First time stealth CFL grow in garage cabinet....

Hey Hanky! buds still curing? any chance we could have a look at some pics??
Remember we were talking about height and that my plants shouldn't get much bigger? Well apparently the unknown seed was predominantly sativa and hasn't stopped growing yet, 8 weeks into flowering now and the lady is still going... Had to LST the hell out of her and still she's about 4 ft height (keeping in mind my box is only short of 3ft, you can imagine my problems with lighting and also keeping the main stem bent), also accidently topped it trying to keep in down which actually gave me 2 pretty good looking budsites haha but I'm loving it.
Also got an ak48 going which is now at about week 3 flowering from seed.

Anyway would be great to see some bud porn from your girlies

miguel077 said:

Hey Hanky! buds still curing? any chance we could have a look at some pics??
Remember we were talking about height and that my plants shouldn't get much bigger? Well apparently the unknown seed was predominantly sativa and hasn't stopped growing yet, 8 weeks into flowering now and the lady is still going... Had to LST the hell out of her and still she's about 4 ft height (keeping in mind my box is only short of 3ft, you can imagine my problems with lighting and also keeping the main stem bent), also accidently topped it trying to keep in down which actually gave me 2 pretty good looking budsites haha but I'm loving it.
Also got an ak48 going which is now at about week 3 flowering from seed.

Anyway would be great to see some bud porn from your girlies

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Sup man! Wow that's some crazy shit dude ur gonna get buds galore! Curing? Iv smoked the shit outta that and oh my god was it incredible smoke, the smell the flavour the sweetness wad ace! I think I have 1 or 2 pics of bud in stick on here. Can't wait too grow my next bunch!
Sorry the pics aren't the best but Al I have I'm afraid!

That's awesome news!!!! I've finally got my grow, well underway and started a journal.. I really wish I was able to tell strain by the seed or even by the seedling, because from everything I've come across so far says that both BA and LaDiva are different with regards to nutes and their heartiness.. Today is 3 weeks since successful germination, and now my little buddy is about 2-3" tall and already starting to STANK!!! lol


When are you thinking about starting your next grow?? I'm wicked interested in checking out your grow, mostly because of how small it is and how you got decent results from your first grow!!!

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Sup man! Wow that's some crazy shit dude ur gonna get buds galore! Curing? Iv smoked the shit outta that and oh my god was it incredible smoke, the smell the flavour the sweetness wad ace! I think I have 1 or 2 pics of bud in stick on here. Can't wait too grow my next bunch!
Sorry the pics aren't the best but Al I have I'm afraid!

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lol glad to hear u enjoyed her!! It must be an amazing feeling after all those weeks of taking care of her...

I'm getting really impatient now and can't wait for it to be done!

HELLO EVERYONE!

Just wanted to re surface my thread for reference, as I have a grow underway!

I hope some of my friends are still on here from before, hit me up guys!

So glad to be back

This thread was a great read. Thanks bro.

Hey hanky
Just read through your whole thread and i must say you did a great job especially for a first grow.
I may be too old school but i was always under the impression that autos were only really good for outdoor guerilla growers.
Im still not sure if the smaller yield and lower potency is worth the 10-20 days savings.
Have you considered a non auto for your vertically challenged cab?
Regular plants are much easier the lst and such to manipulate however u want and choose when to flower
I think in the long run you would be better off picking a strain you like and keeping a mum. Then you could have a perpetual setup.

Id also look into dwc.
It takes all the over/under watering problems away.
And it easily doubled my growth cycles

Just my two cents man
Again props

torontoke said:

Hey hanky
Just read through your whole thread and i must say you did a great job especially for a first grow.
I may be too old school but i was always under the impression that autos were only really good for outdoor guerilla growers.
Im still not sure if the smaller yield and lower potency is worth the 10-20 days savings.
Have you considered a non auto for your vertically challenged cab?
Regular plants are much easier the lst and such to manipulate however u want and choose when to flower
I think in the long run you would be better off picking a strain you like and keeping a mum. Then you could have a perpetual setup.

Id also look into dwc.
It takes all the over/under watering problems away.
And it easily doubled my growth cycles

Just my two cents man
Again props

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randomgrow51 said:

This thread was a great read. Thanks bro.

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Thanks for the kind words guys I try and update at much as possible. To be clear my aim is cheap bud! It doesn't have to be incredible but good and tastey.

