oOrtclOud
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Hey hey, RIU! Welcome to my first personal grow/journal.
Over the past several months I’ve been assisting in caring for a relatively large number of plants in a MMED*-recognized grow facility for a dispensary here in Colorado. I’m super fortunate in that I have a friend/mentor that I have been working alongside who has been sharing his knowledge with me along the way... and I’m pretty sure he has a journal on here as well, so if you see this- yo!!
*Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division
I figure I need an outlet for my own journey on this horticultural path, so thus begins the documentation of me raising my first plants from start to finish(I hope). It’s worth mentioning I’m a registered MMJ patient with the state of Colorado as well.
Now, what am I growing? Exciting stuff! I discovered a few choice seeds in the “Durple” (Durban Poison x Mendocino Purps) that I was trimming up a little while ago. The consensus is that it must’ve gotten impregnated by the slightly herm’d OG Diesel towering above it. You could say it was like a Rottweiler mounting a Chihuahua… the OGD’s were 7+ feet tall and the Durples never became more than 3 feet tall. That’s pretttttty awesome because basically anything that OG Kush x Sour Diesel x Durban Poison x Mendo Purps might create sounds right up my alley. As you will see, the varieties produced by this combination will seem to express themselves very early on. SO! Let’s see what these bangin’ genetics have in store for us…
I’ve popped four seeds into some canna coco’d party cups, taken the knowledge my bud has been so graciously dumping into my brain, and McGuyver’d-up whatever equipment I can find to make this first attempt worthwhile.
Next, how and where am I growing? Inside my tiny, trippy 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]-floor room of fun:
I might as well show you what else goes on up here, and what makes it the ‘fun’ room
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So yeah, it’s not white/mylar , a grow tent, nor is it a convenient closet. It’s the carpeted 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] and top floor of a townhouse with a large, hinged skylight.
The skylight is pretty key in that I can control some humidity and air flow in the room but it’ll ruin everything light-wise when it’s time to go to 12/12. Luckily I plan on getting a tent by that time as well as upgrading my lighting equipment from the 4-foot 4-bulb T5 I’m currently vegging under to something a little more powerful. It’s going to be really fun upgrading my ghetto rig so I can properly care for these plants.
The seedlings are currently at about day 22, so I figure now would be a good time to start publishing things as they happen. I DO have a bunch of pictures of the babies’ growth up through today that I’ll be posting right abouuuuuuut now-
Over the past several months I’ve been assisting in caring for a relatively large number of plants in a MMED*-recognized grow facility for a dispensary here in Colorado. I’m super fortunate in that I have a friend/mentor that I have been working alongside who has been sharing his knowledge with me along the way... and I’m pretty sure he has a journal on here as well, so if you see this- yo!!
*Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division
I figure I need an outlet for my own journey on this horticultural path, so thus begins the documentation of me raising my first plants from start to finish(I hope). It’s worth mentioning I’m a registered MMJ patient with the state of Colorado as well.
Now, what am I growing? Exciting stuff! I discovered a few choice seeds in the “Durple” (Durban Poison x Mendocino Purps) that I was trimming up a little while ago. The consensus is that it must’ve gotten impregnated by the slightly herm’d OG Diesel towering above it. You could say it was like a Rottweiler mounting a Chihuahua… the OGD’s were 7+ feet tall and the Durples never became more than 3 feet tall. That’s pretttttty awesome because basically anything that OG Kush x Sour Diesel x Durban Poison x Mendo Purps might create sounds right up my alley. As you will see, the varieties produced by this combination will seem to express themselves very early on. SO! Let’s see what these bangin’ genetics have in store for us…
I’ve popped four seeds into some canna coco’d party cups, taken the knowledge my bud has been so graciously dumping into my brain, and McGuyver’d-up whatever equipment I can find to make this first attempt worthwhile.
Next, how and where am I growing? Inside my tiny, trippy 3[SUP]rd[/SUP]-floor room of fun:
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I might as well show you what else goes on up here, and what makes it the ‘fun’ room
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So yeah, it’s not white/mylar , a grow tent, nor is it a convenient closet. It’s the carpeted 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] and top floor of a townhouse with a large, hinged skylight.
![](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1168.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fr481%2Foortcloudmusic%2Fogdurpiesel%2Fskylight.jpg&hash=2d7013fc910bd67820c16686fd173427)
The skylight is pretty key in that I can control some humidity and air flow in the room but it’ll ruin everything light-wise when it’s time to go to 12/12. Luckily I plan on getting a tent by that time as well as upgrading my lighting equipment from the 4-foot 4-bulb T5 I’m currently vegging under to something a little more powerful. It’s going to be really fun upgrading my ghetto rig so I can properly care for these plants.
The seedlings are currently at about day 22, so I figure now would be a good time to start publishing things as they happen. I DO have a bunch of pictures of the babies’ growth up through today that I’ll be posting right abouuuuuuut now-