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    Hey everyone!
    I am new to ROI and on day 47 (started 2/2/12) of my first ScrOG grow. I will catch you all up to speed in this post and then keep a regular journal starting just in time for the bud porn . I noticed a rule in the sticky's not to post in someone's journal unless asked well please feel free to post here! If it weren't for other peoples advise I wouldn't know a thing about growing so i'm not going to start turning it down now! Im scared to post in other peoples journals now, but if you think I would find your grow interesting then go ahead and invite me and ill come check it out. Anyways. heres the info on my setup:

    Tent: GL 80 (2.5 x 2.5 x 5.9)
    Light: 400 watt MH/HPS cool tube
    Ventilation: 400 CFM inline fan w/ carbon filter
    Genetics: 707 Headband (2 clones)
    Soil: FFOF
    Nutes: BioBiz (Grow + Bloom), Neptune's Harvest (fish+kelp mix), Blackstrap Molasses, CalMag supplement
    Pesticide: Organic Cedar Oil

    And heres some pics, im not sure what date each one was taken but they will take you from the start up through today:

    Full shot of tent
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    Air is pulled through carbon filter and then pushed through cool tube and out the top of tent. I now know that its inefficient to push air and the fan should be at the very end so it pulls air through the whole system but 400 CFM is enough to replace the air in my tent every 10 seconds so i'm not too worried, ill fix it before my next grow.
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    The headband clones are in the pots. Ignore the other 2 clones, I got them first and cooked them my first night when my ventilation system broke...
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    I did LST from the beginning to get them ready to ScrOG
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    More LST.
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    Heres the roots when I transplanted from 1 gal pots to 3 gal pots.
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    Final LST before putting the screen on.
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    I built the screen myself by making a wood frame with a nail every 2.5 inches and running string around them. This way I have a much tighter screen then if I had used a fabric net.
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    Above shot as the girls filled in the screen. At this point I began gradually thinning out the growth under the screen that wasnt getting any light as well as leafs above the screen that were blocking light to nodes. I always tuck first, then cut a leaf in half if I cant tuck it, and only completely remove the leaf if I have to.
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    This was at about 4 and a half weeks. You can see by the change in color that this is where I switched from MH to HPS and flipped the lights from 20/4 to 12/12. This was about 4 days after I switched to flower i think so the stretching was already starting. I continued to slowly thin out the growth under the screen.
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    This picture is from today! The girls have been starting to show buds for about 3 days now, it has been so excited! Now I have cleared out all of the leafs and small nodes that were under the screen for extra ventilation and so that they don't draw energy away from the growth above the screen that is actually receiving light. I did this slowly over a few weeks as to not stunt the growth of the plant or cause it to hermi.
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    I believe in letting the soil get good and dry between every watering. I started out giving them a half a gallon each every 3rd day, and now recently since they have started drinking a lot more I now give them a half a gallon every other day. I gave them molasses every watering since the begining. About 2 weeks in I started giving them a tiny amount (2ml per gallon) of BioGrow every other watering and have worked my way up to 10ml per gallon of BioGrow, 10 ml per gallon of BioBloom (since 12/12), and 5 ml of Cal Mag supplement every other watering. I got a free sample of Neptunes Harvest which I really like but dont have much of so I use it every 3rd fertilization instead of biobiz.

    I think that pretty much sums up my grow to this point... stay tuned for some buds!

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    I havnt had much time to get emerged into the ROI community yet but will be diving in soon. Untill then. heres a quick update. The buds are coming in nice with tuns of long white hairs and resin forming. Unfortunately you cant see the details in my crummy shots...

    Heres a close up:
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    And the canopy:
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    nice grow man, what r ur temps compared to ur ambiant temps with that 400cfm fan? how noticeable is the noise from outside the tent?

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    Thanks MrNiceDude! And welcome to RIU, im honored to have your first post be in my grow journal! I did the math once and with the 400cfm fan and my little grow tent it replaces all of the air in there once every 10 seconds or so, so that combined with the cool tube keep the temps really low. I wouldn't say it stays exactly the same temp as my room but it only climes two or three degrees above. In San Diego its about 75 most days and it stays under 80 in there.

    The noise is kinda a bummer though. Its pretty loud. My tent is in the corner of my room right next to the bed where me and my girlfriend sleep, the first week it gave me really weird dreams but now its kind of soothing. Its white noise so it doesn't keep me up at all I might even go as far as to say it helps me sleep. Pretty loud though...

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    I just noticed I abbreviated RollitUp as ROI in my first two posts... oops. RUI, I got it now haha

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    cool, good info bro, yea ive been ceepin around riu for a little while and ur setup moved me to post lol, im planning on a similar setup with a 250, how r the girls...

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    Sweet, with a 250 watt you wont need nearly 400 cfm of fan to keep it cool so noise shouldnt be too big of a problem. 400 cfm is way more then i needed but i got it for a great deal, only $150 for the fan filter combo on TheHydroSource.com. Id recommend them if your still shopping for equipment, they treated me well and will give you a discount if you email them! A lot cheaper then my local hydro store but still a little more expensive then Amazon. Anyways... my nugs are fattening up nicely


    Heres some shots I snapped today:
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    Also, I just placed a order with The Attitude seed bank for some new genetics. Took advantage of all the promos they are running right now to get a tun of free seeds with my order. Cant wait to pop those Holy Grails and White Widows to get myself some good mothers!




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    RIU, ha. This is so sick dude I could never spend close to $200 on seeds myself though, if I had the money yeah but damn haha. What size tent you got goin? That filter looks pretty damn big

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    Yeah it's a lot of money but that's part of the game. Sure I could have bought clones for $10 a pop, but when you break it down these seeds cost me less then $10 each and im getting the exact genetics that I want without the infestations that come with addin clones to your grow all the time.

    My tent is a GL80 it's 2.5x2.5x6, that filter hardly fits in there haha it's funny though my fan and filter were on sale for $150 so they were actually cheaper then buying a smaller set.

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