4 Plant 600W grow

Yeah I really wasn't interested in being a champion for MG just wanted to show off the plants. Don't care to argue with anyone about MG, it works for me, has for over 30 years. If you don't like it don't use it. I generally stick w/1 tsp/gal total each watering, plus liquid cal-mag. During veg 1 tsp of mg regular, once I switch to flower still 1 tsp but half reg and half orchid mix. A few watering ago I fed a full tablespoon to see if I'd get a little burn and saw no adverse effect at all, but went right back to 1 tsp.

I definitely don't follow conventional wisdom. I'll start feeding seedlings 1/4 strength by 3rd or 4th watering. I plant in a mix of FFOF, and MG Organic w/time release ferts, both of which are too hot for young plants according to many, and they say don't add ANY nutes with these for several weeks, yet I fertilize every watering. According to conventional wisdom I should be burning these plants up with fertilizer. And no I don't flush either.

But they are perfect green, never a deficiency, never a burn. Go figure, I must be doing something wrong.

Someone on RIU said he upped the nutes slowly until he got just a tiny burn than dialed it back a notch. Not sure that isn't a decent approach to the fert issue.

Peace - AIM

I use MG potting mix
in it I add
6 cups blood meal
4 bone mean
4 cups alfafa meal
5 cups dolomite lime
perlite large bag
vermiculite large bag
extra peat moss large bag
bag of cheap potting soil

let sit a few weeks and under the sun to kill of pathogens/fungus

i sprout seeds in this and they come out green


//sticking up for miracle grow here too.


awesome gro man...can I ask how old are your plants in the very first post pic ? Looking real fam.

edyah said:

I use MG potting mix
in it I add
6 cups blood meal
4 bone mean
4 cups alfafa meal
5 cups dolomite lime
perlite large bag
vermiculite large bag
extra peat moss large bag
bag of cheap potting soil

let sit a few weeks and under the sun to kill of pathogens/fungus

i sprout seeds in this and they come out green


//sticking up for miracle grow here too.


awesome gro man...can I ask how old are your plants in the very first post pic ? Looking real fam.

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The seed went in the ground last week of Jan so they were right at 7 weeks out of the ground. They seemed to be growing a little slow to me but I was pretty rough on them as I did some topping/fimming and tying over when they were pretty small.

Your planting mix is very similar to mine. For my soil base I use 1/2 FFOF and 1/2 MG organic w/slow release fert. No additional peat moss. Also don't use blood meal. I'm a big fan of dolomite (and cal-mag in waterings). I also add Azomite for micro-nut insurance, you might want to look into that stuff and consider adding it to your mix.

For actual sprouting I use 80% Jiffy organic seed starting mix with about 10% FFOF and 10% MG Organic, and toss in a handful of dolomite.

http://www.amazon.com/Jiffy-5063-Seed-Starting-Mix/dp/B000OWF97S/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1364827765&sr=1-1&keywords=jiffy+seed+starting+mix

Peace - AIM

good stuff. those plants look great with the training at 7 weeks. Ill check out the azomite for sure for the micros and will consider it in the future, thank you.

that's great that you have no insect or blemishes on the leaves outdoors. that should come at a major relief for ya lol

I dont have a choice but to use MG on my grow, still waiting for my beans but if they turn out half as good
as yours I will be happy..

Nice grow.

edyah said:

good stuff. those plants look great with the training at 7 weeks. Ill check out the azomite for sure for the micros and will consider it in the future, thank you.

that's great that you have no insect or blemishes on the leaves outdoors. that should come at a major relief for ya lol

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Well they have spent almost all their time in the basement grow room. I have them under a 600w HPS with about 200 W of assorted spectrum cfls thrown in on the edges.

I only take them out on warm days to give them a spray down with the hose and let them get some real sun, and it's only maybe 6 hours at a time. They really like natural sun and as it continues to warm up I'll still drag them out until I get tired of it or they get too big. I keep them on a deck away from other vegetation in hopes of minimizing exposure to bugs. I know there's a chance of bringing critters indoors so I keep a fresh one of these hanging in the grow room, so far no problems.

