First Closet CFL Grow

[cheetah2007]

hahah...not so good....i hate to hijack threads....you can vizit my journal in my sign

 

[7leaves]

i really like that epp and flow system can i find more info on that here on this forum

 

[toolage]

thanks all for the kind comments and words! yeah I definetly had a blast, thats only 4 of 1700 pictures. Bon fires, fireworks, animals, snakes, a lot of alchahol, weed, and a lot of creativity. It was probaly the best vacation I've ever had in my entire life!!!


7leaves : It's not an ebb and flow. I mistyped that at the beginning of the journal, it explains it around page 5 or somewhere around there of what it is. But GrowFAQ is your friend and you'll find 90% of your questions answered there.

 

[toolage]

Update Day 63 Flowering/102 Days from Veg

Nutes Added in Resevoir:
6 gallons water
4 tb part A
5 ptb part B
1/4 tsp Zone
1/4 tsp Silica
1/4 tsp Superthrive
23 drops Ph down

PH/PPM
5.3/1000

Temp/Humidity
76.9/41%
Max-91.3/54%
Min-63.2/20%

Stretch
She smells so good. She tried to grow into the light while I was gone, but I saved her in time without her getting heat stressed. She's really fattening up and looking really good. I lowered the PPM today to get her ready for flushing next week. Today starts week 9 and I will be flushing for 14 days. Her full flowering time will be exactly 12 weeks. Cant really wait much longer then that because I want to start my next Northern Lights grow out as soon as possible.

Problems
Whle I was out of town my PH got up to 7.7 The leaves are starting to get the claw look. I completely changed out water and got everything back to normal.

Pictures

 

[FrostickZero]

damn tool they look awsome, when I move out of here I'm gonna be brining my plants that are alive with me and doing a set up but I dk if I'm still gonna use CFL , I prob will but just in a bigger scale =P

 

[thegigglepimp]

Looking fantastic mate Shes really going for it. Shes looking sticky lol Cant wait for three/ four weeks time to see pics of her chopped!

 

[Alto]

Nice work friend
Nice Vacation pix too!
You have the patience of a saint with this girl
and I can see already that it will be so worth it for you
she is filling in the spaces between nodes really well.

Those will be some tasty fluffy kind buds when you finally get out the ax
(and you may need an ax to chop that beast!)

great job just keep it up for a couple more weeks and your in heaven and ready to start all over again

 

[kochab]

man toolage, that looks great!
and your next grow will be northern lights? Hell yeah, pre-subscribe! You gonna be keeping them smaller or still huge ass girls?
good luck on finishing the grow and I hope you enjoy the smoke.

 

[toolage]

damn tool they look awsome, when I move out of here I'm gonna be brining my plants that are alive with me and doing a set up but I dk if I'm still gonna use CFL , I prob will but just in a bigger scale =P

hey man thanks for the compliments. I will probably always veg with CFL's but for as flowering I think I'm always going to stick with HPS. Not worth using that many watts of CFL's when you can use the same amount of energy for a HPS and get better buds.

Looking fantastic mate Shes really going for it. Shes looking sticky lol Cant wait for three/ four weeks time to see pics of her chopped!

Yeah she's got 3 more weeks of life left in her. When I touch the buds they are very soft like cotton and my hands stink of of heaven. Thanks for the support brother! Hope mary gets better!

Nice work friend
Nice Vacation pix too!
You have the patience of a saint with this girl
and I can see already that it will be so worth it for you
she is filling in the spaces between nodes really well.

Those will be some tasty fluffy kind buds when you finally get out the ax
(and you may need an ax to chop that beast!)

great job just keep it up for a couple more weeks and your in heaven and ready to start all over again

Yeah man she's beggining to be a fatty. She didn't fatten up as much as I'd hope for while I was gone, but I'm assuming that's probably because of my pH fluctuation. After this grow, an 8 week flowering period will be CAKE!

man toolage, that looks great!
and your next grow will be northern lights? Hell yeah, pre-subscribe! You gonna be keeping them smaller or still huge ass girls?
good luck on finishing the grow and I hope you enjoy the smoke.

Hey bro, yeah man I'm doing Northern Lights next grow. My girl mailed them from Amsterdamn last week and I received 5 Northern Lights Feminised. No worries about males this time, and I'm going to need your personal help with that DWC clone you were trying to help me with earlier. This will get me off on the right track for keeping the cycle going.

 

[kochab]

Hey bro, yeah man I'm doing Northern Lights next grow. My girl mailed them from Amsterdamn last week and I received 5 Northern Lights Feminised. No worries about males this time, and I'm going to need your personal help with that DWC clone you were trying to help me with earlier. This will get me off on the right track for keeping the cycle going.

