Floro cabinet grow in week 5

[rikb631]

this is my second grow overall my first grow i actually did in the areogarden alone and while i did have some small sucess with it let just say the plants were dwarfs compared to these ones. This time id actually like to get a yield that i can have around for more than a week or so. I switched to soil and its seemed to have paid off so far.

i started with 3 seeds 1 didn't pop. i germanated with the good ole papertowel bowl and saucer trick. moved them to peat pellets and have repotted them twice since the inital greenhouse phase. Im in week 5 and have just repotted to 5 gal buckets. Plant A is untrimmed compleatly and plant B ive topped and trimmed and i think im gonna do some LST on it once it recovers. im going to start flowering at the end of week 6 or maybe week 7. Im using 215w actual of florecent lighting at 5500k whitch gives me around 4875 lumens per square foot overall. While i am using miracle grow products i am being very careful not to over do the feedings about 1/2 the recomended dosage of tomato nutes whitch is 18-21-18. i do that once a week and just plain water every other time i started that at the begining of week 4. As the MG micro max already has nutes in it ive read its really easy to burn your plants but ive also readt that you can be sucessful if your careful. Also ive added about 30% perlite to the mix whitch you really cant see on the top but i promise you its in there.

As far as my seed stock goes I'm using bag seed and while i know thats not the prefered method but i had veen getting some pretty decent stuff from a long time source that has recently moved. being that i loved the strain, while not knowing what it was i knew that i loved the smoke... So near the end i started looking for healthy looking seeds and stored them so i could reproduce the bud that i had come to love. ill attach a pic of one of the buds i got the seeds from when i figure out how.

rikb631 Reviewed by rikb631 on 05-26-2010. Floro cabinet grow in week 5 this is my second grow overall my first grow i actually did in the areogarden alone and while i did have some small sucess with it let just say the plants were dwarfs compared to these ones. This time id actually like to get a yield that i can have around for more than a week or so. I switched to soil and its seemed to have paid off so far. i started with 3 seeds 1 didn't pop. i germanated with the good ole papertowel bowl and saucer trick. moved them to peat pellets and have repotted Rating: 5

[rikb631]

also i cant seem to attach photos in this thread? not sure why but its not giving me the option.

[bigtopsfinn]

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[rikb631]

Pic 1 is what i got the seeds from



Pic 2 is 2 weeks old

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Pic 3 is the day i transplanted ti the 5 gal buckets.



Pic 4 is the big plant today

[Jakeyfr3sh]

They look really good man! I would say the one on the right looks ready for flowering in like a week!

[rikb631]

start week 6

So my big plant is now over a foot tall and the little guy that i topped and trimmed is about 8"... i have about 2 feet left of grow upwards in the closet... i think ill be ok to start flowering today just want a few second opinions.

I have gone out and purchased the low spectrum cfls and tubes I will need. my next watering will be without nutes... i guess if i have one question is when to start the flowering nutes? do i wait til i see the flowers or if i do start to flower today just add it to the next cycle?

here are a couple of pics of what were looking like this morning.

[PhatJay]

Yeah, I would start flowering the one on the right today. With CFL's poor light penetration you don't want it getting much bigger as they will continue to stretch for the 1st 2 weeks of flower.

I can't help on the nutes question as I don't grow in soil.

... oh and they look really healthy btw, nice work. :thumbsup:

[rikb631]

Yeah, I would start flowering the one on the right today. With CFL's poor light penetration you don't want it getting much bigger as they will continue to stretch for the 1st 2 weeks of flower.

I can't help on the nutes question as I don't grow in soil.

... oh and they look really healthy btw, nice work. :thumbsup:

thanks jay... i figure ill flower them both and if i get a small yield out of the second plant than i dont think it will bother me too much. also i think it will give me a chance to hang my lights at different levels so penetration is less of an issue...

as for any first time growers that see this make sure you do your homework and read as much as humanly possible before starting a grow. check multiple sources for info and cross referance that with what you already know. even with this grow im sure ive made some mistakes. On my first grow i went in pretty blind and didnt realize how important it was to pay attention to details as far as this grow is going so far... i realize that it takes time to become a seasoned vet. ive still yet to get a decent yield out of anything, but i think i have the veggie part down now. i dont mind taking small steps but the goal is obviously some sensi buds.

hopefully we have a couple of females here and we can be very happy. even if i get a hermie i think ill be satisfied cause from what i understand if you get one and let it seed than the majority of those seeds will be females. I could be wrong, but i think thats what i read. well off to flower i go keep your fingers crossed that i got some ladies!

in case you were wondering i do have some northern lights seeds that i did get from a reputable bank... just figured id use the bagseed to get my feet wet as not to just be experimenting with stuff i paid good money for.

[rikb631]

so no suggestions on starting my bloom nutes?? i figure ill just water them normal tommorow and then in a few days start the bloom nutes, we'll see how it goes i guess.

[rikb631]

started my 12/12 this morning... 6:30am made all the preperations for absolutly no light leaks....

also im still wondrering if i should start my bloom nutes right away or wait til next week? they are due for water tonight, so if i could get a little advice on this it would be appreciated.