Growitup Greenhouse 2011

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jsgamber

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jsgamber said:
OK, so I'm fashionably late! :lol:

Seats all pulled up and ready to fly!! :weed:
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Shit Man!!! There's a big old pile of dust on this damn chair....looks like I've been away for awhile.....with good reason... :fire:

cruzer101 said:
Thanks gumball, I don't know what it is I like about growing so much but once I started... well I just kept going. I guess I like the whole thing. The seed germinating and almost explosive growth into seedlings is exciting. The first flowers, like forth of July. Buds packing on weight and ripening trichomes is just awesome to watch. Not to mention the harvest. :wink:

I forgot to mention you guys, I don't share my grows with friends and neighbors cause I'm afraid of getting ripped off. Yet just like everybody else, I have questions and want answers, I like that pat on the back when things work out and well hell yea, I like to show off. I couldn't do that without you guys.
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What a perfect, awesome post I came back in on!!! First off cruzer I caught completely back up with this grow (sorry for you guys I haven't yet visited but I'm working from the bottom up :lol: ). It's just fucking amazing. How you just stated is what I instantly felt once my grow came in. It must be "the universe", serendipity or whatever you want to call it but I guess I lost my job for a reason. YOU were the one I asked for help when it came to bugs and YOU saved me!!! :) THANK YOU for helping me bring in my first harvest!!!!

I dedicate the first bud porn shots that I just now took. And I'd like to ask you your opinion. These are the first shots I've taken with a flash in a week. They just finished their ninth week (Skywalker OG and Blue Dream). They've been under 1000w HPS for a week. I gradually reduced their nutes and now they have been flushing on R/O water only for the last 3 days and the PPM's are up to 50 from 0. Also under HPS trichs look cloudy but the pics under flash look like they are starting to glow amber. The leaves are definitely yellowed (they still looked green under HPS).

I'm starting to think they are ready to harvest. How many more days on R/O should I let them go so I get a good flush or are they ready now? This is one of the most amazing things I have done in my life and I feel like a proud Poppa again!!







Oh, and why have I been away??? I've been busy building some new cabinets but instead of them being 4x3x2 I'm making them 18x16x7. I guess we'll have to start calling me a Farmer. :bigjoint:


And you see I'm now breaking it in quite well! You should come by my thread and see the rest!


Oh, and sorry for the hijack!!! :blsmoke::blsmoke:
 
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cruzer101

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Hi gambler, good to see ya back in the mix, Glad to help.
Thanks for the update, you girls are looking sweet. Nice job bud. Yea, I would flush 3 days after the ppms hit 50 to be sure.
Looks like you got a bit more space to play with. You are steppin up man, be thoughtful of what you post, ya gotta assume big brother is surfing the forums and you're not just a guy with a couple plants in a cabinet now.
 
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cruzer101

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Speaking of a couple plants in a cabinet, here is a quick update on the seedlings.

Once I lowered the light they stopped growing up and started growing out.
Still, I made little props out of that crafts wire just in case but I didnt re-pot them yet. I'm thinking I will move them to 1 gal smart pots and put them under the 400w CMH for the time in the veg cab then another transfer to the 7 gal smart pots in the greenhouse this summer.




I started watering from the bottom by dipping them in a bowl of water.



Then I dump the excess water in the tub to help with humidity.



Then drop the light back down.




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cruzer101

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Ya know, I thought of that but I figure these girls will be vegging for months and I got access to as many clones as I want.
The lower branches will need to be pruned anyway. I remember all that stuff I tossed last year. Couple garbage cans full.
 
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cruzer101

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Wow, looks like the best I can do on the 1 gal pots is $3.15 ea. I was thinking more like half that.
Second thought I wont go that route, I got some 7 in square I'll use. They wont air prune but I don't think thats what I want anyway.
 
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jsgamber

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cruzer101 said:
Hi gambler, good to see ya back in the mix, Glad to help.
Thanks for the update, you girls are looking sweet. Nice job bud. Yea, I would flush 3 days after the ppms hit 50 to be sure.
Looks like you got a bit more space to play with. You are steppin up man, be thoughtful of what you post, ya gotta assume big brother is surfing the forums and you're not just a guy with a couple plants in a cabinet now.
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Well then it just must be plain fucking serendipity. That would be tomorrow and I'm supposed to head to Vegas for 3 days. I've got flower room 4 all setup to dry. Perfectly dark, RH around 45-55% and I have 6 16" fans. I'll hang the girls in the center of the room and put a fan in each corner creating a nice little vortex. The plants are already enmeshed in the small screen so when I cut, all I have to do is hang the plant upside down hanging it by the screen. What a fucking brilliant man I am!!! :lol: :lol:

