my camper closet grow

[catbuds]

I have a BIG camper thats nearly 1/2 closet. Biggest closet I've EVER had. Now that I've removed the shelf on top, its 7' high, 10' long, 3' deep. Ill be using what I already have for veg. I have a 6' light mover, 250 watt hps (not using for veg) a lot of fluorescent grow lights, 4 led's. A shit load of 4" & 6" fans, 4 fan forced carbon air filters with ozone emitters. For veg, Ill be using all lights except hps for veg. Been checking seed banks for sm varieties, but don't see anything any better than what I usually grow for my space. NL. Campers get hot when the sun hits them, so waiting for cool weather. Will have this up & running probably Nov.:thumbsup:

catbuds Reviewed by catbuds on 09-26-2013. my camper closet grow I have a BIG camper thats nearly 1/2 closet. Biggest closet I've EVER had. Now that I've removed the shelf on top, its 7' high, 10' long, 3' deep. Ill be using what I already have for veg. I have a 6' light mover, 250 watt hps (not using for veg) a lot of fluorescent grow lights, 4 led's. A shit load of 4" & 6" fans, 4 fan forced carbon air filters with ozone emitters. For veg, Ill be using all lights except hps for veg. Been checking seed banks for sm varieties, but don't see anything any Rating: 5

[catbuds]

Might haveta use a shotgun on moving targets. Was looking at blueberry seeds, but would like to know what they might really cost. They sure were pretty though!![/QUOTE]

YEA BUDDY! So glad for you on the clean bill of health! Now we have to work on your ticker & make it young again! Guess you already know about the aspirin thing. Thats the first thing they tell you. How about vit E for heart health? I'd like to see you & crystal get together in the pms at mns, include your wife & daughter in these discussions, & get you on a program of natural holistic treatments. Aspirin is a synthetic copy of willow bark, btw. Something you probably already knew. I've read many reports that say the human body is genetically programed to last 120 years. Now its up to you to go prove that to be right!!!! YEA! GO RANGER!

-- We should have discussed this blueberry thing a long time ago. I'm on the same quest! While D.J. Shorts blueberry is awesome, I found evidence of the existance of two seperate landraces that are naturally blueberry in flavor! When I started the search, I was under the impression that that 'flavors' were created by selective breeding. Well anyway, one was sativa, native to somewhere near Africa I believe. But here's the kicker. One is an indica landrace, from Brazil. I had been of the opinion indica ONLY came from around Afghanistan, the hash producers! So therefore, I am intrigued by this Brazilian native blueberry indica. I really want to get my hands on it. I forgot the name of the strain & the seed co. But I WILL find it again. Thats a nack I have, finding things. Book, road map, someplace I've never been to before hundreds of miles from home.... I just find things. My truck driving ex said I'm a witch, the dispatcher at his co. said I should have his job. But I will find that strain & where to get it for you within 24 hrs, or I'm loosing my touch! Ok... its now 1:47pm..... GO!

[OMB]

Do you have to be special to get in our what?

PM's are disabled for all as far as I know. The closest you can get is album comments for individuals. The comments are NOT private though, they will show in the "whats new" section.

[tlranger]

Do you have to be special to get in our what?

[tlranger]

Are pms really private, just read they permanently store everything?

[tlranger]

So it's a currency changing thing, so does the price last a little while. Had doc appoint last Friday(all cancer scans showed two years clean now, doc was positively giddy) stopped at a steak'n shake. Waitress has all about, it's happy hour aren't you lucky, half price drinks. Go to pay the bill for three of us, had to have shakes, and darn this is more than I expected. Money take explained, your ticket is marked 1:58(when ordered), but half price doesn't start till 2:00, by now it's 2:30.

Might haveta use a shotgun on moving targets. Was looking at blueberry seeds, but would like to know what they might really cost. They sure were pretty though!!

[catbuds]

