First dedicated dryer grow 6 Norhterns and 3 Afghanis

I'l start by saying I have some veg experience, well more like an example of how not to grow, lol. But I've never made it to a month without having to ditch it for various reasons, and they were hastily set up with little improvement from there.

This time however the moons have aligned for me and things are going great so I'll lead you through my set up and hopefully soon I can get you all some pics.

I had an old Dryer that I gutted from the past and painted flat white which I used the last few times. For some reason I saved the drum and I'm so glad I did because now that I'm better educated it makes the perfect round veg/clone box so no shadowy corners wasting light.

How I made it(hope you have a good imagination)
I had an air conditioner housing about a foot tall with no top and missing one side(basically a vented empty steel box). Anyways my drum balanced perfectly and stabily on top.

Imagine looking into the dryer your use, that opening at the door is the bottom of my veg box that is sitting on the open top of the airconditioning housing. This hole is where my exhuast is.

We did so renoing around the house and I salvaged the fan from the bathroom and rigged it to work for me. But the opening at the dryer bottom was to big so I grabbd a white christmas tree stand and cut it to sit nicely just inside the dryer door hole. Then I put a screen on top and placed my then clones on the screen.

I then hung my 400 watt MH bulb from the floor rafters(it's in the basement) on a chain to raise and lower it.

We are still adjusting and working out kinks though, hopefully I can figure out a nice way to enclose it so as not to waste so much light and maintain the temp, which is aound 78, our humidity however is at 25% most of the day and only at night raises to 38% when the lights are off but the heater is on (to keep it at about 68, we're working on that), I've put dishes of water in and mist but our ventilation keeps the dry winter air moving through there real good keeping the temp down but sucking the moisture out. I think soon we need a humidifier.

My plants

On the 15th a buddy droped by very unexpectedly with what he told use were 8 northern lights and 2 Afghani just rooted clones. He brought them in a cardboard box and they were only in little rock wool cubes with roots exposed. We had notheing not even soil so we misted them(this will come up later) and put them in the closet under the bulb. It took us 2 days to get sunsinemix and the temp raised to over 90,but we got them out of there without any wilting and only a little browning on the tips of the lower leaves.

So we set up out dryer and stuck them in. I noticed these little yellow spots on some of the leavesthat weren't there before.Being in experienced I thought for some reason that the 2days in the hot closet and misting left droplet of water on the leaves which magnified the heat and burnt them(we were so rushed and they were a little neglected those first few days). Anyways buddy comes over and introduces me to the spidermites sucking on my babys. So I ran out and picked up some doktor doom botanics insecticide. I've been giving it doeses of that and spraying with soap and the mites are non-existent so far. and now I I educated myseklf about mites and plan to take alot more precautions and care for my plants.

I also started advanced nutrients grow, micro, and bloom. I got a catalogue with that and have been following the instructions. I transplanted them last weekend, during which I pitched out 1 northern that was pretty much gone(never rooted well) and found that another northern was actually an afghani. I really should have watered them that morning but wanted to wait till I transplanted them. So they were about 5 inches and in little yogurt cups. I would go downstairs grab a plant bring it up transplant it and bring it back down to get the net plant. When I got plant #3 they were all fine, but when I went back for plant #4 the ones left in yogurt cups were wilting before my eyes from drought! I hauled ass and the next day they recovered nicely and exploded form there. My large afghani's and Northerns are up to 10" bussy, and have fan leaves almost the size of my hand(I'm a chick I have little hands, but I'm still excited). The smaller ones are at about 7-8". They are looking really healthy and dark green and I can get a few clones from a few plants but want to wait a bit.

I have on Afghani that is a little stunted and I don't really want clones from for that reason, but it has 2 good branches. I haven't had any experience with clones so I think soo I'll take one from it and fool around a bit since it probably won't produce well anyways. That way once the ther plants are ready with clones I'll be a little more prepared.

I want to rotate crops but am only allowed 8 plants, Dh and I agreed so I have alot to figure out and hope to keep you updated. GTG

Peace

Hey Chrissy, that setup sounds pretty wild. You have to get some photos of that dryer up here!

I'm working on finding some way to get photos, but need someone to get a camera off of.

