Bagseed & Rubbermaid Grow Box
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Very nice contraption Spittin, I can't wait to see this in action. You are exactly how I am. Why spend a ton of money on something when you can invent or create something new and original. Plus on top of that, you can customize it. Make it look cool and say you did it! =) Awesome job (I will have to show you guys some of my contraptions I created 
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Spittn4cash
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hey thanks a lot hearmenow & odinzu I really appreciate the support,
and yea I did put a lot of time and work into this, so hopefully I will reap fromt his hard work.
odinzu make sure you drop a link to your grow in here, I would love to see what u can conjur up with a bunch of stuff..
thanks again to both of you for commenting
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I was bored and playin around on MS paint, and ended up making an animated version of my growroom, I wanted to share it with U guys..go ahead and laugh at it, I was just messin around anyways...lol
lol..as u can see...I still have that cardboard box as my light reflector, i got a new fan, carbon scrubber, and now im using 5 gallon buckets..two plants(plant C& plant D) in one bucket, one plant (plant E) in the other..the plants C&D are both LST'd in the one bucket with yellow straps. those were the 2 that I topped earlier, now both standing at 18".. plant E is only 14". thats why i had to lst the other 2
edit: added a pic of my lighting..
and yea I did put a lot of time and work into this, so hopefully I will reap fromt his hard work.
odinzu make sure you drop a link to your grow in here, I would love to see what u can conjur up with a bunch of stuff..
thanks again to both of you for commenting
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I was bored and playin around on MS paint, and ended up making an animated version of my growroom, I wanted to share it with U guys..go ahead and laugh at it, I was just messin around anyways...lol
lol..as u can see...I still have that cardboard box as my light reflector, i got a new fan, carbon scrubber, and now im using 5 gallon buckets..two plants(plant C& plant D) in one bucket, one plant (plant E) in the other..the plants C&D are both LST'd in the one bucket with yellow straps. those were the 2 that I topped earlier, now both standing at 18".. plant E is only 14". thats why i had to lst the other 2
edit: added a pic of my lighting..
Spittn4cash
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My plants were drooping and growing super slooowly...I was thinking it was bcuz of either pH lockout, overwatered, root rot, or root bound.
I watered with peroxide bcuz it drops the ph in tap water and kills bacteria in soil. when it kills the bacteria it produces oxygen and feeds it to the roots, so if they were drooping bcuz of being over watered, peroxide provides the oxygen that the roots need when it kills the bacteria. peroxide also helps fight and cure root rot just in case that was the problem also. then I got some cheap new potting soil and I didnt kno if it had any fungus or bugs or anything in it that might harm the plants, so to be safe I watered them with 3% peroxide and that sorta sterilized it for my plants..
I had never watered with peroxide before either, but when I noticed all these problems, it was the only resolution i had not tried yet.
VictorVIcious
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Good to see your success Spittin. VV
Spittn4cash
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Another Female in the Bunch!
Im so Glad I planted that last seed a few pages ago ("Say Hello to Plant E") bcuz she turned out to be a female!!! I was hoping this one would turn out female bcuz shes the only 100% sativa in the whole group. I was really feeling down about everything, I mean the job market/economy in Cleveland is terrible and I was thinking I might have to leave Ohio pretty soon to find work, but I hear its like that all over the US...I swear we are the richest poor country in the world...but then I took a really good look at her, and sure enough I saw white hairs on each of her nodes all the way down to the bottom..
^^Damn, I didnt know my camera was that good, look at the detail in my finger print!
One thing that concerns me tho is that she's not very bushy, even after I topped her she kept on stretching and the fan leaves keeps on getting bigger and bigger. if you notice, at the nodes she has small 1 inch branches all the way down. look:
Plant C
Plant D
Group Shot:
So the official count is now: 2 Males (Plant A & B)/ 2 Females (Plant D & E)/ 1 Unknown (Plant C)
How do they look?
Im so Glad I planted that last seed a few pages ago ("Say Hello to Plant E") bcuz she turned out to be a female!!! I was hoping this one would turn out female bcuz shes the only 100% sativa in the whole group. I was really feeling down about everything, I mean the job market/economy in Cleveland is terrible and I was thinking I might have to leave Ohio pretty soon to find work, but I hear its like that all over the US...I swear we are the richest poor country in the world...but then I took a really good look at her, and sure enough I saw white hairs on each of her nodes all the way down to the bottom..
