Experimental Grow

UPDATE: with PICs

Sorry it took me a while to update....had a hectic few days. Was so munted that i slept for 15 hours last night...longest sleep of my life. Anyways, on to the grow.

As you can see, its been re-potted. It went pretty smoothly. The rootball was pretty good, filling the entire pot and on the verge of being rootbound if not slightly already.
Its a small thing but i didnt get it into the center of the new pot and its on a bit of an angle and it annoys me...because the gravel is quite heavy i wanted to minimize picking it up again as it would cause unneeded damage. Ill get over it lol. Anyways, tis now on 12/12 flower mode. Hopefully I'll get lucky and it will show its sex within the week. can I feed it now or should i wait a couple of days for it to overcome the stress of the re-potting?

Absolutley lovin' the smell. So strong and fruity. Its easily the smelliest plant (at this stage of growth) that i've grown. Wish they would invent smell-o-vision...of how fun it would be cruisin the forums checking out all the grows and gettin to smell the sweet scent of ladies in bloom.

As you can see from the pics the yellowing is continuing, now onto the second set of leaves to appear...after seeing the roots im hoping it was because of the small pot. If its not then i dont know what to do. need some help on this point i think.

You can see the tallboy conversion i did. Came out alright i reckon. Not 100% light proof yet but thats coming, and Im still yet to paint the inside white. Im using a 70mm, 37 CFM PC fan for ventilation and a passive intake. Seems to be working a charm so far. Heat barely rose at all.

And made myself a couple of el-cheapo reflectors from aluminium cans...they seem to work great. Came across a really great tutorial here: Beercan CFL reflectors! Cheap, easy and effective! Photo how-to guide ...made 2 so far, but will make 2 more once i drink a couple more cans. Anyone using CFL's without a reflector should look at that tutorial thread.













What we think?

DoctorMap

wow bro, thats nice, you've done a great job. What made you think of the whole gravel thing?

Originally Posted by KushLuvR

wow bro, thats nice, you've done a great job. What made you think of the whole gravel thing?

Cheers me friend.

Dunno what made me think of it...just thought that it would drain really well and allow a lot of air to the roots and therefor eliminate the chance of over watering. Seems to be workin coz i've been watering 3 times a day (waaaay to much under normal circumstances). Will now be once or twice a day i think since i added more soil during the repot. So yea, just wanted to make it as simple as possible and eliminate a couple of dicey points.

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by DoctorMap

Cheers me friend.

Dunno what made me think of it...just thought that it would drain really well and allow a lot of air to the roots and therefor eliminate the chance of over watering. Seems to be workin coz i've been watering 3 times a day (waaaay to much under normal circumstances). Will now be once or twice a day i think since i added more soil during the repot. So yea, just wanted to make it as simple as possible and eliminate a couple of dicey points.

Enjoy!

What is the ratio of gravel to soil that you use? Did you plant it in some sort of rooter first? i know the seed coulda have been just thrown into gravel...right?

I'm doing a bit of a experimental grow myself right now. using a few 1 gallon candy jars. Got the net pot sitting on a cut out on each with a small hole drilled for airstone tube. Going pretty well i'd say, a lil worried about running out of root space but we shall see. Moby Dick, Pakistan Ryder, Cream Caramel and a few bag seeds.

Originally Posted by KushLuvR

What is the ratio of gravel to soil that you use? Did you plant it in some sort of rooter first? i know the seed coulda have been just thrown into gravel...right?

I'm doing a bit of a experimental grow myself right now. using a few 1 gallon candy jars. Got the net pot sitting on a cut out on each with a small hole drilled for airstone tube. Going pretty well i'd say, a lil worried about running out of root space but we shall see. Moby Dick, Pakistan Ryder, Cream Caramel and a few bag seeds.

First it was 90% gravel and 10% sandy soil...now after repot its more around 25% soil so hopefully there will be enough soil to hold onto some vital flowering nutes.
Also, No rooter. Just germinated in a wet paper towel (popped in like 16 hrs) and put in straight into the pot. Just made hole in gravel and put seed in and didnt cover. let it grow and show its first leaves and then filled in with another cm or so of gravel. thought it would be better then making it push its head through the gravel.

Your grow sounds interesting...I'll have to check it out if you've got a journal goin.

DoctorMap

Does anyone want to take a stab at what I might get at harvest if all continues to go well? Remember Im gonna add 1 or 2 more 20w CFLs within the fortnight...to total 148-168watts actual watts.
I know it will be a small plant but would 1/2oz be setting my sights too high? This is my first real grow with CFL's an Im not sure how its going to all unfold.
What do you reckon?
DM

Bump...

Oh an the last set of leaves to appear at the top of the plant (you can clearly see them in the last pics i posted) are 9 fingered.

in regards to the number of fingers on each fan leaf it went: 1 -> 3 -> 5 -> 5 -> 7 -> 9 -> ??...........all my plants in the past grew quite differently (like 1->3->3->5->5->7->7->7), never this many fingers this quickly. Would that be down to the strain? Is having more fingers more of a sativa trait?

And I germinated some Argyreia Nervosa aka Hawaiian Baby Woodrose...Im sure some of you know about these LSA containing seeds. Not necessarily growing it to get anything but Im just enjoying the growing and caring for a plant thing. Esp one with such cool qualities.

Anyways, Im off.... Enjoy!

Originally Posted by DoctorMap

Does anyone want to take a stab at what I might get at harvest if all continues to go well?
...
I know it will be a small plant but would 1/2oz be setting my sights too high?
...

I'm no pro but judging from the 1000s of pix/threads I saw on this forum, I'm betting around 1oz for your plant/setup if well LSTed, cured and nuted

...but it's just a "best case scenario" guess my friend good user "maturesmoker" made around an oz in not so different conditions, check out his grows
as for your plant/concepts looking very good, keep it up! peace