Update on the grow
Yesterday I noticed calyxs(sp) and all but one afghani, my stunted one. I guess names will help more when I have pictures but I call this one Petti, she's my smallest at 6" compared to my largest which are peeking out the top of the drum. Petti was one of my stronger clones that was least effected my the spider mites. Early on she had two branches one about and inche behind the other, I think this is why she is half the size, because she has two main stalks. I really should weed her out but since this is my first grow and her smaller branch is about five inchs and pretty leafy I figured I'll experiment with some cloning right away. That way she might just shoot up after that, and if she doesn't or the clone doesn't work out no big loss.

Jaz is my largest Afghani the one peeking over the top, she's got about 3 good clone sites that need about an inch more before I take them, but I don't want to fuck these ones up because they should be great plants like Jaz so I'm being very patient.

My last Afghani is affectionatly called Mrs. Bin Laden she's the Afghani that was hiding out as a northern, Shes just a little behind Jaz and doing just as great.

Foxy is my smallest northern at about 7 inches and was the only other plant not nailed by mites, which is so weird since the ones that got mites the worst was Jaz and Mrs. Bin Laden, and the two that had the least mites were the two most stunted. I've kept everything the same for all the plants including transplanting and mite treatments. It's after the transplant that the others took off and these ones didn't so maybe my answer is there but if I sit and analyze it all this will be a super long post. Anyways Foxy will be eliminated soon since she's small and has itty bitty brances.

She is female, but me and DH agreed that I can have a max of 8 mature plants at any time, hopefully he'll be a little lax about a few extra clones. I want atleast one clone of each plant so I can know their history and know which ones I want to keep and which strains aren't as productive. So I see some negotiating coming up.

Bella is my huge bushy northern. She's ready to be cloned but I'm not sure about her yet, she's doing great but is a little different. She has the northern leaves, but while the others are a dark healthy almost shiny green, she is about two shades lighter and while the veins in her leaves are uniform there are about half as many other then that she's just as happy looking as the rest of the northerns and doing just a little better, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

The other northerns are donig just fine, but they are pretty much all the same, so I'm suspecting they my have all come from the same mother and that could be why Bella looks so different.

With my plants growing out of the drum there is alot of work and planning going on downstairs. First off I made one of those DIY odor nutralizers just without the crystals. By the next morning not only could I not smell anything from the basement but the dog shit on the floor upsdtairs in the kitchen and while cleaning it I could barely catch a whiff. so I think it's working great. I could use a few more holes in the bucket to increase airflow. I just ran flexible ducting from the exhaust fan in the bottom. So now the temp is up to 82, but with the decreased airflow the humidity is up to 30% from 25%.

I also did a precautionary spray for mites last night since I don't need them popping up now.

I am also building a cab in the corner of the basement that is 53"x33"x6', and picking up a 400w HPS ballast bulb and reflector for about $200(supporting the new grow shop 4 blocks away).So I'll be ready come flower time if I don't get the dryer finished up soon enough.

Stage two of the dryer is what I should really be working on. I have the outside housing of the dryer I got the drum from, it's what I used before but with a complicate self distructive set up I won't even bother explaining. Now I have simplified it and have built off the drum concept with a few changes. The dryer itself is 2'x2'x2.5'. it has the door which is the same size as the exhaust opening on the drum so it it just a matter of mounting the fan on the wall of the dryer this time. The back is removeable providing me access and I'll just pull the top off so that the light can hang from above. Since this will be a larger veg room I'm not to concerned about light proofing it, the new flower room will be though, that in itself is a work in process. so with the vegging plants in the stage 2 dryer they can grow to 1.5' and I can set up some cfls for the drum just to get clones started.

On top of all this by the end of today or tommorrow I need to mix up a new batch of nutrients, and decidewhether to start increasing my P to prepare for blooming or the keep the same system I have going now which theplants seem to be doing pretty good on, plus I don't really want the shock them now. That reminds me it's time for a flush.

well peace out, hope to have pics soon:jointsmile:

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I'm working on finding some way to get photos, but need someone to get a camera off of.

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I got a cam. I see by yer flag we're in the same country. If yer in southern Alberta, eastern BC, or western Saskatchewan, and feel like making a road trip, pm me and I'm sure we can work something out.

