My 400w,DWC,SCROG, stealth cab!!!

Started a journal with this, and figured I'd post it here for feedback. Really would like to get some advice from the "Old Heads" on RIU. I've been here bout a year reading my ass off, and now I figure its time to apply what I have learned.

Got my beans from Attitude, showed up in about 7 bizdays (awesome if you ask me). Ordered White Widow fem(ceres seeds), and AfghanKush fem(World of Seeds). Freebies were Blue Mystic, Ice, and Royal Queen #1,all from Royal Queen Seeds, all fem. I was sure I had ordered a photoperiod AFKush, but when they arrived I was shocked to see they were Autoflowers :wall:. I had planned on having three mothers: WW,AfK, and whatever freebie I wanted to tryout. Well since the AfK Is an autoflower, that just means I wont have to smoke reg.BS much longer:clap:. So the new plan is to have WW, Ice, and Blue Mystic as my three mothers for a perpetual grow. The only thing I am unsure about is the choice between using the lady’s from seed for flowering, while keeping clones for mothers, or what I had originally intended and taking clones from the moms from seed to flower. I know you would normally use a clone to determine sex, but I’m hoping for all to go well with fem. seeds so hopefully there won’t be worry for herms. My intentions are to get KO smoke ASAP. As for the perpetual portion, I want to take 2 clones from all 3 mothers @ 3 weeks of veg from seed , root chamber for 1 week, veg for 1 to 2 weeks and flower for 8. Taking new clones 6 weeks into flower to give them a min. of 1wk RC/1wk Veg. For flowering I am unsure which "style" i want to attempt, I am def. going DWC, and really want to try grow scrog. Problem is my flo. chamber is 32"wide,20" deep, and height is not an issue. Is this enough room to scrog 6 plants. Lastly i was thinking abouttopping for 4 colas,or maybe FIM, is this feasible in scrog? Thanks much for any and all help. Here is my current timeline. I plan to update frequently up to the week I start to flower the clones or moms, then weekly during flower.

Timeline

9/26 9pm Germed 1AfgKush, 1White Widow, 1Blue Mystic,1 ICE

9/27 9pm Saw roots on BM,WW

9/29 2am Placed all 4 in Rw in DWC rez with distilledwater @ 5.8ph

water about 1/2 inch from bottom of 3" net pots

(3) 2' T-5's, on 24/0

9/29 5pm Cab temp 90's rez 80, Started water bottle rotation (every 6hrs) rez temps 60-70.

9/30 11am All 4 have sprouted !!!! BMalready has roots in the water
9/30 6pm Added nutes (4ml Dyna Grow to 2 gal). PPM 250 (distilled water was about 40ppm). Added (4) 23w (75Repl.) CFL's
Updates to come...CP

Since I have problems uploading pics, I just opened a "Public" Photobucket enjoy...
The password is: c123456
http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb366/charliepotmuffin/?albumview=slideshow
 

nick17gar

Well-Known Member
subbed up, good luck man!

PS: post the pics on here, id imagine someone will go and alter your albums there.
 
Ya I thought about that I am just having problems uploading, I have tried from website, and from computer. Hoping the viewers will be responsible, it just a random account wanted to get the pics up somehow.
 
Picking up from last update
9/30 6pm- Added nutes (4ml Dyna Grow to 2 gal). PPM 250 (distilled water was about 40ppm). Added (4) 23w (75Repl.) CFL's

10/1-10/03- Rotated 20 oz wb every 6-8 hrs, cab temps 75-85, rez temps 60-70, RH 35-55%, PPM a steady 250, PH steady 5.8, BM,ICE,AFG Kush all had 3" roots hangin by 10/2
10/4 2pm- Raised the lights 3" because the 3rd set of leaves(very small) had a light brownish tint, and after a little RIU research, i had concluded the problem was heat stress. Cab temp 78, rez temp 65, RH 45%, PPM 240( finally they are eating), PH 5.8
10/4 10pm- brownish tint on leaves seems to already be fading back to green(Thanks RIU wish I could remember which thread had convinced me to move lights up). Anyhow all is well PPM,Ph,temps,RH are around the same as earlier. I am adding new pics to the photobucket so refer to the first post for logon info enjoy!!! CP
 

virulient

Active Member
Yea, that's a lotta light, should work out nicely. Especially since you decided to go with the SCRoG. I'm along for the ride on this one!
 
Update 10/17
Ok well I've been battling nute burn for a week now I did a complete flush today and reset my ppm to 150 just to be safe and decided not to add the super thrive I had added 10/7. Any advive on the ppm adjustment is much appreciated. I plan to veg for another week, top between the 5th and 6th node and use the topped portion of the plant as my mothers, veg for a week for recovery (and insurance of clones rooting), and switch to flower. Here are my pics along with comments/questions.:blsmoke: CP
Pics from top left to bottom right
P1: ice, nute burnt the most. Will the leaves recover because new growth is fine
P2: white widow, slightly burnt. Same question as above
p3: aerial of the new lid
p4: blue mystic, fastest growing most nutrient tolerent of the bunch
P5: afghan kush: already seems to be budding (shes an auto). Already shortest of the bunch seems to handle nutes the same as the WW
P6: WW nute burn
P7: Ice nute burn
P8: New HO T-5 fixture 96w 4 bulb fuxture
P9: another attempt at capturing the pistils on the afghan
 

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