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Continuing from my thread started on the Closet/Cabinet page...
28 days. lights 18/6.
Pre nuted miracle grow/vermiculite/perlite/peatmoss soil
Neptune organic seaweed/fish furtilizer (half strength)
Miracle grow all purpose (half strength)
1 gal Water w/tsp molasses (once)
Flushed (nute burn, <G>)
4 plants in 2 buckets (one is a triplet)
4 plants in pots (spares)
Window box of plants (spares)
Shovelhandle
Sorry, no pics. I don't seem to have the upload icon anymore. Suggestions?
Congrads on being the first to start a thread in hear. There may be some jellous people... LOL //Green Fog
Adieu
si merci,
I could (did) post photos on my other thread ???
wtf, shov
damn u was the first one! wel done m8 :D
i cant put up picz either, its the log forum not u
Well thats funny. There's no picture upload icon. Oh well, this wont be much of a forum untill thats sorted out lol.
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Originally Posted by LIP
I know. That sucks, huh? <G>
Sho
I guess they're still fine tuning it, i mean, a grow log NEEDs pics otherwise it's not as helpful. A picture says a 1000 words.
Take it easy...
Shovel can you just sketch us a few quick drawings? Please make sure things are to scale exactly. Thanks....
It'd make no differnce, he wouldnt be able to upload them..Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
why bother? Lip is dead anyway.
Shovelhandle
Lol ;)
How ya doing Shov. Hope your alright. I might get a mods attention about the picture upload icon missing.
yes! I'm good. lol
as far as the grow, I'm looking ahead to 12/20 when I go on eight day holiday to Florida. At seven weeks of veg I'll shut off the lamps for 36 hours and go on to 12on-12off. I'll use the same lighting for that first week of flowering while I'm away and add the 250W HPS when I get back. I figure it may only need water once during that week, so my brother will see to that.
Sounds like a good idea. Yeah, the plant should be fine, it may be a bit droopy when you come back, but as you know, thats nothing to worry about, a quick water and it's all happy again. I've got some 90% sativas on the grow and some pure indicas, should be a nice harvest, depending on what the female/male ratio is, but it shouldnt be too bad. I've already grown this sativa before, it's me own strain, Some of the seeds have the ruderalis traight from the ruderalis skunk i put into the mix. Shame it was displayed in all the seeds, but meh, i dont care,. It's got a killer smoke. At a sensible estimation i think the THC content for the sativa is probably about 18%
This indica is a nice short fat bushy one, well, most of them are, but it's really good for medicinal hash, the resin production is crazy, it's up there with WR at 22 - 25%
And any hash made from it would be killer.
Cant wait for the knock out smoke lol.
Cant wait to see your pics either, i hop they sort it all out lol.
Sounds like a good grow going Lip. If we were neighbors we'd swap weed. Nothing like variety (and free).
Week 5
each of two buckets has a 12"-14" monster plant and a nice healthy smaller plant of 8" lots of vegitation. I also have four smaller pails with a plant in each that are doing well. They took some Neptune organic seaweed/fish emulsion fertalizer last week.
The window box sized planter had over forty decent plants crammed into it. I thinned it down to ten. I would hold the stem near the soil with thumb and index finger and pull the stem out, leaving most of the roots in place, do disruption of the 10 remaining plants. I plan to give them to bro when he gets his shit together. Meanwhile, I've moved them to thier own light, a 250 HPS and timed it for 12-12. I want to experiment with a nutritional suppliment containing Sodium Phosphate, Potasium Bicarbinate and some amino acids and vitamins. No added sugars, salts or preservatives. The idea is to use this for flower developement. I'll try it on one or two of the window box specimens and one of the small pail plants.
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Shovelhandle
it will take some time for those to flower if they arent already on internodes, if i were you, i'd wait for one of your own to test it, it should be fine...Quote:
The window box sized planter had over forty decent plants crammed into it. I thinned it down to ten. I would hold the stem near the soil with thumb and index finger and pull the stem out, leaving most of the roots in place, do disruption of the 10 remaining plants. I plan to give them to bro when he gets his shit together. Meanwhile, I've moved them to thier own light, a 250 HPS and timed it for 12-12. I want to experiment with a nutritional suppliment containing Sodium Phosphate, Potasium Bicarbinate and some amino acids and vitamins. No added sugars, salts or preservatives. The idea is to use this for flower developement. I'll try it on one or two of the window box specimens and one of the small pail plants.
jus my 2 cents
Thanks, Dream
I just want to see if it's toxic to these plants before I try it on any of the major plants. Then I will be able to compare the results of using the suppliment.
Shov
Funny thing, ADream. One of the flowerbox plants has female pistils.
Last week I changed things around. I enlarged the grow space to 4' x 4'. I put the flowerbox in there with the other plants and added the 250W HPS. The lighting is 18-6. Photos on the other thread.
