My first go at indoor trees!!!!

So, I built me a tent outta metro carts and rolled insulation with the mylar exterior$50.00 Got me a 400 MH for $75. Got a bathroom venting fan for $15 and a cheap oscilating fan for inside $3. Had the sunshine farms #4 from my outdoor. And clones, 4 of them for $60. Hindu Skunk, LA Confidential, Black Domina, and a Sour Desial. All about 10 inches tall.

I ran the room for about a week or so just to check temps, day and night. We have been having weird weather patterns latly so I was conserned about temp flucts. Seems to be holding right a 80 deg.

I left my cam on my buddys boat so no pics yet but Ill get some up soon.
Hope this mess works out.:wtf::wtf::wtf:

Anywho, you all have a great day and Ill be reading on and on and on:stoned::stoned:

I like the idea of building your own system. My veg box used to be a cabinet at some silicon valley company. My lights are 4' flourides and I have salvaged muffin fans on each end. One blowing in one blowing out. I have vegged hundreds of plants in this home made box. My clone box is home made too. Just one 4' flouride in a tiny box with a few holed drilled in it.:D

Yea, Im thinking Im gonna run outta room real fast but thats ok. Ill just have to build anouther one:thumbsup: I cant get over how much fun this is as I no longer can work and I drive myself nuts just sitting around so now I have a new hobby:rastasmoke:

That is a lot like my story. But I really went nuts and bought 120 acres too. Now I don't have time to get bored.:smokin:

Sheet, your not gonna run outta room...Wheres about you at Rudy?

Welp, 12 hrs into it my hindu skunk is wilting. I would think its either transplant shock or my fan is blowing to hard dirrectly on the plants causing wind burn. Or both. The rest look great this am.

Im running 24/0 for a few days so theyadjust to my light. Is this a good idea?

Also, I have black pots, should I worry about that or cover them?

Help a indoor noob out:stoned:

Nor Ca - popular growing co. It is so popular that the authorities in my area are looking for fields with thousands of plants and they find plenty. I am counting on these folks with the huge fields to keep the authorities distracted. I did not see a single chopper fly my field this year unlike the past two years where they hovered and counted then hauled huge loads right over our heads from a nearby grow. They seem to be focusing this year on illegal grows on fed or state land. They changed CAMP to campaign against illegal marijuana planting and seem to be leaving folks on private lands mostly alone. At least in my county.

For your plants the 24 on should help any recovery. I just rotate my plants away from the muffin fans in my home made box if it looks like it is hurting them. Don't over fertilize it.

That would be a sight to see.

Im triing to figure out when the best time for my 6 hr lights out would be as I have my box in the garage. Temps get down to 40 right now but it will get colder at nights.

Right now Ive set it at 6 am till noon as I figure thats the best time for me.

I have light leaks that need to be fixed. Ill have to climb inside and have my wife close the door with my garage lights on so I can see them. She might like that and lock me in there.

Ill wait about a week and then start with a light dose of fish emulsion 5 1 1.

Will that be good?

Im going to try and follow the same thing I did on my out door as far as nutes.

Should have my cam today so you guys can pick my tent apart:stoned: Or not:D

Have a great day!!!

I am basically an outdoor guy. I just use my box for vegging and creating clones. You should check out someone with more indoor experience for advice on the nutes. I just use the clonex solution in the black bottle to water in my box. I use Happy Frog for the soil as it seems to make new plants really happy. I use a variety soils and supplements that I pick out at the store for my outdoor stuff.

Cold weather can wreak havoc on young plants. It will at least stunt them and can kill them. On mature outdoor fall plants cold weather is desirable to bring out the purple in those varieties and does little or no damage.

I left my Mazar plant in the ground until last Sunday. It has gone through several freezing nights at my property and it looked fine. No mold and still green and and fresh looking. I could have left it longer but I am worried that I could get snowed out and not be able to harvest it.

Seems tough to get responces from alot of these guys. But thats ok, I talk to myself anyhow:D

Looking up my strains and looks like Ill have a great grow:thumbsup:

Cool man. I got my cam back.

The tent/box is approx. 3x4x5.

I almst lost my girls due to my light being too low. I read the chart wrong:wtf:

Anywho, speak up:stoned:

Also, Im wondering if mylar would be better then the stamped mylar/insulation I have on the inside:wtf:

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Cool man. I got my cam back.

