I've been slacking off on sharing my growing adventures since my 1st grow but I assure you I have been growing my arse off!
Oh yeah... I was addicted to growing my own weed right from the start. Its been a very worth while endeavor to say the least. I'm learning alot about soil and gardening and organics and its just been awesome.
So I'm starting this thread just to post some of my growing adventures. Its not so much A grow journal, more of a growING journal. (hope that's ok?)
So I'll probably post some pics from time to time to get RIU's take on things. Sharing and comparing, growing and showing, livin and learnin...
After my first grow (all CFL's and flouros) I got an HPS to flower with and did a few grows experimented with some LST. Went pretty well. A few pics of those in my gallery. I've got a few nice jars full from those grows
So right now I've got a few flowering. One is straight up (WAY up lol), one has just a little bit of LST (it was tied down just once and then i pruned the backside). Those two are 4 weeks 12/12.
I'm on to some experimenting with topping too. I've done Uncle Bens technique for 4 colas on a few plants, and topped a few regular style too.
So I've got 1 female with 4 heads that's been flowering 13 days, and another one which apparently I FIM'ed LMAO because i meant to top it regular and It has a 3rd head growing out of the middle. I dont know the sex on that one yet, its been 12/12 for less than a week. So its a mix bag of tricks.
Feel free to speak your mind, I can take it as well as I can give it
By the way, I'm a big on DIY, and even bigger on organics. I use CFL's, T-12's, and 400w HPS.
So thats how I roll. Here is my crew >





And these are from my last harvest, the LST grow>

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I hear ya.

So many stains, so little time!

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May Peace and Joy be your companions.
Roseman's DIY Bubbleponics Tutorial - Marijuana Growing
Pics of OLD Grow on this Page

More like so many strains so little space! LOL I got plenty of time, I need more growspace!! Thanks for stoppin by Roseman, I'm a big fan. (insert corny fan joke here)
Happy growing!

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they look good. . that organic soil is defiantly doing the trick. cant wait tell i get to play in the dirt.

They could not be happier. So far so good. For the record, here's what I'm growing in. This is for vegging>
32 Qts Hyponex Soil -Organic material and Primarily derived from hypnum Peat, Forest products or Compost, Sand and Perlite.
32 Qts New Era potting mix - 40% peat, 35% composted organic material, 20% vermiculite, 5% sand. This is very light like a starter mix.
15 lbs worm castings
4 Qts perlite
1 cup sand
1/2 cup lime
10 Tbls Blood meal
12 Tbls Bone meal
NO MIRACLE GROW
No nutes at all during veg and I'm putting 1 TBLS organic Big Bloom (0.01-0.2-0.7) per gallon in flower. Just because I still have some to use up.
For a flowering mix I took the above recipe and left out the blood meal (N) and replaced it with happy frog bat guano (0-5-0), and I'm lookin into adding some greensand for potassium and micros, but have not done so as of yet. I also like to use molasses once during veg and again once during flower.
So if anyone has used Greensand im looking for opinions on that stuff, as I'm leaning in that direction...

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HOOOOOLY SHIT!!! if there was a way to give rep x2 i would, lmao this is great!!! =) what you got going here, and the previous grow was a deff plus!!! man that shit was kikin!! good shit man! thanks for stoppin by my super stealth lol just updated it as well. =) well happy grows it plus rep!! latas Smoke =One

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CFL/T12 grow 1ST grow... =) +rep thx
SUPER STEALTH!!/1.5 GROW/ocean foxfarm/CFL 32,250lumens 477watts

TYVM LL I gotta give a good amount of credit to the worm castings. My plants are just loving them! This is my 1st grow using castings and I'm sold. I'm looking to get a vermicompost bin started. I can use the compost, the castings, and the worms (fishing trip!)

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The plan as it is right now is to put 1 or 2 plants into the flower tent every 3 weeks. I can fit a max of 8 plants in the tent. This way the 1st batch should be done by the time the 4th batch is ready to go in and the tent wont be crowded.
Today is 5 weeks for the 1st 2. They're doing great.
The 2nd 2 are actually one, but more like 4 LOL. The 4 headed monster. that one should be 2 weeks then. lemme check...Yup day 13
then the next 2 are not due until next week. But the 4 plants I have vegging are sativa(ish) and are going to take more than 9 weeks to flower so....one went in last week and the rest i put into flower today, a week early. They're all topped, and have been vegging 4 weeks under T12's. The one I put in last week is showing pre flowers. Looks like a male. I'll wait a day or two more to be sure.
So the only thing left vegging is my mom and 4 clones I'm trying to root but failing miserably. its been over 2 weeks and no roots yet. long story with these clones lol.
So the tent's pretty crowded but in addition to the HPS, I've got 4X26 watt CFL's in there above the smaller plants and shining on the side of the bigger ones. So plenty of light still for all.

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key word, heating pad. my clones root in 5-7 days. (i had the same issue). do u have a dome? here is pics of clones i cut last wednesday. i dont know what u stick ur clones in, i use rock wool. if u dont want to use the rock wool then use a rapid rooter cube. with this u will have no issues. the only think i dont like is my heating pad only runs for a couple of hours at a time, so i have to keep turning it on. the clones are Rhino,

Hmmm...its funny you say heating pad because I'm convinced that my problem is thats its already too hot. I need a cooling pad lol. the temps in my veg area never go below 80. Always 80-85. Water holds more oxygen at lower temperature. Clones are supposed to root best at 68-78. This is the cloner I made>

They stay alive forever but no roots. It might be the strain. their mother took almost 4 weeks to root. She was so tiny and had only one leaf and stayed alive for 4 friggin weeks in a cup before she rooted. I can do one at a time in a cup, but I'll probably have to get some rapid rooters if i want multiple clones. At least untill it gets cooler.

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