2013-14 Six Plant 600W grow

STLbudz said:

do you think the Supplemental lighting from cfls helped(alot)?

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I would think so. 300 watts of anything has got to help don't you think?

yeah thats what i assumed but never really done it myself so wouldnt know? but looks like it does 20 Zs good stuff man

AimAim said:

I'll uppot one more time to 5 gallon containers coated inside with Micro-Kote (spinout). Final medium will be 100% FFOF amended with dolomite and additional perlite. Other amendments to the final soil will be Azomite, some castings, a bit of blood and bone meal.

Last grow I fed pretty much every watering at 50-100% and it worked well. For nutes my primary will be Jack's Classic Citrus. Read on here (from Uncle Ben I believe, pardon me if that's incorrect) that this was near ideal for MJ. I'll use it throughout veg, and probably go 1/2 Citrus feed and 1/2 blossom nute during flower. Also use Cal-Mag every watering, plus I'm gonna try some liquid silica and Maxicrop someone gave me.

All for now, I'm gonna reposition my 600 on the ceiling and get a couple pics and be back in a couple hours.

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Sorry to not read more thoroughly, but did you stick to this same soil/nute plan throughout the grow?
If so it's time I try something new. Every time I bring in new moms and have to start in soil I go full FF and I swear the yield is always in half due to the plants missing out.

youknowthekid! said:

Sorry to not read more thoroughly, but did you stick to this same soil/nute plan throughout the grow?
If so it's time I try something new. Every time I bring in new moms and have to start in soil I go full FF and I swear the yield is always in half due to the plants missing out.

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I used the Jacks Citrus and Dyna Grow Foliage Pro. Just about every watering at 50%. 75-100% later on.

The citrus seems like a weird n-p-k ratio for veg, but shit you clearly got the results. I'll definitely fade in the bloom towards the end, and possibly use a few stimulants of my own.

I'm still deciding on the medium though. Not sure whether to amend some FFOF like you or just go straight coco and water/feed the shit out of them. I'm really surprised that you could feed every watering with no blockage/burn!

AimAim said:

I used the Jacks Citrus and Dyna Grow Foliage Pro. Just about every watering at 50%. 75-100% later on.

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Hey AA Is Jacks classics oganic? if it isnt did you have trouble with salt build up?

Also i like that 50 every feed then graduallly increasing it, for example i use Sensi grow A&B ,roots excel, and (protech but only every other feed cuz of how hi the ph is) , could i use the roots excel every feed too?? (of course with a lower dosage tho)

epic results can i ask a few quwestions

what spectrum was cfls on ? what size was grow area /pots
keep up good work
mooney69r

mooney69r said:

epic results can i ask a few quwestions

what spectrum was cfls on ? what size was grow area /pots
keep up good work
mooney69r

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all those answers are on the 1st page they were mostly 2400 k, he used Mh hid and hps for bloom

STLbudz said:

Hey AA Is Jacks classics oganic? if it isnt did you have trouble with salt build up?

Also i like that 50 every feed then graduallly increasing it, for example i use Sensi grow A&B ,roots excel, and (protech but only every other feed cuz of how hi the ph is) , could i use the roots excel every feed too?? (of course with a lower dosage tho)

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Funny you use roots excel. I used it a little this round too but then stopped because I feel like the roots fill out quick enough in soil, and I don't know how effective H&G is in soil. Roots excel is still the best hydro product ever created tho!

youknowthekid! said:

Funny you use roots excel. I used it a little this round too but then stopped because I feel like the roots fill out quick enough in soil, and I don't know how effective H&G is in soil. Roots excel is still the best hydro product ever created tho!

