My FIRST SCROG grow!! Purple Punch! Grapefruit Diesel!

[filo6942]

I have decided to start another grow with 2 more clones I purchased at the store.

Grapefruit Diesel and Purple Punch, both very potent Indica strains. I thought they would be better suited for my grow area and for the screen. I think in a smaller grow it looks more effiecient to grow bushes!

Anyway, here they are in all their glory sharing some space with my other 2 under lots of CFLs.


The grow started on 4-10-09.

[filo6942]

here are the plants today...


(4-16-09):hippy:

[fluid69]

cool, I want to see a scrog log! damn that sounds dirty. anyways, I've seen a couple of pics, but have yet to follow a grow, (I'm a little new here). I'm in, gonna subscribe right now.

[filo6942]

Wow im honored! Hopefully I wont dissapoint! Check out the "introduce yourself forum" there might be friends in your area...

[fluid69]

Wow im honored! Hopefully I wont dissapoint! Check out the "introduce yourself forum" there might be friends in your area...
yeah I need to that, I'm just kinda checking things out right now, (i'm shy) lol

[headshake]

hurry up with the ScROG already!

-shake

[bickeybammer]

nice pots man ive used similar lol
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[filo6942]

celebrating with 3 new arrivals!! ( I love cali!)


Casey Jones

Blue Moonrocks

And


Blue dream


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Not sure if I now have room for the screen on these guys. Thinking of heavy LST on all of them and twimming/top...maybe a rose bush type cage? what do you guys think?

[BeFree]

All the lovely genetics. Going to be a very colorful log. =D

I'm tuned in.

beSafe:jointsmile:

[filo6942]

Plants are loving the fimming!

Also some hard core LST going on! (or would it be called supercropping)?

PICS

[fluid69]

looking good!

[BeFree]

Pinch and bend technique? Seems kind of stressful. :confused:

Heres one of my beginning lst pictures. That was on the 20th. I'll upload another when the lights are on in the morning. I'd like to see how either plant recovers from the techniques. That's if you don't mind, that is. :hippy:

beSafe:jointsmile:

[filo6942]

looks like the casey jones recovered well!!

[headshake]

they look awesome filo!

man, they need to legalize that mess all over already! it's my dream to have a room full of a bunch of different bad bitches!


-shake

[jakezking]

filo, you've got quite the collection of clones, and they all look awesome! I like the LST also, and yours appear to be doing quite well with it. Looks like this isn't your first rodeo, eh?

I'm lookin' forward to seeing these ladies grow and bloom. Continued good luck and success!

[BeFree]

Wow, looking great. All the new shoots makes me wanna :joint1:.


Going to post a couple pictures of my LST'd plant to compare with yours. =) again, if you don't mind. :jointsmile:

beSafe


The previous posted picture is the 20th.
1 is on the 22nd.
2 is on the 27th. (today)
Just lemme know if you don't want me filling your LST clone grow log with my bagseed shit. :D

[filo6942]

Thank you guys for the kind comments. Please dont add your plant pictures in my grow log, it kind of crowds the thread :) ty.--(yours is looking good btw!)

Here are some updated pictures of my babies. I replanted them a couple days ago and they are taking well to the LSTing. Except for "blue dream". This is a heavy sativa and is not liking the topping os LSTing too well. I think I may leave it be...

Grape punch is my favorite so far for ease or training, it loves being prunes, fimmed, topped, and comes back for more!! Casey Jones also is VERY strong, and I am sure will make some big yields...

Also just switched to Eleanors VF-11 plant food. I think this will keep me from burning the plants lol.

Here they are!



p.s.

For those who think they are seeing things, yes I did plant them at an angle!:stoned:

[filo6942]

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[syde00]

interesting idea about planting them on an angle... i bet that makes the LST a bit easier eh?

[filo6942]

some updates.

The canopy on all the plants is starting to form nicely from all the LSTing, and topping i have done to the plants.



Planting them sideways helps me LST them and build a bushier plant, here are the results one week after the replant...


Notice how firm and dense the bush is! Like a good 70s flick! :rastasmoke:


Blue Dream is REALLY starting to worry me... it is harder to train, and finicky as hell. Also is showing heavy sativa traits, it is long and lanky, and starting to take over the area! Huge leafs!

[filo6942]

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[filo6942]

Plants kept pulling up...they are bushing nicely, but gotta remember the goal is to keep em low and build a nice canopy in my limited grow area. HEAVY LSTing was done today. Tie downs with hemp rope :rastasmoke:

[filo6942]

Another update!

For those who want to build a strong stock, LSTing is a must!! The stock on casey jones is as thick as my thumb!!--at that short of height I am surprised!


They also are joined by some friends... is this known as a perpetual grow now?

[filo6942]

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oh and they would have been even bushier but I trim away dead fan leaves, and took some cuttings... :thumbsup:

[jakezking]

Sweet bunch of plants you have there, filo. Alright, I've gotta get this outta the way - 1/2 the reason I became interested in your grow was your avatar - I get lost staring into those big eyes! But, after lookin' at all of your fine green lady friends, well I'm now a return subscriber.

