Well folks...here goes!
Our 2013 indoor grow is the first step for freedom for us. We are planning on using this years seed stocks for next years grow which will then be harvested resale puposes to help put us on the property ladder. It's not a get rich quick plan but more of a plan we believe in and are prepared to see it through to the end. We hope you can join us on this adventure and offer any advice where you can. We are all ears!
(I will include as many pictures as possibe that are relevant to the grow and a few that are in for giggles also) I love looking at pepper-porn of other peoples grow's, it is an excellent research method, so hopefully our pic's will inspire and help you all to get a better understanding of what we are doing.
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Plan of action
By having a 100% indoor grow season we will be able to control the enviroment in which our peppers are culivated in and with lots of hard work, cunning and lady luck..ooh and your advice!, we believe we will be able to grow stable, popular, tasty, hot, beautiful peppers to use for seed in the 2014 mega grow we ar planning.
Equipment
Seed soaking cups for an overnight saltpeter bath
BioBizz light mix organic seedling soil
At least 2 x agralan plug plant trainers
1 x growcube propagation tent (90cm long x 60cm wide x 60 cm tall)
1 x Lightwave T5 4 bulb grow light (24w per bulb, 96w total, 6,600 lumens blue)
1 x Petnap speedy seeder heat mat (49cm x 49cm - 40w)
Both sets of fingers crossed!
If seeds/we are successful, once grown enough, the next step we will be using the following:
1 x self built nursery grow cabinet made from the spare wardrobe (see pics of flat)
1 x Lightwave T5 8bulb grow light (54w per bulb, 432w total, 33200 lumens super blue)
8 x 7cm square black plant pot tray sets - these hold 28 pots in each tray
(Pot measurements are - External = 72x72x71mm (with lip), Internal = 66x66mm (Top), Internal = 49x49mm (Bottom)Tray measurements are - External = 562x315x50mm (with lip), Internal = 552x305mm, Internal = 58x58x50mm (compartments) Volume - 0.2 litres (per pot))
Once plants are big enough they will be going in to the main crop tents, we will have 3 tents in total.
1 x 2.8m long x 1.4m wide x 2m tall.
2 x 65cm wide x 165cm long x 180cm tall.
The largest tent is where we will be growing the widest selection of plants. Our aim is to try and grow approx 195 dwarf or short plants in this tent. Then the 2 smaller tents will have approx 20 - 40 larger super hot's in them.
We have designed a self built plant pot system using heavy duty rubble sacks, bamboo, plastic storage boxes, wire tyes, florist wire and fishing line. A lots of praying!!
The pots we have designed are going to be 10cm squarred at the top, going down 80cm in lenght to a 1 litre approx 9cm round plant pot attached and sealed by tyes. The shape of the pot/sack will be held in a cylindrical shape by the fishing line wrapped around it and the florist wire is used to keep the shape of the top of the pot whilst keeping it open. The bamboo canes will be used the create a cross hatch grid effect frame where each pot rests/hangs in.
The pots will be in grids of 15 and will sit in the plastic storage trays/boxes
The purpose of the round flower pot attached to the bottom is to allow the storage boxes to be flooded when watered and to leave enough flow space around each pot base for the water to be siphoned up by the roots and soil. Hard to explain and pictures will show better, but I think and hope it will work. Will have to try to see! The pots have been designed like this to maximise the space of the tent and allow loads of room for downward root growth. The pots will hold 9 litres of soil this way! Hope that is going to be enough be plant?
We will be using 3 x Lightwave T5 8bulb grow light (54w per bulb, 1296w total, combo of red and blue bulbs) to light up this tent. These light are only 60mm in height and have been choosen to leave max space for the plant to grow from the top of the pot to approx 12 inches away from the light. The tent is 200cm in height, the pots and tray total 92cm in height, minus 6cm for the light, minus 30cm light space means approx 70cm for plant growth. We will be training plants will a huge grid wall we have already. The main tent will look like a SCRog grow.
Not 100% sure on what fan we are using yet but will be a 5inch fan located in the top right pulling air from a passive vent flap on the bottom side of the tent.
That's enough for now I think, plus fingers hurt from typing. Here's a few pic's to see where everything is going. We have a separate studio apartment that we use for our online business which has kitchen bathroom and large open space so this will be taken over by our pepper grow soon.
Please feel free to offer any advice as it is much needed. I will post up some more pics and our list of seeds we are growing tomorrow for you all to view.
