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Setup is a full Spider Farmer growtent (70x70x160cm) including their Sf-1000 100W grow light and their carbon scrubber airfilter system with inline fan which has cost me 499€.
As allways I like to boost things, so I bought an extra growlight which is a purple red 295W led light by Hydrotec for another 95€.
I also bought a normal fan to increase the air circulation inside the setup (another 40€).
No need to say that we will need timers for the lights, the first one was included in the spider farmer kit, the 2nd one I bought for 20€.
The seeds were provided by Zamnesia seedbank, a well known online shop based in Amsterdam. I use them already for more than 7 years and I've allways been happy with the way they work.
Much online shops could take an example by this shop, they treat their customers with respect, and are allways willing to correct errors (bad seeds, delivery problems, u name it,...) without any cost.
The seeds themself were about 10€ per seed.
The total cost of this setup was give or take 700€ - 750€ including the Plagron nutriënts and the plagron lightmix grow medium, taking into account that the tent, lights, fans,... are reusable and this is the first time I'll be growing in a 100% controlled environment.
So this being the initial overall cost, knowing that all my following grows in this setup will cost me only the seedprice, the nutriënts, the electricity Bill and the time I invest in it, this setup looks promising to me.
Now about the grow, all seeds came up as expected, no problem at all to germ these Anesia seeds.
This is the first picture after 4 days of germination and some more pictures of the setup.
For who might wonder how I get an approximate balance of light for 2 different wattage lamps is that I switch position of the lights every 24h (right one to the left, and left one to the right side and vice versa the next day).
For this grow I will be posting 1 picture per day, so that everyone has an objective view of whats happening during the entire cycle.
One picture a day.
Plants seem to be happy with the given nutes and grow rather fast.
As u can see in the pictures, at day 7 I introduced the 295W red purple led light.
No problems to report except that one plant shows a genetics problem, leaves that show deformation (see day 9 and day 10 for the plant in the upper left corner). Previous grows have learned me that this is absoluteley nothing to worry about, as this deformation may even be beneficial (but could turn out bad as well, we just have to wait and see what the plant will do in later stages of growth).
Last time I've seen such deformation that plant turned out to be a monster in flowering stage, compared to her sibling sisters.
Again one picture a day. As soon I have introduced the 295W purple and red colored hydrotec light, the plants seem to be having a rather exponential growth (even when the ppfd I have measured is lower from the purple 295W led than the Spider farmer 100W). I've started to LST and picked some fanleaves to make for better light penetration. Plants seem to react well. Internodes are really close to eachother, plants do not stretch in height, but rather in width.
This week Will probably be a combined veg and flowering week as the plant has started preflowering a few days ago. So I will switch nutrients to flowering nutrients. Again one picture a day, will post more comment at the end of this 'week' of the growcycle, all I can say is that these ladies are booming...
This week I'm changing the terra vega to terra bloom to try to force the plants to go into flowering stage. The cola's are stretching upwards and preflowering has set in. Definateley different phenotypes of the strain. Very curious how that is ging to turn out, hopefully at least one purple.
The week started pretty good.
On day 33 I decided to do some LST and heavy haircutting for the ladies.
I also moved te plants around in the tent, which was not a very good idea, cause I broke one of the main cola's, lesson learnt...
As it is very rainy and the moist gets indoors (@around 70% Rh) I decided to buy a small dehumidifier unit.
Will pick that one up tomorrow at the postal service and see how that works out.
Day 34, received the dehumidifier but havent had the time to install due to family issues. The plant u can see on the bottom left (the plant that showed the deformation in early grow and which I have suspected to be a genetics problem) in day 34 pictures still hasent started full bloom (compared to the otter 3 plants). Also I have the impression that the bottom 2 plants are indica dominant and the top 2 are more sativa like.
Very curious how this grow will turn out!
Love to grow and learn while doing so!
Been having a bit of a problem with one of the plants this week, one seems to develop droopy leaves since day 35.
I'm a bit worried it has nutriënt lockout or worst, so I started a grow question.
Update, problem solved, was an underwatering problem.
All is fine again.
Finally the problem from last week has been resolved. It was an underwatering problem, most likely caused by the dehumidifier I placed in the tent and I didn't adjust my watering scheme accordingly.
Did a deep watering for all of the plants and now everyting seems to be fine.
As I first tought it was nutriënt lockout, I haven't fed rhe ladies for 3 days now, so I will wait till tomorrow and see if the problem really has been resolved and start feeding again.
Plants are looking fine and vigourous, but still hardly any sign of flowering on one of the ladies.
Thinking of changing the light cycle down to 12/12 for a couple of days and then gradually increase it back to 20h when flowering has set in on that one plant.
Only thing that went wrong this week is that I ruïned my Phone, so no pictures for about a week till the thing gets repaired....
The grow is going well, one plant starts showing Brown hairs, prematurely, the rest is going pretty well.
The different phenos are definately showing.
Also one of the 4 ladies has rust spots on the leaves, probably a nutriënt problem, but yeah, plants being plants and keep on growing, I personally dont see an issue here.
IT doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to be good.
Had my phone broken, so I wasent able to post any updates for 6 days, but it has been fixed now, so I wiil Pick-up the daily updates from day 58. All went well with the ladies and they are fattening up.
Partial harvest of the smallest plant brought me 30grams of dried extremely fragrant bud.
Smells and looks like expensive dutch coffeeshop bud (Thats not trimmed properly 😀).
Curing process has started for this one.
My estimation for the whole shabang is something in between 200 and 250 grams for a half square meter (5 sq ft) of growingspace.
Will update.
when its underwater , they dont wrinkle edges of leaves, thats more cold envoirment or root ptoblem, overwatering leaves roots long without oxygen, hence root problem. my thought.
@DevilsEyez, here right timing is crucial, lift pots, overwatering will bring ph and root issues.
If you wanted to avoid it, go with coco next time indoors, some guys are soaking pots 4 times daily and having outstanding results.
Ill have a look, will DM you if i see something strange.
All the best, you are on good way anyways !
@AsNoriu, thanks for the very detailed info!
I've already been growing the herb for about 25 years now, but mostly outdoors (1 grow per year) and a couple of times indoors with hps light and not in a grow tent (which has brought me a few good harvests, and failed miserably one time, which made me quit growing indoors. Had a big pest problem then which ruined the whole shabang).
This grow is the very first time I grow in a tent with ventilation and Led lights (a controlled environment and led being completly new to me).
So u can imagine that I need to adapt to this controlled environment, especially the watering schedule.
When growing outdoors in pots, the plants need water every day, especially in Hot summers which we had when I was growing outside.
It has been a couple of years ago since I had my last grow going on (had a kid been born, stopped smoking, the last indoor grow going wrong and so on...), so I'm a bit rusty I guess 😁
Anyways, I very much appreciate your input, please feel free to follow my grow and please drop a comment if u see me messing up.
I see u are kind of an expert on your profile and your grows (the awards, and the grows u finished).
So I'll be following u for sure, even if its just to take your grows as an example.
Have a nice day bro, and hopefully we'll be talking soon.
Respect!
@AsNoriu, will be taking that advice. Today (day 40 in pictures) the problem seems to be stabilized.
Plant is not droopy anymore.
I lifted my pots and by weight it seems not to be nececairy to be watering today.
DevilsEyez
