New box, New grow

Well, it's time once again. Grown before over the years but always had to tear it down or stop after a single harvest for one reason or another. Going for it again cause I refuse to give up.

New box is an old book shelf converted/modded to my needs. My growspace is basically 19 1/2 inches wide by 15 1/2 inches deep by 18 inches high. A perfect space for some LST under CFLs if I do say so myself.

I've mounted two power strips to the side walls and used plug-in sockets to put 7 bulbs in there. And I dig growing under mixed spectrum so my lighting is as follows:

2x 42w warm white bulbs
3x 26w warm white bulbs
2x 26w daylight bulbs

I've got two 80mm computer fans wired up for the exhaust. I'm planning on using passive intakes, but they aren't carved yet because I haven't decided on a final solution. Right now passive intake is provided by all the unsealed gaps around the box...ie. the door, shelf and fanholes are not yet light/air tight. But those two little fans are cranking enough negative pressure to keep all those bulbs cool and the box interior is holding steady at a balmy 78 degrees Farenheit...and I think I can bring those temps down a couple more degrees once I get the box sealed up and get better airflow going. Also, if temps really become an issue, I think I can pull two of those 23w warm whites and not lose too many lumens.

My soil is MG Organic Choice. Not the Rolls Royce of soils to be sure, but I find it quite usable, cheap and readily available at non-speciallty shops, ie. Wal-Mart. For ferts (when the time comes) I have Shultz All-purpose Plant Food (10-15-10 I think), Superthrive, and Alaskan Fish Emultion (lots of N in this). Basically my plan is to use plain distilled water (pH about as close to 7.0 as you can get) until I get into the last 3-5 weeks of flowering, then hit it hard with the nutes (because the MG soil has nutes in it)

For training, I'm doing a combination of Supercropping (bruising the inner hurd) and LST (tying the plant down to the pot with bread ties) to keep the canopy even under the lights. I'm thinking of trying to mount a screen in there and switching to a ScrOG method instead but that's for a later date if I do it at all.

The lower part of the box is going to become the veg/clone chamber, and I think I may leave the bottom foot or so empty to use as storage space for my ferts and so on.

My girls (all confirmed) have been in soil for about a month and a half now. Started with some bagseed germed with the paper towel method. Once they cracked open, I planted them into some rehydrated jiffy plugs and put them under the dome. Then transplanted into their final 6 inch pots once they had first real leaves. 6 pots fit nicely into the flower chamber...though I must admit, I'd like to find square pots or go smaller to cram more plants in there. I'm looking to Dr. Bud's method from ICMag (a micro style SOG under CFLs grown in trimmed down 20 oz soda bottles), but I'm really in love with LST training. I don't know what I'm going to do here...experimentation to come later once I got this box tuned up and my grow dialed in.

To Do List:

1. Another coat of white paint.

2. Figure out intake solution.

3. Get white caulk and vasaline and seal up box.

4. Figure out odor control for the rectangular hole that my fans sit in.

5. Build veg/clone half of box.

6. Master cloning.

7. ???????

8. Profit


Before anyone starts dumping advise and suggestions on my head, remember that I know the leetsauce hasn't yet been poured on my grow and I know my box still needs a lot of work. Still, I think I'm off to a pretty good start!

Hope these pics don't suck too bad.

Rolling right along. This is the easiest hard part in the world...just gotta water, watch for signs they need nutes...and wait. If my stoner short term memory is correct (I totally should have writen it down), I started them flowering on about the 4th of May, so we're a little ways into it.

Enjoy the pics!

A quicky pic update today. They're looking great and hopefully this crappy camera will let you see the buds that are popping nicely. They got 4 droppers full of Shultz and 4 drops of Superthrive in a gallon of water this morning.

Another day, another update. The girls seem to have stopped growing up and are now growing fat. They look so tasty, I can hardly wait til I can snip the first tester nug.

Enjoy the pics!

looking good.
ive got 2 going atm in a similar size box and have been training them around the edge of the pots in a circle.

Same kind of training I'm doing...I've heard it called the Spiral of Green. Hopefully this time I can keep it rolling, and once I get into taking clones, I'll train them further around the pot, ie. veg them longer.

Stopping in and saying hello as requested. Seeing how you do by keeping it simple. I tend to overcomplicate things....lol
Thanks...

good grow bro.
my plants are about 2 weeks old and they are looking good.. i still havent picked up any nutes... wat kind of nutrients do u recomend for my grow??? nutrients that i can get at wal mart or a garden center?
oh and on ur first pics i noticed the sims 2 boxes hahah
good game when ur high lol

The nutes you see in the last pic of the first post were all bought at my local Wal-Mart supercenter in the garden department.