I wanna see this dryer thing, too! :D

Thank you very much for the offer. I'm in Manitoba actually so it would be a bit long of a trip. I've been pretty busy setting up today though and I think my MIL may let me borrow hers to take pictures of our daughter. I know my set up sounds off the wall doesn't it? We're pretty much broke most of the time just like every one else so I like to use what we have if I can. It may not be perfect but it's better then our once 90 degree closet that my DH had going when we first met. lol we didn't even get 4 grams off 3 plants and it wasn't that great, but we knew next to nothing then, it was years ago.

Ok I now know I have a Phosphate deficiency. All the plants I've ever seen had some purple on the stems, I thought it was normal, turns out(as you most likely already know) it's not normal. I'm glad I figured this out now so I didn't have to wait for another feed. I found mite eggs on two of my smaller NL, and I'm already over my limit of 8 and want to start playing with clones soon so I think we will say goodbye tonight:( , because all the other leaves are clear of mites and I don't want to risk reintroducing them.

A light justwent off in my head about why Bella is doing so much better. The leaves on my other plants are turning down very slightly on the tips, but Bella's aren't, But she is a little purple, she must be dealing with the P deficiency better then the othe NL, so much makes sense now I can hardly keep myself from ferting them, but if I do they'll be overwatered and stressed, plus I have to flush so hopefully tommorrow they'll be dry enough. I'm so happy.

I have a camera till monday so I have to figure out how to post pics. I'll be back soon to fill everyone in.

hey, just did a run through, i left a large excerpt on cloning in you topping thread...

I can't upload the photos it says there is an error:confused:

http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o124/chronicchrissy/
Here's a link to some pics, my pics are too big to thumbnail and I don't know how to shrink them. so I'll work through them with you, but backwards because I fucked up.

001(last one) Is my dryer set up with the odor nutralizer attahed to the exhaust fan at the bottom.

002 is a better pic of the tree stand and exhaust fan underneath.

003 is an inside shot of my grow op, right in the middle is the fan and stand, when the plants were smaller I had a screen overtop to sit the plants on but now they are to heavy, so we are moving up to the stage two of the dryer

004 the dark purple is Jaz, and the bright purple is Mrs. Bin Laden

005 Bella is the read one in the middle, and one of my unnamed ones is the orange(see the color difference? Orange is suffering from a little P deficiency) Orange got Fimmed

006 The middle one is foxy and the other two are unnamed(also P deficency for those two), all 3 got FIMmed.

007 is Petti next to her big sis Jaz. I FIMmed both Pettis tops today.

008 is a shot of one of Jazs leaves after flushing and feeding today we had a few blotches on a leaf the are dark green and crispy, also the very tips(less the mm) and most leaves either yellowed or went strait to brown, but it hasn't progressed at all. I dilluted my nutes today but at the same time increased my P to make up for the deficency so that could be it.

009 is one of my last leaves to heal and regenerate after the spider mites almost all other leaves hav healed and many were not quite so bad as that but still pretty patchy, but it's been almost two weeks since.

I flushed today and fed then FIMmed al the plants that weren't going to be cloned(only one from each of the other three) but I'll FIM them after. The clones I'm taking are either really shaded or right at the bottom, so I figured it would be a good chance to experiment a little. Anyways Thanks KP I read your post in my other post and it made me feel a little more prepared.

Let me know what you think guys I'll try to get the pics up here tommorrow and fill you in again. but I'll be kicking around here for a little bit.;)

hey, there looking good to me, sorry babe, i forgot to fim one... i put up a lot of pix in the "topping" thread...

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthrea...=1#post1176342

kp:cool:

Hey Chrissy,

That is a cool setup you have. I wondered if that odour neutraliser would work without the crystals because I couldn't find them anywhere, so maybe I'll try it without if I end up needing one.

I think your girls look really good too! Jaz is a very nice plant. I've got some red stems as well but I'm not 100% sure if it's P or something else, but I'll be watching here anyway to see what happens.