^^Damn, I didnt know my camera was that good, look at the detail in my finger print!
One thing that concerns me tho is that she's not very bushy, even after I topped her she kept on stretching and the fan leaves keeps on getting bigger and bigger. if you notice, at the nodes she has small 1 inch branches all the way down. look:
Plant C
Plant D
Group Shot:
So the official count is now: 2 Males (Plant A & B)/ 2 Females (Plant D & E)/ 1 Unknown (Plant C)
How do they look?
eastlosg1
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Another Female in the Bunch!
Im so Glad I planted that last seed a few pages ago ("Say Hello to Plant E") bcuz she turned out to be a female!!! I was hoping this one would turn out female bcuz shes the only 100% sativa in the whole group. I was really feeling down about everything, I mean the job market/economy in Cleveland is terrible and I was thinking I might have to leave Ohio pretty soon to find work, but I hear its like that all over the US...I swear we are the richest poor country in the world...but then I took a really good look at her, and sure enough I saw white hairs on each of her nodes all the way down to the bottom..
^^Damn, I didnt know my camera was that good, look at the detail in my finger print!
One thing that concerns me tho is that she's not very bushy, even after I topped her she kept on stretching and the fan leaves keeps on getting bigger and bigger. if you notice, at the nodes she has small 1 inch branches all the way down. look:
Plant C
Plant D
Group Shot:
So the official count is now: 2 Males (Plant A & B)/ 2 Females (Plant D & E)/ 1 Unknown (Plant C)
How do they look?
They look nice so did the peroxide work? and u still got them under cfl's ?
Spittn4cash
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Thank you
yeah, after I gave them some peroxide they all perked up..I think I had a problem with my pH, the roots were white everytime I transplanted so I know it wasnt root rot.
and yeah, they're still under the CFL's. they're geting nice and bushy and all, but they're stretching into the light, and Im constantly turning the pots every so often so that all the cola's are all getting the same amount of light..
I'm thinking about getting a HID between 70-100w for the next one, it will make things a lot easier.
These girls sure are thirsty though, I have to water them every 2-3 days now, no more weekly feedings..but thats good, it makes it easier to remember and monitor what/when you fed them.
Spittn4cash
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Plant E is doing great...that would be cool too if she was one long cola, hopefulyl i'll be able to either re-veg her or clone her..
We really want to clone Plant E since she's the only pure sativa in the group. She looks like she's gonna be 1 long cola, which is ok..even if she hermie's on me that'll be good to bcuz I want her seed. She smells really minty, sorta like a peppermint patty mixed with some really good ganja. all of her new growth sorta glows under the light..its almost "heavenly"
(^^No enhancement to that pic^^)
Watching Plant E's growth got me thinking:
If I start off all my seedlings on 24/0 for 1 1/2 weeks and then switch it over to 12/12 it would help me weed out all the males and I dont think it would hurt the yeild that much. All my of plants would get better lighting with the CFL's too.
My logic behind this:
Plant E was started about 11-12 days after the rest of the group. It was small and compact at first, then I let her stretch a lil bit and then topped her. If I woulda topped her sooner then the secondary probably would be shooting out of every where. that would be perfect for the next stealth operation.
So forget alternating nodes, hurting the yeild and all that jazz..the next grow is starting off in 24/0 for 10 days, then all of them are getting topped, and Im switching the lighting to 12/12 on day 11. Same thing with any clones I take in the future.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 5
Day 7
Day 9
Day 12
Day 14
^^Thats when I shoulda topped her
Day 18
Day 19
^^Thats when I DID top her, and you can see she already began stretching here
Day 25
Day 26
^^this is what she is today
We really want to clone Plant E since she's the only pure sativa in the group. She looks like she's gonna be 1 long cola, which is ok..even if she hermie's on me that'll be good to bcuz I want her seed. She smells really minty, sorta like a peppermint patty mixed with some really good ganja. all of her new growth sorta glows under the light..its almost "heavenly"
(^^No enhancement to that pic^^)
Watching Plant E's growth got me thinking:
If I start off all my seedlings on 24/0 for 1 1/2 weeks and then switch it over to 12/12 it would help me weed out all the males and I dont think it would hurt the yeild that much. All my of plants would get better lighting with the CFL's too.
