Starting out a four plant budget grow. Using 50/50 coco/soil -mix as a medium in 10 litre pots (buckets with holes drilled in them). I know this sounds weird but decided to give it a go since I had few blocks of coco and few bags of pre-fertilized soil laying around. :). I have no idea if I should treat the plants as coco or soil grown, so how this goes and what I´ll do remains as a mystery even to myself. Time will tell :)
As this is a small budget grow, I am using and re-using whatever supplies I have already left over from previous grows or can get very cheap. As fertilizers I have Bcuzz Coco -kit which I won from some competition so I will be using those as fertilizer even tough I am using 50% soil. I will just have to try and adjust the dosages as I am using prefertiled soil and coco nutrients are far stronger than those ment for soil.
For lighting I ordered a LED from Amazon, 300w (about 140 true). I have been using HPS on all my previous grows so this is a new thing for me. I decided to go for LED as I don´t want to battle with temperatures all the time or use Cooltube since it eats away a fair amount of the light. I am also tempted to see how the current LED-systems do, my previous go with them was about 4 years ago, used a high-end 180w light which ended up being total crap :)
I got the seeds from Royal Queen Seeds, I have been using them most of my growing "career" because everything have always been top notch, you just simply can´t get anything better. Original plan was to grow 4 autos, 3 of which I choose myself and one as a surprise since they send an extra mystery seed with orders over 25 euros. I was in a bit too "creative" mood when I placed the order, and for some reason mixed up "fast flowering" and "auto-flowering" in my head and ended up with Speedy Chile (fast flowering), Stress killer automatic and Northern Light automatic. As a free seed I got Royal Cheese auto, couldn´t been more happier when I opened the package since I was considering between that and Northern Light so I got them both :)
I know that autos will suffer in yield and speed since I have to flip lights to 12/12 at some point but I am OK with this. I am also going to take a cutting from the Speedy Chile before I switch the lights and let it veg in another space until these four are ready and then put it into flowering, so I will be mostly focusing at her in this diary to gather all possible info and data about her habits and likings so I will get the most out of her in the next run.
yo mate! I have a "mutant" Chile in my tent, she's growing like a tree. I would suggest you to cover those white buckets to keep the roots at dark, it's better for them. You may use some aluminium foil, better than anything! Keep on growing! 🤘
Hi! Yes I checked your journal, your Chile is getting Big :D. I will cover those white buckets, I have a huge roll of black/white -plastic I am going to use for it.
Going to start flowering for Speedy on sunday when she hits 3 weeks. I was planning to veg her for 4 weeks but space is seriously going to be an issue with 60x60x140 tent and four plants so I can´t let her get any bigger.
Speedy recovered from topping very fast and is reaching for the skies! She is a very vigorious plant, seems to have good genetics, so thanks @James for always providing the highest quality :). The lime color just keeps getting better and she´s develeping very beautiful smell, fresh & fruity. Today I also received the grow tent I ordered, decided to go over the budget with it - altough it was only 50 euros from Amazon - but still a lot of money for me at the moment. The closet ain´t completely lightproof and I don´t want Speedy to go full tranny on me, and I would have problems with ventilation if I tried to seal the closet with something. I can´t drill air holes into it since it ain´t mine and I don´t want to pay for a new one :). Not sure if I will put the tent up today, because today I also received some Amnesia Haze from a friend and it seems to be doing it´s job very well, feeling a bit too soft to do anything that requies me to move :)
I hope she flowers as good as she vegs, and I am really anxious to see the actual flowering time for her. Like I mentioned earlier, I am going to take some cuttings off from her and veg them on the side while this one is flowering. I don´t know yet if I am going to do one plant with SCROG or a nine plant SOG or something from between, I have to see what happens when I put her into 12/12. @james, what do you recommend for maximum yield in 60x60x140 space, soil/coco -mix and 300w (150w true) LED? SCROG or SOG? I am going to flip lights when she is 4 weeks old, so I have a good 7 or 8 weeks to work with the cuttings and do a longer veg if I end up with one plant so vegging time ain´t an issue.
@SKELETOR, thanks for the info, the plants look healthy and well developed, it was more of a comment on the settings than a remark on the plants. Good job, it's always best to listen to the plant and adjust everything to their needs, sometimes they can be quite sensitive.
Keep up the good work ;)
@bobo420, I have tried placing it lower but leaves start to droop and curl up within couple of hours from lowering the lights. I tried 20cm, which almost killed the autos, and 30cm but they didnt seem to like that either. I will wait until they are flowering before hanging the lights lower again.
Here we go! Just followed this fresh, new and interesting diary. Since you’re growing Speedy Chile, I suggest you to follow @Endriu‘s diary as well! He has one of them, and she’s getting amazingly huge. Very cool diary!! Happy growing bud!!! 😃
Hey hey wats up buddy , i really love your low budget grow really a lot hey makes me thinks back a year ago when i just started no tent box nothing a small plant on a bucket with one damn light big up to you for this show people it can be done !! If you have the time please check out my diary "Rubob" lol guna follow if you dont mind ?!
Girls recovered from foliation much faster than I expected, cut off some leaves 24 hours ago and the new growth is clearly visible! From autos Royal Cheese is responding to LST and foliation very well, Northern Light and Stress Killer are still trying to put most of the growth into the top of main stalk. So if you are looking for an auto that is easy to train, I recommend Royal Cheese.