Yeps-(946 True Watt)CFL-25 Plant-Dj Short-Grape Krush,SSH, SourD+SCROG+Seed grow

[yeps420]

This should be fun... 3-9-2012

Now- 4-17-12 Peak watts.
Yeps CFL (1406 True Watt) 20 Plant-Dj Short-Grape Krush,SSH,SourD+SCROG+Seed grow

The Goal- 42g per 64w = 0.65g per watt

Hello,
IM ( Yep )

I thought I would share with y'all my current grows...

My short story...

This is my 3rd what I call learning grows...
1st 10 bag seeds- 8 grew-6 males(chopped) 2 full flower
in 110 degree 2x3 closet one fan and tin foil covered walls... Oh Yeah... Tin foil Bebe... oh and a 150 hps... saved the grow..
2.5 ounces smoked OK.. not great but .. 2ND try -Dyed week 5 flower same set up... (Over nutrients and way hot)=Death 8 fems..

As for me...
I have grown and sold-trade Bonsai type trees for 15 years now... lol... I have a clue...
I was just playing around 1st 2 grows...

Today and Now:
Decided to stop playing and grow something... It took 3 trips to home depot and a few to walmart then 2 trips to the Hydro store, 2 trips to favorite dispensary.. A total of around $400 give or take...

This is what ya get:
Strain(s)
DJ short Grape Krush ( 1 teen already in soil )
Super Silver Haze ( 1 Clone in cube roots showing )
Sour D (1 Seed)


Lights:

1 X 150 watt HPS lite

CFL:
26 w (100) x 21
32 w (75) x 1
65 w (300) x 5

946 True Watts
3615 Watts+150=3765 total
This is between the flower room and veg room...

Veg room Mix of 2700/6500
cfl
26x9
32x1

Flower Room Mix 6500/2700
cfl
26x12
65x5
HPS 150


Medium:
Played around... Miracle grow sucks... slow release nuits fry...
so changed to my mix:
1 bg Fox farm ocean forest
4 bags earthgrow potting soil
2 bags green mix organic blends
1 sm bg MG Organic choice Blood meal
1 sm bg MG Organic choice Bone meal
Bis ass bag of prelite
med bag of peat moss
sand for top of soil

Nutrients:
Veg;
Fox farm Grow big

Flower:
Hydroplex Bloom Max
M.O.A.B Mother of all blooms

Room:
Used foam walls( Comes in large sheets at home depot )to build a 6x7 foot room inside a empty bedroom then put a wall between to
split for Veg/Flower...
a few small fans
4 inch in-line with a charcoal scrubber and home made silencer
Home made fixtures for CFL's
Access to window through wall
Vent tubing
Temps:
low-60 High-84 AVE-65 to 78

Watering:
Once a week at most... Due to large moss content

Pest:
Dumb ass little fly's that eat fallen leaves... ( sand blocks there food ) They go bye bye...


Getting late way more to add tomorrow. The story has just started...
heres a few more pics...

I hope you enjoy this grow with me and please any advice comments and such are welcome...

Im looking to learn,share,laugh,smoke and grow with the MMJ movement here in CA... Sup Sup...
Will update

 

[Iron_Lion]

Why the hell would anyone run that much wattage with CFL's is beyond me. They still create heat and their penetration and foot print is awful. For the amount you spent on those bulbs you could have bought a real grow light. Not to mention now when you go to dispose of them you are disposing of 30 mercury filled bulbs instead of 1. You're going to create a toxic waste dump when they burn out and it comes time to re-lamp.

 

[joejusttyped]

Why the hell would anyone run that much wattage with CFL's is beyond me. They still create heat and their penetration and foot print is awful. For the amount you spent on those bulbs you could have bought a real grow light. Not to mention now when you go to dispose of them you are disposing of 30 mercury filled bulbs instead of 1. You're going to create a toxic waste dump when they burn out and it comes time to re-lamp.

Werd.




And if youre still using foil to line your walls you may want to take it down. It reflects jack squat and absorbs heat, plain ole non toxic glossy white walls will reflect more.

Peace

 

[DevilWeedSeeds]

Wow that is a crazy amount of CFL's for your grow. Why didn't you just invest in a good HID light and ballast?