-canuck :jointsmile:

I think the crystals are only nessesary if you have high humidity. The odor nutalzer works great with out them. I need to cut a few more holes for better airflow though so I don't hve it hooked up all the time. But if my Bathroom upstairs is stinky(that's where we smoke becauseof the baby) I hook it up and within 15 minutes the whole house smells fresh since the furnace i down stairs. I used extra strength febreeze;)

Someone mentioned that my plants look a little stretched, and I think that they are just a little. I once turned 8 femals into males because I couldn't keep the temp down so I use my temp to judge my height. Temp is at 80.9, humidity is at 30% and the 400w MH is 12' from the highest and 18" from the shortest(Petti). The next shortest 3 are at 15". Think I should lower it?

I'm also curious(hint hint KP) when I might be able to notice if my FIMing worked? How long to they resprout?

And the last question I know depends on whether I fixed the problem or not, but after increasing the P how long will it take for the purple to fade? How/when do I know if I need to increase it more? I don't want t increase it the net feed because I think it is still lacking when really it's just recovering and burn it. I don't even know how bad the deficiency was, I could post some pics of the stems and leaves if that would help.

Thanks in Advance.

Check out http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o124/chronicchrissy/ for new pics

OK I lower my light 3" and the temp is up to 82. I also took three clones today from Jaz, Mrs. Bin Laden, and Bella, so we will see how that goes, afterwards I FIMed them too. I tied a few branchs that were totally shaded by larger leaves. Right now the clones are in my Stage 2 dryer. Soon I HAVE to switch the clones with the plants. So I'm going to take the fan out of the bottom of the drum and install it in the circular hole in the front of the stage 2, I'll put the back on the stage 2 and hang the MH from above That should give them a little more room . In the drum I'll mount the flourescent and cover the hole in the bottom with a screen for passive airflow so I can try and increase the humidity. The wall for the flowering room should be going up this week and I should finish that off soon, I still need to figure out how to hang mylar for the 4th wall and still keep it lighproof while not having it airtight. The purple seems to be fading a bit from the main stems but not the leaf stems yets

My clones are wilting:mad: But I was warned that clones don't take well in soil, I'll have to see how they are tommorrow. I think I'll pick up some rockwool either way.

Man am I happy today. Not only did I get my new 400w hps setup and other stuff that I couldn't pick up last night because there were closed for an emergency(I was so bummed), But I also got Stage 2 of the dryer up and running! Now they aren't as crowded and shaded so they should stretch a little less. Check out the new pics

http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ssy/?start=all

So now that the plants are out of the drum I also got the cloning chamber up and running too! So now armed with rockwool I get to try cloning again tommorrow properly this time.

Now I just have to finish the flowering room, and with the dryer moved a few feet over I have lots of space to work. I have a plan too...

Brainstorming at this point...
I got 5gl pots today to transplant them into today. I only got 4 for the bigger plants. Then I relized that they would cause a major height difference to deal with, and once they are in bigger pots they will take off again and explode in growth. Which is what I want them to do but then they will quickly out grow the dryer and take over the flower room. So then I was thinking of transplanting right before I placed the plants in the flowering room, hopefully 2 weeks apart, but in the mean time they need room for the roots to grow and expand, so I need to transplant them into a slightly smaller maybe 3 gl container. OK I need to go check to see how many pots I can fit in there....

I have so majkor brainstorming to do about trasplanting(Which I want to keep to a minimal, but still want to control size) and flowering all these plants.

Check it out I'll be back after I:rasta: and think a little.

i've a friend who uses those 2 1/2g sqaure trash cans; you can pack those together pretty well...

I think maybe I should use the 3 gl ones, that way I can fit 5 in the veg room to start and put Jaz and Mrs. Bin Laden to flower first right after I see if these clones take. Then in 2-3 weeks I'll throw in the 2 larger Northerns, after hopefully getting a few clones from each. Then I figure 2-3 for weeks should bring the stunted ones, Foxy(NL) and Petti(Afghani) up to par and ready to be thrown in once I pull the Afghanis out. That leaves Bella. This it the plant that I hope and prey will turn out to be my best bud. She was so easy to grow, was healthy, resisted mites, bounced back from drought, and had not deficiencies, and didn't get fried by nutes even just a little. So I planto take as many as 8-9 clones and if she turns out good I'll ditch therest of the clones and just grow her. By then my buddy should be by with a whole new fresh batch to grow.(He comes yearly with babies even though we aren't prepared, but now we are and I havea never ending replenishing supply without fucking with huge mothers. If only real life ran so smoothly.

