First Grow - 2600 + watt CFL!!!!

[low_rdr]

Here we are at day 5 of flower. I made some slight changes to the box, I modified the filter to come exaust into a cannon instead of leaving the cannon into the box, I did this because of course this is a nice flower box, but the filter was a impeding a bit into the light. The temps are also a bit high - I might actually be adding a powered intake instead of passive, and might use a higher CFM exhaust fan, pre filter.

Pics:

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[low_rdr]

Okay - So we're just coming into week 2 of flower, lots of growth. I had to redo some of the LST to spread her out a bit more, also as predicted - The main stem is now 1/2 way around the edge of the 5 gallon bucket. She's looking great, I did overfeed some tigerbloom this week so the PH is a little high, thankfully we're using soil and I'll flush today again with water, should normalize the PH, tomorrow will feed as normal and test PH before feeding, utilize some PH down if needed.

Bubble twins were both loosened on the LST, both are looking good - I did mist 1 branch of one of the bubbles so I can get some pure bubblegum fem seeds out of it. These bubbles are auto, so I can't clone them.

There are also shots of my seedlings at week 1 - About half of these will be placed in the bottom chamber to be moms, the other half will goto flower next week. I have Super Skunk germinating. You can also see a shot of one of the clones starting new growth (yay) - All of the clones have rooted well, but this is the first sign of new growth.

Pineapple Express (fiona) is starting to show signs of sex.

One of my powerbuds was too far from the light without rotation when it was still germinating, and shows enormous stretch - I will be flowering this one and saving the bush for my mother.

This will be turned into a perpetual grow, however I will be ending this log with the harvest of the bubble gum twins and the pineapple express.

On to the pictures!

Here is fiona after some LST changes
The tall branch in the back is not the
main branch, the main branch is tied
to the right side of the bucket in this
picture.
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Here you can see the bubble twins with
light LST - You'll notice that there is another
green twist with no apparent reason - This
is the branch that has been forced to hermie.

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Fuzzy picture of clone, but you can see the
new growth at the base of the fan leaf.
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Seedling - Power Bud
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[billydakid6812]

Okay - So we're just coming into week 2 of flower, lots of growth. I had to redo some of the LST to spread her out a bit more, also as predicted - The main stem is now 1/2 way around the edge of the 5 gallon bucket. She's looking great, I did overfeed some tigerbloom this week so the PH is a little high, thankfully we're using soil and I'll flush today again with water, should normalize the PH, tomorrow will feed as normal and test PH before feeding, utilize some PH down if needed.

Bubble twins were both loosened on the LST, both are looking good - I did mist 1 branch of one of the bubbles so I can get some pure bubblegum fem seeds out of it. These bubbles are auto, so I can't clone them.

There are also shots of my seedlings at week 1 - About half of these will be placed in the bottom chamber to be moms, the other half will goto flower next week. I have Super Skunk germinating. You can also see a shot of one of the clones starting new growth (yay) - All of the clones have rooted well, but this is the first sign of new growth.

Pineapple Express (fiona) is starting to show signs of sex.

One of my powerbuds was too far from the light without rotation when it was still germinating, and shows enormous stretch - I will be flowering this one and saving the bush for my mother.

This will be turned into a perpetual grow, however I will be ending this log with the harvest of the bubble gum twins and the pineapple express.

On to the pictures!

Here is fiona after some LST changes
The tall branch in the back is not the
main branch, the main branch is tied
to the right side of the bucket in this
picture.
Attachment 288286

Here you can see the bubble twins with
light LST - You'll notice that there is another
green twist with no apparent reason - This
is the branch that has been forced to hermie.

Attachment 288287

Fuzzy picture of clone, but you can see the
new growth at the base of the fan leaf.
Attachment 288288

Seedling - Power Bud
Attachment 288289



Remember to +rep my posts if you like this thread!

looking good dude, my shit is taking forever to dry it's really dense, but fluffy at the same time. Can't wait to see what the buds will look like, keep us updated.

[billydakid6812]

how do I plus rep, I always wondered that I feel like my shit shouldn't be low.