Other then that happy growing.

 

[yeps420]

I understand your concerns,
why CFL ?

I would start with Less Heat,cost less. I can have small and tall in the same room. movable. close as a inch from lower growth means no Popcorn bud. Tho I do have a single HPS 150 W in the middle of room.

There is all kinds of Info on whats been out there forever.. well since the mid 70's at least...
Not much info out there on CFL's. I could follow a recipe like anyone else...
I like trying the new thing.
This is a test and learning grow as I'm not in a place i could really get crazy at.
The real test will be the second wave. 10-15 plant SCROG grow.. All Light on top clean cut under. That's going to be fun.
Did I mention you can break a few CFL's off and set up a micro go if need comes up..
Like say a male pops up and you want to seed out 3 strains for later...
Hard to do with other Lights.
Not that I'm a hatter at all. I'M betting a combo of all would be best.
I figure when I try Hydro I will go mh/hps then second grow use these cfl's.

I bought most bulbs on sales at stores and at the flea market I picked up 5 2 packs 26w cfl's for 59 cents each. GE bulbs.

I have only ever had one bad bulb and Homedepot took it.
ALL Hoods I made myself. and Tin foil was years ago... Hahaha.

No worries. Everything will become clear as I get this journal up.
I have a lot to post before I get to where I am now.
Ie I am already well into this grow and am looking for insites and good times with
some new people.
so I hope I will learn and maybe even share with some of the
awesome growers I see on ICMAG.
I have been reading from this site for months.
So I thought I would give it a shot.
Hope You all enjoy and feel free to chim in..

 

[yeps420]

Yeps CFL(946 True watt)-Breakdown

Yeps CFL(946 True watt)-Breakdown

Lets see if I can break this down and get this journal up to date...

I started Mid-December with one teen Dj Short Grape Krush in soil...

After a couple trys I have leaned to cut and clone.. (will break my cloning down later)

I got 10 Grape clones into soil and going good...

Went and picked up a Super Silver Haze Bebe clone in a cube..

A few weeks later cloned 8 off her . My 1st Grape went into 12/12 a Little later another followed then SSH went...

One day I was smoking some good Sour D and Bam... Seed ... Oh my... Found a bag seed i had saved and gave it a go...

A little later 2 new plants into soil... Cloned 5 off the Sour D and then she went into 12/12 hoping for fem... Fingers crossed...

Didn't bother cloning bag seed.. Was hoping for male to make seeds... Into 12\12...

Super silver haze turns....

Female... Yahoo...

Few week later looking at Bag seed... Yep A boy... Yahoo X2

set up a Micro gro in separate room closet , Bag Boy-1-Grape Krush-1-Super Silver Haze

together in a large container and in to 12\12 they go.

Around mid FEB- 1 Have a veg room and a Flower room..

moved things around. Did this and that... learned alot about Lights,Nuits,air,water,pest,heat and more...

Decided after frying my 1st Grape Krush her whole life. to know what I'm doing so I learned about Soil mix and Nuits...

I think I've come up with a great mix... Fox farm is good stuff but cost is a joke...

By now I'm vegging around 18 and have 5 full flower...

Dj Short Grape Krush Plant #1 is just about ready to cut come March 1st.. so i throw her into darkness for 2 day after flushing with clean water last 2 watering's then letting her dry out last week before darkness... Shes cut, manicured and in a brown bag as we speak... a little over a week into dry and cure...

Grape Krush plant #2 which was in good soil well feed and kept short is a couple weeks from being ready

and One sour D and Super Silver Haze are about 7 weeks from ready..

One thing I haven't done up till now is keep dates and info... Didn't think i would be doing a journal and I've always grown with eyes touch and gut feeling..

Vegging:

I set up 2 Large 3x2x3 (guessing) containers and put 5 plants into each for a go at a SCROG grow...

I throw the last of my rooted clones into 6 in cups of soil (was 7 plants-2 taking to long so cut)

so today:

1 cut and drying.

4 Lady's in 5 gal buckets well into 12\12

15 vegging and waiting for 1st wave to finish up...

3 in 12\12 for seed

Going to clone 6 more for Bosai Mothers and grow outside over summer then keep inside for winter.

