Madamayo's Perpetual Tents

I've been discussing this for a few months now, and I figure it's about time to make it happen. Over the next few days I will be getting the rest of my grow tent supplies together (damn delayed shipping) and will be throwing together my new setup, prepping it for cloning to begin.

Here's my equipment: (Will post pictures once I have all of it together)

Flower:
1210d 48x48x78 Mylar Reflective Grow Tent
400W HPS
MaxiBloom (Soon to be Peak Harvest Bloom by Elevate Organics)

Veg:
dr60 24x24x60 Secret Jardin Pro II Grow Tent
T5 4 Bulb Full Spectrum
MaxiGro (Soon to be Peak Harvest Grow by Elevate Organics)
Homemade EZ Cloner Bucket (Good view of it here http://forum.grassci...-questions.html)

Various:
10 Lowes Paint Buckets
8 6" Basket(Net Pot) Bucket Lids
2 ECOair Pumps
2 6" Oscillating Fans
1 6" 240 CFM Inline Duct Fan
Botanicare Silica Blast
Botanicare Aquashield
Atami B'Cuzz Root
Atami B'Cuzz Bloom


Due to the fact that the DWC plant I wanted to start this journal with turned out to be a male, I am unable to start this as a hydroponic journal, but I don't think you guys will mind watching the 8 week flower for another round of this Lemon Skunk x Diesel. Got a buddy who is moving out of his apartment in a month, and had two of these girls left from when I flowered my first one... ya, since that first girl they got HUGE. Good thing I ordered that 4x4 and the 400w HPS.

Unfortunately I was only able to keep one due to.... newbish reasons.

So I've never really transplanted a plant before... and since the two girls are soil they were insanely root bound, to the point of impending doom. So I went out, bought the soil for us to transplant them from 10 gal containers to 15, and we broke the root mass on one of them pretty good. It wasn't too healthy to begin with, but I would have liked to have two big plants.

So now I am down to one plant that I need to take out of some very bad shock... some parts light burned, others light deficient, not to mention how stressed it is from being root bound. Gave it some nice roots organic soil (GREAT stuff) and a healthy amount of nute water. Guess we will see how she recovers.

Also, the girlfriend and I recently picked up a kitten who may occasionally appear hiding in a picture. Don't be distracted by her appearance of innocence; she is satan. And her name is Oreo.



Welcome, and I hope you stay a while. I tend to do some slightly entertaining things, so you might like it here.

Now here's some pictures of the plant... and my construction zone.

Edited by madamayo, 22 May 2012 - 04:20 AM.

And just because I feel it fits so well.... let's start this off right.

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God damn that's a fucking tree haha sucks that transplanting went sour on the other plant but it happens with transplanting any plant, one reason why I like using the jiffy pots that the roots just grow right through so I don't even have to risk mucking around with it. When are you planning on switching to flower? Or did you already?
Cute cat too... the other day this black cat followed me home from a party-thing for over a mile, stayed in my house for two days, and then left haha was a mad chill cat, I'm hoping everyday for a surprise visit

Plan on starting flower in about a week. Probably do it on my birthday the 31st.

If you fed the cat while it was with you, it is possible it will come back. That would be pretty cool

Killer plant bro, you're going to make that jack seem like merch

Hey Jordan. This strain is 100% sativa, so it's a similar effect to that of the Jack Herer. This is Lemon Skunk x Diesel, so it's all head. Last batch came out daaaank, so this should be a batch o' bomb as well. And doesn't that kitten look kind of like Baby Kitty from when I was living with Corbin?

POST #420!



Buds n' ass. Mhmmm

Edited by madamayo, 23 May 2012 - 02:18 PM.

Haha nice picture, appropriate for post 420

On a side note, a couple of friends n myself were walking through town after hitting up a bar and, as if by divine intervention, the cat! She was once again chill as shit n followed us for awhile until a dog started barking.

haha yeah, she does. Any clue if he still has her?
And you know how I feel about that Sativa...I'd trade any strain of indica for a nice bag of Jack any day.
Speaking of Sativa, I made tea with durban poison and trainwreck that I had steeping in 151 for a couple of days, and the return was much better than I had expected.
I also did a test run of hash with my new bubble bag, a quarter oz of some regs, and some dry ice pellets. It took me less than 5 minutes, I got an eighth of hash in return, it only cost me $40, and it was better than the stuff I used to get for $25/gram. It may not be the most pure stuff in the world, but it's sticky and goes down really smooth.
I'm sure I could have managed to shake more out, but I have the remainder steeping in more rum so I can make tea again. I would have used everclear, but I'm not simmering the alcohol off and the rum tastes MUCH better with chai tea

that is a fuckin tree mayo, but what an awesome acquisition. Wish I had buddies vegging out plants like that then giving them away lol..also, cute kitty. I'll be watching this, that last lemon diesel/skunk run u did looked amazing!


p.s. - buds and butts (and alliterations lol) are wonderful

Got my tent, fan, and blu ray laser for the PS3 today. My laser went bad a few weeks ago, and since the BD drives for the PS3 are all unique to the motherboard, you either have to get it repaired, or repair it yourself. Being that I've been working with computers for almost 6 years now, I feel confident... but enough of that nerdy garble.

