headshake's new adventure in ghettoness

various different bottoms and one layer around the side.
what's good everybody? i'm starting a new log for the 12 plants that i have germ.'d (1/28) and transplanted (1/30) into home made containers. i originally used the "grow light" tube that i started the original grow with. i have since added 4 CFLs. 3 x 6500k and 1 x 2700k, 23w, ~1600 lumen bulbs.

they twelve are:

5 x dank (from various bags)
1 x beaster (b.c. from a bag)
4 x really good corn (RGC from bag)
2 x good corn (GC from bag)

the containers are various drink bottles cleaned with holes added via a soldering iron. i added as many as i could on the
i don't have fans yet. the temps run a little hot. the first night when i left the box completely down the temp reached 104 degrees and cooked a batch of clones! yikes! so now i prop it open and it usually stays around 85 degrees. i can usually open the window or turn on the a/c and get it lower. I KNOW I NEED FANS! i'm working on it. i have a few other ideas to try. i want to tinker with passive cooling.

i really need to revamp the setup. which will be happening once the sometime-in-the-near-future move coming up. that will be nice. i might have some real space to work with!

this log will also contain the stories of a few stragglers. there is the Fridge Top Duo (a.k.a. FTD) that are two of the original seedlings that i germinated before going to jail.

there is also two surviving clones from that original batch. they don't look that good but they are still alive.

i think that pretty much covers it for now. i have a few pics.
the plants are looking very good at the moment.

actually there are 3 in the aero garden that i put in in place of three of the herb pods that didn't work. one has sprouted.

-shake

pic 1-the new clone/seedling box

pic 2-frank and the new box (notice the use of air from frank, it seems to hit all the new plants)

pic 3-this picture was taken on 2/9

pic 4-this picture was taken today (2/11)

pic 5-e.t. clone home

here are a few more pics of the crew. they tell me it's nice to meet all of you guys!

-shake

pic 1-temp/humid

pic 2-new bong and the FTD

pic 3-closer-up of the FTD
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pic 4-planted seed, sprout, planted seed (from front to back, assorted other herbs in this shot!)

pic 5-the new bong, named bevo (after the university of texas mascot). it's kinda a burnt orange sixties amber color (and i'm a longhorns fan). ~16 1/2 inches tall.

nice rig ya got there Shake. Ill be following along with ya on this one too bro.

much luck to ya.

oh and Bevo sure does look purty. Hook 'em baby!

thanks kingkron! glad to have you along for the (hopefully) funktastic journey!

i appreciate the luck.

you made Bevo blush! Hook 'em!

-shake

gosh i must've missed this one. my bad, shake. looking good, brother! that friend i gave the mother plant to, he's totally off and running with the advice i gave him and from the sounds of it, his setup surpasses mine in everything but lumens in his flower cab and ventilation. teach a man to fish, eh?

oh yeah, pretty bevo! i need a new bong, but i always feel like they're best for parties, which i don't do often. hard for me to justify a bong over a bowl when i get home from work and only need to smoke .5-1 gram.

i wish you all the best of continued successes!

lml. HOOK 'EM .lml

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Originally Posted by GoldenGraham84

gosh i must've missed this one. my bad, shake. looking good, brother! that friend i gave the mother plant to, he's totally off and running with the advice i gave him and from the sounds of it, his setup surpasses mine in everything but lumens in his flower cab and ventilation. teach a man to fish, eh?

oh yeah, pretty bevo! i need a new bong, but i always feel like they're best for parties, which i don't do often. hard for me to justify a bong over a bowl when i get home from work and only need to smoke .5-1 gram.

i wish you all the best of continued successes!

lml. HOOK 'EM .lml

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thanks for stopping by gg. i knew you would find it. i feel ya about the fishing!

i feel ya about the bong/bowl conundrum. well it's not really a conundrum, i suppose. i just like to get really ripped and the bowls don't do it for me. they are fine once i'm blowed but i'm used to smoking blunts all the time. maybe it's just me. i do have a chillum and a spoon. a nice bubbler will be next.

what's with the "lml. HOOK 'EM .lml" thing? sorry, mabye i'm just retarted.

Give a man an 1/8 and heâ??ll smoke for a day. Teach a man to grow and heâ??ll some the rest of his life.
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its the lame internet way of typing out the "horns"

yeah, i'm sad...

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Originally Posted by GoldenGraham84

its the lame internet way of typing out the "horns"

yeah, i'm sad...

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naw, that's dope! i've NEVER seen that before!

rock on brother!

-shake

hahah i was wondering what the hell the lml was too. thats cool as hell though.

just a little update. the (hopefully) ladies are looking fine. they will be getting watered and fed in a bit and i'll definitely take some pics!

-shake

Got to love those grow logs..
:thumbsup:

CFL? Hey PPl. Ive just got a quick question in regards to RED/BLUE CFLs

Im basically wondering if a combination of red and blue (ie. warm white or cool white) is needed when growing Low Ryders or can I just use the RED bulbs for this strain as its pretty much straight to flowering?

Sorry if this is a lame question ppl!


Thanx

adifrost, i can't really answer you question. i have no experience with autoflowering strains. you might have better luck if you post in the correct forum.

with that said, on to the good stuff! okay, nothing major. i just snapped a few pics while everyone was getting watered and fed.

i am gonna be looking at getting some new nutes. something organic. anybody have any recommendations for something good, but not expensive? and possibly an air pump to make the bubble cloner.


-shake


pic 1- the gang

pic 2- the clones (i'm thinking of disposing of these. i probably put them into too big of pots. they have a good root structure but have done nothing up top. any thoughts?)

pic 3- the FTD, they are now located in the box with the rest of the gang

pic 4- the aerogarden loner

pic 5- rub-a-dub, all in the tub

wouldnt waste the time with them 2 since the rest look so good keep it up bro :thumbsup:

if you can, keep them clones. their above-ground structure is only awaiting their roots' command to equal its size.

oh, and that adifrost's Q is repetetive. he's jacked two threads with that lame crap. READ, adi, READ!

"ghetto" grows are so much fun.

definitely fun!

the youngsters seem to like the heat a little. without the a/c running or the window open (and it's cold-er outside), the new box stays about 85°F.

okay, i will hang on to the clones! it's good experience either way i suppose.

-shake

what's good everybody? just letting those that are following along know that there will an update with pics sometime today. i have recently started a new job that is kicking my ass!


-shake

dude those mini oreo pack are awsome:thumbsup: using them as we speak, glad i gets to checks out your "ghetto grow" since i am a "ghetto grower" myself:D

already magiccity! i do like to meet the fellow "ghetto growers"! i do plan on one day getting a proper setup going, but so far the ghetto route has been treating me pretty damn good!

-shake

okay, where to start. on 3/1 i started 36 hours of darkness. well i forgot to start the lights again and didn't check on the ladies until 3/8! the tops were dead so i chopped them all off. the plants did survive though! so i nursed them back to health.

i must say that molasses is amazing! everytime i hit them with it they flourish and get tons of new growth! i'm gonna experiment with it some, but i have a feeling that it will work in veg too!

sorry for the tangent, back to what's at hand here.

once they got healthy, ~3/11 i started 36 hours of darkness again. yesterday i transplanted a few that were rootbound. i need to pick up some square pots. i'm currently using homemade 2-liter bottle pots. i mean they work fine, i just think the shape will work better for my space requirements.

i'll get a few pics up in a bit.

i still have plans on getting the fox farm trio for hydro (with a bottle of the soil one too). also the soluble tri-pack as well. but we had some fradulent charges on our bank account and then friday was my wifes birthday (and she got a $300 stand mixer!). so once the money is right i will be ordering them.

