Everready and Mokety's Grow, Bagseed and Soil

Everready · #1 03-06-2008, 12:11 PM

What a long way we have come since the beginning. Six months ago I had the bright idea to start my first grow. It turns out it is OUR first grow as she has a green thumb. I did most of the research, but I should have done much more research! Anyway, after researching lightning, nutrients, and a few other things that really did make a difference at the time, we bought some LED lights and planted a few seeds in miracle grow soil. They sprouted fine and grew for a while but then after a month when I thought that they would be ready to flower and switch them to the 12/12 lighting schedule I knew we had some problems. Since then, we have upgraded to the 400 W HPS system. It has made all the difference. So the first pictures I'm going to post are those that I have of the first attempt at growing. Following that will be the current grow. Wish us luck! Here we go!

P.S. Feel free to post. Any form of law enforcement is not welcome to read, post, or otherwise come in or near this thing in anyway, shape, or form.

Everready · #2 03-06-2008, 12:15 PM

So here is the beginning. Six months ago we started out by buying mylar, soil, and other basic things. I pretty much made a ghetto rig in a closet we have that used to be a half bath. Here are some pictures of the failed first go around.

Everready · #3 03-06-2008, 12:23 PM

Here are the plants that started our second batch, which is now our current batch. I germinated these the way almost everybody else does, in wet paper towels that are in a ziploc bag. The first picture is of them starting to grow. The other pictures are of them in our grow room with the first batch under our brand-new 400 W light.

Everready · #4 03-06-2008, 12:27 PM

The following pictures were taken about February 1, and they are of all of the ones we planted for the second batch and our set up at that time. Notice how far we had to keep that light away from our plants!

Everready · #5 03-06-2008, 12:31 PM

I'm going to take pictures now of what we have going on and post them later on tonight. If you have questions about any of the boring stuff that happened up to this point please feel free to ask. You can also check my gallery while it is still there(because I plan on deleting it in a little bit) for some other pictures of our stuff going on before this point. See you tonight!

Everready · #6 03-06-2008, 07:36 PM

Here are some miscellaneous items around the grow room...
temp and humidity gauge
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Stuff
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heater
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Dehumidifier
DSC00962.JPG...to help the grow.

Everready · #7 03-06-2008, 07:51 PM

I think I got the format thing I wanted..here goes.

Here are pics of our 3 plants that are in day 26 of flowering under the 400 W HPS. I have added some minor additional lighting on the sides (those walmart grow lights) cuz I had them. The temps range 68 at night to 81 in the day. I have the home made CO2 thing going on too...should have posted in the last time...
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Here is Bertha in all her glory!
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and I had to bend her because she was 10 inches taller than everyone else.
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I used fishing string.

The grow room.
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Here is Green Meany.
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And some problems that I hope I have corrected...these are from today so this is how she looks today...might take a while for her to recover...as long as the problem doesn't spread that will be cool.
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and
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mokety · #8 03-06-2008, 09:40 PM

Here is our survivor Lucky, she survived our first experiment looking like this
DSC00803.JPG well we was stretch her out with 4 LED lights ( stupid of us) Miracle grow soil with fungus gnat been put in flower when she just about a foot tall skinny as hell....as seen in pic PH was no where near good....to this after a month nursed back in veg,toped
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to looking like this 2 weeks into flowering
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. I'm so proud of her and glad that i decided to put her back to veg....Cant wait until she blooming with buds.....Wish her luck everybody....

Everready · #9 03-07-2008, 08:32 AM

Lucky is the one in the middle of the first pic of the previous post. For more information on lucky, check out my gallery!

Everready · #10 03-09-2008, 06:30 PM

Today is the 4th week of flowering for Lucky, Bertha, and Green Meany. We have had a few setbacks with our clones so our perpetual harvest is 4 weeks behind schedule...more on the clones in another post.
We have noticed a smell...odor if you will, coming from the flower room. The flower room is equipped with an air cooled light, as seen in the pics, and attached to the light's intake is a nice carbon filter. There were some leaks in the system around our glass I hope I corrected. If not then we have a smell to deal with in our months to come...that will be an issue I will be addressing here frequently and let you know how it turns out.
On the odor note, we are growing bagseed in soil, and the smell is kind of sweaty. Like fat lazy guy truck driver who had a hot ride for a day kinda sweaty, not overpowering, but there. Never heard of that kind huh? No offense meant...but mix that with a little of the natural skunky plant smell and there you go...that is our little odor problem right now.

On to the pics!

We bought this, is it the right kind?
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Here is Bertha! She is showing some of the same signs as Green Meany did in the last post...I hope its not serious...
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Here is Lucky, hiding in the back!
Everyone is correct about revegging...every cola on her is the main cola...and there are a lot...I will count them for next time.
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Green Meany doing alright, problem leaves have worsened from last post but I am going to wait until after the next watering, which should be Tuesday, to diagnose again.
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That is it for today I think.
The Humidity is pretty constant, 40-55% and I am trying to drop it to hang around 30%.
Temp. is constant 69F dark period and up to 80F in the day.
I have the home made CO2 up and running.
Air movement is good but I hope not too much as to detract from the CO2.
I suspect that the honey I added before has contributed to the smell...I am going to use that molasses and will be updating on the smell.
The last watering I did was a mini-flush. My next watering I am going to use SuperThrive, molasses, and 1/2 strength Miracle Grow (I know I know, we will get better as time moves on) flower bloom nutes.

4 weeks to go, Green Meany is 33 inches, Bertha is 45 but tied down to 33, Lucky is 35 and revegged. Any guesses to yield? I am hoping for 6 ounces but am expecting 3 to 4.

Until next time!

Edit...forgot about Amber, the newest addition to the Flower room. She was FIMd today and has been inside for 4 days. That is her attached below. More on her to come!