My logic behind this:
Plant E was started about 11-12 days after the rest of the group. It was small and compact at first, then I let her stretch a lil bit and then topped her. If I woulda topped her sooner then the secondary probably would be shooting out of every where. that would be perfect for the next stealth operation.
So forget alternating nodes, hurting the yeild and all that jazz..the next grow is starting off in 24/0 for 10 days, then all of them are getting topped, and Im switching the lighting to 12/12 on day 11. Same thing with any clones I take in the future.
Day 2
Day 3
Day 5
Day 7
Day 9
Day 12
Day 14
^^Thats when I shoulda topped her
Day 18
Day 19
^^Thats when I DID top her, and you can see she already began stretching here
Day 25
Day 26
^^this is what she is today
Spittn4cash
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Post 4-fuckin-20 (420) in my thread!!!
Spittn4cash
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I was changing around a few things in my box and getting frustrated bcuz Plant C still hadnt shown its sex yet, then i took a really close look...and sure enough she's the last to show sex...
Another Female!!!
That makes 3/5 females!!!!
I Feel like Dancin!!!
Another Female!!!
That makes 3/5 females!!!!
I Feel like Dancin!!!
Spittn4cash
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I read a post on another forum by a guy named Chimera who says that you should flush at least 3 times throughout flowering in addition to the flush 2 weeks before harvest. those flushings will remove any salt build up in the soil that will prevent the plant from reaching full potential...
I started thinking "I havent flushed ONCE since I switched my lights" so I immediately I jumped up and decided to give my plants a flush..only problem was the lights had been OFF for 25 MINUTES...
I remembered back to when I looked at the rootballs for the males, and they had quite a bit of white buildup (I'm pretty sure it was salt) and Im thinking this is a serious problem so I decided to interrupt the DARK period and give my plants a good flushing.
I let the shower run on them genly just until it looked like the buckets had flooded about 3"-4" above the soil the plants were in and then placed them back in the dark. the whole process took only 10 minutes, hopefully this will do more GOOD than BAD
They looked pretty droopy afterwards, but still pretty good.
I started thinking "I havent flushed ONCE since I switched my lights" so I immediately I jumped up and decided to give my plants a flush..only problem was the lights had been OFF for 25 MINUTES...
I remembered back to when I looked at the rootballs for the males, and they had quite a bit of white buildup (I'm pretty sure it was salt) and Im thinking this is a serious problem so I decided to interrupt the DARK period and give my plants a good flushing.
I let the shower run on them genly just until it looked like the buckets had flooded about 3"-4" above the soil the plants were in and then placed them back in the dark. the whole process took only 10 minutes, hopefully this will do more GOOD than BAD
They looked pretty droopy afterwards, but still pretty good.
Spittn4cash
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Im exactly half way thru the grow! YAY!
I felt like an update was due bcuz I made a few upgrades to my grow area.
First off I added 4 more 26W Warm CFL's to the box. That brings my total lumens from 7200 to about 14,000 in a 2x2.25 grow space. (approx. 3111 lumens/sq ft). So I have 9 CFL's...thats 3 lights per plant.
I dont really have any news to report, I just wanted to show U guys some of my fancy camera work.
^^Notice Plant E's Secondary growth almost as long as the fan leaves now..I was worried at first, but its turning out great!
2 Days of Growth!
more updates on the way..stay tuned...feel free to leave any comments or questions.
I felt like an update was due bcuz I made a few upgrades to my grow area.
First off I added 4 more 26W Warm CFL's to the box. That brings my total lumens from 7200 to about 14,000 in a 2x2.25 grow space. (approx. 3111 lumens/sq ft). So I have 9 CFL's...thats 3 lights per plant.
I dont really have any news to report, I just wanted to show U guys some of my fancy camera work.
^^Notice Plant E's Secondary growth almost as long as the fan leaves now..I was worried at first, but its turning out great!
2 Days of Growth!
more updates on the way..stay tuned...feel free to leave any comments or questions.
ChillWill151
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Damn nice job your whole grow looks great! cant wait to see some finished bud
Spittn4cash
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thx chillwill i needed to hear that lol
..for a couple pages i thought i was alone
..thanks again for stoppin by!