Bet Chromophore would be another 'metric converter'! Lol!
-- Ok. The reason I came over was to give you guys a hook up in cannabis history! On another forum, MNS (Mr Nice Seeds), is a guy with a beautiful outdoor grow, awesome pics, called Scrubdog. He's very much a sativa kinda guy. He likes to talk genetics & cannabis history. Very devoted to landraces & preserving their existence. If you read his grow thread from beginning to end, you'll get a mini history lesson. You'll see the different traits of different landraces & begin to dishtinguish their presence in various hybrids we have today. You'll learn to appreciate their existence & come to hope for their preservation as well. If you go over ther (& I hope you do), don't forget to also read the history of Mr Nice Seed. I think you'll be surprised by who've you've found! I know I was! My thread "Old school genetics" has a bit of history lessons inbeded in it as well, but what I intended as a discussion, aimed at us old heads teaching our history to the younguns, nearly became a heated debate! Another thing they have that would appeal to you guys is..... P.M.s!!!! Yeah! & you'll be suprised by who else you'll find over there! I'd never leave cann.com, or suggest anybody else leave either, but I have both forums, plus one based in Canada, & another that has contests I like to follow. But anybody who joins MNS will be glad they did. Other than the P.M.s, not much different than here. Just a different spot with new friends to meet! Not all forum boards are friendly! I've tried some where even the mods jump on the new kid, kinda like high school. On one of them, one of the mods told me women had no place on these forums, to go back to the kitchen where I belonged! Another mod deleted his post that were derogatory to women, sent me an apology in a pm, but I don't post there or even read posts, just go straight to the contests. Personally, THAT forum board does us no justice. If someone in the ANTI-legalization movement wanted dirt to use against us, that would be their 'go to' board. Its crude & 2/3s of it should be xxx rated. Sorry about that rant. Just wanted to point out how sweet it is to be a member of Cann.com & MNS. THIS is where the 'good people' are. & I'm proud to be a part of both!
-- Sometimes you just want to say something that you don't want to put on the open forum & you really need PMs. But I really want you guys to check out the above mentioned; Scrubdog & the history of MNS. RANGER.... PMs?

[catbuds]

It's a moving target.
This morning, it was $1.64.

Aloha,
Weeze

You know that right! Its like trying to hit a moving target with your eyes crossed! Me? I just click on U.S. dollars in the upper right hand corner! LOL! I can't convert shit! That would be MATH! So the next time I'm confronted with a metric conversation, I'll be on here yelling, "WEEZE! HELP MEEEE!!!!

[catbuds]

It is water tight. I wipe it out & dry about 1/2 hr after watering. That's also a good time to rearrange the plants.

[Shovelhandle]

Congratulations on starting your premier grow log here at Cannabis.com, Catbuds.
To comment on your question about my soil and lights. My grow medium is similar to yours. I have a 110 gallon outdoor composter for my little garden. When I get a chance I like to compost my used indoor soil in between grow seasons, normally in the Spring-Summer while I grow outdoors. In a very large tote I'll mix the soil with some kitchen scraps, brown material ( I did use leaf material this time as I didn't feel like screwing with making butter or hash), peanut shells (I'm a nut-a-holic), a dozen or two of earthworms and compost starter. I don't bring in anything from outdoors. In addition to the composted re-used soil I mix peat moss, perlite and amendments. These vary, dolomite lime, earth worm castings, composted/dehydrated manure, bone meal, molasses, bat guano, all kinds of shtt. I add one of many Espoma products with Bio-Tone to 'activate' the soil with 'bugs'. I will add mycorrhizae to the soil when planting by mixing with water and adding to the root area. Our water is hard so I use very little lime anymore.
I grow indoors usually during the heating season. We just started using heat again and yesterday the fuel truck filled our kerosene tank. I do have an exhaust fan in the grow area to rid the odors when necessary but I like to keep the heat indoors most of the time. I start the seedlings with the four lamp, 4' T5HO lights. I buy both spectrum, grow and bloom 3k and 6500k approximately). I use just these for the seedlings. Though I've seen others get great results using only the florescent lamps through veg or even through the whole grow I go to a 400 watt MH pretty early on. I've seen some folks get really good results with the VHO and UHO T5 lights. I just feel that is what worked best for me. I use a large box fan blowing across the plants and lights and manage to keep the temperature under 80º.
I use 2' x 4' sheets of cardboard hung for reflectors and keep the lighting in around the plants. These sheets were mylar covered for years until it wore out and I painted them with flat white bathroom ceiling paint (anti-bacterial,mold). So the grow area can be from 2' x 4' out to as much as 4' x 6', if necessary. At the max size I use two 400 watt HID fixtures overhead and the T5HO florescent for back lighting.
As far as seed choices and plant size I found that I can grow almost any hybrid and keep the size under control even with a full eight week veg. I do crop early, twice. With the sativa run I'm doing now it is recommended that I go right to bloom light schedule from seedling stage. I know your feelings on this but experienced growers with these strains advise this. Even so, I want to give them a couple of weeks to start and 18 hrs of light to recover from the cropping. The bloom period will likely be 12 weeks and more.
This should answer your questions and many more you didn't ask (you didn't ask for this book, but we have no PMs here). You can find my grow logs (a lot of 'em) by clicking my name > latest started threads and see the list of grow log threads.

Good Growing!