darknezz
Well-Known Member
So first let me introduce myself here at rollitup. High, I'm me, my friend grows bud legally and medically. For ease of writing though whenever I am typing "I" I'm actually referring to my friend, that grows legally... Got that? 
ok. Used to post somewhere else when first started but stopped after a few months. But I think I'll like it here, I can't believe so many people say they are growing and don't get caught... It's so easy to trace ip's. oh well at least I'm not growing as its illegal here 
So now that that is out of the way I'm going to say a little about my history, I must warn though when I get typing it tends to get long, maybe you've already noticed... So If ya don't want to read it please skip down to my second post for my present grow. However if your new to growing I suggest it cause I did ALLOT of first time mistakes and maybe you'll learn something. So read on about my first year of growing experiences I had the worst luck at first with some tough lessons.
I started growing when I got my own house in the country. I would never grow in an apt or even a rental or really even in the city, I guess if I had to... I got my seeds from BC... I don't suggest that. Specifically highgrade-seeds the seeds are cheap and the pics look really great but I got the super mix pack which is 10 seeds of like 6 indoor strains... Lets just say these are not very good strains in the super mix. They came quickly and discretly though with 4 extras and had about %90 germ and more females than males. Later on another buddy of mine ordered though here and got a few very good strains, "Black Widow" and "Black Queen" but thats later. So on to my FIRST grow and let me say this to anyone starting out BUY GOOD SEEDS YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Ahem,
For my first grow I started under 8 23 watt warm cfls.
Heres what that looked like, dont mention the perilite, I thought at first it would help keep moisture in but soon learned it wicked moisture out.
I have allways used a good soil from my local hydro shop.
And their line of organic nutes "Harvest Moon" I'll post a pic later.
My light are on 24 hrs.
heres 18 days
29 days
So I dont have much more but sometime shortly after this a plant decided to show sex early in veg and busted its load all over.
Heres a nice pic of the male flower though...
I pulled that bitch but the damage was done. 5 plants left.
At this time I still hadn't gotten my flowering light
I was going to get a ballast kit and make my own, yes I'm electronically savy. But then I saw one on e-bay that was soposed to be brand new and was a display at some shop back east. It was a 1000w HPS ballast, socket, and batwing reflector for $150 with free shipping. Great deal right? So I got it and a SOPOSEDLY BRAND NEW "Grow Power" bulb (more on that BS later...)
I was about to go on vacation for 10 days and really wanted to get my new hps light going and put my babies into flower before I left them with their caregiver. So the night before I left I sectioned off my flowering room and got my light all set up and was excited. 3 days later and 2000 miles away I get a call, "the lights not coming on" fuck. I had them try everything posible without taking abpart the ballast and nothing. So my plants got 4 nights of 1000 watts and were loving life then next to nothing, I had my caregiver put the 8 cfls over them to save em for the next week. When I got home I tried everything on that ballast then took it in and they replaced the cap and ignitor and still didn't work... HOW THE F DOES THE TRANSFORMER GO?! I ended up buying a new ballast right then, with a warrenty. The guy that sold me the ballast dissapeared..... He had rep to. FUCK e-bay for this shit.
Heres what they looked like a few days after I got the 1000 watt back over them. Its the last pic of my first grow.
Anyway so I believe that stressed the hell out of my plants and I only got 1 female out of the 5. BS AGAIN.
I would like to point out 2 major things I was doing wrong at this point.
1. Vegged them entirly in 1 gal then transplanted to 7 gals and put into flowering in the same day. WTF was I thinking! now I know the plants need to be vegged in larger pots and transplanted, if at all, at least 4 weeks before they go into flowering.
2. Watering with straigt cold water, from a well, in the winter lol. shit...
So don't do that to any newbies arite
So my one lonly female was under that 1000 watts, but with all the mistakes I was making and the shock and the fucked up transplanting just everything. The plant was a bitch is what I'm trying to say plus it was hella seeded from that first male. I did'nt take any pics of it done. Less than an oz off that plant allmost a complete loss.
