3x3 Tent, 600 watt HiD, 4x White Widow

Hey guys, I'm on my second grow now, wanted to share it with you guys, and get a few of your opinions. My first grow consisted of 13 cfls, a homemade grow box, a tiny desk fan, and bagseed. Since then I bought a 3x3 tent, 600 watt mh/hps convertible light, 6" extraction fan, and a couple other fans for inside the tent. I have 4 femenized white widows this go round. Meant to get this journal up and going when I started the grow, but that didnt happen. Still better late than never. Anywhoo on to pics!

Shortly after topping:









and this one was taken last night:



At this point they are 9 days into 12/12. A major concern of mine, is my tent to full? Im thinking they will end around 2.5-3ft. they are at 2ft now, and grown about 9" over the last week, im thinking they'll do close to another 9" before the stretch is over. Either way im not sure if my tent is to full or not, I love how the canopy is across the entire tent right now, hoping this will be ok. Going to be cutting lower growth off today and probably a week or 1.5 weeks from now again.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated, if it'll help me grow better im all for it. Will update this probably weekly maybe bi weekly depending on what my schedule allows. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy!

 

Few things I forgot to mention, using Ffof soil, 5 gallon smart pots (more like 3 gallon, didnt have enough soil to fill these up, if I could go back id do 3 gallons, 5s are a little big for this size plant i think), a twin window fan sits horizontal to the light and blows between the light and the top of the plants. and a small desk fan in the bottom of the tent for air circulation down there, want to get another oscillating fan for underneath the plants when flowering starts. Lastly, I dont have a carbon filter yet, but no buds either. Once buds start popping up and the house starts to smell good ill make a filter, until then i wanna see what it smells like.

 

yeah man gonna do a good bit of trimming sometime today and probably in another week or so. also gonna throw 160 watts of 6500k cfls I'm there once I switch to the hps to get a better light spectrum, and I don't think the extra light will hurt.

Yeah I'm hoping I don't need to help the branches support the buds. if so I'll have to figure something out.

 

I'll have to get some pics. right now it's a 6" ipower fan pulling heat from the light, suspended outside the tent, a twin window ran hung inside the tent parallel to the light blowing across the bottom of the light and tops of the plants, and a small desk fan underneath the plants. thinking about getting another fan for under the plants but I'm not to sure if it's necessary as the 6" pulls a good bit of air.

 

did some trimming on the bottoms of the plants, will finish up either trimming in a few days. almost 2 weeks into the stretch, they're getting ready to start budding! will get pics of the tips and rest of the plants when the lights come on.

 

Grow is coming down Friday to start drying. didn't end up as good as I hoped abs I believe that's due to the info above, to many plants in the area. next go round is a pair a blue dreams in a 3x3 scrog. sticking with the 600 watt for the scrog.

They got hella sick due to a myriad of problems, but it's a resilient plant and they pulled through.



Looking pretty frosty, much better looking than my first grow.

 

Damn 2lbs? that's awesome and impressive man. Your journa looks nice. I wish i woulda lst these instead of just topping. I'm shooting for 1lb with my next attempt. gonna scrog, think it'll be much more efficient than this round. I topped once this try and nothing really other than that. gonna top and lst before they hit the screen.

Yeah I did some lollipopping other than that I didn't really take any leaves. right now I'm running some cfls as supplementary light and some mixed spectrum. 2 sets of 4 bulbs. could only run the light at 450 watts this round. 600 made it a bit hot. I think I am gonna switch to leds instead of the cfls. the leds will have much better spread. however if I can run at 600 watts this round idk if I'll even need the extra light in a 3x3. guess more never hurts.

 

Yeah next grow is gonna be a pair of plants. gonna try a scrog this round. Gonna top and lst before they go under the screen. might have to veg a little longer but it'll be much easier to manage with just 2. I'll def be doing more defoliation next grow. I did next to nothing, minus lollipopping.

 

And thanks for the insight!

 

Few bud shots after trimming:







It's still drying, looks much better than my first grow, still I know I can do better. next run should produce a good bit more.

 

So I dried it for a week and it's been in jars for about 4 days now. just tried it for the first time, smoked like 3 bowls and I'm not as high as I get off of Mexibrick weed. lol.. I think I over dried, maybe harvested early idk.