3000W HPS 10x5 Tent - GrapeApe, HinduSkunk, SnowCap, SSHaze, MasterBubbaKush

Alright, its been a few years since ive been on here. Last time you saw me, i was running a 600W HPS 5x5 Sour Diesel & Snow Cap grow. Since then ive made some upgrades with the help of my room mate (RIU name: watuptho), who's already started a journal. This will basically be a consolidated picture heavy version of that journal.

heeeeeeere weeeee gooooo (c) Slick Rick

The Set Up
Basics
1x - 10'x5' HomeBox Grow Tent
2x - 4'x4' Flood Tray
1x - 6"x32" 8" Carbon Filter
1x - HydroFarm 8" Inline Fan (w/ HydroFarm Mechanical Timer)
1x - Fridgidaire AC Window Unit
1x - HydroFarm Thermometer/Hygrometer
1x - Hanna PPM/PH Pen
2x - HydroFarm 25ft 8" Ducting
1x - 25 Gallon Rez
1x - AquaFarm 40 Gallon/hour Pump
4x - 6 Spout Watering "Octopusses"

Vegging Specs
1x - T5 6 Bulb High Output Flourescent Grow Light
1x - T5 8 Bulb High Output Flourescent Grow Light
1x - Air King Clip Fan

Vegging Nutes
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Grow A
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Grow B
Advanced Nutrients Voodoo Juice
Advanced Nutrients B-52

Flowering Specs
3x - Xtrasun 1000W Switchable Metal Ballast (w/ HydroFarm Mechanical Timer)
3x - Sun Systems Yeild Master II 8" Reflector
3x - Hortilux 1000W HPS Bulb
1x - 25 Gallon CO2 Tank
1x - HydroFarm CO2 System (w/ HydroFarm Mechanical Timer)
1x - Air King Oscillating Fan

Flowering Nutes
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Bloom A
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Bloom B
Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy
Advanced Nutrients Tarantula Powder
Advanced Nutrients Piranha Powder
Advanced Nutrients SensiZym
Advanced Nutrients Rhino Skin
Advanced Nutrients Bud Ignitor
Advanced Nutrients Nirvana
Advanced Nutrients Overdrive
Advanced Nutrients Big Bud
Advanced Nutrients Final Phase


Some of the supplies.


Tent framework finished.


Tent cover on.


1000W HPS lights hung.


6 head water systems installed.


Lines attatched to 6 heads.


Standing temp & humidity with lights off.


Completed Tent w/ CO2, carbon filter & inline fan attatched.

So thats the basics of our set up...in a few minutes i'll post again with pics of the first batch of Master Kush x OG Kush we ran that we eventually dumped and replaced. Once again, welcome to our grow, any advice, questions, or comments are appreciated.

we topped the gals today...pics and back story coming later

The First Batch

ok, so after setting up our tent, the only thing left to do was fill it with some ladies. We were given 20 OGxMaster Kush clones that we were planning on doing the first run with, unfortunately a nosy neighbor and a little self-induced paranoia had other plans. After about a week and a half of wind burn (do to intake ducting falling and pushing air directly onto the top of 1/4 of the plants) and underwatering, we decided to scrap this batch and introduce them to the trash. Here's some pics from that first batch...R.I.P. - may their little souls life the angels even higher.

For this first batch we didnt have our T5s yet so we were vegging with 2000W HPS. We were pretty dialed in as far as controlling our temps and humidity so i dont see it being a problem with the batch we have in now when we switch them over to flower.


20 fresh clones neem'd and potted using 3 gallon Smart Bags & 100% Coco medium.


Freshly potted ladies sitting in the tent.


The other ladies in their spaces and strapped to the watering lines.


Close up of one of the lovely ladies.


Wind burn due to the fallen intake ducting.


Some good growth from the first week or so.

Pics of the current batch and back story is coming next...hope youre enjoying...hope you stay tuned.

Grape Ape

So, after discarding our OGxMaster daughters in the trash, much like a lot of you do at your local abortion clinic, we had to restock the tent. We decided to go with a heavier producing, stronger, more resilient plant and grabbed 11 Grape Ape clones & 1 Super Silver Haze clone. At this time we also purchased our 6 bulb T5 High Output Flourescent fixture to use during veg to cut down on electricity while also getting the ladies a good amount of light.

We were still feeling out our tent and also our water & feeding schedule, so the Grape Ape ladies went through a rough first couple weeks, but most have recovered beautifully and look to produce some nice buds in the next couple months. Underwatering and Watuptho's heavy hand on trimming caused some ladies to meet their early demise, but they have since been replaced with some lovely Snow Cap clones (pictures coming in next post) from an original Mendo Co. mother, some dispensary bought Hindu Skunk & Master Kush x Bubba Kush cross (pictures coming in next post) and are all looking beautiful.


