Mohican's 2012 Indoor Malawi Grow

Well she is really starting to stretch! Looks a little scraggley! I wonder if I should top her?

Asked Uncle Ben where to top her:




Day 62:



Cheers,
Mo

Here are the seeds I got from Attitude:

Product: Holy Smoke Seeds Mulanje Gold Regular
Options: Reg Seeds Per Pack - 12 Seeds
Quantity: 1

Product: UFO#1 CH9 Female Seeds Afghan Haze 33
Quantity: 1

Product: FREE Holy Smoke 2 x Malawi Gold Reg
2 x Mozambique Poison Reg
2 x Mulanje Gold Reg
Quantity: 1

Pics:








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Mo

She is still growing fine and I defintely want to top her. Then I can get a clone for outside and I can spread the mother out more under the screen of green!

Day 63 LED light only:




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Mo

OK - Here goes!

Clone tool area:




Before:




After:




Mother:




Top/Clone:




That was tense! Now I need to make a cloner big enough for the top/clone!


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Mo

Figured out a way to get that big clone setup in a dome. Put two clear totes together and clamped them together with big clips:


Cloner:





Here is how I light the clone - I put two 5500K CFLs in socket plugs and plugged those in a power bar. I placed the power bar on the top of the cloner with the lights facing up (tried it sideways but the lights were too hot for the plastic IMO). Then I covered the lights with a blue tote.


Cloner with lights:







The clone/top is upright and not a bit wilty!



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Mo

All I needed was a little table!




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Mo

Two more shower curtain rods and I have a support for my screen:






Top view:





Side view:





Clone:




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Mo

While I was cleaning out my cupboard for the grow I came accross this:








It is so much better when you have one of these! hehe

I think I should hook my fans up to it.


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Mo

Not enough growth for screen yet so I will LST until it is ready:






Put clone/top outside in the shade to start getting it accustomed to the sun.

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Mo

She is really using up the res water fast now. I think I will need to add a second res to make it easier to deal with the water during flower and ScrOG.


Day 70:




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Mo

This whole second res idea got me thinking about having a shelf instead of a table. This way I can slide the second res under the first one. I need to add some plumbing to the top res so I can transfer the water:


Bulkhead:







Drilling holes:




Installation:




Cupboard with shelf:




New plumbing:





I cleaned everything while I had the tote apart. Cleaned the sprinkler heads, pipes, filters, pumps, airstones and tubing... Everything works like new!


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Mo

She loves the new system! I can add water every day easily and check the nutes and add nutes - this is great.


Day 74 Top View:




pH 5.4
ppm 1000 Flora Nova Bloom (Scottyballs method)


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Mo

OK - some of the gurus on RIU said I might get algae from using clear tubing so I went with an upgrade. Plants like copper and my whole house uses copper plumbing so I custom built some copper pipes for my baby.



New plumbing:




Whole system:





Day 76 growth:





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Mo

I love these big fan leaves - they are huge!


Leaf Macro:




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Mo

Well I have much more growth now and several heads. I think it is time to put the Kessil to the test. What do you think?


Kessil H350 Magenta LED:




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Mo

Yes I have. He has done some amazing things How are you doing?

Damn mo..you been busy! Making me want to play with my waterfarm again. If I had a big space I'd have all kind of stuff going on..one day. Dreaming of a 4 x 4 now that I've got all this DIY led power

I want to build a dedicated grow shed with all of the goodies including CO2. I want to be able to have high humidity without worrying about messing up the room. I also want to be able to run electrical and air ducting without making any modifications to my house.

Did you ever see Scottyballs grow with the waterfarm? All he used was a slightly modified WF (bigger air pump and better water ring) and GH Flora Nova Bloom (Lucas Formula) and he grew pound plants consistently!