My grow - 1 Jack herer, 2 durban poisons, 1 Afghani x white widow

Hi everyone,
Im rather new to this forum, you guys have helped me with my first few stabs at soil growing.
And now I am giving Hydro a go, Im loving the new dynamic! So I thought id share my first hydro grow with you all.

My setup:
1x 1.2meter square x 2meter high growlush tent
1x 600watt hps light
1x 100mm fan plus carbon filter
A 4 pot hydroponic "Buddy system"
1 x SCROG.

The nutrients I have been using. The only major nutes I have put in my grow are:
House and Garden (the coco one as thats what I had left over from my soil growing) A + B mixtures. Superthrive (only during my vegative phase), Budstorm (only during flowering) and canna NPK 13 - 14 (Only towards the end of flowering).

My Current grow:
I started out rough trying to get the hang of my hydro setup, Once I got the Nute mix down I vegged my plants to a nice healthy size first topping them on 3 seperate nights and then weaving them through my scrog net and zip-tying down where i need to. These plants vegged for 5 weeks under an 18 -6 light schedule with my 600w HPS.

The Pics you are seeing today are of my plants at the end of two weeks into their flowering phase, I have not changed my nute mix much:
No more superthrive now. I am still using House and Garden coco A+B mix (Though I have a nice new pair of house and garden "hydro" [not coco] bottles sitting there for next week). All i have done is made my mix stronger and getting readings from my Ec/CF meter - currently they are around 20 to 22 on the cf. I am also adding 1ml per litre of this "Budstorm" stuff which seems to be making a positive difference!

I have done all the tying down I could possibly do on my net, they just keep growing and growing, but near their end of their stretch phase (all except for the Jack) Providing I keep doing everything all right I am looking forward to a nice healthy harvest!

Any feedback, comments or questions I would love to hear, I will get some better pics up soon if there is enough interest

Looks good nice setup , I have something similar going on but 5 plants and no scrog. I plan to scrog next. My only suggestion wud be to get the light closer if you can with out heat problems. Good Luck.


Happy Growing!

Hey, thanks,
Yeah I currently have the light a little higher because of heat issues, u were bang on with that, - even at that height they are sweating a little. I can only have a smallish fan blowing on these , but as stretching slows and they flower some more I will look into lowering the light a bit more

Oh ok i figured so. What i did was get the litle fans and tie them to the side poles above the canopy aimed between the light and the tops , you can even hang a fan above the canopy from the top poles. Good Luck.


Happy Growing!

Hi all,
I thought I may as well post an update of how things have been going in my room.

I have had some real disasters lately - 2 out of the four pots got so root bound that the drainage holes were blocked big time by root mass, so for about a week my buckets were filling up but not draining... in fact everyday I would check my tent only to see a solid pool of water around my pots/plants
Being ultra new to hydro it took me a long time to diagnose it was the roots causing this. here is a lesson for everyone...

IF YOU ARE NEW TO HYDRO - DO NOT "SCROG"!! If anything goes wrong like it has for me - it is a fucken NIGHTMARE to try and fix!

So on the first plant with the root problem (my jack herer) I was getting so exhausted from trying to hold the pot in place at the back (worst) place of the tent - that when I seen what was going on - i just literally grabbed a handful of roots and yanked them off - water came flooding out all over me but that fixed that!
The 2nd pot I managed to adjust the roots with out removing any - was much easier the 2nd time now I new how to get to the problem area.

So all fixed and draining well now. The jack who I yanked the roots off doesnt seem to be bothered at all - no stunting etc, but will see how the end result is!

hopefully everything is running all smooth now

Im keen as to share a few more updated pics (3 and a half weeks into flowering) if you guys are keen to see??
They are huge mother fuckn plants now - even with the screen holding them down theyv nearly grown 2meters in their stretch stage - and they dont seem to be slowing down!

hey im keen as to see how that budstorm is working for you, not many people on here seem to use green dream but ive used it last two grows,

post some more pics!!
i wouldnt mind doing a test to see if the budstorm does anything it smells like chicken soup and wees

just seen your from nz too, also having mad trouble with heat im getting heaps of eagle claws now have to keep fans on during whole day

you can get your light much closer by geting a super spreader, im guessing you get your stuff from sog?
expensive for what they are but i can have my light 10cm from my tops without burning them

http://sog.shopau.biz/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=58
helps deflect direct heat i was recommended to use by a m8 and worked mint as

Hey are you still growing? I'd like to get some seeds/clones