The newly acquired Grape Ape ladies under the new 6 bulb T5.


Close up shot of one of the new ladies.


One of the Grape Ape girls that didnt take too well to her new home.


Another dying baby girl.


Worst of the worst.

So with a lot of the fan leaves dying, we decided to trim off the dead weight that was just wasting the plants energy. It resulted in some plants recovering great (pics coming in next post) and 4 ladies meeting the same fate as the OGxMaster before them.


Grape Ape after trimming off the dead fan leaves.


The result of Watuptho's heavy hand.


Overview of all the girls after the trimming.


One of the girls on her way to a speedy recovery.


On her way as well.

Which brings us to present day...

We currently have:

7 Grape Ape
1 Super Silver Haze
1 Master Kush x Bubba Kush
3 Snow Cap
5 Hindu Skunk

As mentioned earlier, we also added an 8 bulb T5 to our 6 bulb T5 arsenal. Hope you all are enjoying so far (even if you are a quiet bunch). My next post and pictures (and possibly video) will bring us to current day.

Vegging

Alright, so these shots are from the last week or so. As i said in the last post, we added 5 Hindu Skunks, 1 Master Bubba Kush, and 3 Snow Caps. The Grape Ape's from the last post are now fully recovered and doing great and youll be able to see that in these pictures. The Snow Caps will be the stars of this show and should be our heaviest producers. We plan to keep one as a mother and will run all Snow Cap our next run to really gauge what we can pump out of this tent on a consistent basis.

We also either topped or FIM'd every plant, with the exception of the Master Bubba Kush which were still waiting for to catch up to her sisters, yesterday and theyre already reacting great (pics next post). We are now vegging under a 6 bulb T5 and an 8 bulb T5 meaning we can get the lights pretty close to the plants and still cover them all.


An overview of all the ladies in their new homes and the Grape Apes around the edges recovering.


Close up shot of one of the Grape Apes, now doing amazing.


Close up shot of the Super Silver Haze, also doing great now.


Here's a shot of one of the Hindu Skunk babies, which have taken very well to their new home.


One of our awesome Mendicino County Snow Cap babies.


Another gorgeous Snow Cap.


Close up of the first Snow Cap.


Were starting to get some roots growing through the Smart Bags.


Over view of the girls with sticky gnat traps up.

Soooo, that officially brings us to today. From now on, all pictures will be in larger scale and taken 5 minutes before posting them here. Currently, Watuptho is researching silencers for our inline exhaust fan and eventhough i dont really think its needed, you can never be too safe. As always, thanks for taking the time to check out the journal, any questions, critique, suggestions and rep is always appreciated.

Vegging 8/15

Alriiiight, so here's some pics from about 5 minutes ago. Gals are doing fine. I took a close up shot of every strain of plant and will take pictures of those same plants everytime so you guys can see the day to day progress for yourselves.


This is an overview shot of all the plants from the front of the tent. Snow Caps, Super Silver Haze, and Grape Apes are on the right under the 8 bulb T5 and the Hindu Skunks and Master Bubba Kush is on the left under the 6 bulb T5.


Another overview shot from the front. You can see the two T5s in this shot.


Shot from the right side. Nice close up of Snow Cap and Grape Ape.


From the right side. Good shot of the canopy and T5s.


Close up shot of the Grape Ape that watuptho FIM'd a couple days ago. Starting to split up now and should have 4 soild heavy heads when all is said and done.


This is a close up of one of the Snow Caps. I will use this one in every post from here on out to show you its progress.


Close up of the Master Bubba Kush i'll be showing you daily. Definitely the smallest plant, but is recovering well and starting to get some nice growth.


Here's our lovely Super Silver Haze. She's starting to get her lean on so we'll be propping her up sometime this week with bamboo stakes.


Here's our Hindu Skunk example.


And finally, our Grape Ape example, looking a lot different from when from when she first got in the tent and was underwatered and trimmed like crazy.


That just about does it for this installment of Growing with Funkdoc & Watuptho. As always, thanks for stopping by. Any questions, critique, suggestions & rep are always appreciated. Until next time party people...

the end of week three is coming this thursday. Can't wait to see how the girls adjust to the topping and fimming.

Silence Is Golden

Ok, so as i said yesterday, Watuptho was building a DIY Inline Fan Silencer. Thing came out pretty tits and works pretty damn well. All the parts were from Lowe's and took about 15-20 minutes to hammer out. Here's some pics from the build and i'll post some more pics later after we reformat our grow room and get this bad boy up and running.


Insulation and chicken wire in the tube.


