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[growinman]

Just starting/saving this...........will work on it more later......



Okay.........here's my af20 with the small res; just cleaned and put back together......

It's set up so it can be a flood/drain too--------vvvv

I just put these SS clones(11) in this dwc and I have another one just like it w/10 in it------------>these'll all go into the AF around the 20th in my 12/12 room.......

This is my experiment flood/drain table(2'x3') and these are now my SS moms and ready to give a big batch of clones for a 3'x6' f/d table(yet to be built).....

This is my 12/12 room....it's 7'x11'x7'6"
And here's my last run with soil(wk 4 here; pic taken the 22nd, Oct) due to chop around the 20th......They're SuperSkunk that I 've been running for over 2 yrs now and they average 2- 2.5 zip per @ 58-62 days.

So there's some pics for you....... I rotate the SS with MoonFlower, now I have

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[growinman]

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[growinman]

WHAT?? No edit button for post #2?? Did I wait too long?? Well, I forgot I started this................




Here's my current veg set-up:

kind of dark(sorry)

<----a couple of new samples(THC Bomb and Mazar x Afghan) that I am going to try-- I 've been vegging the plants(5 of ea.) for over two months and just now starting to show sex under 24/0.

The table is so easy!!

It's a 2'x3' as I said in the earlier post.....I just bought 3 more of the trays; I will get some pics when I put them together.

So you want a current bud shot(budzzzzzzz)?

haha

and that was on the 9th too......I will get a fresh one just before the lights come on in about an hour.....---they get the chop on the 20thish and then we'll be in the hydro and I 'll keep this journel up much better......

As I was trying to say in my first post(at the end) was that I am going to do a run each of THC Bomb and also Mazar x Afghan----- I just confirmed some moms this morning of each and I have clones in the bubble cloner from them. Does anyone know anything much about wither of these? The MA seems real short and stalky w/wide leafs, very indica, whereas the TB seems to want to stretch a bit more and skinnier leafs, yet very stout....

More later...........

 

[growinman]

Just back from the cave......on with the final flushing of the girls almost ready for chop chop.......Then I will be down to about 10 or so that will be outy by mid Dec.......when the tables go in
A little fatter than last week?? Trichs are all still cloudy but to the point where there all going to go amber at once---cant have that........

MoonFlower girl at 6ish weeks........This is the sweetest smelling/smoking shit ever, yet a pain in the ass with how it branches.

Group shot of the back half

<----cool pic of when the hps fired up tonight. I went in about 5 mins early to get these pics. Yes it's a 1000 on a rail, non-vented because I took all of that down so I can rearrange for the new set-up........and I do have a 12,000btu ac to help.... Temp stays 75-80 lights on, 67 lights off........ I run that light and a 600 in there right now.......soon to be 3-4 600's(vented)

I forgot to upload my dwc(2 place 10 gal) that's in there now-----but I got to shrink the pics and upload them........time for a bowl and dinner and.....shit, I got to fill up that cloner!

 

[growinman]

update on the clones getting ready for the AeroFlo.
When I first put them in there a week ago:

Today:

They're coming back to life after shoving them into the hydroton naked from the bubble cloner and will kick ass now as they get some roots:

Yeah, that's the weakest looking one of all!<----go back and see which one it is! These are the SuperSkunks............
Edit: Yes those are coca liners in the nets----the holes were too big, now I have the right ones for next batch....

 

[growinman]

Okay.........haven't had a chance to update this....which may be the case at times as this grow progresses----> I get in trouble with my woman when I am on here 'too' much.....haha could be a lot worse. She already doesn't like my grow; never has. So literally, you guys on here are the only ones I can talk "growing" with....as I have nobody that knows what I do exactly......and nobody has ever seen...... Rule #1

Something else that will be noticed and mentioned is this:

This is a trait that all of my SS has. I liked it 2 yrs ago...sometimes half a leaf looks completely bleached, or just in the vains. It's unique, I 've thought. The smoke is great and actually has a good skunky aroma to it, though not like the old RK....... I have this pheno completely dialed in and quite regularly get 2 zips per(never over 24'' either)....... She will remain my #1 unless something really looks cool.