Somtime before that plant was done though I had my next batch vegging with new lights and better strains. My other growing freind ordered seeds from the same place and gave me some. The Black Widow and Black Queen and a classic mix which was either White Widow or NL5. He also got some of the super mix that I originally got and gave me some.
So here was my new veg setup
I don't have the cfls in their no more and u'll see why in my current growing.
To clone I made a little bubbler
Unfortunately I didn't take any pics but I got 3 females out of 5 and the Black Queen was really the only good one but very small yield again the other plants were just ok with a little better yield. The other 2 besides BQ were Super Mix.
AND GODDAMN IT, when I took clones I took of all plants except the Black Queen! I didn't know what was what when I cut them... DAMN IT DAMN IT I did have 2 super mix female strains now though.
Somewhere in here I had more plants, took more clones at odd times and experiemnted but did'nt document it just learned myself.
So somtime again before those plants were done though I received clones from my friend of Black Widow (see at highgrade-seeds) and the best strain I have White Queen
which hes had for years, (see current harvest pics)
Heres the original Black Widow and the other plants of the original clones my other friend gave me just a few weeks into flowering,The BW is the short one in the middle. These plants were vegged the whole time in 3 gals and put directly into flowering, much better results than what I was doing earlyier.
This is a 14 bladed leaf from the Black Widow
and heres my first White Queen which was a runt clone, but the clones off it are fine.
So of course again along when those plants went into flowering I took my own clones of the White Queen and my other plants and I now use CloneX and peat pods in a propagator.
CloneX is the Shiznit, 10 days done.
But yeah thats my growing history as far as I can put it together digging through unlabeled pics and no documentaion.
So after all that its was about 8 months of growing and learning. That was 2 months ago and now I have expanded even more and gotten my strains worked out and my clone schedule proper. Almost anyway. I'm actually going to once again do things different after this harvest but thats later. So now onto what I have going on now... Which I'll post tomorrow
cause I'm tired.
heres a sample
bah it took me a few hours just to do this, slowly lol. more tomorrow nite nite.
ok. Used to post somewhere else when first started but stopped after a few months. But I think I'll like it here, I can't believe so many people say they are growing and don't get caught... It's so easy to trace ip's. oh well at least I'm not growing as its illegal here So now that that is out of the way I'm going to say a little about my history, I must warn though when I get typing it tends to get long, maybe you've already noticed... So If ya don't want to read it please skip down to my second post for my present grow. However if your new to growing I suggest it cause I did ALLOT of first time mistakes and maybe you'll learn something. So read on about my first year of growing experiences I had the worst luck at first with some tough lessons.
I started growing when I got my own house in the country. I would never grow in an apt or even a rental or really even in the city, I guess if I had to... I got my seeds from BC... I don't suggest that. Specifically highgrade-seeds the seeds are cheap and the pics look really great but I got the super mix pack which is 10 seeds of like 6 indoor strains... Lets just say these are not very good strains in the super mix. They came quickly and discretly though with 4 extras and had about %90 germ and more females than males. Later on another buddy of mine ordered though here and got a few very good strains, "Black Widow" and "Black Queen" but thats later. So on to my FIRST grow and let me say this to anyone starting out BUY GOOD SEEDS YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Ahem,
For my first grow I started under 8 23 watt warm cfls.
Heres what that looked like, dont mention the perilite, I thought at first it would help keep moisture in but soon learned it wicked moisture out.
I have allways used a good soil from my local hydro shop.
And their line of organic nutes "Harvest Moon" I'll post a pic later.
My light are on 24 hrs.
heres 18 days
29 days
So I dont have much more but sometime shortly after this a plant decided to show sex early in veg and busted its load all over.
Heres a nice pic of the male flower though...
I pulled that bitch but the damage was done. 5 plants left.
