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Full Tent - Indica Hybrid - First Grow

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Indica dominant bagseed
Custom Breeder & Strain
HID/600W
Light
HID/1000W
Light
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks Technique
FIMing
weeks Technique
Soil
Grow medium
Grow Conditions
Week 1
Vegetation
3.175
cm
inch
Height
24 hrs
Light Schedule
11+ conditions after
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Nutrients
ml/l
ml/gal
tsp/gal
Black Strap Molassas
0.651 ml/l
cal/mag
0.264 ml/l
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TheMachinist TheMachinist
6 years ago
Hello All, Welcome to my first grow journal. This is my first time seriously growing and this site is the only place I've posted any grow too, so here we go! ***Disclaimer - I am posting this grow retroactively Week 1-4 will be posted simultaneously*** I started this round on 11/30/17, germinated 9 bag seeds in between two paper towels in a zip lock bag and sitting on a heat mat. All seeds popped within 1.5 days and were planted tap root down in ffof (Fox Farm Ocean Forest) in a seedling tray with humidity dome, watered in with RO water ph'ed to 6.6. After another day or two 6/9 seedlings broke through the soil and humidity dome was removed a few days after that. This grow was started using a 25w actual blurple LED panel but quickly decided to swap that out for my MH. I dimmed the ballast to 600W and hung at its highest setting for the tent (approx. 60"). I know it's a waste of light, but the room needs heated anyway and this way I can dial in the tent, this being my first grow and all. I'm doing veg and flower in the same tent this first run, but I'll be using a veg tent for future grows and t5-HO fixtures for light. My current grow started and will finish in a tent 4'x4'x80" standard uni-zipper mylar grow tent. Due to this grow coinciding with winter I opted for a 4" 200cfm exhaust fan for the sealed MH fixture and am using a desk fan on top of the tent to pull out enough air for ventilation. With low humidity in my area the tent utilizes a cold mist humidifier to keep the humididty up, for the lights a small heater. I've made plenty of mistakes in the first week, including... transplanting too early, having the MH light too close, and overwatering at least once. Having said all that I've managed to keep all 6 seedlings alive the first week and have continual growth, either above or below the soil.
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Grow Questions
TheMachinist
TheMachiniststarted grow question 6 years ago
Wish my issue had a category lol. All my buds have been seeded to some extent and therefore will effect how the buds ripen. I want to know how much seeding alters my harvest timeline, and can I still look at trich's for bud ripeness as the pistils are orange with clear trich's.
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Perthanswered grow question 6 years ago
Your buds will take a little longer and I think it gives a distinct change in taste, but maybe that is just me. Obviously the THC content will be lower. It kinda depends how much it got pollinated too, like was it pollinated by a rogue male growing a mile away or a male a foot away. Good luck anyway. I'll follow see how you get on. Peace
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Jaindoh
Jaindohweek 13
man thats a very nice collection of dense buds you have there once you start some feminized seeds, some clones, or use a bag to sex you will be good to go; your setup is working very well
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Jaindoh, I'd love to eventually do some homebrew seeding, for now these seeds will have super unstable parents, might keep em to do some free range outdoor growing. Next grow will be Nirvana genetics that I might keep any male pollen. Appreciate the compliment on the setup, it's a work in progress ๐Ÿ‘
Marquise_ao_Sul
Marquise_ao_Sulweek 13
beautiful! you going very good! happy grow!
Fergie
Fergieweek 8
Do love a full tent ๐Ÿ˜€just waiting my new girls fatten Andi will be putting in my second light as space is getting tight ๐Ÿ˜€
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSweek 4
Sounds interesting here. Blasting young plants with a 1000w light is not really the best thing to do. You shall wait a bit more. You might need to ScrOG your plants to fill up all the light coverage with 6 plants , technically youโ€™re gonna grow 166,66W plants (Iโ€™m growing 100W plants if it can help to get an idea). Personally, I think that 1000W light is way too much for this size of tent. Itโ€™s gonna be tough to fit 6 monsters inside your tent bro , to get 1gr./W. You shall Veg at 400W and Bloom at 600W. 6 100W plants will be more reasonable for this size of tent . And you be able to reech those 1gr./W more easier.
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, Luckily for me I don't have to grow in my house or garage. it's a pretty well insulated little building. It really surprised me how much more heat 1000w puts out vs 600W. Might just be an indicator of how inefficient my grow light ballast/lamp setup is haha. I have a wall mounted radiant heater that heats the room no problem, but being my first grow I wanted to see what dealing with 1000W in a 4x4 would look like. I think as it gets warmer out i'll have to dim down to 750W or 600W to deal with the heat. Intake temp of my fixture is 15F exhaust vent is pushing out 72F air.
JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNS
@TheMachinist, same here , my lights donโ€™t heat the room by themselves, itโ€™s winter, I must use a heater.
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@JUNGLE_B4RNS, It's getting into the single digit F where I live and that means either I turn the light up or use more heaters haha. I appreciate the advice ๐Ÿ‘
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PigBearMan
PigBearManweek 8
Hope you have your scissor hands ready Edwardo. This will be a nice harvest if everything goes on like this. ๐Ÿ˜‰
PigBearMan
PigBearMan
@TheMachinist, Sounds good.๐Ÿ‘
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@PigBearMan, I'll start my hand exercises now! Im really focusing on just letting these things go, so far they've had no complaints, just watering with weak nutrients every 2/3 waterings.
DabCrab
DabCrabweek 6
Looking pretty darn good Edwardo :D Keep up all the great work. I'm excited to see these girls once they turn over to flower :D
DabCrab
DabCrab
@TheMachinist, Gotta love bag seed. It's the most interesting of grows to do a bag seed grow :D
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@DabCrab, Thanks! I hope they are all girls, just some regular seeds out of a good dispensary oz, can't remember the strain though.
bobo420
bobo420week 13
They are filling up nicely, they sure have put on some weight ;)
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@bobo420, thank you! judging by the stem swing (I grab the stem lower down and gently swing the top back and forth and have been doing it since start of flower) the tops are getting decently heavy.
Marquise_ao_Sul
Marquise_ao_Sulweek 12
very good diary!
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Marquise_ao_Sul, ๐Ÿ‘
PigBearMan
PigBearManweek 6
Some nice bushes you got there. ๐Ÿ‘Œ
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@PigBearMan, ๐Ÿ™ many thanks friend!
Ripper
Ripperweek 6
They all look very healthy. Great job
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Ripper, Thank you!
Jaindoh
Jaindohweek 15
excellent first harvest! eagerly awaiting trimmed dry yield in grams! saving the bag seed for a rainy day?
bobo420
bobo420week 15
Congratulations on the harvest! Enjoy ;)
simps
simpsweek 15
beautiful yellow hair's on the bud nice chunky buds happy happy
bobo420
bobo420week 15
Very nice plants and some frosty nugs ;) Nice photos too ;)
bobo420
bobo420week 14
Beautiful flowers, nice and healthy plants, good job ;)
Oyziphar
Oyzipharweek 12
Impressive Time lapse video ๐Ÿ™€ Great job !
Oyziphar
Oyziphar
@TheMachinist, Great idea ! Get that camera running !
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Oyziphar, ๐Ÿ˜Ž. hope to setup a security camera in the tent for seamless frames in the future.
bobo420
bobo420week 12
Looking awesome, great job!
bobo420
bobo420
@TheMachinist, thanks, they do look vigorous
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@bobo420, Thank you! I was just looking at your diary, impressive stalk on your little monster ๐Ÿ‘
wheedtobeus420
wheedtobeus420week 11
We are almost using the same set up. The nutrients and the light wattage. I think things are looking great!!! My lights keep the temp in the tent perfect for them. Cant wait to see your end result!
wheedtobeus420
wheedtobeus420
@TheMachinist, Yes! I absolutely love my High Pressure Sodium light. I started the grow with a LED light from amazon and was not impressed at all. So i got a new 1000 watt HPS bulb for my girls and they exploded in growth. I honestly dont think you can give them too much light.. You can deff burn them and get them too close to the light. However you have to listen to your plants and see what they say. I might considering getting a metal halide bulb for the veg period but the high pressure sodium has impressed me on so many levels. I actually hang my HPS pretty low for the majority of the grow just in my last few weeks of flowering i lifted her to the highest position. I also run a T5 along side her for the smaller girls i start. I do a staggered grow so i have girls at all stages at all times.
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@wheedtobeus420, Thank you very much! Do you plan on vegging next time with the HID? If you can afford the power, I recommend using HID lights for veg, I have nothing to compare to personally, but just by looking at journals on GD here I would say the HID in veg was a big help. It seems silly to have such small plants and such high amounts of lights, but I would rather give too much than too little, by keeping the light high up in the tent I let the plants grow to the light and I think it worked out well.
Marquise_ao_Sul
Marquise_ao_Sulweek 11
Very beautifull canopy! Waiting to the end.. :-) nice grows
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Marquise_ao_Sul, many thanks friend!
Ripper
Ripperweek 8
Looks great . Excellent color
TheMachinist
TheMachinist
@Ripper, Thanks! These pictures were take under the HPS, but taken in RAW with a canon T5i, then edit in photoshotp. I try to get as close to real life as possible, they are actually darker green than shown, but its as close as possible.