first grow soiless mix with OG Kush

mr.smileyface

mr.smileyface

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Nice og looks tasty. I advise you to get 20 dollars and go get KarboBoost. You give it to them around week 4 and the bud swell and ooze with resin.
I always use it from week 4-8. Its like mollases except more refined for plant use. Its cheap to. 20 dollars for two or three cycles. 2 tbsp per 25 gallons. 1 oz.
All the pros use it. Also diamond nectar is another biggie. But you use that right? I recomend full strenght at 10ml a gallon. This is the time you really go fullstrenght on everything. This is when i give them the PK spike. MONSTER BLOOM.
Start your Co2
 
Danthebull

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Looking good bro. Im Jelous and i have a good one going on too. Im going to get some new equipment for my next grow. I like the bat wing reflectors... I may even do a second room.....lol Catch up soon bro. Oh and when i get time i'll give you the run down from the day your at to day 50 ish...

Dan
 
BCBuddy420

BCBuddy420

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Hey Dan :) Ya man I bet I feel more jealous when I see your crop. There is literally buds on TOP OF buds going on lol. I went and aquired some liquid light today,a 2 part foliar feed to increase tighter internode spacing and promote up to 60 % more light intake!! It's tried and tested. I recommend this good sir, it's made by Dutchmasters and is a lil bit pricey though. I've seen intensely tight internodes from this product. It is used from clone to 2-3 weeks into flowering, I believe. The stuff I have is made by a company called optic foliar, same difference but i bet DM is better. I also finally bought a digital thermo/hygro for my room. Gonna find out just exactly what my humidity is doing. I'm adding a co2 burner and controller, a sea of green system (soilless) and liquid light foliar feedings with better ventilation for my next grow, strains are not picked yet but im going with more high yielding strains next instead of one very potent but lower yielding strain like i got going. I hope to get 4 pounds out of my room in 4 weeks or a little more, I'll be happy with that. Savour the last few days of life in those beauties my man, cause there GONNA DIE soon lol ! Lookin forward to seeing your mid flowering developement so I can compare, thanks, take er easy :bigjoint:

~ BCbuddy :leaf:
 
BongKong420

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Wow BC your stuff is looking good havent been on much since touchet but ill keep coming by to see your stuff till the end...Looks awesome man Im hella jealous hahaha
 
BCBuddy420

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UPDATE FLOWERING DAY 32:

I'm having problems with temps now as the ambient has risen. Bought a digital thermo/hygro and found that my normal running temps are....drumroll....94 fucking degrees! :clap: Humidity is at 40 percent, lil more during lights off. I cannot believe my POS plastic thermometer backstabbed me like this, unbelievable! It read 82 max, mostly 80 degrees. Anyways, I installed another intake tonight, combined with the 4 inch I now have 10 inches of intake coming into my room, new 6 inch soon to be an assisted intake with an inline fan, around 350 cfm. Can't wait to see what the room does with that. Okay it's been 2 hours since I installed the new intake, temps are now down to 90 just running the new intake passively. Soon it will have a 6inch inline force feeding the room cold air at night during lights on... I'm crossing my fingers this will give me at least 83 degrees. No wonder bud growth has been on the skimpy side, 94???? that's insane, I'm pissed. Oh well I have approx. another 4 weeks to go to get things on track as I know when this strain finishes from the grower who has owned it for long. Here's some pics, first one I messed with some photoshopping for my first time, enjoy ;





 
ptone

ptone

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Vented hoods are your friend! Look into them for the next grow that way you can have a sealed room with c02 and greater temp control.
 
BCBuddy420

BCBuddy420

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mr.smileyface said:
Told you they are gonna thicken up.
Is your co2 pucks in the water yet?
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I decided against the co2 for this grow. I weighed the pro's vs. the cons for spending the cash on pucks for the last 4 weeks and there isnt really much point considering I'm buying a co2 generator and controller for the next grow. I have little funds atm and I need them for fixing other issues that have priority over co2. They look a little better though huh. I'm starting the koolbloom phase very soon also. I will update in a few days on progress. 'preciate the support guys. ~ Ciao
 
Danthebull

Danthebull

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Hey BC laaaaaaaaaad.

