DE.Db33t's First Agro Grow Log

Hey Guys,

Beginning My First Grow Log, glad to have a community on bored,

Pictures wont be up till tomorrow but here are the basic specs.

Me and My roommate built a 6'x24"x30" Cabinet out of some scrap wood for this grow.

We lined the thing with black plastic than Mylar on top of that.

Everything was washed with a peroxide solution to ensure no mold will take hold as this has ruined 3 of my previous grows. On top of this we baked the soil at 350 for two increments of 45 minutes to destroy and pests and bacteria.

We are running off a 400w MH for veg conversion bulb then a 400w HPS for bloom.

For ventilation we have a 4"x4" hole cut in the bottom for intake and a 6" diameter 20" length Carbon Coal Filter running to a top mounter inline fan not sure the CFM for I bought it a while ago. Probably around 500.

Due to some heat problems I recently purchased a Cool Tube--Light Pipe Reflector--to run around the HID light which was heating out system up to about 100 degrees. YIKES!

The seeds are from my trip to jamaica and are most likely a sativa strain. Thus this grow will be heavily LST, FIM, Pruned, and all of the sorts in order to manage the height of the plant.

About two days ago we began the germination of eight of our huge stockpile of these seeds so we will see how things go.

Seedling soil is Jiffy Mix and the regular soil is MG--ew i know. The MG is already fertalized but i got some Cal Mag, Supervit, and GH products in case the MG runs short.

Our water supply is tap but I have one of those fancy 70$ ph testers and aquarium ph up and down to balance it around 6.8 just in case the chlorine is to much.

I also picked up some Hydrogen Peroxide 3% solution to oxidize those babies if need be. I have never tried this before but this whole process is a learning experience.

3 of the seeds have just barely cracked and the cooltube is to arrive soon so we should be alright till then.

I plan on sticking whatever germinates into some basic red plastics cups with holes in them until they build a sufficient root system in which I am going to transplant them into 4 medium sized plastic pots and stick them straight to bloom to accommodate the space requirements. Out of those four whatever is female I'll hold on to and bloom and take the males out.

Its a pretty basic set up and the only thing I'm worrying to much about is the heat issue but hopefully the cool tube will fix that.

Essentially we are running this vent set up.

CCF--6" flexi air duct--6" Cool Tube--6" flexi air duct--500 cfm (I think) fan.

Along with an oscillating fan to promote strong stems and a CPU fan at the air intake to increase air flow.

Like I said pictures will be up tomorrow and I'm glad to have you guys on bored.

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Air Intake

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Again the intake

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From the outside 4"x4" square

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ventilation out

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Up through the ceiling and into the fan

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Fill size picture of the room

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Another picture of ventilation

nice cabinet....looking forward to seeing some babies....good luck!......hopefully all the preparation will make all the previous problems disappear!

Ya, waiting on the cooltube now. Our babies are just barely germinated so I should have time to get them in and set up the Cooltube. Thanks for following along

DE.Db33t, I'm looking forward to your grow. Your cabinet is about the same size as to what I was planning on building in my attic, so I'm interested to see about the 400W setup and how well it works for you. I'm glad to see you have plenty of ventilation, or so it seems; it should address your past temp issues.

Good luck on your grow; hope that cooltube gets there soon, so we can begin the show. In the meantime, I'll grab a bag of popcorn and watch the trailers.

Yeah, Just a brief update, I found the fans model. Its a 449 CFM vortex centrofuge. Once we get it around the cool tube we shall be set.

Here are some pictures of the outside, just to show our closets sexiness.

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door open

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door

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door closed

When the cabinet's a rockin', don't come a knockin'! Sweet, rockin' cabinet, my friend! Sorry for floodin' your new thread, but I had to give your cabinet some props! I hope your grow is as sexy as that cab!

Okay, Ive been convinced. Im doing a side by side hempy bucket grow. For the bucket im using a 1.75 litre vodka bottle with the top cut off. GH nutes plus superthrive and Cal Mag plus for the nutes. Since I dont have any vermiculite on hand this is going to be a straight perlite grow. Im starting 1 seed off in a rockwool cube (pray its a girl) and the rest off in jiffy soil mix for the aggro grow. We will see who will trimph in this.

3 of the seeds have cracked and still no arrival of the cooltube. Today Im going to go to the HD and pick up a 60w--actually not appearent--CFL 6500 k and use that to start these babies till the cooltube arrives. Next picture post will be the planted seeds.

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing the pics of this side-by-side as it goes along.
Best of luck!!

So three out of eight cracked and started to sprout. Over the past three days they didnt grow even a little so I stuck 2 in the soil and one in the rockwool under a 100w appearent CFL. Still waiting on the cooltube so hopefully the CFL will manage em till it gets here. Just incase these puppies dont sprout I also stuck 4 more seeds into germination. I'll have pics up once they sprout. That is if they do.