After 2nd wave everything will be taken down packed up and put away till I set up for a try at a HYDO grow.

Trying to learn everything i can... Passion bebe.. love it... lol...

Side Note:
I Have my MMJ card and hold 4 others for people im helping.. well under my allowed limet and besides,
Everything I post is fiction. not real,photoshoped pics and fake events... I would never grow the evil weed...

That said:
I was saying ?

Over the next few days I will break down as best i can each step and post pics.. see If there' some pointers anyone cares to share..

Speaking of which. Here's a few of the room back in mid JAN- FEB

 

[yeps420]

Seed-clone-Veg set up...

Seed-clone-Veg set up...

Seed-clone-Veg set up...

 

[yeps420]

my SCROG Set up before and after

my SCROG Set up before and after

Here we have my SCROG Set up before and after.. as of Late FEB ...
There are:

3X Super Silver Haze
3X Grape Krush
4X Sour D

In the cups you see There Are :

3X Grape Krush
3X Super Silver Haze

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[yeps420]

Yep the cups proved to be the best cloner Ive tried... Ive made a bubbler and a areo cloner. neither came close.
90% success and roots within 7 days... simple - simply rocks... This cloner\veg set up was a month or so ago. Its been moved for the
SCROG set up. Ill post my cloning post in a few days... I gots to get this thing up to date..

 

[yeps420]

Here is my 1 wave line up...

Here is my 1 wave line up...

Here is my 1 wave line up...
:friends:
3X Dj Short Grape Krush
1x Super Silver Haze
1X Sour D
1X Bag Seed ( Turned Male )

All in 5 Gal Buckets & Named them

( GK 1-3 )
( SSH 1 )
( SD 1 )
( BS 1 )

My Mix of Soil. Nuits every other water,PH 6.5 No big bumps after CG 1

GK1 was in MG soil and MG Bloom max and burned heavy...

All Others are looking great...
Let me know what you think...

Heres the Line UP...

 

[yeps420]

SourD 1 at around 5 weeks

SourD 1 at around 5 weeks

SourD 1 at around 5 weeks 3-6-12

 

[yeps420]

Here is S.S.H 1 : 5 Weeks

Here is S.S.H 1 : 5 Weeks

Here is S.S.H 1 : 5 Weeks

 

[yeps420]

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

 

[yeps420]

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

Here is Grape Krush-GK 3 (Week-4) 3-6-12

 

[yeps420]

GK 2 3-6-12 (Week-7)

GK 2 3-6-12 (Week-7)

Here is
GK 2 3-6-12 (Week-7)

 

[yeps420]

OK,
I seem to have reached a picture "quota" Bummer I just started.lol
Can someone tell me if this will go up or how I get to add more of my collection ?
or is this all I get ?

 

[yeps420]

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[MacGyver420]

OK,
I seem to have reached a picture "quota" Bummer I just started.lol
Can someone tell me if this will go up or how I get to add more of my collection ?
or is this all I get ?

get to 50 posts and you will get a ton more picture space. peace

 

[yeps420]

Got ya. That's all I needed to know.
Thanks MacGyver420.
Hey can you fix BHO exstractor ?
It's broke n half and All I have is duck tape and a tooth pick...
Hahah Dig the name bro..
Thanks again for the clue.
I will have to go at this journal a different so I can get to 50 and do what I do.
Stay tuned bro... Peace out...
Yep Puff,puff,pass.

 

[yeps420]

Things to come: Yep...

Things to come: Yep...

sorry about the Pics people.

Seems I need to show a little commitment.
OK then. Not a problem for me..
I am going to lay it all out and get this journal up to date
with out the pics then when I get the journal
on the same page as the grow I will post the pics I'm allowed.
Once I'm worthy, I will go back and put up the few hundred missing pics I have.

This works for me even better. I can get you all up to date faster and that will help
the learning curve a little better. Stay tuned, this wont take long...
WWWWaaahhheeeee.... Yep here we go....Puff puff pass- it if ya got it...

Here we have:
Grape Krush
(from what I know-not crush or kush- this is supposed
to be the Krush strain. More on that later)
Super Silver Haze
SourD