koopa's 1st grow ever!!!

[lc00p4]

Day 22

Day 22

the 5th and 6th node have become apparent on some of the plants. i am going to wait a few more days before topping all of them and flowering the tops to find sex. once i figure out the sex, i am going to flower them under a 600w hps. i have decided to use the mild nutrient mix of earth juice grow which is 1/2 tbsp per gallon of water. since the water out of the faucet has a lot of chlorine in it, i am going to let it sit out for 24 hours or so.



here is the nute mix and the earth juice grow.



these are the plants right now. they are doing good and hopefully i can get enough clones to get a good harvest before the summer.


feel free to give me some love if you ain't a hater. i gots me a black knight to keep all the haters at bay.

 

[Guest]

what are your thoughts on the earth juice? i used it before but ive also heard NOT to use.

 

[lc00p4]

rkrone - i have never used earth juice before, it was my first watering with it. my plants seem to get droopy at first after i used it, but then they firmed back up. i haven't noticed any significant gains yet, but when the tops are big enough, i am going to put them in a rubbermaid container that will be a bubble cloner after i add in the air stone bar that i got a while back. in the earth juice thread under organic soil i think or hydro, the dude said it was too hot for his plants or not hot enough. so basically, inconsistent. i'm not sure about what to think, but i know that the buds are gonna taste awesome since they are growing in the coco with organic nutes!!!

 

[Guest]

i am organic all the way but i stick to foxfarm nutes

 

[lc00p4]

thats cool dude, i've heard good things about foxfarm products. what kinda setup do you got going on? strains, light, etc. peace.

 

[Guest]

DWC

70watt hps

tiger bloom, superthrive, hydroguard

strains are mixed bagseed from buds i liked, im gettin some mothers to hopefully get a sog or something close to it going

 

[lc00p4]

Day 22

Day 22

thanks rkrone for following my thread. its been over 3 weeks and it is getting closer to when i can take the tops off, check for sex, and get them ready for flowering. i can count 6 nodes, and is it okay to take the tops off yet? how many nodes to clones need? i have a bubble cloner waiting to root the tops and some schultz takeroot for the rooting hormone. will the plants show sex while they are in the cloner? otherwise i've heard that most people can tell by 2-3 weeks.



if you look carefully, you can count 6 total nodes. i think i will wait a couple more days before i top them so that the clones will have at least 3 nodes.

any suggestions/comments feel free to leave em. thanks...

 

[hogwild]

you wont be able to tell on that plant for a while bro, probably at least another 2 weeks, 2 weeks you should be able to make out the ball shape of the female pistil or the ball shape of the male pollen sack, ive sometimes had to wait a week after i see the ball forming to see the pistil, unless you have a jewelers loupe, then you can see them quite clearly. Are you still planning on throwing some outside? I would wait till they are sexed first, but outside near a lake in an excluded place sounds like a sweet place to get a high yielding low maintenance plant.

 

[lc00p4]

hogwild~
you can tell sex during veg??? i was going to put the tops under 12/12 after they root to see because that is how i thought you did it. if it is able to tell during veg, then i can wait. hopefully, i can yield a little bit of personal end of may and have clones already rooted and ready to ship outside. of course i would have the site near a lake or on an island via canoe so that the plants can have access to h2o thanks to the water table being right there. i am not sure how many i can get outside, depends on how many female moms i have and how many clones i can take off. the freebie that came with my order was african durban poison x skunk 1 and that will probably make its way outside as well. thanks for stopping by!!!

 

[lc00p4]

Day 29

Day 29

a hoy mates. i tried to germ some quick mist diesels and bubblicious a little bit ago with some bad luck. only one quick mist diesel and one bubblicious made it past seedling stage and even if they turn out male, i am going to use the pollen to cross with the white skunk/future strains.



this bb turned out to be a mutant. the 3 point fan leafs on both sides are disfigured.



this qmd is looking fine for right now. gonna start vegging along with the other 4 and will be done separate once i construct another grow box with the 2 other rubbermaids i got.



a shot of the garden. would it be a good idea to top yet? i'm not 100% sure about when the timing is right for topping.



temps are good and humidity is alright. is there any need for adjustments?


thanks to redgreenery for inspiring me to create a double stacked rubbermaid grow chamber!


any ideas, input, leave one. peace.

 

[Guest]

That's funny - "Bueller?, Bueller?"

OK - you've got a wicked head start with these White Skunks, let's see what they'll do for ya...

Thanks for pointing me here - good luck...

ws

 

[lc00p4]

here is the most developed plant that i have right now. i trimmed a lot of the leaves that started to go yellow and to also let the new growth get more light instead of having a bunch of big fan leaves in the way. more updating soon once i finish my new double rubbermaid chamber.

