Waterfarm Closet Grow [PICS]

[Shackleford.R]

So here she is..

From this...

To this...

I'm using the former grow space for drying. I cleared everything out.
Cleaned up a bit, vacuuming and wiping down a few surfaces.
Now they are hanging from once hung the hood and lights.
Still have the stand in there, with an small oscillating fan (same one used during the grow, the metal oscillating, not the box fan)
That's pretty much it I guess. Following everything I've read about drying and curing.
Plan to hang until the stems are just in between bendy and snapping.
Then clipping buds from branches and into a jar to burp daily for a few weeks.
Hopefully ready in time for Halloween. (plan to have a stash at an upcoming unnamed music festival, regardless if curing is done)
All in all a VERY good personal stash that should most definitely last me till Thanksgiving.

Thanks for following along during the grow. Keep checking over the next month, will post often about drying and curing. I want this thread to be all encompassing.


Shack

 

[DubB83]

Your buds look to be quite airy and wispy. Did you have light leaks? What was your average temp during the light cycle? How long did you go after hitting 12/12?

I'm not knocking you, that is a good job for learning to grow. I just think that if you waited a bit longer or had cooler temperatures you would have denser nugs.

Let me know if you want any extra advice, sometimes I have a gem hidden in the rough.

~GG420

 

[Shackleford.R]

Your buds look to be quite airy and wispy. Did you have light leaks? What was your average temp during the light cycle? How long did you go after hitting 12/12?

I'm not knocking you, that is a good job for learning to grow. I just think that if you waited a bit longer or had cooler temperatures you would have denser nugs.

Let me know if you want any extra advice, sometimes I have a gem hidden in the rough.

~GG420

story goes like this.. it was a CFL grow, and i had those lights right on them as everyone says you should. i went for about 3 1/2 months of flower, and temps ran high more often than not, topping around 92 with 25-35% humidity. i was growing in a closet with a sliding door, so there was a good chance of light leaks.

the main reason for harvest, some buds got toasted! i mean they were shriveled up dead branches. only one or two branches lost.

as far as wispy and airy, majority, YES.. a few here and there, dense. not sure why it worked that way. but i will say this, the bag the bud came from, obviously had been compressed, but even for being compressed, it looked like what some of my pre harvest bud look like. largely wispy and airy.

feel free to go on, with any knowledge of what went wrong, and what to do better next time.


Shack

 

[DubB83]

I have tried to grow in the ambient temps of Texas before, I use to only grow ruderalis. I had a waterfarm just like yours and a 150HPS and 4 flouro tubes. I made the "grow cube" out of a hightimes magazine and away I went.

Light leaks, get some black poly plastic sheeting, like pond liner or painters plastic and hang it just inside the door. Try standing inside the area when the lights go out to see any leaks, cover extra leaks any way possible.

Temps, if you own the house cut a whole in the wall and draw fresh air through the hole in the wall. Otherwise you need to rig up a A/C or another method of cooling, some people I knew in that area took apart small refrigerators to use their cooling system. Be sure to exhaust your area 3 times a minute, even if your ambient temps are high air circulation will keep your plants from dehydration.

Other than that when is the next round going in?

 

[Shackleford.R]

next round is going to be awhile, probably not till after first of next year. i ending up overtaking a room in the house, and my girlfriend is happy to have a room back. so i'm holding off a bit. also waiting so i can plan out the next grow... considering soil, also have some good seeds from greenhouse, so i need to decide which strain, figuring out a new light situation.. few things to consider.

i like the drape idea though... i had no clue how to best defend from light leaks, that pretty damn simple and common sense.
i'm renting the house, so no clue how to exchange air.. would a grow box in the closet make more sense???


Shack

 

[DubB83]

I feel that putting a grow box in the closet is asking for trouble. Do you have a garage or do you have another area you can put some cabinets out in the open? The best place to hide things is in plain sight, remember that! I'm renting too but I can patch dry wall so I cut a whole.

