CaliforniaKid's Dark Harvest Grow Challenge

[Californiakid]

The condensed version :

1) 2 Dark Ghost Train, 1 Gorilla Cookies

2) My room is a room in a garage. 4'x4'x8'

3) 600w hps for the whole grow with led supplement during flower.

4) 1dgt and 1gc will be in roots organic over kind soil. Potted in qt container then 5gal
1dgt straight to 5gal roots over kind soil.

5) 5gal fabric pots (possibly switching to 7gal)

6) Kind soil has it all. I still feed the microbes teas.

7) My experience ?...I've been around gardening my whole life. I've grown cannabis a few times under the sun. And a few more under lights. But growing cannabis is in my blood. My family has been for generations. Now GWE is filling in the gaps. Really my participation here has upped my game big time.


I grow with the intention of growing the cleanest, most potent bud I can get. I'm in constant pursuit of safer more natural ways to improve my grow.

I grow for all around remedy. Which I know every bit of what went into it.

Originally this challenge was going to see what my 106w would produce compared to everyone else's big setups. Now this is a challenge to take my grow to the next level.

Thanks for organizing this, I love a challenge !

 

[Californiakid]

The soak.

 

[Californiakid]

All above ground !

GC has half of the helmet still on.

Here we go, off to the races ! Lol

 

[Californiakid]

Sorry about the poor picture quality.

 

[Redwasp]

Watching. Cant wait for the mass smoke session.

 

[Californiakid]

Cruising right along. This was last night after some tea.

 

[Chefbjy]

Yellow pictures are fine...lol you can put some clip on lights for pictures too. I like getting pics right after lights go out or right before they come on 😉.

 

[Californiakid]

Hung my veg light. 200w cfl over the seedlings.

Also put hps and cfl on timer set 20/4. The autos will finish up with a little less daylight, but these photos will develop healthier root system with some dark time.

 

[Chefbjy]

So do you give your autos 24/7 light? I've been letting mine get a little rest...do you normally give your auto seedlings a rest period too?

 

[Californiakid]

Chefbjy
I had my little led setup before, 24 hours for seedlings and autos. 20/4 vegging and 12/12 flowering photos. And the lower wattage made things run longer too, about 3-4weeks more.

Now I have 600w hps, 20/4 to finish the autos, while seedlings have a cfl over them in the same room on 20/4. I'm going to run photos for awhile .... 18/6 & 12/12

 

[Chefbjy]

I like autos but I enjoy growing photos much more... the training and structuring are one of my favorite parts of growing 😉.

 

[Californiakid]

Chefbjy
I have kids age 1-13 that want my time when I'm not at work. So autos are great for my schedule (do plant maintenance whenever ).

But photos are what we had when I started as a kid, and I love training em out to big ole monters. Maybe I'll try some cloning this run? Winter I have more time.

 

[Chefbjy]

I was already thinking of taking clones 😀. I spent a lot of money on those dgth seeds and I'd like to keep the strain going... I'll probably do some gc clones too 😆.

 

[farmerjim]

Guess it's time to read up on cloning

 

[Californiakid]

Aloe vera fresh from the plant is a natural cloning gel, so I've been told. I'll be using it to clone. I've used it to root other plants.

 

[Californiakid]

Seedlings got some sprouted corn tea today. So far growth has been similar to others. See if this gets em going.

 

[oldjarhead100]

great tip have you tried it before I have a huge aloe plant

 

[Californiakid]

oldjarhead100 I haven't cloned any cannabis yet. But I have used aloe for taking cuttings of other plants and making new plants for practice. I've been running autos for awhile so these photos will be my cloning cannabis guinea pigs.

 

[Californiakid]

It was hot and dry so I was watering accordingly. Then over night cooled off and humidity is 70-80% the seedlings are taking longer to dry out, allowing Chef to leave us in the dust ! 🤣😁 They slowed a tad, but I'm happy with them.

I don't run the most perfect grow. I'm not as consistent as I'd like to be. But nor is my work schedule. So with less attention than I like, we make do when I can.

Tea should've been ready for this morning but wont be until this evening 😴. I'm spraying a bit of water to moisten the soil for microbial life but not saturation.
Then some tea this evening.

 

[Chefbjy]

They're doing great!!! Are you using the hid? Think I'm going to pot up today and give them a couple more days with the cfls and the full spectrum before I turn the hid on 😉. I was looking at the size of my Skywalker auto and the root structure when I transplanted and think I should get on it lol. But yours look very happy.