250 watt HPS closet grow

Welcome viewers. I am going to chronicle my new grow on this thread. I will be growing Snow White by Nirvana Seed Co. I have grown this strain before with success and I want to use up my remaining three feminized seeds before starting another strain.

I started germinating the seeds today. I have also prepared the closet for the grow. I will be using a 250 watt self contained ballast HPS light. I have Fox Farm soil and Fox Farm Nutes. GB, BB, TB. Each plant will be in a 3 gallon pot. As far as other items I am using. Electronic PPM/PH tester, Distilled water, backstrap molasses ( at the end of grow ).

I am excited to begin this grow, and I will update this thread as often as possible. My first grow/harvest I managed to get just over 1 oz per plant. I am looking to double that this time as I will either LST the plants or Top them, I havent decided yet.

Stay tuned, pics will be on the way, and happy tokin my friends

Seeds are still germinating. I got a chance to snap a couple photos so you guys can see the setup.

Once the ladies sprout I'll post some more pictures.

Excited to see what's going to happen.

Welcome readers, today I was able to get a few important things done.
I checked on my beans and 2 of the 3 have germinated and were ready to be planted, so that's exactly what I did.

I had to cover my cups with electrical tape to make sure the roots don't get any light. I snapped a couple pictures.

At this point the 2 ladies are under a light and should sprout in the next 24-48 hours.

I haven't come up with any names yet, any suggestions lol?

Anyways, check back soon, I will post some pics once the plants all sprout.

I started a grow on the 11th, however I am doing it hydroponically. Seed is germed and should sprout within the next 12-24 hours. I like the name Veronica.

P.S. I'm subscribed, interested to see how your plants come out!

Both the ladies have sprouted. I waited until this afternoon to give them some water. They are both under a light right now and so far so good.

Here are a couple pictures..

Each plant is at about 1 - 1.25 inches in height. I HIGHLY suggest you listen to this song and tell me what you think.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsZRPTLMk9s It's by city and colour, a friend of mine gave me the link, and it put me in a real chill mode. Ok, back to the ladies lol. I'm probably going to transplant them in 5-7 days to their permanent 3 gal pot. Oh, if anyone is wondering, the last seed didn't germinate so I just tossed it.
Tomorrow I think I'll post a few pics to show the progress. Temps are good as well, hovering around 75 degress.

I just finished working out, took a protein shake, and I am out for the night, I gotta work in the morning. Keep at it, and keep the creativity flowing.

What up brothers. I had a pretty productive day today. I decided to take apart the inside of my car lol. It's a late nineties model honda. About 4 years ago I was picking up bud and got spooked when the cops rolled right by me when I was parked and smoking. So I took my glass straight shooter and got it lost behind my console but was never able to retrieve it.... Until now. Vacuumed the whole thing out, cleaned the upholstery, windex on the windows. Feels nice again.

Then I decided to setup a bunch of CFL's that I had laying around, and use those to veg my 2 plants rather than a 250 watt HPS. Right now I have 5x27 watt CFL's on the 2 plants. I could double that if and when I want, up until I flower, and who knows I might switch in some 2700k cfls and use that to maximize the capabilities.

I snapped a few pics of the ladies. I just watered the about an hour ago.

The 4th pic is the pipe that I was able to retrieve from inside my car lol, literally.

The 2nd to last pic was how you can take a cheap mic golden light out of a can, put it in a glass, and now you have image and it seems to taste better.

Nice set-up, and nice lookin' babies. Looks good man, keep up the good work!

I watered the ladies today and they're doing pretty well. I snapped a few more photos as well.
They are still under the CFL's right now, and they have light on them for 24 hours. (though) I like to turn the lights off for a few mins or so a day just to give them a break.

It has been a while since I have gone through and re-read a lot of the stickied threads, and after doing so I have decided on what I wanna do.

I decided that I'm also going to top these plants instead of doing a screen of green (scrog) like I initially thought I would.

Now, if presented the idea of topping, why would someone go for 2 colas rather than 4? I personally think it's because people cut above the wrong node, as if the cotyledons is the first true node. If anyone knows any "good reasons" to go for 2 rather than 4 colas, lemme know, im really curious lol.

That's it for today guys, check back saturday or sunday, I'll post some updates.

i got pretty much the same set up as you do, but i have a 400 watt hps. Earlier today i completed the germ process and taproot showed so i put into my FFOF soil and poured a lil water on it to moisten and now i got 4-23watt cfl's on it to keep it warm until they pop thru soil... The first grow im doing is a pakistan ryder auto. i got sum ak48 germin right now, so i will definately be peepin ya grow out to see how it goes, good luck to ya in your grow and future ones....

I took a couple of pictures of the ladies, they seem to be growing pretty fast.

What are they looking like now?

Its been a while since I have posted any updates, sorry about that guys, I have been busy with my work schedule. Well, I had to throw out one of the plants, for some reason it just wast growing right. I went about 2 days without watering them.. due to some un-forseen situation that happened. I did end up up topping the one plant I did keep. I have included some pics, I just stopped by my local hydroponic shop earlier today to pick up some happy from soil. I went with happy frog over oceancrest just cause the price difference.

The one plant I do have now is growing great, and I expect to take some clones really soon here

The Plants are looking pretty good man bigger than mine. Im doing a 250w grow too Im about a week or two behind yours. How often do you water them they seem a little droopy or is it a fresh watering?

And how far are you keeping yours from the light, I was taking a look at the whole thread again your using the same soil same nutes same light but just like 2 weeks ahead of me SO Ill definately be subscribong to see how they go Good luck

im using 5 27 watt cfls right now to veggie the 1 plant, and yeah it was droopy cause it was just watered and I added soil. I keep the plant as close as possible to the cfls, like 1 inch. this plant got slightly burned lol it grew into a cfl. i just started using big grow today as well. formulated 2 tsp for 1 gal, and ill add grow big every other watering, and eventually step up to 3 tsp/gal mix.

Sounds good man Im thinking about throwing a few cfls in mine figure it couldnt hurt. For nutes though I use the grow big first Im on 2 tsp as well my next few will be the Big Bloom then I finish it off with Beastiez at the end

An update on the plant, After giving it grow big, and a day after a nice watering it is very awake and doing well. it looks like it is going to take off now that the nutrients are being added along with recovering nicely from being topped.

I took 4 pictures this morning to show you how the plant is doing. Somebody recently commented on the plant looking droopy, it's looking lovely now!

pic 1 - overhead view.
pic 2 - side view.
pic 3 - middle of canopy, showing where plant was topped.
pic 4 - don't let your plant get too close to the light.