Northern lights was the first strain I ever grew out when i was back in high school. Mine werent femanized though. Im expecting 2 or 3 more strains to be coming my way in the next 2 weeks I should be getting some good variety going this year. I actually have something for you when You come out my way(pm me....). Actually more of a trade for a smoke out since Ill prob be outta any good weed still then. Alas, I just finished off my last stash jar last night. I posted the picture of it when I started smoking it, I need to go see what day that was....
When you come by I have a cloner that I can give you. It will work to do 2-4 @ one time I think...Or you can buy the materials and Ill help you do it that way so you can prefect your setup.

I actually didnt pay too much attention to the start of this grow and when I jumped on the train strechette was already floweing under the hps, so i didnt know she was in a hydro system. Im thinking that looks like a dwc reservoir down there and Im good as hell with those systems. I can help you make a recirculating dwc system if youd like as well, thats what this plant was grown in. (the plant isnt mine but rather the person who taught me how to do those systems. That is her plant when it was in VEG just going into flower)

 

[toolage]

mine actually isn't a dwc either. it's just a drip/feed system. It does 2 drips a second for 45 minutes 4 times a day every 6 hours. All it does is drip and it drains out of the bottom of the pot back into the resevoir.

 

[kochab]

mine actually isn't a dwc either. it's just a drip/feed system. It does 2 drips a second for 45 minutes 4 times a day every 6 hours. All it does is drip and it drains out of the bottom of the pot back into the resevoir.

Oh okay, I gotcha now.
he he you better watch those pics in your gallery someone might steal them like they did mine
luckily I was smart enough to use photo bucket for everything else

 

[bettertoday55]

I am wanting to do a closet CFL grow for my first and have most the supplies to start but was wondering how most people go about making a holder or reflextor for their lights. I am thinking of starting with 6 26w 6500K for two or three plants. Any suggestions would be great.


ps. sorry i am new and if i should post this question somewhere else just let me know, since this is your journal.

 

[w0bi]

I am wanting to do a closet CFL grow for my first and have most the supplies to start but was wondering how most people go about making a holder or reflextor for their lights. I am thinking of starting with 6 26w 6500K for two or three plants. Any suggestions would be great.


ps. sorry i am new and if i should post this question somewhere else just let me know, since this is your journal.

There is other forum sections for help etc.. If you take a look but otherwise, you can always ask for suggestion , lots of people are willing to help man.

 

[toolage]

I am wanting to do a closet CFL grow for my first and have most the supplies to start but was wondering how most people go about making a holder or reflextor for their lights. I am thinking of starting with 6 26w 6500K for two or three plants. Any suggestions would be great.


ps. sorry i am new and if i should post this question somewhere else just let me know, since this is your journal.

it's ok, just buy clamp lights from your local wal-mart. They are like $8 a pop and you can buy the Y adapters so you can put 2 bulbs in 1 clamp. GrowFAQ is your friend, read it about 100 times!

 

[toolage]

Well I figured I'd give making hash a shot! I'm trying it 2 different ways to see which way works the best.

I will be trying the $20 hash press and instructions (thanks alto) and YouTube - How to make hash From marijuana. (which everyone has seen I'm sure)

Hash Press
I first started out with the shake of a pound I have. I threw it all in a sifter and sifted out all the crystals for about 10 minutes. I scooped it back into the sifter and sifted it a 2nd time.

I didn't have the pleasure to find the exact press the person used in the instructions. But mine does what it needs. I pressed down till it was nice and tight then I would turn it half way and hold for 1 minute and turn again and hold for another minute. I then turned my oven range on HIGH and I set the press on the range for 20 minutes.

Once the press got extremely hot, I grabbed the press with some oven mits and threw it in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Here's the final out come out of 4 grams of shake into 1 gram of hash.

Oven and Roll

I started out with 15 grams of shake. I sifted it for 10 minutes, rescooped and resifted 2 more times. I packed the remaining crystals into some cellophane from a cigarette pack and taped it shut. I then began to wrap the cellophane in news paper and taped that shut. I soaked in hot water and put the oven on to 350. I put in the oven for 10 minutes and rolled it slowly for 2 minutes. I put it in the freezer for 5 minutes. I resoaked it in hot water a 2nd time, threw it in the oven again for the same amount of time and heat. I rerolled it a 2nd time i threw it back in the freezer.

This is the final product below.

 

[thegigglepimp]

Looks good man! Cant grasp the scale of the last photo though how much do you reckon it weighs? And most importantly, how does it smoke?

 

[toolage]

Looks good man! Cant grasp the scale of the last photo though how much do you reckon it weighs? And most importantly, how does it smoke?

haha sorry bro forgot to add that. The bottom picture weighs 3.9grams
I haven't tried the oven and roll one, but the one that I did in the press. I smoked half of it the face last night and I was retarded stoned for like 2 hours before i finally gave up and went to sleep lmao!

 

[thegigglepimp]

Lmao that sounds amazing! Congrats! I'm going to attempt to make hash some how when i cut my girls out of the stems and leaves. Should be interesting...

 

[cheetah2007]

like the hash dude....enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!