Oh KP how do you like the new dryer chambers? It all the same dryer wewere going to chuck.

The new setup looks like it'll work pretty well. I like the cloning chamber. The whole dryer idea is just fucking cool!

That's too bad your clones in soil didn't work out. I tried a couple of those with branches I was pruning anyway and maybe I didn't wait long enough but they didn't work out either. Plus I didn't have anything to help them take root, just cut them and planted them. :) The ones we have in rockwool right now seem to be doing alright now that they're not waterlogged.

I don't know how long it takes for the red stems to clear up. Do you see any changes yet?

-canuck :jointsmile:

It's slowly clearing very slowly. My husband looks and doesn't see a difference but he doesn't know them as well as I do. So yeah the purple is fading and the dark/blueish tint on the leaves is slowly fading from the stem out.

OK alot is going on lately. I'm trying super hard to get this flower room togather. I have the frame up, and the plastic(Visqueen I think it's called) cut. My ballast is connected to the bulb and that is hooking up to the reflector once we find screws the right size(there's just so many to sort through). I need to figure out exacly where to hang my light before I put up the plastic, then I need to figure out where to place the air intake tubes and cut the plactic for that and the fan before I put the plastic up. Then last would be the duct taping of the seams and building of the lightproof curtain. I cant believe this only cost me 15$. So by the end of tommorrow hopefully I should have a new 50"x50"x76" flowering room. I need to flush and transplant so I figured once I get the hps hung even if the room isn't done I can put the 2 extra plants in there, on their same 18/6 cycle, and while I'm working in there I can move them back to the stage 2 with the other plants. My Afghanis are over a foot(Haven't had time to measure, just basic maitinance till I get this all done) and they are only in 6" pots :(

I took clones yesterday again though. This time I got some rockwool and a proper tray(cut vents in the top). They are at 80 degrees, 90% humidity, and haven't gone limp yet!

Picture will be coming soon of the building of the room, my new clones, and an update on the plants before and after transplant, So keep coming by.

Oh the purpling, It faded a little on the ones affected but where you can really see it is the new growth, There is still a little but I don't want to stress them with so much going on, so I'll work back up after the flush with them in new pots.

Peace

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New pics! The flowerroom and the plants as I transplanted. Let me know what you think.:jointsmile:

Looking good! I still can't get over the dryer thing, and think it's a wonderful idea! When I move to the new apt, Ima start looking for a tossed washer or dryer to salvage the tub and emulate your setup. Trés cool on the AC thing. I'm imagining that the AC is modded with a tray of activated charcoal as a scrubber? Or simply fan?

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I'm imagining that the AC is modded with a tray of activated charcoal as a scrubber? Or simply fan?

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The AC Is just a stand to hold the drum up, since with the fan/funnel it couldn't sit right on the ground in the first stage. Now as a cloning chamber I just point the little heater on the floor into the a/c and it traps the heat to run it up through the hole in the drum where the fan was, thus heating my clone tray. Oh Yay! All my clones are still alive(Happy Dance), last time they died with in a day.

To me the Afghanis look a little stretched but that could be the strain. Then the Northerns (except for Casey) look stunted and short, but they are healthy and after a few fuck ups happy. I'm starting to really like Casey though, I'm almost temped to ditch the rest of the clones after the mothers flower and just have a room of Caseys but then again I have no Idea what she'll smoke like. So I think I'll take a handfull of clones and pick the best one to turn into a mother. Sorry I ran away brainstorming.

Well quick up date...
Jaz, Mrs.Bin Laden, and Bella are up to 18", petti isn't far behind. The Northerns are lst'ed and busing out great.I haven't been able to get them into the flower room yet because there is a sight heat problem that should be fixed by another fan in the room but it has been a very heckic week and family comes first. But I will go shopping today and pick up a few things. Then clone again tommorrow and into the flower room this weekend.

OK so I fed them all today, re lst'ed, and took a clone from each plant. The two northern clones from last friday are rooted and the Afghanis shouldn't be far behind. So now there are 13 in there now.

