Building single-plant growbox, I want your opinions!

Fractus said:

Yeah I have a big water jug with a powerade top on it lol so it squirts accurately, but it will take forever to water anything over a gallon lol. Guess I'll just need to be patient

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I spend at LEAST one hour per day mixing and watering, sometimes up to 2-3 at a time, and if there is OTHER work to be done, just general stuff, I can spend up to 4 hours at a time in the op working.

Long story short, you get no sympathy from me, with regards to your lack of patience with one gallon and one plant.

Haha geez you must do that for a living if you take that much time out of everyday on your ladies. Maybe I'll be there someday, but for now this is what I have: (taken with a friend's Nokia phone with a 5megapixel camera)




Gonna have some even better macros when my friend gets his 20 m.p. digital camera here. He's got some crazy lenses o.0

lol i still cant believe u burnd ur cola off...

Yeah I know... that's what happens when you leave your plants under someone else's supervision. Someone else doesn't care like you do and shit gets burnt. But in the end I'm really glad it did burn off because it would be giving me so many problems right now! There's no chance it would have fit in that box.

have to say I love the concept and construct, its cheap and easy to setup.

It was very easy to do. Ok I just bought some Schultz 8-14-9. The numbers seemed appropriate and I know lots of other people who aren't using FF use Schultz so I felt safe buying it. I paid 4$ for it lol. It's "African Violet liquid plant food"

Fractus said:

It was very easy to do. Ok I just bought some Schultz 8-14-9. The numbers seemed appropriate and I know lots of other people who aren't using FF use Schultz so I felt safe buying it. I paid 4$ for it lol. It's "African Violet liquid plant food"

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Something else you can try that is readily available at most hardware stores and home depot etc etc would be Scott's Premium Potting Soil. If what you have doesn't work out give it a try it is very mild so it allows you maximal control on nutrients.

-potlike

potlike said:

Something else you can try that is readily available at most hardware stores and home depot etc etc would be Scott's Premium Potting Soil. If what you have doesn't work out give it a try it is very mild so it allows you maximal control on nutrients.

-potlike

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that's the one i bought... i bought it cuz it's the cheapest one they have... and it's worked very nicely.....

yeh i got that Scotts too...mainly because everything else i seen at the store was MG branded...and i heard MG aint too good...gives a bad taste...so i got the Scotts, Alaskan Fish Emu., Vermiculite and Perlite...didnt pay that much either...and o yeh Super Thrive

damn, ive said this before, but im always surprised whenever i get a look into your grow box. look how long those pistils are! and look at all the fat budsites!

Guys I have a question, last night I saw that my pistils are turning brown/orange and sorta shriveling a little. I read two possibilities for the cause of this:
1) Old pistils are dying and making room for new ones and it natural on some strains.
2) It's almost time to harvest and if I wait too long I risk THC degradation.

I need a scope so I can keep an eye on my trichs.
I hope she isn't done yet because I'd kinda like to push her to get bigger now. I wonder if this also a response to her first little dosage of the Schultz fertilizer...

it could be from the nutes, a change in temps or pollination(which causes pistils to shrivel up, but i highly doubt because you have no males....) have you seen maybe 1 little male pollen sack? i think it being pollinated is the least likely possibility.

i hope she thickens up more before harvest too. and i like how you said if each popcorn bud was a gram, youd have almost 2 Ozs

Fractus said:

Guys I have a question, last night I saw that my pistils are turning brown/orange and sorta shriveling a little. I read two possibilities for the cause of this:
1) Old pistils are dying and making room for new ones and it natural on some strains.
2) It's almost time to harvest and if I wait too long I risk THC degradation.

I need a scope so I can keep an eye on my trichs.
I hope she isn't done yet because I'd kinda like to push her to get bigger now. I wonder if this also a response to her first little dosage of the Schultz fertilizer...

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I'm not trying to stir shit up again, but it is possible that the salts from the flush are doing their work now as it can take a couple days before it decides to show its' ugly head.


