Antics LED Soil Failboat

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  1. #1 Antics, Jun 3, 2015
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    I just came over here from another site with a buddy, and a few others, and figured I might as well start posting my shit here.
     
    Some of you already know me, but some probably won't.
     
    I've been growing for a little over a year, started with CFL/soil, moved to LED/coco, and now I'm back to LED/soil.
     
    I am currently growing 4 plants, 2 from seed, two are clones.
     
    Strains: Delicious Seeds Cotton Candy, Greenhouse Seeds Big Bang, World of Seeds Strawberry Blue (x2)
     
    Soil: My own mix of cheap store bought shit (not Miracle Gro), coco, and perlite. Roughly 4:1 soil:perlite, and roughly 10% coco to improve drainage and oxygen. Soil has been reused, this is the third grow using this soil. I don't buy into the hype that you can't reuse soil, especially since my girls are bottle fed.
     
    Nutes: Full line of Humboldt County's Own. Micro, Grow, Bloom, Magnum, Crystal Burst AND Sonic Bloom (not used at the same time), Deep Breath, G10, Snow Storm Ultra, and Killer Tea.
     
    Pots: two 6/7 gallon pots. Not sure exactly, but a 5 gallon bucket doesn't fill them. Simple pots with an attached drain tray purchased from a retail store.
    I am also using two 1 gallon pots in this grow.
     
    Grow closet is 26"x40" and about 7' tall. 66cm x 101.5cm x 213cm.   Square footage is 7.19 total
    Veg cabinet is using 4- 23w CFLs, 3 are 2700K, 1 is 6500K (Had a 6500K die on me and replaced it with what I had on hand)
     
    Lighting: Two Mars Hydro LEDs, actual draw 150-170w each, so this will be a 300-340 true wattage grow. 41-47 watts per square foot.
     
    Training: Topping, defol, supercropping, monstercropping, LST, lollipopping.
     
    Plants:
     
    Cotton Candy:
    6/7 gal pot
    Sprouted on 3/25.
    Vegged 7 weeks and 2 days under 18/6 lighting.
    Switched to 12/12 on 5/16
    Flowering for 18 days now
     
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    Strawberry Blue Clone #1:
    6/7 gal pot
    Rooted since 4/13
    Vegged 33 days under 18/6 lighting
    Switched to 12/12 on 5/16
    Flowering for 18 days now
     
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    Strawberry Blue Clone #2:
    1 gal pot
    Rooted since 4/13
    Vegged 52 days under 18/6 lighting (Notice the difference in plant size with a difference of pot size, even though #1 had a shorter Veg time)
    Switched to 12/12 on 5/28
    Flowering for 6 days now
     
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    Big Bang:
    1 gal pot
    Sprouted on 3/31
    Vegged 64 days and still vegging under 18/6 lighting
    Had massive PH problems with this plant. All plants are using the same soil mix, and same nutes. Only this plant is unhappy. Took forever to get the medium flushed and no new PH burn showing up. So this is where we are today. As a bonus, the stunted growth caused very close node spacing.
     
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    The 3 girls in flower are currently being fed (all measurements are per gallon):
    5ml Micro 5-0-1
    2.5ml Grow 2-3-6
    5ml Bloom 0-5-4
    5ml Magnum Magnesium, Sulfur supplement
    5ml Crystal Burst 0-15-15 (Weeks 1-2, Maybe week 8 on this grow)
    150 grams Sonic Bloom 0-51-34 (Weeks 3-7)
    5ml G10 0-0-0.6
    5ml Snow Storm Ultra 0-0-3
    30ml Killer Tea 0.1-0.1-0.1
     
    Big Bang in Veg is currently being fed (all measurements are per gallon):
    5ml Micro 5-0-1
    7.5ml Grow 2-3-6
    2.5ml Bloom 0-5-4
    5ml Deep Breath .1-0-1
    5ml Snow Storm Ultra 0-0-3
    10ml Killer Tea 0.1-0.1-0.1
     
    Questions? Comments? Concerns? Fire away.

     
  2. Alright Antics.  Get the ball rolling.
     
  3. I'm on board my friend.
     
  4. #4 Antics, Jun 3, 2015
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    Alright first post edited and updated. Welcome aboard!
     
  5. Wow that high maintenance bitch looks better your patience may pay off. Nice job man.
     
  6. welcome dude..
     
    nice looking plants you got there.
     
  7.  
    Thanks, I have a little bit of an idea on what I'm doing since dealing with the massive PH problem on the last grow when my meter died. But i don't appreciate people like Richardson telling me that advising someone to water 1-3x daily in coco DTW is unconventional. He can take his comments, soap box, and PM warnings and shove them up his ass. He should spend more time reading threads, instead of striving to be a moderator badass.
     
     
    Thanks man, it's been a fun road of learning for me this past year, and I'm finally getting a good handle on things.
     
  8. Rico Rico another puppet
     
  9. that forum sounds like it sucks.., been reading y'alls posts about it.
     
    it's pretty chill here.. the big things they don't like are disrespecting others, name calling and shit like that.. also discussing trading seeds and clones is really frowned upon.
     
    other than that it's a really good home here.. you guys will dig it i think.
     
  10. Good to know. Excellent advice. From this point forward I won't be bringing any of those up. Thanks man i appreciate that heads up.
     
  11. cool man..
     
    not trying to be a backseat mod or anything lol..
    just figured i'd mention it :p
     
    cheers man.. and welcome.
     
  12. Shouldn't be too difficult to deal with that stuff. The same rules applied at the other place.
     
    But in addition, we couldn't link to shit that wasn't a sponsor product, no grow journals featuring a non sponsor LED/product, no negative discussions about a sponsor product, they also like reading your PMs, then telling you someone forwarded a PM to you (which was a lie), and warning you to stop discussing other sites in PM.
     
    And not to mention about a billion other annoying things.
     
    I started out here actually, made my account here first, but man, all the kids with the topics about what to do after they got caught smoking gets a bit annoying. That's a big reason I moved to 420, looking for a more mature crowd.
     
  13. Didn't think you were backseat mod. Im glad I found that out before I started talking about breeding.
     
  14.  
    It sounds like breeding discussions are fine, but you can't openly discuss selling/trading seeds and/or clones to other members.
     
    But it seems to be ok if you discuss your own cloning/breeding projects.
     
  15. Yeah I got it. I wont be giving away any seeds or clones through this site so its all good. I just read almost all the forum guidelines now.
     
  16. I'm in brother lol smiley face for you to:blink:
     
  17. #17 AugustWest, Jun 3, 2015
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    yeah they're cool with just about everything here.. you can trash all the sponsored or unsponsored shit you want as long as it's reasonably respectful..
    I can also say that the mods here are absolutely unable to read PM's.. i was a supermod here a few years back, and know 100% they do not have the ability to read PM's..
     
    If they did, i woulda been banned a long time ago [​IMG]
     
     
    you can link other sites as well, as long as it's not for promoting them or anything like that..

     
    yeah the dopey kid threads are annoying as fuck.. but the grow part of the forums is pretty chill, and has a good vibe and some really cool folks. and some very talented growers..
     
  18. Yup I belong here.
     
  19.  
    Alright, that means I'm out then [​IMG]
     
  20.  
    Yea, looks like this is going to be a good place.
     

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