MiniTrees first grow! 600 Watts, in a search for a pound!

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Well here's the deal. I ordered 5 fem. Wonder Woman seeds from Nirvana and had a bad time getting them so I ordered 5 fem. Wonder Woman and 5 fem Seedsman White Widow from Attitude and they got here in about 12 days! After recieving the seeds I decided to do 4 seeds. 2 Wonder Woman and 2 White Widow. I had read MBlaze's journals and was a big fan of the way he grew his stuff, so I decided I was going to do the same, but didn't want to wait so long so instead of doing 1 tree per 600 I decided to do 4 Mini Trees under my 600. Here are some details on the grow.

Grow Room:
3.5x4x6.5
600 Watt HPS
Aircooled hood
435 CFM inline fan for cooling light and airflow
2 Oscillating fans
7 Gallon pots

Seeds:
2 Wonder Woman
2 White Widow

Soil and Nutrients:
Fox farm organic soil mixed with perlite
General Hydroponics nutrients
Botinicare Sweet grape for 4 waterings during flowering

Light Cycles
Veg: 18/6
Flowering: 12/12

Lets get this journal started!
 
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Day 1-7:
I was worried about the 400 MH being to strong for the seedlings so I decided to start them off under a 150 Watt HPS for the first 3 days until they got their legs under them. I planted them in their COCO Pellets and then placed them in the 7 gallon pots! At this point I didn't have an aircooled reflector just a winged one. After 3 days I put them under the 400 Watt MH.
These are the pictures from days 1-7 of Veg



Switched over to the 400 watt MH at this point to stop the stretching and get them under some better light.









Days 8-14

Put in some fresh soil since they stretched under that 150 Watt HPS during the first couple of days. Looks pretty green and healthy in there! They're loving that 400 Watt MH. For the first 3 weeks im not going to use any nutrients just water and then i'm going to gradually introduce 1/4 strength nutrients and work up to the full dosage. Placed the light 12" away from the tops of the plants.











 
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The end of week 2 is upon us, time for fimming! The girls have four sets of nodes now and are working on their 5th and 6th. Not sure at the time if I fimmed them right, but I'm happy with the way it turned out. I took some pictures of the girls undergoing their surgery. I used tweezers and seperated the 5th set of leaves and clipped 3/4 of the way down on the 6th set of leaves on all 4.

Days 15-22










 
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So the girls got pretty bushy last week just like I was hoping for! I'm really trying to fill up this room, wall to wall with buds! So now that weeks 1-3 are out of the way it's time to start off with 1/4 strenth nutrients with these girls. I've been watering them every 6 to 7 days since these pots are so big and i've been trying to keep the majority of the water around the edges so the roots have to stretch out, want them big and strong! I started my LST'ing on day 29 by tying all the branches down. Also got my new hood, aircooled all the way!! Did a little pruining. Cut off the first two nodes main nodes and worked my way up each branch a little bit.

Pics days 23-29:









 
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So now that they got their little tie down lets see how things go. The next week should be rather interesting since this is their last week of veg!! They'll get 36 Hrs of darkness after day 35 and then will put in the HPS bulb and get this 12/12 cycle going.

Days 29-35




Tied back down again!



Check out how even the canopy is!!











 
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Time to start flowering these ladies! Basically just let them do their thing this week and gave them full strength flowering nutes.

Days:36-42














Stalks are looking nice and thick!




 
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Looks like i'm about 2 days behind on my watering scheduling :/ They're a little water deprived on the first few pics, but start to look nice again once they get those nutrients back in them. Basically just tying them down to keep them even and trying to keep up on the watering.

Days 43-50:













 
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So I got the girls tied down and the canopy back to even. I try to keep the 600 Watt HPS 6-8 inches away at all times.
Days 50-57:







 
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This is where things get fun. Had a little insident with my roommate/friend. We're kind of not on good terms anymore so kind of got a little scared. He got kicked out of the house and I had three options at this point. Scrap the project and call it quits, Chop them now and hope for the best, or move them over to a friends house I trust. When it came down to it I picked option 3. So I started building my new box over at my friends house, in a garage, and getting things situated over there so not to many pictures from days 72-79. Got me a green light in the mean time though :)

Days 72-79:





 
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No pictures for 14 days!! Basically my friends place isn't nearly as consistant as mine so i've been dealing with a HUGE range of temperatures the girls are seeing during their "night" cycle. During their lights on period the temps and humidity are perfect ranging from 68 degrees to 80 degrees depending on the night, except for when I couldn't get over there for 4 days to adjust things they had about 3 days of 90 degree lights on temperatures. They're basically roughing it now which really bums me, but am hoping for the best still, ya know. Didn't take the camera over there with me until tonight so here are some pics from day 93. I'm expecting about 23 more days. They get a feeding tomorrow and then one more in 5 days. After that they're getting pure PH balanced water for the next 14 days and then harvesting on Feb 14th hopefully!! White widow and wonder woman are going to be my valentine date :)

Day 93:






 
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Alright that's all I got for making this journal for tonight. I'll go back through it and make it more detailed and organized later, but I atleast got most of the pics up for you guys tonight and I know that's what matters the most to you lol
 
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