This tent is bad-fucking-ass. So much room in there but that sapling I have growing in there takes up a good sized chunk of it. Think I could barely fit another one of those in there. Also, realized it's going to be a lot harder to fit my 2x2 tent here in my apartment... so I'm going to have to get back to you guys on my solution to that pickle... Might end up being a tight squeeze but I can figure it out.

The plant is looking great now; very healthy color. Ran a rope across the tent and laid some of the weaker branches on it to help them out, some of the lower branches are still weak. Heat doesn't seem like it will be a problem, there are vents all over this thing. Anyways, I'm tired as hell so I'm just going to put up these pictures. Gotta go pick that 400w up tomorrow.

Got the ducting and fan hooked up. T5 is now hanging from chains, got the 400W HPS too, but it came with a 400W MH bulb.

Okay so this is a switchable ballast and I'm trying to figure out of the switch is bad/good or if I'm just newbish. Basically if you flip it to the MH side, it flips back into the middle, almost like I'm just hitting a button. When I switch to the HPS side it stays though. This makes me think that the ballast was designed as a MH ballast primarily, with HPS support, or my switch is fucked up.

Any input? It's an older style ballast, and my modernized computer tech brain is somewhat baffled. Looks like all the wire connections are fine, just want to make sure I'm not going to blow up a bulb in my grow tent or anything. Would there be a way to test if it's working right, or do I just throw the bulb in and see what happens (bought a cheap PlantMax bulb for $15 just in case it gets fucked up.)

Deff needed more light, poor thing was looking light starved.
It's gonna eat up the tent.

Ya it was rootbound, and stuck in closet with a 2nd plant, just as big, under a 2' T5 at my friend's house. It's seeing better days now.

Poor thing, better give her some lovin.
She's gonna explode.

The 400W MH is in there right now. 6 days and I'm swapping it out with the HPS. Decided to run my timer cycle 6PM-12PM lights on for veg, then I'm going to run 6PM-6AM on for flower. These digital timers kick ass... can get it all programmed so that when the day comes you just hit a button and you're good to go.

Ducting was a pain in the ass... especially considering I sliced my thumb wide open working on my PS3 last night. Girlfriend says I need stitches, but it's minor. Females tend to exaggerate things involving blood anyways.

So here's the latest pictures. Life is returning to the leaves, and it's getting a healthy color of green too. This hood is pretty nice, comes with a glass pane, and with this 6" fan (240CFM) pulling through the hood, it pushes out air that is barely warm, and the tent stays pretty cool too. Ballast gets really hot, but that's no big deal.

Edited by madamayo, 26 May 2012 - 02:00 AM.

Sorry guys.... been super busy lately so I haven't had a chance to update much.

Shes been flowering since my birthday. Cut clones the last day of veg, and those are looking okay... a little weird but okay.

The big girl is doing awesome.... she's as tall as I am! Can't wait to see how much I get off this harvest. Trimmed off all the branches that didn't appear very productive and staked it over in a few spots. Looking MUCH better now, especially the top.

Girlfriend got me a bong, some hash, and an 1/8th for my birthday.... best girlfriend EVER.

No love eh?

looking pretty sick man, nice bong too

Anyone got tips on getting rid of aphids? Got some aphids floating around in there... but there's not a LOT. Might be sneaking in from outside...

Week 1 complete, starting Week 2 today. Gave it some plain water last night, getting it ready for the next dosage of MaxiBloom. Getting a LOT of bud sites up top, and almost out of room in my tent! Looks like it's stopped stretching though, plus my light can only go another 8-10" higher before its at the TOP of the tent. This thing is HUGE! Good think my light has a glass pane on the hood.. that plant would be burning up on that light. The glass lets me keep the plant 3" away from the center of the light. Love it.

Clones are lookin' alright as well. Little root sites starting to show, so I'm expecting some roots in 48 hours.

Where'd all my subs go?
EDIT: Can I get an admin to move this to the Indoor Grow Journals section instead of the Hydroponic section?

Edited by madamayo, 08 June 2012 - 05:44 PM.

hadda resub been busy an not on here as much, looks awesome tho. super fuckin baked right now will look n read more closely tomorrow or next day.