Issue #52 - Sunday, April 14, 2013 Dear Fellow Grower, In today's issue...
- You'll see an entire grow from beginning to end. This is a im4potatos first grow, and it turns out beautiful!
- Discover exactly what you need to get your grow started if you haven't already. Why wait when you can be harvesting in under 4 months?
- Witness a mouth-watering picture from one of our readers. Also, check out his handy/cheap way to dry buds!
Happy Growing!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." ―
Thomas Jefferson
With space to grow in the garage, I decided to build a grow box and try my hand at growing marijuana, even though I'd never grown anything before. In addition to learning grow skills, building my box was a big test of my carpentry skills, or lack of skills I guess I should say. I'd never built anything like this before. Planning My Grow Box
Build grow box out of plywood and 2x2s with 2 chambers so I can swap the plants between the chambers when it's time to flower. The dimensions of the box are 4'W x 2.5'D x 5'H.
You'll see how the box is divided into 3 sections. I want to put a vent in the ceiling of the bottom right section and a vent in the top of the wall in the left section so that both of them feed into that top part where my carbon filter will be. Choosing The Right Grow Light I was concerned about heat and light usage for my small space.
I looked at LEDs when I first started my research, but I kept reading things about them being kinda sketchy. A lot of people seemed to think they didn't live up to all the hype. I considered using T5 grow lights for both the vegetative and flowering stage (6400k bulbs for vegging and 2700k for flowering) because they produce such low heat. I was hesitant about using a T5 in flowering, though. Some growers seemed to be getting good results with them, yet I was worried that a T5 was not going to be intense enough to get good yields in the flowering stage.
I decided to go with a 400W HPS light with an air-cooled hood and exhaust fan for the flower chamber. It was hard to resist getting a bigger light, but I knew that a 600W was going to be too big/hot for my space. Final Setup Grow Lights - Vegetative: 6400k T5 Grow Light
- Flowering: 400W HPS with digital ballast and air-cooled hood
Grow medium - Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil
Nutrients Strain - Feminized Northern Lights (from Pyramid Seeds), ordered them from Attitude
(I probably wouldn't order seeds from this breeder again. The seeds ended up being an autoflowering strain even though it was advertised as being a photoperiod strain. It all ended up working out, but I would have been happier if I'd received the seeds I ordered.)
My First Grow In Pictures!
I started germinating my seeds in a shot glass.
I've got a pack of these pellets to start them in. I did a test run by putting a pellet in a cup of water, and damn do those things expand!
Here is what I ended up doing, I tried to cut out any extra steps and just put the pellets directly into the soil from the start.
I put bottles on top to help retain extra humidity (like a humidity dome).
I moved the plants into the flowering chamber with the 400W HPS grow light. At this point, I continued to keep them on a 18/6 light schedule, which should have kept them in the vegetative stage. I wanted to let the plants get a bit bigger before switching them to flowering. I did not yet realize that these were autoflowering plants.
Day 41 from seed - Full album: http://imgur.com/a/pnn6s
Today is also the first day I've tried to LST (low stress training). I know it's generally recommended to start LST earlier, but I was trying to avoid it on my first grow just to see how my yield would be with no training. I ended up LSTing one of the girls who was getting too tall.
I was surprised to see my plants start flowering (you can see a couple of flowers starting to appear in the picture above). I'd purchased non-autoflowering seeds. Guess I'll never order from that seed vendor(Attitude) again. At first I thought I was seeing pre-flowers, but I soon realized my plant was producing full-on flowers. Then I saw something even more scary, a hermie banana...
On the advice of others, I plucked this single banana and finished flowering my girls. This was the only hermie sac I saw throughout the grow, and I'm glad I ended up finishing the girls because I had a fantastic harvest.The plants in the grow box definitely smell at this point, but it only became noticeable to me within the last few weeks. Even now it's not too bad, and you would have to be in the same room as them to smell it.Day 63 from seed(below) - Full album:
http://imgur.com/a/9f5xFDay 84 from seed(below) - Day before harvest
I'm really happy with how they turned out. For my 2nd grow I'll have 4 plants instead of 3 and I'll be LSTing from the start. Also, I will finish my grow box by hooking up a fan to my hood (with a carbon filter), and I put mylar up on 2 of the remaining walls where I still need to cut some holes.
My light has only been running at 200W for a majority of the grow because the weather has been so hot and my ventilation sucks. I'll be really interested to see how much doubling the light, making all the other minor improvements, and avoiding all my previous mistakes will affect my yield. Day 85 - Harvest! I ended up having to go to a pet store and buying some activated carbon to control the smell of my drying buds. I knew it would smell, I just didn't think that much! Harvest Final Weight 5.35 oz!
Who Runs This Newsletter?
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Nebula Haze:Marijuana has literally saved my life, and I'm dedicated to showing you how easy it can be to grow.
I have made it my mission to build growing resources to help both new and advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money.
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Sirius Fourside:Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium(deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing cannabis is a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, perlite, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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Where Can I Buy Marijuana Seeds Safely? |
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How can I safely get marijuana seeds?
Now you have 2 real options...
- Use random bagseed that you find in your buds
- Buy seeds of specific marijuana strains online
Now if you want to pick the perfect strain for your needs, that's going to be hard with bagseed...
And if you're growing outdoors, it's even more important you find a strain that exactly suits your climate.
So...
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