Indoor 3 Auto Critical Mass big buddha seeds 3 Auto White Widow dinafem

[manels1111]

First off Hi to everyone,

Well after a 5 year hiatus I'm back in a state that will allow me to grow again. My previous grows were Lowryder #2 about 5 years ago. Which turned out pretty dang good pretty good a few years back. My old forum is pretty much a ghost town it seems so I'm going to post my new grow here.

Here is a couple links to my old grows.

My lowryder #2 Fourth Grow 2009

My lowryder #2 Grow 2008

First off I ordered seeds from http://www.lowryder.co.uk/

I received them in exactly 7 days very discrete, they also gave me extra normal flower seeds OG kush and stack skunk I think it was called. I ordered 10 regular lowryder #2, 10 feminized auto critical mass, and 5 feminized white widow.

For this grow I'm starting fresh with a closet grow as I'm in an apartment. I'm starting 3 critical mass and 3 white widow seeds dropped in hydrofarm seed starters.

Here is my list of items I ordered off amazon.

Water Filter $316
HydroGardener Garden and Hydroponic Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System----this system removes 98% of contaminates and then reintroduces 15 to 30ppm of calcium magnesium



Light $198

iPower Digital Dimmable Grow Light System for Plants---600 watt super HPS hortilife bulb with 6 inch vented hood comes with a dim-able ballast

Inline Fan $182

Vortex S-Line Ultra Quiet Fan 6" 347 CFM---Super quiet inline fan.

Electric speed controller for fan $23

Aluminum Ducting $23

Dundas Jafine AF625ULPZW Aluminum Foil UL Listed and Marked Duct, 6-Inches by 25-Feet

Grow Tent $92

Lighthouse Hydro Hydroponics Grow Tent, 36 by 20 by 60-Inch

Small tent but it fits my requirements.

TDS or PPM tester $16

HM Digital TDS-EZ Water Quality TDS Tester, 0-9990 ppm Measurement Range , 1 ppm Resolution, +/- 3% Readout Accuracy

Electrical PH tester $17

Etekcity® 0.1 pH High Accuracy Pocket Size pH Meter

Temp/Humidity meter $10

COCO LCD Alarm Clock / Calendar / Thermometer / Humidity


Rough total about $857 dollars. I still need to buy 3 gal soil bags and fox farm ocean forest soil along with nutes. I plan on 18 hours of light and 6 dark. I plan on using fox farm nutes but not quite sure yet on when I'm going to start yet going to play it by ear I think.

Today is Day 2 since I dropped seeds in starters

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[manels1111]

Day 3

Day 3 since I dropped seeds in starter cubes. 3 seeds are just starting to pop soil hopefully 3 more pop tomorrow. My tent, water filter, and light came in. The water filter was super easy to hook to my surprise. Below are some pics of my tent, seeds, and filter hooked up in bathroom. I'm suppose to be getting the rest of my equipment tomorrow. Fan, tds, ph meter etc. I will report back on how the water filter is doing when I get those items. I hopefully will be transplanting these seedlings tomorrow into 5 gallon bags fox farm ocean forest soil, under 50% 600w hps light for a couple days.

 

[manels1111]

Just a little update did a little digging around looks like all 6 seeds have sprouted at least so pending me leaving them alone I should have all 6 rocking.

 

[Pistils]

Nice set up - looking forward to this one.

 

[manels1111]

Well for anyone interested I got my tds meter today. Tested my water filter its clean water output was at 48ppm and thats after it remineralizes 15 to 30ppm of calcium magnesium. The regular tap water I'm using sits around 260ppm city water. The filter waste water was 450ppm. It doesn't seem to change the ph of my water as it was 8.2ph across the board on all 3 water samples. I think this is going to work out well as fox farm nutes bring ph down but I will really have to watch it.

Bad news though I'm leaving out of town for 4 days tomorrow and my 600w hps hood touches the sides of my grow tent especially with the fan on as it appears to suck the tent inward. I'm so paronoid about fire with the system running before I can properly test it here for a couple weeks with me here. I'm thinking I"m going to have to start over when I get back. I wouldn't be able to sleep while I'm gone, I'd be worried like crazy. Unless I can figure a short term solution I'm going to have to start over when I get back