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I grow in soil too, and its actually GH rapid roots, I agree with roots filling out just fine .However i did notice that with GHs root enhancer It makes more teeth on the roots & make em thicker ,also the 1 without roots come out mid piont down and the 1 with ,the whole pot top bottom, , now i cant for sure say if they make the roots fill out more but the 1 st pic is at 8 days W/GH and the other is 5 days older (no nutes)(13) from clone pretty much a week ahead then the other you can see some really thick roots popping out. if they were a side by side both at 14 days, i think the 1 with the enhancer would be healthier thicker and more branched out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lby0y2wr0KI

Sorry AA ..just tryna spread some info

STLbudz said:

I grow in soil too, and its actually GH rapid roots, I agree with roots filling out just fine .However i did notice that with GHs root enhancer It makes more teeth on the roots & make em thicker ,also the 1 without roots come out mid piont down and the 1 with ,the whole pot top bottom, , now i cant for sure say if they make the roots fill out more but the 1 st pic is at 8 days W/GH and the other is 5 days older (no nutes)(13) from clone pretty much a week ahead then the other you can see some really thick roots popping out. if they were a side by side both at 14 days, i think the 1 with the enhancer would be healthier thicker and more branched out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lby0y2wr0KI

Sorry AA ..just tryna spread some info

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Ya that's clearly worth the use haha!! Shit even if it's just to grow faster, it's clearly working.

AimAim said:

OK, all done. Last Jack dried and jarred, she was 99 grams.

So final tally is:

2 cheese - 186g
unknown - 91
WW X BG - 94
JH 1 - 91
JH 2 - 99

Real consistent at around 94 grams per plant, every one did about the same.

Total 561 g ....20 ounces. Figured at 600w main light and 300 assorted watts cfls that would be .62 g/watt. OK I guess, I'm real happy with the results.

Plus 3 oz of really good sugar leaf converted into 1.5# butter, plus some decent balls of scissor hash.

final pics:

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Gonna get 6 new seeds going later today, wish me luck!

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Sup mate..!! Good grow..!! 560 of high quality buds..!! It's goooood..!! I'm not a fan of gram per watts but you're close to 1/1 hehe... Which strains will you be starting now ?

I do have the same fertilizers as you do.I'll be trying some DG bloom food and Jack's bloom food as well.Gotta see what works and how..!! Also,how do you feed your Cal-Mag ? I've got some plants almost ready (well 10days or so) and i believe i had this issue with my previous grow,and with this one.I did what i could (bud candy for mg-wish i knew more- and now,i got myself some dolomite lime which supplements calmag).
This is how it started..I'll get some more shots tomorrow on how it developed.I think that's Cal-Mag.I'd like your thoughts as well.I've been feeding some DG-Foliage Pro on a ''fixing'' deficiecies ratio ..1tbl spoon / gallon.

Okay - Kind of got back onto the site after finishing my Spring Harvest. This pics that follow are a new grow that has been going on for several weeks. Did not feel like doing a full Grow Journal on them, just thought I'd toss up some pics.

Started 8 seeds last week of May, hoping for 6 to put in the grow room. All 8 took off... so 2 went outside in 8 gallon pots, remaining 6 went in the room.

Here's the outside plants:

First is Sleestack X Skunk, whatever that is, a freebie from a couple years ago that I did not particularly expect to germinate. 2nd is a GSC Jack Herer.

Started on CFLs then they got moved outside and up-potted to final 8 gallons in about 3 weeks.

They started flowering / showing sex about a month ago and are building up very nicely. Well into flower production.

Maintenance free I was just wanting to get something out of these 2 but the weather here has been agreeable for container growing this summer. FFOF and some amendments as medium, a mix of Jack's Citrus and Dyna-Gro Foliage pro (and some cal mag and silica on occasion). Fertilized just about every watering with a tsp/g of one or both.
indoor plants next post.

OK - Now for the indoor girls:

2 GSC Money Maker
2 Barny's Pineapple Chunk
1 Barney's LSD Freebie
1 WW X Big Bud Freebie.

Lighting this round was CFL and natural sun on the deck as seedlings, @ 20 hrs light. Then 20 hrs light in the room under HID MH's once I up-potted to 5 gal at about a month. ALSO 10 bulbs worth of sizable cfls up to 60 watt, various spectrums. And 2 weeks ago I got buzzed and ordered an Apollo 180 W LED just for the hell of it so it's in the mix now as well. Lotsa light in a 5 X 5.5 foot space. Wall to wall vegetation and buds. I vegged right at two months and flipped to 12/12 the first of Aug so this is exactly 5 weeks flowering.

