Organic white widow and headband purple pineapple 2000w

HEY this is don Juan with my newer organic indoor grow. I have some extensive experience with indoor hydro on larger scales, but this is my first smaller indoor soil grow. I have a degree in agriculture so this is one of my passions.

I decided to do soil rather than hyrdo for the ease of setup and the organic way with beneficial microorganisms. Also I want to be able to leave for a few days without having to worry about pumps and clogged drippers etc.

So here is a basic description of the grow:

Contained in 4x8 tent
2 1000w digital HPS (air cooled) (enhanced blue spec)
435 cfm blower-- vent into attic
550 cfm charcoal filter
2 4x4 trays with 16 plants and 25 respectively
3 GAL square pots
fox farm ocean forest with great white mychorihizae and high phosphorus guano
oscillating fan

One tray (16 plants) of widow and headband is about to be harvested and the other tray (25 plants) of mostly purple is 4 weeks into flower. I vegged the widow and headband for 3 weeks so they got kinda big.

The purple was vegged under t5 cfl for a week. So you can see that they are the smaller plants.

My goal is to be harvesting one tray per month, and I am switching both trays over to 25 plants, as this is more efficient. Let me explain myself: SOG

After my first two harvests i will calculate the grams per Kwh to compare efficiencies.

The purple pineapple kush is a crazy strain that is like grape ape but with kush in it. This strain was developed by a friend in my hometown and is actually not even supposed to be in my possession, as noone is supposed to grow it . I got my hands on a few clones so i'm stoked. I have tried to look it up it is nowhere to be found.

What does everyone think about harvesting by the look of these pictures? Id say mostly ripe maybe a day or two more. Today is day 60 of flowering.

You can see some mite damage on the white widow, for some reason neem oil and lady bugs just isn't cutting it. I think predator mites must be ordered monday.

Any questions or comments are much appreciated.

she looking real good bra! nice set-up, why didn't u let those smaller plants veg alil longer?

Beauty bro,dankage

piffsmokingmaniac said:

she looking real good bra! nice set-up, why didn't u let those smaller plants veg alil longer?

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I have a few reasons not to veg them longer. first of all, I dont have that option as that room as on a cycle that continually flowers all the time, so there is no vegging going on in there. Veg happens in a closet and there just is not enough room to let them get much bigger, but next round I plan on having them a slight bit larger before they go in. the floor space is limited in my veg room and with 25 plants plus mothers and clones there is only enough room for dixie cups for vegging. SOOO, they get root bound and can only get about 6 inches tall. This actually works out better as you can see 25 plants quickly uses all the available space and soon I will have a continuous canopy, which will in theory be more effecient then taller plants where the lower buds dont get huge anyways.

I like the idea of more plants with less veg time because it is more efficient with light use. This principle is used in orchards also where trees take up to 10 or more years to mature, lots of trees occupy the area to make the most efficient use of it.

Efficiency in this matter would be how many kilowatt hours did it cost to produce one gram, and if i veg for three weeks that is almost doubling the amount of power that goes into the nugs.

24hrs x 1000 watts x 3 weeks = 12 hrs x 1000 watts x 6 weeks.

With an 8 weeks flower cycle that means that those big plants will need to be able to produce almost twice as much as those little ones.

Only time will tell-- Im starting to harvest tonight

Nice man I am going to start a very similar set-up to this in January!! keep us posted on the yield +rep

makes sense still great job im tuned in!

spoil yourself and find more room for your veg! you obviously know what your doing and vegging those babies abit longer will pay off later on! keep up the good work and that first pic (purple pineapple kush) WOW! looks like a god dam mutant, very nice