Hey guys, Growing a couple strong indicas this round. Aurora Indica and Blue Mystic. Setup: 175 Watt MH (I will only be vegging 2 mothers and a couple clones at a time) 250 Watt HPS (I will be scrogging about two plants at a time) 4 Inch Fan 165 cfm Carbon Filter FoxFarm Ocean Forest Soil BioThrive Grow BioThrive Bloom BioBud CaMg+ BioWeed BioRoot Box Fan 1/3/5 Gallon Pots Strains: Aurora Indica Blue Mystic Nirvana Freebee I will be posting pictures later tonight. Please feel free to provide advice! I want to make this as successful as possible. Thanks in advance to the GC community and safe growing!
Ok here are some pics of the closet. In the pic with all the plants: The four on the left are 2 aurora indica clones, 1 blue mystic, 1 freebee The middle guy is aurora indica and has been topped once. The big one on the right is also aurora indica and has be topped several times but the newest topped areas havn't developed too far yet. I also have the two main sides LST'd. I will try to get some closeups posted next. If you look at the pic of the whole room the left side is for mothers/vegging and the right side will have a screen added soon for flowering. The two buckets in the back have just gotten fresh tap water to I am waiting for the chlorine to dissipate and then they will have the mixed nutes. I plan on removing the vegging plants during the 12 hours of darkness once I start flowering. I will prolly place them in my bathroom. I originally was going to section the two sides off but I have issues with heat. Thanks for following! ** Edit: Please note much of the yellowing in the pictures is due to me being terrible with a camera haha, the leaves are mostly all a nice dark green right now
I also forgot to mention the big plant has been vegging for about 7 weeks and the middle one has been vegging for about 5 weeks. The clones and seedlings have been in the ground for about 1 week.
Just mixed down fresh nutes, flower and veg nutes. I have moved the plants under my 250watt for the remainder of their veg because the 175 just didnt have that great of a footprint or penetration. I should start the big lady on flowering either this monday or next. Ill try to get the closeups posted this evening.
Looking nice buddah. If you want more growth, it would be a good idea to transplant. The size of the root system and the room it has to grow has a HUGE effect on yield and growth. pick up the planters and look into the holes at the bottom. If you can see roots chances are it needs to be transplanted. Howbig is your room anyhow? Looking nice though dude!
The total room size is about 4 feet by 5 feet but when I flower I am only using about a 1x2 foot space. As for the clones, I don't think they are root bound quite yet. When I added them to the blue cups they barely had roots showing out of the rapid rooter plugs and I dont see any roots comin out the bottom of the cup. I just fed all the girls today so I am hoping they will start to show some new growth over the next day or two. Worst case I can always try transplanting just to be sure. Also I have started the big lady and the medium sized lady on their flowering schedule today. Once they start to show sex I'll get some pics in.
Hey man nice goin I guess me and your 5 week old r about same time line so Ill keep checkin up on you
What free strain did they give you? When I ordered from them I got Durban poison x skunk #1 (I think that was what it was). Anyways out of 10 seeds 0 came up (lol thanks nirvana). I guess that strain had "genetic complications". I only ever saw 1 person who got even 1 seeds to open and it was a killer pink haired female. The other strain I got was a Maui waui and that strain was better then the one I actually paid for!
I have been wondering for a while how to tell what the strain is. I got a pack of 10 freebees but it just says freebee on it. Hopefully ill be able to figure the strain out when it matures a bit though. Also, so I put the plants on 12/12 last night so today was the first day of flowering. I came home and the entire condo smelled like some fruity spicey goodness. My roommate however was not as excited haha. I guess my question is whats the best way to keep the smell down so it doesnt smack my roommate in the head when he gets home? I have a decent sized fan and a carbon filter right now. I have a spare timer so I was thinking of running it for 15 minutes every hour? What do you thinK? Fabreez just wont cut it this time haha
Yea odors honna be a problem. The best thing you can do (if you have a way) is to vent your exhaust outside. Your problem already doin that but you can add filters and other stuff, the things is though that weed reeks when it's budding. While it always is nice waking up and the first thing you smell is killer homegrown, everyone else is gonna think different. Also it's almost impossible to match a strain to a picture. Nirvana has like problem close to 50 different strains they sell on all sorts of seed bank sites, plus at least 10 mayby more strains they only give away as freebies. Also take into account every strain from seeds has multiple genotypes and phenotypes. In other words there's so many different things it could be your better off just making up a name for the plant or just calling it indica or sativa or something. Its problem good genetics though no doubt guess its nice to have a mystery plant sometimes.
Haha then if the freebie is female I shall dub her funkybuddha. Unfortunately I cannot vent anywhere except into my room. I share a 2 bedroom condo and cant go drlling vent holes haha. I have my carbon filter hooked up to my fan and both sit in the growroom. Imma just try running the fan on the timer and have it turn on a couple times before we get home. Hopefully that helps
So I got a couple of questions. Are the Humbolt County's Own products like bushmaster and purple maxx organic? Also, whats a good way to apply them? I was thinking getting another bucket for freshwater/HCO mixing. Doing like 1 teaspoon/5 gals and adding a super light flowering mix and watering with that a couple times. Should I flush after using HCO products? Any other times and tricks for bushmaster/purple maxx would be great! Also what are the benefits of foliar feeding? What are the dangers? Thanks yall!
Yea then the best thing you can do is get a few of the plugin air freshened and put them all over your place. Also if you have a landlord be sure to pay the rent on time. You don't wanna give them a reason to show up and risk finding that stuff. So anyways did you move the budding plant into another room or did you just block it off from the light of your veg room?
Well originally I was going to split the closet in two but because ventalation and air circulation is an issue for me I have decided to remove the veg plants during the dark cycle. Currently only my clones and the 2 seedlings are in veg so its super easy to just put them under some cfls in my bathroom and let the closet stay dark. Also as an update to the smell issue. My carbon filter works really well! I ran it once at 2 and once more at 4 and then once more in the evening(ran for about 15 mins each time). my roomate said the place didn't smell at all when he got home. I think im good to go for now. Not too much has changed from my ealier pics. My clones are still pretty young but also havnt done much. My two seedlings are doing really well though. As for the budding plants I saw the slightest signs of sex even though its only day 2 of flowering. I think by the end of this week ill take some more pics and post em.
If you can, I would have the carbon filter constantly running. I have two inside my small grow area to be extra secure on the smell. So far no one in the house has smelt anything, last year it was super stinky but the phresh filter I bought this round has paid off well. Photos say a thousand words btw
so even with my fan i feel like my plants are getting too hot. I have some curling at the top and a bit of yellowing (at the center) of the top growth. I raised my light to about 13/14 inches from the plants. I read on a chart I saw on GC that for a standard 250hps this is about 6500-7500 lumens. Think that is gonna be enough to reach at least .5/watt? I really want to hit .5/watt-.6/watt this round if possible. **edit added pics below