different stages of growth (Brand undecided)
PH Water tester (still to get)
Rubber Matting (for base of cupboard)
Various size pots!

From this setup, I hope to be able to mature and flower 4 healthy female plants…..now, lets see how it goes……..

Day 1 - 20th Feb 2007 – 20:00 (ish)

I placed all 10 seeds on wet tissue paper for germination. Tissue paper was placed in a small plastic bag to retain moisture.

Followed instruction from this very good video that I found browsing this helpful fourm: Stoned Free Guide to Growing Cannabis. - Google Video

My fingers are totally crossed. Let’s hope I get some good sprouts! While I’m waiting, the next 2 days will be spent finishing my grow cupboard. I will post some pics when it’s all hooked up.

sounds good so far good luck.

yea, sounds good man, keep us updated

welcome to the forum SnowWhite. oh and to your girlfriend to. Guess we'll have to tolerate her to hay.

pics man.....u need the pics

Thanks for the support folks....I'll get some pics up real soon, I promise.

Day 3 – 22nd Feb 2007 – 20:30 (aprox 48 hours into germination)

Checked on my seeds, one has cracked and is starting to sprout a tiny shoot! I don’t have my pots ready yet, so I will leave the seed in with the others overnight and plant it up first thing once I got some pots ready.

Day 4 – 23rd Feb 2007 – 09:45

Prepared pots with my Organic potting mix and watered thoroughly, leaving to stand and drain for a while.

Checked on my seeds again. The small sprout I saw yesterday has grown some more overnight and 2 others have small shoots now as well. These are getting potted.

The 3 germinated seeds are now in soil under my Envirolite so they can reach for some light.

Here are some pics…..it's ust a temporary setup for my seedlings to be. Still not finished my grow cupboard yet, been too busy, but I hope to have this ready early next week.

https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-pics/index.php?n=3320

Day 4 – 23rd Feb 2007 – 19:15

3 more seeds have sprouted tap roots on the wet towel and have been transferred to their first pot. That's 6 out of my 10 seeds now sprouted and in soil. 4 more to go!

Day 5 – 24th Feb – 08:15

Checked on my pots this AM to find my Envirolite has blown, after only 16 hours of use! Bollox! That’s not normal by the way!! No shoots coming through yet, so no harm done, better for it to blow at this early stage than further on in my grow. Switched over to the red spectrum bulb for now and I’m off to get a replacement blue spectrum bulb today.

Day 5 – 24th Feb – 10:15

I checked my seeds on the wet towel. 2 more have sprouted, excellent! That’s 8/10 so far. Come on Nirvana seeds!! These 2 new babies have gone into soil. Still got nothing through the soil in any of my other pots, but it’s only been 24 hours. Can’t wait to see the first shoot come up for light! I will keep you posted.

Day 5 – 24th Feb – 16:45

Seed 9 of 10 has sprouted in the wet towel, now in soil. Only 1 more seed to
go.

Day 6 – 25th Feb – 10:15

The seeds in pots 1, 2 and 5 have broken the soil and are reaching for light. Very nice to see I can also just see the shoots coming through in pots 3 and 4. Pics below...

The final seed germinating on my paper towel has cracked a little root and has been placed in pot #10. That’s 10/10 seeds germinated using the wet paper towel method. Let’s see how they get on in the soil.

Day 9 - 28th Feb

All 10 seeds sprouted and are doing ok in soil.....I think.

They are now in my cupboard which is mostly finished. Just need to screw the ventilation fans in place and make totally light proof.

Anyway....here's some pics....

looks good mate..make sure U keep them like 3-4 inches away from the CFL..any closer and it'll cause heat stress on the plants, I had to learn the hard way..good luck!

Spittn4cash said:

looks good mate..make sure U keep them like 3-4 inches away from the CFL..any closer and it'll cause heat stress on the plants, I had to learn the hard way..good luck!

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Thanks man, I'll keep an eye on the lights. Been reading your journal actually and seen your trouble. I'm sure they'll come up nice for you mate. I'll look forward to more updates. Good luck with it all.

You should pick up a better light for them babies, especially if you dropped some good money on the seeds, get a Halide or Sodium. You kno the deal. Just got an HPS and fuckin love it

Day 13 - 4th March

Updated pics....ventilation fans have now been fitted to my cupboard. Just need to make the vents light proof.

decent start. Keep it going.

VictorVIcious said:

decent start. Keep it going.

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Cheers man...I hope I can. I'm going to re-pot them in a few days time.

How many lumens are you getting out of that one Envirolite? Succeeding with all 10 (good for you!) seeds is great, but it makes me doubt that they all should be sharing your one CFL. If you dont want to get an MH I would at least go grab another blue spec. CFL. I guess you could even put the warm light on there....I would just get as much as I could, it's not like you're just growing 1 or 2 plants...Good Luck!!

Cheers Kingdon Sky. My single envirolite puts out about 12,000 lumens I think, but envirolite don't like to talk about lumens.

Check this out for more info: Envirolites indoor hydroponic envirolite grow lights, grow cabinets and reflectors.

But anyway, I totally agree. Need more light, which is why I ordered a twin reflector the other day and another 125W blue spec envirolite. Should be with me by tomorrow I hope.

I'm actually seriously regretting germinating all my seeds, really silly mistake as I just didn't expect all the seeds to do so well. I just don't have the space or light for 10 plants to mature, but I'm going to try and grow as many as I can. At least it will give me a margin for some error along the way though and I'll know better for next time.

Anyways, here some more pics for now.......Day 16 from seed now I think.

Oh they're beautiful, Snow White (pun unavoidable, your fault), I've never followed a journal for this strain, can't wait to see your buds...yeh you might be too lucky, but hey if you're getting 12,000 lumens per light (didn't realize they were so awesome) I don't see [although I'm very inexperienced] a huge problem light-wise...space is another issue all together...but hey, if you can manage them until you can determine sex, you can get rid of the males to open up some space for flowering...of course with your luck you'll get 10 girls

(Right, right, not lumens, PAR, yes yes yes yes!! we love that 100% PAR!!!)