Soil / Hydrohut : Gold Skunk , BigBud , HeavyHitter. Videos and Pics weekly.

Everyone is welcome to comment, ask questions and offer advive. I will try and get a video or pics out al least once a week.

I had a thread going for my mexican dirt weed seeds before and those who saw that can see the continutation here now as well. They had to go back into veg 16 hours light mode because the more valuable seeds needed light. But they are starting to get smelly and nice and tall.

The other plants and what this Grow journal is for are basically from seeds, 9 BigBud, 5 Gold skunk, and 2 HeavyHitters.

Seeds are direct from Canada, Growing in a Hydrohut 4x4, currently have 400 watt HPS, a 465cfm Squirrel cage fan, and a small elf carbon filter. Room the hut is in is airconditioned as well. Soil is FoxFarms OceanForest, 15% perlite / vermiculite, 3% earthworm castings. Nutes are the foxfarm triple play grow big, tiger bloom, and big bloom. No PH meter, and ive been watering when my meter says below dry. And also when my finger 2 inches deep feels dry.

So far the plants may have gotten a bit shocked as i had a light leek through uncovered roof vent, solved that, the temp also maxed at 87 at hottest point of the day, but goes down to 79 at coolest. They are in 3" pots at the moment, and to me look all healthy. 3 of them are turning their first set of leaves, single leaf , not 3 leaf set yellow but otherwise all look nice and green and healthy.


Not sure when to transplant these babies, heard a lot of theories, but my pots are medium so im not sure. if anyone has advice on that one.

Video 1 Indoor Marijuana Garden. video on Educational

Ok heres 1st video, starts out real beautifully also, it begins with my friend covering her gorgeous ass as she was still sleeping when i was filming and the hut is in bedroom now.

Check out my gallery for full size pics, none of her sadly. and check out my weekly videos...

Video number 2
Indoor marijuana grow hydrohut video on Educational

Another video of the garden. Video 2 There a bit older here, 2 real sets of leaves, mexican dirts got taller, and I also have the carbon filter, fan and ducting installed. The fan is so powerful is makes the walls suck in like 3 inches and theres a breeze on plants just from it sucking in air so fast from open flaps on sides of hut. I hate putting the damn pictures up because you must do it 1 at a time but I figure someone out there on dialup cant watch videos and will thank me hopefully. I feel like going straight video. So let me know if you want more videos and no pics. Or vice versa

forgot to add The first video ends weirdly so i can show the flaw of the hydrohuts opening is that the zipper leaves a 1 inch opening at the top and bottom which makes for a serious light leak. Combined with the ventilation flaps on the bottom, It could cause hermies so beware. I may seal all but one vent flap, seal the front zippers light leak. and may even put a fan to make it completely light proof but im lazy.

Hydrohut took me about an hour to build as i was toking all throughout, and the ceiling was hardest part cause i dont like to follow instructions but i had to go back like 4 times to correct it. And also its big, I mean realize this things will take a whole room up if its small.

I germinated using paper towel method. 9 out of 10 big buds success and growing. 5 for 5 on gold skunk, and 2 for 2 on heavy hitter. placed in dark closet, once i saw 75% cracked I put them all in soil (some hadnt cracked and all but 1 grew) centimeter deep.


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Hydrohut setup, germ of good seeds, reveg of mexican dirt
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6: (dirt weed) This plant was trained lightly: It is in the following pics with the many branches and bud sites

7: (dirt weed). This plant looked different than all the others and she ended up being the budding female in next pics

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16: The seeds for the dirt weed came from this bud. 60 an ounce garbage

17: 6" hard ducting. Some adapter piece I found in home depot, it has a rectangle that forms into a 6" circle for connection to ducting perfect for setup. A 465 hydrofarm squirrel cage fan (loud as hell, I built a controller to lower volume and speed) and then a phat hydro elf carbon filter. Hope its enough.

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And the gallery has the pics in larger format of course. Just click on gallery by my name...