-potlike

Haha yeah she's even bigger now. I really wish I had a better camera for getting closeups of her. And the pistils are only discoloring at the upper budsites, so perhaps it is a heat issue. She's probably getting too close to those 6 bulbs, so I took the two 6500K out of there. Now it's just 2x3000 and 2x3500. Hopefully that fixes things. I know it has no male pollen sacks, I checked closely. The buds that are lower in the box are still all white and relatively straight out.

potlike-
I need you to educate me on this part because I don't really know (I also am not stirring shit up I'm being brutally honest lol). I didn't add any salts to my soil when I flushed it so if the pistils weren't discolouring before from the salt, why would they be now? I think it has been 5 days since that 'flush' and 2 days since my last watering (with the Schultz). Maybe this info will help you diagnose.

Fractus said:

Haha yeah she's even bigger now. I really wish I had a better camera for getting closeups of her. And the pistils are only discoloring at the upper budsites, so perhaps it is a heat issue. She's probably getting too close to those 6 bulbs, so I took the two 6500K out of there. Now it's just 2x3000 and 2x3500. Hopefully that fixes things. I know it has no male pollen sacks, I checked closely. The buds that are lower in the box are still all white and relatively straight out.

potlike-
I need you to educate me on this part because I don't really know (I also am not stirring shit up I'm being brutally honest lol). I didn't add any salts to my soil when I flushed it so if the pistils weren't discolouring before from the salt, why would they be now? I think it has been 5 days since that 'flush' and 2 days since my last watering (with the Schultz). Maybe this info will help you diagnose.

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pH problems cause salt build ups normally chemical salt build ups regular salt can do the same thing. Soil grows are much more forgiving than hydro and slower to act and CAN(not always) take up to a week before they show visible signs of things newly introduced into grow especially after being stressed. I was under the impression you flushed with salt water.

That said how old are your plants? It could be natural.... tbh, it can be a multitude of things.... it could be even phenotype related. Is it localized or all over the plant... sometimes if you accidentally got rough w/ an area of the plant it can bruise. It could also be a potassium deficiency. Best thing to do is go to hardware store first and buy a ph meter or soil test to check pH as that is one of the more serious things it could be and if so you need to fix it immediately. That will atleast help in ruling out the possibilities... post some pictures too.

-potlike

Tell you this Fractus...

You are NOT ready for harvest yet... there will be plenty more white pistils showing up...

Unless you totally fucked something I missed... but in all honesty...

You are doing better than I ever expected...

GypsyBush said:

Tell you this Fractus...

You are NOT ready for harvest yet... there will be plenty more white pistils showing up...

Unless you totally fucked something I missed... but in all honesty...

You are doing better than I ever expected...

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I agree with this post completely.

You are nowhere NEAR THC degredation. Your plants aren't even ripe yet.

I am sure of it. I am further along than you into 12/12 and my plants are COATED in THC and some buds have up to 80% orange pistils, and I am nowhere near harvest.

Haha thanks Gypsy. I just took a few pics to give you guys an idea where my plant is at right now.




Here check it out - Used the lens out of a cd player to take pics of my trichs, got the idea from someone else on this site . It's really hard to focus it with your hands though lol.. My trichomes still look pretty clear to me, what do you think?





There's more of those in my profile if you need to see more. These were all taken from different budsites.

I wish I could get closer with the normal camera lense to show you what the pistils look like, but it just won't focus up close, and the lens I took from the cd player actually zooms in too far to see the colour of the pistils lol. I don't really expect that the slight browning is a problem I just thought I should check with people who have seen this before. If it is pH related would there be any other signs to accompany it? While taking pictures I noticed some of the upper leaves had a bit of an upward curve to them, which would indicate heat stress, right? I think that's most likely the cause. I'll see if it recovers with those 2 bulbs removed.

Those look like trich shots from leaves not buds.

Am I wrong?

Be careful because sometimes the leaves are further developed than the actual nugage

She looks good though.

Not nearly ready either. Which is fine. Cause she will just be better as time passes.