First time PC Build/Grow

SmeLLyTreeZ

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Congrats bro, I do believe I called that :) 4 days, not bad at all! Now lets see what this girl can do in flowering!
 

MoNk0

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So are you going to use any nutes? :D
Um that all depends on the money situation, I would like to but with Christmas coming up I doubt I'll be able to afford any.. But rest assured I will be getting some for my next grow, I'll see how this one does all the way through in the FFOF..

my set up is similar, but i'm growing 10 small plants, 12/12 from seed, like a party-cup grow. we'll have to compare notes, when mine get further along. my first grow was like this, but i did two bigger plants, and they both ended up being male. which was lame. but i was wondering how much you think you'll harvest off this grow style.
For sure, I'm hoping to get at least an Oz out of this plant anything more would be great..

So I guess it's a general consensus that more bud sites is better than having one main cola on a plant? Is that pretty much true for small grows like this? Because I saw one guy who didn't top or LST or anything in PC grow, and he had just one main cola that was only about 7 inches tall and weighed almost an oz dry. It was the only cola he had though.

I ask this because I'm about to start my PC grow and was curious if I should look into topping or LST or if I should just let it grow naturally. The more bud I could get, the happier I'd be lol. I'm gonna start 3 seeds hoping for at least one female. Great grow btw! I don't think I could pull off an LST like yours. It looks fairly difficult.
It all depends on the environment IMO, if your growing in a confined space yes LST is great or even a scrog to increase yields.. I topped and LST'd this plant, figured the more tops the merrier.. See and this method also depends on the lights your running MH/HPS have more light penetration as CFL's do not have much so LST helps spread the plant out and even it up to give it all equal light..

Hey when I started this grow I had never done any of this before.. I just read up a bunch before I even started building and looked at alot of pictures of setups and lst and topping.. I just had a basic idea of what I needed to do and just got my hands dirty, you will learn fast just remember to water about a half hour before and it will help limber up the branches..

congrats dude she will deff yield good with that lst. nice even tops.
Thanks CT, the even tops is what I was shooting for but it looks like I will be tieing a couple of them down some more next watering :)

I'm happy for you man. She's becoming a fat little bush :bigjoint:
Thanks FG, yeah she sure is bushy I love it and the node are nice and compact only about an Inch or Two at the most apart.. Should produce nice compact buds..

Woot, you're in the clear man. Just give her some TLC and watch her explode!
Hey thanks for stoppin by h&p, yeah just gotta keep an eye on her and tie some of them branches down some more to keep it all even and watch her flower..

sweet brother congrats on ur girl! and that lst is something to be proud of for sure.
Thanks newdude all comes with practice, I want to try a scrog but I'm kinda diggin the LST..

Congrats man...Am stoked for you! I cant wait to see her finish strong.

Arch
Thanks Arch, me neither :) Only a couple more months lol

hell yeah bro, fire up a big fattie!! LoL. congrats!!
Oh yeah CD been smokin a bongsmilie ever since I confirmed

Congrats bro, I do believe I called that :) 4 days, not bad at all! Now lets see what this girl can do in flowering!
TBH TreeZ I actually think I might have seen them yesterday but they were so small I really didn't take to much notice to them.. Today they were bigger and more pronounce so I think thats why I caught it today.. You sure did, you said 3-4 days and sure enough.. TreeZ lets see if you can say your gonna harvest 2 OZ and it happens? Wonder if that would work to lol..

alright MoNk0!!! congrats on your girl (and WHAT a girl, lol).
Thanks man, she keeps getting bigger and bushier I like it haha..

Hell yea,
glad to see another sugar mama! :D

NoB
Thanks NoB..
 

IntoTheWild

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Hell yea man! Congrats on the lady! Can't wait to see some fat buds on that LST you got goin there. And thanks for the advice...I think I might give LST a shot. So you topped her too?
 

jameslone

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I just read this full thread for the first time and happy that you have a girl. Looking forward to following this thread through flower and harvest.
I just finished building a pc grow box. Wired it up with 2 cfl light sockets, 4 pc fans ( 1 intake, 2 exhaust and 1 blowing on plant), carbon scrubber and reflectix. I plugged it in for the first time last night and it sounds like a 747. I don't know if I wired the fans wrong or the 12 volt DC adapter is too powerful. I gust know that I'm pissed that I have to take the whole thing apart to figure out what is wrong. Any suggestions?
I have 3 bag seeds germing right now and plan on starting them in party cups. After a few days I will decide which is doing the best and start vegging in the pc.
 

