New Day New Grow

[mpd]

Yep, thanks HT. Did the ventilation system rework this afternoon and the system pressure is now a fraction of what it was. Plenty of room for exhaust and much enhanced intake. Tomorrow we should have some sprouts and I'll take it from there. We have a whole new year of growing in front of us. It's all good...

 

[BENJI]

Sweet nice work mpd sorry to hear about your cold snap,, got any pics of the new ventilation system..?

 

[kushkid420]

Sorry to hear man... Just keep on fighting! Good luck!

 

[mpd]

No, no pics of the new ventilation system. It's the same as the old, I just created a larger cut for the exhaust in the back and increased the size of the intake cut. No change in noise at all but the system pressure dropped to zero.

 

[ddrew]

Beautiful cabinet, and a great thread, I've enjoyed reading it so far.

 

[Sleepy]

she came out really pretty!!

give your wife a hug, too!

 

[mpd]

Well, the Russian Roulette seeds germinated and all four cracked. This strain has a real high germination rate (or I am getting really good at germination). I took the standard 16-ounce drink cups and drilled 5 holes in the bottoms of each of the cups. I filled these cups half full with coco coir (ala Botanicare brand Cocogro Boss slabs) and drenched them with tap water that I amended with 1/2 teaspoon of SM-90. The SM-90 is the ideal rooting agent and I have used it extensively in my hydroponics grows with awesome results. I used a pen and poked a small hole in the surface and placed the cracked seeds in the hole with the seed head resting on the surface and the tap root pointing down into the cup.

This is my usual method and it almost always produces results in hydroponics, so I expect the same here. In hydroponics, as soon as the seed cracks I put the seed head in a rockwool cube with the head resting on the cube and put it in the planter (I use a 4-station recirculating DWC system when I do hydroponic grows) and place the pump feed line on top of the bucket (taped down) so that the rockwool remains moistened at all times. I continue this until the tap root extends into the water and then take the feed line and put it back in the bucket.

With these coco grows I will be handwatering as the media dries out. It's been a few years since I grew in coir. The last time I used 18-gallon planters with four (4) plants per planter. The mix was lava rock for the bottom third, then a mix of lava rock, perlite and coir for the remaining volume and the plants absolutely loved it. I did feed to waste with stacked planters and grew bush style plants. I did 1,500 watts for that grow with four (4) planters and the result was enough pot to keep me medicated for a year plus keep two other medical patients supplied for a year. Well one anyway. The other turned out to be an addict who took the elbow I gave her and immediately resold it so she could get her hands on some heroin, but that's not my problem. I stopped providing other patients with meds a few years ago because it wasn't worth the inevitable bullshit and risks that I took while they benefited. I built a cabinet for one of them and gave the other one a complete hydroponics set-up (lights, ventilation and the whole nine yards) and told them to forget they ever heard of me. I had one other patient I was supplying, but she is like family (we vacation together all the time) and so I don't mind peeling off a zip for her when I see her. In fact I make a point of it every year to give her a bag of my best stuff so she can treat her arthritis which has gotten pretty wicked. Then there's my sister-in-law's squeeze who I give a bag to every now and then because he smokes only every now and then. I gave him one bag that sat in his closet for years. Told him it was probably junk and he laughed. Easy come, easy go as far as he's concerned.

You know how it is. I bet if I started charging people they would change their tunes...

 

[Ronley]

Beautiful cabinet and alot of work put into it to make it so beautiful.

Cant wait to see your plants in it.

 

[mpd]

Checked on our young charges today to see how things were going. One seed has already sprouted and was trying to shed its seed cap, so I carefully yanked that off so it can unfold and do its thing. Another is in the midst of cracking off its cap, so I tried and finally left it to its own devices (I'll check progress tomorrow). The other two are just starting to lift themselves off the carpet, so we're doing okay. Looks like we will have all four sprouts come up and I'm sure they will be viable. I let them just go right along. Wetted down the coir media in all the cups and allowed the excess to drain off before putting them back in the cabinet. Again, I used tap water that was amended only with 1/2 teaspoon of SM-90 to a gallon of water.

