First SCRoG cabinet grow, Pics/Updates *here*

...And for lesser sins than this.

A local criminal used the three-pronged attack of being cute, intelligent and personable to trick me into keeping her kitten for the week while she travels.

NOTE TO FELLOW GROWERS: KITTENS AND OPEN CABINETS DO NOT MIX.

In the ten minutes I left the plants unattended, he shredded a good percentage of Bonsai and the healthy Thai's best fan leaves and gnawed through the base of healthy's second-largest stem. :cursing: :cursing:

It took an hour for the mental image of cello strings to fade, and then only because I envisioned the scene when his owner returns.

She: "Hi CCIE, where's mama's widdle sweetie?"

Me:"I'm sorry, but he had to die."

I just can't see that conversation ending well.


Anyway, here's how the gals look after removal of the chewed-up foliage:
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And here's the alleged assailant, caught in this undated security photo:
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On a bright note, dressing the plants' battle scars revealed that they ARE gals. I found distinct pistils on both Bonsai and the stunted Thai. Those pots do sound handy, Crazywill. If I decide to use varying pot sizes next grow, I will look into them.

lmao

Kittah <3's teh weed. We smacked her enough so she just smells the plants, and will only eat leaves that we feed her. She FIM'ed one of our earlier plants for us and disposed of lots of seedlings.

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Originally Posted by crazywill

Hey Guys and Girls,:rastasmoke:
Reading this thread and about repotting your plants.I had the same thing happen to a few of my plants.This why I only use the black nursery pots.
They are cheap and you can get them from landscpacers for $0.00,
I put dirt in the new pot till its full enough to set the pot your repotting is level with the top of the pot.Fill dirt around it and to the top.Pick up the pot a few inches and drop it,this will settle the dirt down alittle.Carefully pick up the old pot.This should leave a hole in the middle of the new pot.The black nursery pots are easy to cut with scissors down both sides and down opposite side. then carefully pick up the hole ball of dirt and put it in the hole in the new pot and add some more dirt around it.Pick up the new pot and drop it like before and add more dirt.Alot less stress on the plant and roots.
Hope this helps,and they are some nice plants you got there too!
Peace:weedpoke: :smokin:

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I too use the nursery pots. I got a bunch of them from my last job, they used to just throw them away. I found that if you let your plants slightly dry out before transplanting, there is no need to cut the pot off, just turn it upside down and hold the dirt with your hand by putting the main stalk between your middle and ring finger. Other than that, I use that same method of using the current pot to make the hole in the new pot, works great.

It's Flowerin' Time! :dance:

12/12 began on 12/1. All three plants have expanded so rapidly since the switch that they might stretch enough for me to turn this comedy of errors into the SCRoG grow I had originally intended. Here's all three, looking good other than some elf-shoe curling on the end of the Thais' new growth.
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I might have to change Stunted's name; she's taken off since I stuck a zip tie under her pot to let air reach the drainage holes. Then again, she also took off after I squashed her root ball like a demented bagpipe player, so who knows?
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Healthy continues to merit her name despite Max and my tandem efforts to do her in. I think she does it to spite me.
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I've stressed Bonsai in every way a plant can be stressed, but out popped nothing but pistils. I was going to expound on how her dogged determination to achieve her goal has inspired me, but that goal was to become a woman, so it would sound a little weird.
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I flushed 'em all on the second day of 12/12 and plan to use Grow Big for one more week, then segue into Big Bloom and finally Big Bloom/Tiger Bloom. I might just skip the screen this round and let them grow as they will. Lord knows they've earned a break from torment.

Hi CCIE, thought I'd drop by to post something to yours, since you're always over bugging me on mine. ;)

So, now I've confirmed what the nick means .... germinating seeds on a router confirmed it. That's the first time I've read about someone doing that. Good idea!

Glad to see that you've gotten off the ground. I'd have to agree with others on here, who've said don't beat yourself up over free seeds. At least you managed to sprout the good ones!

Yours are sure a lot bushier than mine. Mine are line 5 times taller, but have less leaves. Wonder if that's due to the strain or the growing method.

Good luck with the grow! Wonder who will harvest first?

Max the Destroyer has left the building.

