First dedicated dryer grow 6 Norhterns and 3 Afghanis

The new setup looks like it'll work pretty well. I like the cloning chamber. The whole dryer idea is just fucking cool!

That's too bad your clones in soil didn't work out. I tried a couple of those with branches I was pruning anyway and maybe I didn't wait long enough but they didn't work out either. Plus I didn't have anything to help them take root, just cut them and planted them. :) The ones we have in rockwool right now seem to be doing alright now that they're not waterlogged.

I don't know how long it takes for the red stems to clear up. Do you see any changes yet?

-canuck :jointsmile:

It's slowly clearing very slowly. My husband looks and doesn't see a difference but he doesn't know them as well as I do. So yeah the purple is fading and the dark/blueish tint on the leaves is slowly fading from the stem out.

OK alot is going on lately. I'm trying super hard to get this flower room togather. I have the frame up, and the plastic(Visqueen I think it's called) cut. My ballast is connected to the bulb and that is hooking up to the reflector once we find screws the right size(there's just so many to sort through). I need to figure out exacly where to hang my light before I put up the plastic, then I need to figure out where to place the air intake tubes and cut the plactic for that and the fan before I put the plastic up. Then last would be the duct taping of the seams and building of the lightproof curtain. I cant believe this only cost me 15$. So by the end of tommorrow hopefully I should have a new 50"x50"x76" flowering room. I need to flush and transplant so I figured once I get the hps hung even if the room isn't done I can put the 2 extra plants in there, on their same 18/6 cycle, and while I'm working in there I can move them back to the stage 2 with the other plants. My Afghanis are over a foot(Haven't had time to measure, just basic maitinance till I get this all done) and they are only in 6" pots :(

I took clones yesterday again though. This time I got some rockwool and a proper tray(cut vents in the top). They are at 80 degrees, 90% humidity, and haven't gone limp yet!

Picture will be coming soon of the building of the room, my new clones, and an update on the plants before and after transplant, So keep coming by.

Oh the purpling, It faded a little on the ones affected but where you can really see it is the new growth, There is still a little but I don't want to stress them with so much going on, so I'll work back up after the flush with them in new pots.

Peace

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New pics! The flowerroom and the plants as I transplanted. Let me know what you think.:jointsmile:

Looking good! I still can't get over the dryer thing, and think it's a wonderful idea! When I move to the new apt, Ima start looking for a tossed washer or dryer to salvage the tub and emulate your setup. Trés cool on the AC thing. I'm imagining that the AC is modded with a tray of activated charcoal as a scrubber? Or simply fan?

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I'm imagining that the AC is modded with a tray of activated charcoal as a scrubber? Or simply fan?

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The AC Is just a stand to hold the drum up, since with the fan/funnel it couldn't sit right on the ground in the first stage. Now as a cloning chamber I just point the little heater on the floor into the a/c and it traps the heat to run it up through the hole in the drum where the fan was, thus heating my clone tray. Oh Yay! All my clones are still alive(Happy Dance), last time they died with in a day.

To me the Afghanis look a little stretched but that could be the strain. Then the Northerns (except for Casey) look stunted and short, but they are healthy and after a few fuck ups happy. I'm starting to really like Casey though, I'm almost temped to ditch the rest of the clones after the mothers flower and just have a room of Caseys but then again I have no Idea what she'll smoke like. So I think I'll take a handfull of clones and pick the best one to turn into a mother. Sorry I ran away brainstorming.

Well quick up date...
Jaz, Mrs.Bin Laden, and Bella are up to 18", petti isn't far behind. The Northerns are lst'ed and busing out great.I haven't been able to get them into the flower room yet because there is a sight heat problem that should be fixed by another fan in the room but it has been a very heckic week and family comes first. But I will go shopping today and pick up a few things. Then clone again tommorrow and into the flower room this weekend.

OK so I fed them all today, re lst'ed, and took a clone from each plant. The two northern clones from last friday are rooted and the Afghanis shouldn't be far behind. So now there are 13 in there now.

My flower room is finished. I got a new tower fan last night and have the room going through a dry run right now, and it is sitting at 81 degrees 12" above where the plants will be. It is completely lightproof except for the fan but since the dryer is on the other side of the basement itr's pitch black in there so long as I remember to turn off the overhead lights. I climbed in there with duct tape to seal off leaks and when I dropped the door behind me I got lost in the dark, lol.

So tommorrow the 4 afghanis go in the room, and a week or two later I want to throw the northerns in there(I want some major bud from those babies because they make killer weed(it's what we currently buy off buddy who gave us the plants.

Hopefully by then The clones are rooted and then I can go back to stage one dryer and start experimenting with bonsi(sp?) mother plants.

I'm so excited.:yippee:

Sounds like you have got cloning down. :thumbsup:

Now that you started that NL vs. Afghani poll I'm really curious to see how you like them both at harvest. Flower those bitches! :jointsmile:

Thanks for the visit Canuck, eh.

Already done. I did a dry run of the flower room yesterday and altered a few things. They temp is around 84, a little high but I'm going to fix up a vinigar baking soda drip, or if I can afford the extra cash I'll get a yeast culture going but appaprently that stinks. So it will make up for the temps and hopefully increase my yeild a little. I couldn't wait to get my ladies in there, after I transplanted them Jaz and Mrs. Bin Laden didn't even fit in the room, so I took the back off and put them as close to the light as possible, they perked right up now that they are in their new room.

so now I get to shut dwn the MH bulb and wait for more of my clones to take, then it is back to the stage 1 veg dryer drum till we out grow that. I figure that if these clones grow too quick before I get this harvest out, I'll throw as many of them in the spaces in that grow room and flip the MH bulb over to 12/12 in the dryer and have 2 flower chambers going. Then as I move plants out of the flower room I'll move them out of the dryer into the free space. I'll just stick my mothers under the flouro for a bit and pick a few more up. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

Right now I'm re lst'ing every day on my plants because they are tolerating it and I'm opening up light to the little branchs growing off the branches(not sure what to call those) and the plants are working on filling out. I love working on my northerns because I can twist the main stem more but that's just because I'm using fishing line and don't want to hurt them. But today I am all caught up so I think today is a major tie down day as the plants adjust I'll tighen it up a little to try and get those northerns a little shorter and better spread out.

LOL I'm smoking one of my babies mommas, buddy stopped by last night with some northern lights. I asked him and it turns out I've never had Afghani, at least not from him. So I'm very curious to find out what they smoke like. I think After harvest and curing I'll figure out how many of each I want to gro. Even if I pick one or the other I'll keep an extra bonsei mom so there are two of the ones I'm currently not growing, just in case.

But after a wake-n-bake and with a squirmy baby in my arms it's breakfast time. I pop in all the time if you wanna visit.