BTW quick question, Bout what temp do you guys germ at if you are doing the paper toil plastic baggy trick. Cuz I think they were in to much heat.

80º F is about right. not too much warmer or cooler.

Whoot!

Cool tube came in and is all set up, Temps running around 80.

We got two seeds going right now. 1 in a rockwool cube that germinated real quick but hasnt sprouted out of the cube yet. Its only be a day so I'm not worried.

The second was one of the three that germinated from our first germination attempt and he has sprouted and is looking dandy.

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There is the one that sprouted
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Cooltube

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Cooltube

Just a few questions,

When do I transplant out of the cup to the bigger pot/out of the rockwool to hempy bucket

Also When should I start fertilizing

Thats really about it hope to have more pics and updates up once these gals--well hopefully--get a little bigger.

The cooltube aint helping. It must be my design or something because the tempratures soar up to around 90 degrees. So far I'm just pushing foward and dealing with the high tempratures. Is there any problems that might arrise due to this. Should I scrap what I have now until I get the tempratures under control?

So two more have sprouted and are looking good.

The one that originally sprouted is growing tragically slow and is beginnning to droop.

as you can see hear

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Is this overwatering? or under nutes for I havent used any nutes yet on him. Waiting till we get a few more real leaves on him.

Other than that heat is still an issue fluctuating between 86-80 and lower at night. Though a quick reposition next to the ac unit for an active ac intake will quickly resolve this problem.

Oh, forgot to ask

Is it better to push or pull through a CCfilter for I plan on pushing air out of it rather than pulling air through it as I have been doing.

So I moved my set up right next to the AC unit to control my heat problem.

I mean RIGHT next to it

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It feeds air directly into my set up

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temps are now being maintained around 77-80 degrees

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and the babies are looking GOOD

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DE.Db33t, I'm glad to see you have your temperatures under control now. I would also ask if you have adequate drain holes poked into those SILO cups? If not, I would poke several holes to ensure water is not standing at the bottom of your cups. Lastly, it looks like you can see some light coming out of your cab in that first picture. It shouldn't be a problem while your plants are in vegetative stage, but when you switch to a 12/12 or other flowering cycle, then you will need to ensure there are no light leaks - if light can get out, then it can get in.

Good luck with your grow. I wish you the best!

Yesterday I put two more seeds into soil so we can have 4 going into flower.

The second attempt to root one of our seeds in rockwool failed. They keep drying out and withering. So I have given up on the hempy bucket. Going just soil this grow.

We have two beautiful babies growin swell named Black Susie Q and The Freakazoid.

Heres Susie Q

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Shes getting transplanted today into a bigger pot and being put on full strength nutes tomorrow.

Freakazoid has a bit of an odd upstart. She came out with a yellow flakey shit on the preleaves and only grew 1 preleaf. Now her real leaves are coming in two sets, one where the other preleaf should of been and one in the normal area. Its like she fimmed herself during the seedling stage. LOL

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Im gonna wait to transplant this one when she gets a few more real leaves.

Other than that things are great tempratures under control and they are growing swell.

i cant wait to see the mutant in full action... except every mutant plant ive had has turned into male hopefully u can get a female.... best of luck

Susie Q got fimmed today. She had one nuting two days ago and today she needed some water so I figured it be a good time.

Freak is now in her new pot and recieved full strength nutes yesterday. Unlike Susie Q who flourished after her nuting growing almost a full inch. Freak is still slowly crawling along.

The two new germinations are looking great and for now we arent going to germ any more. Four chances should be enough to get some ladies.

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All four of our ladies

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the two new babies

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Freaks New Pot

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Susie Q's fim.

Killa loves the freaks......keep it up bro.....love the show!

The two younger ones have been transplanted and are looking great. No food yet though.

Susie Q is beginning to wither and I dont know why. Ill post some pictures here and in the plant problem sub forum any help would be appreciated.

The freak is drooping and yellowing and very slowly growing. We will see what is to come of him.

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All of our babies

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Susie Q's leaf problem


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Another picture of Susie Q

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Mr. Droopy

Well, things are going good. Ph problem is slowly correcting it self and now the babies are on autopilot.

I'd say two more weeks until we stick em into flower.

Susie Q is looking great after the fim and is showing 5 main growth spots for 5 sexy main colas.

Softspot just got fimmed yesterday and seems to be growing out nicely.

Freak has finally began to grow up a bit, we shall see what she will turn into.

In another couple days I'm planning on fimming Leopold.

Once they have all been fimmed I will start the LST process and grow me some nice bushes.


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Well Softspot and Leopold were females. The freak and Black Susie Q were males as expected. Too much stress early on I suppose.

Im giving them the good ol' 1 2 3 with GH nutes along with some cal-mag+ and hyrdrogen peroxide.

They are in bigger buckets now. Along with this we have been LSTing them via tying to get the lower bud sites some growth.

Soon we shall enjoy the fruits of our labor.