1st grow -DWC [56kers not taken kindly 'round here]

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arg youre right, ventilation is a huge problem right now. I have a vent that goes into the side yard in that room, but it's currently blocked by a reflector.

my plans are to build an exhaust fan hooked up to my Carbon Filter and an intake fan coming directly from the vent (with dryer hose)

both powered by 6" inline duct fans
I just need to get around to doing it..

OVER 2 FEET TALL NOW!
It's amazing, one of the plant's shoots from the bottom of the plant has shot through the canopy. it's like they're on steroids, they went from 3" stressed out clones to 50" monsters in under 1 month so far..

i'll take some more pictures of the development

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Big Update:
Day 29 Grow
Day 12 Flower

Today I'm going to reveal more about my grow room, and a good photo of a soon-to-be flower under HPS.

Click it to see it in full size.


http://ilkt.com/celicasupra/Day%2029.Full.JPG


Here's my 2 5x5 plastic seperated grow room. The flower room has a vent with the exhaust scrubbed through carbon


I'll keep my focus in the flower room for now


Plants are nearly 3ft tall now on Day 12 Flower


Shot of the roots


Lots of growth, underside is a little underlit though.. i'm still not sure how to remedy this.


Condensation is on the res, (humidity problem maybe?) Somehow without any cooling system the water in the res stays below 75 whereas the room crawls as high as 86


Thanks for checkin out my log :jointsmile:

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IT'S MY PLANTS 1 MONTH ANNIVERSARY
how sweet.

Day 31 Grow
Day 14 Flower

Looks like I updated too soon, Day 14 Flower is where the money is
I added some Dr Hornsby's Big Bud yesterday, hope it really works well

I noticed my air stones were CLOGGED TO HELL so i unclogged them.. may explain for the growth slowing in the past 2 days.

All the buds look like this right now

Very nice!

Decided to beef up the airflow a little bit. I'm going to monitor the climate for the next hour or so to see how it normalizes with this fan on high. (connected to the vent)


Lots of light = lots of heat

Getting a little cramped in there.
Soo my intake fan got unplugged and my heat spiked to 90o


Clones aren't being very interesting.. now 2 weeks old and rooting very very slowly.

[CannabisCarl2134]

If I were you I would get some Clamp lights put a Y-connector with 2-27watt CFLS pointing up from the ground to get the underside of the leaves, and your gold. Put the lights in the Plants Shadows. So you know there will be optimum light. >_< Hope this helped. Looks Awesome as well. Later

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If I were you I would get some Clamp lights put a Y-connector with 2-27watt CFLS pointing up from the ground to get the underside of the leaves, and your gold. Put the lights in the Plants Shadows. So you know there will be optimum light. >_< Hope this helped. Looks Awesome as well. Later

yeah it does look kind of dark in the front, really lights on the underside of the leaves works well?

[CannabisCarl2134]

Why not? Maybe not 27watts, but 12W or whatever the lower numbers are..you should be fine.

Its a photosynthesizing plant, why wouldn't it like more light? Your trying to get light through that sucker to get it to its "optimum potency?" lol right? So do exactly that, as if you were trying to mimic (Sun)"Sunlight", and thats exactly what indoor growing is about, trying to mimic "Mother Nature" (Indoors). Well I am really high, and hope this is making somewhat of sense. Hope it helped as well.

I just tried searching if Light's on the underside would have any affect on the plant.
I would just make sure that they are even on both sides, and pointing directly up, so that the plant doesn't want to start growing down. Some leaves may reach for the light, don't worry.
~Later

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Well I've had some side lighting on the plants and they dont seem to be going for it necessarily, they still have that big 400Watt HPS to shoot for, along with 200 other watts of CFLs on the canopy.

One plant decided to play superman and SHOOT through the canopy, too close to the HPS bulb and it looks like she's pretty stressed.

I used my solar powered AA battery charger(light meter0 and found it was right in the 160ma battery charging range, so i lowered it to about 80ma

pics later

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GROW DAY 60
FLOWER DAY 43

Here's where it starts to get really 56k unfriendly.

All right guys, this is starting to get super serial.

Check out these pics, I checked the trichomes under a 60x radioshack microscope and they looked mostly cloudy/amber

but then again.. they could have been clear..ish. i'm not sure, it's my first grow.

Based on what I saw under the microscope I'm scheduled to flush this upcoming Wednesday and harvest the Wednesday afterward.

I would love to get a second or third.. or fourth opinion. I know it's hard for you to tell from these pics but anything you have to say would help.
THANKS!

















Plus everyone that came to check out my grow gets a SNEAK PEEK at GROW #2 with lessons learned, LSTing, and many more surprises!





Thanks for checkin out my grow.

[CannabisCarl2134]

^^ Fucking awesome!! Can't wait to see the LST.

[JackHerer]

Looks like a good log problem with 56k is the sh*t service ISP's provide with it your lucky if you actually get a reall bandwidth of 32K so untill you get the big pipe pic pages will always be hell to load. Just roll a spliff while your waiting.

You were talking about get more under light. You could try changing that black plastic you use to mylar & have the white reflective side facing up. Seems to reflect well in my NFT system.