So, update??
Clones are now ready to go out to the AF20 after 2 weeks in veg and growing roots.....
All SS

There is 11 of them ready to go(hopefully can do it tomorrow). I am going to go straight from the cloner to the 3" baskets to the AF with whatever it takes to make 20......
I have clones coming out my ......... and all of the Mazar x Afghan has roots. I put a couple in the rw plugs to go to the 4" x 4" cubes to be ready for my table that will be going into the 12/12 room in the next few days. The THC Bomb is just now starting to root; they all have the bumps.

There are 20 SS cuts to the left in there that are at day 6 and will all have roots within 3 days max........wtf----got to figure something out for them too........

So anyway, got work to do..... the AF is ready to go

That will be the focus of this journel once it's up and going........it's going right now. I just need to move a couple of 600's for it, set up the nutes and pH..........
And new toys. I just need that flange(adapter) for my Can 50 to a vortex and I cant seem to find it...... Timer for the table, another fan, speed controller for the vortex....

Sorry for all of the pics if you have a slow connection.......I will figure out how to get them in here as attachments.......

I 'll get into the finer details as this progresses.........

 

[growinman]

Well, my computer is down.......wont even power up. So I am borrowing my woman's comp for a min. Shit, I 'd better be able to fix mine: ALL of my pics(1000's) are on there--so this might be a hard lesson for me........

So anyway, until I get my comp up again, or get a new one, I probobly wont be on here much for a week or so maybe........not that anybody is watching this yet.......

But I got the final touches on my 12/12 room done last night, so by tonight I should be bringing in the kids to go to their new home......

I have the nute solution settling in the AF right now.

So their first nute in 12/12 is at:
900ppm---they were over 1000ppm in veg
5.8pH
RH is at 55%
temp is 77-79degrees lights on- 74 lights off

I am using Canna Aqua series w/ rhiz and cannazyme per schedule and will hit with PK 13/14 in weeks 3,4,5.

I am running a 12,000btu ac unit that heats as well(I dont yet vent my lights), a 440cfm canfan w/38special filter, and a back-up dehumidifier and radiator heater(oil filled), and a few fans.

For light over the AF I am using a 600 and 400 hps, until my 1000 is finished with my soil girls and then it will replace the 400 until I get another 600.

I will be putting in 10 SS clones that are in 3" hydroton filled baskets tonight and then in a few days I will get 10 Mazar x Afghan clones in there. This should all prove to be tooooo crammed together but these are both very short/stalky breeds.........so after this run I will probobly be building a custum unit StinkBud style if this goes okay............or there's always back to soil where my experience is........

Have a great week

 

[T@ll T33]

shit someone aint goin for no one!!!

 

[growinman]

shit someone aint goin for no one!!!

wtf??? okay...........

........anyway, got a new computer last night. I dont know how to get the pics, etc., off of my old computer...........help?? It wont even power up or anything. Is there a way to take the info out of the old comp and get it on this one? What do I need to do??

So I got the AF loaded with 11 SS and got all the shit to get a table going in there to(2'x3') to play with......I 'll get the AF full first. It seems to be running awesome!
One quick thing I have to watch is the temps in the res.........with the pump going 24/0 the temp in the res is at 74 and the room is staying right at 78-79 lights on and lettin it get down to 70ish lights off......
The ppm was 950, pH was at 5.9 after 48hrs.........

So anyone know about recovering my pics from my old comp??

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

 

[Cannabox]

ya, you need to remove the harddrive out of your old computer, and put it in your new one as a slave drive. then you can drag and drop the pictures to your new drive, or just keep your old drive in there for extra storage..

 

[growinman]

ya, you need to remove the harddrive out of your old computer, and put it in your new one as a slave drive. then you can drag and drop the pictures to your new drive, or just keep your old drive in there for extra storage..

Thanks Cannabox!! That's makes perfectly good sense!.....and sounds like it may be a neat place to keep them 'kept' as well. +rep4u!

 

[growinman]

..........haven't got my pics moved over to this new computer yet.......

But a few updates......

It was officially 1 day into 12/12 for the AF and 11 SS girls yesterday, Thanksgiving 2008.

Yes, they're a bit lanky and the light was moved back down. It's just a 600 right now and on a mover----the other 600 is over the finishing soil ladies for tonight and then I 'll get the 1000 fired back up tomorrow, I hope..
I have Mazar x Afghan and a couple of THC Bomb clones in veg dwc for a couple of more days and then to put in the AF.

These dirt girls are only 4 weeks in and will be done for Christmas.......and yes, that's a 12gal rubbermaid dwc in the back with 2 SS ladies that I need to scrog

Then I got to playing around and got a (diy)table partially set up in the back.....I have the water getting ready now, the hydroton rinsed good, and clones/plants ready to go in tomorrow.........we'll see......