Forgot to mention those cfls that i germed with, made my sprouts stretch like crazy. I moved to the 400 watt HPS after watching them stretch like crazy for 4 days, was upsetting and made me glad i didnt buy more cfls, as I see there not good for much of anything. Its in pic 4. Had 2 42 watts and 2 27 watts very close to them, closer than pic shows.

cfl's are very much adequate, i've grown some nice bud using them and got no stretching. However if the lights are that far away normally (in pic 4), its far to far away. The cfl's need to be 2-3 inches away from the growth tips and urs look about a foot away

bearo420 said:

Forgot to mention those cfls that i germed with, made my sprouts stretch like crazy. I moved to the 400 watt HPS after watching them stretch like crazy for 4 days, was upsetting and made me glad i didnt buy more cfls, as I see there not good for much of anything. Its in pic 4. Had 2 42 watts and 2 27 watts very close to them, closer than pic shows.

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Had 2 42 watts and 2 27 watts very close to them, closer than pic shows.

I said they were closer, probably 3.5 inches, not 2-3 but thats because I had 17 seeds and it needed to be high enough to cover those 17 spots, but 3.5 inches is still close, and they did stretch like crazy, and thats 138 watts 3.5 inches. and i had them sideways to get most light also. CFLs are great for little grows, like in cabinets and closets and things like that. But its just not realistic for wanting anything over a few ounces or for having amazing dense buds. And I my friend want dense buds and massive amounts, so yeah i spent a lot more on hps.

have you found it worth the trouble and elec. cost to grow your dirt weed? You could get some good, cheap seeds online which would make your grows well worth it. They do look good though.

JonnyBlunt88 said:

have you found it worth the trouble and elec. cost to grow your dirt weed? You could get some good, cheap seeds online which would make your grows well worth it. They do look good though.

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The mexican dirt was a practice grow, and i started it before I had the hydrohut and fans etc. They spent first 25 days cfl, Out of 7 i had these 2 females, which have only used the 400HPS for 3 weeks by themselves, then were combined with the new quality seedlings. Gold skunk and bigbud, grown in my bedroom will be worth whatever electricity it costs. The dirt weed, if I could do it all over, honestly speaking I wouldnt have grown them, They have no resale value as they wont have exotic name, or look and I just dont see the yield being possible with them that one should expect from a HID setup. They just dont have the genetics, but I havnt smoked any yet, and I must say, they smell like really really good weed right now, so maybe theyll be great, but the cost ratio wont be good as with quality. So dont recommend the bagseed unless you expect to learn with it, and dont have good lighting, as it would be a waste. Bagseed would be good with cfls though cause you could really play with them and not worry.

Well, its been a while, summer is here, less time for internet. But the babies are alive and well. I think they got nutrient burn in first week, they also got dehydrated and almost died from no water about a week and a half ago. But they bounced right back, and are looking great right now. Curious when to transplant. Dont know If I should wait longer to go to 12/12 cause there about 10 inches now. But they do look and smell great. Once again big bud, gold skunk and 2 heavyhitters all from seed. Not going to clone as im moving to a cheaper place in december, so no time for a second season, unless these guys finish super fast from flower cycle.

Heres the daily video: weed in hydrohut video on Educational

lol whose butt is that in the first vid your moms? lol

Noh, a girl im boning. White girl got a fatty though, its a nice ass, she of course wasnt posing, just sleeping. I was waking and baking.

Does she know you got her ass on the internet?

I had to look a couple o times just because.

Nice setup on your grow. I'm still not sure why you gave up the cab you built. With some mods it could have been better than the tent. Are you not using it or the cfl's any longer?

Those mexi plants look suprisingly bulky and tasty. I was just dissing mexi in another thread and here you go showing it might not be so shitty.

Lastly you mentioned you run a projector... What type DIY? (I'm a big projector nut. 10 high res crt's in the garage.

Real nice how much do ur elec bill be a month running that hps 18 hours??

OregonMeds said:

Does she know you got her ass on the internet?

I had to look a couple o times just because.

Nice setup on your grow. I'm still not sure why you gave up the cab you built. With some mods it could have been better than the tent. Are you not using it or the cfl's any longer?

Those mexi plants look suprisingly bulky and tasty. I was just dissing mexi in another thread and here you go showing it might not be so shitty.

Lastly you mentioned you run a projector... What type DIY? (I'm a big projector nut. 10 high res crt's in the garage.

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wyteberrywidow said:

Real nice how much do ur elec bill be a month running that hps 18 hours??