At this time I still hadn't gotten my flowering light
I was going to get a ballast kit and make my own, yes I'm electronically savy. But then I saw one on e-bay that was soposed to be brand new and was a display at some shop back east. It was a 1000w HPS ballast, socket, and batwing reflector for $150 with free shipping. Great deal right? So I got it and a SOPOSEDLY BRAND NEW "Grow Power" bulb (more on that BS later...)
I was about to go on vacation for 10 days and really wanted to get my new hps light going and put my babies into flower before I left them with their caregiver. So the night before I left I sectioned off my flowering room and got my light all set up and was excited. 3 days later and 2000 miles away I get a call, "the lights not coming on" fuck. I had them try everything posible without taking abpart the ballast and nothing. So my plants got 4 nights of 1000 watts and were loving life then next to nothing, I had my caregiver put the 8 cfls over them to save em for the next week. When I got home I tried everything on that ballast then took it in and they replaced the cap and ignitor and still didn't work... HOW THE F DOES THE TRANSFORMER GO?! I ended up buying a new ballast right then, with a warrenty. The guy that sold me the ballast dissapeared..... He had rep to. FUCK e-bay for this shit.
Heres what they looked like a few days after I got the 1000 watt back over them. Its the last pic of my first grow.
Anyway so I believe that stressed the hell out of my plants and I only got 1 female out of the 5. BS AGAIN.
I would like to point out 2 major things I was doing wrong at this point.
1. Vegged them entirly in 1 gal then transplanted to 7 gals and put into flowering in the same day. WTF was I thinking! now I know the plants need to be vegged in larger pots and transplanted, if at all, at least 4 weeks before they go into flowering.
2. Watering with straigt cold water, from a well, in the winter lol. shit...
So don't do that to any newbies arite
So my one lonly female was under that 1000 watts, but with all the mistakes I was making and the shock and the fucked up transplanting just everything. The plant was a bitch is what I'm trying to say plus it was hella seeded from that first male. I did'nt take any pics of it done. Less than an oz off that plant allmost a complete loss.
Somtime before that plant was done though I had my next batch vegging with new lights and better strains. My other growing freind ordered seeds from the same place and gave me some. The Black Widow and Black Queen and a classic mix which was either White Widow or NL5. He also got some of the super mix that I originally got and gave me some.
So here was my new veg setup
I don't have the cfls in their no more and u'll see why in my current growing.
To clone I made a little bubbler
Unfortunately I didn't take any pics but I got 3 females out of 5 and the Black Queen was really the only good one but very small yield again the other plants were just ok with a little better yield. The other 2 besides BQ were Super Mix.
AND GODDAMN IT, when I took clones I took of all plants except the Black Queen! I didn't know what was what when I cut them... DAMN IT DAMN IT I did have 2 super mix female strains now though.
Somewhere in here I had more plants, took more clones at odd times and experiemnted but did'nt document it just learned myself.
So somtime again before those plants were done though I received clones from my friend of Black Widow (see at highgrade-seeds) and the best strain I have White Queen
which hes had for years, (see current harvest pics)Heres the original Black Widow and the other plants of the original clones my other friend gave me just a few weeks into flowering,The BW is the short one in the middle. These plants were vegged the whole time in 3 gals and put directly into flowering, much better results than what I was doing earlyier.
This is a 14 bladed leaf from the Black Widow
and heres my first White Queen which was a runt clone, but the clones off it are fine.
So of course again along when those plants went into flowering I took my own clones of the White Queen and my other plants and I now use CloneX and peat pods in a propagator.
CloneX is the Shiznit, 10 days done.
But yeah thats my growing history as far as I can put it together digging through unlabeled pics and no documentaion.
So after all that its was about 8 months of growing and learning. That was 2 months ago and now I have expanded even more and gotten my strains worked out and my clone schedule proper. Almost anyway. I'm actually going to once again do things different after this harvest but thats later. So now onto what I have going on now... Which I'll post tomorrow
cause I'm tired.heres a sample
bah it took me a few hours just to do this, slowly lol. more tomorrow nite nite.
