Dresser - 3 Sq. Ft. - 20,600 Lumens - Hydro

[KushMaster85]

Those plants are looking good. I really think I could fit the 250HPS in the space I have but I must stay under 200w total so that leaves me with about 185w for lights, I will be adding the second light soon. This is only my second grow so I hope it goes well. So far I have had several problems with nute deff and mites. Always something new every round. Keep up the good work you will be growing trees in no time.

KM

 

[titleistbudz]

Those are amazing pictures man. I'm also very interested in your grow!

I will be following you to completion!

 

[oscarmiya]

Those plants are looking good. I really think I could fit the 250HPS in the space I have but I must stay under 200w total so that leaves me with about 185w for lights, I will be adding the second light soon. This is only my second grow so I hope it goes well. So far I have had several problems with nute deff and mites. Always something new every round. Keep up the good work you will be growing trees in no time.

KM

I'm trying, lol... seems like I am constantly either doing something with the Cab to help them or checkin up on them. Your first grow I was very impressed with, 40g with 1 plant and for how small that bitch was.. very nice. Must have been a lot of training, looked all tidy n clean lol. Are your 70watters the same as mine? You should post a pic of your setup- I would like to see how you mounted yours and just how your setup is...
If your having probs with Nute deficiencies this chart may help. You might already have it or something like it but it has helped me so far and if not help you too.. maybe someone else roaming around this thread.

pH Nutrient Uptake Chart for marijuana

Also, the Link I am about to post you may already have or atleast something similar but.... I`ll post anyways. This link will explain each Nutrient deficiency and show pictures of each. Coupled with this chart, you should be able to diagnose/correct any problems.

Marijuana Plant Abuse

Those are amazing pictures man. I'm also very interested in your grow!

I will be following you to completion!

Thanks man- One reason I am interested in how your plants react to the MH is because I am thinking about setting my small nightstand up as the veg cabby and was thinking of throwing a 70w MH bulb up in it. I have used Mercury Vapor before but in my opinion the plants stretched a little more. From what I heard the MH helps keep them small n bushy.

Day 13 - pH 5.7 - 235 ppm - Temp 75 - RH 40%
Plants are still doing good. I got my PPM meter today in the mail so I will be updating in the format above from now on. I took the reading of the PPM and my nutes were at 180 ppm. Because of the burns from a few days ago, I am a little worried to add too much even though 180 is a little low. I want to get it up to 400 ppm within the next few days. If there are no Nute burns tomorrow when I get home, I will up it too 300 ppm. By Friday, I should be at 400 ppm for sure. I will let that run for a couple days before I increase again with a res change. More Pics Tomorow.

 

[KushMaster85]

Sounds like you got it planed out. My lighting setup is not the best. The light is hung in a vertical fasion wich does not distrubute light as well as a horizontal mounted light would. The light set up is deffinatly something that I am working on. When I add the other 70w light then I will make sure they are horizontal. I will post a pic when I have a chance of the reflector I am currently using. Here is what it looked like at day 54. I keep the light about 2-3 inches from the tops of the plants.

 

[oscarmiya]

Sounds like you got it planed out. My lighting setup is not the best. The light is hung in a vertical fasion wich does not distrubute light as well as a horizontal mounted light would. The light set up is deffinatly something that I am working on. When I add the other 70w light then I will make sure they are horizontal. I will post a pic when I have a chance of the reflector I am currently using. Here is what it looked like at day 54. I keep the light about 2-3 inches from the tops of the plants.

Man, thats a nice little reflector you got. lol you spot weld that together? Looks about perfect for your space. The CFL's are probably fine on the side like that, get the lower branches a peek of light. I may end up adding a something on the sides like that because once they start getting bigger in this small space I don't think much, if any, light will get to the lower branches. Would be tight if you could mount a couple CFL's in that reflector too. 2" - 3" is about what I have been keeping mine at. I did have them about 6" away and moving them closer like that helped a lot. I`ll be checking your grow to see when you get your other 70w installed.

 

[oscarmiya]

Day 14 - pH 5.8 - 300 ppm - Temp 80 - RH 60%
I got home today and didn't see any signs of burns. SO, I upped the nutes to 300 ppm. I didn't have to add any pH Up/Down because it has been right about 5.8 all day. I added a reflector to the cab also. Tomorrow or Friday I will be buying the Mylar and might have everything wrapped up by next pic post.

Here are 4 pics, 1 each of every plant. You can def. see there are two doing a lot better. On the first pic you can see the small Nute Burn from when I didn't have my PPM meter yet.

Here are a couple pics showing the roots of two of the bigger plants.

Here is a pic of all 4. You can see the ones on the left are bigger for some reason... odd.

300 ppm, exact.

And for a couple random pics I took.

AND for anyone who has a small grow cab and a Hobby Lobby near you, you may want to check this out. Its reflective "Mylar" laminated to a thin cardboard that is extremely flat and flexible. I bought one to take some measurements and I ended up turning it into my reflector. In the picture above, up by the light you can see part of it. It helps shield some of the light from box when I have it open too. The sheets are pretty decent size, poster board, and they only charged me .70 some cents... Cheaper route of "Mylar" than buying it by the 25' roll for a small grow cab. You can find it over by the Poster Boards.