Thanks for stopping by. Update later today!

Well, my craptastic camera needs new batteries...and I can't find the package I just bought, so the pic update isn't very big today. Oh well, the camera doesn't take very good pics anyway...I really wish my photos could do justice to just how beautiful my girls are getting. The trichs are starting to pop real good and the colas are plumping up. And they smell just deliscious.

Keep the faith, brothers and sisters, and remember to overgrow the government...toss any seeds you can stand to be without into the wild and encourage all your friends to do the same!

Just a quicky pic update to show off how well the girls are doing. This one is within a week or so of harvest, I think.

Very nice... what are you doing for odor control? I am building a similar box and plan on starting some northern lights but i'm a little worried about the smell...

did you cut these yet?

Been too stoned to remember to post. Still need to tighten up my box. Life can be hectic like that sometimes. Hopefully the coming winter will slow external activity and allow me the opportunity to finish this project. Seeing as how next February I'm starting my outdoor organic veggie garden, I need to make good use of my time.

Just tossing out a couple of pics.

1. Cola of plant in pic 2

2. A plant I didn't LST. Seeing how it does straight up. I already know I won't be doing it again, I had to lower the shelf to accomodate and I just prefer the way the little LST'd bushes look.

3. Cola of plant in pic 4

4. One of my LST'd plants. It had two colas...one broke off from LSTing too hard, too late in flower.

5. Same plant. A rare example of an untrimmed bush that's still pretty to look at.

6. A reveg (3rd time through) just starting to get the "funny leaves" that means it's back in veg mode. Couple weeks and this will go back under 12/12. She's produced a bit under an ounce dryweight across the previous two flowerings. Will be trying to clone from this plant as it's done extremely well each time.

7. New seedling #1

8. New seedling #2

9 New seedling #3

10. Another reveg from the same cycle as the last one. A lot of popcorn on this one as you can see. I'm not sure how it's going to do.


Sorry the pics are blurry. Hope you enjoy.

A couple pics of some manicured popcorn. Yum!

Just chopped and trimmed up this beautiful cola bud. Her sister bud still on the plant is even bigger.




*edit*

A couple more pics from the veg area.

hey weaver just responded in my grow to your comment and have read through your grow and am wondering how is it you get those stems so damm fat lol man those girls do look tasty hope all is well have a good one

Fat stems = Supercropping. Crush the inner herd of the stem tissue during veg growth and the early flower stretch. I do it every other week right before a really good feeding and I usually tie them down after giving them a squeeze. My girls like it rough...just ask my wife.

I'll try to get some new pics up soon. Out of batteries for the camera.

Flower box is currently empty.

But the veg room is doing awesome, and having the flower box down gives me a chance to work on it. The next round of flowering is coming in a few days to a week or so, and it's looking to be another exciting run.

Go back to post #15 and look at pic #8. See that seedling in the small cream-colored pot? We start today's update with a pic of her. Looking at her leaves, I'm guessing she's got plenty of sativa blood in her. Pic 2 is a 2-day-old clone from this plant. Cut a nice long branch and put it into a glass custard dish with some distilled water that had in it a couple drops of Superthrive. Nothing fancy, just going to see how it does when I keep it simple.

Back to post #15, but this time look to pic #9. Well she is taking well to the LST and is looking to be a very compact bush, plenty of indica in her. A couple more days and she's going to be getting a haircut.

Our next pic has a bit of a horror story to go with it. I was tightening down her LSTing yesterday and her head popped off! So, after a little trimming, into a custard dish the top went. In the spirit of experimentation, this one is in water straight from the tap, no Superthrive.

Post 15, pic 6 shows one of my little pink pistiled beauties revegging. Well, here's two pics of her now! A top view and a side shot. Clones coming from this one soon; she's a real keeper, very vigorous.

Then two pics of the reveg with all the popcorn. The one I didn't know how she'd turn out? Yeah, she's doing great! But I'm not sure if she's mother material...not like the one from the last two pics.

Onto a pic of the plant from post 15, pics 3, 4 & 5. She's not quite so happy in reveg. Lots of browning and necrotic looking tissue. Think I need to give her soil a good flushing.

Post 15, pics 1 & 2. Here she is in reveg. The buds I left behind are rock hard, and it was tough not to cut them as they look delicious. If I'm remembering correctly, this plant is the clone/top of a previous plant that died in reveg. Another potential mom, but it's the same pink genetics, so I'm not sure which will be my final keeper.

Last, but not least, a group pic of the forest in my closet.

Light up a spliff and stay tuned folks. My next flowering run should be awesome!