Harry's first grow. Looking forward to recieving tips from experienced growers.

These are photos of my first attempt at growing.

Room size: 8 X 10 ft.
Walls covered with Panda plastic (black 1 side white on other) with Chrome Mylar
stripe 5 feet wide over main grow area.

Ventilation: 6 in filtered line intake from outdoors.
Also a 6 inch duct plumbed from an adjacent room. In the summer I have an
inlinefan pulling cooler air inside from the outside vent, in the winter I switch to
the indoor vent from the other large room. 2 20" ocilating fans keep the air
moving. Maintaing a 74 degree daytime temp with a low to 68 at night.

Lighting: 1 400 watt MH/HPS
1 5 bulb T5
1 1000 watt MH


Plants: 5 Nirvana Jock Horror
5 Nirvana Full Moon

Looking good.I dont see no problems

Thanks! As I said this was my first grow and it seemed to go pretty well. I currently am in week 3 of flowering on my second grow. I will be posting Pix of my updated operation.

cool ill be subbed to see what you got.

The big red bags have been in flower for 3 weeks. Everything else is in a different room in veg or starting from seeds. My plan is to move the 400 watt light in with the 1000. In 2 weeks I will move 4 plants to the main flowering room. this will give me 4 plants under the 1000 that will finish in 5 weeks and 4 under the 400 that will move to the 1000 and then finish in five weeks, hopefully being able to maintain this cycle. I am planning on getting at least 1 more t5 and try to replace the 400 with another 1000 watt after the next cycle. All that is in veg and bloom is either nirvanas Jock Horror or Full moon. The same as the first grow. My new additions from seed are 2 Super Lemon Haze and 1 Silver Haze.



As you can see from the photos I have been using Fox Farms and feel I am having reasonable success being such a noob. I am finding out my big bags need WAAAAY more pearlite in them next time. I have too much straight Fox Farms Ocean Forest in them and tend to waterlog if you dont watch what you are doing plus they are heavy as hell. I have had to move my powered vent from the outside to an intake from a large adjoining room because the temps here are between 0 and 25 degrees outside. Additionaly i have added a small space heater to keep at least 68 degrees at night. Daytime temps are 74.5 degrees. I made the mistake of using full feeding schedule from fox farms and was starting to get a little burn on the leaves so I have started feeding 1/2 strength every other watering. I have also been battleing a Thrip attack. I am winning the battle but it takes a lot of vigilance to keep on top of the little buggers. I have been using a product called Power Wash. It seems to work quite well and their claim is it is safe to use up till the day of harvest........Not gonna do it!


ADDITION

Can anyone help me identify this problem?

Nice setup lots of stuff.Sounds like everything will be good.As for the problem looks like a zinc def or something.

Thanks for the response. Some of the leaves are turning black, still zinc? Is that something galvanized nails in the soil may fix?

Day 26 of Flowering.




This girl is 36" above the top of the 20 gallon grow bag.






This big girl stands 40" above its container and is nearly as wide.





These are the other 2 roomies in flowering. They are being raised in 5 gallon bags.



This is a future generation of 2 Lemon Haze and a Silver Haze from seed.





These plants will be going into the flowering room soon!!!


Just updating pix of my progress.

Nice. I'm using Ocean Forest, Grow Big, and Big Bloom but only 250 watts of CFL lighting so I doubt I'll get a jungle like yours but it looks like FoxFarm can definitely get the job done. I chose them cause I assumed it would be all organic but then I found out Grow Big is a chemical fert. That's the only little thing that bugs me but so far my grow is going perfect.

Very nice setup. I just started 4 full moon in rockwool. You said your current flowering plants are from clone, did they clone easily? How long did you veg them for after rooted?

This is where things get a little wierd. I kept 20 clones in "hibernation" in 32 oz cups under 2 24" cfl bulbs for 3 months. I only had 1 400 watt mh and it was busy finishing up my jock horror so I said wtf and just made sure they had good ventilation and fed and watered lightly. Now to answer your question. Yes, they took to cloning well using plain old root tone. I let them veg for 5 weeks or so after they started growing again. Now I have a 1000 watt in addition to my 400. also using a t5 for veg. Hoping for a 6 week perpetual harvest.

coolio, I plant to top and use them for clones. I haven't had Tai weed in a very long time. Stoked