Area 51 SGS-160 Grow, DR60, 2 plant scrog

Good luck with your grow! I'll be following along, and posting my own similar grow journal very soon. It will be my first grow, I already received my XGS-190, but am not quite ready to use it. Hopefully I'm up and running by the end of December. School is killing me. Your attachments are not working for some reason fyi, not sure if its just on my end or what. Would love to see the pics though. Happy growing!

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Welcome, and thanks for telling me about the pics. Here they are.


Will get a proper update done real soon, maybe tonight if i have the time.

Alright, so here they are under the light. I have it really close now and they seem to like it better, because they were growing really slow before. Before, I actually saw no active growth in the small one.


Here is the bigger 2 week old. I find her a little small, with no visable stretching. Something weird (for me) is that she is already producing some odor. She literally smells the same of more then my first grow did while flowering.

Here she is right before i topped her.
and after.
Here is the 1 week old (either Pineapple Express or Hawaiian Snow, currently still a mystery). She seemed to be really stunted before i put the lights closer, and now I notice bigger changes in her growth.

Here you can see some problem she has/had, im not quite sure what it is, I checked the marijuana problems by picture on growweedseasy, but i couldn't find a similar picture.

Was that the only brown spot on the one leaf there? To me it looks more like a burn mark from the light or a splash of water/nutrients. I wouldn't worry about it unless there's more or it keeps happening. Can't wait to see the xgs in use.

Put some aeration holes in your containers. A cheap soldering iron works great for plastic.

Yeah thats the only spot. It is on its first serrated leaf. The first node is light in color and curls a little bit up, but the new growth is darker and doesnt curl up.

I had made drainage holes, but you mean to make aeration holes throughout the container like the airpots? I assume that would then increase the oxygen recieved by the roots?

puffenuff said:

Was that the only brown spot on the one leaf there? To me it looks more like a burn mark from the light or a splash of water/nutrients. I wouldn't worry about it unless there's more or it keeps happening. Can't wait to see the xgs in use.

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I hate that nute burn. When i was a total noob starting out I had no idea how to feed the plants so instead of just pouring the mixture right into the soil I dumped it all over the plant and soil. Big mistake! Live & learn I guess!

XGS-190 Arrived this morning!

Here's what my tent looks like now with the XGS in it. I transplanted a few days back to 3Gal buckets.

So its now about 4 weeks for the Holy Grail Kush. I find her to be pretty tiny for so long, maybe it was the light being too close, too far, im not sure. I know topping her temporarily stunts growth, but I'm sure something is up. maybe she was a little root bound in her original container. I really hope her growth increases in her new pot and with the XGS.

Here is her up close. After i fimmed her, her new tops came in, the sides are normal, while the center ones are really funky.

Here is the other, now three weeks. I'm pretty sure it is the Hawaiian Snow from the look of the leaves and the bigger inter-nodal spacing. Height wise she is almost the same as the HGK, but with less nodes. She's not topped yet. Her lower leaves turned strong yellow on the tips (weeks back) and curls up, i believe it was light stress.

Here she is up close.

Decided to take off the unusual heads on the HGK which seemed that they wouldnt have more growth. So now she has about 4 tops from the fim.
I was considering letting the ugly/strange head stay for 2 reasons: maybe they would create new growth, and 2, i didnt want to put the plant into shock to stunt any more growth, since she is growing pretty short. Then i thought that the plant might be wasting energy on those nodes when they might not bare any new growths, so i snipped em

Fire that 190 up already!

Shes up and going! But ill be keeping her at 130w all the way through. Jeff said 190 would be too strong for my tent during flowering

Alright, Christmas update.
It's about week 5 for the Holy Grail Kush. She seems to be doing fine, although her new growth are a little light of color closer to the veins.



The Hawaiian Snow seems to be pretty fucked up. A couple days ago she had what seemed to be some Mg deficiency, but now im not sure what she has.
She has some twisted dead leaves, the are coming brown from all over. Also the top healthier looking leaves are starting to curl upwards on the serrated edges. Is this nute burn? I havent really upped my nutes nor had any change in ph. Only change is my tent is in a more desirable temperature range since i got my XGS, and the light is 20ish inches from the tops.





Whatcha guys think?
and Merry Christmas to all!

ellydee said:

Put some aeration holes in your containers. A cheap soldering iron works great for plastic.

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I do this for lots of stuff. I have an iron that I use exclusively for plastic now.

Are those two bottles up front a yeast and sugar water setup for co2. If so hang that damn line up above the plants. CO2 is more dense and heavy than O2. By 12g per mol, 32g O2 vs 44g CO2. It will precipitate out and require more input and ppm monitoring to build up as opposed to dispensing from a higher location.

what ever happened to this thread?? very interested in this light. buuuuummmmmpppp

Hope it is going well, definitely a learning process.