White Rhino PC Case Grow & More

Well to start things off, I got 10 White Rhino seeds and some of them are germinating now. Along with those seeds that are germinating I have a clone that I received the other day that looks like it is starting to take root

Soil: 1/3 Store Brand Soil + 1/3 Schultz's Peat Moss + 1/3 Schultz's Perlite

Water: Tap water which is 6.8 or 7.0 pH I forgot.

Temperature: Growing Temps usually stay around 78-80 degrees during the light cycle being on.

Lights: 3X 23 Watt CFL -- 24/0 Light Cycle

Well not really much to update on but heres some more pictures of the clone today and some pictures of the seeds starting to crack up. Looks like I will be able to plant them tomorrow

Well it was nice to check on my seeds and see that 3/4 seeds of White Rhino that I was germinating have tap roots showing, which means I happily planted them.

Day 1 (3/05): 3/4 Seeds Planted in Soil mixture with a slight watering/misting. The clone is also looking good. Since the pot that it is translucent, I cant kinda see threw resulting in me being able to see root growth. I cover the pot when it goes back in to the case so that light can not touch the roots

Day 2 (3/06): Well still nothing really exciting to update with, but my 4th white rhino seed popped and was planted. I gave all 4 of the Rhinos a decent watering as they were pretty dry, must have not watered enough yesterday.

Clone is also looking good, root growth is coming in great, hopefully it will start to grow above ground too

Day 3 (3/07): Checked on my rhinos just a bit ago and saw that 3 of them have now sprouted above ground Also got a sweet new temperature and humidity gauge that I didnt install yet, so I will take pictures of those later. But for now heres some more pictures of the rhinos that popped today and of course more of my clone.

Enjoy

*edit* Clone also got a watering today

Yay I get to watch them from birth to bowl! Im excited becuase my hogs breath grow is only 3 days younger than yours! I hope you yield all ladies!

Nice man! That clone looks crazy -> so many leaves on top haha.

willRavage: Thanks! I will definitely go and check out your journal too, will be nice to kinda compete/compare how out plants are going during the whole process.

thelittletruck: Yeah it looks so sweet for how many leaves are on top. I wish they would start to plump up a bit so that all the growth that I see inst below ground and above.


Well I now have 2 temperature and humidity gauges. Somehow I ran across another one today and I dont know which one to install, both are awesome, hrmmm.

Ill post pictures of them both very soon. <---- Because its so exciting to see them, haha

Well I put up the new temperature and humidity gauge. Its pretty neat how it works. Temperature of my case was at 77 degrees when I opened it. Which is usually around the average of temperatures. I kind of want to add 2 more lights or upgrade the wattage on my bulbs if I can continue to keep the case temperatures down.

Also, the 4th white rhino is starting to nudge the dirt away and peek out, should be fully above ground by tomorrow I'm guessing. The other three Rhinos are still working on standing up all the way.

Day 4 ( 3/08 ): 3/4 of the four Rhinos are now fully out of the group and the 4th one is working its way up, its peaking. Misted the seedlings too. Other then that clone finally looks like it is starting to grow above ground too

Heres pictures of all the plants, a couple pictures were blurry and I didn't know, sorry

nice work man! how often do you water? you may not have an issue, but i believe i had one early on.

it's tricky because you gotta try and keep the seedling roots moist constantly, then slowly spread out the waterings and increase watering amounts. Remember! Look at the size of your plant, and ask yourself how much water it needs! Small plants do not need THAT much water. hope that helps =p

good sir! yes i do like that top-down pic of that clone. mmmmmmmm. so pretty!

thelittletruck: do any of my plants show signs that i am not watering them enough yet? I mean the seedlings are really small still. I have only really misted/little watering, nothing too heavy yet. I think I will either water them later today or tonight, I need to let some tap water sit out first. But thanks for that little tip makes sense, size of plant and amount of water.

I really like the top down picture of the clone too, it makes it look like so much

looking good.. keep us posted!

dertmagert: thanks, and will try and keep posting pictures daily. Always nice to be able to see daily progress

Day 5 (3/09): I wish today I was able to say that all the plants are completely above ground but that damn plant that I planted a day later then all the others is taking its sweet time.

Everything still looks like it is going good. I didn't water then yesterday so I think today should be good because that soil is damn dry.

As for the clone everything looks like it is still going well. Wondering when I should top the thing? Since its ahead of my other rhinos I dont want it getting too tall and outta control before they catch up.

This week I am going to start to think of ways to light proof it some more, my case still has light peak out around corners. I also need to figure out a way to get a carbon scrubber, not a HUGE deal, but would be nice to not have everything smell like weed around me. I also need to start thinking of how to build a screen so that I can tame my plants under it . I think Im going to get some really small PVC pipe with some 90 degree turns and make a rectangle. Then Ill get some wire and just drill holes around the pipe and put the wire through to make a nice screen.

Anyways enough talking heres the pictures

That all looks great! Hey I was wondering becuase I just noticed my plant grew a lot in just 5 hours!
Take a look of 9:30am today:



And Five Hours Later:


Did this happen to you when your plants sprouted?

Yeah it did. I should have taken some morning and night pictures both times I checked. But it has happened every time I have had seedlings. Last time I checked the night before, nothing and I checked afternoon the next day, and BAM.... It was up and already had its first set of leaves growing, I was like that was fast

But my other two times I tried to grow I never got past a seedling, damn things were always stunted to a new reason every time I tried more bagseed. Now I got some good Rhino and I think I got all the kinks out to get this to work this time.

Good plants going on there. I never forget the feeling you get when the first leaves start to appear that feeling of pride is great

Conoclast: Every set of new leaves is such a great feeling. When I check and I see new growth it makes me smile that I am doing something good

Ok so I have been doing my fair share of research on carbon scrubbers, but now I am almost turned off by one since they become so loud because of the fans. I found this overkill device, the vaportek 4000, almost 200 bucks and definitely inst worth it for me since I am growing in a computer case. So I kept looking around and found that a lot of people also recommended the smaller one, that inst quite the same. Its like 30 bucks I found it for, and I figure you need to change those filters and carbon its gonna come out to be the same and I would rather not have any smell period, so what the hell, Ill spend a tad more, less work, since I don't have to build it.

But yeah here is there website Pet Odor Control, Skunk Odor Control, Dog Odor Control :: Vaportek

If anyone wants me to explain it in more detail let me know. I read up on it a bunch and think it is great for smaller grows.