Coast2Coast 1st grow (Suggestions Welcome)

nice grow keep it up man. carbon filter and fan is a good idea not only will it remove odor but will keep temps and humidity lower which will help with what you and sandmonkey were saying about mold/mildew

Thanks bro, I decided to go ahead and move my grow over into its own room, Now I just have to figure out what to do when I have my friends over for the fourth.... everyone knows its an empty room so I may just lock it and just say im storing shit in there....

But anyways... the room is about 10x12 and ive got the plants over in the corner for now. Im going to be moving into a house in august, so what im probably going to do is just keep everything besides the DieselRyder in Veg and start making clones. That way when I switch them over to my new place I wont have to worry about taking monster plants or half flowered plants that would probably smell. I dunno im up for suggestions on that one... But I will be moving out by the end of July...

Anyways, man I have to focus on one thing at a time haha... Ok the new room.... It has much more space and a direct vent from the house A/C so im hoping that will dramatically cut down on the humidity... but to be sure im going to go get a temp/hum monitor tonight... And then probably next week or two Ill get that exhaust fan and scrubber... Ill have some pics to post of the new room later tonight...

Heres the grow now, sitting in its own room

Pineapple Express

Gigabud

DieselRyder Lowryder

Another grow shot (Bulbs about 10" away from plants)

Temp and Humidity

Side view of the Gigabud

Another of pineapple express

Bubba Kush

This is almost at 2 weeks

Your temps are good, but you still need to bring your humidity down below 50%.

The problem with powdery mildew is that they're airborne all the tim, and usually your plants won;t show signs that they're infected until they start to flower. The only way to avoid them is to prevent them from having the right environment to grow in.

Trust me, invest in a dehumidifier. Last night i switch the exhaust fan off and only had the dehumidifier running in the grow room. Managed to keep humidity at about 35% which is pretty good.

Adjusted the A/C this morning and got more air flowing through the room, this is what it was looking like today around lunch time... but im still gonna go ahead and keep an eye out for a dehumid

I also lowered the light a little... the node spacing looks pretty tight, but my plants were leaning alot... I rotate them daily but im gonna see if getting the light closer will help with them not leaning over so much to get light...

hmmmm that DieselRyder Lowryder must be getting close to switch over... haha I walked in the room and noticed a slight ganja smell. Surprising how one day made the difference...

Lookin good. keep up the good work,
Diggin the variety of strains!

Thanks man, im hoping to get some great clones off of these and build myself quite the bud collection to choose from, I threw the diesel autoflower in there cuz it was the shit!

Well I just checked on the girls.... the BubbaKush looked a little droopy, im attributing this to "overwatering" even though its always in water, but I think the main problem with it is that I need to go to the hydro store and get more hydroton... the bucket the Kush is in doesnt have enough media to stabilize the plant completely... its kinda "floaty" and the rockwool cube was almost submerged... well I know this isnt good so I pulled her up out of the water and set her just on top of the hydroton for tonight.... the roots are still nice and tucked away where they can get nutes but that cube is mostly out of the water so hopefully that'll help her perk up... once lights out hits ill see about some pics....

The Gigabud



DieselRyder


Droopy BubbaKush


Pineapple Express

Hell nice variety of strains you got going here! Plants look pretty good. I had high humidity for awhile then i got a squirrel cage fan in the closet and also put a box fan blowing from the hallway into the room that my grow closet is in. To help circulate household air. That and a combination of monitoring the humidity and adjusting the house AC helped alot.

Well I swung by my local hydro store where the boys are beginning to recognize me haha... picket up another bucket, since the one the gigabud is in right now doesnt seal well and isnt secure... also picked up some more hydroton so hopefully that'll help the bubba kush perk up with a little more support... pics as soon as I can...

looks good get some airflow over them to harden up those stems asap

ive got a fan blowing over them decently strong... enough so that they are "swaying in the breeze" do I need more?

Anyways heres some pics from last night right after lights out...






Heres a video of the airflow I have going... (too much too little?)

Well I checked the nutes, and it looks like the Gigabud and the Pineapple express had consumed about 200ppm of the nutes since I added them... so the Gigabud is around 800 and the Pineapple express is 200 less than whatever it was I dont remember without looking back... the Dieselryder used around 50-100ppm of its nutes so far, ive heard they dont really eat up alot of nutes until later on when they are in the flowering period, but im feeding her regardless to try and get the most out of it... It'll shortly be time to change the nutes in the next few days...

Hmmmm things are smelling good in that room

looks good. but maybe a little too much for their current size. stems have filled out a lot since last pics it looks like

while were on the nutes I wanted to ask someone... on the pineapple express... the bottom "1st leaves.. the round ones" their yellowing up, i know that can be normal after a certain time, but on the upper leaves the edges are light green to yellow... they arent "burnt" but it looks like it fades from the middle of the leaf to the edge... and on the dieselryder there are a few dots of yellow on the leaves you might be able to see them in the pics... and as well with the Gigabud theres yellowing around the veins of the plant...

I tried looking around and they each look like different problems... thats just a guess...

But you may be right on the nutes being a little much, but so far they have responded really well to them. Dense grown at a faster rate... and like I said earlier the Gigabud and the pineapple express have eaten up 200ppm in about a week... I dunno how typical or along the progress that is...

Well ive been keeping an eye on them and luckily the room is staying at a pretty decent temp of around 72-78 with a humidity at 39% to something like 45% at night... so im happy

Well ive started a project tonight to help with the smell... I looked at the DIY carbon filter described here...

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=29402
And this Is what I made... I still have to order the Activated Carbon for it, but I was amazed at how easy and how good this looks in the end...