So I finally held my “promise” to test out something more properly in the “Jungle-woofer”…
("Jungle-woofer" = super-stealthy hifi-speaker growbox)
-Howdy to anyone here who followed that thread!
…and though I could’ve, and in many ways should’ve, done the grow with a normal indoor bred photoperiodic strain to really test the speaker box, I just had to instead choose the Finnish autoflowering hemp strain Finola. Just this summer they released the info on its CBD-properties. www.finola.fi/cbd …and seems it can be even 15% and above…(!) -Mostly it is (still) of course just outdoor field-grown for edible seed/oil. It’s the very same strain that tens of thousands of hectares in Canada are full of, and very possibly the basis of many high cbd autoflowering strains too. It was released already in 1995, accepted 2 years after that in Canada and first in 2003 in it’s native country Finland. Read the breeder was almost kicked out of the country back then, even it it was all done properly in an university… and soon enough he’ll probably be regarded a hero even by the government. Times sure do change, even if way too slow…
Anyway, this version of the jungle-woofer is a bit larger, but not much, than the last one. The inside dimensions are (in metric) 25 (d) x 31,5 (w) x 48 (h) cm. Minus what height the lamp takes away.
So, these high-CBD autoflowering seeds come CHEAPO! Like a bag of thousands for half the price of 1 “normal” high-cbd strain seed… Of course, not feminized and only maybe 1/10 of the seeds are really “grow-worthy”. (Like dark, big, striped etc…). Anyway, they’re widely available in health food stores in Canada, both organic ones and regularfor sure, if anyone should fancy a go… Outdoors they behave just like all other pure autoflowers.
Unfortunately this grow was far from perfect. So many things went wrong, though not bad enough to have to end it. And it was research, both for the speaker box as well as for this strain. I wasn’t expecting anything really, just did my best, which almost seems like my worst. I do have better grows under my belt, so I just had to laugh at it in the end, and try to learn something of it.
Would I grow Finola indoors again? YES, but not in a box this small… Next time a photoperiodic strain for sure!
The speaker is otherways completely the same design as the “original” one, only a bit larger and the lamp is different and stronger, 30w instead of 20, and has cooling fins also. It’s a good quality but “cheap” normal small floodlight from a hardware store. Driverless and ip54 as they are, and very sturdy. CRI above 70. 4500K. Cree. I tried it before over some seedlings for a few weeks, and seems 20cm distance is quite optimal, they didn’t stretch any extra at all and were really healthy, bushy and good side branching and all. 10cm seems kinda minimum but the leaves/tips don’t really burn for a few days even if they grow all the way up and touch the glass, which is a bit weird as the whole plant definitely suffered from light stress this time, badly (but probably mostly because I had a 50watter scorching her in there the first few weeks after she moved into the speaker… that was a mistake. ). So i’m still not sure about it. Would make the pot only half the height next time so there is more vertical space for growth, and just see to it that the plant never is closer than 10cm from the glass.
In the beginning weeks I had a 50w floodlight inside the speaker, and that scorched her pretty bad… Have no photos of that as the camera i used back then broke, memory card and all. Had a lot of good new photos of the construction of this speaker as well, they also went up in smoke…
I also overwatered a lot and overfed and underfed, I don’t even know. This grow I am not very proud of, I must say… …but I’m glad Miss Foxtail survived at all. Temps were basically good in there, but Finola is a completely outdoor bred strain through all these years since 1995, so I think she just got a bit too much of the good indoor stuff… poor thing. Oh yes, she also split her main stem …but recovered quite well after some wiring-up, I think…