My Personal Trainwreck, et al

katwoman2012 · #1 06-07-2009, 05:15 PM

This is my first grow and am going to attempt to chronicle what I've done so far. On April 1, I bought a purple kush from the local pot shop. Her name is TC. On 4/10, I went back and got a rooted trainwreck about 4 inches tall.

We'd built a cabinet in late March from the DIY on here.

I started vegging them both using CFLs 45W ea. yellow and blue that I got from a Stealth hydro unit (and haven't used yet). We insulated and Reflectixed a cabinet we bought from Wal-Mart. It's about 70"H x 26"W x 19"D and stands in the spare bedroom.

TC was grown from an outside plant and she never has done well (though I still have lots of hope). So this journey is about trainwreck or TW. I lost her baby pictures, but do have some from her last day in veg. She went into veg (dual lights) 18/6 on 4/13. She went into flower (one yellow 45W (=200), 2 yellow 42W (=150) CFLs) on 5/23.

Here she is at six weeks old, in her veg. cabinet. She was 15" tall.

katwoman2012 · #2 06-07-2009, 07:13 PM

So TW was in the flowering cabinet and I'd been calling her him accidentally for a long time and then I noticed what looked like boy parts. Come to find out the pistols were growing out of the pods and I was overly paranoid and overly nosy.

katwoman2012 · #3 06-07-2009, 07:40 PM

I only have about 5 feet of verticle space so I thought I'd do some tie-downs so I could get light in the bottom area. She'd already been topped, so I tied the two outer branches as sideways as I could get them and still fit them in the cabinet. I took some pix against the door for contrast. She was LST'd (mini, I admit) on 5/28 which was 5 days into flower. Only the side stems would bend without breaking. Her height was 18" (48 days).

katwoman2012 · #4 06-07-2009, 08:19 PM

I added the third light (now totaling 45W (=200W) and two 42W (=150) CFL) shining in that closet. When I added the one on the pole lamp, it was to force the left hand arm to climb up. Well, after about 3 days I realized he was sticking to a little tape and was never going to grow up. I fixed all the tape, yet found this morning that he was stuck again to duct tape. Damn ... and the band played on.

katwoman2012 · #5 06-07-2009, 09:10 PM

I'm coming into real time meaning today is post day. TW is 58 days old from the cutting. These pix were taken this a.m. during bath time. The photos don't do justice to the startling buds against the green. Each time I go in there, the buds are growing. TW is now 27" tall. Twelve buds are growing from her left arm that was LST'd and I didn't count the other side. She's on the Super Bloom every 10 days and the Schultz 10-15-10 almost daily when she's thirsty. I can see her growing every 4 hours when I go in. I keep her closet door open with additional light and fans. She's out of control and I'm afraid I may have to convert a bathroom before all's said and done.

I've never grown a plant before nor did I know about cabinets, lighting, ventilation, etc. until I found this site. Thank you to everyone that showed me this way.

katwoman2012 · #6 06-09-2009, 12:11 PM

I tried to get better pix of the top buds; one is already 3 inches high. I hope these stems are going to hold up under the weight of all the product I'm expecting.

katwoman2012 · #7 06-09-2009, 12:35 PM

Here's a pic of the left arm bud. This is the one that kept getting stuck in the tape. After 3 fixings of the stuff, I finally taped over it today and have now seen the last morning of opening the cab and seeing it stuck. Ahhh. The second pic shows the lights that I'm trying (still) to pull it up with to fit in the closet for bedtime

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katwoman2012 · #8 06-10-2009, 03:15 PM

Because I got so many buds growing good off tying down the right and left arms of the trainwreck, I pulled down a middle arm to shine light on the 5 tiny buds coming out of it.

As I did that I realized that that left arm was not going to grow up, stuck or not, because of the tie-down. I loosened the string and lo and behold she has been trained to grow straight out and up! I so love this girl

katwoman2012 · #9 06-10-2009, 07:08 PM

I couldn't resist adding this. She's been in flower 18 days. Grow, Grow, Grow.

katwoman2012 · #10 06-14-2009, 12:58 PM

I measured the trainwreck this morning during bath time and she's grown one inch since the 11th though it looks like just bud growth only. I don't want them stems to keep climbing. Her arms are dangling fools and I'm figuring on a way to tie 'em up to give the stems strength to carry the huge expected colas

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I added another 42W CFL so now have three 42W and one 45W in there. I ordered more lights so I can swap them in the veg cabinet and let my purple kush start flowering. Good grief, she's been in there for 2 and 1/2 months!!! She just wouldn't grow for the longest time. Pix coming after her bath.

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