There looking shit hot bro.

From what i hear the koolbloom is going to make your ladys go Kaboooooom is size.

I can finally + rep so 1 for ya pal.

Dan
 
jrinlv

jrinlv

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I got some OG growin right now too, your about a week ahead of me. This strain sure can take some nutes! I had a ppm of 1800 and they didn't even flinch. I have been running it at 1400 ppm on Advanced Nutes, grow micro and bloom.

To whoever said that lowering your lights with a air cooled hood would keep them from stretching is dead wrong. I have a cooled hood in a hydro setup and the light was 16 inches from my plants and they grew like a foot in 5 days when I switched the lights. I think it's just the strain. But looking good man +rep.........JR
 
BCBuddy420

BCBuddy420

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thanks guys. Im actually having major issues with heat and humidity right now and Im laid off of work = no money :( My temps are around 90 and humidity is up to 70 % during lights off. Ill be lucky to pull this one off. I have some cheap fixes I'm going to try, but things are not as good as they seem. I'm going to chop at 8 1/2 weeks regardless of maturity due to all these problems. So that gives me around 26 days left of this struggling... not to sound negative though, it's just been a haul and a half. thanks again for the support though :) Next time I will know how to do this right, from the start.
 
BongKong420

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Yo bro I think if you're working in a tent you could tape off a air register and run AC to your tent with ducting. $13. It's what I did and my temps went from 94 to steady 83......
 
ImTheFireMan

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ya bro that sucks about your heat issues. the same thing happened to me, i was out of town for a few days, when i came back my OGs were crispy.
i was so disappointed. i just got an AC today tho. now my shit will stay in the low 70s.

my next grow i am doing grand daddy purps.
 
mr.smileyface

mr.smileyface

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Yo do u have an intake? that will reduce temps alot.
where is your outtake going?
The high RH is fine untill it gets over 80.
You cant suck air out of a room unless new air is brought in ,via crack intake vent or intake fan.
You might have to unplugg a light to compensate your issue. Or setup a better ventilation system. peace
 
BCBuddy420

BCBuddy420

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mr.smileyface said:
Yo do u have an intake? that will reduce temps alot.
where is your outtake going?
The high RH is fine untill it gets over 80.
You cant suck air out of a room unless new air is brought in ,via crack intake vent or intake fan.
You might have to unplugg a light to compensate your issue. Or setup a better ventilation system. peace
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Hey Smiley. Way ahead of you. Just installed a second intake totalling 10 inches. 8inch Vortex for exhaust. Unplugged a light last night, dropped it only 2-3 degrees. You think i will survive with around 68-70 % humidity? I don't. My room and plants are smellin pretty funny. Like really musty and kinda like rot. I know what's up though, I just dont have the cash to get a dehumidifier. I'm gonna try calcium chloride in a large bucket and see what my lights off humidity is at. Thats when I have issues anyways. Lights on it's about 40 %. Heat is around 90, little less. Ambient is cold at around 10 degrees. My lights are just too hot, plain and simple.
 
ImTheFireMan

ImTheFireMan

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man i was lucky to come up on that ac unit.
my boy said he wasnt using it and said he would donate to the cause.

i know the smell you talk about. when i stepped in my room and i realized my shit was fucked it was that hay is for horses smell.
 