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regarding projector thing theres hundreds of diy threads on it and lumenlabs.com is the authority still I think. anyway the idea is an lcd is transparent. they all are. the manufacturers just put a light behind it. so if you put a giant light behind it it will shine through the lcd and to your wall. you use a fresnel lens to focus it. cheapest introduction is get an old classroom slide projector off ebay for 20 bucks and put an lcd screen from a set with broken backlight. you can find those cheap also. total these days with backlight broken lcd and slide projector is under $100 bucks. so you could be playing your games on a 8 foot screen for 100 bucks. i used that as my primary screen for almost a year. the bulbs for slide projectors are super cheap online so I ran it for 12 hours a day no worry. In the end I loved projectors so much I got a real one. the real one blows the other away in image quality but also cost a ridiculous amount. but I think im dont with lcds. nothing beats playing socom and cod on a 8 foot screen.


Im starting a season literally this week so I may do another thread I just lose motivation to post when things are going good fast and heavy like towards harvest.

yeah i still have the cabinet. thats my veg cabinet and im currently starting a bunch of bagseeds and will make about 12 clones for next tent grow.

the cabinet is great but its just too small. the tent can fit mature and very big buddy plants so its just for yield i went bigger. If I had space id make the cab another flower box and have an extra 3 plants flowering there but I need a place to have clones going so the cab is perfect.

Regarding the lights. Ive been smoking my own stuff for a over a month and havnt turned on anything relating to growing for a full billing cycle.

Apparently running fans, my lights 600 and 400 the veg cab t5 set and ozone generator and everything related was almost exactly 100 a month.

so in total I ran the stuff for 3 months, lets say I spent 300. IVE SMOKED ABOUT 1000 dollars value of my own weed this month. Hell yeah its worth it. And ive got jars for at least another 30 days. my friends think im balling cause whenever I hang out its FAAAAT blunt of chronic after blunt after blunt. of course they dont know its mine and theyll never know I grow, they just know I smoke fatties of the goods.

Thats whats up im starting my grow now and i plan veggin with my 400 hps and flowering with it until i can get another light and when i do get anoher light itll be a 250 or 150 hps for my mothers and veg or 2 bulb t-5 didnt decide yet(DEPENDING ON HOW MY ELEC BILL LOOK)I DONT REALLY FEEL MH AND PLUS MOST THE GROWERS I RAN INTO USE HPS

wyteberrywidow said:

Thats whats up im starting my grow now and i plan veggin with my 400 hps and flowering with it until i can get another light and when i do get anoher light itll be a 250 or 150 hps for my mothers and veg or 2 bulb t-5 didnt decide yet(DEPENDING ON HOW MY ELEC BILL LOOK)I DONT REALLY FEEL MH AND PLUS MOST THE GROWERS I RAN INTO USE HPS

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yeah for veg t-5s are great because they are in the cool range. even cfls in the cool spectrum can work great. I dont think you should do a 150 or 250 hps for veg. seems like overkill unless you have serious amounts of plants in various stages. I think the cheaper to buy and run t-5 or cool spectrum cfls would be better for one main reason also. A lot easier to get low right on em and no stretch. Youd be surprised how quickly a hps can stretch a plant. the yellow light makes it grow tall and not strong like you want in veg stage.

for flower its the opposite of course. there you want as much light and as much yellow as possible.

well then ill just get t5s but one ?? if i had my seedlings under my 400 watt hps if i change to mh conversion would they be shocked??ill get the t5s but thats just gonna be for clones and mothers

wyteberrywidow said:

well then ill just get t5s but one ?? if i had my seedlings under my 400 watt hps if i change to mh conversion would they be shocked??ill get the t5s but thats just gonna be for clones and mothers

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no not one t5. Get a / the system with 4 bulbs. they are cheap. an individual t5 ballast and bulb here is 20 bucks. the 4 bulbs connected with reflector and ballasts that you can see in my pics above was like 60 i think. definitely not one t5. and i would say skip two . get four and you can cover a cloning tray / seed tray perfect. I may get another one this season to keep some clones constantly ready not just moms. and this was like first grow. post on newer grow, my roommates weed thread

no when i said but one ??? i was saying 1 question not 1 t5 i was planning on getting the 4 bulb 10,000 lumen set it comes up to 110

110 dollars wow. thats hirsch. i mean the reflectors nice on the 4 bulb set but usually a t5 and ballast are 20 bucks. so 80 bucks for a ghetto one that you need a bunch of extension cords and more fire risk. get the 110 set worth it.

will do buddy. i was also thinking of a 600 watt digital ballast mh/hps but ill get that like a month from now and order some fem seed so i can putit to work as soon as i get it.