1st effort--Thoughts?

[Jungl3Jim]

Hey all,

Only joined on here yesterday, been looking for a forum that seems somewhat safe. This is my first grow, more of a trial run than anything else, so every bit of wisdom shared is more than welcome.
I'll leave a proper intro post at some stage, but here's what I've been up to in the last 8 weeks.

Thought since I have extreme back pain due to a Hemi-Vertibrae, and this is the only thing that really helps anymore, I thought I had better give it a go now that Bush has farked the worlds economiy. I gotta stop paying for gods free gift.

Strain:
NFI - Bagseed

Setup:
900Wx600Dx1800H - Closet lined with relective white PVC sheet
400W High Bay MH - 4000K
3 ft turbo fan (cylindrical)
small CO2 burner

Soil:
7/10 Locally made (NZ) sterilised potting mix
1/10 Worm Castings
1/10 Pumice
1/10 Full range fert pre-mix (blood and bone etc)

Gadgets:
Hygrometer, Thermometer in one
Soil probe: PH, Moisture and Light meter in one
No electrical PH meter, just litmus paper

Nutrients:
Natures Own - Super Grow Guano - Veg
Natures Own - Super Bloom Guano - Flower
African Violet Food - 4-14-10 NPK - Flowering
Superthrive since birth
(all nutes are fed at around 3/4 the suggested rates)
Epsom Salts and a bit of high calcium milk sparingly.

With that lot out of the way..

I started 8 1/2 weeks ago with 2 seeds and big ambitions.
For germinating I used the paper towel method.
The sprout went straight into my home made soil mix into 15L or 3Gal pots

Vegged quite quickly even with the 4000k spectrum of the MH, but I guess having 400W over two spindly babies from sprout helps a bit.
At 5 weeks old they hit their 9th nodes, of which I topped the 9th, leaving 8.
Small I know but hey, its a small closet.

Nodes 7+8 formed 4 main branches of which I tied down the let the other tops(Nodes 5+6) grow through and are becoming another 4 tops themselves.
Nodes 1+2 were just removed
Nodes 3+4 have been cloned - rooting
At 6 weeks I switched to 12+12 with no dark period in between.
After a week, I could already sex the plants, one had its first nuts, and the other I'm proudly showing here. Its been just over two weeks since I began flowering and she's not looking too bad at all.

Thoughts anyone?
Suggestions?
I have done a crap load of reading, searching for as much info as I could get even before starting.
The part I'm most proud of is, the whole setup including the light, soil mix, nutes and lining for the closet, gadgets etc, all up, under $150 NZ dollars, thats about $100 USD

peek at me pics and tell me what you think.
Hope to chat with ya'll at some stage.
I'll add more pics as she grows

-Peace-

Jungl3Jim Reviewed by Jungl3Jim on 07-01-2009. 1st effort--Thoughts? Hey all, Only joined on here yesterday, been looking for a forum that seems somewhat safe. This is my first grow, more of a trial run than anything else, so every bit of wisdom shared is more than welcome. I'll leave a proper intro post at some stage, but here's what I've been up to in the last 8 weeks. Thought since I have extreme back pain due to a Hemi-Vertibrae, and this is the only thing that really helps anymore, I thought I had better give it a go now that Bush has farked the Rating: 5

[Jungl3Jim]

also forgot to metion, I did the jorge cervantes hash method(ice, water etc) with the male.
For a small 1ft high male, I got two mint sessions off of that

[crabbyback]

Looks like you've done nicely for yourself. Good luck through the rest of your grow.

[WWZEUS]

Really nice plant man. I like the way you are training it, I've been contemplating whether I should try training one of my plants like that for my next grow. The buds are also coming in great. Keep up the good work:thumbsup:

[Jungl3Jim]

Cheers guys, I just hope I'm on the right track
Here's a couple more pics from today, just a few days since the last ones
One pic is for an idea of the actual setup.. pretty simple, seems to work
The other is just 'cos I like looking
She's only small but as I said, it's more of a trial than anything, I already learnt how much is too much, with ferts, water etc, prob caused the other plant to go male myself. I have stressed this girl something bad but she keeps fighting through.
Basically what I've read to keep ya girls healthy and stay away from etc, I've pretty much subjected my girl to due to my learning curve. I'd rather learn now with a simple 1 baby trial than with a 50 clones scrog style and f*ck that up completely.

Any tips from what you can see?
Thanks ppl,
Jim

-Peace-

[Jungl3Jim]

Sorry about the double post but I got stung with the 10 minute time limit on the 'edit' feature.

I'm thinking of harvesting , then attempting reveg this if she turns out OK, it IS bagseed, but it came from some tidy smoke.
I've heard harvesting and then re-veging to create a mother can cause degredation in the dna??, weak clones, etc. Is there anything to this?
I know nothing about that side of things.

Chur
-Peace-

[Jungl3Jim]

Sorry about the double post but I got stung with the 10 minute time limit on the 'edit' feature.

I'm thinking of harvesting , then attempting reveg this if she turns out OK, it IS bagseed, but it came from some tidy smoke.
I've heard harvesting and then re-veging to create a mother can cause degredation in the dna??, weak clones, etc. Is there anything to this?
I know nothing about that side of things.

Chur
-Peace-

hey all, any idea of whether I can do this without any detriment to the eventual mother? I've got 2 babies cloned from this plant already, but I would prefer if possible to flower them and reveg this one to be the mother.

Thanks in advance guys and girls

-Peace-

[JD1stTimer]

I don't know about DNA problems but I do know that a revegging plant grows really strange leaf patterns for a while. ./~ Welcome to the jungle Jim, welcome to the jungle Jim, welcome to it Dan! ./~ Sorry, line from one of my favorite musical acts.

[Jungl3Jim]

a wee update if anyone is interested...

taken yesterday.. flowering 24 days..

Not too shabby for bagseed

[justanotherbozo]

hey all, any idea of whether I can do this without any detriment to the eventual mother? I've got 2 babies cloned from this plant already, but I would prefer if possible to flower them and reveg this one to be the mother.

Thanks in advance guys and girls

-Peace-

high man, looks like you're not gettin' much help so i figured i'd see if i
could add anything.

anyway, the DNA degradation you speak of is possible i suppose, ...it does
happen but usually with mothers that have been kept for many years.

my suggestion would be to use one of the two clones you already have to
create a mother and just do the re-veg as an experiment, ...just to see if
you can, that way, if it doesn't take, and they sometimes don't, you'll still
have a mom for use to create a second harvest.

here's my first re-veg, ...and bagseed, just like you, lol. ...and i still have
a mom from a cut from that re-veg, which i did about 7 or 8 months ago.
(i popped the original seed about a year and a half ago)

btw, are you still using that MH light?