Jamstigator versus Big Mama!

[TheGreenFog]

Looks like an excellent home for Big Mama. Very clean-looking. Is that your 1000w in there?

How tall is she? How tall was she when you put her into flower? That reminds me of 'my' big plants in the main flowering room. They are not as filled out as yours (mostly cuz of the stretch at the bottom) but they sure are huge. About 50" last time I checked.

Keep it up, I cant wait to see what that yeilds. I am also very interested in seeing how tall she grows...double? triple?

*gets distracted*

:rasta: Gotta go...

TGF

TheGreenFog Reviewed by TheGreenFog on 11-09-2006. Jamstigator versus Big Mama! I got some freebie seeds in 2005, Durban Poison x Skunk #1. Well, I tried to germinate them in April 2006, all ten of them, but only one sprouted. (I guess they're free for a reason.) It's a Sativa-dominant strain, and I'm kinda height-constrained, so I almost killed this plant a number of times, but couldn't bring myself to do it, so it vegged for nigh six months in a 1/2 gallon pot. It got rootbound and droopy, but kinda big even so. I FIM'd it, got three main stalks, and pruned for yield a Rating: 5

[Garden Knowm]

i'm digging it!!!

[jamstigator]

Whew, 1k light = hot. Temps got as high as 88 degrees. I did some playing around and was able to get it down to 79 degrees, by leaving half a flap of the hut open with a box fan pushing cool air into the hut, and with the 4" centrifugal fan disconnected from the carbon filter. Not exactly ideal! So I need a 6" 440ish CFM fan. But the budget doesn't allow for that at the moment, so I'm just gonna have to make do for now. I could swap the 6" fan in my wood flower cabinet with this 4" one, but everything is working so well with the wood cabinet that I just don't want to mess with that setup.

Big Mama got a little droopy from the heat before I got it more or less under control, and she just kinda expanded all over the place with all that available space, so I tied her up a bit and fed her. She should perk up by lights on time tonight. Buds appearing all over the place.

Oh, size. Well, I don't really know how big she was when I transplanted her (and a week after that I began flowering). I'd say she's doubled in overall size though, maybe even triple if you count volume rather than just height. Height, counting 10" for the pot, was around 48" at day 9 of flowering, then she grew probably another foot since then (the pic is day 19). But the taller stalks are bent into S's. I'd guess she'd be around 5 feet tall if I hadn't made S's of the main stalks, NOT counting the pot.

Have no clue what to expect on yield; this is the first 1k light I've ever used, and first predominantly Sativa strain I've ever grown too. I'll hope for the best, of course, but I'll be happy with whatever happens. How can I complain when I get a nice learning experience AND some buds?

[BlueDevil]

Damn Jams, Big Momma is giving me Big Wood. I'm with Ms Stinky; tie that bitch up and impose your will!

What brand of ballast did you go with for the new 1k bulb, another Lumatek? I've also contemplated getting a Hut, but settled on taking the cheap route and constructing my own out of wood and white paint.

What kind of diet have you had her on? Did you use a root stimulant?


Awesome looking job as usuall, bravo, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous.

[jamstigator]

Naw, not digital. I don't want to be a beta tester and the 1k digital ballasts out there haven't been around that long, so I decided to go with the old technology this time and got this:

http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/Itemdesc....10SSVI&eq=&Tp=

No real prob with it, although it's huge and heavy at 44 pounds. The ballast didn't seem to get all that hot, and the hum is muted enough that I can't hear it over the fans.

The reflector (which is quite nice!) is this one:

http://www.bghydro.com/BGH/Itemdesc....LRECB6&eq=&Tp=

I don't really get too fancy with nutes, FoxFarm Ocean Forest soil, FoxFarm Grow Big (veg), Big Bloom (flower) and Tiger Bloom (flower). I have some other stuff laying around, but if the plants don't start screaming for something, I just try to keep it simple. They're usually happy with just those nutes generally.

One reason that I like the hut is I can take it down in the summer if I want to. Since I doubt I'll be able to run that 1k light in the summer, I could just tear it all down and box it away until the fall/winter. I'll still have my other box during the summer, which is situated much closer to an AC unit, but might as well make use of this extra heat in the winter!

[c of green]

DAMN!!!!,i am so glad you didnt kill it.(though if you had then i wouldnt be so jealous )i had 15 free durbanXskunk#1 from nirvana.out of the 15 only one cracked but it didnt make it out of the dirt now looking at yours i may have to actually buy some.)cant wait to see it finish and am very looking forward to a smoke report:stoned: i hope it is as good as it sounds.do you have any idea what the flowering time is?

[doco]

Looking great Jam!! Chopping those few inches off the hut didn't hurt it at all. Do you see what I mean about the light-tightness (or lack thereof) through the vent flaps?? I'm sure you'll get the heat issues dealt with...I'm thinking of one of theose portable air conditioners to use next summer myself but since I live only 4 blocks from the beach, it doesn't get as hot here as it does inland so I may be alright.

[jamstigator]

Not a clue what the flowering time is, and whatever they say might not be accurate anyway, as I don't think this is a 'recommended' strain for indoor growing, being so predominantly Sativa (87.5 percent Sativa, from what I read). I'll just go with the flow and start checking the trichs when I'm at eight weeks. If it takes 10 or 12, well, I'll deal with it. Not like I can do anything about it!

I'm glad GK told me to take some clones! I shouldn't have waited until 9 days into flowering to do it, but I see roots coming from at least 6 of them now (out of 12). If it takes a while to reveg them (assuming they live once I take them out of the EZ-Cloner), that's okay with me. After seeing this plant, I would like to grow one more bigger crop of these (4 or 6 plants maybe), then move on and try something else (Jock Horror maybe). That's one of the nice advantages of growing your own: you get to sample various strains, and YOU get to decide what they are; you're not at the mercy of whatever happens to be available from Random_Dealer.

And yeah, I see what you mean about the lightproofness, doco. I just piled some boxes around those flaps during the dark period, and it's pretty dark in that room anyway. Hopefully that's good enough.

[suhl]

that is a hell of a set up and plant i want to be like you:thumbsup:

[Dutch Pimp]

...I think you are wise..on holding off on the digital ballasts...I have been reading about...very short bulb-life......with the digitals...