[JonesMr54]

Great grow log... Glad to see that someone enjoys the engineering and nerd art that is involved in this just as much as me. (I do it more for that satisfaction than I do the bud)

Looks like you and I will be tracking about the same point for harvest unless someone has a stronger finish... Here are mine on 12/8, about 7 days into 12/12. I culled the males and have five beautiful girls. Transplanting into 5 gallon containers today. Cheers!

[low_rdr]

Quite honestly I'll tell you right now that your going to yield more than I am, just based on the fact that you've vegged yours for at least twice as long - They're looking great in the 3 gallon pots though! I see your underlighting in the cabinet, I'm doing the same soon, are those 8's or 12's? Right now i've got a spare 24" T12 setup that I can toss in for full spectrum and underlighting, but I'm more focused on the actual bud production, as you can tell my 'bushes' get pretty good light penetration.

Our growth styles are different, but I can see your attention to detail much like mine is what will have you yielding above others in the same position. How long did you veg for? And are you still under 6500 lights? Looks like it. What strain?

We should contact eachother.

[low_rdr]

Wanted to add, I don't see any issues with actually flowering out in a 3 gallon pot, will still bring a good harvest per plant, especially after vegging out for that long. Mine will all veg for about 2-3 weeks and then I'll place 3-4 in a 5 gallon pot, and do some light to moderate LST, with a topping a week before I move to 12/12, so each 5 gallon pot will produce 6-8 tops - Keep in mind that it's not really advised to put that many in the same container, but I don't follow the rules, I try to make my own.

So in each of my 5 gallon tubs I'll have 4 plants, with 8 tops, and I'll tie down each top to the opposing corner, and that will be about the extent of my LST - So when I do have 3 of the 5 gallon tubs in my bloom box, since it is a perpetual grow, it'll be very impressive, and won't be overcrowded by colas I've got 2 more weeks before I flip my current veggies over to flower, if you've kept up with me, ideally I'd like to start producing 6-8 ounces a month, we'll see what happens. Honestly, I'd be happy with 2 ounces per month, but I'd like to see what I can get out of this cabinet... No idea what I'm going to do with the overflow

[billydakid6812]

it says in my settings ive gotten mad rep, but i still got no green bars like you? Or am i just not seeing something. Oh and I will have pics posted of the final product tuesday, so keep your eyes open, looks pretty good, tuesday I start curing, so even then it wont look it's best, but just so you got an idea of what my final harvest was, obviously your going to win our lil bet, but whatever u harvest this time we will compare to my next harvest

[low_rdr]

Lets start vegging in January (you and I billy) 4 plants each, and we'll go for an april harvest, largest harvest wins, I'll even put $300 up (If thats not against board rules, if it is, delete the cash part!)

But I'd actually like to take mrjones on, my pineapple express vs his largest yielding plant (just not all of them combined)

[low_rdr]

Here are some updates:

I went on a cruise with the wife over the holidays, my mentor was suppose to stop by and water the girls, unfortunately that didn't happen. One of the bubbles looked like it was on the way out, so I had to do some lollypopping and light trimming, fortunately I'll be able to smoke what I cut, but unfortunately it'll be about 1/4 of the weight it should have been. I had to take about 30% from one plant, and I'm hoping the other pulls out of the shock.

There is some good news though, on the plant I had to cut, I used tieramist (spelling) anyway, it's a spray that will hermie 1 branch of your plant, so you can self polinate for female seeds. I used it for about 2 weeks and noticed nothing, but when we got back from the cruise, I've got sacks on the branch I isolated, so this autoflowering plant will produce some female seeds for me.

I'm not looking for much bang from what I had to trim today, but I will give a weight report (I'm doing a water cure, so I think its only going to come out to about 4 grams) It's currently 48 hours into a 72 hour cure (no need to do much longer, plant was flushed pretty well and partially dry) Since this is an autoflowering plant, I think it did sense the shock, but it looks like 1 is regressing while the other is trying to bud faster (trichs on what I pulled were cloudy, but no weight)

The pineapple and the other strains look just fine, I did lose 30 clones in this process, will take a few weeks before I'm able to pull that again.

Not a big heartbreaker, just a little misfortune, but the pros still outweigh the cons!

Cruise was great!