First Grow. 600 watt HPS.

California Buds

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I'm growing under a 600 watt HPS.
I'm using coco as my medium, and the Foxfarms nutrient line with that.
Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom, Open Sesame, Beastie Bloomz, and Cha Ching.
For my clones, I am putting them in rockwool cubes and dipping the cubes in a Clonex solution.

I'm growing 6 Blue Dreams, 1 Platinum Bubba, and 1 O Giesel (from small clones). They are in 3 gallon buckets, on milk crates to bring them closer to the light.

March 26th:
My Vegetation room.
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My Flower room.
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May 5th:
This is my vegetation room, everything in here is just under fluorescents, eventually I want to get a Metal Halide 600 watt for this room, but for now I have made quite a few improvements since the start.
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This is my flowering room. I just got this new 4x4 propagation tray, I used to water them and let them drain out 1 by 1 in a little tub lol. Everything in here is lollipoped, and most of them are fimmed. I let a couple stay normal so I can see the difference since this is my first grow.

May 5th: 24 days into flowering.
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The tube is my nutrient drain off, after the plants get their nutrients the extra runs through the pot and is drained through the tube to my backyard where it pours on my outside plants I am growing.

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After my current plants finish I'm going to clean up the room a little, burn sulfur, and start my next harvest which I will be using the Sea of Green technique.

This is where I have plants at different stages so that I can harvest a lot more often.

Although the plants will be a lot smaller it will be a steady harvest every 2 weeks.

I have a 4x4 propagation tray, each 2x2 corner will hold 9 plants in 1 gallons.

First corner will be plants 0-2 weeks old,
Second corner will be plants 3-4 weeks old,
Third corner will be 5-6 weeks old,
fourth corner will be 7-8 weeks.

Feel free to post and let me know what you think, or any ideas or recommendations.

Thanks :)


P.s. should I add anymore previous photos, or just post photos I get from now on every so often?
 

California Buds

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I'm thinking of just adding pictures once a week until this grow is finished, and then starting a new one when I start the whole SoG thing.
Thanks for the rep :D
 

gman214

Member
California Buds...looking good. I thought I'd check 'er out since I saw you had the Blue Dream. Looking good! In case you didn't already know...those Blue Dream will grow crazy tall...mine ended up being nearly 6.5' tall. I'm only at 6 weeks with my first grow, but the Blue Dream is looking like the best quality smoke if the 4 varieties I grew...I'd give it an A+ for quality and a B for yield.
 

Xare

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Sweet, I see you are doing drain to waste in coco.

You may want to look into hempy buckets if you find your watering more then you want to.

Its passive hydroponics like this but with an internal reservoir.

Check my Sig


And subbed :weed:
 

California Buds

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@gman214

Yeah blue dreams are definitely stretchers lol. I can already tell I'm going to have a problem keeping them far enough from the light, but I started bending them now to get them ready.

@
Xare

I water them 2 times a day, 1 at 8pm when the lights turn off and one at 5 am. The lights turn off at 8am. Running electricity during non peak hours saves some cash:).

Right now, I love every minute I'm in there working with them so watering isn't even a problem.

Thanks for subbing I'm going to go check your SOG out.
 

mississippi

Active Member
the stems look bair, are u cutting leaves them off ?
they look realy good, we will have a bud weigh off,
serscribe +rep
 

California Buds

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the stems look bair, are u cutting leaves them off ?
they look realy good, we will have a bud weigh off,
serscribe +rep
Yea, I lolipopped the hell out of them lol. The light isn't bright enough down there anyway. I would rather mess with nice nugs then popcorns.
 

MajorDeegan

Member
my grow is around same time as yours just now tossed mine in flowering.. 1 month too late... 2 months veggin in solos...uhoh..
 

California Buds

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@mississippi
Thanks for the info, I'll def check that out after I update this topic with some newer pictures.
Edit:
Can't find it anywhere lol.

@MajorDeega
I'll go check out your journal. It seems a lot of people are around the same harvest time as us, it's crazy :D.

May 11th, 31 days of flowering.
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California Buds

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how is it going?
to fine riddleme, your home page, top left, little house,just above your pic, its worth reading
Pretty good, I was having bad problems with powder mildew before I got my tray, it's finally starting to clear up, I raised the temp a little bit and opened the doors to air it out during lights on.

When I go back to water them tonight I'll take some pictures :).

The buds are really starting to feel in. The O-Giesel plant seemed really stressed out when I got it but I figured I'd give it a shot.
Yesterday I decided to take it down and dry it early because it was like the powerhouse of powder mildew lol.

Really weak plant for a beginner.

I still have 6 blue dreams in there looking amazing, and 1 Platinum Bubba that's starting to fill in.

I also had 11 extra clones I was going to kill but instead, I put all 11 clones in 1 hole in a ground outside to grow lol.
 

jebus2029

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Haha, looks like that one plant is trying to hide. Sticking its head under the hood and saying "You can't see me!"
 
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