The tent/box is approx. 3x4x5.

I almst lost my girls due to my light being too low. I read the chart wrong:wtf:

Anywho, speak up:stoned:

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You can keep your light between 14"-18". And adjust from there, 18" being the max distance. :thumbsup: :twocents:

Thank you!!!:thumbsup:

I run my 400MH a little high, 18-20" off the tops, but if I have a girl that runs away I use the "Hand" method for judging just how close I can let her get. If I hold my hand at the level of the plant and it's not uncomfortable then the plant should be just fine too.

The HinduSkunk looks a little heat stressed from the light being too low, but everything looks good now.

As for the reflective,.... the kinda quilted stuff your running now will diffuse the light better so you won't have so many hot spots. I use Panda since it also helps reduce reflected heat.

Alright you guys:thumbsup:. All this time I spent reading is paying off.

I think Im going to Scrog these as Ive seen some awsome grows here. Im not sure that all four will fit like that so maybe I wont..Dont know:(

Im just excited to be growing again.

Oh hell I hope you didnt read my thread! :o

I made some critical errors in my grow, it'll be a fine harvest, but it's gonna make me work for it!



Scrog is fun as heck tho! :D Very rewarding watching all your hard work pay off for ya! :rastasmoke:

As for your area and scrogging all 4,..... it could be done but it would be a bit confusing by harvest time telling which bud is from which strain! :wtf:

I visited a dispensary grow today and wandered thru his tables of SCROG'd plants sniffing buds and then trying to figure out which plant they were attached to! 40,000w flowering room, all SCROG,..... just WOW! :eek:

Pic of a corner from 2 weeks ago when I was there.
http://boards.cannabis.com/members/c...ering-room.jpg

IMO SCROG is a great method for lower wattage HID and for Floro users since the penetration into the canopy is so limited. But I digress,......


If I were you with a 3x4 foot print for your tent, I'd vege the plants in to about 1-1.5 foot tall, then top em. Vege for another week to let the branches come in some.

Then for Scroging, take some garden fence with the 2x3" rectangles, and hang it in there about 3-6" BELOW canopy height (Bend your plants down to make this happen) then kick the lights to 12/12.

Train stretch into any available wire, but try to keep the canopy as thin as possible. (Dont overlap, and try not to inter weave your girls) once your out of space to train the nodes down let them grow up into buds. top runaway's or HST them (Kink the stem under the screen and pull them back down to match the canopy)

As for any undergrowth,... if it wasn't within 4" of the bottom of the screen at the end of stretch, cut it out, it's not going to get enough light to do anything except pull nutes and energy away from the main buds.:pimp:


Heh,.... I said all that like I know shit about SCroG :stoned:,... I'm only on my second! :wtf: and my first was an Epic Fail! :o

Great points all the same canni. I thought the same thing as far as being hands on all the time. Its fun and rewarding to be in there all the time. And Im the DIY kinda guy so this works for me.

I have a giant pile of stuff Ive gathered over the years outside my garage and just happend to find what looks like a 1 1/2-2 inch screen I can use to hang from the top. Should work fine:D

I can see already that this is gonna be a long time hobby of mine!!!

Gonna hit the girls with fish e 5-1-1 when the lights come back on...

Have an awsome day folks:pimp:

YEA!!!!!!!!

I was giving about 20 plus White widow seeds. Im germing 6 right now. Ill have to finnish my new room soon as this is where Ill do these:thumbsup:

So Im germing 6 white widows in 1x1 RW cubes under CFLs 24/0. 2 days and I have 1 coming up already. Hopefully the rest will come up so I can run my new box. Its cool, cause I took a 2 teir work bench and enclosed it with the reflextic insulation I used on the big box. Ill hang a bunch of CFLs in there along with the T12 thats in there already:thumbsup:As soon as its done Ill post pics. This way I can work on my girls in my chair..More better for my back:(My clone box too:cool:

Having a great day, you do the same:rastasmoke:

i see nothing but good from this set up! word up. scrog the shit outta them! get some beastly buddys!

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i see nothing but good from this set up! word up. scrog the shit outta them! get some beastly buddys!

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Yea, but I cant work underneith them like should be done. I have to remove the pots in order to keep them trimmed up. I cant lay dow and do it:wtf: Ill figure something out. I was thinking of hanging the sreen at the height of the 3 gal pots and doing a sog on top of the screen rather then coming up from the bottom. LST the shit out of them.

