Growing in an Ikea wardrobe with Gregor.

Gregor Eisenhorn

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Hello everyone, pleasure to make your acquaintance!

Since this is a new run I figured it would be a good idea to start a new journal and move it to the right section.

I'm still a noob so there won't be anything fancy going on here, expect a lot of fuck ups and "err, what's going on here" moments.

Maybe a bit of history...

I've grown a few times here and there, some autoflowers outside and I even did a micro grow in an old PC case, lots of fun that was, really got me into the hobby. The yields have been ever meager and I strive to get at least 50g... yeah, it's that bad. Anyway, I'm really hoping that this grow will see me with a nice amount of weed. come the end. I can say that its not just about the final numbers, although it would be nice to have a few jars packed of some fine arse cured weed. I grow for a hobby and enjoy all stages of the grow, most of the time it's a learning experience and I love setting goals and beating them (one day 100g, one day).

I've completed a semi-successful grow (with the help of some fine people on here) in this wardrobe- my first ever indoor grow under HID lights, but the yield, yeah you guessed it, was just under 25g.

Maybe a bit about the setup: simple ikea wardobe (gotta love that shop, give me 5mins from when I walk through the door and all I think about is "damn, that's a nice looking cabinet I could grow in". The dimensions are quite small, inconvenient at times I might add: 48x59x160cm, so that's 1,6x1,9x5,2ft (God bless google) for you guys on the other side of the pond (actually, do you give such lengths in inchs or feet? I wonder.)

The light isn't anything fancy or high tech, just a simple 250 watter imbedded in a cooltube that I just recently bought (I was pondering on whether or not I should buy a 400 watter, haha what an idiot I was). The bulb is a dual spectrum type thats gives off just about 33 000 lumens. I honestly can say that while it does its job, I might just buy a MH light and then switch to the dual spectrum when in flower (probably get better results then).

As of the fan specifications, I had a poxy 110m3/h or 60cfm one that has been in service from the beggining... you can guess if I had temperature problems. Just recently I decided to reach deeper into my pockets and so I ordered a spanking new 440m3/h or 250cfm one (what a jump for me that was, feel like a pro already). I was a bit dissapointed because I thought that the CT + fan would be able to keep the temps at bay and allow me to give up on any additional fans seeing as my grow space is limited as it is.
Alas, while it does keep the temps hovering at 30C/86F without any air movement below the glass itself, the DWC bucket (more on that later) was just absorbing all the heat and to be honest, whenever I think of root rot I shit a brick. So I just swallowed my dissapointment and ordered myself a teeny weeny usb fan, it just came in the mail mind you, so I'll pop out for it in a jiffy. I've never had ideal temperatures which I'm sure had a huge impact on my previous grows so I'm doing everything in my power to make this grow the closest to the ideal one.

Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla (nearly finished don't worry).

I've been a soil grower all my life, whether was dealing with tomatoes, basil or my favourite plant, cannabis, I prefered not to complicate things... until last run when I really fucked up the beggining of the grow which resulted in a extremly long vegetative period.
You see I've never had any luck with fast growth rates you guys keep getting, oh have I longed to open my cab everyday and see new foliage.

For the past six months I've been dreaming and talking about moving to DWC so eventually I did. Nothing fancy, just one bucket I bought from my dearest Ikea (about 18L) and a few airstones plus a 7.2l/min air pump.
It's been going extraordinary- for me that is- so far. The growth rate is amazing, I mean, I've heard stories and read journals about hydroponics, but to see it for myself damn. Never going back to soil again. :D

As for the plants themselves I've always had a soft spot for sativas. I'm a lazy fuck by nature so when I smoke some pure indicas (or even indica dominant strains for that matter) I get an instant couch lock and remorse floods me head to toe.

What I'm working with now is Blue Kush (the infamous OG Kush x Blueberry) from dinefarm. On my last run I got a dodgy seed so I'm just going to stick to the genetically superior and tried strains from now on.

The period in between my last grow and this one, I must of "wasted" about 7 amazing seeds trying to start them in rockwool. Damn I tried everything, but hey, that's a learning experience! After a month of failing I FINALLY saw that little taproot emerge from the bottom of the RW (cheers fishdeth for the help). How jolly was I when it happened, so I popped the RW into the system and about one and a half weeks later (that was a bit long) I saw my first root! (by the way, DWC does live up to it's name when it comes to root development, never have I anticipated such growth!)

