1st Grow

[socachi]

Bladerunner thanks for stopping in, yes it does get busy here and there's a lot more work ahead.

Here's my ladies in waiting, almost all of them are rooting and are in need of planting. Was hoping to hold off for another week but they may not wait. Not sure what to do with them all. I did this many because I didn't have any success with my 1st set of clones. Figured half would root, boy was I wrong, but glad I was. 37 out of 49 are ready to go to soil, the other 12 are showing some roots, maybe a couple aren't.

 

[socachi]

Been making some changes in veg/clone, mom and flower rooms. Here's what I started with, biggest change is in flower but it affects the other two because they're attached to one another. This is veg/clone & mom



Now don't laugh too hard from the before pics of flower




So I got rid of the 2 separate ducts and installed this




Here it is after, as you can see much better. I put the ducting in between the studs.



Now it's a little easier to get around in flower. It's a tight space

 

[socachi]

As I mentioned before since transplanting OG3 she's been having some P problems.



So the other day I added some Diamond Nectar to the mix, maybe it will help with the red stems too.

I did a watering the other day with straight RO water. I measured the runoff in all plants and this is what I got.

RO started at ph 6.23 ppm 28
Sour Grape ph 6.45 ppm 487
Chen Dawg Sis ph 6.52 ppm 214
Bubba Kush ph 7.25 ppm 567 she's only been in soil for a month
Fire OG ph 6.89 ppm 471

So if anyone can tell me why my stems are red from this it would be a big help.

 

[socachi]

Well it was transplanting time for the clones or at least most of them. Did 36 of the 49, thought I'd be able to do 40 6" pots in the 2'x5' area but the pots are actually 6.5" so I miscalculated again.

The first thing I had to do was line the shelf with poly to form container of sorts. Don't want any water leaking down to the mom area below.



So here's what I used, some Botanicare soil less mix.



Then I filled the pots with hydroton and then with soil



As you can see it was a busy night



I put the pots in the tube for a mass watering with RO at 6.25 ph



Then back to the transplant table. As you can see the clones are much healthier than last time.



Some roots were more along than others.



But they are all healthy. I also put hydroton on top like last time.



I crammed them all into the veg area along with their saucers, it was a tight fit. Put a string across the front to insure they don't fall out.



The remaining clones I stuck in the mom area and they'll go into pots when there's room at the inn.

Ever since I reconfigured the ventilation to make more room in the flower area it's been getting hot in the veg/clone and mom area. I'm thinking of putting a Y connector on the exhaust fan in flower along with a damper and attach the veg/mom vent to it to increase the exhaust. Right now it works off the fans in veg/mom that exhaust into flower.

 

[socachi]

Had to trim the mom's down they were getting too tall for the area. I hate wasting would be clones. I need a bigger room.

 

[socachi]

This is why I don't like to flush my plants, even though they probably needed it, something always goes south. In this case the CDS has a Hydrogen problem, but she'll be feed again to bring her back up. She was nice and green before the flush.

 

[socachi]

Thought I'd cheek on the girls before I buttoned everything down for the night and found the SG and CDS pots were light so they got feed. ph 6.0 1 drop Superthrive; 10 ml Hydrozyme; 22.5 ml PBP; 5 ml CM; 1.6 ml Pro Silicate. I upped the H from 5 - 10 & PBP from 15 - 22.5, didn't use the Diamond Nectar as I did the last few times what to see if the increase in PBP will help.

 

[socachi]

The ladies in veg are coming along.



And flower isn't doing to bad either.



I put up some netting to help stabilize the ladies as the get fat. The extra will be going to the other table once it's in place.



Here's a new toy I picked up to help with watering. It goes a lot faster now.



And something I didn't show when I put together the table was I put screws in to help stabilize it.

 

[socachi]

Buds are poppin

 

[Sparky 6]

Lookin great. You're already quite good at this. It's taking me a bit longer to get it but it is coming.

 

[socachi]

Topped some of the girls in veg that are at 8" last night and later today they'll get a watering. The ladies in flower will also get a watering.

Read something that says in the 4th week of flower the plants should get flushed. If this is right should I feed today instead of water?

 

[socachi]

Later today the ladies in flower and some in veg that are ready to be moved to flower will be getting flushed. Not sure if that's the best thing to do but it what it says in the book.

Will take some pics and post later. The remainder in veg will be feed at a higher strength.Feed the mom's yesterday and upped the PBP to 25ml per gal, CM 5ml, PS 2.5 ml, ST 1 drop, the ph was 6.1. Hoping the increase in PBP will get rid of the red stems. The ladies in flower are looking healthy.

 

[socachi]

Been busy lately getting the flower completed and the girls in veg moved to flower.

I had installed a EcoPlus 6" fan to vent the veg area into flower, the small veg area heats up with all the wattage running. The fan was bolted to the joist in the flower room but it was making a lot of noise because of vibration. So I hung it from bungee cords, it's a lot quieter now.