Last time. I did autos this time o have 6 photos and 3 autos. The plan was 3 small topped autos in the cab and 6 small garden and gorilla photos (yes I know it's late in the year it's part of the plan). Alot of what I do is experimenting just to mythbust (iv busted alot of myths). Thus time my 3 autos germinated fine but still haven't come out the soil worryingly, but never mind I have many healthy photos, one of which a fem strawberry blue haze which I think will be living in the cab as an LST just as you suggested!

My fist questions are when to transplant and when to flower it, obviously you can see I don't have alot of room and stealth is key.

Thanks so much for reading my entire thread by the way I really appreciate that couple snaps of my seedlings..

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Personally i have switched from the dirt to a simple aero system.
I used a middle size rubbermaid. Cut holes on the lid for baskets and an airline. Ran a little aquarium pump to make air and believe me these things love it.
As soon as the roots are shooting out if the rockwool i put the cube in the basket and thats it.
If you keep your container small and start tying or lst it when its fairly young you should end up with a serious bush in your cab.
If you are all for cheap and not really quality then your best bet is to find a quick flower photo like early mist or something and keep a mom to cut up.

Dude i just looked at your pics and i forgot....
When your seedling are that young you should really try to keep those babies as close to the light as possible.
Put something under ur pots so those seedlings dont stretch anymore

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Dude i just looked at your pics and i forgot....
When your seedling are that young you should really try to keep those babies as close to the light as possible.
Put something under ur pots so those seedlings dont stretch anymore

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Hey dude thanks for the tips.

Most of the plants in there will be thrown away as I just planted all my free seeds lol so will gorilla grow them elsewhere.

I am going to grow one photo plant in my cab with one small auto.

I have bought and prepared a trough to house the photo and am going to LST the plant along the trough as I have seen done on here many times, I want it too stay small though so when best to flip my lights to 1212? I'm also growing one outdoor auto as back up!

I'll be growing strawberry - blue haze as the photo, and Kandy kush autos. There may be 3 autos but ones still not broken the soil.

Anyone know if CoolDudeStuff is still on the forums?

Autos grow best at 20/4
And that will keep the photos in veg mode so im not reqlly sure your going to be able to flower all those together,
I would stick the autos outside myself and just focus on a serious photo with alot of shoots and lst the crap out of it.
A clone 5" tall can be put to flower at 12/12 so its up to u when u do it.
I like to wait at least til its 8-10" tall first or theres lots of roots stickin out. Just remeber that your height will be 2-3 times taller at the end of flowering as when u stop.

Yeah the autos will have to go outside when I flip the lights I see now and u will just focus on a serious photo for now, I'm going to use the trough to grow it in, plant it and one end and lst along the trough to cover as much space as possible!

Exactly man
If u could fit a trough cover or something to close the top off with id really consider aeroponics.
Its so easy and the growth difference is amazing

I am gonna look into that for my next grow buddy but sticking too soil for this one, I will change grow method every time until I've experimented with all!

So gonna transplant her in a week or so and tie the main stem all the way along the trough hopefully producing lots of side shoots and main stems! I will probably flip the light early as I can as I don't wana be growing for too long! Thanks

I remember checking out your setup back before, other than the plants, have you changed anything else?

No not really buddy

So my main plant in the cab we be a photo for definite, a world of seeds strawberry blue! I also have 2 autos that will go outside and 4 photos that are already out there but I can't keep unfortunately! Not much to report yet, will report back when I move the plant to the trough!

All the cab plants going well now, apart from one.

One auto flower sprouted with only one of the rounded leaves and is growing much slower than the other, almost looks deformed I'll include a pic. Going to assume that's a dodgy seed but we shall see how she grows!

The biggest one is the one staying in the cab for life, some major lst work hopefully! It's a world of seeds strawberry blue.

Hanky92 said:

I now have the y hanger in there, and just about too look on eBay for some pc fans, does anyone have a fan recommendation or are they pretty much all the same?

I'm going too test my soil and water pH at the weekend just in case, as I am here to learn!

Therw exactly 7 days from sprout now and looking lovely and healthy, lowered the fan so there getting a nice gentle breeze too!

Being my first grow I have too say I'm mega exited when I get home every day now just too see how much it's grown! Thanks for the help I'll keep regular updates/pics going every few days.

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Forget the pc fans dude just get a small personal fan its a better buy and you can add more lights Pc fans arent that strong!!!