420GreaseMonkey
Member
Hello All,
This is my first post to RIU but since over the past couple of months all of you have been so helpful while I've lurked around I thought it was about time I got involved.
Basically I got sick of paying for rubbish buds, which almost put me off the green altogether. So I thought I would have a crack at this growing thing. Since this is a first grow Ive tried to keep everything pretty simple and low cost and a few things have evolved along the way.
To start off here's a run-down of my setup...
-Very small space, 2"x2". It's an old disused cupboard in the garage.
-Small scale Flood and Drain system based around storage tubs and using clay balls/rockwool as media.
-Nutrients are House and Garden Hydro
-Lighting started as a crappy ebay LED UFO which I then supplemented with some e27 LED globes and have now replaced with another crappy, but larger, ebay LED panel.
-Since this is a first attempt I've started with just Bagseed. Honestly I'm surprised that I got 100% germination of the seeds I tried. Some of the ones in my little pot would be close to 10 years old!
I wasn't really expecting much from my first grow so I thought I'd have a go with some LST and ScrOG as well. Mixed results there but I don't need to explain the learning curve to all of you sinceyou were all once newbies as well.
Please feel free to chime in with tips and/or tricks. The idea of this thread is to show what I've done so far and try to get some info to improve for the next one.
So no more messing around, Let's have some pics
Please excuse my lack of photographic skill. All pics taken with an older phone with very little effort.
These are the earliest pics I could find. One thing I will definitely doing for next time is keeping a better grow journal from the beginning with pictures. Not even sure how old they were at this point (or now for that matter) but this was about four weeks ago and about two weeks before I flipped them.
...and this was the first incarnation of my lighting setup...
...Yes, I was using the cooling fan from the light as an extraction fan also. It actually worked surprisingly well but I did end up getting a better fan with the new light.
This is with the new light after I had installed the screen. I think this was about a week before I flipped them. Again, top of the list next time will be a better grow journal!...
The bucket of clay balls on the door was to try and get the humidity up slightly. No sure if it work but or not but the humidity did go up a bit after I did it. I also added an extra feeding event to the timer at the same time though so it could've been either.
This is about a week after I flipped the light schedule. In hindsight I should've done it a bit earlier I think because I very quickly ran out of room...
...you can also start to see the other problem I've ended up with which is, because I used bagseed I have no idea what the strains are and the one on the right quite obviously went a little more nuts than the left.
That brings us up to today's pics. I'm pretty sure I'm three weeks into flower (again, grow log, yeah I know). Plant that took off at the flip is kicking along pretty well but the one on the left still hasn't totally shown sex yet but it's stretch seems to have taken off in the last week. Any suggestions there are welcome. My current theories are it's a male that didnt respond to the flip or I somehow managed to stumble upon an auto flowering strain. My very inexperienced eyes still tell me it's a girl but I realy would like it to confirm or deny that...
...Very crowded now!
...REALLY bad picture, I'm sorry
Space is obviously too small. Going to have to look into something larger or go back to one plant.
This is my first post to RIU but since over the past couple of months all of you have been so helpful while I've lurked around I thought it was about time I got involved.
Basically I got sick of paying for rubbish buds, which almost put me off the green altogether. So I thought I would have a crack at this growing thing. Since this is a first grow Ive tried to keep everything pretty simple and low cost and a few things have evolved along the way.
To start off here's a run-down of my setup...
-Very small space, 2"x2". It's an old disused cupboard in the garage.
-Small scale Flood and Drain system based around storage tubs and using clay balls/rockwool as media.
-Nutrients are House and Garden Hydro
-Lighting started as a crappy ebay LED UFO which I then supplemented with some e27 LED globes and have now replaced with another crappy, but larger, ebay LED panel.
-Since this is a first attempt I've started with just Bagseed. Honestly I'm surprised that I got 100% germination of the seeds I tried. Some of the ones in my little pot would be close to 10 years old!
I wasn't really expecting much from my first grow so I thought I'd have a go with some LST and ScrOG as well. Mixed results there but I don't need to explain the learning curve to all of you sinceyou were all once newbies as well.
Please feel free to chime in with tips and/or tricks. The idea of this thread is to show what I've done so far and try to get some info to improve for the next one.
So no more messing around, Let's have some pics
Please excuse my lack of photographic skill. All pics taken with an older phone with very little effort.
These are the earliest pics I could find. One thing I will definitely doing for next time is keeping a better grow journal from the beginning with pictures. Not even sure how old they were at this point (or now for that matter) but this was about four weeks ago and about two weeks before I flipped them.
...and this was the first incarnation of my lighting setup...
...Yes, I was using the cooling fan from the light as an extraction fan also. It actually worked surprisingly well but I did end up getting a better fan with the new light.
This is with the new light after I had installed the screen. I think this was about a week before I flipped them. Again, top of the list next time will be a better grow journal!...
The bucket of clay balls on the door was to try and get the humidity up slightly. No sure if it work but or not but the humidity did go up a bit after I did it. I also added an extra feeding event to the timer at the same time though so it could've been either.
This is about a week after I flipped the light schedule. In hindsight I should've done it a bit earlier I think because I very quickly ran out of room...
...you can also start to see the other problem I've ended up with which is, because I used bagseed I have no idea what the strains are and the one on the right quite obviously went a little more nuts than the left.
That brings us up to today's pics. I'm pretty sure I'm three weeks into flower (again, grow log, yeah I know). Plant that took off at the flip is kicking along pretty well but the one on the left still hasn't totally shown sex yet but it's stretch seems to have taken off in the last week. Any suggestions there are welcome. My current theories are it's a male that didnt respond to the flip or I somehow managed to stumble upon an auto flowering strain. My very inexperienced eyes still tell me it's a girl but I realy would like it to confirm or deny that...
...Very crowded now!
...REALLY bad picture, I'm sorry
Space is obviously too small. Going to have to look into something larger or go back to one plant.
...
... Thank you for compliment though, I appreciate the feedback