Thanks
(excuse the mess - been playing around with the selving to make space)
Our 2013 indoor grow is the first step for freedom for us. We are planning on using this years seed stocks for next years grow which will then be harvested resale puposes to help put us on the property ladder. It's not a get rich quick plan but more of a plan we believe in and are prepared to see it through to the end. We hope you can join us on this adventure and offer any advice where you can. We are all ears!
(I will include as many pictures as possibe that are relevant to the grow and a few that are in for giggles also) I love looking at pepper-porn of other peoples grow's, it is an excellent research method, so hopefully our pic's will inspire and help you all to get a better understanding of what we are doing.
If you see something we are doing wrong please shout out!
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Plan of action
By having a 100% indoor grow season we will be able to control the enviroment in which our peppers are culivated in and with lots of hard work, cunning and lady luck..ooh and your advice!, we believe we will be able to grow stable, popular, tasty, hot, beautiful peppers to use for seed in the 2014 mega grow we ar planning.
Equipment
Seed soaking cups for an overnight saltpeter bath
BioBizz light mix organic seedling soil
At least 2 x agralan plug plant trainers
1 x growcube propagation tent (90cm long x 60cm wide x 60 cm tall)
1 x Lightwave T5 4 bulb grow light (24w per bulb, 96w total, 6,600 lumens blue)
1 x Petnap speedy seeder heat mat (49cm x 49cm - 40w)
Both sets of fingers crossed!
If seeds/we are successful, once grown enough, the next step we will be using the following:
1 x self built nursery grow cabinet made from the spare wardrobe (see pics of flat)
1 x Lightwave T5 8bulb grow light (54w per bulb, 432w total, 33200 lumens super blue)
8 x 7cm square black plant pot tray sets - these hold 28 pots in each tray
(Pot measurements are - External = 72x72x71mm (with lip), Internal = 66x66mm (Top), Internal = 49x49mm (Bottom)Tray measurements are - External = 562x315x50mm (with lip), Internal = 552x305mm, Internal = 58x58x50mm (compartments) Volume - 0.2 litres (per pot))
Once plants are big enough they will be going in to the main crop tents, we will have 3 tents in total.
1 x 2.8m long x 1.4m wide x 2m tall.
2 x 65cm wide x 165cm long x 180cm tall.
The largest tent is where we will be growing the widest selection of plants. Our aim is to try and grow approx 195 dwarf or short plants in this tent. Then the 2 smaller tents will have approx 20 - 40 larger super hot's in them.
We have designed a self built plant pot system using heavy duty rubble sacks, bamboo, plastic storage boxes, wire tyes, florist wire and fishing line. A lots of praying!!
The pots we have designed are going to be 10cm squarred at the top, going down 80cm in lenght to a 1 litre approx 9cm round plant pot attached and sealed by tyes. The shape of the pot/sack will be held in a cylindrical shape by the fishing line wrapped around it and the florist wire is used to keep the shape of the top of the pot whilst keeping it open. The bamboo canes will be used the create a cross hatch grid effect frame where each pot rests/hangs in.
The pots will be in grids of 15 and will sit in the plastic storage trays/boxes
The purpose of the round flower pot attached to the bottom is to allow the storage boxes to be flooded when watered and to leave enough flow space around each pot base for the water to be siphoned up by the roots and soil. Hard to explain and pictures will show better, but I think and hope it will work. Will have to try to see! The pots have been designed like this to maximise the space of the tent and allow loads of room for downward root growth. The pots will hold 9 litres of soil this way! Hope that is going to be enough be plant?
We will be using 3 x Lightwave T5 8bulb grow light (54w per bulb, 1296w total, combo of red and blue bulbs) to light up this tent. These light are only 60mm in height and have been choosen to leave max space for the plant to grow from the top of the pot to approx 12 inches away from the light. The tent is 200cm in height, the pots and tray total 92cm in height, minus 6cm for the light, minus 30cm light space means approx 70cm for plant growth. We will be training plants will a huge grid wall we have already. The main tent will look like a SCRog grow.
Not 100% sure on what fan we are using yet but will be a 5inch fan located in the top right pulling air from a passive vent flap on the bottom side of the tent.
That's enough for now I think, plus fingers hurt from typing. Here's a few pic's to see where everything is going. We have a separate studio apartment that we use for our online business which has kitchen bathroom and large open space so this will be taken over by our pepper grow soon.
Please feel free to offer any advice as it is much needed. I will post up some more pics and our list of seeds we are growing tomorrow for you all to view.
Thanks
(excuse the mess - been playing around with the selving to make space)
...but would be surprised if there was as only been like 2 days! ...Come on...I hate waiting! lol
) it is actually a Khoricha jolokia.