Regarding UTR, I understand that completely. But I also know that I'm doing the right thing, for the right reasons. This isn't about money, it's about purpose and legacy. Look at Cervantes, Rosenthal and others who stood up for what was right. I did everything right to protect my family so I'm the only one. I'm paying every tax I can, attending City Council meetings, joining the City Chamber of Commerce and will donate to whatever charity the police department sponsors. They can arrest me and I'll be fine, and they will have to deal with the publicity once they find out how I've been conducting business and conducting my life, in a truly decent and respectful manner. If I have to I have enough retirement to do this all over again a couple of times. So go big or go home is what I say. I only have one life to live and I just made this the top of my "bucket list". I'm commited.

peace
 
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gumball

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cruzer101 said:
Ya know, I thought of that but I figure these girls will be vegging for months and I got access to as many clones as I want.
The lower branches will need to be pruned anyway. I remember all that stuff I tossed last year. Couple garbage cans full.
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Hell, you should see about giving clones back to your collective, hell there may be something in it for ya. I know your not in it for money, but who knows.
 
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billcollector99

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cruzer101 said:
Wow, looks like the best I can do on the 1 gal pots is $3.15 ea. I was thinking more like half that.
Second thought I wont go that route, I got some 7 in square I'll use. They wont air prune but I don't think thats what I want anyway.
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How many are you looking for? How does $2 a piece sound? ;)
 
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cruzer101

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jsgamber said:
So go big or go home is what I say. I only have one life to live and I just made this the top of my "bucket list". I'm commited.

peace
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Ha! go for it man. sounds like you got you're ducks in a row.

gumball said:
Hell, you should see about giving clones back to your collective, hell there may be something in it for ya. I know your not in it for money, but who knows.
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Never asked... I don't know man, I suppose I could.

billcollector99 said:
How many are you looking for? How does $2 a piece sound? ;)
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Price sounds good man, after re thinking it I think I'm better off with a solid side so I don't air prune though.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
 
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gumball

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Thats a hard one, cause you want to transplant into larger so would the air pruning now slow the roots from growing in the larger pots later??? you did solid side to start last year, then up canned to the larger air pots out in the GH, right? Probably easier to take out of the solid sided pots too, huh
 
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billcollector99

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gumball said:
Thats a hard one, cause you want to transplant into larger so would the air pruning now slow the roots from growing in the larger pots later??? you did solid side to start last year, then up canned to the larger air pots out in the GH, right? Probably easier to take out of the solid sided pots too, huh
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I havent had any problems upgrading from small fabric pots to the larger ones, and they arent that hard to transplant either, easiest way is to roll them off, like a tube sock.
 
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gumball

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billcollector99 said:
I havent had any problems upgrading from small fabric pots to the larger ones, and they arent that hard to transplant either, easiest way is to roll them off, like a tube sock.
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Ok, thats cool then! Wish I could use them, but I guess if I run ebb&flo or some variant I wont gain much if I could.
 
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cruzer101

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Week 10 Silver Jack.
Temps are rising high 80"s day mid 50's night. I'm getting more daylight, hit 13 hours today so I turned off the 600w light. I started nutrients at 700ppm last Sunday and its still at 600ppm. I'm gonna drain the res and fill with straight water for this last week.




The plant in the front has some real cool looking fall colors, the rest are mostly yellow.



Last grow I put the tallest plant in the middle and it stayed the tallest. This grow I put the smallest plant in the middle and it stayed the smallest. I guess it makes no difference.



Lower bud shot,



Upper bud shot,



trich shot of lower bud under light,






I thought about it last night and figured if I was going to do something about the pot size I had better do it quick if it was going to make any difference. So I pulled one out of the green pot and sure enough the roots were already starting to wind around the bottom of the cup so i transplanted all of them to the pots I had last night.






Its been about 14 hours since I moved them and they are lookin fine.
The runt in the back isn't doing much, if it doesn't kick in soon I think I'm gonna trash it.
I fill that white tray in the front with water every day and hang a towel so the bottom is in it and wicks up the water, helps increase humidity.

The plants hanging in the shed are drying out a bit faster now the temps have increased, I probably wont get a good snap for a few days yet though.

Forgot to mention, I started these girls on Hygrozyme. 6mil per gallon, I read some good things about it and I'm going to use it throughout the grow.
 
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IAm5toned

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Last grow I put the tallest plant in the middle and it stayed the tallest. This grow I put the smallest plant in the middle and it stayed the smallest. I guess it makes no difference.
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ive noticed that too.

interesting, but strange. i wonder if the same thing would happen with seedlings, instead of clones.

one would think that clones from the same mom would have a similair growth height.

perhaps it has something to do with the apical dominance of the branch the cutting was cloned from?

who knows.... any theories?
 
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