DAY 60
Those leaves came from PLANT #8.
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DAY 60
Those leaves came from PLANT #8.
Well, I've posted lots of pics. Gonna take a breather (wink) for now. Let someone give me some feedback. Any comments, questions, advice is welcome.
I'm almost caught up to present time. I'm gonna have some questions about flowering, and ventilation soon. Please keep up with me. I need some help. Thanks. This site is great. :smokin:
TGF
I think your idea of cutting some squares of poly or mylar and putting them over the cubes to prevent mold is a good idea. But I think it's a good idea for future plants, not these. If you cover that green mold now, it might develop into something worse, so for this batch I'd just leave em alone and try the square idea for future plants. Or, try it on ONE of these plants (like the sickliest looking one), and wait a couple of weeks and see what happens before you try it on any others. You've come this far, so might as well keep going and not put your whole crop at risk.
Here's a pic or two of my cabinet, with three plants in it that got way too big due to me vegging too long (which was unavoidable, as I had to leave town for a week, and didn't want to flower until I returned). I show the pic not to convert you to the cabinet life (you seem happy with your closet) and certainly not because it's the best cabinet ever made (I'm sure it's not), but to show you how I did my ventilation, with the cooltube, passive intakes, and the carbon filter (which you can't see, it's on top of the cabinet hidden behind stuff). My light is also a 400w HPS. You are going to need to figure out your ventilation before too long, unless you just want to leave your door open and have a strangely glowing closet. ;)
Oh, one minor thing: I saw you had some electrical cables and such on the BOTTOM of your closet. I'm sure I'm more paranoid than most people about fires (since my home burned down last year), but...that seems a little scary, especially in conjunction with hydro. Electrical stuff on the bottom + gravity + hydro + pump problem or something = potential fire hazard. If my saying something about it helps prevent someone ELSE from watching their home burn down, well, I'd just feel guilty if I didn't say something. Doesn't hurt to be a little extra careful when it's your life at stake.
nice cupboard jam.... couple of questions: have u put ur intake and outake vents at the back facing the wall?? does it rattle and shake like a bastard? what temp to you top out at?
cheers man.
once again nice cupboard...
i am thinking of making a new flower cupboard and i like the look of yours.
how big is it? and finally how much can you yeild from it?
thanks dude.
Hey, Jam. Yea I've seen your cab. Very nice. I'm definitely looking to scrog sometime soon. As far as the cool tube...Let me show u mine in a few and you'll see what I'm doing. It is pretty similar to yours. BUT, my fan is not strong enough.
Regarding the electricity and the bright orange glowing closet...
No, we havent really been able to go full stealth mode yet. We have ventilation problem to work out. We will soon. Hopefully. I'll be caught up any time now then you can see what I'm working with at the "present time."
(I'm not really growing anything except tomates and peppers, tho)
:D ;)
The wires are on the right side. As of now. There is no real water or hydro system on that side, so no real danger. When I put my res for flowering under there, I will definintely move the wires. We will be installing extra dedicated circuit breakers to hold the load and to remove any wires from protruding from the closet.
So...
I think last time I left you, we had rooted clones...and were overflowing into the flower room. We need to sex quick!
Here, we are moving some of the BIG plants from the left side to the right and moving all the smaller plants to the left so we can maximize our light situation. :D:D
TGF
Cpl more pics. Gonna let the clones root a little more. A couple of them (mainly #8) are struggling.
Also in Pic #4, the very small weak looking one is the top from PLANT #8, the one that was sliced and dice and thrown away.
The one to the left of that is amazing. It came from PLANT #11. It is also a top. It is the one that was exploding with roots. It is the same age as the clones in the top cloning chamber, but at least twice as healthy.
DAY 64 from seed.
Came to check on the babies. Clones are doing Awesome. They have grown much in the last 4 days. Plants on left and right veg are also doing well. Obviously I dont have enough light still in my left side cuz it is causing major stretching to any plant I put in there, but that's all the light I have while I wait for my 400wHPS and while I wait for these clones to flower. They're just about ready!
is that inside the bulb?
i wouldnt use it just doesnt look right
Intakes are two Doran 8"x8" darkroom louvres, one on the left side of the cab at the bottom, and one on the back of the cab at the bottom left. Outtake is at the top into a carbon filter. It doesn't rattle and shake at all, although the fan is certainly audible. Cab is 47"wide x 72"high x 20"deep. If I have the 400w light on and the eight 30-watt warm CFLs on too, temps top out around 10 degrees hotter than the room (which I keep at around 72 during the warmer months, and as low as 65 during the winter). If I just have the HPS on, or just the CFLs on, then the temps get to about 5 degrees hotter than the room. Yield is ~1 pound every 10-ish weeks.
And yeah, you're overflowing your closet there! Lol, but hey, better to have too many than too few! Any calyxes on the grown plants yet? You can tell sex without flowering, generally, if the plants are old enough, from the pre-flowers. Could be you'll be able to determine sex from some of the mature plants before the clones tell you.
Hope you have a bunch of nice healthy females! If there's a lottery, I'm going with 6 females. ;)