Top of the day, afternoon or however this finds you AFN! Wound up here searching for a the 420method. This place seemed pretty chill with good information, I was encouraged to share so here I am.
A little about myself: Been growing plants indoors and outdoors for 5 or so years. Started with indoor cannabis in (checks notes
) March 2024, did lots of research ahead of time. Bought a used 3x3 with exhaust that I never used and Mars Hydro FCE 4800. Go the rest of what I needed pretty quickly for automation, except for AC and Heat. I grow in a un air conditioned basement that I can control the lung room. Sometimes I employ basic cheap heaters from the hardware store with integrated Thermostats/Resistors.
Always used autopots from day one with Cannabis. My current grow I have hand watered an organic BAS 3.0 soil autoflower to pretty good success so far. That has been my only hand watering past about day 15. So automation is my thing, I do it in any way possible (within my current budget) because I am lazy.
My first 2 grows I did not understand the importance of genetics and where/how to find them.
March 3rd - Start of Critical Auto 2.0
When I got the tent the guy gave me some seed supreme critical auto 2.0 seeds, so that is what I grew first in some HP promix with GH Trio. Harvested 81 days later, but apparently didn't record my total or lost it. From pictures looks like I pulled 2.9 ounces for the left and 2.3 ounces on the right plant. I didn't think it was that great, low potency, airy, but it tasted good. Harvested too early, did no training at all because I wanted to learn how the plant grew. Had vegetable plants in there with them and a bad fungus gnat problem (self inflicted by putting cut leaves as "mulch" some organic things shouldn't be done) that I tried to solve with diatomaceous earth. Oh and checking notes plants were overfed like 2.3 E.C right from the start, as high as 3.21 just what I believe now are probably stupidly high numbers. Right plant I also dumped a gallon of solution on it when it was like day 7ish accidental when hand watering and stunted it. I didn't run the air domes but did run the bases but I believe I still put perlite in the bottom of the 6.6 gal autopots.
See some pictures below hopefully semi chronological order of the whole grow:
Anyways, that's as much as I care to write for tonight or about that first grow. May come back in a day or two and try to sum up another grow or two with some pictures for my own documentation & edification.
A little about myself: Been growing plants indoors and outdoors for 5 or so years. Started with indoor cannabis in (checks notes
) March 2024, did lots of research ahead of time. Bought a used 3x3 with exhaust that I never used and Mars Hydro FCE 4800. Go the rest of what I needed pretty quickly for automation, except for AC and Heat. I grow in a un air conditioned basement that I can control the lung room. Sometimes I employ basic cheap heaters from the hardware store with integrated Thermostats/Resistors.Always used autopots from day one with Cannabis. My current grow I have hand watered an organic BAS 3.0 soil autoflower to pretty good success so far. That has been my only hand watering past about day 15. So automation is my thing, I do it in any way possible (within my current budget) because I am lazy.
My first 2 grows I did not understand the importance of genetics and where/how to find them.
March 3rd - Start of Critical Auto 2.0
When I got the tent the guy gave me some seed supreme critical auto 2.0 seeds, so that is what I grew first in some HP promix with GH Trio. Harvested 81 days later, but apparently didn't record my total or lost it. From pictures looks like I pulled 2.9 ounces for the left and 2.3 ounces on the right plant. I didn't think it was that great, low potency, airy, but it tasted good. Harvested too early, did no training at all because I wanted to learn how the plant grew. Had vegetable plants in there with them and a bad fungus gnat problem (self inflicted by putting cut leaves as "mulch" some organic things shouldn't be done) that I tried to solve with diatomaceous earth. Oh and checking notes plants were overfed like 2.3 E.C right from the start, as high as 3.21 just what I believe now are probably stupidly high numbers. Right plant I also dumped a gallon of solution on it when it was like day 7ish accidental when hand watering and stunted it. I didn't run the air domes but did run the bases but I believe I still put perlite in the bottom of the 6.6 gal autopots.
See some pictures below hopefully semi chronological order of the whole grow:
Anyways, that's as much as I care to write for tonight or about that first grow. May come back in a day or two and try to sum up another grow or two with some pictures for my own documentation & edification.