I have an 18gal res, recycle timer, a 396 gal pump----oh, shit, the table is 2'x3'x7"...........
........and I have a couple of big mums that I want to flower in 5 gal buckets(dwc), so I have the pumps, stones and everything to get that going.........

Sounds like too much for a lazy stoner like myself-------so it'll be a couple of days before I get it all done.

 

[atcjon]

great looking grow and setup. +rep

 

[T@ll T33]

real nice staying tuned

 

[growinman]

Thanks for checking in here you guys!! Things are looking up!

Just a couple of pics from the Dec 2nd....... I think they've already doubled in size again in the past 3 days: I will try to get pics before lights on today.

It will open a lot of room when I can get the rest of these soil girls out of there.
The SS in the AF is stretching a bit as I have the light about a foot too high so I dont burn the other buds..... They are in there until just before Christmas-then we have another surprise!

They seem to be taking the nutes very well and already are drinking about 1/2+ gal a day and I only have half of the system full........so I am already looking to set up a bigger res.

Thanks for dropping in!!

 

[growinman]

.......just peaked in there for a shot without the lights

........and one of the better tools I have bought, thanks to Al B.

A salad spinner is worth its' weight in gold for getting water out of rockwool!!

The first two pics were the SS in the AF20 as of today(10mins ago)... The pics are small because of the limits here posting them like this........so any help with how to put them in here via attachments, or something better? My cam is a 10.2 and takes great pics.......you should see the frost on the bud there, at 4 weeks in 12/12......

 

[growinman]

........just another day on the job......
Seems like things have been changing daily and my plans change as often.... I had wanted to get the flood/drain table going about a week ago with some of the clones I have ready, as well as fill the other half of the AF......and one thing leads to another.
I do have a group that is ready to go out to the table. But I think I 've waited too long to put another group in the AF--->in ten days they have really filled out and I haven't trimmed enough and they are going to be some stout little bushes, leaving no room for the next channel to be filled. They are really growing more rapid and stout than when in FFOF. Plus, with the nute schedule I cant be that far appart; I was wanting only a few days max between groups going in the AF. So there are only 11 SS in there now and I may add one or two more.......

So, I will mother out a couple of the Mazars and TB's and get the rest to the table in 12/12 asap.

I am really going to need to set up a bigger res for the AF next run and I cant believe how much the 11 are drinking now!(shit, I was crawling around looking for leaks or puddles an hour ago....)

Oh, I just picked up one of those 'Gro Mats' with the wire rack($55!). I am going to try my next set of cuttings in the 1.5"x1.5" rw cubes and see how that goes. If I have good success with that then I would have the option of setting those on the 3" net baskets of hydroton, or the big ones for the table------seems like I really shock them for a few days when I first take them out of the bubble cloner and go right in the rocks......

So I am going to smoke this fatty of MoonFlower and head down to a greasy burger and fries at the beach; I already called and ordered....anybody want to go??

 

[growinman]

......I have these two SS girls in a 10 gal dwc that I made in November.

It went 12/12 11/13/08........ I haven't gotten a pic of it lately but I changed out the nutes today and I cant believe the growth and kick-ass buds growing already(3 weeks in)! You cant even see the top of the res! I was going to scrog it, and I still may(have to)..... I am running the GH 3 part plus a bit of cal-mag for a ppm of 1300.
I will get a pic of her next time I have her out from where she's jammed in at.........

 

[growinman]

update...........? Well, the girls in the AF20 are completely kicling ass!!<---showing very promisingly at 3 weeks 12/12...........

They are to the right---now to get these soil girls out of here in the next day or two so I get get the light concentrated more on the AF

Again, to the right are the SS girls at 3wks 12/12

and some other pics from yesterday:
This is my Mazar x Afghan girl in a 5gl dwc..........these are the biggest leafs I 've seen(I'll get a pic w/my hand next time to show.......

And then the two SS girls in an 12 gal DWC w/GH nutes from the top---again thses are getting crowded out with the dirt girls but should prove to get 3-4 zips, I am willing to bet.........

...........and I really needed to set this filter up this time around and I have NO neighbors!

Okay..........next update should be all hydro girls and more room to work in!

 

[growinman]

Oh, check this sweetest MoonFlower!!

The favorite around here..........