Rocky Balbroa's 2012 Indoor Mr. Nice Grow

So, last year I did an outdoor grow. All of my plants got infected with Fusarium Wilt, but one survived. I had it in a 55 gallon Rubbermaid container, but it got stolen because I guess the spot wasn't secure enough (my stupid mistake). I got a new place, so I figured I would bring it inside this year. My room is still kind of embarassing, but I'm vegging until I get my ventilation and a few of the kinks worked out. The room is approximately 2500 cubic feet, but I'm only to be using about 8x3 of space. I am vegging under a 4 lamp 4 foot T5. I am using Happy Frog soil with a lot of perlite mixed in. I will be using FF nutes. I just gave my first feeding of Big Bloom on the big one. I got my seeds from a sack of Mr. Nice, and I was very excited to learn that it was the Sensi Seeds Mr. Nice, so this would make it 2nd gen. I'm still excited too see the sex, and what phenotypes I'm dealing with. I had six, got rid of two, and killed one with fluorescent light burn. Being that it is my first time dealing with fluorescents, it was a careless mistake. Two more were burned, but they survived. It also just so happens that it happened the same day I decided to FIM. So, the smaller ones are surprisingly about two weeks older than the big one. Not the best start, but let's see how this goes. I'm pretty sure at least one of these are going to end up outside this year. Well, let's see how this goes. The first three pictures are of one of the burned plants. The first one was taken almost three weeks ago. The next two are from today. In case you can't tell, I attempted to supercrop this first one. The next three pictures are from a plant that is about a week or two old. I just fimmed it tonight ad gave it a minute amount of big bloom, just to jump start the microorganisms in the soil. On a side note, I'm pretty sure I'm going to start feeding them within the next week. I'm just scared to feed too early. I really hope this fim turns out well. The last three pictures are one the other plant that survived the fluorescent burn and mediocre fim job, but I decided not to pinch the stem unlike the other one. It sucks to see how healthy it was, and what it looks like now.

Sorry guys, my photos were too large and stuff. A lot has happened since my last post. My roommates got in some trouble, so I had to keep my plants elsewhere until I got a new place. Luckily, right as I got moved in and went to get my plants, I was given two Super Silver Haze clones. When I picked them all up, they were sickly. After being fed compost teas for about a month, they got fed with water that had too much damn chlorine in it, so it killed just about everything in the soil, so I had to put some of those Plant Success Myco pills in the soil, and then transplanted my fimmed Mr. Nice into a four gallon bag with Happy Frog, and a Supercropped Mr. Nice into a five gallon bag. I started the supercropped plant in late January, and it almost died, so it's like a miracle plant. Looking at it, it really is a wonder that it lived. The other one was planted in the beginning of February. The SSH were clones that were taken in late February, but they were started under 600 watt MH, unlike my Mr. Nice, which was started under a 4 foot t-5 fixture. Now, they are taking in 1000 watts along with Co2 supplementation, that started tolday. Let me know what you guys think. Needless to say, they're all getting pretty big, so I'm going to start flowering in about a week or two. I just gave a hefty feeding of Peruvian Seabird Guano, so I pretty much have to stick with it. I've been feeding molasses just about every feeding, usually alongside with Fox Farm Big Bloom. I feed Ohstrom's Maxicrop soluble every other feeding or so now. Anyways, the first pictures are from Feb 4th, and the second set is from the 21st of February. All the rest are from April 9th, about a week or two after I rescued them.

More pictures from the last few days. This was from the tenth of this month. This was taken the morning after the foliar feeding of Neem Oil and some drops of Big Bloom. Disregard what I said about the foliar feeding in my last post. The first few are the Mr. Nice, and there's a few of the SSH with some group shots. You can see how I elevated the Mr. Nice to get them as much light as the Silver. You can also see where I pinched the stem on the Mr. Nice. It's really starting to swell. Please give some feedback!

These are from the twelfth of this month. These were taken right after I tied them down. This was my first experience with tying. Of course, I would love to do a ScroG, but all I can do right now is do some tying, I'm actually kind of worried they will get too tall. I'm contemplating some Bushmaster, but I've just heard mixed reviews.

All of these pictures were taken late last night, after a few days of being tied down. I also transplanted the supercropped Mr. Nice into a five gallon bag, and started CO2 supplementation. Any tips on running a tank with a regulator in a 4x4x6 tent? I want to keep it at about 1200 ppm, but I'm running a carbon filter in there too, so I' not quite sure how it's helping yet. I'm running it at .096 psi. Anyways, you will enjoy these. That lateral growth is going nuts. I also moved the Mr. Nice to the ground and had to retie everything. I'm tying the supercropped plant back down later today. I'm also transplanting everything else into five gallon bags. And could someone please help me design a ScroG? And let me know what you think.

Okay, I haven't really had the time to sit down and do this, so now that I'm chilling with my best friend, my Grav labs Gravitron, I can do this finally give all the details about my grow.

I am growing 2nd generation Sensi Seeds Mr. Nice and GHS Super Silver Haze

Soil
Fox Farm Happy Frog - It's a good, cheap soil with mychorrize, which is crucial. I also prefer it over Ocean Forest because Ocean Forest is known to burn seedlings because of the enormously high concentration of nutrients.

