First grow in a few years, Closet, Nirvana Wonder Woman

AfricanGrey

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So this is my first grow in a few years now, also my first post here. I used to be a member of some other forum that seems to have bitten the dust a few years back, but oh well, fresh start. Might as well get right into the grow setup.

I'm using your standard drip feed design with the addition of two T fittings leading to two aeroponic mister heads. A 185GPH pump powers the setup. The drip lines lead to static dripper stakes to give me some control over flow, I'm using the lowest flow setting on each stake due to the ridiculously overpowered pump. The 3 part BC series are my nutes of choice for this grow. Lighting consists of a 175watt metal halide for vegging, to be switched out for my 400watt HPS for flowering.

This is my first grow using feminized seeds. I picked up a ten pack from www.dutch-seeds.com, they have never let me down in the past and once again came through. The main reason why I wanted to get this grow online is because of the awesome success I've had just in the past few days. The seeds arrived in monday, by monday night 6 of them were tucked into some rockwool cubes, soaked with bottled water, and stuck into a plastic bag and sat on top of my tv. In the past germination has taken like 2-5 days for me, normally yielding an 80% or so success rate, but I was quite surprised to see 6 cracked shells with little white wiggly things sticking out the next afternoon! By tuesday night they were put into my grow system and the grow officially commenced.

As of right now all 6 are atleast 1 inch in height and all are showing their 1st set of serrated leaves (dont know the proper botanical term).

From the awesome germination rate and speed, and the already quite quick development of these gals (hopefully gals), I have pretty high hopes for this grow.


Some other random info:

I have about ten gallons of water in the reservoir with a 2tablespoon bc boost to 1 tablespoon bc grow nute mix for this first week to start em off

The room is exactly 2ft by 4ft

with the fan going there isn't any noticable or should I say dangerous heat build up with the 175watter

The door is completely air and light sealed by means of weather stripping and a rubber door sweep

I have plans to add an exhaust fan to vent into my attic by the time they're ready for the 400w HPS

The sweet inuyasha calender keeps me in check with the grow


Comments/questions/feedback/recommendations are all appreciated
 

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*Kb*

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I am growing Wonder Woman in soil right now, my girls are 3 weeks into flower. This is my first grow so we shall see how they turn out. Can't wait to see how your turn out!!!IMG00097.jpgIMG00096.jpgIMG00095.jpg
 

AfricanGrey

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Been a week in the tub now. Weed gnomes added some more nutes today. Installing RO/DI system tomorrow for my saltwater reef. Should def help the plants out as well to get chloramine/chlorine free water.
 

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AfricanGrey

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It's almost 4 weeks of vegging now. Started training them so they're all the same height in anticipation of the screen. Removed some of the yellowing bottom leaves and a few of the bigger fan leaves as well. I will start flowering in a week or two depending on how they look
 

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TheRuiner

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LOL, your literally going to have bud on chicken wire! I can't wait to see how it grows to incorporate that screen! :)
 

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Looks good, I'll be checking in to watch these babies flower. I just picked up 5 fem wonder woman cant wait!
 

AfricanGrey

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LOL, your literally going to have bud on chicken wire! I can't wait to see how it grows to incorporate that screen! :smile:
lol. It was the only fencing product Home Depot had that didn't come in like 50 foot long rolls. I'm thinking I may cut the openings a little bigger where the plants are coming through then just fasten them down to it as they grow with some gardening twist ties.


Interesting setup! Are u just going to be using the same light for flowering?
Negative, I have a 400 watt HPS ready to be swapped in when the time comes. Also a high flow "bilge blower" fan that I will duct into one of my roof vents in the attic to deal with the heat and smell. Probably gonna diy a carbon scrubber for it too.
 

AfricanGrey

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A little over 7 weeks of vegging now. The screen is starting to be covered nicely.


Are there any benefits to giving them an extended dark period like 24-36 hours as I've read some people do when switching them over to flowering?
 

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