Photo Grow Journal - "The Producer" Grow Cabinet - Start To Finish

Well after months of saving I finally purchased "The Producer" grow box from BC Northern Lights for about $3000 including shipping. For those of you who don't know what "The Producer" is please check out this link below for more info.
http://www.bcnorthernlights.com/?page=home

Basically it is a totally self contained grow box including:

2 - 430 Watt Lights
1 - Drip Hydro System With Room For 18 Plants
1 - Master Controller That Controlls Watering, C02, Fans, and Lighting
1 - Carbon Filter
1 - C02 Regulator That Hooks Up To Tank (Not Included)
4 - Fans (2 For The Lights & 2 For The Grow Chamber)

I am using General Hydroponics Flora Nova nutrients. My water goes through reverse osmosis and before adding nutes it at about 3 PPM. I drain the reserivor every week and replace with fresh water/nute solution. I also make sure my water/nute solution's pH stays at about 5.4-6.0. I check the pH about every other day. I am using 17 White Widow clones and am about exacty 1 month into my grow.

I am writing this journal so I can give something back to the community that has provided with with such great information. Please don't hesistate to ask me any questions or tell me what I am doing wrong. I appreciate any and all comments.

Now onto the photos.

...ahem....photos.....???.....

This is day 1 for me because this is the fisrt day I had the clones. They are probably 1-2 weeks since being cut off the mother.

Pic 1 - Overview of the all the clones. (Note the fans in the upper corners)
Pic 2 - Left Side
Pic 3 - Right Side (The spot with no plant is where I access the reservoir)
Pic 4 - Clone that didn't make it.
Pic 5 - Happy Clone.

Here are some photos from day 4 on 06-01-2006.

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Far Left
Pic 3 - Far Right

Day 10 - 06-07-2006

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Far Left
Pic 3 - Far Right

Day 12 - 06-09-2006

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Left
Pic 3 - Right

Awesome grower, this system is unique, Im here to see this for sure now brother.

HEY GROWER!!

thanks for the pictures.. this looks like it will be fun...

is there anything stopping the plants from growing into the lights...?

is there a glass barrier or something...?

how does the producer deal with HEAT?

thats a lot of watts for such a small area

THANKS again!!

iloveyou

Day 19 - 06-16-2006 - 5 Days Into Flowering

Well here are the fisrt photos I have of my leaves starting to yellow. I switched from 16/8 to 12/12 on Sunday 06-11-06. I also switched my nutes from General Hydroponics Flora Nova Grow at 600 PPM to General Hydroponics Flora Nova Bloom at 450PPM.

I also started using neem oil and warm soap water to spray the plants on 06-11-06. I spray 1 day with the neem/soap water mix then two days with just plain water. I am supposed to continue this cycle for 2-3 weeks. In these photos they have been sprayed with the neem mixture only 2 times.

To summarize. Since the last set of photos here is what has changed:

Switched lighting from 16/8 --> 12/12
Switched nutes from Grow @ 600PPM --> Bloom @ 450PPM
Started using neem mixture to keep potential pest away.

Pic 1 - Overview
Pic 2 - Yellow Tips
Pic 3 - Yellow Tips
Pic 4 - Yellow Tips
Pic 5 - Yellow Tips

HEy grower,

Your plants are showing signs of nut burn,
This seems very odd to me considering your PPM is very very low and some of leaves are showing NUT deficiency...

HOW is your PH?

You should consider flushing for 12-24 hours and refilling your reservoir from scratch..

iloveyou