Long time smoker and complete virgin grower. I would like to thank my boy Jay Blaze, bud king of Sheffield for his assistance in getting my setup working. I started this grow back on August 14th and will post what I have over the next day or two and update it as we go. Welcome aboard! Growdate - 2010-08-10 Decided to buy a couple of clones today for no apparent reason with no planning what so ever. These two Strawberry Cough clones caught my eye so I bought them for $10 dollars each and brought them home. A true newbie is bound to make mistakes, beyond buying two clones with no planning, and my first was to get my clones at lunch and leave them in a paper bag in the trunk till I got home. Parking garage was cool enough but the 25 minute ride home in 100 degree heat left them severely wilted. I good soaking once I got them home and a few minutes in the sun had them looking much better. (Fig 1 - Week 1 - Clones Come Home)
Growdate - 2010-08-14 Bought the clones Tuesday and finally hit the hydro shop on Friday. Saturday morning we get to work. 5 Gallon Buckets With River Rock Jay says Canna Coco is the way to go Clones ready for planting Clones in the pot Bought some gear as well but there are still some purchases to make so for now these babies will stay outside in the sun for a few days.
Time to get these puppies inside. Some gear has been purchased and we can get the basic setup working. Xtrasun XT6AC 6 Inch Air Coolable Reflector Canna Coco A 1 Liter Canna Coco B 1 Liter General Hydroponics PH Control and Test Kit Only have room for one light and can only afford one bulb so we are going with an HPS. Agrosun Super Red Sodium 600 Watt HPS Xtrasun Ballast Bought a Sun Hut XL 4 x 4 grow tent. It was just small enough to fit into the corner of our office. We actually had room for the huge computer desk next to it. You can see the ballast on the floor. Had to take the blades off the ceiling fan but it fits! Light is up and running. I used two Progrip light fixtures hangers to hang the light from steel bars included with the grow tent. The Progrip hangers are ratcheted making it easy to raise and lower the light. I figured with all this space in the tent I might as well throw in two more clones. The smaller ones are Grand Daddy Purple x Erkle. The weird shadow banding is from the grow light. I didn't learn till later to take pictures with the light off.
Checkup photo from Aug 25th. 3ml per liter of Canna A & B is obviously too much nute as the back leaves are very dark green, brittle and twisting. Of course I didn't figure that out on my own, Jay saved me again.
Time to install the filter, fan and ducting. Goblin Charcoal Filter 6 Inch Ducting Xtrasun Hood Cover Active Air 6 Inch Duct Fan Duct Router Speed Control Power Strip In the Corner Ducting out the tent to the window. Later installed a outlet valve to stop the backflow of outside air. Girls out in the hall till the install is done Full setup Plants look decent.
Just a checkup picture from Sept 5th. You can't see em but I've got a fairly numerous infestation of fungus gnats. Next time I'll dip the clones first. At this point I was flushing them with pure water to get out the nute burn but I did it for like a week instead of a day. Next time I'll use 10pct nute solution to flush then re-adjust. The little girls are looking good
Checkup of all plants. Seeing some yellow on some of the leaves. Asked for help on the forums here and I believe I flushed em for too long with just water. Kicked nutes back up after this checkup. You can really see the discoloration on this GDPxErkle clone
Started keeping more detailed records on the 14th. Log as follows: 2010-09-14 Fungus Gnats Water ration w/ .5ml per liter of Cana A & B Applied Neem oil mixed into daily water ration. 8ml per liter. Dead gnats appeared in the run off. 2010-09-15 Water ration w/ 2ml per liter of Cana A & B Great reduction in visible gnats. 2010-09-16 Water ration w/ 2ml per liter of Cana A & B Seeing 2 or 3 gnats around the tent. 2010-09-17 No water. Seeing 2 or 3 gnats around the tent. Installed tower oscallating fan in tent. 2010-09-18 Seeing 2 or 3 gnats around the tent. Water ration w/ 2ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root excelurator 0.5ml per 1.5 liter of water. 2010-09-19 Jay says time to flower. Pictures to Jay show one or two smaller newer leaves curling. Water ration w/ 1.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator .5ml per 14 liter of water. Changed timer from 18 hours (4:30AM - 10:30PM) to 12 hours (7:00AM - 7:00PM) Last checkup before flowering New Fan. Lasko Wind Tower Platinum 40 inch. This fan is very cool but poses one problem. It has a digital On/Off so it doesn't work with the timer as it won't come back on once it's shut off without phyically pressing the on button. Fairly dark but a side view none the less
Hello! The dumbass learned to take pictures with the light off! It's a forking miracle! Ok so it looks like we have a problem here with some yellow leaves. Let's take a look at the journal and then we'll look at some pictures. 2010-09-20 Water ration w/ 1.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator .5ml per 14 liter of water. 2010-09-21 Water ration w/ 1.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator .5ml per 14 liter of water. 2010-09-22 No water 2010-09-23 Water ration w/ 1.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator .5ml per 14 liter of water. 5ml per liter of neem oil to combat new fungus gnat outbreak. I'm seeing yellowing of some of the larger leaves which don't get much light. Some of them are also developing brown spots. Also seeing some leaf tip burn which may just be heat/light burn so I'm going to run the oscallating fan all day. 2010-09-24 Posted new pictures on grasscity here: http://forum.grasscity.com/sick-plants-problems/670800-yellow-leaves-burnt-leaf-tips.html First response says looks like n-mag deficancy Mixed up new water 2.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 3ml per 18 liter of water. Ph is too low. Bumped up latest batch to yellow/green 6 - 6.5. Added 1t per liter of Epsom Salts per forum recommendation. Made sure there was run off from the watering. Emptied runoff. September 24th checkup, all plants These next two get in closer on the yellowing leaves