My flower room is finished. I got a new tower fan last night and have the room going through a dry run right now, and it is sitting at 81 degrees 12" above where the plants will be. It is completely lightproof except for the fan but since the dryer is on the other side of the basement itr's pitch black in there so long as I remember to turn off the overhead lights. I climbed in there with duct tape to seal off leaks and when I dropped the door behind me I got lost in the dark, lol.

So tommorrow the 4 afghanis go in the room, and a week or two later I want to throw the northerns in there(I want some major bud from those babies because they make killer weed(it's what we currently buy off buddy who gave us the plants.

Hopefully by then The clones are rooted and then I can go back to stage one dryer and start experimenting with bonsi(sp?) mother plants.

I'm so excited.:yippee:

Sounds like you have got cloning down. :thumbsup:

Now that you started that NL vs. Afghani poll I'm really curious to see how you like them both at harvest. Flower those bitches! :jointsmile:

Thanks for the visit Canuck, eh.

Already done. I did a dry run of the flower room yesterday and altered a few things. They temp is around 84, a little high but I'm going to fix up a vinigar baking soda drip, or if I can afford the extra cash I'll get a yeast culture going but appaprently that stinks. So it will make up for the temps and hopefully increase my yeild a little. I couldn't wait to get my ladies in there, after I transplanted them Jaz and Mrs. Bin Laden didn't even fit in the room, so I took the back off and put them as close to the light as possible, they perked right up now that they are in their new room.

so now I get to shut dwn the MH bulb and wait for more of my clones to take, then it is back to the stage 1 veg dryer drum till we out grow that. I figure that if these clones grow too quick before I get this harvest out, I'll throw as many of them in the spaces in that grow room and flip the MH bulb over to 12/12 in the dryer and have 2 flower chambers going. Then as I move plants out of the flower room I'll move them out of the dryer into the free space. I'll just stick my mothers under the flouro for a bit and pick a few more up. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

Right now I'm re lst'ing every day on my plants because they are tolerating it and I'm opening up light to the little branchs growing off the branches(not sure what to call those) and the plants are working on filling out. I love working on my northerns because I can twist the main stem more but that's just because I'm using fishing line and don't want to hurt them. But today I am all caught up so I think today is a major tie down day as the plants adjust I'll tighen it up a little to try and get those northerns a little shorter and better spread out.

LOL I'm smoking one of my babies mommas, buddy stopped by last night with some northern lights. I asked him and it turns out I've never had Afghani, at least not from him. So I'm very curious to find out what they smoke like. I think After harvest and curing I'll figure out how many of each I want to gro. Even if I pick one or the other I'll keep an extra bonsei mom so there are two of the ones I'm currently not growing, just in case.

But after a wake-n-bake and with a squirmy baby in my arms it's breakfast time. I pop in all the time if you wanna visit.

My first Afghani clone has a root starting thats 3 out of 5 in 7 days. I finished tieing all my plants The afghanis are still a bit taller. I was able to lower the light and the temp is 80-81. Now I'm clening up the basement and working on getting everything ready for the new clones.

I forgot to tell you guys abut what happened after FIMming all my plants a few weeks ago. Well I sat back and waited patiently to see if I would get two colas or 3+. So I waited and waited and waited and all I got is a few fan leaves with a bad hair cut. There is even one where because I cut patially through and it was folded the blades themselves are cut but the veins to the blades are intact allowing the tip of the blade to thrive. It looks like bugs got at it. Anyways I pulled one stalk to hard while LSTing and kinked a main stalk. LOL but I'm off to:bonghit: see you soon I hope.

thats a pretty nifty job well done so far there.

i like the idea some of us have making our own growing chambers, i seen a guy just the other day growing in a 55 gallon drum stadium style and it was amazing to see it.

awesome grow i didnt see any problems really just keep a close eye on them and they will tell you what they need

Thanks for stopping by for a visit...