The girls no longer live in fear, and I'll tell you: enduring his stay has given me new respect for growers who have kids underfoot. If I was in the house, the ridiculous thing had to be right where I was, watching everything I was doing. Placing a door between us even briefly caused Intense Kitten Psychological Distress, with the result that every gardening session after his 'episode' featured a serenade of mews and frantic scratching. Splifted, if his visit had lasted much longer I'd have started pestering you for training tips. :twocents:

As for the plants:
Stetching has slowed and flowers have begun to appear everywhere, but the two Thais are showing leaf curl that I think indicates excess nitrogen. I plan to give them plain water to drink next time, and perhaps the next two. If they don't perk reasonably after the next watering, I'll flush them.
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As expected, Bonsai appears to be flowering more rapidly than the other two. It's not visible in this shot, but I think one of the flowers already has a trichome. :dance:
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Healthy is a little unhappy but forming flowers just the same. I'm going to re-engineer my DIY cooltube before the next run so the light footprint extends to the edges more evenly; whichever side of the plant is toward the wall starts to stretch. Curious note: she's not that much bigger than the other two, but she drinks like a camel. I have to water the others with .75 her volume to keep a regular schedule.
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Here be Stunted, curly but growing. There's a tremendous amount of new foliage under her canopy, but I'm afraid it's not going to amount to much at this stage.
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Howdy Joe, welcome to the show. Your log caught my attention because the story seemed strangely familiar:
"New, possibly over-analytical grower builds an expensive cabinet and runs into various problems including a faulty HPS fixture. Tuesdays at 11."

I think the height difference is due to the veg lights. Excepting a couple places on Bonsai, I didn't top, FIM or make more than a token attempt to LST. Those 85(true)watt CFLs are potent and were inches from the plants, and beside them - which I suspect encouraged them to grow out, not up. Thai-Tanic is supposed to be lanky but they're as squat as the Skunk. Are you planning to use a MH for veg next round? I'm considering using one to augment the CFLs since it came free with my replacement ballast.

As for finish time, I think my skunk might win the race, but I'll bet you harvest before the Thais are done. :rastasmoke:

Over analytical?! Me? Who told you that? I wonder what you meant by that. (me trying to joke about being over analytical). :cool:

I used the 2', 4-bulb T5 lamps with the 6500k bulbs. I might replace 2 with 3000k bulbs next time around, but I don't think I'll add a MH yet. The fluorescent lamps are great, not burning your plants. I think I got spoiled before switching adding the HPS. I wound up allowing my plants grow way too close to the HPS. I'd say at least 12" from the edge of my hood.

I figure I'll harvest between 1/4 and 1/18, based on a 6 to 8 week flowering period. I need to dig up a magnifying glass, so I can check out the trichomes when they finally show up.

Nothing exorcises one's holiday spirit like spending hours propping up a cocktail and an interested expression while tipsy executives spew manager-speak. I'm fluent, mind you, but it's tiring. Now that I have a quiet moment here's an update:

All three plants have stopped stretching and buds have started to fill in the gaps between flowers. The Thais are a little behind Bonsai, but I expected that. Each brave soldier sacrificed a branch and several mini-budsites to the need for holiday cheer after these pictures were taken. I know it was wasteful, but the amount it looks like I'll be pulling off of the finished plants is well over what I can anticipate needing before the next round is done.

Also, we now have a definitive answer to the question, "will two ounces of fresh 4-week buds and their surrounding foliage create a noticeable effect if extracted into butter and baked into a pan of brownies?"

The answer is yes.
What was intended to be a handicap chess match (with both parties 'handicapped') devolved into an argument about tropical wood harvesting, then finally to games of 'chesspiece checkers' wherein only the knights retained their original mobility.

Final score: 6-4 CCIE, baby. :cool:

So, to the pictures:

Here's all three. Healthy towers as usual. Bonsai and Stunted are yellowing more than I think is normal in week 4 of flowering. I gave them Grow Big along with the Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom the last two waterings, which helped a little.
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Bonsai's buds are beginning to frost with trichomes. Here's a top-shot and an additional close up of her largest cola.
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Healthy has plenty of colas, but the flowers haven't really started to 'connect the dots' yet.
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I forgot to take a downward shot of Stunted Thai, but I do have one of her main cola. Self reminder: I need to grab a loupe sometime in the next few weeks.
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Joe, I think you might get more than you think once the buds start filling; I see at least an ounce in your box if the flowers connect the way Bonsai's have begun to.

Hey CCIE, they are starting to look pretty good. You should see some good yeild as well. As far as mine, I'm hoping that I get at least 2 ounces overall, dried.

With as much that I have been burning on the tops of two of my branches, I'm not sure how close I'll get. I figure that should last me until the next grow. I hope to implement cloning next time around.

Do you turn off your lamp to take these photos?