Things are looking much better. Plants are greening up and the flowers are starting to show. You know the deal... log then pictures... 2010-09-25 Water ration w/2.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 3ml per 18 liter of water. 8ml per liter of neem oil to combat new fungus gnat outbreak. Made sure there was run off from the watering. Emptied runoff. 2010-09-26 - 2010-09-27 Water ration w/2.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 3ml per 18 liter of water. Made sure there was run off from the watering. Emptied runoff. 2010-09-28 Water ration 4ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 3ml per 10 liter of water. Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. Added 1/4 of a mosquito dunk to each pot and 1/4 of a mosquito dunk to each drip tray to address continuing fungus gnat problem. 2010-09-29 - 2010-10-01 Water ration 4ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 3ml per 10 liter of water. Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. Strawberry Cough plants are very green and starting to droop a bit. Looks like a bit too much nute. 2010-10-02 - 2010-10-03 Water ration 3ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 1ml per 10 liter of water. Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. Plants are starting to flower. I rearranged the pots due to massive expansion of the Strawberry Cough clones. Starting to worry about running out of room to raise the light. Two closer shots of the Strawberry Cough Two shots of the GDP x Erkle. The flowers look like buttons in the center of the tops.
New pictures going up today. Just wanted to say that any information, tips, ideas or words of encouragement are more than welcome. Without ya'll I wouldn't be doing as well as I am now.
diggin that setup man, what did you end up spending all in all? i plan on getting a tent like that maybe not that tall though. but yea im subbed and ready to watch those babies flower! keep the updates coming!
Good question. Here is the total so far... well you'd have to add in the Lasko Tower Fan if you want everything but yea here is a general idea.
Just finished the third week of flowering and it's time for a checkup. Let's take a look at the log and then some photos. 2010-10-04 - 2010-10-05 Water ration 3ml per liter of Cana A & B Added root ecelurator 1ml per 10 liter of water. Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. 2010-10-06 No water 2010-10-07 Water ration 2.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. 2010-10-08 No water 2010-10-09 Water ration 2.5ml per liter of Cana A & B Added PH Up .5ml per liter to get yellow/green on the test. Smaller plants are still very moist with lots of runoff left in the pans so no water for them. 2010-10-10 No water Ok now on to the good part. October 10th checkup and all plants are looking good and filling the tent. Closeup of a Strawberry Cough (2 bigger plants) flower. Why does this picture make me so happy? Here are my little ladies. I'm expecting some good smoke from these GDPxErkle plants Single GDPxErkle Lovely GDPxErkle flower closeup
looking very good...i can actually see some of the frost coming up on those leaves...any possible chance to get a closeup?
Yea that's about as close as the wife's camera can get but I have access to another camera and I'll be taking new snaps on Saturday or Sunday so I can put up whatever you'd like. Peace and thanks very much for your comments!
Entering the fifth week of flowering and we've had some changes this week. J says it's time to open the plants up. Having no idea what he meant it was explained that it was time to remove the stuff that doesn't receive a lot of light to open up space in the plant for more light to the flowers. Nuff said... a pruning we will go. Also I spotted a few tiny white flies. We still have some fungus gnats but the mosquito dunks have helped bring them under control. I bought some bright yellow sticky traps which are suppose to attract white flies and also work on gnats. Let's take a look at the log and then some photos. First time I tried uploading photos to grasscity so we'll see if I can get those cool thumbnails working and bring down the load time of this thread. 2010-10-11, 2010-10-13, 2010-10-15 - New water mix with all Canna recommended nutes - New notation based on 20 liter container - Water ration as follows: 50ml per 20 liter of Canna A & B 10ml per 20 liter of Canna Rhizotonic 50ml per 20 liter of Canna CannaZym 30ml per 20 liter of Canna PK 13/14 50ml per 20 liter of Canna Boost 2010-10-12, 2010-10-14, 2010-10-16 - No water 2010-10-17 - J says to open up the plants so I pruned em heavily - Found a few white flies - Still have fungus gnats but the mosquito dunks help - Set up yellow stick traps for white flies and gnats - New water mix without the Canna PK 13/14 - Water ration as follows: 50ml per 20 liter of Canna A & B 10ml per 20 liter of Canna Rhizotonic 50ml per 20 liter of Canna CannaZym 50ml per 20 liter of Canna Boost 2010-10-18 - No Water - Took pictures Now for the good stuff and I think I have these thumbnails working...