New Grower First Grow Feminized Blue Mystic AF

[pyewacket]

Hello folks, I am about as new as they come to growing. It was suggested that I start a grow journal. I hope this is the right place...Here it goes:

I had to build a smaller closet within our closet in our bedroom. The bedroom is the coolest room in the house, and we needed a secure spot for the grow. Built a wall and installed an outswinging lockable door.


The inside of the room is roughly 5.5feet by 34inches. The actual growing area is 34inchesX40inches. All painted flat white.


I built a germination box with its own CFL lights to take the seeds through seedling stage. The box is on the top self and it seals up rather well. I also have a 50cfm inline fan pulling cool air from the outside, through the box and down below to contribute to the fresh air needed for the HPS grow area. I use a humidity hood inside that box so the climate is correct for the seedlings.


I have installed a 160CFM inline fan that connects to my stemups (vents to above roofline) in the attic. The fan is crazy quiet and keeps the room 3-4degrees warmer than the bedroom; the remote ballast helps in this regard. I have an additional passive intake vent kitty corner bottom of wall. I also have a 12inch oscillating fan pushing the heat upwards toward the ceiling vent.


The main growing lights is a 400w HPS with an external ballast. I am using a soil that is sold here in the pacific NW Natural organic Black Gold (http://www.blackgold.bz/natural-and-organic-potting-soil/). I germinated in peat moss plugs with the humidity hood, and was lucky to get 100%germination. My plants have been moved to the HPS, they are just over 2weeks old now. I have used 1/4 strength Veg nutes for the first time today. Since I am no expert I can't be certain, but I think they are doing ok:

Northern Lights Regular


Blue Mystic AF 1



Blue Mystic AF 2



Blue Mystic AF 3



Any input/criticisms would be awesome...thanks!

 

[fatcalvin]

looking good to me so far. just Be careful with the nutes so early. I was also looking at that soil. Its pretty organic right? containing mostly cow poop? Or maybe im thinking of a different one. LOL. anyways keep up the good work!

Edit. just looked at the link you posted and it wasnt what i was thinking it was. But you should be OK with the nutes because that soil has pretty much nothing in it. LOL

 

[pyewacket]

Thanks for the reply. That was my thought process...I went back and forth with it and decided to go for it.

 

[Eflow420]

Looks good welcome to the farm

 

[The Squid]

Looking good, dude! Slick setup. Feel free to ask questions and hit me up personally if you need anything.

 

[pyewacket]

Looking good, dude! Slick setup. Feel free to ask questions and hit me up personally if you need anything.

so awesome, thanks

 

[pyewacket]

***Day 24 since sprouting***

Well, so far so good. Only a couple peculiar things have a happened up to this point. One of the AFs decided to upturn the edges of a couple leaves. None of the other plants showed signs of this. I did move the fan back a bit and she looks fine now. I am doing the typical feeding schedule of feeding every other watering; working out fine ***fingers crossed.

All the plants are stilll receiving veg nutes. I think I will switch over the AFs to bloom nutes next week -- Too soon?
....here are some pics with Northern Lights regular the first picture.

 

[pyewacket]

Moving on to phase two of the project. Fermentation CO2 generator. Simple system, as it appears that plenty of folks have tried similar methods. The photos below are Two 7gallon primary fermentors (water storage containers) that will be fermenting a simple sugar wash. 10lbs of sugar, bakers yeast (regular action), and tomato paste. The room these will be in is cool, approx 70degrees F. The idea is to prolong the fermentation to 2weeks. I will be cutting back on the tomato paste as well, in efforts to further slow the CO2 production. Once the two week fermentation has passed, I will collect the wash and distill it. I will save the distillate and immediately replace the fermentors with a new sugar wash. I will do this for a total of 3 times/ up to 6 weeks of CO2 production. Once I have done that, and finished all three primary distillations....I would have collected roughly 11-12 gallons of 40% Ethanol and re-run all of it through the reflux still a final time. I should collect 3 gallons of VERY clean ethanol at 95% ABV.

Each batch will cost 12 dollars + some in electricty/water to distill. But will net me the benefit of the CO2 production plus 3 gallons of very pure ethanol. I plan to use this to make an ethanol based THC oil. This ethanol production will be virtually free of methanol and will have Zero sugar that is added when they bottle Everclear.

I do realize this is more of an experiment as such. And with such a small grow, it would not be worth the effort. However, I will make very good use of the Ethanol.


Two primary fermentors with airlock in the middle
Small 1/4 nipple from homedepot. Couple bucks, makes a good seal.
Airlock Mason jar with two copper stem downs (soldered in place) from each fermentor to be immersed in water. Easily able to monitor the CO2 production. The center tube will make its way to my vent intake, where air and CO2 will be drawn in from my circulation system within my grow room.


I will install this tomorrow or Sunday. I will snap another photo of it producing CO2.

 

[Musturd]

Remember co2 sinks so you want to disperse it above your grow, best to turn circulation off if you want effective co2.

Everything looks very good, :thumbs: I started with a few BM also.

Grow/Learn

 

[peacebrother]

Why not just make wine wine and weed