My 150 watt, continuous DWC grow

What's up blades,

So, sometime last year I decided to try my hand at growing again, and it's definitely proving to be a lot more fun this time around.
Mainly, because I don't feel as if iv'e bitten more than I can chew

Around 8 years ago, I tried growing 4 plants in soil with a 400 watt hps, but never made it to harvest due to lack of knowledge and a hectic schedule. So I consider this my second REAL run.

I currently have an Afghan/Master Kush plant 38 days into flower,
and another girl put into flower on the 18th (banana crack bag seed) who showed pistils yesterday
The grow space is 23" D, 64" H, 56 W for the flower chamber,
and 20" D,30" H, 25" W for the veg/clone chamber. For now, i'm using two 26 w cfls.

The Kush girl is in a 3.5 gal DWC bucket, on 5/10 Lucas formula. I topped her main once, and tied her down some.

Some pics of her from start of bloom to current:

2 days in to flower (minor light burn)


Day 7 LST'ed


And 2 days later



I started slacking and she got a bit unruly, so I tried to even out her canopy by drilling holes in the lid and tying some chicken wire to it, and laying her down some more...
Day 20

Day 22




Day 25


Day 32


Day 37 (somehow my photography is getting worse lol)



Day 39 (pics I took yesterday)



I thinking of chopping a handful of fan leaves to penetrate the lower canopy, my last pruning session turned into an aggressive defoliation, which lead to a staggered harvest. So, i'm a bit wary this time around and am trying to exercise control.
Will it hurt to take 10 or so leaves this late in flower?
Any advice or critique is welcome!

Damn, that's Lookin good. I like what you did with the chicken wire, it looks simple. I might try it if I get a chance.

Edited by chronicon, 28 February 2011 - 02:56 AM.

^^ Thanks man. Yeah, it was really quick and simple. Took me like 15 minutes, and seems to be doing it's job so far. I wish I had "lolly-popped" them, or had more light to capitalize on it though
Thanks for stopping in, do you have a journal?

I don't have a current journal but I took 4 "sweet deep grapefruit" clones yesterday. I wish I had a pic of the mother, the branches are almost beating the top!

I also have a "Cole train" seed and a good amount of "Himilayn blue diesel" I pollinated last year.

I'm not the most experienced indoor grower but I did completely setup a 1000w grow for my friend, and things are looking pretty good.

I'm planning on doing a 2 plant soil grow with a net like yours, I am going to use cfls until I can afford a cool tube one day. It's definitely not going to be as clean as yours. It is a work in progress though and probably won't be for a while.

I'm going to use the same light setup as this guy without the duct fan.
Growing with CFLs in very limited space - 420 Magazine

I don't have a current journal but I took 4 "sweet deep grapefruit" clones yesterday. I wish I had a pic of the mother, the branches are almost beating the top!

I also have a "Cole train" seed and a good amount of "Himilayn blue diesel" I pollinated last year.

I'm not the most experienced indoor grower but I did completely setup a 1000w grow for my friend, and things are looking pretty good.

I'm planning on doing a 2 plant soil grow with a net like yours, I am going to use cfls until I can afford a cool tube one day. It's definitely not going to be as clean as yours. It is a work in progress though and probably won't be for a while.

I'm going to use the same light setup as this guy without the duct fan.
Growing with CFLs in very limited space - 420 Magazine

I haven't had an to try any of those strains, I hear really good things
about the Sweet Deep Grape though, hopefully I get the chance soon!

I don't have a ton of grows under my belt either, but I have a lot of fun when growing. And that's the best experience to me
That being said, I bet it was fun setting up a room for your buddy(I hope he shows the love back, come harvest!)


Wow, those cfl's worked great for those guys! They should serve you well. What are your plans for ventilation?
My grow space is definitely a work in progress, but I find satisfaction in
working with limited resources. I kinda think it cultivates solid "trouble shooting" skills that come in handy as your grow expands.

I have two 85 cfm computer fans for ventilation. I am still deciding exactly how I am going to mount them. My original plan was to put two side by side as out fans with negative pressure sucking in new air.

