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  1. So the other day I did my first pop directly to soil as it was an auto. It eventually came right after some surgery (kept going in circles). Then the cat destroyed it while digging in my pot.

    Needless to say, that one I got worried and dug it up a few times. Might of just been a bad seed, but point being I think to wait. I now popped another auto, didn't mess with it, and within 3-4 days its head was sticking out. I think as long as you are giving it the moisture and warmth it needs and planting at the right depth, you should be good. I also found, as mentioned, that with the temps right now, a heating pad under helps.

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  2. 59 minutes ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

    Yeah man I agree, the tent is also actually not the best for a grow room, for many of us it's the best option, but a solid wall with the right reflective would be muuuch better than a tent anyway.

    Clones are super easy, but it's definitly a trial and error process and each person has their preferred method, it's just a matter of finding what works for you!

    I am excited for some gorilla glue, I've heard some good things. Will definitly put a few in the shopping cart on my next order!! How did your lady turn out so far, any photos?

    Haha agreed. Would love to extend my garage forward to have a double volume.Then I would park in front and do a full garage set-up. Even if I don't use all  the space, would be lekker to have a proper room for it.

    That seems to be the general consensus that they are not too difficult  to do. But i'll advance slowly 😂 Just want to get a proper indoor grow and harvest done as step 1 😋

    Ah man, Gorilla Glue is one of my favourites. Really great night time smoke to chill and then sleep nicely, or take a little less and Saturday afternoon kind of vibe :-puffin

    Have my 2 ladies going as well as a third one (auto) that I added last week, although the roots on that one have been going in circles. I did a bit of surgery last night to try help it,  will see if it survives and pops up. I am logging the 2 ladies on an external site here. Third one is not logged yet as it has not popped out yet:

    https://growdiaries.com/diaries/61754-bubbleberry-totemic-genetics-grow-journal-by-live-canna
    https://growdiaries.com/diaries/61752-bubba-kush-totemic-grow-journal-by-live-canna

    Not sure if that is frowned upon here (posting links like that)...been on some "serious" forums where they would complain to ANY competition or sites etc.. 😁 Just can't log my stuff everywhere  🙂 But pics and details there. I updated the start of week 2 yesterday. I count from when the buggers show their head/leaves out the soil 😛 

  3. On 5/17/2020 at 5:32 PM, Stinger96 said:

    Well done on that mainlining... :-greenthumb

    Yeah gee whizz, plant looks almost perfectly trained there. Definitely going to try my hand at this at some point.

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  4. On 5/16/2020 at 5:31 PM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

    Nice man that's very exciting hahah I just saw your thread on the DIY build and first grow! Will be following for sure! I am trying a little DIY build myself, got some wood that was laying around, might get a frame out of that. Wana start popping seeds and cloning and wana do that in a seperate setup.

    Nice, sounds good 🙂 Yeah, I wanted to put funds into the more important things IMO like a good PH meter, light, extraction, soil etc. The tent for me, would be awesome, but for the first few grows is not critical.

    I also want to maybe try my hand at the clones, but I have a Gorilla Glue Photo that I may try that with later this year..but I will see how these 2 photos go and take it from there.

  5. Welcome to the growers club! I am also relatively new and had some last minute lack luster attempts outside before the weather changed.

     

    One of the biggest things I have learnt so far, is that yes you can get lucky without the right stuff, but having the right stuff makes it a lot easier. 
     

    Things like the right soil and pots and a good idea of how this all works will get you a long way already. I would start by searching the forum and hitting up a couple google searches. That will get all the basics down as there are many sites that offer grow guides.

     

    Most of the basic stuff is easy to learn and there is plenty of reading and I’m sure even more people willing to help here.

     

    For me, I decided to go organic, get good soil, organic nutes and keep things simple. But there’s all sorts you can do. I had some stunted plants in the beginning and it really just taught me a lot.

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  6. So....some updates 😀

    I have been battling a bit with warmth,  the 2 heating pads were not enough and I was getting worried as I was getting below 15C.  My dark period is now 12PM to 6PM to help with that. I also added a heater, checked that it is not going to burn anything and it now runs for 10mins then off for 20min. And repeats that cycle all day. Raises the "day" time/light on temp to around 23-25C and night time/light off will then obviously drop a little, but not too much.