So as of now she's growing with new growth happening everyday (huzzah!).

More nonesense to come later on, if you managed to read through this then I salute you and I hope this will be a good grow indeed.

Feel free to add any thoughts, criticism and welcome to my journal!
 

Gregor Eisenhorn

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Some pictures!
 

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Gregor Eisenhorn

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Had some huge problems with pH fluctuations, the pH would rise over the course of a few hours to 6.5+! That caused a bit of the growth to stall. Anyway, all seems to be good now, for the whole night the pH stayed put at 5.8. I hope the plant will resume it's track.
 

thespaceman937

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Had some huge problems with pH fluctuations, the pH would rise over the course of a few hours to 6.5+! That caused a bit of the growth to stall. Anyway, all seems to be good now, for the whole night the pH stayed put at 5.8. I hope the plant will resume it's track.
I think you'd be better off with 6.5.... I'm an outdoor guy though
 

DankTankerous

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Hey dude I just found your journal. Sub'd!

Swing by my current journal, I made some changes as well as growing different strains. Growing a regular photo-period cannabis is more exciting than an auto-flower. seriously
 

Gregor Eisenhorn

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Hmm... pH rose by 0.1 so I'm happy that it has stabilized... although the growth tips have seemed to stopped growing not knowing why. Roots seem happy, at least they're growing.

For my patience long ago, I got a free sample of this organic spray. You can use it for mothers, clones, stressed plants etc. Contains some mironutrients, enzymes and what not... could be a good idea to spray the plant now, seeing that it could be stressed.

I'll back up the lights to 40cm to reduce the chance of burning the leaves.
 

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Gregor Eisenhorn

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pH rose by 0.1 so it's 5.9 now, I can live with that. The ppm's changed from 769 to 754.

It looks like she has started to recover, let's see what tomorrow brings.

NEVER HAD LUCK WITH FAST GROWTH.

So if the pH goes up and the EC/ppms go down, that means the solution is a tad bit weak yes? Should I add some more nutes?
 

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Alienwidow

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Nice set up. You totally lied in the first post when you said "nearly finished". :lol: Im pretty sure you will break 100 grams on this run. My guess is 170 if things go right.
Looks like youre going to have some problems with air movement in there. Do you have a plan for where youre going to put fans? Under the plant maybe? Are you going to scrog it? Because otherwise that plant will get so tall. I flowered one in dwc after 18 days of veg and it grew to be three feet! One tall popcicle stick but still 3 feet.
 

Gregor Eisenhorn

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Hah, ok you got me, I'm not were near finished. :D I'm practically glued to the grow box, so I always find something to tweak or add.

You know, I hope so, it would be nice to see the effort pay off in nice and heavy nugs. Although I've heard kush's aren't exactly high yielders, although 100g would be nice (cheeky).

Well, I was thinking of scrogging actually, I've always done it and I like the look of the canopy when it's spread out, seeing the space is limited I don't have much of an option really. I'll probably stick that black fan underneath the plant later on like you suggested and have a small PC fan just under the cooltube. But most likely I'll be adapting as the grow goes.

18 days of veg, nice! Bloody hell how tall was it before the flip? I honestly don't have a plan for the moment, with me mucking up all the time I can't be sure how tall the plant will be after a weeks time. I'll probably just multiply stalk length x3 to get an insight (but I was thinking of vegging for about three more weeks to at least get some good, solid structure and end results)

Thanks for stopping by Alien. :D
 

Gregor Eisenhorn

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Oh that's just about how tall my plant is now. So how long would you advise me to veg for, to get the results I'm looking for of course. I'm in a bit of a pickle.
 

Cannacat

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Looking good man! I can't believe how different your baby looks compared to mine, I mean like the shape of the leaves and everything, it's amazing the variety of plants. I've read your blog with interest, I love that you're including all the little details and your thought process as you go along, that's what makes a good Glog for me cos I'm a total noob and don't understand the technical stuff anyway!:bigjoint:

Good luck with it man, hope it keeps going well and I'll be watching how it goes :peace:
 
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