Jim's Sweety Box - Black Jack, Bloody Skunk & Creme Caramel Autos

[Jimmyarm]

Welcome to Jim's Sweety Box !

 

 

Hello All 

 

Firstly, apologies to the Sweet Seeds chaps for that late arrival to the party, life gets in the way and all

 

You join in the fun at 3 weeks and 1 day from getting the seeds wet and popping them into the airing cupboard.

 

Seeds: 

 

Black Jack, Bloody Skunk & Creme Caramel - all autoflowering varieties.

 

Medium:

 

The pots are roughly 3l I think, given the size of my little box I thought small pots would help keep the plants on the smaller side !

 

I have been collecting the bits to eventually try out 'no till' so the soil is a bit of wierd no till type blend.

 

1 part Jacks Magic

1 part Perlite

1 part Earthworm Castings (from ebay)

1 part Peat Moss

 

Then half an Ecothrive Charge 'cup' of

 

Volcanic Rock Dust

Oyster Shell (ground)

Crab Shell (ground)

Kelp Meal

Ecothrive Charge

 

I've given them a little 'mulch' with some grass clippings 

 

This grow won't be 'no till' as such, it was more just to see how the mix behaves. I have BioBizz Fish Mix & Bloom which will be used as(if) required.

 

All they have had so far is rainwater, from my butt

 

Lighting:

 

At present they are sitting under my little Mars 300 light but we have a 250w hps to play with as well

 

Environment:

 

OSB 'box', lined with thermawrap - 122cm x 60cm x 60cm in the 'shed'

 

6" Hyper fan & a 6" Rhino Pro carbon filter handle proceedings, it runs at the minimum setting and temps are roughly 24 - 25 c in this sort of weather using the Mars, obviously the HPS needs it turned up slightly.

 

I did have a RAM clip on fan, but that has lasted all of 3 months before not wanting to work  A replacement is on the way.

 

The pots are kept warm on top of a vivarium heat mat which is run by a thermostatic controller with a temperature probe.

 

 

Everything seems to be ticking along nicely, the soil mix seems to be quite rich as they are all twisting a little but I'm sure they will settle in.

 

Enough waffle, some pictures.

 

Peace 

 

 

 

Oh and finally, a sneak preview of a small upgrade that I have been busy on

 

 

Edited April 4, 2017 by Jimmyarm

[vince noir rock n roll star]

thats a tidy little set up jim ,hope you got time to finish everything

[rabthegrower]

Welcome to the comp, its nice to see a new face  all the best with your grow

[Guest]

 departmentnice looking box you ahead of me in know how already. Good luck with the rest.

Edited April 4, 2017 by Elvis Reg

[Jimmyarm]

Thanks chaps

 

Hopefully I wil get the new box finished this week(end) but as usual it is a busy time of year for work and life so the grow has to take a slight back seat for a bit.

 

[Openairbud]

Good start Jim, hope the no-ish-till does you well 

[Guest]

Good luck , happy growing 

[Guest]

Good luck with the grow mate 

[Jimmyarm]

A little Easter update

 

Just about 5 weeks from getting the seeds wet.

 

All ticking along nicely, Black Jack No.2 got a bit of tip burn as a seedling but has grown out of that.

 

Just rainwater has been given up to this point.

 

Temps have been getting a little low overnight but the roots stay warm on the heat mat

 

They are still under the little Mars 300 but I'll give them a blast with the HPS at some point. Really need to get on and finish the bigger cabinet but struggling to find a few hours to do it ! 

 

A few pics when I was watering them just now.

 

Hopefully they start stretching a little bit soon !

 

 

 

 

[Openairbud]

Looking nice mate, interested in the creme caramel, I have some seeds waiting patiently! Lots of good words said about them..

 

All the best 

 

 

[Sweet Seeds -Jaypp]

Welcome to the comp my friend,

You have great plants there

All the best!

jaypp

[Jimmyarm]

7 Weeks 

 

Here we are 7 weeks (less a day) from getting the seeds wet

 

I finally got some time to sort the new cabinet out last weekend so they have moved home ! It is far from finished yet but it is a step forwards

 

They have all been stretching, the Bloody Skunk is slightly more advanced than all the others as the pictures will show.

 

All they have had up to this point is rainwater. I am going to feed them later though as most of them are looking hungry for N so fish mix & bloom will be given at 2ml/l to see how they react.

 

Time for pictures !

 

 

Peace

 

[Inspiration101]

3 lovely little peaches there, looks like you are going to get some interesting colours from the plants shortly.

[Jimmyarm]

Little update

 

The stretch has gone on quite a bit, have watered twice this week with a bit of fish mix and a bit of bloom.

 

Loving the Bloody Skunks colours and the completely different Black Jacks 

 

 

 

 

 

[vince noir rock n roll star]

lovely colouration in there ,purple buds soon