and the big box in my corner is gonna be put into service soon. it is 45.4" x 21" x 24". this will be the flower box. i am gonna go with a sea of green, perpetual harvest. i hope to yield 1/2 LB every two weeks by pulling 8 plants at 30 g's per. i think this is very doable, and i should probably get more once everything is dialed in. i want to go with a dro system . it's time to get my roots wet! i was thinking of using two of those underbed storage boxes. one in the box as a flood tray and one underneath as a res. sound feasible? i'm open to suggestions. i'll probably slowly start getting it ready for use while this current crop is finishing. just take me time with it.

i also have a box that is 18" x 18" x 23 1/4" for a clone/mother setup. i'll be using a bubble cloner and probably, eventually (with more experience and better genetics) some bonsai moms.

i think that pretty much sums everything up for now. i'm glad to be back. thanks for everyone staying with me during my hiatus!

-shake

i watered yesterday and hit the ladies with some superthrive and molasses. they really seem to dig the molasses. it seems like it makes em grow like crazy.

i had to chop down 3 males. the beaster and the two R.G.C.'s. no worries though. the box is still full!

i will be germinating some seeds probably starting today. maybe tomorrow.

once this current batch is done i hope to get the fox farm nutes and soluble packs.

i'll have some pics up in just a few. off to take them now.

-shake

what's good everybody? here is a quick pick. my kids are in-town for spring break so i don't have a whole lot of alone time. they were looking really nice until the whole 36-hour darkness turned into 7 days. lol. but they survived and once i cut the top off i got the two shoots instead of the single.

i chopped 2 more males down today.

i think i'll put some into germ tonight to get a cycle going. and the nutes should be getting ordered shortly.

and slowly but surely i'm getting new parts for frank II.

-shake

pic 1- 9 ladies (pretty sure they are all women).

dude them things are F'in beautiful! Keep up the goodness bro!!!:thumbsup:

thanks italiano! i am trying.

off to research turning security lights into grow lights. pretty sweet. i'll check-in with you log in a bit man. did you get it all chopped?

-shake

hey shake i've been meaning to ask you,

whats the MM on Bevo? my local headshop has a sick burnt orange ash catcher with a silver longhorn symbol in the bubble on the side that would look awesome with bevo.

but your plants are lookin real sweet man. "pic 1- 9 ladies (pretty sure they are all women). " --- i sure hope so bro. NO MORE DICKS IN THE FAMILY!!

good luck bro.

oh and im glad you ditched to 70hrs a week job, we were starting to miss ya around here.

thanks kron! glad to be back around here. the job almost killed my girls and everything. can't be having that.

and i'm 99% poxitive that all of the rest are female!

and i'm blowed and possibly blowed but what is the MM on Bevo? and she broke! the dogs knocked her over. i caught her but it fell stem side down and it hit the carpet and broke right where the stem starts to form. totally sucks!

i got it at the blue phoenix on rosemeade though. maybe i'll get another one one day.

-shake

what's good everybody? checkin in with a report. i hit the ladies with some nutes today. still using the green light super bloom or some such crap, with superthrive and molasses.

quick side note, my lovely wife ordered me some fox farm nutes. i have the grow big for soil and hydro, big bloom, tiger bloom, cha ching, beastie bloomz, and open sesame. as well as some 5"x5" square pots!!!!

i also started the germ process on some new beans. still just using beans from sacks with names i see fit to give them. and those names (and quantities) are as follows:

7x dank (random seeds from a friend i think there are some from an afghani kush, super silver haze possible, maybe some bubblegum but honestly who knows?)

8x Green Tea (G.T), came from some popcorn that was really light green and i had just made some green tea, so you figure it out!

5x After Da Bust (A.D.B.), this is from some popcorn my buddy has currently that is the first stuff he has gotten since getting busted. it doesn't look great, really dark green with a few hairs, but the high is good. so why not?

5x Grand Daddy Corn (G.D.C.) so named from a buddy of mind. you know, the best 'corn. blah, blah.

i think that is about it for now. and here are a few pics too!

