FrozenChozen
Well-Known Member
First off I'd like to say, I'm a long time lurker but have just started posting and am starting my own journal (seems like the perfect time). I have 2 solid grows behind me already, both in the same closet but have added light through out. I love DIY and will do what I can as cheap as possible (if reasonable). Both previous grows I used 5 REALLY old Future Harvest Development 68 watt 6400k cfls, a broke down led panel, and a couple extra Feit Electric 45 watt 2600k cfls. Soil was Organic Miracle Grow, strain is a family hand me down that has been in Alaska for 30+ years that I got from a close friend, I call it Talkeetna Old Man (Tom for short). First crop was 24/0 from germination to flower then 12/12 for flower with no lights/ lumens added for flower, after 17 weeks I cropped a pitiful 60g from 4 females (out of 10 beans that made it to sexing). Second crop I started 16 beans with better hopes and some more cfls! Also had ordered lots of 3 watt LEDs (for building my own panel, which I did) and rigged them in an array that ran from a 94 watt laptop charger, btw it works GREAT (for the $45 that I put in to it!) I kept 10 females but due to space and lighting concerns 2 weeks into flower I dropped 4 and kept 6 (2 of each phenotype that I saw). 6 weeks, late topping, and a bad cal-mag deficiency later, I cropped down about 125g... So onto the feature of my journal! I have recently gutted out a 3.8 (roughly 27"x28" with 4- 42 watt 6500k 1- 68 watt 2600k and 1- 55 watt 2600k cfl) cubic foot mini fridge and am using it for my germination/starting room. Inside I fit about 16 red party cups; so that's my magic number! February 2nd I dropped 18 beans into a wet paper towel, slid that into a Ziploc, and placed the package in a warm spot, 3 days later and a 100% germination rate I dumped the 2 smaller sprouts. Sprouts went into a jiffy green house for a couple days while I put finishing touches on the mini fridge. February 9th they were ready for party cups, which I unknowingly filled with "jiffy mix" (BAD IDEA!! It has NO N-P-K!), There they sat until I noticed about 2 weeks later, they were all root-bound, I found some same diameter 32oz. plastic tumblers at WalMart and painted them black; filled the bottoms with decent organic miracle grow soil and let them recover. March 1st I received 3 gal. planter bags in the mail and went to work repotting AGAIN! I managed to fit 12 into my closet and the remaining 4 went into 8 inch plastic pots and back into the mini fridge. Yesterday I received my 400 watt Apollo hps/mh with cool tube. I built it up and situated everything to a perfect fit! Over night temps at 50% power was 82, and I haven't bothered to check humidity as I know its too low... I'm only running a 190 cfm booster fan sucking air through the cool tube and exhausting into the attic space, I don't really have intake as the closet is closed nearly 24/7 and I haven't managed to put another 6" hole in my "coat" closet.... Questions or comments greatly appreciated, I'm tired of typing so on to some pics! (from last grow, btw that's a pic of one of my nugs from last harvest as my avatar)
damn, sucks that its almost all gone already.... What does everyone think?
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