My La confidential is growing like crazy already. Loving the lights.

# White widows have popped. I used a home made dome under the cfls in a lil cabinet. Ill post up some pics for you guys. I also found a bunch of light fixtures in the garage, that will save some funds:thumbsup:

Ill post up some pics as I go on the grow table.

Ok, so the first pic is of the grow table without lights.

The second are the 3 White widow sprouts and the a close up. Hopefully girls!!!:D

You are gonna run outa space QUICK!!! :eek:

Yea, I know. But thats a good thing. Ill have to build a bigger box for flowering:thumbsup:

5 outta 6 seeds popped so I dropped um in soil. One seedling has no leaves, just sprout leaves:wtf: But all have tap roots out the bottom of the RWC's.

I fimmed the bigger girls already and they didnt stress a second. They are doing great.

When can I start using the bone meal or should I at this point?

Ok, a lil update. Ive been fishing alot so I havnt spent much time here.

I did transplant everything. The bigger girls are in 3 ga lpots and loving it. Sorry, no pics. The lights are off.

On the other hand. My WW sprouts are doing great at about 3 weeks under 24/0 CFLs and soil.5 outta 6 popped, pretty good for the first time I think:jointsmile: Here are some pics of these. I have been hitting um light with Fish E every other watering and fimmed um.Lets hope these are female!! Enjoy!!!

Wow! I'm so excited for you!!!

I wanted to buy seeds so we knew what strain we were growing, but our wedding and x-mas have really drained the budget. Hence doing our first grow on bagseed.

Your WW look awesome!!! I'll be following yours as you follow ours! :thumbsup:

Thank much Anglefish:thumbsup:

Lights on and heres some more pics of the big girls. They got their first light dose of Black Strap Mo.

Im looking for screen so I can scrog these beachs but man, Im broke so....Also need more soil for my sour D.....

Anyhow, enjoy!!!!!!

1st shot is Hindu Skunk
2nd is LA Confidential
3rd is Black Domina
4th is Sour Diesil
5th is a group hug:D


:bigsmoke:

Fuck it...Im flipping the switch.12/12 and Im gonna flower the girls. What I get is what I get. Ill report back as I go.

Later:thumbsup:

Can't wait to see them flower:thumbsup:

yayyy!! Flowering!! Best of luck Stomper!

TWO DAYS!!!

Check this out, 2 fricken days bubba!!!

I fimmed, LST the fuck outta them, transplanted my SD, took some clones and topped #3 WW.


Enjoy:thumbsup:

Oh, Thanks guys, for giving me some support:D

im along for the ride!! lookin good!!

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TWO DAYS!!!

Check this out, 2 fricken days bubba!!!

I fimmed, LST the fuck outta them, transplanted my SD, took some clones and topped #3 WW.


Enjoy:thumbsup:

Oh, Thanks guys, for giving me some support:D

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Yep!

Things move FAST when you flip the lights! :D

I remember one night I was working in my flower room and was focused on a single project for a while, (over an hour) Ok, I was mainly starting at the girl I was working with, but anyway when i turned back around to take a peak at the other plant in the room,.... she was bigger, and leaning towards me like she was gonna pounce or something! :eek:

Seriously, she had stretched enough to be noticed WHILE I was in the room! :hippy:

Ha, thats funny. My outdoor did something like that. Cool stuff to watch:wtf:

beautiful Stomper, Great job!

:angelsmiley:

Thanks Anglefish. Listen, how did you get the "CURRENT GROW" link in your sig? I have one too but cant figure out how to change the name so it doesnt show all the goblygook it does now:wtf:

Something about those links isn't right.

Fun with Scrog



Ahhhh,.... got it!


Use the "Insert Link" option, The link will be in the [URL] Then the link shows again, delete that and use whatever wording you want, it turns the words into the link! :D

Just do that in your sig line it should work. :stoned:

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Something about those links isn't right.

Fun with Scrog



Ahhhh,.... got it!


Use the "Insert Link" option, The link will be in the [URL] Then the link shows again, delete that and use whatever wording you want, it turns the words into the link! :D

Just do that in your sig line it should work. :stoned:

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I just highlight the word I want to be the link and then click the link button, paste in the url and you're all set!