MoNk0

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Pics....LOL...Now!

Arch
lol will have an update sometime later today after lights have been on most of day :)

Hell yea man! Congrats on the lady! Can't wait to see some fat buds on that LST you got goin there. And thanks for the advice...I think I might give LST a shot. So you topped her too?
Yup I topped her, well I tried fimming first trying to get 4 main tops and I guess I didn't do it right. So I just topped it got the 2 main tops and LST'd her to get even more :)

I just read this full thread for the first time and happy that you have a girl. Looking forward to following this thread through flower and harvest.
I just finished building a pc grow box. Wired it up with 2 cfl light sockets, 4 pc fans ( 1 intake, 2 exhaust and 1 blowing on plant), carbon scrubber and reflectix. I plugged it in for the first time last night and it sounds like a 747. I don't know if I wired the fans wrong or the 12 volt DC adapter is too powerful. I gust know that I'm pissed that I have to take the whole thing apart to figure out what is wrong. Any suggestions?
I have 3 bag seeds germing right now and plan on starting them in party cups. After a few days I will decide which is doing the best and start vegging in the pc.
Hey thanks for stopping in james.. Well just some advice for micro grows on ventilation, if your temps seem to high its probably cause your exhaust isn't able to get rid of it fast enough. Which can be caused by intake fans and the location of the fan blowing on the plant.. If this happens I suggest taking the intake fan out, leaving just passive intake.. Now with the noise factor, when you purchased the fans what here there specs? Should have said RPM, CFM, DB, how many volts the fan is, if its variable speed. As long as your fan takes 12v DC your good with the adapter, and as far as wiring up the adapter goes as long as your have the adapters power hooked up to in most cases the red wire and the other adapter wire hooked up to the in most cases black.. Also if there not secured well to the case it can cause slight vibrations, if everything else seems good you might be able to take the fans off and make a little gasket out of cardboard or something to kinda eat some of the vibrations.. This is all I can think of, hope it helps...
 

jameslone

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Thanks for the response. I'm going to take it apart tonight to see which fan is the culprit.
I looked at my seeds this morning germing in a wet paper towel and they already cracked open. Hopefully by the time I get home and check again tonight, they'll have sprouted.
I too will be using FFOF soil throughout my grow. Since this is only bag seed and my first grow, I'm not going crazy buying nutes and meters and distilled water and shit. I'll be using good old tap water.
 

MoNk0

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Thanks for the response. I'm going to take it apart tonight to see which fan is the culprit.
I looked at my seeds this morning germing in a wet paper towel and they already cracked open. Hopefully by the time I get home and check again tonight, they'll have sprouted.
I too will be using FFOF soil throughout my grow. Since this is only bag seed and my first grow, I'm not going crazy buying nutes and meters and distilled water and shit. I'll be using good old tap water.
Just remember if your running tap water that it needs to sit out for like 24hrs to let the chlorine evaporate or whatever it is they use in tap water.. But I buy distilled water cause I use about 1gal a week and its 99cents lol :) but eventually I plan on using subcools super soil recipe so all you do is add water throughout the entire grow and the soil has all the nutes you need..
 

micro.grower

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dude... ive been gone for a sec now, but made it just in time to hear about the lady.... man.. get some piks up... i havent seen your lil GIRL (!!!!) in a while.... awesome news for sure... glad all that lst was worth something beside pollen... lol...
 

MoNk0

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dude... ive been gone for a sec now, but made it just in time to hear about the lady.... man.. get some piks up... i havent seen your lil GIRL (!!!!) in a while.... awesome news for sure... glad all that lst was worth something beside pollen... lol...
lol pics are coming up now :)
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Ok all did some lst today and I got a little over ambitious and had to loosen some up, had it a little to wide for my box lol.. so anyways here are a few pictures..
 

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micro.grower

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very very nice monko... i think you will harvest more than me for sure... beautiful lst job with out a doubt... from top of your container to the top of your tallest top, what is the height?
 

MoNk0

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very very nice monko... i think you will harvest more than me for sure... beautiful lst job with out a doubt... from top of your container to the top of your tallest top, what is the height?
Um not sure TBH I'm thinking like somewhere between 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 inches tall.. The lst I did today was to try to get some light to them center tops a bit more.. but they will get a little lst at some point to bring them down to the height of the rest..
 
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