But now I'm thinking I should just stack them as out fans or have one pushing air in and one sucking air out because it doesn't make sense to have to buy twice the ducting (to trap light).

I still have a list of things to buy, ventilation is just one of my problems.

What does that Lucas formula bottle look like? I can't find it anywhere! So I just went with "humbolt master A & B"

So how are things lookin? Any new growth?

An intake fan isn't really necessary. As you know, a passive intake will have
the same effect as long you have sufficient cfm to exhaust.
That would suck to have to buy additional ducting. Have you tested out the fans when stacked? I've wondered if that would work, or if it would create an static pressure
to be counter productive... But, if that works, that would probably be the way to go.

This should answer your questions on the lucas formula:What is Lucas Formula, and how do I use it?

I was actually planning on trying the Humboldt A and B also. once I get my
grow more consistent with strains, I'd like to compare it with the Lucas Formula.

I've been slacking a bit, but everything's good. Yesterday, I gave her fresh nutes for the first time in 2 weeks and the day I made this thread I took 12-15 fan leaves that were blocking buds or dying. Despite that she looks a bit plumper so I don't think she
was off track too much. I'm going to post pics in a bit. Hopefully, I can get someone to
help save my SSD seedling....

I connected my fans today, and I don't think stacking them will work it seemed like it was blowing less

The only reason I was thinking of having an intake fan was because I was planning on putting ducting there to trap light and to get air from outside.

Thanks for the info on the Lucas formula, peace!

Edited by chronicon, 02 March 2011 - 12:31 AM.

Some pics from this morning, day 46:




Here are some pics of my bag seed girls:

6 days after germ, the one to the left is Banana Crack I think.
The one on the right,was bag seed I found after ripping apart a J that was given to me. Tasted like Sour Diesel and was fire, but I'm not positive.

Day 19, BC girl on the right.



The BC girl today, at day 31. It's been 16 days or so since I switched her to 12/12

I connected my fans today, and I don't think stacking them will work it seemed like it was blowing less

The only reason I was thinking of having an intake fan was because I was planning on putting ducting there to trap light and to get air from outside.

Thanks for the info on the Lucas formula, peace!

For sure bro, as far as the fans, I had a feeling that would be the case.
I hope you find something that works for you.

Added four 26 watt CFLs under the BC girl till the Afghan is ready to chop.

Hey bro, I didn't really have time to go through your journal, but I will bookmark it. I did however, check out the pics, and everything looks great. You can join for sure bro, I will send you the invite in just a sec.

this is looking very good! how often are you changing your res? and are you adding h202 at all?

Thanks KuSH, i'm not adding any h202. Though, I haven't I needed it yet. it's one of the things on my list of many. I'm a broke ass though so one thing at a time. Thanks for stopping in man:smoke:


A close up of one of the BC tops:


And this is the veg/clone chamber, still not sure how I want to configure it
so it's not really organized.

Hey bro, I didn't really have time to go through your journal, but I will bookmark it. I did however, check out the pics, and everything looks great. You can join for sure bro, I will send you the invite in just a sec.

Thanks, i'm glad to be down with the clique:cool: There are some
pretty impressive pics in there. It's really showing me what can be done with a 150, peace:)

Put a new bulb on the 150 watt today, and one more cfl.

it is good result....wonderful !

They are filling out nicely man! I just orderd some seeds so it's going to take me a while to get everything together now that I'm broke.

Man yeah I know you've already been told this but that's a great Idea with the piece of chicken wire...I've ran into the same situation myself a few times and just gone crazy with string and tape until I had a huge mess...but that's certainly a lot more practical I'd say, kinda like the scrog thing I guess, but not exactly...she's a beautiful plant though man, nice job...

it is good result....wonderful !

Thank you for the kind and encouraging words!

They are filling out nicely man! I just orderd some seeds so it's going to take me a while to get everything together now that I'm broke.

Oh man, sorry to hear that. I had thought you were well on your way to assembling your set-up. What kind of seeds did you order? Did the SD Grape clones ever root??