    I just need to get another switch, so I can make it turn off for the 6 hours of lights off as it is a bar heater so the light will obviously disrupt it. I had 2 x 25w bulbs, but they only raised the temp a bit.

    I also automated the  exhaust which runs for 5mins every hour. I'll probably increase this come end of veg/flower, but for now the thing is super powerful, so running all the time will just drop the temps too much. I added the ducting for exhaust as well as passive intake with a piece of filter cloth in front.

    Having the temp and humidity sensor is nice, now I can monitor it remotely. So thanks to @Prom for the suggestion of automation. I went with the Sonoff switches for ease of use.

    I also hung the fan off the stand and on the frame now. That way the humidifier can go underneath.  This 1. Saves space, and 2. when the fan drips water, its not on the fan buttons, but on the humidifier. So much safer.

     

    My 2 photos are slowly coming along, and I popped an additional auto. Hoping the auto will be done by the time the other 2 start taking up more space, but lets see.
    The heater is on a ratchet now too (as well as the light) so I will move those as the plants grow.

    See the pics 😎

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  7. On 5/15/2020 at 10:30 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

    Thanks my dudes, this is my first proper (still to upgrade everything anyway) indoor setup and only my 3rd grow in it, still learning more than anything else. Actually made a few rookie mistakes with this grow that made me feel like an idiot, but I really do appreciate the compliments! 

    I love a variety, although I've smoked a bud before and said that I wouldn't mind if all the weed I ever smoked was that bud, but I'm sure even if that was true it would become tasteless and boring after a while.

    @Live Canna what seeds did you pop?

    Nice, so you are kind of in the same boat as me, just I am on my first grow.  Also still learning a lot.

    I popped a bubba kush and bubbleberry. The Bubba Kush is taking a little longer but finally stuck its head out yesterday. The Bubbleberry already did on Tuesday I think. Looked a little weak, but I let it dry a bit as it was wet from the germination bit, and its starting to look good. I already transplanted it to a small pot. The other I have yet to transplant.

    Then last night I decided to pop one more, Original Orange Bud, an auto. Straight in a 20l pot, no jiffy pellet. So lets see. Been trying to get the environment ironed out this week. Will update my other post just now about that and the changes.

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  8. 5 hours ago, PsyCLown said:

    I reckon it could be either, could be a once off mutation or a mutation which has been bred into this strain (either on purpose or by mistake / luck).

    Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk
     

    I imagine so too. When I searched for it, they say when you have really good growth/excessive growth it can happen to. Very cool.

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  9. 33 minutes ago, Prom said:

    if you are on a budget.. Arduino.. you need a temp/ humidity sensor, the arduino board and the relays.. and you can very easy switch things on and off. This time wise setup is not where you want to end up with. You can also buy those temp humidity units as finished product.. but arduino has its perks for more possibilities and automate way more inside your tent.

    You find online some DIY gas burner setup for small tents. Just don't blow up your spot 😁

    Thats actually a good idea thanks. I have seen the off the shelf units, but they can get pricey. I think Arduino would be a longer term approach. For now I just have a digi timer on the light and fan. Will do the same with exhaust for now and then work on the temp and humidity controls.

  10. 44 minutes ago, SkunkPharm said:

    That looks good. I use basically the same setup for my first 2 grows. Way back in 2016. What I have learnt from that experience was to use panda plastic as a reflector and build a square frame at the top of the tent for an extraction fan. Ise ir dont use it. This will suffice though.

    Thanks man 🙂 I will look for the panda plastic, but I think this will probably do me for the next year/few grows or less and then I will invest in a proper tent, which at that point will then help and make things easier.

    Haha so prepping the extraction for the fan was actually something I was going to busy myself with today. I was thinking of putting a piece of wood. Holes at the ends to cable tie tight to the frame, and then fan goes in with ducting. Simple and effective for now.

    41 minutes ago, Prom said:

    👍 rather nice to watch.. you put your head really into your project. 

    Don't invest to much in electric heating. It costs energy for the small effect it has. I saw pictures of hemp plants covered in snow. The seeds and youngsters hate cold.. the older ones can handle. But not that you want them cold.. my point is, if you have to heat, use gas and turn the heat into CO2 at the same time. Your lamp generates heat. You do not have to constantly suck air and heat out of your tent. I use it more for moisture regulation. As long as it is not getting to moist, you can just leave the inside circulation running. If you run a gas heater inside the tent, you will add moisture too.. but will never run short on CO2.. no CO2 no growing, is the essential component plants get their carbon from.

