First Grow

Couple from this morning.

Vance, I took 5 more cuttings on Sunday, so far so good with them so I'll have you one in the next week or so ;) Hows a Durban poison looking?

I've got an El'cheapo 400w HPS on it's way to flower Gia in the little cabinet in another couple weeks,... Looking to flower 28-35 day's of veg, need to start working on the new ventilation system for the cabinet.

Couple more pics.:cool:

I've been slacking on my picture taking and posting,.... Ohh well.

Here's some pics and an update;


Pic 1: Most recent picture of Persephone, The recent High temps had me a bit worried about her pot/soil getting to hot, so I dropped the pot into the soil. I went back out a couple day's later and there were roots sticking out the bottom, so she's been plugged outside permanently.

I spotted my first sign of mites,.... just a little stipeling (Sp?) on one leaf, so I flipped it over and sure enough there was an immature spider mite on the bottom of the leaf, squished that little bastard where it stood and combed over the plant for more, I found some eggs, (Squished them too), but no other mites,... so a light neem oil bath for her and a shower before going back into my indoor room for me.


Pic 2: The Clones,.... I have no intention of keeping these, just took them to get some more experience with doing it,.... One of them didn't make it but I expected that since it was a branch on the clone anyway and was WAY too small to really even try.


Pic 3: Gia. I ditched the screen because it was just to big of spaces between the grid to keep her tied down,.... specially under the new HID

So just back to basic LST for the next 2 weeks then I'll do a SCROG in flowering.


Pic 4: This will be my dedicated VEG area for a while,.... Ignore the red, I was just burning in the HPS bulb for a couple minuets. It will be getting lit with the El'Cheapo 400w (Switchable) light that I picked up running a 6500k MH. After getting that thing light up to see how much heat it'll make I just couldn't take it away from the girls,.... So I picked up another hood for flowering.

Not shown in that picture is what I did with the clones, they are actually under the table the Vegging plants are on, the T5's are right on top of them and it's all sealed up at night to block out the 24-0 light in there. :D



Pic 5: My ambitions far outstretch my budget and time is not really on my side so I'm cutting my 4.5x6.5 room up and will use an area 4.5'x 33" as flowering. The second hood I picked up is a SunSystems unit,.... not quite as cheap as the first one, but it'll run the HPS bulb that came with the first one, and should provide plenty of light for that space..... This area of the room is still under construction,.... as if you couldn't tell.

My indoor plants went under the 12/12 lights today! :D And for the last 2 day's my outdoor plant has been getting it's ass kicked by the weather :mad: At least the outdoor plant is small enough to cover easily against the 3/4" hail we had on thursday! :eek:

Pics from last night. :jointsmile:

I'm running my flowering light from about 7:20pm to 7:20am and Veg light from 5:30am till 11:30pm, temps in my veg room hold pretty steady, a little on the high side peaking out at around 88-89* while both lights are running, 82-84* while one or the other is off.

The flowering room is a bit of a different story, temps are around 86* with both lights running 80* with just the HPS running (Veg room night time) and 73* with the HPS off (during Veg room day time.) The fresh air intake is in the flowering room, and exhausts into the veg room then out a duct to the back yard.

This is a grow log tho, not a room setup thread, so on to the leafy green porn :cool:


Pic 1: Persephone, we used a bucket to cover her during the hail and torrential rain storms over the last 2 days,... its still overcast and drizzly, temps have been in the 50's-60's. Gotta love Colorado weather.

Pic 2: Gia, she got topped last night, and the branch growth has EXPLODED!! :eek:

Pic 3: Diana, figured WTF I'll take pics of her too. Going all natural on her.


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They look rough (the DP and G). :D

Like I told you, I SCRog'd my two plants. After giving them 12/12 for two days a few months ago. I ended up with a LOT of ex-flowering growth. Then the stretch of other branches blocked light to that growth. Leaving me with a TON of dying, ex-flowering, stuff inside the plant.

After a repot roughly a week or so ago. I built a screen cage for each plant. THIS week I trimmed out ALL the dying undergrowth and pulled the tips out through the screen. After four days of veg time, I went through and trimmed out ALL mite damaged leaves (including the eggs they'd left on them).

In a few more days I'll be able to trim out some clones (and expose the remainder to better light) and start my flowering.:thumbsup:

Here's a pic

Vance; How'd you get them to grow on the wall like that?:wtf:



Pic 1: my Mom,.... It's been a month since she looked like your girls do,... I"m sure they'll pull thru, but I'm a bit bewildered where your gonna cut clones from in a week or so.:wtf:



Pic 2: My 2 flowering girls, Gia stacked on about 1/2" of branch growth today while Diana packed on about 3/4" of vertical and 1/4" of branching on a couple branches.


Pic 3: My favorite! :thumbsup: Diana showed me her girl parts today :thumbsup::hippy:

Yea yea, the wall, haha. :D

The difference with recovery between yours, and mine is. Yours got Neem damage, causing internal damage. Thus yours needed a bit of extra time to flush itself out. Mine however has no damage internally, or with any root system issues. So, like your topped plant. Mine should put all the energy it WAS putting into everything I cut off into nothing but the tops I left (and a few new shoots the plant is SURE to create).

It's been three days since I took that pic. So, here's a pic of them this morning. The DP (Farther) was trimmed out a day earlier then the G (closer). After each tip puts out 2-3 nodes. A large amount of that growth will block the light for other close by growth. THOSE will be cut out to clone, and to open up the other growth to better light.

My actual estimate on cutting clones is this weekend. I'll start flowering a few days after that.:thumbsup:

Lol,... very true,... I also forgot that you said your currently in 10 gallon pots! :eek: So I'm sure there's actually quite a bit of green there! :thumbsup:

I"m going to have my wife pick up a bag of Ocean Forest tomorrow and my mother plant will be getting upped to a 5 gallon, and the 2 vegging clones will get upped to 1L pots because they're the biggest I've got ATM and one of them is starting to show signs of root bound stress. I really need to get rid of these plants, but can't bring myself to pull them and burn em, :( Vance,... How's the one Pringle has doing? is it dead yet? I'm starting to lean towards the no pest strip killing the plant again after seeing that little girl on monday! :eek:




I figure I've got another week-week and a half before my flowering plants need bigger pots,... they'll be going into 3 gallon pots from the 2.5L pots they're in now, that should be enough to finish them I hope.


Pics in the morning if I'm lucky.:jointsmile: