first grow

I have been gathering information here for a few months since getting my recommendation and I suppose it is time for me to share my grow to see if I can get any opinions or ideas that may help me. I have a space that is approx. 20x20x10 that I have divided into 3 areas with sheetrock walls and black/white plastic. I have a couple fans and carbon filter that I don't need just yet but am prepared to put in soon. I have negative pressure in flower space with a good cool air supply this time of year. So I just have a heater with thermostat at 78 daytime 68 lights out time. I have a 20" fan blowing on 4 plants.

Lights: 2) 600 watt hps with galaxy electronic ballast and eye hortilux bulbs neither reflector is air cooled presently just the fan blowing directly at the canopy. Been on 12/12 for 35 days. I keep the lights approx. 8 inches off plants

Plants: 2) real mccoy (indica), 1) God bud, 1) Skunk 1
veg for 6 weeks except for skunk and it was only 15 days veg once I got it but it was an oddball that I got a pair of. They were taken from a flowering plant or something and had all sorts of weird looking leaves and had actually started forming calyxes. Still vegging the other using lst experiment along with 6 other clone starts. Will post pics in order I have listed them. Also lights in veg room. 600 watt with solarmax conversion bulb 48 inch parabolic reflector. 400 watt metal halide on skunk 1 lst/scrog attempt.

Medium and nutrients; fox farm ocean forest soil 50/50 with perlite. fox farms nutes by the recommended dosage schedule, big bloom, grow big, tiger bloom, microbbrew, kangaroots, open sesame, beastie blooms, cha ching, and sledgehammer flush I use every couple weeks. I water 3 times a week, using nutes 2 of the 3. Have never burned them or had any real issues with deficiencies, ph runs 5.5 to 6 coming out maybe slighly higher. My tapwater is high 6. I let the water sit a couple days before using. Containers are 5 gal buckets except for one plant I put in a 12 gallon tote as an experiment. It does seem to be much thicker and bigger around not taller. Will see how much difference in yield. Using same nutes and schedule on plants that are vegging.

Well thats enough for now I guess. Look forward to advice and criticism as this site has helped me tremendously keep from making a lot more mistakes than I have made anyway.

Will post pics in order I have listed plants

pics of vegging plants

any ideas on what I might expect for yield, still have approx 30 days to go I think

any ideas on what I might expect for yield, still have approx 30 days to go I think

You ever know...everyone is dif and every strain grows and yields dif.
But we average over 1g per watt and run 600s also.
The density will play a big roll in how the yield is....if the flowers are getting hard they will yield more...if they stay fluffy then the yeild will be lower.
I would guess they will have 3-4 on each plant.

They look pretty good so far.

SignSmoker

You ever know...everyone is dif and every strain grows and yields dif.
But we average over 1g per watt and run 600s also.
The density will play a big roll in how the yield is....if the flowers are getting hard they will yield more...if they stay fluffy then the yeild will be lower.
I would guess they will have 3-4 on each plant.

They look pretty good so far.

SignSmoker

I am hoping for 4oz per plant or more........thanks for your opinion
also, do you think I should have cut off more leaves?

I am hoping for 4oz per plant or more........thanks for your opinion
also, do you think I should have cut off more leaves?

I wouldn't take off anything else...endless they are leaves that are dead or yellowed.
You might get 5-6 off it...but it's really hard to tell using pictures.

How tall is it? 3 feet roughly?

SignSmoker

the real mccoy are about 30 inches tall, the God bud is about 36 inches, and the skunk plant is about 24 inches. I know the skunk plant is going to yield less but it sure is layered in trichomes.

Update, day 41 pictures except for plants in veg they are about 4 weeks. Looking at putting screen over vegging plants next week and going 12/12 with a separate screen setup for each on 3 different strains. 1 skunk plant, 2 god bud, and 4 real mccoy. Still wondering what I might yield on plants in flower currently. Any guesses?

Day 50 flowering and some pics of vegging plants going into flower next week. Last feeding today for flowering plants water rest of way. Hope my lst attempt on vegging plants creates better yield next time, though not in veg as long as plants that are maturing now. Thanks for watching ...........stokeley

Edited by stokeley, 08 January 2012 - 09:08 PM.

Will try my tripod next time for better close-ups. Hard to stay still enough. Need to medicate! .........stokeley

Flushed flowering plants today, day 56. Harvest week from tomorrow. I ran 12 gals of water through each plant. What a chore. Glad I did it though, I am sure it will really show in the taste of my final product. Nothing but water and molasses from now on. Trichomes are mostly all cloudy with a few amber mixed in. Three different strains in 4 plants, I am lucky they are finishing together. Will make harvest and cure easier. Going to use Rumpleforeskins method for harvest and cure.

Harvested my 4 plants from my virgin grow attempt yesterday. What an incredible amount of work!! Will definitely be worth it, though. I think it took me over 2 hours a plant to trim and hang. Will post some pics later today. Thanks again for all the help from GC people, without you all it probably would have taken me twice as long.........stokeley

Put another 600 watt light on my plants that are in week 2 flower. Plants I harvested sure do stink compared to how nice they smelled before the chop. I am sure they will smell nice again once I finish hang drying and put them in jars. Here are the harvest pics I promised. I used my humidity dome to put the branches in waiting to be trimmed of fan leaves and heavy sugar leaves. Still worn out from yesterday, I can only imagine trying to do a bunch of plants.

Plants dried and processed. Weight as follows: Skunk 1... 88.6 grams, Real McCoy (2 plants)... 122.9 and 115.5 grams respectively*, God Bud... 132.2 grams. I was hoping for 4 oz plants and came out almost exactly that. I also ended up with several ounces of very good trim to make hash. All I have smoked so far is the finger hash and all the kief from the trays I used to process. Very nice indeed. I have noticed that the God Bud seems to be less coated with trichomes and has some looser buds. Looked spectacular growing but not as nice once dried and cured. We will see how it smokes and how my current batch turns out next harvest and I can decide if I want to continue to grow this strain. Pictures are from left to right; all combined in jars, God Bud, Skunk 1, Real McCoy.

Nice job buddy for your first time. Keep the good stuff comin. Check out my 9 plant 4 strain grow. Ill post the link.


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