 

[dewinitbig]

sick grow man im gonna be checking this a lot keep it up

 

[oscarmiya]

sick grow man im gonna be checking this a lot keep it up

Thanks.

Day 14 - pH 5.8 - 308 ppm - Temp 72 - RH 55%
I got home today and took a ppm reading. 308 ppm. So instead of increasing the Nutes today, I am going to play it safe and wait until tomorrow. It could be fluctuation but if the ppm raised then that could mean the plant is using more water than it is Nutrients. Which means that it could be close to Nute burn. No visual signs yet.
I also went and got a 4' wide x 25' long - 2mil thick roll of Mylar today after work. I am burned out (literally) so I don't really feel like staying up covering everything tonight. I'll cover it all tomorrow and post pictures with the normal 2 day post. Secondary growth is starting also, look for pics late tomorrow night.
Also purchased me some 3" Dia. net pots and some Rockwool Cubes for when I clone and setup my Veg Cab.

 

[titleistbudz]

Glad you caught that nute burn early bro.

Everything looks good, and I think I'm going to go buy some of that reflective poster board. Thats perfect for what I need.

 

[superskunkxnl]

beautiful m8

 

[oscarmiya]

beautiful m8

Thanks man.

Day 15 - pH 6.5 - 290 ppm - Temp 74 - RH 50%
Alright, so I did it. The Mylar is up and looking nice. That shit is like a mirror. Fortunately, I am baked. Unfortunately, I feel too lazy after doing that for a few hours to post pics tonight. I will post plant pics tomorrow morning/afternoon when I wake up. I will also include a few pics I took of the Mylar/inside of cabby. I think it makes it look pretty clean. Also, as you can see- My PPM went down from 308. I will take that as my sign that the plants ARE using the Nutes more than the water. A sure sign its safe to raise Nutes. Since I am too lazy to post pics, I am also being too lazy to change the Res. Water tonight. lol- been a long day... I am going to change that in the morning/afternoon also. It will be a fresh batch of distilled water (70ppm to start) with 400ppm of Nutes in the end, pH'd to 5.8.

 

[skunkman98536]

hmm i like this thread .. ill watch it

 

[doctorRobert]

how do you post threads??!!!!!

 

[skunkman98536]

you go the forum u want to post in (i.e. grow journals , hyrdroponics setups .. w/e) then a button on the top right u shud see it post thread.

 

[robbie82]

Nice set up, stealthy as hell and it looks like your grow is going well. Good job and best of luck, ill be watching.

 

[oscarmiya]

Thanks Robbie

Day 16 - pH 5.8 - 430 ppm - Temp 80 - RH 57%
Alright, I kind of messed up. I got to thinking, when I was upping the nutes this last week- I was just adding the same amount of each, Micro, Gro, and Bloom. When really I didn't want to add as much Bloom or Micro. The plants are still doing fine but either I am too worried or my babies seem a little stressed. I changed the Res. Tank today and here is what I added per Gal. to get 430ppm with distilled water that started with 3ppm.
4 mL - FloraMicro
7 mL - FloraGro
2 mL - FloraBloom
I either expect to see my babies light up with Nute burn or take off. Hopefully the ladder. The Mylar seems to be making things a LOT more brighter in there. Here are some pics.

The two in the second picture I noticed were droopy. I looking in my Res. Tank and for some reason my air line on that side wasn't putting air out.. I took it all apart and put it all back together and it worked fine. I also had a small prob with the CO2 thing.. lol Musta mixed too strong of a batch and it came up the line and squirted the two in the second pic. This happened the other day and they seem to be taking it rough but I think they will be alright.

Here are a couple pictures of the secondary growth.

Here is a root shot at Day 16.

Here are a few last random pics. This should give you a good idea of how much the Mylar helps reflect.

More pics in a couple days. Hopefully the new Nutes aren't too much! I post back tomorrow on a update.

 

[skunkman98536]

not bad .. but y do ur babies look so sad?... heat? .. bugs? ... nuets burn? .. what? .. roots look nice and white and long for a lil over 2 weeks .. but all in all good

 

[oscarmiya]

not bad .. but y do ur babies look so sad?... heat? .. bugs? ... nuets burn? .. what? .. roots look nice and white and long for a lil over 2 weeks .. but all in all good

The two on the left, the ones doing better, didn't get hit with the yeast/sugar mix... I think that has a little bit to do with why the two on the right look sad. They look better than what they did earlier so I think they are recovering. The two on the Left are doing alright... The angle of that picture sucks and makes them look a little funky. Also like i said the one pump line was like not working for a day... not sure why I unhooked it all and hooked it back up and it worked fine.. Thats when I started to notice the droopiness, I figured it was sort of a symptom like over watering or something because not enough oxygen to the roots. Maybe I'm wrong but we`ll see how they do in the next couple days.

 

[titleistbudz]

They will sprucen up dont worry .

 

[skunkman98536]

yea ...but i love growing in bubbleponics .. dont u? .. its awesome .. and i love the root shots and being able to just lift up the lid and see the roots .. its pretty sweet haha