my camper closet grow

[catbuds]

Shovel, your photos aren't 'poor'! I posted somewhere everyone is welcome to drop in, this is kinda my hybrid grow log/chat room. I feel like I'd be cheating everybody otherwise, since I can't post pics. If you want to post a pic to prove a point or answer a question, do it here. Your grow logs are just that, & very concise, so bring it on over!
-- Well there must be something in the air! A little glitch here, technical difficulties there.... & today my ballast died in my veg closet! Yeah! So the new T5's go into the veg closet & ALL my plans have changed. Remember, at the beginning of this thread I'd planned to only flower 4 plants in the closet, but later started constructing a cabinet. Well now its back to the closet with TOO MANY PLANTS! This means no mainlining this time. Was almost there, pruned to shape, just not spread out & wired down yet. They now need to grow upward instead of getting spread out. Another thing.... there are no hairs yet, but the ones not having sexed yet have tiny little POINTY things, none of them look rounded like male flowers. Of course I'm looking at things to tiny to distinguish with the unaided eye, but with 2 stacked pr of reading glasses, sometimes a 100X 'scope, they are all pointed, like females. Don't know what to say about the 2 branches per plant I had let grow out (under the 'hub', the 4 branches) to cut for clones. Theres no place to put them. Too broke to replace the lights any time soon, so the next grow will probably be 4 in the tiny closet, unless I only get a 4 tube T5 & for veg & put the 6 tube bank in the cabinet where it belongs. Oh well. It is what it is. I'll have bud, but the plants will be smushed & ugly. Time to get my ass in gear & get those lights going. 12/12, here we come!

[crystaliscious]

Cat I have been soo busy the last few days that I have just caught up on your grow this morning. The weather was 60 degrees sunday! YEs I go outside and inspected the garden- looks like we may have lost half of the fig trees- but everything else looks amazing. I started some semi permaculture here last year and it looks like I have a lot to learn lol!
I have become an expert at finding deals on lights….
First go to Amazon and check out the warehouse deals- they have several T5HO pretty much all the time- these are the lights people ordered and sent back and they work- I have bought several from the warehouse deals- they also get tents sometimes…oh yeah these lights are generally 40% or so off….keep checking like once a week because inventory changes….

Now once they do not sell on Amazon Warehouse they get shipped to stores in TN. KY and I think MI…the stores name is either Essex ( in TN) or Bargain Hunt ( TN and KY)…lights come in the door for half price and the price goes down each month- I got a 2 ft. 8 bulbs T5 for 40.00 all bulbs worked…


But my favorite way to find lights is craigslist- many times people will ship the lights to you from say….maybe Colorado- where people buy these large set ups and decide it easier to just buy it….so I spend a lot of time on states that are about 1 year into thier medical program or now even legalization….I have seen complete set up for a room dirt cheap because people need to get rid of it and want to make something back…often times that is why they will ship….

Hope this helps and your girls get too stretch out there! Stay warm the temps plummetted back into the teens today yuk yuk yuk….

[catbuds]

I got my T5's on amazon. They are pretty cheap, but I can't even afford that for 3-4 months. I have property taxes coming up & a diability check doesn't go that far. If I go with a 4 bank instead of 6 for veg, I might be able to do it a little sooner. I just have to accept the fact this this grow won't be what it could have been. Its the fact their too crowded that's going to make the difference. I would really like to leave the 6 bank in the veg closet & get an 8 bank for the cabinet. Time will tell. Have you noticed everybody had equipment failures within days of each other? W E I R D . . . . . . . . . :wtf:

[catbuds]

Have been too damned depressed to post much after the lights died. I have seasonally affective disorder (S.A.D) anyway & have been fighting it hard, apparently not winning. As crowded as they are, there's only upward room for 6" more growth. No room horizontally. I have no choice but to bend & wire in the mainline technique I already had started. This means pulling dead & dying leaves daily from the bottom because they certainly won't get light. It also mean prime conditions for disease. They are so pretty & healthy for now, but crowded plants aren't happy & neither am I.

[Shovelhandle]

no auto genes in that bubblegum. Typically, they will start to pre-flower around day 42.

[catbuds]

That would be about right. The 2 that started first would be right on track, (1 male, 1 female), but the female is BUDDING! Not just a few flowers, but in every existing internode, AND its not just a single flower, but they are STACKING! Never seen anything like it outside of auto flower. Its twice as big as the others & looking a touch sativa. The others look 100% indica. A problem now is the over crowding issue. So tight in there, she can't possibly reach her full potential. I'll make every effort to reveg her (& a few more), & give her a chance to later show what she can really do. I definitely want her clones & some seed. I have to 'stack the glasses' later today & have another good look for sex. Like I said in a previous post, under magnification, all the tiny bumps are pointy like females. Hope a couple round out, two males to pull would greatly help with the over crowding. I guess since I'm stuck in the smaller space for a while, I'll barely have 'tide me overs' untill I can rectify the situation. Hoping for good luck on the reveg. Clones will give me a faster turnover, & that's what I need for now. Still scratching my head over that first female. She's honestly budding.

[crystaliscious]

Have been too damned depressed to post much after the lights died. I have seasonally affective disorder (S.A.D) anyway & have been fighting it hard, apparently not winning. As crowded as they are, there's only upward room for 6" more growth. No room horizontally. I have no choice but to bend & wire in the mainline technique I already had started. This means pulling dead & dying leaves daily from the bottom because they certainly won't get light. It also mean prime conditions for disease. They are so pretty & healthy for now, but crowded plants aren't happy & neither am I.

There are crystals that help with s.a.d - try some sunstone or amber- both of these will help you to asbosrb what UV you arec currently getting and will help pick up the flailing energy this time of year brings to so many people.

( Yes crystals help with growing too

[tlranger]

Know what I like for winter sad... :baggy::bonghit::giggity: :greenthumb:

[OMB]

Have been too damned depressed to post much after the lights died. I have seasonally affective disorder (S.A.D) anyway & have been fighting it hard, apparently not winning. As crowded as they are, there's only upward room for 6" more growth. No room horizontally. I have no choice but to bend & wire in the mainline technique I already had started. This means pulling dead & dying leaves daily from the bottom because they certainly won't get light. It also mean prime conditions for disease. They are so pretty & healthy for now, but crowded plants aren't happy & neither am I.

Damn....hang in there mama. "When the going get's tough"....you know the rest. I have no doubt you are tough and you will have that situation in hand ASAP.
Wish I could help you Mama, you know I would.

[tlranger]

Damn....hang in there mama. "When the going get's tough"....you know the rest. I have no doubt you are tough and you will have that situation in hand ASAP.
Wish I could help you Mama, you know I would.

Reading some of her post you got to know she's one tough chick, or lose some teeth. We do wish we could help!!!