powhitetrashomie
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Replies Welcome as I'll be updating this one post. Just keep in mind, this is a powhitetrash grow... I know there are better ways to do things, I'm just showing how I'm doing it. Might work, might not. We'll see.
Thought I'd start a powhitetrash Journal about my first grow. I want people to see what can be accomplished with a little imagination and VERY little money.
I bought some timers and hydro equipment when I got my tax return but didn't get everything I needed because I ran out of money too quickly. So I have to save that stuff for another time, but I am making use of the timers which were about $6-$9 each.
We (my son and I) started with a 4' florescent light with one white light and one blue light (read that's what I was supposed to use somewhere and it seems to be working). Our grow is in a closet. We didn't do anything fancy because we simply couldn't afford to. Just a closet with a curtain, no fancy exhaust or anything, just a fan to help build stem strength. We Used the reservoir tubs to set our seedlings on.
My other son had given us a plant that would hopefully become our mother plant but since we didn't know if it would be a female or not, we also started some plant from seed.
Our plant was planted on May 25th and it was doing quite well when we brought it home (6 hour drive). July 5th we took our first clones and only one of our seedlings is still with us.
Between the time we took our cuttings for our first clones, and the time we took our next cuttings two weeks later, we knew for sure our mother plant was a female. Wahoo!
This is our mother plant before any clippings were taken.
Nice fat leaves huh?
After the second batch of clones were taken, here's what the mother plant looked like:
Someone told me my mother would die but I didn't believe him. And only a week later, here's proof that he was wrong:
You can clearly see new growth.
Here is a shot of our clones:
Just yesterday I built a very small flowering room. We took the two biggest clones (even though if we had a bigger flowering room we would have let them get larger before flowering) and they are now on their first flowering light cycle. Here's my flowering "room" hidden from view:
Here's the inside, lined with simple printer paper (bright white in color, but I just had it laying around).
Note: electrical tape doesn't stick well to paper so skip covering seams in an attempt to be fancy. lol
And here are the two girls I've selected to flower first. I realize they are small, were only cloned a month ago, but my grow room is very small and I don't have a lot of room for them to get too tall. I read somewhere about a guy who flowers his clones only a week after taking cuttings so I figure I'll still get a little bud. Hoping for the best.
And this powhitetrash is so po that I can't even afford two drip pans so I'm using an empty coffee can that I used to store my wheat gluten flower in. lol
Stay tuned for mo powhitetrashomie news.
Update 8/3/08, 3:27 p.m.
The girls are doing great on their first day in the flowering room. I swear they have grown just since the light came on this morning. So I measured them and well be able to tell for sure in a few days if they are really growing that fast. The one on the left (my plants are so far unnamed) is 6" tall and the one on the right is 4 1/2" tall. I moved them a little closer to the light and put a couple of wet wash rags over the sides of the pots for more humidity. There's been a nice increase in humidity already and leaving the door up and the reflective flap down (a white kitchen garbage bag) is helping to let out some of the heat.
Thought I'd start a powhitetrash Journal about my first grow. I want people to see what can be accomplished with a little imagination and VERY little money.I bought some timers and hydro equipment when I got my tax return but didn't get everything I needed because I ran out of money too quickly. So I have to save that stuff for another time, but I am making use of the timers which were about $6-$9 each.
We (my son and I) started with a 4' florescent light with one white light and one blue light (read that's what I was supposed to use somewhere and it seems to be working). Our grow is in a closet. We didn't do anything fancy because we simply couldn't afford to. Just a closet with a curtain, no fancy exhaust or anything, just a fan to help build stem strength. We Used the reservoir tubs to set our seedlings on.
My other son had given us a plant that would hopefully become our mother plant but since we didn't know if it would be a female or not, we also started some plant from seed.
Our plant was planted on May 25th and it was doing quite well when we brought it home (6 hour drive). July 5th we took our first clones and only one of our seedlings is still with us.
Between the time we took our cuttings for our first clones, and the time we took our next cuttings two weeks later, we knew for sure our mother plant was a female. Wahoo!
This is our mother plant before any clippings were taken.
Nice fat leaves huh?
After the second batch of clones were taken, here's what the mother plant looked like:
Someone told me my mother would die but I didn't believe him. And only a week later, here's proof that he was wrong:
You can clearly see new growth.
Here is a shot of our clones:
Just yesterday I built a very small flowering room. We took the two biggest clones (even though if we had a bigger flowering room we would have let them get larger before flowering) and they are now on their first flowering light cycle. Here's my flowering "room" hidden from view:
Here's the inside, lined with simple printer paper (bright white in color, but I just had it laying around).
Note: electrical tape doesn't stick well to paper so skip covering seams in an attempt to be fancy. lol
And here are the two girls I've selected to flower first. I realize they are small, were only cloned a month ago, but my grow room is very small and I don't have a lot of room for them to get too tall. I read somewhere about a guy who flowers his clones only a week after taking cuttings so I figure I'll still get a little bud. Hoping for the best.
And this powhitetrash is so po that I can't even afford two drip pans so I'm using an empty coffee can that I used to store my wheat gluten flower in. lol
Stay tuned for mo powhitetrashomie news.
Update 8/3/08, 3:27 p.m.
The girls are doing great on their first day in the flowering room. I swear they have grown just since the light came on this morning. So I measured them and well be able to tell for sure in a few days if they are really growing that fast. The one on the left (my plants are so far unnamed) is 6" tall and the one on the right is 4 1/2" tall. I moved them a little closer to the light and put a couple of wet wash rags over the sides of the pots for more humidity. There's been a nice increase in humidity already and leaving the door up and the reflective flap down (a white kitchen garbage bag) is helping to let out some of the heat.
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