C13 cab log

[UMrocksmysocks]

Hey whats up guys. i just setup and sealed up my C13 in a nearby walk-in closet. i ordered a cheap 400w system from HTGsupply complete with a reflector and both bulbs that i will be using for this grow. fox farm nutes are on the way and i just got my dayton 140cfm yesterday. tomorrow i will get started on the drilling for the ducting work and my cab will be ready. my sister is out of town right now so i dont have a camera to use until monday :( but i put alot of time into setting this thing up and im hoping things will go smoothly:rasta:

there is one problem tho, i dont know what to grow. any suggestions on what i should grow??? this is my first grow....

btw the demensions of the cab are 2.5'x1.5' and nearly 6' tall

[UMrocksmysocks]

I just got 6 bagseed today from a friend and they are already sitting in damp paper towel. Im going out today to get some soil and perilite

[keeko]

good luck

[UMrocksmysocks]

all 6 bagseed cracked and are in soil right now :) will post some pics tomorrow if something pops up :rasta:

i read somewhere on here that using a little superthrive with the germination can improve your female ratio :) i did it so we'll see what happens...

[UMrocksmysocks]

ok so its been 11 days since i put my seeds in soil... miracle grow to be exact(i know i know its shitty but its all i had at the time)

the seeds popped thru 2 days after that(7/18) and outgrew their cups yesterday(had them in beer pong type plastic cups) so today i went out and got some scotts pro soil and some perlite. i made a 60/40 mix soil/perlite and repotted in ... actually it doesnt say what size it is but once i get a camera youll see. i also mixed a heavy pinch of this bone meal i have, its 12-0-0 so that should help em grow. the soil had some P mixed with it too, so im going to let my babies sit in the dark for a good 16 hours to let those roots spread out in theese big pots :)

tomorrow ill have a cam hopefully and ill post asap

[slowthestone]

When your FoxFarm nutes arrive...start it out 1/4 strength for a couple feedings, than 1/2 strength for a couple more.

Prior to that, flush your plants and get that Miracle Grow business out of the soil. Mixing organics (FoxFarm) with chemicalized ferts tends to produce a less than stellar growing medium. Instead of a compliment, you'd end up with the two counteracting one another.

And if you're not shooting for stellar...well...why bother eh.

[Dutch Pimp]

MG can't be that bad.

[UMrocksmysocks]

alright so i got a camera and took some pics today

Edit: i gotta go to work right now so ill explain everything when i get back

[UMrocksmysocks]

pic 1... the biggest. 2 is the runt

[UMrocksmysocks]

UPDATE- tho its not really needed

im bored so why not.... look how big they've gotten after just 1 day under the 400w MH

12 days since sprout:rasta:

the pic with the quarter is to show the growth, ill be doing that with that plant thru out the grow to show the general progress of all the plants

[UMrocksmysocks]

the leaves on plant 3 are starting to curl up on the sides a little bit...

my temps are a little high at 88 right now.. and the plant is 22" away from the light. i originally used MG soil but then when i repotted i switched to scotts soil with 40% perlite added to it. when i repotted i threw a pinch of bone meal into the soil and mixed it up good,, if im forgetting any other important details let me know..

anyone know why my plant is doing that???:confused:

edit: is the same plant as the one above with the quarter...

[BukDatAss]

Could have been the MG soil you used if it proceeds do a quick flush and you should be OK. Make sure not to over fert, other than that they look really nice and good.:thumbsup: ;)

[MindYaBidness]

My guess too was over-ferts. I was gonna say a light flush may be a good idea.

[ate]

Is that too much perlite?

[UMrocksmysocks]

meh, its alot but not too much i dont think. a hefty 60/40 mix. looks like theres alot becuase of that ring it makes around the plants when i water them

[UMrocksmysocks]

ok, the curling stopped on plant number 3. all my plants look very healthy! :)
will post some pics in a sec once i find my camera

[keeko]

this is going to be a good grow, good luck

[UMrocksmysocks]

this is going to be a good grow, good luck

damn well better be :D here are some more pics...

pic#2 is the one that had the curling leaves and a little nute burn but its back in action and looking great

pic#3 is plant 6-- this one was looking kinda shitty when i repotted but it bounced back very nicely and is outgrowing number 3! :):dance:

i also threw a little Howard Johnsens Natural Organic Bone Meal(3-6-0) on top of the soil and mixed it around on all the plants before i watered em today, hoping it will thicken those stems up a bit

suggestions?? comments??? i would love some feedback on this-- first serious grow here so im still kind of a noooob

[BukDatAss]

So far so good. Keep doing what ur doing cause its working just FINE:dance: :thumbsup:

[UMrocksmysocks]

ok so its been like.. 13 days since ive updated

1- overview
2- look how tall they've gotten :)
3- thats the tallest plant right now, the light is about 20" away so they did stretch a bit but i think its ok :)
4- those are the secondary branches starting up, if thats what they are called ??? :stoned: its natural for those first 2 leaves, after the 2 fan leaves, to die off by now right??
5- check out those fucked up genetics.. damn bagseed,,, that was plant #3-the healthiest one starting out

suggestions... questions... comments?????? i really want some feedback

[BlueBear]

With the curling up leaves, you did good. It is allot of times a over nute problem. So far so good for the most part. Do you have an oscillating fan rotating in there to circulate the air and strengthen those stocks?
Adieu

[UMrocksmysocks]

ya, ive got a big fan in there blowing the air out of the room.. and ya that stems are healthy and strong :)

they're all growing really fast now, 3/4 to an inch a day :) this week im going to repot into 5gal pots and start training them. i plan on switching to flower 2 weeks after that, around the 1st i hope

[UMrocksmysocks]

day 36....

my plants are still in 1gal pots right now.. i switched over to flower 3 days ago (8/18) to eliminate the males. i just threw the HPS in there today. temps are 86 :o

would it be cool with the plants if i flowered to show sex, then repot and go into veg for another week, then flower again??? would my buds be ok>???

[UMrocksmysocks]

what up

ok ive confirmed 3 females and 2 males in just 5 days of flowering.. the last one is unknown

i had 3 close up shots but they didnt turn out all that good, you couldnt really see the white hairs comingout:mad:

pic#4 is the best shot i could get with my cam of 1 of the females
pic#5 is one of the males ill be getting rid of

[UMrocksmysocks]

6 days into flowering and its obvious, 3 females-3 males

idk if i should throw the 3 males outside, then pick leaves when they are ready for cannabutter ??? or do you think thats too much work-- either way, tomorrow those males are going somewhere

im gonna work on getting some good pics of the 3 fems.. will post them in a few minutes


oh ya, this has nothing to do with anything, but last night at 4am i woke up and was walking to get some water and i knocked my bong over and broke my stem !!! RAGE!!-- then i had to clean it up cuz the whole room wreaked like bong water

[Its a Plant]

im gonna work on getting some good pics of the 3 fems.. will post them in a few minutes
Haha, so how about those few minutes . . .

Did you mean days instead?

Hurry! I am curious to see how they look. So far, so good. Best of luck to you and your 3 ladies. ~

[UMrocksmysocks]

haha sorryy man, ivee been so damn busy lately :mad:

heres some shots from this morning..

today during my break i went to home depot and got 3 5gal pots and some more soil. i transplanted 2 of them but then ran out of soil :mad: so ill go back tomorrow for more and repot the last one

here are the fems :stoned: :D

[UMrocksmysocks]

i also cut down and toook out the males...



got roots?

[MeatRulz]

Looks real good man keep up the good work.

[UMrocksmysocks]

aight.. all three are in big big pots now ..... will post pics in a few..... DAYS h aha no it'll be quick this time:thumbsup:

im curious tho, can i put dry nutes into water and mix it around then water my plants or do i have to put it in the soil>??? a quick response from anyone would b e great, cuz they need water badly

[UMrocksmysocks]

ok so it was a couple days, . my bad :o :stoned:

day 10 12/12

[UMrocksmysocks]

day 13 of 12/12 :rasta:

ordered some fox farm flowering nutes last weekend, so that should help speed up the process\

oh ya, and instead of mixing my nutes in water, which woulda been bad.. i just added some super phosphate and another 3-6-0 fert

[Stylus]

good question lol. i mix my nutes with water is that wrong? i would like to know as well. anyways ur plants lookin good dude keep it up:thumbsup:

[UMrocksmysocks]

i dont know if it's "wrong" but the bag said to mix it with the soil. there are dry nutes that are in powder form that you can mix with water tho

[UMrocksmysocks]

day 16 --- 12/12

everything seems to be going fine, havent goten my foxfarm tiger bloom yet but i think they are growing great without it :) first time flowering mj plants too btw

[UMrocksmysocks]

day 18 ---- 12/12

[UMrocksmysocks]

so i got my shipment from bghydro today and they FORGOT my tiger bloom!!!! im so pissed--waited like 2 weeks

[UMrocksmysocks]

the package wasnt supposed to be here until friday but when i checked today, by scrubber was there and the bloom wasnt. i checked UPS and tracked the package and it says it will be delievered on friday still. do you think they shipped them seperate????? any please

[iwantFUEGO]

wow plants look healthy... nice dark green.

good luck

[UMrocksmysocks]

thanks man

i figured it out tho with the bghydro order... everything is all good now :) will get my foxfarm shit on friday still :)

[iwantFUEGO]

im alittle bit north of you... in the deerfield area. you get good buds down there?

