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Discussion in 'First Time Marijuana Growers' started by Benjamin check, Oct 6, 2012.

  1. I have 4 serious seeds chronic, a g-13 pineapple, a kandy kush and a lambo aka rambo bushing out under 2 600 watt ipower hps bulbs (ipower stuff works great, its super cheap and it came with 2 bulbs MH and HPS). Room is 7x9x8 in my basement. I'm not doing a lot of climate or odor control (I own the house and the adjacent property) my basement stays about 75 degrees with 2 window fans, one in and one out. I don't have adjacent neighbors close enough to smell anything and the odor is quite low so far. You can't smell that vegetation smell until the bottom of the stairs, and the actual weed smell you can't detect until you go in the room and disturb the plants, then it stinks bad. I'm 37 days into flowering with the hps, 30 days veg with the MH bulbs. The big ones are being grown in Subcool's super soil mix HIGHTIMES.COM | Subcool's Super Soil Step-by-Step in 7 gallon buckets and one smart pot I was given free to test out. The guy at the hydroponic store told me it promotes more O2 to the roots and since the plant in that pot is a good 7-8 inches taller than the rest, I'd have to agree. I will be buying more smart pots. I vegged with some fox farms grow big (it threw my ph off, dolomite lime fixed it) and have 7 beautiful ladies ranging from 4 feet to 2 1/2 feet tall, getting sticky. 21 days into flower, I soaked them down with some "tea" I made from 4 1/2 gallons of distilled water, Indonesian bat guano, a little Peruvian seabird guano, 5 tbs unsulphured molasses, a cup of worm castings, powdered glacial rock, some epsom salts, a dash of dolomite lime and a little greensand. bubbled that all up for 30 hours with an aquarium air pump in a sterilized homer bucket from home depot, diluted it 50/50 and poured it on. Talk about flexing..all the leaves started pointing slightly upwards, the color on them got super rich and the bud density increased x3. They were already pretty healthy, but this took them to the next level. I wasn't planning on doing any cloning until the next grow, but when I decided I needed to trim the spindly bottom growth, my mindset was that I might as well get the hang of this cloning business while I had free clones to play with. No sense in wasting them. To my everlasting surprise, 16 have roots and the rest look like they will develop them in a few days. I took the clones at 22 days flowering :eek:.....I used one 5.99 clonex gel packet, sterile snips, a sterile exacto blade, some seed plugs from the hydroponic store and that cheapo looking cloning dome that the seed plugs fit. I had to really ask the guy if something that cheap looking worked and he said he'd been using it with great success for years, so I bought one for 28 bucks, still very skeptical, but now I'm a believer. I'm about to toss the clones in the growroom under the 12/12 and see how it works. The couple of cuttings I took that just looked too small to do anything with I trimmed and set out to dry for 10 days. I smoked them last night, fell asleep during bill maher and woke up on the couch at 3:30 am surrounded by fish sandwich wrappers and siracha hot sauce, so I'm guessing I got high. It was harsh and kind of hay tasting, but it worked. I'd like to post pictures, I've got tons of "bud porn" on a digital camera, but the instructions on creating an album is a dead end as there is no create album tab in the user CP like the 'photos' search results said. I'm familiar with posting, I'm a longtime member of other non related forums with this exact same format, but I'm not putting pics of illegal activities in my flickr photostream, photobucket or google account. :cool: I'm a very paranoid individual when it comes to my freedom.......
     
  2. Maybe reading the thread in its entirety will answer questions? Soil or hydro? Pic problems? I figured I spoke pretty clear English....
     
  3. Say wha?
     

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