-shake

pic 1- the ladies getting ready for a shower.

pic 2- just thought this one looked cool.

pic 3- a close up of some goodness in the making.

pic 4- rub-a-dub, all in the tub!

sorry for the various size pictures. i just started (like 2 days ago) using linux. don't know shit about anything!

well, damn man that sucks to hear about the pup breaking Bevo. I know how it feels though, I had a cat that thought my 3 footer was a sratch post and knocked it into a table and shattered it.

but the plants are still looking good bro. keep it up!

thanks chron. that's sucks about your 3 footer. "you should never let a cat scratch on a bong, kid."

the ladies appreciate the flattering comment.

-shake

Looking good so far shake, keep up the good work

Looking outstanding, Bub. And those are some of my favorite strains.

thanks rambler and shove! i appreciate the love.

not a whole lot to report on at the moment. i fed the ladies (8 total now, there was one more male hiding amongst them).

i have planted 15 germinated seeds.

7x dank (various top notch strains)
7x GT (green tea)
1x ATB (after the bust)

i'm pretty sure that's it. i am too lazy to go and check right now. lol. i'm blazed.

i also received my fox farm nutes! i'm not gonna use them on the current batch in flower. i'll use them on the up-and-coming batch, for comparison's sake.

other than that there is not much to report. hope all is well with everyone.

-shake

pic 1- new nutes!!! and some new pots too!

Various dank sounds quite nice, shake. =D
And hell to the yeah on the FF nutes.
I'm always lurking in your thread. I used to sport cardboard boxes as well. But the extra closet in the computer room was needing something to do. >.>

Keep us posted, shakezoola. =)
beSafe

subscribed! keep the good shit coming:thumbsup:

yes sir, i like it. really great job thus far. i am subscribed.http://boards.cannabis.com/images/smilies/pimp.gif

thanks befree, bigleague and albatross! always appreciate the feedback.

i can't wait to have the extra room to play with! i won't know what to do!

and i'm looking forward to seeing what the FF nutes do.

thanks for checking it out!

-shake

ok. here is a little update. i transplanted the ladies today. i know it's a no-no during flower but they really needed it! i put them into 5"x5", square pots. i'm starting to look more and more professional all of the time.

there is some curling, copper-colored spttoed leaves going on though. i have filled out the troubleshooting form. i had the same problem last go 'round. i am using a fert (1/2 strength) called super bloom by green light. it's 12-55-06. the other thing's i've been adding are superthrive and molasses. i am using a water/feed, water/feed, water schedule.

i don't know any the pH of anything. i need to get a test kit. that's next. i did just purchase a brita filter for my faucet. maybe that will help a little?

they seem pretty healthy for the most part.

i also put a few more seeds into germ since some didn't seem to take once they hit soil. i need to start cloning i know. i should have done it this time. can it be done while plants are in flower?

here are a few pics too!

that's about it. thanks for staying tuned!

-shake

pic 1- gnarly looking start of a bud! this is from a various dank seed. looks like it could be from the white line? maybe it's the super silver haze? looks good either way.

pic 2- a body shot of the gnarly-budded lady.

pic 3- all of the ladies in their new shoes.

wow. looking so good. i want to eat that first picture.

i have a brita filter and the water comes out the same ph that it went in.

you can clone in flower but i think the clone will be in flower right away.

Ur ladies looking great shake.+2 joints.:jointsmile::jointsmile:, ^^^ If I am not mistaken you can clone in flowering. But it will add stress to your ladies, also will take time for your ladies to recover. So you will lose time and bud production waiting for you plant to heal, Which I do not know a lot bout cloning but I think that energy to fix herself could have been better spent in producing fatter and more bud production.. I may be wrong tho but i know it will take time to heal your plant=Less energy and time spent getting bud production.:jointsmile: Usually if you gonna clone in flowering I think that you wanna do it in the 1st week of flowering maybe get away with it in the 2nd. But you will not yield as much as you would have if you did not clone.:twocents::baggy::angry3::admin2:

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