    When you prepare your tent for the next grow, a sulfur burner gets is very easy cleaned up of any lurking fungi.

    Thanks! I did try 🙂 Was trying to balance cost and time, else it just ends up being more worthwhile buying a tent. So I could of made it neater/cleaner, but I think for the purpose it will do.

    Thanks re the temp advice. I also read saying they manage alright with cold, but I didn't know they would manage that much 🙂 I have a small gas heater, but even that is too big and would burn anything in there. The pad I am using draws 9w and I think is simple enough for now. Cost was R89 plus a plug, so I am not too concerned there. I have read about tube heaters being efficient and good. Not sure we have that here though? Or we call it something different.

    Thanks, good to know I do not need to suck constantly. As the fan is not a proper inline anyway. So not meant to run 24/7. I will do something like 1 hour on 2 hours off or similar. 

    Thanks I will look at the sulphur option also.

  11. Here is what the inside looks like today.

    Bought a cheap bucket to invert and put the plant on (have a piece of wood there too). This will insulate it a bit from the cold concrete floor.

    Towel has the heating pad in it. And you can see the temp probes for under the tray as well as in the soil. And then a third one which just sits there for the general air temp. You can also se the chain here and how I hung the light + how easy it is to adjust.

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  12. Hey all,

    So I was going to wait till my stuff arrived, but I figured I may as well show my grow tent build and then I can update about the first grow later on.

    I have a bunch of stuff that should hopefully be delivered within the next week so I can start my new grow (Pots, PH meter, soil, seeds, extractor etc). I bought 2 fem seeds earlier in the year and tried with that and some bag seed. But it was just too late to be starting in the season AND I was plagued with issues. But I have learnt a lot and have read even more and I hope that will pave the way to a great grow now. I am also moving indoor hence the thread 🙂

    My next seed order contains some auto's and some photo's. I am going to be starting with 2 critical autos from different seed banks. I want to run a few autos to try out some stuff and see the results. Anyways...to the tent!

     

    As I was trying to get this grow up and going with the "least" cost but still a good build, I decided not to buy a tent, and rather allocate that money to lights etc.

    This is the dedicated grow area. 80cm x 90cm x 200cm (but I could go higher). Its in a garage, so hanging the light should be easy.

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    I decided to use 20mm conduit as I really only needed enough strength to hang the material around the tent. The light I am hanging from the roof. Even if I did want to hang the light in the tent, I think with a bit more roof structure it would manage the +- 3kg LED easily.

    Here I started on the first flat frame (for the front or back) and am checking the width fits in.

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    Lots of 90 corners and t pieces

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    Frame upright now (back)

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    First support beam in. Sadly I didn't realize that the 90 corner and the T piece don't extend the same length. So when I cut the same width for top middle and bottom, the middle pulled in a little more. Its fine for now, will maybe replace eventually or just upgrade to a proper tent. So here you can see it pulling in, in the middle.

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    Front frame and back

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    Structure now joined front and back. 

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    I ended up adding another support which made it nice and rigid.

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    I was resourceful and used "space" blankets AKA rescue blankets. 3 of them got me about 90% covered around.

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    Completely covered. Little gap in front where I will be checking in.

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    Top view down

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    I then rolled out black painting sheeting, the stuff you get at builders to cover the floor when painting. Basically big trash bags. I covered all sides and then did an inset to the bottom as well as a roof that flaps over everything.

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    Finished product, you can see my spot on top where I will connect the light. I ended up using only one of those and hanging an old small chain I had from it as the light has a cradle and single point to hang from. The chain is awesome, because with the carabiner, I can adjust the height quite easily.

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    This doesn't cover the light getting in 100% but probably in the 90% region. As it is in a garage, I do not need to worry too much about light getting in. Currently I am also on a 12/12 flower cycle with it being on 6AM - 6PM. So even if there was outside light, it wouldn't;'t be much. I am considering reversing this on the next grow to get the light on at night and warm the tent ever so slightly for being an LED. But for now, this is where it is at.

