Ok so I read just about everything on this site about indoor growing, and for all of those who are considering growing, I suggest you do the same. In 7 days I went from picture A to picture B (below). I could have probably sat and watched this puppy grow. It is currently 12 inches and growing about 1 inch per day. The whole project is about 3 weeks along. The plant is starting to smell pretty sweet. Because of hight limitations I think I am going to have to force flowering early. The plant can grow about 4 feet tall before I run out of space/light. I could maybe get 5 feet out of the box, but that would really limit the amount of light getting to the lower branches. I am thinking of switching to 12/12 in about 7-10 days.

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Fair play. lookin healthy man.

What kindsa light/nutes you using on that pretty thing?

100 watt HPS, not a special light, just hardware store HPS. I want to get some experience under my belt before I invest hundreds in lighting. I keep the light about 12" away at this point. The fan leaves absorb a lot of heat if it is any closer.

Not to much nutes, one feeding of MG 18.18.21. Once I start flowering I am going to switch to a bloom mix. Soil is MG organic, neutral PH. About 1.5 inches of 1 inch rock under the soil and drainage holes. I picked the soil not because it was organic, but because it was the loosest and closest to 6.8 PH I could find. It seems to be thriving in it. I recommend it. Even after watering, the soil is still lose, it never gets muddy or compact.

After this plant is mature enough (and hopefully female) I plan on cloning it, and starting some more mothers to clone from. At that point I am going hydro.

This is the second plant I've grown in my life. The first was a house plant that died from someone spilling a beer in the pot. This grow is credited to the RIU forums, everyone here rules.

I had a 100w mh about 1 in from my plants, just keep a strong breeze running accross the tops. It will make the stems super strong too, even though they lean (early training!) My temps sat at about 78 or so when that lamp was at 1 in

I've been keeping the light at about 4 inches with a slight breeze. Keeps the top of the plant around 80, and the rest of the box around 75. Yesterday my plant just exploded with growth for some reason. It put on about 3 inches and the fan leaves grew by 20 percent in 24 hours. I think its because a bunch of leaves were close to opening.

is that 80 in direct light or in the shade. I didnt realize until just a couple of days ago that you are supposed to measure from the shade. Wasted alot of time thinking about ways of getting it cooler when it just wasnt necessary

I just turned 12/12 yesterday with the addition of co2. The plant is almost to 20 inches. Thats about 8 inches in 7 days. I've also added a pair of florescent grow lights to the sides. I noticed the light wasn't getting down to the bottom of the plant. If its going to grow 2 or 3 times its current size, that is going to be a problem. The extra lights raised my temps too hot, so I also put in some custom cooling. I also took my clone cuttings, hopefully its female. After this plant is done, I am starting fresh with the clones. I have designed a new room that is going to be much more efficient than the box. My biggest problem is noise, the fan is just too damn loud. Ive got a much better fan, much cooler lighting for my clone mothers, and I am switching to 18/6. I just want to keep the new moms happy, and pumping out copies.

you should plant more seeds/

as many as you can acomidate.

Males are not very useful.

looking good pablo

what is that paper towel roll intake for ?

any new pics ?

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