Well it's not as bad as I thought it was... I was away from the house and the water hose on our washer broke and gushed water everywhere. Luckily my roommates girlfriend was home and eventually walked out of his room to see it and turned off the valve after 15 minutes or so. Anyways the hallway is pretty wet (even after sucking 7 gallons of water out of it with the ShopVac) so the "carpet guy" is coming by tomorrow to check things out.

Water didn't get too far in my room but I'm still going to have to keep the MH light off tomorrow since it shines like a beacon from under my door. I'm going to keep 2 small (6500K) cfl's on in the closet so that the plants don't think it's time to start flowering. It definitely won't help them grow any but at least I can just stuff a towel under the door, lock the door, and the "carpet guy", should he need to work in my room, will never know the difference.

Hopefully he can get everything done tomorrow so I can get back on schedule!

Besides all of that drama, all the plants are rocketing and they will be planted into either bigger pots, or the Earthbox, very soon. I'll know in a few days which to do.

__________________
My First Grow - NL99 under 400W MH/HPS

Well the carpet guy came and went without any issues. Once he left I got to working on my grow. I put all the ladies into the Earthbox!

You won't believe this but the plants (from left to right, back to front) are Michelle, Sally, Jessica, and Cindy. Sally and Jessica healed marvelously and are now growing faster than Cindy.

Raul you called it, the roots were getting bound up at the bottom of the pot. But due to the fact that I had originally buried them so deep to deal with stem stretch all the roots were in the lower half of the pot; none at the top. Hopefully they'll have a lot more room to spread in the Earthbox.

Oh yea, and they're starting to smell

__________________
My First Grow - NL99 under 400W MH/HPS

Looks great!

How's that Earthbox work? Some sorta auto-watering?

Clones, eh? That was way more than I was ready to bite off. I'd love to see you do it though so I can learn. I'd like to take clones once I get a separate veg chamber running. I think I like one of my plants better than the other two. It would be nice to have a cloning option for keeping good genetics alive. Too late for that now but next time....

So are those four going to grow out to the end in the Earthbox?




Here's how I'm doing. Day 49 of 12/12.




I couldn't help making a taster (or two) out of a few secondary buds.

Great job GG. They all look very healthy. Even though they smell, isn't it a wonderful smell!

__________________
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...-grow-3-a.html

Thanks Hawk. The Earthbox has a reservoir of water at the bottom with a drain hole so I can't over water. In two of the corners of the reservoir there is potting mix packed so that it can uptake water and distribute it into the bulk of the potting mix that sits on a grate above the reservoir. Check out Earthbox.com for more info; it's pretty interesting.

The idea is that two of those will finish out in the Earthbox. There should be plenty of room for two I hope.

P.S. I still can't see your pictures. I wanna see some pot pron!

Thanks again Raul. You're right, the smell is fantastic!!! Too bad I'll have to scrub it though. I wish I could let it infiltrate my whole house!

__________________
My First Grow - NL99 under 400W MH/HPS

That sucks. They're hosted on rollitup same as your pics. Don't know why you're unable to see them.


Can anyone else see them?

Maybe you can see the pics I posted in this thread?

Day 50 flower: 1st grow, bagseed, 250w HID

I installed the filter since the smell is increasing daily. I hope that it's big enough!

Also, my plants are looking a little bit droopy. I know during a transfer this can happen but I decided to lift my light from 7" to about 11" just in case it was the heat that was getting to them. I've also been watering from the top a little each day (even though the Earthbox says not to) because they look a little dry to me and I can imagine it takes a while for the water to pull itself from the lower reservoir towards the top where the roots are at.

Hawk, I can see your pictures in that thread and they look amazing! Did you prune the bottom leaves as the buds grew bigger?

__________________
My First Grow - NL99 under 400W MH/HPS

Yes, I did trim the bottoms of each plant (to varying degrees).

Nice, looks like the LST paid off for you big time. I think I may follow suit with some form or another.


BTW I'm thinking about trying this technique for sexing before the flowering stage: GROWFAQ

I think it's pretty logical...objections anyone?

__________________
My First Grow - NL99 under 400W MH/HPS