    Tent finished and testing the 3 light modes (veg, veg+bloom, bloom). 

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    I hung the light from the open roof rafters in the garage so that worked out nicely. Outdoor plant finishing off flower in there. Sadly this was one of the learning curve plants. Week 5 flower and almost nothing on there. But this one was bag seed and as mentioned, the one to learn on.

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    I am running a fan on #1 inside to get some light air circulation. I have a 150mm exhaust fan on order with ducting. So for now I am planning to pull air out the top of the tent, and passively let fresh air pull in from the bottom. As it is in the garage, I am not sure how fresh this air will be. Eventually I will have a second fan to push fresh air in. For now, if I have enough ducting, I may connect the ducting to the outside, so hopefully it pulls fresh air passively, else I will just let it pull air passively without the duct, from the garage "air". My garage is clean and not an oil filled smelling one, so no real worries there.

    I also worked out the air exchange for my cubic metres and I should have no issues there. I have also got a small 9w heating pad that I am using the keep the plant a bit warmer at night. Day temps at the moment are around 25 C. At night this is dropping to sub 15 C with winter approaching. The heating pad keeps the underside by the tray around 38C (I have one temp probe there) and the roots are around 20-22C from what I can tell (another temp 60% into the medium/soil). So as far as I understand it, as long as the roots are warm, the rest should be also. By the time summer comes, my air exchange will need to be good as the garage gets hot. But we will see. Also worried that at this point the 150mm fan will be too much and cause too much cooling. But I am not planning on running air exchange at night. Not sure if that is good, or if I should have air exchange when the light is not on? If I do need it, then I will set it up with a timer to run like 15min every hour or something.

    Oh and the most important bit, building this tent came in at under R450. Hence me wanting to do this, because as a first indoor grow, this should do compared to a 1500-2500 tent.

    Next steps >>>> Once all my stuff arrives, 2 x 40l pots are going in with the 2 different Critical Auto's. I will toss the current plant out then and give the tent a good bleach down clean. I have some powdery mildew on this plant, so want to avoid that hanging around.

     

     

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  13. 56 minutes ago, Prom said:

    Sounds like a plan ^^ wish you in any case loads of fun and little frustration 😄

    Awesome thanks man! I hope so too 🙂 Once I have navigated this forum a bit better and started my grow I will get some updates up.

  14. 1 hour ago, Prom said:

    Looking good.. hope you know what you are getting yourself into 😁 everybody tells you how "addictive" weed is when smoking it.. nobody warns you that growing the stuff is the really addictive part of the plant.

    flower distance.. 30-40cm.. your light looks to far away from the plant in the picture. And 👍 for the ventilation ^^ is enough. would put more plants in.. loads of unused light space 😋

    Thanks Prom! I have already seen how addictive it is 😄 The growing part that is, as you say 😛😄 

    So I did adjust in that pic to 40cm already, but have also been thinking to go a bit closer. Thanks re the ventilation. So fan in there is for movement. Front closes of course when I am not taking pics. And then I have ordered an exhaust fan to pull air out and passively fresh air in for now.

    Plant/space wise. 100% 🙂 so that plant there is just my last ditch end of season one. I have 2x 40litre pots on their way which is going to fill the space. Will start with 2 and then maybe go with a 3rd pot. Depending on how I am getting the canopy covered. Floor space is 80x90cm. So with the 40 litre pot being 30 or 35cm, 2 -3 pots should fit nicely.

  15. Hi All!

    Been trolling for a few days. Found the forum one night while I was on a higher path going down the internet wormhole 💭😃

    Really like all the extensive knowledge here. I have been using cannabis for years and years, but really only on the odd occasions. Until more recently at-least 🙂 Loving all the hype about it and how the medicinal side is coming out a lot more.

    I tried a couple very late grows (Jan and Feb) and they didn't really work out, but I learnt a lot. Have 2 tiny outdoors left that have the tiniest amount of flower growing. And then a final 3rd plant which seems stunted due to lack of nutes and thus is not growing much bud. 

    I built my own indoor set-up in the last 2 weeks and have my 3rd plant in there for now while I am figuring out temps etc.

    Have a bunch of stuff I am waiting for that is being delivered. Should kick off my first proper grow with the right knowledge now and my indoor set-up. Really looking forward to that and learning more here!

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