Well I hurt Casey today and have added a new clone as a result. I was tieing the top of her main stem a little more with a new tie. I didn't notice that one of her other ties was cutting ever so lightly. Well if that cut wouldn't have been there I would have been great but I put a little tension on the line and "zip" down falls her top 3 inches. I gasped and ran for the rock wool cubes. I primed it, sliced off a few extra laves, gel, and into the cube. I hope I acted quick enough. Casey should be fine, she has a nice branch right ther so I hope it takes over the main stock. Actually with her shape right now it might be a good thing. I'm just worried about the shock since they just started flower cycle officially today.

On a better note I'm getting the canopy pretty level. Just 2 more plants to pull into line then it's just maintiance from there. I Tie the Afghanis becasue they are so high, and because I can get little brances growing off the brances I pull horizontally. The northerns I tie because the leaves are so broad that they block out te branchs beneath them, but once you shead some light on those branchs they bush out nicely.

I wish I still had the camera, but it may be a few weeks before I get it back, by then there should be lots of changes.

I also threw some baking soda and vinegar drip in there and I'm trying out plain old active yeast and sugar water to see what happens. I only plan on having the baking soda and vinegar go at certain times for an hour or so, and just leaving the yeast in there all the time and capping it at night if it works out. But we'll see.

I also picked up molasses yeasterday(can you tell it was grocery day?), so I'll be adding that in my next feed of just water. Then after that I think I'll pick up some bigbud or something. I think I might have a little lock out happening because of pH issues so I'm am going back to the basics because I'm tired of flushing everytime I water because I'm paranoid. There is no burn and they aren't stunted but I think they could be growing a little faster so now I get to experiment and have fun.

With the stage 2 dryer being open I didn't have such a controled enviroment and I was just learning the basics as I went. I figure I should master on thing before moving on to the next upgrade that way it is easier to identify the problems and make the adjustments. Now that I have a few things under my belt I get to get my feet a little wet with getting a little more advanced. I don't just want to grow alot of weed, I want to grow weed well and make the most of every plant.

It's amazing how much my high school chemistry and physics help me with this, Makes me glad I graduated a stoned honor roll student, lol.

But anyways I have things to check and monitor, oh yeah another afghani clone sprouted a root that's 4 for 5! Thanks for popping in I'm here all the time.

I had good results with yeast & sugar. Use about 1-2 cups of sugar for 2 litres (1/2 gallon) of water and a heaping tsp of yeast. Well, that seemed to work best for me anyway.

legalizedahurb posted a cool idea in my thread, but I never got a tube to try it out. I have been slacking on the CO2 recently.

People prune their girls up to 2 weeks into flower so I'm sure Casey'll recover just fine. If it were weeks into flower then I might worry about it a little more. The same thing turned one of TheGreenFog's girls hermie. :(

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Originally Posted by Chronic Chrissy

Now that I have a few things under my belt I get to get my feet a little wet with getting a little more advanced. I don't just want to grow alot of weed, I want to grow weed well and make the most of every plant.

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Hell yeah! I feel the same way. :) Happy growing!

-canuck :jointsmile:

Your plants are looking good xD and umm.. thanks for all the help :)

Thanks for stopping by. I'm happy to help K. I wish I could show you pics. I'm just being paranoid about casey.

sounds like you got it down ;) funny too, i start flower tomorrow, so we'll have great comparisons :thumbsup:

i'll start a new thread when i get done with a couple of things...

kp

Hey chrissy my brother is moving out really soon (9 days) and im getting his room! he has a huge closet and its in the back of the house so no one will bother me and im getting a lock on my door xD im going to go buy more light sockets mabey about 6 more and put them in the closet and grow xD I cant wait.. I have a top shelf I can use for my mini green house and for clones and I have the bottom floor for my flowering and stuff... im probably going to get some wood and seperate half of the bottom for vegging and flowering and umm.. I couldent find a timer at wal-mart.. Are they the ones with a plug in them so you can plug your lights in it? I need to get a couple of those. Mabey 3 or so. umm.. ya thanks for helping me again :) and KP!!! Stop by my thread and help me out also give me some tips I need all the help I can get. I dont know when vegging and flowering is.. -.- Sorry chrissy im just going on and on about my self -.- I feel selfish. Umm... So how many plants do you have? you said you went over the limit of your 8 =\ Is that like yours and your husbands rule? haha.



Kb

Mine are 36 days old so We're flowering at about the same time. What type of bulb are you using again?