First indoor medical grow.. 600w week 5 flowering [update]

First off, this is my first grow so i'm just doing things as best as i can.

Right now they are in FFOF soil getting distilled water with the Fox Farm nutrient trio and i'm PH adjusting it to 6.8. Gave them some organic cal/mag last week too.

Strains: Chemdawg, Giesel, Double Underdawg, Kaia Kush, Tangerine Kush

Am I doing ok for the first time?

cool piks, but u should just use regular water after letting it sit out for a day to evaporate any clorine in it. tap water has minerals in it that can be bennificial to your girls. U did good tho for a first grow tho my dood. +REP

they do look like they can go another week or 2 tho thats for sure.

I thought regular evaporated tap water had minerals that could be bad for them. Isn't that why people get those RO units?

If I can get away with doing that I would much rather go that route.. i'm sick of going to the grocery store for 8+ gallons of distilled water!

Thanks for the help

I'll try that out next batch Im just gonna stick with distilled for the rest of this grow just to keep things consistent though!

Do the plants put on that much weight in the last few weeks? It's my first grow so I didn't expect to yield a ton.. but i would think there is less than 2-3oz combined on it right now =[

I planned on flushing them for the last week and then giving them a 24 hour dark period. I don't think they will all be done at the same time unfortunately!

Hopefully i'm close enough to the finish line that it will be hard to mess anything up lol. Flushing is what gets rid of the "plant" taste right?

The leaves are getting a little light around the buds.. i hear this is normal but I am not sure if i should give them a 1/2 dose of grow big or something that is high in nitrogen.

any comments? would be nice but its hard to get feedback around here it seems unless your saying something worthy of a verbal lashing lol

yea, this websites full of different people tho. but no darkness period. as they get bigger and deeper into flowering they do eat more nutrients, but then again it might even be a nutrient burn. with no good piks of it i cant really tell you tho.

the flush gets rid of the harsh burn of bud full of nutrients, the plant naturaly tastes DELIGHTFUL!! but those nutients do not.

i've heard that a 24 hour darkness period before you chop can up the THC content by up to 10% .. but this I have not tried personally although my buddy who has been teaching me the ways swears by it

i think the point in a 24 hour darkness period before you harvest is to purposely stress the plant into using everything it has.. putting all of its nutrients into the buds thinking it's going to die..

I'm sure it turns out plenty fine the natural way without darkness too though lol

soup,

What up!?

These here turned 6 weeks flowering during this past Monday's light cycle.

I'm a figur'in at least two more weeks; perhaps three more weeks maximum plus one week flush.

FFOF Full Strength.

Advanced Nutrients - Sensi Grow A/B for grow and Sensi Bloom A/B with Kool Bloom for first 6 weeks flowering. Now phasing into Sensi Bloom A/B with Overdrive for the next 2 or 3 weeks. Then a week flush with Clearex. Clearex is cheap and does the job.

600watts the first 4 weeks of flower. 5-6 weeks 1000watts. Now through finish the 10% boost to 1100 watts. Hell, yea!

s0up,

You are up to the challenge.

After about 5 grows you'll have it tweaked, tuned and mastered.

Creating this stuff is the easy part. Keep posting pics.

Up to 25% more weight in the last two weeks. And if you keep talkin on your thread. There are so many people here that eventually you will get people to stop in to see your progress and check up on you and new people stop in and say things as well. So keep talkin and updating It may take a week before you get people saying things.

Damn rmax! those plants look badass. Right now I have a 600watter with a 200cfm inline fan pushing into the attic.. the only problem is the closet i'm doing it in.. the tent I built shrinks slightly from the negative pressure so i only have about 1.8ft x 3.5ft x 5.5ft.

Next grow.. i'm def. not going to do 5 different strains, and i'm going to scrog for sure

I'm looking at a 2x4x6.5 tent which should do the trick though!

s0up,

600Watts is a lot! LOL

Your plants have a lot of change coming up. Are you giving them nutrients, which nutes? You really need to jack them with some high-end bloom nutes.

thanks for the post kpac i'll def keep the pics coming in these last weeks. i need to get some sort of microscope cheap on the net.. ive seen a few that look cool so then i'll know when they are done

i cant wait to be done so I can improve in the next one... so much stuff i'd like to have done differently.. but mistakes are how you learn so oh well

well.. i decided i was gonna grow my meds to save money and got a 150 and 5 clones and it was air cooled... since I built a tent in the closet with panda film lining.

i had a tiny bit of probs with powdery mildew at the end of vegging and early flowering from what i assume was bad air flow. I couldn't watch them suffer so I got a 600w HPS and super sun 2 hood with a 250cfm(i think) inline fan.. so they now had tons of ventilation and in california it's not humid at all..

one dose of 3 in 1 spray got most of it.. and I removed all the lower leaves with any issues. I had a tiny bit of it come back so I purchased serenade since its safe and organic.. and that knocked them out perfectly and i haven't had a problem since! so what started as a 150 watt with a shitty fan blowing on it.. ended with nice airflow in a negative pressure tent with my 600

wow i just wrote a book

rmax said:

s0up,

600Watts is a lot! LOL

Your plants have a lot of change coming up. Are you giving them nutrients, which nutes? You really need to jack them with some high-end bloom nutes.

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Hopefully they get even bigger! They already appear to have a good amount of nugs on them

As for nutrients, i'm using grow big, big bloom, and tiger bloom with distilled water & I PH balance it to 6.8-7.0 I picked up snowstorm, moab, and gravity under recommendation from my friend who grows but i don't really feel like killing them with some super high PK stuff on my first grow.. i'll experiment next time around a little more

Edit: I only used a tiny amount of grow big because fox farm ocean forest already has enough for a short veg and they didn't seem to like it very much. They are eating up the big bloom though and the tiger bloom seems to be working fine as well