Vgrow Farm Grow...

[LoboGrow]

Thanks for the warm welcome to the forum, I greatly appreciate it!

I recently moved and am growing in 4 Vgrow boxes that are in my bedroom. I don't have much space for growing at the moment, but these are working well for what I want and need to do.

For those not familiar with these boxes, they are a self contained unit that includes a 100w LED full spectrum light, both circulation/humidity fans and intake/exhaust fans. They use a self-watering sip system and holds about 1.5 gallons of water. They unzip so you can access the inside, or it has a section that you can peel back to look inside without opening the case. The looking section is magnetic, so there aren't any light leaks.

Closed boxes....


Boxes with the looking section open....



Mephisto 3 Bears OG autoflower. This plant had early trouble, as the garbage coco I used caused some early nutrient lockouts. She looks much better now, but still stunted....



Mephisto Tinto De Verano autoflower...




Canuk Sweet Tooth autoflower freebie seed....



G13 Sunset Vibes autoflower freebie seed....

[Lrus007]

very nice thanks for sharing

[LoboGrow]

Also, it's not normally this cluttered, but I was getting ready to pH a bunch of RO water for the week lol.....

[dill786]

really nice,
what type of nutrients do you use ?

thanks

[LoboGrow]

really nice,
what type of nutrients do you use ?

thanks

A mix of different stuff at the moment. The G13 Sunset Vibes is an experiment in straight Canna coco using Grow Dots, which advertises hands off growing. So far it seems to working, but the plant is young. I wanted to experiment with this because I work on the road 3-4 days per week, so mixing up gallon jugs of water for my dad to fill the reservoirs takes time. It would be nice if I can just leave him jugs of RO water that I have pH, so he doesn't have to track which jugs go into which box. Right now, I mix up jugs and set them in front of each box, so he can keep it straight.

The Sweet Tooth, Tinto De Verano and 3 Bears OG pots are bottom 1/3 coco (garbage coco, my mistake) mixed with worm castings and the top 2/3 of the pot is Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. I normally don't use any nutrients at all with this mix for the first 5-6 weeks. After that, I will use some A/B for a couple of weeks, then add a weekly soil drench using Open Sesame 5-49-19 for a few weeks.

About mid flower, I switch to Green Planet Massive Bloom 1-2-3 and the weekly soil drench switches to House & Garden Shooting Powder 0-39-25 in a low dose. The last couple of weeks, it's just the Massive Bloom in lower dose.

I just recently started growing earlier this year, so my nutrients shelves are full of different things I have been experimenting with. I use Demeters Destiny often, adding 1ml/Gal to every watering, even when not feeding nutrients early on.

On the shelf is Ventana Plant Science, Vivosun A/B, Green Planet Massive Bloom, House & Garden Shooting Powder, CalMag, Demeters Destiny, Golden Nectar 0-1-1, Age Old Microsynergy 1-0-0, House & Garden Amino Acid Treatment and AN Tarantula Microbe Treatment. The bags are Grow Dots, Recharge and Stash Blend.

I like tinkering, so I like having all these tools, even though I may not use them very often....

[Butcher Bob]

Other than the old Phototron ads in High Times...


...your grow was the first time I've seen small units that look like they work really well.

[Munchy]

I started out with a pair of the original Phototron's, after i got out of the army in 1985

[LoboGrow]

I started out with a pair of the original Phototron's, after i got out of the army in 1985

I graduated high school in 1986, so I remember seeing those Phototron ads, but never knew anyone that had one...

[LoboGrow]

Harvesting the Mephisto Tinto De Verano tomorrow. Actually harvesting 3 plants, but this one is the best of the bunch. The other 2 were having shitty coco issues and are coming down to start over with some new plants....

[dill786]

Great pic and nice colours too..