I let them get a little tall and could see I needed to tie them up as buds got heavy so caged them with 4 bamboo splints per pot with some cotton twine a couple days ago. They were really getting entangled but now that's solved.

Pics follow. I haven't identified each one individually for you, but the biggest ones are the GSC $ Maker. The Pineapple chunk is a little thin on foliage but definitely holding it own. The 2 freebies I'm happy to have along for the ride. All look excellent and developing some real smell this week. Medium is same as outdoor, and same as last grow. FFOF with amendments, Jacks Citrus and DynaGro Foliage Pro every watering.

Very happy at this point


Group shot under lights. Yeah I know they look yellow but it's the light and I was not asking for help on yellowing plants. They are all nice and green.


3 of them out from under the lights

Remaining 3 under the lights, did not want to juggle them too much.


Same 3, funky color is from effect of LED light.

All for now. This is looking to turn out great.

Peace - AIM

Looking good Aim, glad you sent me a PM, nice to see someone I used to talk to on here is actually still here, everyone else is gone...reading through I saw Gandolf was posting for awhile, is he still around? And damn man, lol, I couldn't keep a thread going for this long I'd lose patients and interest...haha...funny I grow year round and never get tired of it, but tell me to keep track and update a thread on it...ahhhh yeah...hey peace buddy and like I said man looking real good bro

RIKNSTEIN said:

Looking good Aim, glad you sent me a PM, nice to see someone I used to talk to on here is actually still here, everyone else is gone...

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Stuff gets pretty stupid here , gets kind of hard to take.

Yeah, there were a bunch of people on here that gave good info but now are gone. I understand and can relate. I mean there were some real experienced growers and voices of reason but I think this place wears them out. I know it did me.

Peace and hope runs in cycles maybe we'll regroup.

AimAim said:

Stuff gets pretty stupid here , gets kind of hard to take.

Yeah, there were a bunch of people on here that gave good info but now are gone. I understand and can relate. I mean there were some real experienced growers and voices of reason but I think this place wears them out. I know it did me.

Peace and hope runs in cycles maybe we'll regroup.

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Yep I remember when I joined RIU, there was you, Bakatare, HotRodHarley, UB, DannyBoy and quite a few others that helped me out...and now it seems like forever ago since I started growing, or at least it looks like it, have ya seen my last grow in subs supersoil and my 2,000w Raptors there's 2 in this room 4,000wats total on 20 plants ...I grow like a pro now .............

RIKNSTEIN said:

Yep I remember when I joined RIU, there was you, Bakatare, HotRodHarley, UB, DannyBoy and quite a few others that helped me out...and now it seems like forever ago since I started growing, or at least it looks like it, have ya seen my last grow in subs supersoil and my 2,000w Raptors there's 2 in this room 4,000wats total on 20 plants ...I grow like a pro now .............

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Fine looking plants Rik. Looks like you got it dialed in. What strain/strains you growing?

Peace - AIM

AimAim said:

Fine looking plants Rik. Looks like you got it dialed in. What strain/strains you growing?

Peace - AIM

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Thanks bro, that crop was OG #18...but I have some White Rhino, Lemon Haze, Barneys LSD, and some Sweet Island Skunk...and I made my own cross of OG #18 x Lemon Haze = Lemon HOG...and I'm finishing my new house (on the same 10 acres) and it's built around my grow room designs with built in custom fiberglass drain floors with wire grating on top...the rooms will be water proof from floor to ceiling and have a sprinkler system that I can add nutrients to the reservoir if I go on a trip...and we have a 2 story tall atrium on the side of the new house for all our fruit trees (and other things )...peace bro and I'll post pics of the new rooms when they're done....