I’ve finally stopped slacking and started my second indoor grow after watching all the beautiful buds being grown around here. I’m switching up a few things from my first indoor grow journal thanks to receiving and reading some excellent guidance from the grow gurus here. Major changes:
I moved on to using Recipe 420 soil from Ocean Forest my last few grows but the last ones i use a significant percentage of my home compost which worked well. This go around it’s recycled plus an even higher percentage of the home compost. I’m using a lower wattage but better variable spectrum led this go around. Hopefully I’ll gain some efficiency but keep the yield the same or better with improved quality. I owe some tags from my last journal but I’ll get them out as soon as the seed sprouts as my strain might change if she misbehaves
Brothers Grimm, Body Count (photo)
Indoor: 20.5inx36inx63in Vivosun Tent
Method: Organic living soil, organic amendments
Vessel: 5 gal fabric
Water, carbon filtered and degassed minimum of 48 hours, batch adjusted to ~6.8 pH
Light system: California Light Works, SS275 variable full-spectrum w/Solar System Controller to control spectrum
Current Light Schedule: 18/6 veg
Temps; 75-78F Day, 69-75F Night
Humidity; 40-55 Day, 40-60 Night
Ventilation system; 6 inch inline fan intake, 6 in inline fan exhaust (carbon filters on both)
Heating/Humidity Control: AC infinityThermoforge heater (I’ve already ordered the upcoming T7 model to further temps when it gets cold), AC Infinity Cloudforge Humidifier.
Soil makeup, Recycled Soil (Recipe 420)|~50%, Worm Castings ~5%|, Compost ~45%, |Alfalfa Meal|(~1 cup), Kelp Meal (~1 cup), |Bat Guano (1/2 cup), Seabird Guano |(1/4 cup), Bone Meal| (1/2 cup), Azomite| (1/4+ cup), Mycorrhizae
She look sweet! I helped my son on this Grimm Brothers Haze 99 lady grown outdoors, just Recipe 420 soil plus my home compost with no other inputs other than water:
Happy Thanksgiving all! Hopefully it’s a joyous one with family and friends. Well, sleepy head poked her head out yesterday so the strain for Part II is
@madhatter1@SausageMahoney@Dennis62 and anyone else I missed who encouraged during my first journal feel free to follow along and see where this goes. 4 days from a seed in the ground so let’s see how happy I can keep her!
Just a quick check in w/ current conditions. She’s plugging along and I’m just carefully doing some focused light watering as this is a seedling in her one and final grow container. I know over watering and over application of nutes are killers at this stage but I personally don’t feel seedlings are all that delicate light-wise and I’m at 440 PPFD even at this early seedling stage. The center of the pot has a plug of regular organic soil (Kellogg) to avoid excessive intake of nutes and I carefully meter out a small amount of pH’d water. Doing it that way running higher than typical light levels at this stage have worked well so far for me. Happy growing all!
If I may make a suggestion: when they are this small, you can put a Solo cup upside down over the seedling and then water all around the upside-down cup. That way the stem stays dry, less chance of drowning the seedling and they make stronger roots since they have to reach the water.
Hey @kaptain3d you most certainly can make a suggestion and it’s appreciated! I dribble water at this stage focusing the water in a ring an inch or so away and barely dampen the area near the stem. What you’re suggesting makes total sense to me. Is water near the stem (tiny amount) a problem? If there’s any possiblity i’ll be incorporating your suggestion.
Thanks!
P.S. At minimum I’ll be quadlining but may do even more extensive training/torturing so your plant torturing expertise will be much appreciated down the line
There’s a slight risk of the stem “damping” off. Meaning: if the stems stays wet for too long, it may rot and kill the seedling. A small amount of water that dries quickly shouldn’t be a problem.
be following along brother
