High everyone. I’ve been gr4owing for 15 years with varied success. Hoping to start a company when my state finally legalizes. I have branding figured out and a decent plan and will most likely be looking for venture capital to help.
Anyway, I’ve started out in soil using Fox Farms soil and nutes. I didn’t go all in on every bottle they sell, just the Base Trio and the powdered additvies. Got some great plants for a while then, as noobs do, started overfeeding and screwing things up. So I switched to coco. I did a lot of research and the nute line came down either Advanced Nutrients and Canna. Did a side by side with both systems and AN won hands down. I had read a comparison between several different bute lines and in that comparison the AN Sensi line (pre pH perfect) had grown the healthiest roots. Earth Juice had the best tasting buds in that test. Anyway, had some great success using the AN Sensi line, ph’ing to 6.0-6.1 and only using the hobbyist bundle. I was getting 6-8 ounces per plant in 3 gallon containers. life was good. Then I moved to a different state and An changed their formulation and everything went to shit. I haven’t gotten those numbers since. I started a thread about it so I won’t harp on it in this one.
For lights I run a 4 foot cool tube, mounted vertically with a 1K Hortiluxe Eye Super HPS in each end. This allows me to grow bigger plants and harvest bud from top cola to almost the level of the substrate. It works very well. I also run a horizontal COB LED from BC Blondes. Good light and I got a great deal on it when they were phasing these out for their game changer light. So basically I’m running 3K watts in flower. The room is cooled by an 18K BTU mini split AC.
Veg room is run on 8 bulb, 4 foot T5’s with an Apollo 8 LED, and Mar Hydro LED and a 1K watt MH light fixture. T=Plants start under the T5’s, thekprogress through the lEd’s then finish vegging under the MH.
Current Mom’s:
Double Strawberry Diesel - original Reservoir seed stock. such a delicious strain.
Hippy Slayer - Bodhi Seeds phenotype. One of 2 strains i have ever had that actually cuts through acid. So amazing
1991 Virginia Skunk - Jaws Genetics
Blue Sunshine - Blue Dream x Sunshine Daydream by Bodhi
C99 - Grail cut x original Brothers Grimm C99 F4 male.
Blackberry Kush - clone only i got from a trusted friend in Oregon
Wedding Cake - this clone was passed to me by a trusted grower and friend.
iCookies - not sure if this is a phenotype of GSC or a cross but damn it’s great smoke.
1988 G13Hashplant - got some 15 year old beans to pop. Currently have 3 babies, praying for a male and a female.
also have 2 one gallon freezer bags literally packed full of seeds of all different genetics. Some in original breeder packs, some in bags that were made by friends and passed along.
got lots to play with, just gotta get to grow up to snuff.
thanks for letting me come aboard.