I checked my temperatures again and the canopy temperature continues holding steady at 84F which is perfect, but I think we need just a wee bit more intake capacity so I am going to add that through the bottom of the cabinet when I get a chance.

 

[BENJI]

Good luck with your seedlings mpd...

 

[mpd]

Thank you Benji. The second one shed its shell this morning. I got a phone call and walked to the front of the house to take it (cell reception thing) and there was this sheriff's car parked right in front of my house. I unplugged the box and continued talking on the phone but I was clearly distracted and the caller knew it (he's one of those consultant hag clients - hangs around and milks you for advice and support but never spends any money other than yours) and eventually hung up. At one point I left the window and when I came back the cop was gone.

So I looked in on the kiddies and the sprout that hadn't quite made it yesterday was ready for some assistance and now we have two seedlings. The other two are working along and they may be ready at some point tomorrow for their debut.

Things will progress as they may and there is no hurry to meet them. I'll be here waiting to greet them and give them all the love they need to live their short lives and provide us with their amazing bounty.

Say what you like but botany is the story of life here on Earth...

 

[mpd]

Checked on our young charges today and there are two healthy sprouts with their first leaf sets folded out and getting ready to grow. They may be big enough before the end of the week to warrant a serious picture. We'll want them to get a wee bit bigger and then we'll see.

Their two mates are not budging. So I decided that since those seeds haven't gotten past the initial crack to start two more.

This time I am putting another cross into the mix - Romulan by White Rhino. This is a fairly fast-growing Indica dominant variety another medical user sent me some time ago. These seeds have been sitting around for a few years and I am down to my last two seeds in the package, so that made the decision a bit easier for me. Use up what I have and then look to other pastures. The White Rhino is the White Label original that is another of the White Widow crosses. In this particular expression, the flowering time has come down, but so has the yield. Romulan is the Federation Seeds Company original and is also a cross of White Rhino and some Cali-O strain. The resulting plant is not a giant yielding plant and it generally gets ready anywhere from 50 to 60 days to finish blooming. Typically, a plant will produce about 1.5 to 2 ounces of quality buds (dry weight out of the dehydrator) at around 45 watts per square foot of coverage. Generally, I get about a half pound of weed by growing under a 400 watt light with no veg - straight 12/12 from the second week of growth until it gets done. With a full 30 day veg cycle, the strain will produce more. It's rather finicky with nutes and can be a pain to keep the pH balanced for hydroponic grows. I haven't grown it in coir or soil, so this grow should be interesting in that I am using coco coir as the medium and also have plenty of MiracleGro potting soil available if the coir becomes to problematic for this strain (for some reason).

That's the book so far on this strain. The resulting smoke is first-class, medical grade marijuana that has the stunning Indica hitting power of its ancestors. This is fairly good pain relief and will produce a soothing and calming effect that can last for hours. This is great p.m. pot but not pot I would use with the thought being to go to work and concentrate on mercantile matters.

In this grow I will be upping the wattage in the bloom chamber (using 6 42-watt CFLs gives me 252 watts of output and that works out to over 70 watts per square foot of sunshine), so I expect higher yields and more foliage and good sized root systems. These will be in the cabinet so I will have to finish these at no more than around 21" in height, so I will be tying them down after the stretch and I plan on using SCROG. As I have never done SCROG before, this should be fun.

I'll grow it right along side the Russian Roulette and then provide a smoke report of the resulting stuff.

To get started, two seeds were placed in a wet paper towel sandwich in a pari of dinner plates to germinate. We'll look in on them tomorrow and see how they do...

 

[Buddle]

Very nice MPD...love your attention to detail..peace

 

[travese311]

Lovely cab mpd, the stealth factor of it is right on the money. Can't wait to see how she does in flowering.....

