Grew outdoors some in the 70’s and 80’s just for fun…nothing since then. First time indoors and have made the usual noob mistakes (wrong soil, over-watered once when seedlings but they recovered). I think these couple things have slowed the growth of my girls this time around.
But I already have my next grow planned. Going to go the organic route with Pro-mix and Earth Dust and will diary it here too.
Here’s the set up so far:
AC Infinity 7x3x3 tent - am going to get a 2nd tent
2 x Unit Farm UFS3000 200w Full Spectrum Grow Lights w/UV & IR — 400w total for 3 x 3
5 Gallon Grow Bags
Scott’s Premium Potting Soil (Crap soil, I know…but live and learn…won’t happen again, I promise…lol)
ILGM GG4 Auto seeds (10 + 10 deal from 2021)
Bergmans Nutes
Distilled water only from germ to harvest. Not as much hassle with PH and testing.
Photone app to measure PAR and DLI
I actually bought the ILGM GG4 10 + 10 deal in Spring of 2021 but didn’t get around to planting anything until July 2022. I dropped 4 of them in a glass of distilled on 7/4 hoping they would still pop and one did within a day and the other 3 had tails the very next day.
I dropped them 1/2 inch deep in soil on 7/6 in 5 gallon bags and covered lightly and misted the soil. I covered with plastics domes to raise the heat to the soil too. I checked them daily and misted lightly after 3 days. On 7/10, after 4 days they all broke the surface and I removed the domes. I used some cheapy Wal-mart grow lights (blue and red) for the first week or so.
Below is at 5 days
At 10 days I threw one of the Unit Farm lights at them set at 30 inches above them. One of the girls is nerfy looking on one side as you can see and unfortunately she has stayed that way…but she’s still kickin’. I gave them all just a little drink in a circle around the plant.
At 15 days, I gave them all another little drink.
So I decided to wait a week or so to take more pics hoping things would get a little more exciting and they did. These are at day 23 below. My nerfy girl is still nerfy. I started using Bergman’s nutes at day 21 since the soil came loaded with crap. I didn’t want to overload it early on so didn’t use the Bergman’s seedling nutes. I dropped the light to 20 inches above the top of the plants also.
25 days and looking better. Got another drink.
Day 28 - the girls were looking stout enough to soak up some sun so I put the double whammy on them and added the 2nd Unit Farm light. At 20 inches, I’m getting about 470 - 720 PAR at tops of plants and DLI is 45-50. Will be easy to get PAR to 1000 for flowering with these.
Day 30 - that’s today. Will keep this updated as the days pass.
My little nerf…hope she smokes good.
