"Kinda wild" Trial grow

[Vancefish]

Over the last couple weeks I dealt with nute deficiency and root binding.

First as I said above I over flushed to stop the nute burn. So I started BC nutes at 1/3 of 1/5th strength. My yellow leaves started to green up a little. However then started dropping like flies. Didn't take long for me to figure out I was root bound again. Sense the growth had also stopped.

So the three got much bigger pots and fox farms Ocean on this last Wednesday. They responded by the next day with faster lifting tops. :thumbsup:

Sense they hadn't really grown much for a while I let them recover a few days before pics.

Pics 1, 2 are plant1. SHE has female parts on every node. :thumbsup: That yellow leaf has been that way ALL week, sense the nute deficiency.

Pics 3, 4 are plant2. IT hasn't shown any sex yet! :wtf:

Pic 5 is plant3. Also shows female across the board. (TOO tall though)

[Vancefish]

Here are pics of the clones progress

Pics 1, 2 are Durban poison

Pics 3, 4 are G-13 / afgani

[Vancefish]

Howdy all!

Been 20 days since I posted. Been a bit busy here. Been doing side jobs for extra money(Auto repair), Also been trying to buy a wrecked truck.

Last Saturday I bought a 1000w switchable system. I also gave up my iguana to some really good people (almost jealous of where she lives now). Then partially converted the room I'll be growing in. :thumbsup:

Issue is still money. So I have no ventilation and have to keep the room door wide open during lights on. My floor is uncovered but will soon get white tile. Plan is to cover the window with foam insulation (currently a doubled up army blanket).

All three are just over two months old. I started 12/12 last Sunday.

Pics 1, 2 are Plant1 LST with no cutting.

Pics 3, 4 is plant2 Topped (now showing sex on only one branch)

Pic 5 is natural (now 3' 4" from soil to top)

[Vancefish]

Here are a couple pics of the room from last Saturday.

[redtails]

Wow, lotsa growth in your time away! Sorry to hear you had to get rid of your Iggy, but at least it's to a great place. My fiancée is having to get rid of her Degus because she's becoming allergic to their dander, and it's hard since she raised them from babies.

How are you thinking of hooking up the ventilation? I noticed your hood is definitely coolable but are you just going for the fan pulling through there or are you going to get another for just the room air if necessary?

[Vancefish]

Yea, it's a bummer having to give up a pet. I adopted her as a companion to the male I already had. She was three when I got her. However Larry died at 17(ish) this last summer. Sence then she's been in a room alone, just stairing at the walls. I really felt bad for her every day when I'd feed. Which was why I got her FOR him, 11 years ago.

The rescue that took her has two large solariums with branches and shelves to bask in. There were other iguanas all over the place. Just like in Columbia!:thumbsup:

So, It's for the best. For her and me(plus I want to live where she now lives!).

As for ventilation. Yes, I plan to cool the hood. I bought this set up over the cool tube I'd planned. Because changing bulbs in the cool tube would be a pain. I plan to buy a second identical to this one as well. Then I plan to pull air from my hallway through the light. Then the hot air will be routed under the floor and up to the living room. Thus saving that heat I already paid to make. Then because it gets really hot here in the summer. I plan a second fan to pull heat from the room ceiling, on a thermostat. Only pulling heat out IF it gets to hot. I need to get a scent reducing filter for that one. Because that heat will go outside.

Unfortunately, I found mites on one of the clones. Damb near dripping off the plant. I looked at the THREE (notice I said three) big girls, for damage or webs. I found a few leaves with spots but no webs.

So, (oh joy) I misted the infested plant and put it outside where it was about 30F. After about 2 min I grabbed the plant and took it to the bathroom. I rinsed off all I could see. Then also did the same to the other clone. I called weeding4you who brought over some shackley basic H soap. Then we soaked each plant with this stuff and rinced that off.

I had a lousy vacume. So I went and bought one that uses bags and actually would SUCK! Then cleaned, cleaned and cleaned some more. I put a hotshots pest strip in the "flower room" after cleaning the room over and washing each of those plants. Last night I allowed the room to get as cold as I could (64 deg F) to slow any breeding. I also desolved three pounds of dry ice in the room for an increase in CO2.

Today I found out my boss had mites, got them early last week and never bothered to tell me!

So I borrowed a couple tablespoons of his neem oil.

I havn't/can't find any live mites at this point. I still see specks of something under some leaves (which bothers me). However nothing moving.

Now, off to see HOW Neem oil kills them. I also need to find out how much CO2 is in a pound of dry ice. Plus I've used Mayonaise to clean and shine house plants before with great success. So, I may try that on a leaf or two and see what happens.

[Vancefish]

That didn't take long,..

It says: "It disrupts insects' hormonal balance so they die before they molt to the next life stage."

Cool!:thumbsup:

[Vancefish]

To add to that, I found,..

Neem oil is ingested by the insect or mite, either through direct consumption or by eating plant matter with neem in the tissues.

Once in the beasty, it disrupts the critters ability to act like what it is. It's like it looses it's mind. They forget to eat, breed, hatch or molt. Thus causing them all to die over a week or so. Many simply leave the plant as soon as they smell the stuff. However mites can't leave, they just eat some and like a stoned teenager, they get couch locked!

I guess Neem doesn't cause munchies though!

[Vancefish]

Dry Ice,... One pound = 8.3 Cubic feet of CO2

To achieve 1500ppm I need to release 0.54 cubic feet per hour into the room. Assuming all is lost in 30 min (because the room is sealed with towels)

So, by dissolving nearly 3 lbs in the room. I let 24 cubic feet of CO2 into the room over three hours. Which I think calculates out to 19200ppm average for those three hours.

I read somewhere 10,000ppm would kill mites and eggs too.

Plants seemed to love it. Not going with the mayo idea.

[Vancefish]

Well,.. Plant2 (topped) is a hermi!

This plant nearly refused to show sex. Both of it's sisters showed sex around three weeks ago. This one waited until a week and a half into 12/12 to do it. So, I semi expected it.

Oddly(at least to me) is the female parts were easily seen a few days ago. however male parts are jammed right up against the female parts and didn't show up until today.

He/ She/ IT will die today!