I think that if you could put the box in an area that is controlled by the AC and there are vents near by as long as you cycle the air volume 3x a minute you will be only a degree or two higher than what your AC thermostat is saying as long as you use CFLs. My biggest expense is the AC, I have to keep the house at 74* and that keeps the basement at 70* and my 600W heats it right up to 80* and it stays constant there. Really I think that you should look into stealth PC grows, you can put it in your home office and no one will even know the wiser!

From reading about your smoking habits you should be fine with a small stealth grow. I have looked over your stealth cabinet thread and I think you can capitalize on it if you can minimize it. You were going in a great direction with it!

As far as soil goes, you may have good luck with it. I'm about 50/50 on soil, I prefer Hempy buckets right now, somewhere in-between soil and hydro. I grow in coc/perlite right now, but have used nearly everything under the sun. The only think I don't like about soil is adjusting the nutes in the mix from veg to bloom is a PITA.

P.S. Sorry to hear about your bro, my bro is an alcoholic to and he is a professional bartender.

Gotta keep the girl happy, and mine wouldn't be happy without a SOG operation.

~GG420

 

[Shackleford.R]

1-Light Leaks are your enemy
2-LIGHT LEAKS ARE YOUR ENEMY!
3-Veg only for a short period, stretching and growth continue WELL into flower
4-Proper ventilation/air circulation leads to consistent temps, leads to better growth

With those factors in mind, i begin construction of a grow tent today, that will make use of the previous grow space. expect a new thread to follow the construction. probably keep that thread as grow journal. looking to crack a seed in mid-november, again single plant, probably feminized lemon skunk from greenhouse, or i don't know which, got 10 seeds lying around all AWESOME strains (and fem'd for my pleasure ) Did i mention I'm switching to soil next grow? No more dealing with reservoirs or complex nutrient solutions. Just a little (hopefully organic) fertilizer every now and then.


Shack

 

[DubB83]

Sounds good keep me updated.

 

[Shackleford.R]

Here it is faithful readers.. the link to my current grow tent project.. shall be an ongoing project, about a week or 2 or 3...
follow along.. looking for input along and criticism along the way.

Shack's Grow Tent

 

[DocBrown]

There is no doubt you'll be tasting it by Halloween. You and I both have learned valuable lessons lol.

 

[Shackleford.R]

haha i've already been tasting it. taste like the bud it came from, just seedless.. haha.
the genetics were from a bag of mexi-shawg, all seedy and such.. treated it a little better and only got a slighter better product than it started as.
hoping for a much better cure by halloween, though for no its pretty tasty, very exotic/hash like.. slightly bitter... i dig it.


Shack

 

[FoxCompany426]

What's up Shack? Long time no... type... Lol. I see you harvested. Looks beautiful. Any new projects brewing in your head?

 

["SICC"]

https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/248995-diy-grow-tent.html

 

[greenjambo]

I used an aqua farm similar to yours and 15 on 45 off worked great! Do u use a coco mix with the clay pellets?

 

[Shackleford.R]

I used an aqua farm similar to yours and 15 on 45 off worked great! Do u use a coco mix with the clay pellets?

i grew in straight clay pebbles.. nothing else. and i LOVED the results.

What's up Shack? Long time no... type... Lol. I see you harvested. Looks beautiful. Any new projects brewing in your head?

SICC already pointed you in the right direction. pretty slow going though, kinda delaying the build because i know i'm going to be busy during the holidays coming up and won't be around to garden and tend to it. also planning to go soil and organics. so i REALLY need to be around.


Shack

 

[Jester88]

are you still putting them all in the same container??

 

[Shackleford.R]

are you still putting them all in the same container??

nope. i'm soil now.


Shack

 

[Jester88]

awesome hehe. sorry i was slack but 38 pages is a lot. i was just going to say your last yield may have been influenced by the plants all fighting to uptake the nutes.

hehe sorry about that.

 

[Shackleford.R]

oh if thats what you were thinking you should read the thread. i uprooted 4 of them and kept 1 female. i harvested ONE plant out of the unit in the end.

there was no fighting for nutrients in the end.


Shack

 

[Jester88]

hehe yeah sorry about, that i was a bit sack the other day but wanted to subscribe and seen your question...