 

[lc00p4]

Day 33

Day 33

here's another update. just finished the temporary chamber. once i switch the lighting to 12/12, then i will add a d.i.y. carbon scrubber in front of the fan. i did a little research on this fan that i found in my house and it moves 130cfm and uses 30 watts. pretty good for something i scrounged up. a 3 socket vanity fixture that i found at a local hardware store for $10 will be added within a week which will run 6 lights at 42w each for a total of 252 watts with 3 y-adapters.



this is the new contraption me and a friend worked on. he knows who he is and how thankful i am for helping me out.



i added an intake so that i could get ventilation, which was my main problem until now. the fan creates negative pressure and doesn't get the motor stressed at all. above the big cutout, there is a wall inside that traps light from getting into the chamber.



here is a mylar flap thing that helps to block some of the light that tries to escape, but it can't because of the internal wall that goes above where the top of the intake is.



this is a shot of the bottom portion of the chamber. we used chrome duct tape to seal off the area above the mylar to reflect any light that escapes.


ive constructed a bubble cloner with one 12'' airstone that will be feeding oxygen to the roots of the tops. all of the plants were topped at the 5th or 6th node and those have been placed in the cloner. they will be in darkness for 24 hours with the stone running, then 12/12 to check for sex.

 

[gaiusmarius]

Hello and welcome to the fun of growing your own in coco ic00p4.

so sorry i missed your thread till now. but it seems you were able to help yourself by reading. so far your plants are looking real good. you could indeed take a clone from each plant right about now. this will allow you to find out sex ofg the pereant plant inside of 3 weeks, without disturbing the veg rythim of the mothers and fathers, lol. just take a lower branch from each plant and mark it, then add it to a plastic cup of water, put the cups with the branches right under a 12/12 routine and inside of 3 weeks maximum you will see clear signs of sex on the branches, some of them might even make roots too. but they will need to be re vegged if you wish to use them, that's why taking a lower branch is good, then you can just chuck it, in the mean time you will know which plants are female.

i can't help you much with your fertilizer choice, as i'm a canna guy, but it seems you are doing great anyway. what kind of coco are you using again? is it pure coco? or a mix of coco perlit?

good growings

 

[lc00p4]

greetings and salutations gaiusmarius. i had my thread moved from indoor-hydro because that is what i thought i was going to do, but i didn't know that i needed so many supplies, so i am postponing the hydro for now. right now, the tops are going under 12/12 in the bubble cloner until sex is determined. all of the plants are recovering from the topping and will be flowered when the time comes. as of coco, i am using pure coco and not a mix. i was really bored so i picked out some perlite from a soil mix and threw em in one of the pots. it would have been a better idea to do some sort of mix, but i am content with what i have. thanks for stopping by!

 

[lc00p4]

Day 41

Day 41

what it is everybody? it's been a while since the last post, but a lot has happened. i accidentally had one of the cfls too close to the top of one of my plants and it killed the top growth, so i had to trim it off as well as adjust my vanity fixture further up. a week ago i got the vanity light fixture that costs $10 at a local store and the splitters cost $3/piece. i got a total of 3 splitters, but i can't put one in the middle because then it would be touching the fan. so far there is a total of 152 total watts, but once i start to flower, then i will try to get 6 42ws. i am moving out of my place at the end of may, so i may have to start flowering very soon because white skunk finishes in 45-50 days.



here is the new fixture. i wanted chrome housing, but they were all out and the brass fixture was the cheapest one they had.



here are all the babies. don't worry, i took care of the dry coco already, but i already put it away as soon as i was done.

 

[lc00p4]

well just thought that i would let whoever is paying attention know that i moved my grow to another location to finish the flowering there. the plants are under 12/12 now and i have supplemented them with some micro boost and fox farm big bloom organic shit. hopefully these will help with the process. i regret not making the coco into a mix to help buffer the ph because it seems like the leaves are droopy a lot and there seems to be nute burn. next time i plan on mixing in some perlite, worm castings, and get some peruvian bat guano because there are nitrogen deficiencies. keep in mind that this is my first REAL grow. i will get pictures when i get the chance, probably in a few days. by the way, i had finally got one of the tops to root in the bubble cloner, but i severed the root trying to pull the cutting out. another one had a little taproot, so i got a little impatient and potted it in coco. the bubblicious and quick mist diesel are the only survivors of their pack, and i hope to get females. if males, i will definately save pollen to make a cross with. feel free to drop a line or two.

 

[gaiusmarius]

coco is actually made to be used pure. but it does have slightly different nute requirements then other mediums. your best bet would be to use coco specific nutrients.

even though coco looks like earth it is not the same at all. it needs to be treated like a hydroponic medium. so no letting the pots get light before watering, dry coco is unbalanced coco. also did you flush the coco before use? some coco has crazy salt levels in it when you first buy it and it needs to be flushed to kingdom come and back, lol.

best of luck and here is a thread you should read to give you some hand watering in coco background info...

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=48054

 

[lc00p4]

thanks for your reply gaiusmarius. after reading many coco threads, i realized that i should have flushed the coco brick with ph'ed water because of the salt. i have been spraying the top layer of coco with an adjustable spray bottle i got earlier a couple of times a day to keep the coco as moist as possible. would you have any good ideas for future mixes with coco? thanks again.

 

[lc00p4]

long time no see. here's the scoop. two out of the four white skunks are confirmed female and one is confirmed male, so i killed it. the other one hasn't really decided yet, but we will just wait and see. the only quick mist that made it is confirmed male and is growing many pollen sacks. since it would be a shame to just chop it, i decided it would be a better idea to save the genetics and cross it with something else in the future, ie. tribal vision to get a super sativa. the only surviving bubblicious is confirmed female, but she has had quite a struggle to make it. i will hopefully get some pics up when the flowers start to develop more. peace...