Dang good work on all that LST'ing - they do love it, don't they? And, I feel your pain in continuing to add plants to your mix. I've got 3 separate batches going right now; I don't think I'm going to add any more though.

Continued good luck to you!

[quarteroy]

I get lost staring into his avatar too but because its an awesome homage to Invader Zim. Loved that cartoon. And Gir is my favorite. not to mention its boobies and who doesn't get lost staring into boobies some times.

peace

[syde00]

I get lost staring into his avatar too but because its an awesome homage to Invader Zim. Loved that cartoon. And Gir is my favorite. not to mention its boobies and who doesn't get lost staring into boobies some times.

peace


haha invader zim was fucking awesome! my old roommate and i had all the episodes downloaded because we couldn't get it here at the time

[filo6942]

haha thanks for all the kind words people. i like my avatar too! after a few tokes on the vaporizer i can get lost in it. here are some new pics...

I have been able to train Blue Dream afterall! Its a small bush now! :hippy:

[filo6942]

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[Italiano715]

They are starting to look good, has a bonsai type of look to it! Hopefully they will provide you with some good headies! Keep it up! :thumbsup:

[jakezking]

filo, all of your plants are beauties! Did I miss a harvest at some point? I saw those cut stalks in the background of a few of the pics. That Casey Jones for some reason stands out to me.

Fine update, my friend!

[filo6942]

You have a good eye. The Casey Jones is my favorite so far. It is proving VERY hardy, HUGE stalk for its height, and takes well to topping/fim/LST. It drinks water like mad too!


I did harvest my Purple Kush and Cheese early because I ran out of meds. It was a test grow to get a feel for the space I have to work with.

[Italiano715]

Soo....how are those babies treating you?

[KingKronic420]

love the line up you go going on there filo, must be nice to have a selection.

im subscribed to this one.

how much room are you working with? box or closet?

[frostedwonder]

I would love to see the cab/box or whatever you are using as a space. From clone to stone how big total are your plants when finished? They look so damn healthy... oh and do you feel less attachment to them when you grow from clone vs seed?

[filo6942]

Ok, here is the latest update. Plants are very stressed so the smaller ones really show it. I moved them into my closet and build shelves so I can have multiple decks for growth. The shelves are removable and can move up or down, but for now I only need one deck running, so that is what I have set up. :stoned:


Note how I set my plants to make a nice canopy, planting the clones sideways, and tying them down really helps with accomplishing this IMO.:stoned:




I also purchased another new friend. "Master Sativa" it looks very different than all the others, see if you can spot her out.:stoned:






Also I put Grapefruit diesel into flowering on 5-20-09:stoned:

Will put Blue Dream into flowering on 5-30-09:stoned:








Grape punch looks really thin because I took a lot of cuttings from her this past week.:stoned::stoned::stoned:



Uhm what else... oh yeah, I have never grown from seed, but I am attached to all my babies, and will attempt to revegg them all.:rasta::rasta:


If I had known that I would have been given the closet from my girlfriend, (thanks hun!!) I would have not lst the plants, but it was fun doing it, and the plants look very very strong around the main stem area! :stoned:

[filo6942]

still need to add more lights btw :rastasmoke:

[filo6942]

:rasta:

blue cheese looks to be growing into a very very massive sativa!!!! :stoned::stoned: yea... i know i over watered a couple of em, but they will drink it up in a day or two!

[BeFree]

Wow!

I faintly remember a corner of a shelf of sorts with a couple lamps in it, 2 plants maybe?

Cannacom is first hand watching your OP evolve. Keep it up.:stoned:

Hot damn. CFL's in large quantities can end up putting out more heat than an HID. Your lumen per watt ratio is also going downhill. You should invest in a 250 hps, a little cage fan, and punch a hole in the ceiling to exhaust the hot air into the attic. And place a couple extra CFL's for strategic yielding purposes.:jointsmile:

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both are loaded with good deals, shitty deals, and some pretty neat shit.

besafe, beFree:jointsmile:

[filo6942]

I know the ratio is going down, but its nice buying bulbs at only 92 cents each! I also have 7500 lumens per sq ft! And I have full spectrum ( so they say) because I have both the red type of cfl and the blue type in there. 333 watts of cfl right now. :stoned:


The next lights I add will most likely be led because i think the plants would flourish under all these cfls and Led!:stoned:

I have an easy time controlling the heat, i put a box fan pointing at the lights and it cools the cfls enough that they are not hot to the touch, just slightly warm. This helps keep the room temp under 80 degrees even on warm days. leaving the door ajar helps too :stoned:

[filo6942]

ok so I decided I need more lights for flowering. Here is what yall missed!

There plants went into 12-12 flower lighting on the following dates:



grapefruit diesel 5-20


bluedream 5-30


grape punch 6-10


blue moon rocks 6-10

casey jones 6-13

blue cheese 6-13



They are all flowering under 400watt HPS!!!!! YEY!! FTW! :stoned::stoned:


Here are news pics to update yall...