Shov
sounds good, i think you can put pics up now... im not sure, but they said its fixed now... nice growin man ;) keep it up...
(im gonna go look at the pics now...:))
Yeah, it's fixed now :)
Yay for pics!!!
I cant wait!
I looked at some on the other thread but i had to go out :(
yup, the photo icon is here. I will continue to post updates here, including photos. Right now the news is; the one flowerbox plant that showed is a Male (not a female) it took a day for me to see that.
Shov
Damn :(
Good luck with the others!
Thanks,
not a problem though, I have way to many plants going in the area. I'm sure it should work out to plenty of fems.
Shov
At six weeks we saw the first plant go to alternating. This is the largest plant, one of the larger plants that were FIMed a little over a week ago. These plants are really growing some tops (photos aren't so great).
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Left bucket has a large FIM plant and the triple leaf which isn't cropped. The right bucket has the largest plant and a smaller one, both FIMed.
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Here are the "back-up" plants. A box of nine LSTed and four smaller pots. Again, sorry for the poor photo.
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Best regards,
Shovelhandle
Looking good, Shov!
Way to represent the Northeast...6 weeks... damn. Very bushy!!!!
OK, the next one in the flowerbox to show is a FEMALE.
Right next to her is a nice healthy green specimen with the exception of one leaf that has one yellow section and one half yellow/half green section. Different!
Shov
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That's what i like to see!
No photos today. But I did manage to burn a few leaves on the lamps.
Getting close to 12on -12off (next weekend).
This week I fed with the fish-kelp ferts and P/K suppliment. The two tallest plants in the buckets are 18" and 24". The 24" is female.
Another one of the flowerbox LSTs show female too.
The TopMax was delivered today. And the 2700K lamps should be all here by Wednesday.
Shovelhandle
Here are the plants "drip drying" after their flush before I put them back under the lights. I discovered another male in the flowerbox and removed it. I also rearranged the LST a bit. Lots of top action on the FIMed plants but difficult to see that in these pics.
Later this week I'll rearrange the lights and plants, change the (2) T8 and (4) T5 lamps from 4200K to 2700K warm white. I'll likely stay with the one 250 HPS for early on as the total watts is 530w. As the plants take up more room I'll add the second 250 HPS.
The plants will go through a 36 hour dark period before they begin 12-12. The nutes will be the same Neptune Fish/kelp with TopMax.
Shov
sorry, I tried to jump on the sideway photo and edit but I didn't manage to get it right before the 5 min.
Shovelhandle
ok, no more neck cramps....
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Shov
Another male gets plucked from the flowerbox...
Shov
Ok, no new pics today. But I did rearrange the plants, lights, fan and reflectors. Basically, I just raised everything to make room for future growth. The Fim-ed tops have not totally recovered but not doing too bad. The new growth has been healthy.
Also, today starts 12 on-12 off. I had hoped that the flowering lamps would all be in but not yet. I'll go pic up the (2) T8 lamps that they do have in stock tomorrow. The lamps will actually be 3000K not 2700K but close enough for the price. I did the veg with 4100K cool white (which some folks claim are all but useless) instead of 6500K. I think the plants look pretty good inspite of that : ]
I pay less than $2ea for the 34wT8 and $9ea for the 54wT5.
The side lighting fixture is a brand new (4) lamp T5HO from Ebay for $40 w/lamps! The (2) 250w HPS are a trip, I've never seen their likes. Self contained ballast, like a CFL. It has almost instant on but restrike time is similar to traditional HPS lamps (it takes a few minutes to relight if you shut them off). I picked two of these up for free when I consulted on our church's lighting upgrade and these were removed. To hold these lamps I bought (2) new, 250w hi quality photographer's lamps with switches and ceramic sockets w/ reflectors from Ebay ($20ea). I figure that I can use them with 85-125w CFLs when these HPS lamps are done.
So, no new pics but a little look at some of the hardware I'm using for this econo-grow.
Shovelhandle
Thats a great deal on the HO T5 Shov - I just paid $140 for a new 4 bulb 6500K New Wave HO T5 and I thought that was a good price!!
Your plants are looking wonderful - looking forward to watching them flower - I just started flowering mine last weekend too so its gonna be fun to check out the similarities & differences.
That is a good price. The best price I found for a new highbay fixture like yours was $119 with my professional discount. My T5 fixture has a white reflector. The polished reflector is nicer but I did consider the price.
I have been watching your grow too. It will be fun if everything continues!
Shov
12/30
One of the smaller pots = Male. I'll deal with it tomorrow.
I lit the second 250w HPS and installed the two 3000K 4' T8s. I have to see how temps go. That's 780 watts now.
Shov
they look ALOT bigger than the last time i saw them...
well done...
lol good luck