First grow with the caddy

vdavis1025 · May 25, 2009

Here I am on day 20 of my first grow I started out by purchasing the caddy from sunlight sheds just after getting my medical card. I decided to go with fox farm nutes since I only heard good things from others.My seeds were given to me from a friend and currently have four babies going from what I understand it is trainwreck/kush. any info is helpful. thanks for your time

vdavis1025 · May 28, 2009

I had to change resevor water and had issues.
I had to figure a way to do it without disturbing the roots.I figured on buying a waterpumbp and that helped alot.heat has also became an issue we had a air conditioner that we decided to hook up so thats under control now. The plants themselves seem to be doing good I think any feed back would be great.

vdavis1025 · May 31, 2009

Day 25,

I noticed an earwig on my plants making holes in the leaves I dont know what to do about this and need help.I heard of a niotine spray you can make but I am not sure how.My ph is between 5.9 and 6 my ppm is hovering around 950 and other than the bugs I think the are looking ok so if any suggestions on this issue im having with the earwigs?? please leave me some knowledge thanks.

vdavis1025 · Jun 9, 2009

I am sorry for the delay on my post but my computer went down on me and now i am at the part where I could use some input on how things are going.I have visited a fellow grower during the veg phase but I havent even seen any of the flowering part of the growing cycle so here is what I did.I switced to a 12/12 cycle for the lights and also switced from the 400 watt mh to a 400 watt hps.I am also adding foxfarms tiger bloom with foxfarms grow big and fox farm big bloom.My ph is about 6.0 and I do try to keep it there ever since these babys started from seeds.I look forward from hearin any input from the pros and will be adding more pics as I can. thanx

yetibear · Jun 23, 2009

how is the caddy working out for you its been a while sence your last post, hope everythings still on track with it??

vdavis1025 · Aug 21, 2009

yetibear said:
how is the caddy working out for you its been a while sence your last post, hope everythings still on track with it??

I had to build myself a better rez. I finally finished and started over I will soon have a new jornal soon as I can get batteries for the camera

vdavis1025 · Aug 25, 2009

[I have started a new batch of babys and hope for better results. The caddy itself is great for the basics but my advice is to custom build one yourself.The rez on it sucks and the nutes they give you suck
I went ahead and changed my rez to the fogbox plus I plan on adding another fan
to the caddy itself to help control the temp
so I guess this will be take two with the caddy.I will have pics soon and post more than I did with the last batch.Last batched got fried do to mother nature and 107 degree days.

k-town · Aug 25, 2009

Sucks to hear about the first run at it but I will be tuning in for the second run.

vdavis1025 · Aug 29, 2009

I decided to continue my grow journle here.I am new at growing and on my second attempt.Again everything is what comes with the caddy from sunlightsheds but I went ahead and changed to the fogbox rez which so far kicks ass here is a couple of pics I suffered from early chem burn i think but my babys are looking good at this time.Please give me your input I am a new grower and waiting to get my first true crop looking pretty and I will listen to any advice given thanx.

vdavis1025 · Sep 7, 2009

I started my flowering today I switched the M/H 400 watt light to a 400 watt hps and switced my lighting from 24 hour to 12/12.So far all is looking good and I will begin to post more often probably every other day so we can all see pretty buds go.I have gotten this far before but from here on I hope to get some comments from you guys so if you see any issues please let me know.Here is some pics so you can see how they look now.

articbear · Sep 10, 2009

about the fogbox rez u got, did you buy it or did u make it? and the fogger , water pump and air pump do u use the same ones that came with the caddy or did u get other ones as well?

vdavis1025 · Sep 13, 2009

I had bought it but the guy showed me how to build one they are not that hard.
He had given me an extra air pump and waterpump but I am just using the pumps that came with the caddy again the selling them was very helpful and basically charged price of parts and gas.
here are my pics from 2 days ago I will post new ones tonight.

ps the foggers are the same kind but I used the one he brought with the setup.

articbear · Sep 14, 2009

the reason i asked is cuz i got the cool cab but im not using the hydro setup at this time but plan to use it in my next grow.

also when u were using the caddy setup, did u leave the drippers on 24hrs or did you put them on a timer?

Im very confused about this since sunligthsheds says do not turn them off but alot of people say that theyll get to much water and die. what did u do?

vdavis1025 · Sep 15, 2009

DO NOT USE THERE REZ SETUP! I put that in bold because I jumped right into hydro and have learned that the setup they have is not a good setup forbud.The biggest problem is that the water doesnt circulate.This is a must.as far as the drippers go my new rez has no drippers nor does it need one.The drippers caused mold issue and yes it causes the plants to have too much water.IF you look up the fogbox or foto www.thefogbox.com it will give you a better idea on the perfect rez for our setup.If you have any hydro questions I will share all I know.

vdavis1025 · Sep 15, 2009

I have trimed the bottom of my plants and so far no signs of males.All is looking well so far cant wait to see some buds

articbear · Sep 15, 2009

no problem about not using it , im doing very nice with soil at the moment and im at week 6 into flower in one plant . and the other ones are 4 weeks flower and 2 weeks flower, i got a little sog cycle going cuz i made a veg box. i got one in the veg box thats screaming to go in to flower but have no space rigth now for her.

i still want to do hydro once im done with these so i will be checking out that fogbox .

p.s i dindt have the balls to lollipop my 6 week plant and im starting to regret it alot, will definetly do on the 4 and 2 weeks ones.

vdavis1025 · Sep 15, 2009

here is the pic of the inside of the fogbox.
this is the big diffrence between the two rez. the sprinkler system hitting the roots from underneeth works great plus there is a second rez. under the main one to pump the water up to the sprinkler system and the water is then drained from the top rez. back down to the second rez. really easy to make using the parts sunlight shed gave us.maybe $40 to make.

vdavis1025 · Oct 1, 2009

well I cant say I dont have an issue but it seems to be working itself out.My lesson on this grow is that I need to put my plants in flower sooner.My plants are budding everything is still in balance as far as nutes ph ppm and temp and hummidity.My plants still look healthy except for the leaves that is to close to the lights but hey I dont know what to do about this issue.

articbear · Oct 2, 2009

you can try lifting your ligths a bit but by the looks of your pics the ligth is all the way up already.

also i did a couple of plants 12-12 from seed and i still got a bunch of space on top , they only grew 2 ft tall and they look like great, maybe you could veg for like two weeks and still the plants wont get that tall.

golddog · Oct 6, 2009

Are those nuts on the Pics 3 and 4 ? :confused:

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