RonSwanson
Active Member
Greetings and salutations friends!
Since this grow is getting closer to over I should probably start posting some pics. I picked these clones up in Denver at the end of July when we were over there for a concert at Red Rocks (global dance fest anyone?) at a really cool nondescript little shop called Karmaceuticals. We called to ask if they had clones and they answered the phone "How can I make your day better?" I knew these people were the ones I wanted to buy some clones from.
Some pics from my last grow, Blueberry with different nutrients, general hydroponics and dutch master. I loved the way the dutch master vegged but the general hydroponics by far had better flowering results. This was my first time growing, and I think it went really, really well. I harvested those plants on 4/20 and, as you can see, they have lasted me a while. Those plants were a total experiment, as I had never grown before, and was totally winging it, with some help from friends etc.. and you guys. It was SO much fun though. The reactive nature and the adaptability of these plants is phenomenal.
I also had a ton of fun with the construction aspect of building a growroom. I like doing thigns with my hands and it was fun to have a project that served a more dynamic purpose than, say, building a bookcase or something. To that end, for my last grow, I built a super sweet cabinet that I gotta say, I'm really proud of:
For this new grow though I of course did the classic grower thing: BIGGER! I had purchased a tent that ended up being way to big to put anywhere in the house. so I put it out in the garage, which has turned out to be a study in temperature variance seeing as its almost kinda sort winter here in CO. More on that later. Anyway, I found a guy on CL selling a Hydrofarm Waterfarm 8 system, and granted I can only grow 3 plants legally with my card, I wanted to get the system in case in the future I can expand, so I picked that system up, and it came with a 600 w phantom ballast and air cooled hood. My last grow I used LEDS and they worked awesome, but I wanted to try and HPS setup now that I can control the temperatures a bit more. To that and, I bought 2 of the 6" Hydrofarms exhaust fans which I put on voltage regulators to control the sound. One of them is pulling air from outside the tent, over the bulb and up into the attic. The other is exhausting the ambient tent air through a carbon filter and into the attic. My next project is going to be going into the attic to do something better there... find a vent I can pipe the air to. This is a 100 year old house and the attic is not airtight from the rest of the house... and it's starting to smell REALLY good in here when I get home from work.
Because I started these clones before I had the waterfarm system, I am not using the buckets that came with it, just the same 5 gallon buckets from my last grow. I am using the reservoir from the Waterfarm though, and have a big trashcan filled with clean water out there. Still haven't invested in a RO system for the water, but it seems to be okay right out of the tap. I think the PPM is around 250 so not perfect by any means but low enough to put it farther down the list
I put the reservoir on top of its lower half so its higher up than my buckets, and attached a hose with a on/off valve so I can just mix nutes in the res and disperse to the two buckets with the garden hose. I pull the spent nuts out with an aquarium style hand pump. Pretty lame, but because the buckets are on the ground to allow for maximum vertical height I cannot use their drain tubes. Next time around I will have the waterfam buckets in there hooked up to the recirculating pump so it will be much more efficient... I want to raise those buckets up so I can gravity drain everything... just going to have to get a serious scrog in place and find a good hybrid strain that isn't super stretchy. So here are some pics of the new stuff.. Durban Poison and Qleaner. They are both doing awesome. Temps have been out of control out there so they are growing slowly... its been really cold so I got a little heater to put in there which is helping, but getting it adjusted has taken some time. I think my min/mx thermometer said it was getting down to the 40s in there at one point so it totally amazes me that the plants are fine, just growing slowly in that environment. If I can get it to within a 20 degree swing from day to night I'll be stoked. 60-80 would be awesome. actually 70-090 would be better, as I do have one of those CO2 bags hanging in there.
The Durban is on the left with the yellower leaves and the Qleaner is on the right with the big dark menacing leaves.
I have a dentist appointment so I gotta run, but I really enjoyed everybody commenting and sharing opinions and ideas last time so Please Feel Free to Comment!!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!
i'm also gonna up pot her from the 3.4 gallon she's in now to a 5 or 7 gallon. I gotta order more pots tomorrow I need to repot 4 plants in flower... i've got a 4' tall sativa going in a 1.5 gallon pot in there right now
