Foxysox is back in the game!!! =p

[foxysox]

Hey peeples!

I've been on a little vacation from growing, which is coming to an end soon!

So I thought that as I got things back up and running I would document the construction of my grow spaces.

It's all going to be very basic.

I won't be using odor control, as I don't need it where I am.

My operation is going to be a 2-room perpetual harvest with a third, small, room dedicated to breeding.

Soil and fertilizer will be very heavily oriented towards organic supplements and nutrient sources. I may try coco... we'll see.

I like the PureBlend Pro line for basic nutes, as well as TopMax bloom supplement and organic soil amendments.

The plants are going to be pinched into 'BOG bushes' (as my fertilizer guy affectionately calls them), and will be flowered only 7 at a time, in 3 gallon pails, on a 7-week crop cycle, with one bush harvested weekly.

The strains I'm going to be working with are from rescued mothers that have been in exile since I bailed on my last grow.

They include:
BOG Bogglegum
BOG *BlueMoonRocks
BOG unknown (from mix)
PlanB Black Indica
PlanB Smashberry
Rushman's *Toxic Lemon
Spice of Life *Grapefruit mix unknown- nice pheno
ChocolateChunk
Hindu Kush
My own Afghan x BOG medley cross
And a *Matanuska Thunderfuck-derived strain given to me by someone awesome. Big kiss to you cutie!!!!

*=focusing on these as they all carry a trait for SERIOUS hardiness!

In addition, my seed collection has about 30 named strains plus many unnamed/unstabilized works-in-progress in it and those will be grown out and added to the mother collection as I have space.

I'll be getting going on construction over the weekend, and trying to get all my lights back from the 4 corners of the Earth where they were scattered when I bailed.

This log is going to get off to a REALLY slow start.

I hope you guys enjoy it!

foxysox Reviewed by foxysox on 02-16-2007. Foxysox is back in the game!!! =p Hey peeples! I've been on a little vacation from growing, which is coming to an end soon! So I thought that as I got things back up and running I would document the construction of my grow spaces. It's all going to be very basic. I won't be using odor control, as I don't need it where I am. Rating: 5

[Demeter]

Love it so far! You have some delicious sounding strains going- what is chocolate chunk like? I have a sweet tooth:stoned:

[foxysox]

Most younger growers probably aren't thinking about portability of a grow, but for those of us with some real dirt under our nails and a couple scares behind us, we know how important it is to be able to remove all traces of your grow from your home in less than 12 hours.

When I broke down my last grow it took me 4 full days, and it wasn't a very large grow either; it had just really taken over my whole house and insinuated itself into almost every aspect of my daily life.

I was finding grow items in places I could easily have forgotten about and left vulnerable to a raid... fertilizer stains on the door to the bathroom... perlite under every throw rug in the house... foot-long stems that the dog had been playing with and stashed under furniture for later... papers, books, catalogs, magazines, seed envelopes... scales, hash residue in cookpots, rootballs in my compost heap, trim in the vacuum cleaner, you name it, it was there.

So this time I am going to do it all modular. There will be no mylar stapled to walls or neem-oil overspray all over the floor.

My plan for a flowering grow-pod is pretty simple... it has to be foldable down to a size that you can just toss into a pickup truck and get gone in minutes. My ideas for this mostly involve PVC pipe with the connection fittings rigged with pins so they can be taken apart fast. Then PandaFilm as a cover. Another idea would be to use 4x8 sheets of shower-wall particleboard.
I have to go to Home DePOT and think about it, lol!

Protecting the floor is really important. Not just to protect the rug or whatever, but because you want to be able to just roll up a tarp and have it be totally clean. The heaviest tarp you can find is an absolute MUST for floor protection. 2 tarps is even better.

For a backup plan, I was lucky enough to know a couple people who took over my flowering females and equipment. But that isn't enough. This time I'm getting a storage unit too, although they aren't especially safe, you can buy yourself a little time. Just don't EVER put living plants in there!

These are all things I wish that I had taken into consideration last time around. No one wants to think that they might get raided, but until our rather draconian laws change, it's a hard fact that a grower lives with every day, whether you are aware of it or not, so it's better to be aware and prepared.

[foxysox]

what is chocolate chunk like? I have a sweet tooth

Hey sup Demeter
The chocolate chunk was a gift from a friend.
It isn't something that I would have bought myself... the high is too sativa-ish for my taste... but the flavor is nice.
Earthy with chocolate undertones.
It's a little on the finicky side to clone too.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

:dance: :thumbsup: :rastasmoke: :clap: :1baa: :giggity: :greenthumb: :greenthumb: :greenthumb: WB Foxy!

I'm extremely interested in the portability part. I'll be watching this thread closely.
Say, I'm going to be moving soon. Care to advise me on how to transport to the new home without upsetting my darlings over much?

[foxysox]

Care to advise me on how to transport to the new home without upsetting my darlings over much?

No prob.
Keep them protected from extremes of heat and cold.
Avoid weird light changes.
I moved my veggers in OPAQUE rubbermaid totes.
The mothers were only in 4.5" pots, very small, the tallest being less than 18" ground to tip, so they fit nicely in a garden-sized tote.
Flowering females MUST be moved during their dark cycle, very quickly.
Put each one in a double layer of a black plastic trash bag, blow into it to inflate it, and tape it up tight.
Do this right when the lights go out for the last time on moving day.
You now have 12 hours to get them where they are going.
If you miss that window, I suggest that you just skip the lights-on cycle for that day entirely, but DO untape the bag, fluff out the stale air, and reinflate and seal it again.
You don't want them to suffocate.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Righteous! Thanks so much. If you hadn't posted this, I would've f'd up and moved them during their light cycle.

[foxysox]

Well I've been doing a little work around the ol' garden.

And a lot of thinking.

Something I forgot to say in the 'security' post was that it really helps to always have SMALL versions of your prize mothers.

So sure, go ahead and grow yourself some mean trees to take cuttings off of, but keep a couple plants of each strain you can't afford to lose in small pots, clipped down short, that you can throw them all in the trunk in a rubbermaid tote and get them somewhere safe FAST.

I think that planning on only a single carload that you will be able to save is a good call... do you want to save a couple big trees, or 20 different strains?

Something to think about.

[foxysox]

Here's a few pics.
#1- The space that will be used for flowering when it comes time.
It's a walk-in closet that is ~6 feet wide and 8 feet deep, will be lit with 1400 w total HPS. When I scrounge up some lights.
#2- Some of my mothers came home last night! Here they are just chillin' under a MH250 that um yeah, my mentor lent me, lol. They survived everything by being small. Those are only 4.5 inch, 1 litre pots.
#3- my clone dome. It's in the pantry protected from drafts, and sitting on a seedling heat mat. That's just a single CFL. They don't need a ton of light. They are in rapid rooters, clonex, and plain city tap water. KISS.

Oh fuck me in the ear, I can't upload pics yet, WTF!!!!

Anyway when I can, that's what they will be, lol!

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Start posting your ass off. Go to one of the game threads. I'm extremely fond of the Vending Machine game. I'm all cracked out on it.