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Shot-5580-Unscented-Repellent/dp/B0019BK8AG/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1364834192&sr=1-1&keywords=no+pest+strip

Peace - AIM

One week update 20 days of 12/12, flowers started showing at about 2 weeks Looking good and no problems so far, knock on wood.

First pic is White Widow (L) White Rhino (R)
2nd pic is the 2 cheese
3rd pic is shot of buds from above
5th pic is the WW (cheese look pretty much identical)
6th is topshot of WR

Questions comments welcomed Peace - AIM

I like the idea of mixing in a bit of real sunshine as it's hard to beat mother nature.....and yes, it does come with some risk (bugs) but I think it's worth it.

I have 2 "early wonder skunk" in hempy buckets that I move into the sun when available, but it's still early spring and the sun is not strong yet and goes down too early

Looking really good!

Thanks Sun King & Zack !

Yeah I am a firm believer of natural sun when you can do it. Plus they really like getting misted down good with the garden hose, or as least I like to think they do.

I've grown outdoors since '79 and as this being my first full indoor grow I'm really happy with it.

Anyone have an opinion on the White Widow? I've seen pics of other WW where the leaves are NOWHERE near as wide as this gal, a definite indica. Some of the older leaflets are almost 2" across! Lots of pics I've seen they are more like a sativa. It is part of an indica mix from Greenhouse seed. Might have kept it topped too hard, before going 12/12 she looked like a head of lettuce.

http://www.seaofseeds.com/product-detail.php?cat_url=Greenhouse-Seeds&prod_url=indica-mix-h

Aim2 I have used MG African Violet soil mix with FF nutes and just love it. 14yrs now and they make for some really nice buds. Looking good Brother.

VaporTrail said:

Aim2 I have used MG African Violet soil mix with FF nutes and just love it. 14yrs now and they make for some really nice buds. Looking good Brother.

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Thanks Vape. I refuse to get caught up in the MG and nute brand pissing matches. Gets pretty ridiculous at times. I think most of it arises from the fact that a lot of newbies use what is cheap and available as far as soils and nutes, then they fuck up right and left, and blame it on the ingredients, not their poor procedure.

You can rant and rage against Scotts and Monsanto and I will not disagree in the least, they are corporate barons. Corporate assholes. But the products actually work, just fine, if you know what you are doing.

Couldnt agree more what they miss is the fact when you get it dialed in the results are incredible.

i have a side by side test going right now using BC nutes vs. MiracleGro plant food. I'm growing in unferted coco mix. I will post the results on here once i have finished my test.

Great looking ladies!! Sub'd and looking forward to seeing the final product! Judging from the looks of them now it's going be a very tasty harvest!!

Exactly 1 month since I first put up some pics, comparing the pics on the 2 dates I think they've done well!

Well got the plants up for their weekly shower and sunbathing, supposed to hit 75 today. Right at 4 weeks in flower, they did not stretch as much as I had thought they would, gut have nice dense foliage and a pretty good carpet of buds.

They occupy a space of about 40"X40" which is all the room I got under the 600W cool tube. I actually think I could make full use of the light footprint with 3 plants trained correctly. In addition to the 600HPS I have some side lighting going on with a 125W CFL, a couple 60W 2700K cfls, and a UV-B I move around.

Watcha think?

Damn dude, you weren't kidding.
Ive always wanted to try cheese, it sounds good as shit. How are they smelling?

Anyway, I'm subbed for sure! Glad to see another MG pro haha, Goodluck looking top knotch so far.

They sure look great.
Sub'd up, I dont want to miss this one.

i used to live in the ozarks. branson to be exact. crazy town out there...when i lived there all that was there for the most part was mexi brick, glad those days are over. if you know who to talk to there is great weed there now and there is great weed here in Seattle too. looks like things are going good for you!

Xrangex said:

Damn dude, you weren't kidding.
Ive always wanted to try cheese, it sounds good as shit. How are they smelling?

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Not much of any smell at all to date. They actually were more smelly during like week 4-6 of veg, of course not a skunky weed smell more of a green vegetation smell. I expect them to be getting some smell to them shortly. I exhaust into my basement and don't even have a filter but have a pretty ideal setup as far as security and who gets near or in my house.

But I got a filter spotted and only a mouse click and 2 days away on amazon.