Nutrients
FF Big Bloom - 6-4-4
FF Grow Big - 0.01-0.3-0.7
FF Tiger Bloom - 2-8-4
FF Cha-Ching 9-50-10
FF Open Sesame 5-45-19
FF Beastie Bloomz 0-50-30
Mexican bat guano - 10-2-1
Jamaican bat guano - 1-10-1
Peruvian seabird guano - 12-11-2
Ohstrom's Maxicrop - 1-0-4 - highly recommended and great for root and stem growth
It's a soluble that consists of Norwegian kelp meal.
unsulphured blackstrap molasses
Earth Juice Microblast
Neem Oil - Organic pesticide (I plan on experimenting with cinnamon oil sometime)
Plant Success mychorrizal innoculation tablets

I am also supplementing with CO2

I generally feed Big Bloom and molasses every feeding, mostly along with my Maxicrop, particularly for my little buddies in the soil. I fed Mexican bat guano a week ago, and just fed some Peruvian seabird guano yesterday. I'd rather prefer on them for nitrogen than the FF Grow Big, but I still feed with the Grow Big every other watering, but I have only taken it over 800 ppm one time, which was 1300 ppm yesterday. I keep my water ph between 6.0-6.5.

I plan on flowering in about a week and half, that's why I just fed the Peruvian seabird guano, so the first part of my flowering cycle still has some nitrogen. I already started doing some LST, but I plan on setting up a ScroG net within the next couple days. I am also going to transplant the rest of the plants to five gallon bags. Since i had to rescue them from some of the shittiest shape I've ever seen a plant without dying, I just wanted to make sure everything was stable before I started flowering. Not to mention, I just want to fill up the canopy So I could get all the possible surface area out of that tent.

Either way, I appreciate any sort of help or advice along the way. This is my first indoor grow, but I've spent my past two years on grasscity. I did an outdoor grow last year that ended up getting stolen. I have assisted in a hydroponic grow and multiple indoor soil grows. This is just my first time doing it myself. It's all a learning process, so like I said, any comments are appreciated.

Woah you have def had some ups and downs so far huh?

Those things are straight trees bro.. you probably want to think about switching the light schedule to 12/12 and flowering them out soon. A scrog is easy to setup..just find some kind of netting with 2 inch squares and secure it above the plants. As they grow up into it, just reach in and bring the branch back through the holes and push it out to a further hole. Its very useful for those growing indoors that have height restrictions.

Well I'm subbed fo sho bro, so I'll be poking back in from time to time..

hey man thanks for stoppin by my grow. Im lovin the training you've done, very nice structure...they're gonna be huge in flowering! ill be back

hey man thanks for stoppin by my grow. Im lovin the training you've done, very nice structure...they're gonna be huge in flowering! ill be back

Thanks a lot man. That canopy is really starting to fill in nicely. I want to scrog, but I'm really not sure want to do. I'm worried they are too high to do it. I'm also worried that I have too many tops for the amount of space. Hopefully, I'll get it figured out within the next couple of days.

Nice , waiting on the flower !

Since you are tying them down, you might as well go ahead and switch to flower. Thats what I would do for sure.

Hey guys, just thought I'd give a quick update. Last night, I flushed the plants with some Clearex and transplanted the rest of them into 5 gallon bags. This was my first time ever flushing a plant, and holy shit. I never would have imagined all the the shit that was stuck in there. My first rinse on every plant was about 1300 ppm and had a ph of 5 or less. I got them all down to about 250 ppm and a ph of about 6 . For the soil, I mixed some Happy frog with a gallon of vermiculite, I quarter pound of azomite, Jamaican bat guano for phosphorous, and Peruvian seabird guano for the rest of the nitrogen it will need, along with plenty of phosphorus. I also threw in a few Plant Success myco tablets. About 8 hours before transplant, I treated the soil with a 600 ppm solution of Maxicrop. After transplant, I set the plants up in a ScroG. I gave it some Grow Big, and PLENTY of Big Bloom and molasses for my new myco. Needless to say, they loved it. Tonight, I ended up picking up some Plant Success soluble, so I sprayed the soil down with some of that. I also happened to pick up a pump, so now I can start doing compost teas. I plan on switching them to 12/12 tomorrow. Happy 4/20, guys!

are you growing the Hawaiian Snow? I have a friend in Switzerland who needs to get a mentor type buddy on that strain. He's got a small closet set up and we're wondering about the size of the Hawaiian Snow.

Hey guys, just giving a quick update. I had to leave for a few days and had the FIMMED plant turn hermie on me. I'll be damned. But they are in their second week of flowering. I should have the pictures up tomorrow. The SSH is surprisingly coming along faster than the Mr. Nice. But I'm pretty sure it will come along. I'll be pissed if it has a tiny crop. The SCRoG is just kicking ass though. Anyways, I'll let you guys check it out tomorrow.

are you growing the Hawaiian Snow? I have a friend in Switzerland who needs to get a mentor type buddy on that strain. He's got a small closet set up and we're wondering about the size of the Hawaiian Snow.

I didn't get to grow that one out. They died as seedlings due to algae in rockwool because of some idiot fucking with my timer, but from my understanding, it is a very tall Sativa that takes about 9 weeks to mature. I wanna say that in OP's Pork-A-Palooza, that it was the last one to finish out of all his stuff. But that shit can get pretty big.

Hey guys, I know it's been awhile. I went on a five day trip like an idiot and didn't count on anything bad happening. I knew they would get stressed, but I didn't expect one to turn hermie. Luckily it was only that one. Not to mention, I fed a sweet ass compost tea before I left. Well, I've been back for over a week now, so let's look at some progress. I have a picture of the one that turned hermaphrodite too. What's surprising is that it almost seems like the SSH is coming along quicker than the Mr. Nice. And I know I'm supposed to have a HPS by now, but I can't afford it for like another week. It's not terrible though, because MH lamps actually make it more potent. One thing I did notice, when I pulled the hermie, the plant was completely root-bound, so it didn't take long at all. So, at least I know my roots are healthy. These were all taken 5/1, so they are obviously looking a lot better now, given that it's like their second week of flowering.