I also added another timer so the fans will shut of when lights go out in veg and added another Speedster control, plus reorganized the batter board.



So here's the 2nd batch of girls in flower, they're packed tight on a 3'x3' flood Botanicare tray. OG 1&3, CDS, & SG, 36 in all. They all got flushed after being put into flower and topped prior to.



Her's some bud porn of the 1st batch of OG 1&3



The CDS mom had some more problems. It seems that the moms always get problems after a flush. I found this on a couple branches with new growth.

 

[socachi]

Lookin great. You're already quite good at this. It's taking me a bit longer to get it but it is coming.

Sparky thanks for stoppin in and for the props man but I still have a lot to learn. Trying to get these ladies dialed in is my biggest challenge. This is harder at times than i thought it would be.

Keep checkin out the forum dude, there's a lot of good ppl on here that will give some great advice.

 

[socachi]

Went into flower this morning and the lights were out, the surge protector tripped so I reset it. Went back in this afternoon and it had tripped again, 3 hrs w/o light WTF It's only 1200 W over a single 20 amp line, I wonder if there's a problem with the surge protector?

 

[socachi]

Feed the ladies in flower today, table 1 is at week 5 and got PBPB soil 25ml, CM 0ml, DN 1.25ml, LK 10ml, PS 1.2ml, HZ 8ml, ST 1 drop and by accident PBPB hydro 7.5ml, VT 75ml ph 5.95 ppm 1087. I was mixing both table 1 and 2 and fucked up, hopefully that small amount won't burn em.

Table 2 had its 1st feeding PBPB hydro 15ml, bottle said 20 I went 75%, CM 5ml, HZ 10ml, ST 1 drop, DN 2ml, LK 10ml, HZ 10ml, PS 1.2ml, and a new tea of cold pressed sea kelp 7.5ml, ph 5.95 ppm 1280. Not sure what but something really kicks up the ppm, either the PBPB hydro or the tea. Next time I'll ppm everything one step at a time to see.

The buds on table 1 are getting bigger, I super cropped a few ladies to see what happens, never did that before. Hell this is my 1st grow never did any of this before.


Can anyone tell me what a good bloom booster is I was thinking of House & Garden's BUd XL and Top Booster. I picked up some Shooting Powder, well a hydro stores version of it for weeks 7-9, but need something for earlier.

Does anyone know when I should add Sugar Daddy?

Wanted to take pics but the batteries were dead need to get some new rechargeables these don't hold a charge long.

 

[socachi]

Hey Red thanks for stoppin in. Yes I use the clone area as my veg, the veg area that's shown in the early part of the thread is now the mom are and it's crowded in there. I found black pots but I also use white, want to see if there's any difference. Newver did paint the pots and never will, to caustic.

Using 2 600w in flower and if the room stays the same come summer, yes it will get hot in there, but there are plans for a larger area come summer. Right now using clones but I will try seed again in the future.

As for the amount in each tray, table 1 has 23 and table 2 has 36. Yes it's packed to the gills, no room to wiggle in there. I'm sticking with the 6"x6" pots for now, haven't found the need to change. Toppin the ladies at *" and movin them into flower. They'll probably get 2 flushes, 1 at 4 wks and another at the end.

Hope you stay around for the show and read through the whole thread, many changes since it started.

 

[socachi]

^^^^ Cool well love to hear any thing that'll help. Maybe you know the answer to my questions above.

 

[socachi]

Here's a Bubba that I picked up the 1st of the year. I had topped it a couple weeks ago. Not sure how often your suppose to do that but she's gonna be a mom anyways.



And here's some recent bud porn after a watering earlier today. I super cropped a few to see what happens. Thought of doing that to the rest of the taller ones to even out the canopy.



I've got to get that white balance down to get better pics.

I'll be adding some Hydropplex this Sat to help fattenup the buds and some generic shooting powder later on the get em fatter and denser.

 

[socachi]

Transplanted the BK, SG, CDS & FOG last night. The CDS & SG were long overdue and were root bound, been wanting to do them for some time now. The BK & CDS went into 5 gal pots and the ROG & SG went into 3 gal pots. The SG & FOG will be flower out later.

Bubba Kush


Sour Grapes & Fire OG


Feed the ladies in flower today for some dumb reason (I forgot) I gave table 1 Cal-Mag they're in week 4 and I don't want them anymore. Hopefully it won't mess up the taste later. Also gave table 1 some Hydroplex to help the buds. Hoping to get some nice buds on those OG's.

Table 2 also got feed went with straight flower nutes instead of the transition formula of veg & flower nutes together, that's what gave me such a high ppm last time. They're getting bigger. Wondering if I should top the again. Also wondering how to get an even canopy especially on table 1 some are 1 good ft taller than the others. Any Suggestions?