[UMrocksmysocks]

ya some buds, nothing good tho-just workk

day 21 ---- 12/12

this is the best looking plant of them all, and i still havent fed her my tiger bloom :) is it just because its my first time flowering a plant, or does that look really good???

[iwantFUEGO]

yea i feel ya bro soflo sucks... i need to move to cali.

[UMrocksmysocks]

hey if the humidity is under 40% is that ok ?????????:confused:

[UMrocksmysocks]

c'mon, someones gotta be interested in my grow cept you fuego.. not that thats a bad thing :p

[UMrocksmysocks]

day 28 --- 12/12 :rasta:

im thinking the front plant is dominantly sativa, going onto my 5th week of flowering and she was/is still, streching an inch a day or so. the back left plant is doing the best, it has the biggest buds and its also the shortest of the 3. its almost half the height of the front one :)

[UMrocksmysocks]

heres a couple more of the back left plant :)

the 2nd pic is 4 nodes down :D

[doco]

Looking great socks...I'm following this thread with a lot of interest because that is the exact lighting system I just got from HTG too....sitting in a box in my growroom so far. I'm worried about heat buildup...my actual grow room is half a closet, so like 3 ft x 2.5ft x 6 ft tall. I can exhaust fan in to the main room but is that enough? What is your fan setup like?

I'm half tempted to use 125 & 200 watt CFL to eliminate heat probs. but I hate for that 400w HPS to go to waste.

[UMrocksmysocks]

right now all i have is a dayton 140cfm exhaust going to my attic. and ya, the light is hot so i have to leave my door cracked while its on. temps stay at around 85F. i also have my light practically on the ceiling of my cab right next to my fan and i lower my plants as they grow... its a little more work but i think it makes the fan a bit more effective

[mellogold]

get a bigger fan, once you attach y our scrubber it will c ut the cfm in half, i know from recent experiance

[postmandave]

yeh a bigger fan will do the job.sock this is a good grow love that set up well done mate dont know how i missed this thread ,well done .the postman

[Bodom Children Of]

Badass grow:thumbsup:
Next time try training them to see if you imrpove your yeild.:smokin:
How much was your switchable ballast/bulbs?:stoned:
Keep on growing!:dance:

[UMrocksmysocks]

i just got a 160(ish) cfm centrifugal made my fantech-- heard they are damn good, and was a bit pricey.. im going to use that for my scrubber adn then keep the other fan running too...

the bulbs, reflector, and ballast were only 165$ on ebay :)

[UMrocksmysocks]

btw, thanks postman and bodom for tuning in :) good to see some people are catching on to this thread. im gonna be looking to you guys for some advice down the road as to when i should chop them because this is the first time ive flowered mj plants AND they are bagseed so im really in the dark! :o

oh ya, when i got my fan today, some other flowering nute came... got me some CHA CHINGGGGG :):) im sure you're all familiar, but its a Foxfarm product and it looks pretty hardcore (9-50-40) i found this FF chart on the net that im going to follow... http://www.foxfarmfertilizer.com/SoilSystems_FF_Feed.pdf

[UMrocksmysocks]

scratch that... its 9-50-10 not 40

[Pothead4204life]

very nice grow...

[hammertime]

how much did the c13 cost im thinking of getting one and dont feel like drivin to home depot to get the price

[UMrocksmysocks]

i bought it over 2 years ago so i dont really remeber.. id say no more than 150$$

[invision]

nice grow dude home depot has a 500CFM fan for 33.00 or a 250 for 27.00 if you still need one :)

[doco]

Invision: What kind are those at that price? I didnt see them at Homedepot.com. Could you be a little more specific? tia

[invision]

they are inline fans found in the ventilation department you may have to go there to see them thier web site is for shit

[UMrocksmysocks]

these were taken yesterday.. day 36---12/12:rasta: that lighter is 4inches in front of that bud

ps--- the last pic is of that plant that had male sacks on it 3 weeks ago, does it look ok?

[UMrocksmysocks]

last sunday the 24th one of my plants was showing me some weird pod things on the bottom buds, so i cut it and today i looked at it and its fairly dry, weighing in at 19gramss.. notbad for a plant that was flowered for 35 days--tried a little today and it got me high :stoned:

[UMrocksmysocks]

these are the other 2... day 41---12/12

[Pass That Shit]

You can find the inline fans in the plumbing section :thumbsup:

[Bodom Children Of]

Them plants be lookin' dank!:stoned: :smokin:

[pastor420]

That bong juice is some very funky smelling stuff that must be dealt with promptly for sure.

The plants are looking great so far. Whatever you're doing, keep it up!

Nice green stems!:thumbsup: