1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

9/7-9/10 Hi! This is my first grow and my first grow diary here. I'm not really sure how to do this(posting and growing lol). So I guess since this is the beginning of the diary I'll start with a little information on what I'm doing and what my goal is. I grabbed a bunch of seeds from Herbies Seeds, since this is my first time with all this I was all over the place with what seeds I wanted and I only was buying a small amount of each strain. So I figured I would save the strain I really wanted to grow for after a grow or two, to make sure I get something quality, and I started with Grandmommy Purple. I think I only got 3 seeds of this strain so I popped one as my overall plan was to grow out one plant into a mother big enough to pull clones from. I am growing in a 4x4 tent and planned on growing 4 plants in this space. I am familiar with ebb and flow hydroponics for some reason. I think I may have tried to grow something back in high school and the concept of the system always stuck with me. But I didn't want to be working with a flood table, that design ebb and flow was not something I wanted. But I also didn't want to do DWC or RDWC or any of that. I also knew I didn't want to do soil. So I designed an ebb and flow bucket system thing and that is what will be growing the plants. Chances are in week 9 you will see photos of the system being built. I might even update this page with the system and talk about it more if I don't do it in week 9 of this diary. As for this week, the beginning of it all, I placed one seed in glass of water for 24 hours or so and then into paper towel. Once the seed germinated it was placed in a rockwool cube on 9/7. Please feel free to comment or ask me questions. Since this is the first time I have ever grown... well really, anything, I would love to be able to answer any questions or get suggestions or issues pointed out. Anything really. I'll try and be detailed going forward. However, these first 8 weeks are just for building up a mother to get clones. The goal is 4 clones to grow 4 plants. ====================================================================== Update 11/6 - heh, as promised here's some photos of the system and I'll do my best to give a quick breakdown. For full system discussion check week 9 I built this to be ebb and flow system contained in a bucket. The medium is just clay balls(leca/hydroton) in a 10" net pot. The res is 12 gal but I will only put 4-4.5 gallons of water in it. The res pumps into a 3.5 gal bucket that sits in a hole cut in the reservoir lid. The bucket sits on a rack in the reservoir to keep it out of the water. The pump will pump a minimum of every 3 hours for at most 2 minutes to flood the bucket completely. It drains empty usually around 5 minutes. Also, I will put an air stone in each reservoir that runs for 30 mins 12x a day. That's basically it, if I missed something I definitely didn't in the week 9 write up, lol