 

[GP73LPC]

very nice...

it's always pleasing to see someone who actually builds stealth. too many threads out there that call their shit stealth and when you open the thread, in the corner sits a plastic tub or cardboard box with cords coming out of it (not stealth in anyway, lol !!!) and light leaks.

i used to own a stealth cab i built, that i used to hold a 55 gallon fishtank. now that was stealth. link in my sig, if you wanna see some pics...

 

[dddaver]

This is a joke, don't get mad. Made me think of Crocodile Dundee saying, "You call that a knife? Now, THIS is a knife." Easy translation, to me anyway, was, "Mine's bigger than yours." But, yup, I just try to keep in mind, "It takes all kinds to make up this here monkey house."

 

[Piel]

I had the cops outside my house once -and was I paranoid! My neighbor later told me they were trying to discourage burglars in the area and man was I relieved.

 

[Talonted]

Nice Dresser Ricky, but were growin dope on these forums.

haha jk. was hoping to see some nugs by page 7.

 

[bruceinpacifica]

So, I decided that I am not going to sit around and watch my business fly down the tubes and wait and see if my new book is going to be a success or not. I am a take charge guy who is down to his last $10K or so in funds, so it was time to get it in gear and make a new move.

I decided to go ahead and enter the "murky" world of dope-based commerce. You know what I am talking about; those fucking pothead kids who ride around yellin' about cheese and shit. Hey, fuck you chuck. We smoke excellent gold and none of that b.s. weed. We can't keep up with them, so we might as well profiteer off of them in a way that is consistent with the tenets of true communism and economic servitude, cuz' that's America cousin.

I spent a lot of time on a new cabinet design. I started on this design back in the summer, but money was tight and my old lady was being a douche bag about it, so I waited and spent a lot of sleepless nights thinking about it, each and every piece; focusing on functionality, quality of construction and providing the user with a value that was beyond anything I have attempted before in all of my five years of growing, inventing and construction.

I took my design over to Casa DePot and bought the wood. No cheap shit for this kid. I spend real cake - almost $600 on the materials. VB Grade finish on the plywood. Full 1/2" thickness to provide insulation. Real rosewood for the exterior trim boards. This project is going to be quality through and through because it is going to spend time in my house and there isn't a piece of furniture in my house that we didn't drop serious bread on. My dinette set in the breakfast room has chairs that way over 90 pounds each. Solid monkeypod wood from Thailand. I shelled out $800 each for them 15 years ago.

This piece is going to be a faux dresser. It will be 4' wide by 2' deep by 2.5' high. It will look like a dresser that has stuck drawers. I made one once before for a friend who didn't get around so good and had/has nosy-assed neighbors who are constantly poking around his house. It had to be quiet and that one had to look like an old broken piece of furniture in the form of an end table, but you could grow an 18" plant in there that nobody could smell, hear or see.

Same principle here. There will be no noise. There will be no light leaks. There will be no smells. It will sit with antique dolls on top, even though the top will be hinged to open up. The front will pivot and drop flat, for full access. Like I said, the design took some time. This is my new mission for the holiday weekend. Build out the ultimate cabinet project and grow some serious ganja in a four-station perpetual garden that has room for 4 moms, vegging and cloning. Total wattage will be around 392 watts. Bloom will be 70 watts/SF with CFLs so we can get close, keep the heat down and still have some fun.

If it turns out the way I think it will, I will eventually film the working product and advertise it for sale here. I'm sure I'll spend about $585 on all the electronics and fans and whatnot, but we'll get there step by step.

A kid has to have a plan.

kwim, vern?

That turned into my post retirement plan a year ago. But I didn't realize how long it was going to take to learn to grow commercial grade weed.
But I am enjoying the hell out of it & having a pile of weed around the house to swim into when I feel like it ain't half bad either

 

[Soulrebel239]

Nice build, this looks like some high end dresser.