Pushing the insulation down to get the reducers on.


Reducers put on both sides.


Shurtape is used to seal all connecting points.


Close up of the finished silencer.

When built, we were told it works best on the intake side of your fan either directly connected or with about 1-2 feet of ducting in between the fan and silencer. Next post in a couple minutes will take you thru me and Watuptho's Battle Of The Buds we started last night.

As always, thanks for stopping by. All comments, questions, critique, and suggestions are appreciated.

What happens when two competitive stoners with too much time on their hands and a room full of growing bud plants gets bored?

Battle Of The Buds

...is what happens.

While watching the hillarity that was the Roast Of David Hassellhoff, Watuptho and myself began discussing the differences in topping, FIMing, Super Cropping, and LSTing. Im a strong believer that LSTing is the best way natural way to increase yields and Watuptho has been researching Super Cropping for the last couple days so we decided to put the two methods to the test and have a duel. We decided that we would both pick a Snow Cap and he would Super Crop his by pinching and applying pressure to the branches til they bend over and i would LST (Low Stress Training) mine by tying down the main stalk and tie down the big shoots as well.

Snow Cap Duel


Watuptho makes his Snow Cap selection for his Super Cropping.


Watuptho's Snow Cap with its left main stem (plants already been topped awhile ago) pinched and bent over.


Watuptho pinching and getting ready to bend the right main stem.


Watuptho's Snow Cap crying from the abuse it was just put through...hahhaha


Watuptho's finished product. By theory, the bend stems should righten them self back up within the next couple days making the stem stronger and stronger every time and promoting more bud growth as well.


Here's my Snow Cap canidate which i will be LSTing.


Main stalk tied down, in theory, giving the lower bud sites more light exposure.


Close up of the tie.


After tying down the main stalk, i tied down the lower branches as well, giving the plant a lower profile.


A close up of a lower branch tied down.


My finished product. A lower profile plant with better exposure to light.


Hindu Skunk LST

Being the stout believer that "One good turn deserves another" that i am, i couldnt just stop at one plant. I decided i would do a legit LST as well in which i will only tie down the main stalk every few days after it begins to rise. This will make the plant grow horizontally instead of vertically and in turn make all lower weaker branches that would make for airy popcorn bud sites turn into top colas.


My Hindu Skunk canidate for LST.


Ms. Hindu getting her lean on.


The finished product. In a day or so, i should see the top of the plant lift and start growing toward the light again. When it does, she'll be tied back down and her side branches will grow up toward the light instead of out like normal.


So, as you can tell, things are starting to get fun around here. Got some healthy plants, some good friendly competition and some good vibes (which are always important for growing healthy, happy plants). Temp has been staying right around 76-80 and the humidity hovers right around 63-65%. Next update will have updates on all our examples from every strain as well as updates on the Super Cropped and LST'd plants i showed here. Other than that, thanks for checking us out. As always, all questions, comments, suggestions, critique & rep is appreciated. Im pretty convinced this is the best journal on here so hopefully you guys start checking it out and commenting soon...starting to get lonely in here.

this op looks great.. ive used the lst and it works great

Nice setup can't wait until I have this much space haha some very sad clones u had there, I'm almost amazed they pulled through for ya. When's flower planned 4? Keep em green!

Thanks guys...were gonna switch them over to flower on September 2nd, and around that time we'll also be adding a 4x4 tent to the arsenal to keep mothers and veg so we crop out every 1 to 2 months.

Picture update coming later today.

Im sub'd. Everythings looking great.

Il swap ya for my tiny 1m/1m/2m tent lol

very nice setup

thanks guys, things are gonna get fun in here soon.

new guy25 said:

Il swap ya for my tiny 1m/1m/2m tent lol

very nice setup

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hahaha, we found a 5'x5' (Secret Jardin DR150) for $200 online...thats a steal.

Very nice set up man, I'm subbing for sure. I'm running a DR120W right now and planning a 4x8 for my next try but if I can fit a 5x10 in my future work space that'd be even better.

this is really cool. im psyched to see how the grape ape turns out. subscribed

Do you think u guys could tell me the best light 2 use and how many plants could i put under each wattage light.. Like 1000w = ??? how many plants.. Also what would my yeild be per each plant?? Im growing in soil and using mainly big bud xxl feminized.. Please help me figure this part out. And could some1 tell me what would be the best bulb 2 use.

And keep me updated with ur grow.. U cant leave us sitn here waitn like unfed dogs

Hey Nice setup.
Local dispensary gave me a Hindu Skunk clones and others.I did a search for this Strain since I post my journal in RIU and found you,looks good bro
Sub'd to see how you do,Is this your first coco grow?