mr.smileyface

mr.smileyface

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BCBuddy420 said:
Hey Smiley. Way ahead of you. Just installed a second intake totalling 10 inches. 8inch Vortex for exhaust. Unplugged a light last night, dropped it only 2-3 degrees. You think i will survive with around 68-70 % humidity? I don't. My room and plants are smellin pretty funny. Like really musty and kinda like rot. I know what's up though, I just dont have the cash to get a dehumidifier. I'm gonna try calcium chloride in a large bucket and see what my lights off humidity is at. Thats when I have issues anyways. Lights on it's about 40 %. Heat is around 90, little less. Ambient is cold at around 10 degrees. My lights are just too hot, plain and simple.
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You dont have enough space. Turn your outtake/intake off before the lights shut off and let the heat stay in the room. That will make the RH better for a bit. Your seeing High Rh because your temps drop to much when the lights turn off. This is why people tell you to Get insulation for your room Because you want to hold the heat in your room when the lights turn off.
If your room is sitting at 90 and the lights turn off.. Your ventilation takes away the heat in about 5 minutes, causes your temps to drop in about 5 minutes. Now they are, lets say 60f.
Now your room cant hold fuck all for humidity because its cold and there is not much space for those big plants.
You got the heat in there already so why waste it? Monitor it so you know the temps. If you trapped 90 degrees worth of heat in a room that has no ventilation but good insulation you would have that heat for a few hours. In the winter you dont need that many exhaust cycles.
Its all about maintaining temps in your room. So either get a heater or figure a way to stop it from flucuations. Just make sure you vent often. When outside is over 20c then run your exhaust 24/7
Now for the lights on part. Its easyer to heat the room then cool it. Your gonna have to ruff it off or find a cheap outtake fan somewhere.
I have so few plants in my room i dont need ventilation. It works out better like that because its over 21c at all times. I moved out to the room. 12x10. with a 600 in there it stays 27. I sealed the room off so no heat can escape. I do open the door to vent a few times when the lights are on. For a few hours a day. But my temps dont flucuate to much. It works out good. Cept i cant run my 400 in there because it makes the temps 4 degrees hotter. I only run it when the door is open. Im not venting out yet because i dont have a filter. I will last three weeks with out it. Untill i can afford it.
My two cents:idea:
 
BCBuddy420

BCBuddy420

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mr.smileyface said:
You dont have enough space. Turn your outtake/intake off before the lights shut off and let the heat stay in the room. That will make the RH better for a bit. Your seeing High Rh because your temps drop to much when the lights turn off. This is why people tell you to Get insulation for your room Because you want to hold the heat in your room when the lights turn off.
If your room is sitting at 90 and the lights turn off.. Your ventilation takes away the heat in about 5 minutes, causes your temps to drop in about 5 minutes. Now they are, lets say 60f.
Now your room cant hold fuck all for humidity because its cold and there is not much space for those big plants.
You got the heat in there already so why waste it? Monitor it so you know the temps. If you trapped 90 degrees worth of heat in a room that has no ventilation but good insulation you would have that heat for a few hours. In the winter you dont need that many exhaust cycles.
Its all about maintaining temps in your room. So either get a heater or figure a way to stop it from flucuations. Just make sure you vent often. When outside is over 20c then run your exhaust 24/7
Now for the lights on part. Its easyer to heat the room then cool it. Your gonna have to ruff it off or find a cheap outtake fan somewhere.
I have so few plants in my room i dont need ventilation. It works out better like that because its over 21c at all times. I moved out to the room. 12x10. with a 600 in there it stays 27. I sealed the room off so no heat can escape. I do open the door to vent a few times when the lights are on. For a few hours a day. But my temps dont flucuate to much. It works out good. Cept i cant run my 400 in there because it makes the temps 4 degrees hotter. I only run it when the door is open. Im not venting out yet because i dont have a filter. I will last three weeks with out it. Untill i can afford it.
My two cents:idea:
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Good advice. I stuck a space heater in there for now and after dinner I'm going out to buy the dehumidifier, I scraped the cash together. Done, no more humidity issues, no more worry of bud rot. Plus I can take the humidity real low for the final bit of flowering to increase resin. I'm thouroughly pleased ATM. Now I've just got these high temps and rapid yellowing of fans going on *sighhh* I'm going to flush them really good soon again, and monitor ph to a T. I notice that my runoof was around 4.0 - 4.5 last time so I've been feeding at 7.0 to rasie it within the soil. What should I have my ph in soil at? I was thinking 5.5 - 6.0? Full on kool bloom feedings are happening now. I'm just watching the stalks thicken with bud these days. I will post pics in a couple days of progress. 36 days flowering today.

~ BCbuddy :leaf:
 
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