All stage grow log w/ lots of pics

First things first, I am growing Dutch.Lover

As we near flowering I thought I would start our Grow log :rasta:

The next few posts will give you all the info about my grow


Nowâ?¦

The Room

Area:
It is a closet which is aprox 7ft x 2ft x 8ft
I built a bench in it so that I can put the ventilation through the rooms floor (see pics)
The room is obviously covered in the thick which one side, black the other plastic
It has been split into two areas: Veg 2ft x 3.5 x 7 ft / flower: 4.5ft x 2ft x 7ft
-I will also have a cloning/seeding area which has not been built as we have been using the flowering chamber for that not with the HPS though

Lights:
-For vegging we have a 400W MH (36 000 lumens)
-So thatâ??s 5150 Lumens/sq ft
-For flower a 400W HPS (50 000 Lm) with 4 odor neutralizing CFLâ??s each 1600 Lm
-So thatâ??s 6250 Lumens/sq ft


Ventilation:
The ventilation has a forced intake and exhaust. With one inline duct fan(165 CFM) for exhaust and two smaller unrated fans for intake. (see pics)
Temps are in the range of 77-82 F when lights on.

Plants:

Soil:
-Top soil
-Peat moss
-Black Gold organic potting soil
-Organic Worm castings
-Perlite
-Sand
-Chicken Manure ****** (do not use)

Nutrients:
-Grow, Micro, Bloom by Advanced Nutrients
-Vitamax by Grotek
-Flouralicious Bloom (organic) by General Hydroponics
-Sweet (havenâ??t used yet)
-Fish Emulsion (organic)
-Bone and Blood meal (organic)
-Revive
-Growth Excel (organic)

Use- generally mixing it at full strength. (Gro:Mico:Bloom:Vita at 2:2:0.5:2.5 mL per L)
-we only started using vitamax one week ago
-we foliar feed with growth excel 6 days a week when the lights go off (3mL per L)
-we mixed some bone/blood meal in the soil mix. More blood in the vegg pot. And more bone in the biggest pot as theyâ??ll be flowering in them

Strains
Started From Clone:
-Champagne 2 plants + 6 rooting clones
-Hog 1 plant
-Mud 1 plant
(not a â??realâ?� strain it was named mud as a friend cloned a bunch of plants he found growing in mud)

Started From Seed:
-Dutch Treat 3(but maybe 2) plants
-Atomic Northern Lights 1 plant
-BC Big Bang 3 seedlings
-Bag seed 6 seedlings

-All mature plants 100% females
-attached is all the plants labeled

Problems to Date:
-Chicken Manure was used (How the politicians would say it, no blame placed)
-Due to the manure we burnt and stunted some plants mainly the two smallest clones and the mature plants started from seed
-It also has a really bad pH so many of the plants have been having minor lock out problems
-Little bit of heat stress as they grew too close to light. One reverted to 3 bladed leafs

-We had a seeding area under the veg chamber so we seeded 7 bag seed and with the low ventilation it got too hot (with just a T5) so they all have heat stress.

Training:
-Iâ??ve topped the two champagneâ??s and took 4 other clones off them.
-Iâ??ve LSTâ??d them both but in different ways. The largest had all its lower shoots trained off to one side throughout its growth. And recently we topped and bent the main stem over so that all the side shoots were exposed (30+ growth tips now)
-The second largest plant I topped and let it grow up. It now has 5 major growth tips that weâ??re training out. (were kinda comparing the yield of the techniques)
-Trying to train one dutch treat into a circle around the edge of the pot. But, the older stem is very stiff so itâ??s not going too well

The Plan:
-planning to move the two largest plants (both Champagne) into flower very soon havenâ??t decided
-Then after two weeks we hope to move 1 plant per 10 days aprox. In order to be continuously harvesting so we donâ??t have to deal with lots of buds at one time.
-As well a friend who is growing in Ottawa has a male plant so is going to harvest and send some pollen to me. His strain is Fat Bastard. So thatâ??ll be fun in about 2 months.
-Grow 3 of the new clones 100% organic


Questions:
-I heard somewhere that mixing synthetic and organics doesnâ??t bring particularly good results. Is this true?
-When you all think I should start flowering. Once I start I want to be able to keep the one plant per 10 days going after the initial 14-10 days of the first two starting flower.
-As well the biggest plant the Champagneâ??s growth has really slown down since the LST I guess it is because of the diffusion of growth energy with so many growth tips. Any other ideas?

BTW i am growing WITH dutch.lover

So i'm going away for two days and the plants will be on there own.
I watered all the ones that will need it

more importantly i've retied one of the big plants to further spread out the top growth. It has some really nice big growth tips and when i flower i dont want them competing for light, as well it will give some more light to the small growth tips in the center.

Now that I finished my flowering room we can flower whenever. I guess we are going to wait until the small tips on this plant get a little big bigger.

well i'm back and all is good. plants grew a lot. Some of them putting on two nodes :D

as well my clones have popped roots out the bottoms of there pots. so i've moved them to 2inch under the T5

The clones have strange yellowing patterns on them. Unlike when i've cloned b4. I assume they are using the energy to grow roots. but the thing is, they are not just yellowing on the lowest nodes, check out pics

anyone got any ideas.

as well my big girl still isn't growing. and its kinda worrying me. she looks good. and she's been through a lot. in the last 2.5 weeks we've repotted, topped and LSTed. She was growing after the topping and repotting, so i dont know.
I know she isn't growing cuz of pics as well her growth tips have become dark green.



here some pics.

anyone else wana post :dance:

Hey, harris7. I remember this room from way back when I first joined. I was like, wow, somone is doing a closet similar to the one in 'my' JOURNAL. Then I didn't see much for a while. Well, last time you posted, I remember you were having doubts about cutting holes in walls/ceilings, I think. If I saw correctly, seems you decided to go ahead and give in, huh? Well, they look good so far, I like the LST'd ones. I'll keep checking in. Keep it up.

:rasta: RastafarI

TGF

naa i put all the vents through the floor which i constructed. The floor is a plywood bench.

I decided not to damage the place as it's obviously not the best idea.

He is the brawn behind this operation, i am the brains. tee hee. Seriously tho, i will give credit where credit is due- he physically built the whole thing by himself. Awesome job.