Hello there! I’m a frequent lurker and occasional commenter who finally got the go-ahead to grow again. I did two grows in late 2020/early 2021 and then had to stop. After a long time waiting and buying some more seeds/equipment just to scratch the itch, I finally popped some seeds about 10 days ago and figured why not document things a bit.
My other grows were coco+perlite with GH nutrients. I used a customized feeding schedule from the cocoforcannabis website. It got good results, but I also was watering/fertigating twice daily throughout most of flower (I was using 2 and 3 gallon containers). Now, I have a small child and realistically won’t be able to follow that schedule again. I will need to be able to leave these plants unattended for long weekends and such occasionally. So this time I’m using Promix HP + Mycorrhizae for the longer moisture retention. I don’t care too much about yield since with the aforementioned little one I don’t consume too much, nor does any other member of my household. I would give some away to friends but they all live far away. In fact, I still have probably ~1.5 oz from my last grow since I had to abstain completely for a good chunk of my growing hiatus. It’s still pretty good and does the job, but I’m definitely looking forward to some fresh bud in a few months!
On the growing medium front, that brings up one question I have - does anyone have a feeding guide/schedule they like to use for Promix and liquid nutes? Preferably GH flora series + CaliMagic but anything close to that is helpful. I also sprung for the supplemental stuff (Armor Si, Diamond Nectar, KoolBloom) for the heck of it even though I know a lot of people skip them with good results. Just wondering if the CalMag needs, pH, or anything else would need to differ significantly from a coco schedule considering the Promix is already acidic and buffered with lime. Also, do you water to runoff in Promix or is that not needed?
This is getting long-winded so let me just quickly summarize the setup here then put up some photos.
Environment: 2x4 Gorilla tent. I sprung for this because it’s the tallest 2x4 I could find. My other grows I ran out of room for my light and filter since I had a cheap 2x4x5 tent. I have a basic vivosun inline fan and carbon filter.
Light: I have several grow lights. Right now the seedlings are under a cheap blurple bought off of amazon a few years ago for when we tried our hands starting vegetable seedlings indoors. I’m using it because my other lights are HLG Rspec and I wanted more blue for veg.
Genetics: You can sort of read the strain names in my photos. All of the reg seeds are from the Ethos Lilac Diesel multipack. This is my first time growing some regs which is exciting. The fems are Lemongrass from HSC, OG Kush and Sour Diesel from NASC white label, Mandarin Cookies V2 from Ethos, and Pineapple Chunk from Barney’s. Is it way too much for a 2x4? Probably, but I want variety, man! If I have to cull stuff or severely top, etc. that’s ok because yield is not my concern at all.
Medium/containers: mostly covered in the intro. I’m trying Promix. The final containers will be 4 yellow airpots (I think they’re about 2 gal), 2 orange airpots (smaller…like 1 gal maybe), then assorted 3 gal fabric pots. I know it’s a silly hodgepodge - future grows will be more uniform - probably just airpots once I acquire some more.
Here they are with light/flash on/off and different angles. I foolishly started some of them under two CFLs which caused a ton of stretch. Other than that they seem to be doing okay. A few of the LD crosses are starting to take off, but everything else has been pretty slow. It’s been cool-ish with low humidity which is starting to change this week.
Cheers, and thanks for reading!
… but that would be a “better to ask forgiveness than permission” sort of situation with my beloved haha.
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. Several issues with these lil guys. One, the squirrels love to go and eat the berries before they’re mature and we get a chance at them. Hence the hardware cloth/chicken wire. Second, one of the plants (there are 3 varieties here) is getting a lot of discoloration/spots on the leaves. Finally, bugs. I think they’re aphids? Got a pretty good shot of them here. If there are any strawberry farmers in the house with suggestions, I’m all ears!
