Doco's Hut

[doco]

Right, so here is my small medical grow area as of now. It began in a little closet with CFL lights and evolved in this Hydro Hut mini with 400w HID. My early attempts at indoor growing were not prettyâ?¦over watering, heat problems, nutes too soon, soil too rich for seedlingsâ?¦ I got to experience all the classic noob enthusiasm errors firsthand.

This batch has managed to survive my attempts to learn from my mistakes (so far).
The smaller plants were from seed & are Cinderella-99, Troublemaker, and various bagseed, some good, some schwag. They are about 3½ weeks old and really just started growing good a couple weeks ago when I transplanted them into seedling soil. Some are doing better than others but I think theyâ??ll be fine.

The bigger plants are clones generously given to me by another medical member and can trace their lineage to Jedi x Cristal. They were cloned from a flowering mother so they are still revegging although the new growth seems normal again now. I transplanted them into soil from rockwool/hydroton last weekend and I expected them to have some shock but they never even whimpered, just took to it without even a wilt. Their growth is slow while they reveg and reroot - Iâ??m glad since I want the youngsters to catch up in size.

doco Reviewed by doco on 11-26-2006. Doco's Hut Right, so here is my small medical grow area as of now. It began in a little closet with CFL lights and evolved in this Hydro Hut mini with 400w HID. My early attempts at indoor growing were not prettyâ?¦over watering, heat problems, nutes too soon, soil too rich for seedlingsâ?¦ I got to experience all the classic noob enthusiasm errors firsthand. This batch has managed to survive my attempts to learn from my mistakes (so far). The smaller plants were from seed & are Cinderella-99, Rating: 5

[bud breath420]

this is gonna be sweet!

[Shovelhandle]

Nice bunch of plants, doco.
What about the "re-veg" thing? I tried to sex plants before by going 12-12 until they showed and then go bach to 18-6. But, the plants did not respond well. The regrowth was mutated, stunted leaves, some only single leflets. My friend plans on trying this again. Any help with this?

Thanks,

Shov

[doco]

I got the clones already well into reveg so I don't have a timeline but two of them look nearly fully recovered and the other is showing good progress, starting to put out five fingered leaves again after having many mutated singles and sets of three. Here's a closer shot of that one. I guess we'll see what happens together!

[doco]

Got a good scare over the weekend...I watered all the plants and gave them their first (scheduled) nutes, 1/2 strength. When I checked in on them Sunday night they were all wilted and I thought they had taken badly to the nutes or something but by Monday night when the lights came on again they were standing tall and looking great again. The Mangos (clones) have got a lot of new growth and appear to be in full veg mode again, woot!

Some of them seem to be stretching some...I think the light is close enough (15") so I am starting to wonder about this 400w MH conversion bulb...I got it off eBay and am not certain of it's temp....might be warmer spectrum than I wanted.

Yesterday I bought another 400w ballast and next Im gonna hunt for a true 6500k MH bulb. Next grow I'll run both the MH and the HPS at the same time with dual cootubes in series...this 6" vortex fan seems like it could easily cool two of them.

Pics in a few days!

[dusto2k3]

Doco, over there on Morena down there off of sea world drive there is that Light Bulb store. You tried there?

San Diego Light Bulb Co
Address: 1655 Morena Blvd # A, San Diego, CA 92110 Phone:(619) 276-1500

They claim they have EVERY light bulb on their sign. I see it all the time on the way back from pt. loma when i go fishing.

[doco]

Heya Dusto2k3, how's it goin? Yep, I went by that place when I was first getting set up. There's actually two pretty big lighting & electrical places in that same area...one asked if I wanted pulse or probe mogul sockets (isn't that a ballast/bulb function?) and the other told me moguls only came in 3-way versions lol, so I never went back. You're right though, I'll bet they would have the bulbs.

My searching turned up some interesting results tho....most of the 400w MH bulbs out there are in the range of 4000 - 4200 Kelvin which seems too warm to me for the best vegging. I ended up with a 6500 K one from an aquarium store and the ballast I ordered came today.

However.....!!! I just got a gander at my electricity bill for the month. This small setup I have with 400w light (on 18/6) 6" vortex fan (18/6) and 265cfm Dayton squirrel cage exhaust (24/7) put my bill up about $60 for the month and about doubled my normal usage. I'm a little hesitant to add another 400w and attract more attention. Sure, if the cops come, I am a medical patient and am growing only the legal number of plants but I don't even wanna be on the radar at all, you know what I mean?

Anyway, I'll see how they do for awhile like this and if I think I need another 400 watter, I've already got it.

BTW, your plants are looking awesome man, I'm jealous. Mine had a rough childhood and they still wake up sometimes with nightmares of being over watered

[dusto2k3]

yeah, mine are like 5 weeks in now. they llok like crap. There are some serious defeciencies in the nutes. I don't know what it is. So, we are using canna nutes now and we are scrapping those instead and using Fox Farm. We just took like 30 clippings and we are gonna veg them for like 1 month and then flower 24 of them. We are gonna have all AK-47. Right now we have like 8 of the purple erkle and 7 ak 47 going. They should be done right at new years. So we'll be stoned as hell on new year....maybe even sleeping LoL. Cant wait. Oh, our elect. bill used to be 135 for the house, now its 225. Thats with 4" vortex, 6" vortex 1000wHPS, 6x24w T5 H.O fixtue, 6 4' flourscent bulbs and like 3 little circulating fans. Not too bad. I would like add some supplementary CFL's in the hut to flower in. We're running veg in the closet and flower in the Hut. Hey, take it easy and good luck.

I want to try the Mango when you're done, I should have crypt AK, so we will have to collaborate :joint1n a sesh some time. TTYL, peace.

[doco]

Here's some updated pics. Things are coming along well enough all things considered. The clones are doing incredible especially when I compare these pictures to the ones 10 days ago.

Started using Pure Blend Pro, Liquid Karma, Cal-Mag & spraying now & then with Growth Excel. Got some nute burn on some of them but they are OK.

As soon as I can sex some of these I'll transplant 5 of them (I hope 5 outta 9 female/male) into the same size pots as the clones. I'm going to let them veg through Dec so I won't be harvesting until early March or so.

Dusto2k3, yours are going to be finished a lot sooner than mine but we can definitely have our own little Cannabis Cup smoke off! :thumbsup:

The next couple months are gonna be fun to watch these blossom!

[dusto2k3]

Doco, i is super fun to watch them blossom. I noticed mine are gettin' fat in these last couple of days.

I heard that that Growth Excel kicks ass. I wanted to try it myself, but I don't have a friggin' job now so my funds are limited.

What did you ever do about the leaks of light on the flaps?

Oh, do you use the cal mag everytime you water? I am gonna implement using the Cal mag with RO water with my new clones.

And I seen that you were looking for some Arjans Ultra Haze #1. FYI I can get you clones of the Arjans Ultra Haze #2. I ordered some seeds a while back. We grew 'em, but they are tall suckers and our AK's are short. Not a good mix for flowering. So we gave the UH#2 to my buddy.