My SCROG brings all the boys to the yard? Blue Widow/T5/E&F

[bertoxxulous]

Well everybody, its been just about a year since I've grown last but I've made some modifications to my setup, I think its working out well. I'm still not using R/O water because the filter I finally got the money to purchase is on back-order for another month. My tap water sits at least 300PPM at any point in time so I've been using half strength nutes. My last grow I finished never going over 3/4 strength and I could probably bump it up here in another week which I will probably do.

I use:
-Ionic Grow
-Ionic Bloom
-Liquid Karma
-Hygrozyme
-Ionic Boost

This time around, I'm growing just one Blue Widow in a SCROG format with an Ebb & Flow setup under T5's that would be better suited for SOG but I like to be different and make things more difficult for myself. I topped this plant at 10" and it worked out quite well so far. This gal has really picked up since I've flopped to 12/12 so we should see some pretty big growth I hope before it starts developing teh buds. Here is teh pictures!
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bertoxxulous Reviewed by bertoxxulous on 03-10-2010. My SCROG brings all the boys to the yard? Blue Widow/T5/E&F Well everybody, its been just about a year since I've grown last but I've made some modifications to my setup, I think its working out well. I'm still not using R/O water because the filter I finally got the money to purchase is on back-order for another month. My tap water sits at least 300PPM at any point in time so I've been using half strength nutes. My last grow I finished never going over 3/4 strength and I could probably bump it up here in another week which I will probably do. I Rating: 5

[raizla]

The plant looks great! What exactly is a blue widow again?
Also, since you've got the same type of light I do, are you using the 3000k bulbs for flowering and 6500k for vegging?

I'm trying to decide whether you've got a 2nd T5 light in there, or if that's a reflection of the first one on the side...

[bertoxxulous]

This is blue widow (fem) from dinafem. This is a F1 cross between white widow and blueberry. This plant was grown from seed. Yes there is a second 20k lumin ballast at a 45 degree angle. My main ballast is 40k lumin :thumbsup:

[raizla]

Got it. That sounds like an awesome cross smell-wise. I can just image that blueberry smell crossed with the white widows I'm growing now. mmmmmmm

So don't you think both sets of lights are a bit much for just 1 plant? That's 60k lumens! Seems like you could have 2-3 plants in there pretty easily and up your production.

Also, I read your last grow log. I'm super happy that you did so well using T5's as that's what I'm using too. I plan on switching to the 3000k bulbs as soon as I start flower. Looking at your last grow log, I don't see any reason for you to go with an HPS. Your grow was great!

Oh, and what was the final weight from your last grow?

[PhatJay]

Nice looking setup you got there :thumbsup: Going to enjoy watching this one.

[Buffalo Soldier]

Groovy set up man.......she's gonna do u right!!:S5:

[EvilCartman]

Nice!
I just finished a BW from Dinafem, straight-up, in dirt. Looking forward to seeing how she works out for ya! I bet she'll do great in a ScrOG. :thumbsup:

[bertoxxulous]

@raizla - Yea man I just love T5's...especially for SCROG, you can get the lights right down on top of the plants without fear of burning them up and its nice and evenly uniform because of the size of the ballast...I just love it and wouldn't have it any other way. Honestly I would have more lumins in there if I could. I don't keep a scale around here but I'd say I got at around 9 ounces. I filled up 9 perservative jars anyways lol.

The reason I'm only growing one plant was due to bad planning, however its been alot easier to manage than growing three I must admit....the biggest hassle is the fact I'm using a 40gal reservoir and big ass flood table that is definately overkill for 1 plant but I only use about 25gals every refill and prolly add about 3 gals of tap a week to keep it topped off so the pump doesn't start cavitating, cause I've got it right on the nats ass. I'm lazy and will only clean that flood table if I start seeing PH problems...its mostly liquid karma and I've found that it doesn't seem to affect at all as long as you do the water every week. I clean out the reservoir/pump/air stones/tubing every 2 weeks. As you can see I vegged this plant longer than I normally would have if I was growing two but the way this grew, the lower branchs caught up with the main stem before I actually topped it at 10" which I thought was interesting. From what I read, this plant could double in size once swapped to 12/12 and I will say that the growing has definately picked up since I've gone 12/12, I have to push limbs under every day now its growing so fast. I'm still pissed I can't use RO water though, there is so much crap in tap water I'm sure its hampering my girl in some way.

@everyone - Thanks for the complements guys! I hope I can do this right so we can see what this setup can achieve...so far things are going great but I don't want to jinx myself lol :wtf:

[bertoxxulous]

Well finished up the second week of flowering and I'm getting what looks to be a nitrogen def. possibly starting with the lowest set of fan leaves and already affecting some of the smaller leaves near the base of the plant. I'm not quite sure what to do right now or I have at least not made my mind up on any form of action other than monitoring PH and PPM.

Here are this weeks set of pics.
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[bertoxxulous]

Well, today is the day after the end of the 3rd week of flowering. I've had some more leaves drop...as you can see in the comming pictures I still have some older fan leaves and such dying off. Much of it so far seems to be affecting just main stalk fan leaves and some smaller leaves near the bottom that never quite fully developed. Buds have definately gotten some more form. I fear that I have a deficiency going, so I actually went ahead and did my best to clean the flood table without removing it of course, kind of a mess in the end but oh well. I think I'll need a couple more days to tell if I'm for sure having a deficiency or if this is fairly normal. Again this is my second hopefully sucessful grow so I don't know ya know.

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