My first grow

I have never grown anything in my life.  I thought it would be cool to try grow some personal medical marijuana.     I had a lot of nutrient lock out and PH problems at the beginning of the grow but was able to work them out before flowering.

Strawberry bubblegum ( strawberry cough x bubblegum kush)  50% sativa 50 % indica.
Progressive Options Clone.  Pogenetics.com
 
2x4 grow tent

Lumatek 400 digital ballast

Hydrofarm 6" cool tube reflector

4" inline fan and carbon filter

Fan speed controller

Fox farm nutrients.  Grow, big bloom, and tiger bloom. 

sea weed extract

coco coir brick

3 gallon grow bags

When I first started the grow I wasn't expecting to much. This was my first grow and I knew I was going to run into problems.  The plants yield were on the light side.  I burned through it in about a month.  I received something that was more valuable than the medicine itself.... experiance.
In this post I 'd like to share what lessons I learned through trial and error.

Brick Coco Coir is dirty! Flush , flush! flush! Flush. I used Earth Juice Procoir.  This stuff had lots of salts.  Water would go in at 125 PPM and run off 2500 ppm.  I made the mistake of only flushing with 1 gallon of water which resulted in Nutrient burn.


PH is everything.  You need a PH meter or testing drops.
I did not have a PH meter at the start of my grow.  My plants were locked out .
Your plants cannot absorb any nutrients if you are not in the correct PH, no matter how much you feed them.

Less nutrients not more.
If you use less nutrients and you have a deficiency you can always add a little more and get them healthy.  If you use too much your plants will burn, no coming back from that.

And last but not least.....

You don't grow your weed ,  It grows itself.   All you do is provide the environment to make them comfortable.

This has been my first blog post ever.  Thank you for checking out my grow.   



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