White Widow x AK47 & Afghan Kush [1st grow] - Mr. GER

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I'd been meaning to document my grow and have started a grow journal in my own capacity.

Thought it would be cool to share my experiences here and hopefully get some valuable knowledge from the FAR more experienced growers here on rollitup. I am a complete noob when it comes to indoor growing and would love all the input I can get! [I have grown an outdoor guerilla grow, but the worries involved with that are quite a world different].

Plants:

  • 2 - white widow x ak47 feminised
  • 2 - afghan kush feminised

Medium / Nutrients:

  • Promix
  • Organic nutrients. Got quite a selection. will go into more detail of this as it becomes applicable.

Container:

  • 4 x 10l (2.6gallon) freedom pots (my countries equivalent of smart pots)


Grow Environment

  • 1.2m x 0.9m cupboard (extended)
  • reflection: sisalation
  • outtake fans: 4 x 120mm pcfans.
  • intake fans: 4 x 120mm pc fans
  • interior: 2-3 PC fans.
  • humidity: basic humidifier & moist towel
  • Will be getting a temperature / humidity test ASAP.
Lights:
  • 5 x 23w (cool) CFL for initial veg stages [will build it up to 160w]
  • 1 x 160w (daylight) CFL
  • 1 x 250w (daylight) CFL
  • 2 x 250w (red) CFL
I use CFL's and with the amount I have you might ask why I didn't just get LED /mH. Well I bought these slowly over the years, so with a bit of hindsight I probably should have, but you cant have too much light now can you! Also I don't like metalhalide / hps because of the heat.

I am using an old oven grid and fixed the ballasts of the CFL to the grid. The grid is there attached to pulleys that I bought from a hydroponics shop. Together they can hold 100kg - so im confident it will be enough.
The pulleys are attached via metal fisheyes (bolted - not screwed) to the roof of the grow box (wooden plyboard that seperated the different levels of my cupboard - before i converted it into a grow box)

Germination:

I put the seeds in spring water for 24h then into paper towels untill the root is long enough for planting.
I started the white widows last week thursday, and the afghans yesterday.
The WW are already planted in the promix and the afghans will be removed from the water and put into their paper towels tonight.

Watering:

I have been using spring water with a pH of 6.2 for germination.
When the seeds are in the promix I am dropping the pH of the water to roughly 5 so that the run off is around 7 (quite high, still working on this and tips would be appreciated - this is what my other post is about if you guys want to check it out).
I am currently using a pH pen of my friends. He started growing his WW x AK seeds at the same time as me, so we are growing "together" as moral support - both first time indoor growers.

Pictures:

Will post pictures later today of the little babies popping out the soil, but nothing too much too see at the moment.
Will show pictures of my entire set up when I have the chance.

Please feel free to leave my some tips and ideas, I am open to suggestions!

Thanks,
MR GER!
 
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