CFL growlog, round 2 of 1st grow

[jkalb42]

Thanks guy, you are A LOT of help, i'm gonna go get one of those right now lol.

[denialisback]

Thanks guy, you are A LOT of help, i'm gonna go get one of those right now lol.

teehee pleasures mine dude! Goodluck! will check in on your log


Peace,
Denial

[bigtopsfinn]

I was thinking about the kitchen/bathroom fans, but those arent meant for24/7 use are they? also, the carbon filter i was planning to build was a circular can-lookin' one, i dont know how i could pull through that.

Well the carbon filter you are making sounds like mine. It looks like a bullet shell open totally on one end where to fit the tubing. The rest of the filter walls has the actual carbon, and the air enters through the side wall, through the carbon, into the middle of the filter, and out the tube end. So, I just put my carbon filter where I want my "exhaust" (the point where the hot are is leaving the grow space, not the grow box), and had the fan actually outside of my box (you can mount yours on the wall maybe)

I drew you a little picture...
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/o...inn/filter.jpg
The carbon filter should be big enough so it doesnt restrict the fan, and that it can handle the smell. I have a 220m3 fan (~129cfm), so my carbon filter is 250m3, (i think about 2,3kg of active carbon, and its quite heavy).

Hope this helps... Good luck!

[jkalb42]

nice, that looks like it would work awesome. ill be thinking about that when i put this together a bit more tomorrow.

[jkalb42]

so, the fan is not in yet...sloooow progress on that, due to the fact that the only cutting tool i have for the dremel is the cutting disks, and i have no other power tools. couple that with the 3 exams i have this wednesday, my lack of preparation for them, and the poor cooperation that a certain built in windows vista program is showing me, and you can see that i'm having a great week. also, i dont know if i'll be here long enough for my buds (if i even HAVE any females) to fully mature. worst case scenario: there is no females. second to worst case scenario: i have to load 20+ plants into the trunk of my car, drive 28 hours, hope they survive that, and then, if by chance they DO survive, find a place and enough equipment to finish the job. my two moms* aren't looking their best, but they're doing fine. has anyone had any experience with "Living Earth" organic soils? and also, the new fanleaf growth on my moms* are not coming in pairs anymore, but are alternating. i know this is not something bad, but to be sure it just means theyre ready to start flowering right? BTW, as of now, if you haven't noticed yet from this post, i have NO IDEA what sex these plants are. lol, i hope everyone is having a better week than me!

[jkalb42]

i went to home depot and bought some rotozip sabercut bits, cut out that hole in no time at all. i still have to do the intake air holes, and the in and out in the top chamber as well, but its almost 8 here and its exam week, don't wanna make too much noise. i'm afraid my neighbors are gonna call a noise complaint some time with all the building noise going on over here, although they haven't even complained to ME about it as of now. those dremels are LOUD for how small they are, but very handy anyway. i'm covered in saw dust...good thing i have a vacuum to clean the carpet up lol.

[jkalb42]

well, the ten clones that i took...what...not yesterday...pretty recently anyway, all of them are growing mold. F*CK F*CKING PEAT PELLETS. done with those cock suckers...ill try the bubble cloner method. wow, i'm definitely a little bit angry about that. i don't understand how the mold grew the first time in 24/0 light. this time i went to 18/6, but i popped holes in the humidity dome, dried everything and cleaned with alcohol beforehand, squeezed most of the water out of the peat pellets before putting in the cuttings, AND propped the dome open in half hour intervals AT LEAST 4 times a day. wtf...

[jkalb42]

My grow box is coming so deathly close to completion. i just need a fan or two in the upper chamber, maybe buy a few more cfl's and splitters, then shove 'er in the closet! the door of it didn't have enough stability, it was a little too heavy being only attached to one side and all, so i rigged up a wheel on the swinging end. works great now does anyone have a method for auto-watering plants over an extended period of time without a water pump and the rest of that rig? i was thinking about putting the flowering plants into a small tub-type thing filled 3-5 inches with a water/superthrive/nute mix. i have a bubbler, and i was thinking if i left that on in the water oxygen wouldnt be a big problem. for the mothers in the top chamber i figured i'd set up a milk jug just right, poke some tiny holes aimed at the plants, and hope they do ok lol. most definitely any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Picture 1: Top veg. chamber with a few new clones, a sturdy well-rooted clone, and a bucket of garbage.

Picture 2: Both chambers (picture is sideways) with the same situation in the top, and 5 more well-rooted clones in the flowering chamber.

Picture 3: The flowering chamber with all 6 plants gettin ready to show me if they're female or not.

Picture 4: Veg. chamber re-situated, with both moms* hangin out

Picture 5: Another sideways picture of both chambers, my outflow fan on the left of the bottom chamber. if you look close at the front mom*, you can see how yellow and crispy the biggest fan leaves are. why are they they only leaves that look awful?

[irydyum]

I just skimmed over your log here, and I'm not sure what kind of help you are looking for? The only immediate question I have is why does it look like you are trimming the leaves of your vegging plants? Just curious, saw that in some of the first pics.

[jkalb42]

oh lol, i've gotten that question before. i just wanted to see what would happen, i was pretty sure it wouldnt die so i didn't mind too much, was hoping that by trimming some of the fan leaves, more light would get to the newer growth. i tried to tuck some back, but it just wasnt doin it for me. thanks for skimming btw. i guess the only help i'm really needing right now is a more experienced grower to read my last post and tell me if my watering idea would work ok, since im leaving for home in montana on thursday and will be gone for 10 days, and also, have you ever heard of "Living Earth" soil? the city i'm in doesnt have a specialized garden shop or anything, just home depot, lowes, and their unending supply of MG products. that stuff is the only non MG (or scotts) soil i could find in town. it says its organic and stuff, but that doesnt convince me that it's any good.