Grow a Pound the 319 way

Strain: Nirvana Ice x 4
Soil: MG Organic Soil
Nutes: Earth Juice â?? Bushmaster â?? Superthrive â?? CalMag

600 hps (Flower)
4x4

T5 8 Bulb (Veg)
2x4
7 gal pots.

I've been growing for a few years now. I don't consider myself to be a master grower just a seasoned one. I usually have a 400 hps bare-bulb halfway down, with my 600 above, but in order to upgrade to my new (not this one) setup the I had to sell it. Sadly this will be my last grow in old setup. Oh, well on to the grow.

The plan of attack will be:

Veg for about 9 weeks, then flower for about 8-10 weeks. How I top, train and prune will be included. My veg period is about 9 weeks reason being that I have two tents, so I have to wait an extra week for the PPP that's growing in there now to dry. I've never grown Ice before, it states 8-10 week flowering period so my guess is about 9 weeks of flower.

Honestly I know that the first few weeks if not the whole vegetative period will be boring, but I wanted to be as detailed as possible not only for my records but for the many new/novice growers that are out there. So I will cover from beginning to end. So sorry for all of you picture whores out there that just want to see bud porn from seed to flower. But hopefully any new grower could follow this thread and grow a pound. If that could happen then I would be a very, very happy person.

Vegetative setup:
T5 8 Bulb, I really wish I would have bought a 600MH for my vegetative tent. Reasons why, I know that my plants would have faster growth with a 600MH on for 18 hours compared to my T5 and I would only pay 2 dollars more a month. Grow Light Operating Cost - Greentrees Hydroponics
I know that many people would debate me on this, but I feel that the amount of heat that the T5 8 bulb produces, I could have dealt with the MH for a fraction of the cost.

Pots;
I use 7 gallon pots for a few reasons. When compared to the growth and time involved with re-potting once or twice a grow, well lets just say there's no comparison. But I must say that there are benefits to using different pot sizes, maybe if the grower uses a stronger medium every step or a medium more advantageous to the phase of growth that there in (SUBCOOL). Anyway, also I like the fact that the pots are 12â?� round and with my 600hps light in a 4x4 tent I know that keeping the pots touching or very close together that they're receiving 50 watts per sq. foot. Lastly I use 5 gallon paint buckets as drip trays when I water once a week. Outside of the initial setup (putting the seeds in the dirt) the watering is the most time consuming part of growing. So I'll place the pots in the buckets, then water, let sit for a day then remove. So the watering process takes about 15 minutes. There's no need to move the plants to another location (bathroom or kitchen) minimizing time away from light, potential damage that could occur during the move or anything else that could happen. Also with the 7 gallon buckets if your watering correctly you only need to water once a week.

Nutes and stuff;
Before I switched to Earth Juice I have used Fox Farm, Advanced and GH. Honestly I like them all. Fox Farm & GH because of the simplicity and Advanced because of the way you can tailor each feeding program to suit the strain your growing. With none really the better then the other. But me being in college, working full-time, having a girlfriend, wife on the side (jk) and a dog my life is a little busy. Like I said above I was spending a lot of time watering and PH'ing. I don't know how it is where some of you grow, but where I'm at my water seems to change with the seasons from 7-8.8 and it made it impossible to come up with a one time â??PH issue solver?â?� lol

So I looked around and found out that a lot of growers were having success with bubbling and not PH'ing EJ. I decided two years ago to give it a try and well I haven't looked back. My yields are about the same give or take a few grams, but worth the extra time saved. Besides anyone that has smoked soil grown organic cannabis knows that there is no comparison. IMO, HA

Bushmaster: is used seldom when I feel that the plant is going to stretch beyond my tent capabilities. I've had this bottle for probably a year so that should give you an idea of how much I use it.

Neem Oil: Everyone should it all the time. Doesn't matter the brand. Just use it. You can never have to much cow bell.

Superthrive: Not necessary but I use it.
Moisture Meter (Get one)
Marijuana Garden Saver (Book) ← Buy this!

Updates;
Picture updates more then likely will be once maybe twice a week.

Germination:
Day 1:
Paper towel method has always worked for me. Wet paper towel, cover and forget for 48 hours. Once taproots are 1â?� in length prep dirt. Water soil with 24oz of water, place into dirt leaving seed (Husk) above dirt, taproot down. Sometime using this method at 48 hours your first set of leaves (cotyledon ) might be starting to show. Just gently place them in dirt. My T5 is running on only 4 bulbs at the moment until first set of leaves appear.

Can I not post pics??

Need more posts to attach them to the thread, However, you can set up an album on your user control panel for now.

Thanks, figured it was something like that.

I don't think you get to post pics until 50 posts

Well I hate it when people start logs and never finish them. I'm sorry that I haven't updated this in awhile but I've been having some security issues and I kind of have to leave it at that.

When I first started this I wanted to show others how I top, FIM and train my plants in order to grow a pound. But this will have to turn into more of a visual diary then a tutorial and I apologize. I am throwing in my PPP grow from now. They are about 3 weeks old give or take a few days. Enjoy the pics and I hope to get a better camera in the next month.

Any questions feel free.

Pictures are in my album, under week three. To clear things up here's what I'm growing.

I have 4 PPP flowering (Getting ready for smoke!)
Nirvana's Pure Power Plant (PPP) marijuana seeds

I have 4 raspberry cough (In veg next in flower)
Nirvana's Raspberry Cough Marijuana Seeds

1 Tangerine Dream (Growing for the girlfriend)
Tangerine Dream - Barney's Farm Seeds - Worldwide Marijuana Seeds

4 Ice (in veg next in flower tent)
Ice

2 tnt kush (In veg looking for a mother)
TNT Kush - Eva Seeds - Worldwide Marijuana Seeds

:rasta:

Day off work, spending some time with my plants, pruning the lower growth getting high and just looking at them, things like that. I know that I have said that I don't do it in the past and I don't per-say. Since I water roughly once a week, the plants naturally select the weakest leaves to wilt. This enables me to identify what leaves need to be removed.

Any gardener will experience wilt at one point. I believe that this is the plant letting you know that; I am not going to produce major flowers here, I don't mind if I lose these leaves, so on and so fourth.

Outdoor gardeners know and practice removing dead foliage once the light can no longer penetrate (Support) the lower growth.

You can see from the close ups that the plants experienced a slight burn. So I'll water for a week and more then likely resume normal dosing.

I went into my local garden center to buy Hi-Brix, but they were out. So I picked up dry molasses (See pic), just giving it a try. I put around 10oz in each pot also put in a little bit of top soil. I'll keep you posted on the results. The smell of this actually is worth it. EJ has a.. well smell to it. An organic matter smell that a lot of people can't stand. This molasses brings in a sweet smell to the garden.

A few baby bud shots..

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By the way, Ill continue this grow log for some time. I've been reading a lot about the new organic hydro lines coming out. I've been thinking about a DIY DWC buckets or Ebb n Flow.

One of the Ice plants is looking great and I will probably run her as a mother for a year. Who knows for sure. But be on the look out for an hydro organic grow in about two months.

The 4 biggest have been FIM a few times at this point, in another week or two these plants will be monsters.

Received my new 4x4 tent in the mail, and pretty much everything else. Setting all of that stuff up tonight. Decided to go with another 4x4 tent instead of a 4x8 tent. Figured for my setup this will allow me to control the canopy better. So now I have (2) 4x4 tents with 600hps ballast (1) 2x4 tent with t5 8 bulb. Turning this thing into a harvest every month or so.

Side note bought "Gardening Indoors with Soil & Hydroponics" by George Van Patten and it seems to me that this is the same book as the Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible" Jorge Cervantes. Even though I'm a bit pissed about that, it does go more into organics and all of that. It's an alright book so far.

See ya' in a few days for a better post.

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I really did plan on having this thing laid out nicely. well.. so much for that. :wtf:
So I guess this is just a log of a lot of random shit going on.. lol.

I have about a month left in flower. The veg tent is looking nice, plants are responding well to topping. Damn bulb was broke during shipping.

Should have my new tent up and running I guess by Tuesday, but we will see. Enjoy.

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