The Grow III - Vanilla Kush - 400W HiD - DWC

Day 2 in germination phase still. Even though I had a successful seed popping period, this adaptation period is critical also. Judging from the looks of this it should be coming through in about a day or so... I'll keep you all posted...


Pure...

Im subbed!! glad to watch from beginning

hey *,

I can officially say "Houston we have a liftoff" The Grow II is officially underway. The bean has popped and the cotyledons are out and running.. This pic is from germination on sunday and today is wed.

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@ pwizzle,

Thanks for subin dude. i think I keep a pretty good journal. This one should be better. I made all my mistakes in my first 2 pushes. This one I'm looking for fucking perfection!


Pure...

subbed, looking good so far.

The first set of fan leaves are out so I put the LED back in action!!! I'm going to run a week or so of LED power at about 12 inches from the plant, i guess that's about what 30 CM?? (google it if u wanna know) I'm hoping to really spark some growth and get it ready for the HiD initiation she will undergo in about 14 days or so.


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For those of you that are wondering why i'm only pushing one plant. There are a number of reasons.
1st It's for person consumption. No sale. The only profit I see is the money i save from not buying bullshit grass on the street!
2nd Since it is for me, i'd rather smoke total quality, so I really am focusing on that one plant, I tried two in Grow II, as soon as 1 thing went wrong my "plan" was all fucked up. Having one plant eliminates that extra focus factor.
3rd I have enough space but lungs aren't big enough to smoke all the harvest candy, from the Honey Oil I made which is just sitting, to the hash I've made, to the buds. I mean I have close to 200G on the last grow.
My next grows wont be that long, nor that large but still even 50G every 2-3 months should be enough for me.

So in a nutshell it's just to grow as close to perfectly as I can one plant at a time.

My next endeavor will be to grow one of the strains i like most then start cloning...



Pure...

Well of course here goes my never ending FUCKING drama of a grow!! Dude I swear i am tested at every corner in every grow. Every fucking month.
So things are cruising along and suddenly I blow a fuse on the entire floor in my house. Strangely enough it was around midnight which is when the HiD comes on. Ironically we were having an espresso so that machine was turning also. So I decided that since the light was blinking alot before coming on maybe it was drawing unnecessarily on the line. So i went out and bought an electronic ballast. totally cool saving money adjustable light 50% 75% 100% & Super Bright!!!!!! I was stoked!!! I even bought a cool tube! ey? eyyyyy? not bad eh for a 1 plant grow.

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The Plant - Was doing great until i bought the cool tube and the ballast. Unfortunately, I didn't know that when I put the light in the cool tube I was obligated to cool the tube. SO I ran it with no air circulation and THANK GOODNESS the bulb didn't explode, nor die on me. My girl had forgotten that I started another grow, so she didn't check until I asked her. When she finally goes to check things look cool. She sends me a pic from her iPhone so i can see the root system. All look good until I notice that there is a layer of ??? SOOT or residue on the bottom of the reservoir and covering the air stone which by the way had no air coming out of it!! When i see this I'm thinking "Can't i get a fucking break??"
i text her and she finds the airhouse outside the tank on the floor and reattaches it but the residue is a mystery.
For some reason the light was very inconsistent. it would work sometimes by itself but most times i had to go and fiddle with it before it came on. I cound out that when running a cool tube you must "cool the tube" or funny things start to happen with the bulb/ballast. Since the room was getting a bit crispy at times, and my bulb was burning up, I figured there was one way to get rid of a lot of heat, not only from the light but from the room itself. So i connected the cool tube to the VMC (air circulation thingy). The Grow III (18).jpg
I put a long tubing on it so as to lower the temperature of the air before it reached the VMC. Yeah i know I'm compromising on efficiency but i think it's better than compromising my VMC with the heat.

Worked like a charm. Light comes on with consistency room is about 7 degrees cooler.

Now one small issue. Plant is dying!!!! Just Dying dude!! I changed the reservoir last week as usual found the residue, so this time i paid more attention to the nutrients as I was mixing. i found that one of my base nutes (which happens to be clear) had some fungus (black stuff) floating inside of it.

To make a long story short i 'm sure my nutrients are bad, they probably got too hot up there and have spoiled and now the plant is suffering.

I've switched nutes all together. Still Adv Nutrients except now I'm on the 3-part system, instead of the 2-part; And i'll keep them out of the attic.

Here is how she looked on the 25th.
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I'm cleaning the reservoir today lets see if i get that film again...


Pure...

Hi people,

So here is the latest. I've decided to change the Nutes as you read earlier. but before doing a complete change out I decided to do some investigative work. I changed the Nutes and bought a new syringe for each bottle of nutes. I figure that maybe I contaminated my old batch ??(fat chance) or it was the heat (probable), or I have a bad batch of something (also probable).

One day after the res Change and new shoots already coming up. The plant is orienting towards the light, so i think a recovery is in process.

I'm not sure if i should continue with the current cocktail of new base nutrients, and old supplements (B-52 and VooDoo) it seems the B-52 and VooDoo are not the culprits since the plant is doing ok with just the base nute change. If all continues to go well i chuck the old base nutes into a bucket and feed it to the bamboo in the yard...

No pics till tomorrow, the growth should be more evident.
just for you to know i had originally given 2 weeks for vegging, when i changed the light housing to the cool tube and changed the ballast. Is the weekend i was supposed to kick over into flowering, but the light didn't come on, at all some day, i had gone out of town again. So this plant is probably very near unbearable stress factor levels... But we'll pull her through

Ohhh RAH!!!!


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