Grapefruit diesel is left bottom, top left is blue moon rocks, middle towards the back wall is blue cheese, top right is grape punch, bottom right is blue dream--- a true monster.

[filo6942]

:hippy:

planted sideways again to maximize light on the NUGS!!!!!!!!:rastasmoke:

[fluid69]

looks awesome! :thumbsup:

[Joefarmer]

Yeah lookin good for sure. But what happened to the led? jk They'll get cheaper soon enough.

[Joefarmer]

Are u having any heat issues with the HID?

[filo6942]

I still want to add an LED. This HPS is in another closet for the flowering ladies. (seperate from the veg/floros.


I have a 20$ walmart circulating fan in there blasting right on the light. This keeps the light housing on the top just slightly warm to the touch.

The ballast is on the top of the closet above where you would hang your clothes. This seems to make more heat than the lamp itself, but being that the closet is so tall, it has not caused problems with heat. Plus I run the light at 9pm to 9am. Cold hours.

Oh and I also leave the door half open on the closet when the light is on. :rastasmoke:

[JD1stTimer]

I swear that grape punch of yours looks JUST LIKE it could have come from a few of my plants. I sure hope I got some genetics from that family. That was some NICE weed the seeds came from. If it's a similar strain, you will be in for a treat. I'm curious, is it intended to be a purple strain? The tag says Grape Punch, but I don't know anything about it.

[filo6942]

grape punch info from the breeder himself:

"Grape Punch is very different with a very grape taste and the potency is up there in the over 23% thc range like Lifesaver and Sour Bubble."






this is what it should look like when finished.

[JD1stTimer]

Hmm, it looks like the same color as the weed my seeds came from. Hehehe I have my fingers crossed. :)

[filo6942]

Grapefruit Diesel @ 28 days...

[filo6942]

YEY! Day 30 flowering for Grapefruit Diesel.


Day 20 flowering for Blue Dream, shes bigggg.:thumbsup:

I hope all looks ok, any opinions? questions?

[tdoe805er]

how long did it take for you to start seeing acutaual buds on your grapefruit desil,,,i'm on 12 day and all the hairs on the tips are present but how long does it take to see something..first grow of this strain

[greenatik]

looking great so far.. but.... (i hope i'm wrong) is that spider mite damage i see on the leaves of the grapefruit? those white spots looks like it but the pic is blurry so i definitely could be mistaken

:jointsmile:

[filo6942]

Not spider mite damage. I was not adding calmagplus. Its a magnesium deficiency.


Sorry for not updating more, not sure if anyone was watching. Grapefruit diesel is almost done. What do you guys think a week left? two?

Grapefruit diesel took at least 2 weeks into flower to show buds. Some strains just take longer. I also have noted I need to tie these girls up!! They are falling over on themselves!! Casey Jones is the largest, along with Bluedream.

I have some nute burn and some slight heat burn from the lights. But nothing major so far. Here are some updates...





1 and 2 pic = blue dream


3 and 4 = grapefruit diesel

[filo6942]

1 and 2 CASEY JONES ITS HUGE


pic 3 is ICE QUEEN She was put into flower 6-25 at about 10" tall. Over double in height wtf! :stoned:

[filo6942]

Blue moon rocks in pic 1-2



blue cheese 3-4

[greenatik]

not saying you're wrong about it being a magnesium deficiency. but what are you growing in and why would you need to add calmag? are you running distilled/osmosis? i've never had spotting like that with mag deficiency and I run into it all the time in coco with osmosis...

[McToker]

not saying you're wrong about it being a magnesium deficiency. but what are you growing in and why would you need to add calmag? are you running distilled/osmosis? i've never had spotting like that with mag deficiency and I run into it all the time in coco with osmosis...

For what it's worth, I have had the spots show up with a mag deficiency. The discoloring of the leaf edges shows up first, then, as much as a week later, the spots show up about the same time as the discolored edges take on a rust color.

[greenatik]

good to know, I guess i've never seen it at a harsher stage. kind of unusual though to have to be adding calmag unless using r/o or distilled water or a nute with insufficient micros. hope to see your plants back on track filo :thumbsup:

[mazman1989]

dont trim to much man if there yellow and just pull off then thats fine.

[moody420]

so how are those grapefruit deisels? I've got a few that I started flowering 3 weeks ago....it would be helpful to see how others are doing with them! :jointsmile:

[portlandgrower]

Well it looks like alot of you do not know to much about growing. Yes for a limited closet space that is ok. I would put up a 600 watt if I were you. And buy some plasticblack grow bags to hold your plants in. The less you have to repot the better! And be cool about cutting your plants at a young age! Any time you cut a plant you take a risk of exposing it to bugs. Think of when a tree gets cut down all the sap brings bugs. Its about the same thing even indoors! And I would wait at least two weeks before you start putting on any newts. And you have to buy a water filter its called asmall boy they run about 100 but its orth it. You will not have to mess with ph at all!