Humboldt's Growing Adventures! Up & Away!

AWESOME!! gotta keep a closer eye out on your journal, I should start flowering in the next day or two, did you check out the darkness test video on my video page? looks to me that it's dark enough to start flowering, what do you think?

http://bratcat.net/bratcat/pot/videos/humboldts_videos.html


I'm soo excited the flowering stage is the best part, and we are going to be flowering around the same time, this could be interesting between you and I party.

Ok I went ahead and put three of my girls into flowering tonight, 12/12 .. lights on - 4:00pm .. lights off - 4:00am.

approx. 2 1/2 month veg time.

Day #1 flowering, lights should be going off at 4:00am this morning and the cycle begins, I'm soo excited! .. I just can't hide it...

Here are some pics of the timer and the plants as they are now, I will be posting pictures left and right from here on.


Nice little digital timer, not bad for 18 bucks, mounted with two 50cent hooks.

I added a short video to my videos of the flowering room, can check it out at the following link,

http://bratcat.net/bratcat/pot/videos/humboldts_videos.html

Ghetto flower room, used white bed sheet 1.00$ Garden plastic 5.00$, Used 90" by 90" of it and have lots left over, will come handy for several other projects.

My three girls,

I soo can't wait til christmas, by flowering now I'm thinking I should have something to harvest come xmas.

To Be Continued!

haha nice pics. if its still budding around christmas would be nice to see a pic with the lights on it with the buds.

haha nice pics. if its still budding around christmas would be nice to see a pic with the lights on it with the buds.

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That's the plan, You said it the key word is IF' and I hope they bud well, also I'm going to put some kind of a ganja fairy or a garden gnome on top cola.



Day #2 flowering lights on,

4:00pm today when the lights came on I went to check the temperature/humidity, the temp was 59 f and humidity was 75, any ideas how I can get my temps up while the lights are out? as for the humidity I'm thinking is still ok, I believe as long as I don't let it get past 80, I also had the fan turned off in fear that it would make the temp drop even more, I heard to leave the fan on even when lights are out, I have no problem with that only if I can get my temp up.

I've been seeing lots of plants that where either topped or fimmed (too cool) so I went ahead and performed a topping and a fim on the two girls that are still in veg, my first attempted for both, I think I topped the slightly larger girl a little higher than normal because I basically want the two plants around the same height, from what I've heard by topping you should end up with two colas and for a fimming you should end up with two or more, typically four I believe.

Pics of aftermath,

It's hard to see but see the three circles, that's some clear syrupy liquid oozing out, pretty cool looking in person.

Topped plant,

Fimmed plant,

I seriously could use some suggestions of possibilities to get my temps up during lights out.

Please Advise!

Humboldt said:

I seriously could use some suggestions of possibilities to get my temps up during lights out.

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i'm not sure what you could do, but in my grow room, my dehumidifier is not on the timer, so it turns on and off throughout the night, and that generates some heat in the space, so i think that's what's keeping my room comfortable for the girls at night...

dude, love the christmas lights on your pot shrub... i wonder how many lumens they put out lol

You some great-looking daughters, buddy. I'm not sure what will work in terms of getting that temp up, though.

I noticed back on page 4 or 5 ur stems have a purple color to them ive learned from the urban grower that if stems and when pistils are purp the temps are to low or its a nute defc. it happend to me my first outdoor grow and it was from the frosty nights. no big deal tho its just the plants way of saying its cold. try putting a heating pad in there at night you know the ones that we use on leg pains and stuff like that i dont think there very expensive mabey 10$? looks awesome tho vary nice plants GL!!

i am interested also to see the comparison between us during flowering. i started mine friday morning going 12/12. im just waiting on mine to start showing sex so i can start cloning. im going to post pics today, so check it out.

I visited your journal and damn man you're kicking ass, it will be cool to keep track of each others journals being we started flowering on the same day and you're using hps, it will be interesting to see the diferences.

I noticed back on page 4 or 5 ur stems have a purple color to them ive learned from the urban grower that if stems and when pistils are purp the temps are to low or its a nute defc

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Yeah I heard but I'm having problems getting my temp up during lights out, thanks for the advise on the heating pad, I think I have one laying around although I'm thinking I will need more than one to heat my closet.

i'm not sure what you could do, but in my grow room, my dehumidifier is not on the timer, so it turns on and off throughout the night, and that generates some heat in the space, so i think that's what's keeping my room comfortable for the girls at night...

dude, love the christmas lights on your pot shrub... i wonder how many lumens they put out lol

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Thanks LoveIt, That's too funny, how many lumens .. What exactly is a dehumidifier, what are you using it for? my brother has an ionic pro I could get my hands on, is that a dehumidifier?



Day #3 Flowering,

Being that my grow is in my bedroom closet and to try to heat my closet while the lights are off I tried keeping my room over 80 degrees the hole time the lights were out (was unpleasant for me) and when the lights came on I checked the temp it was still at 60, I have it closed up so tight that it wont let heat in.

I have an idea and it sounds like a good one but need advise, we have this digital heater that is programable to set the temp, we use it in the shop where we keep the boat so that we don't have to pay to get it weatherized, keeping the temp above freezing level is much cheaper.


The idea,

What if I take that heater, set the temp at around 70 degrees and have it facing opposit the plants, it will then only turn on when the temp drops bellow the setting, (shouldn't be very often) also I would have a fan running at all times pointed directly at the plants because air is unable to enter or exit, last thing I want to do is suffocate them.

How does that sound, think this would work? I could use all the advise I can get because I don't know how long my plants are going to take 60 and under temps, how low can the temps be before damaging plants?


Please Advise!

Placing the heating pads directly underneath the planters might heat them up sufficiently, but it could overheat them or not do anything. You'll probably just have to try it. The space heater with a temp setting sounds like it could work. Basically what it will do is blast heat into the grow room until it's internal thermometer reads whatever temp you set it for. If you keep that closet closed and set that heater to about 72ish you should be fine. I would just break down and use the space heater because the heating pad seems a bit sketchy.

An ionic breeze won't do a very good job at dehumidifying the air. Those things are only meant to purify and circulate the air. Basically it's a fan with a filter. If you use that your plants will have clean air to breathe, but the air will still be humid. If you need to buy a dehumidifier they can go for as cheap as ~$100.

Thanks for the information dumpster, I think I might try the digital heater as soon as am able to replace the one in the shop.


Day #4 flowering,

Not much difference except one of my girls is starting to appear herm and is not looking well (only getting worse) I'm thinking I may have to remove her/him in case it is some kind of a disease, I haven't started feeding them any nutes yet and I don't believe I'm over watering as I'm using a moister meter and the other two plants seem healthy, however I did notice some roots poking out the bottom drainage holes, could that be causing this? I don't know what it could be other than that or a disease.

What do you think, should I dump it and replace her with a healthy girl or should I let it go a bit longer?


Here she is, the bushy healthy chick, I'm loving her!

As for my problem keeping my closet temp up, I kept the heat in my room above 80 again but this time when I went to say good night to my girls I lifted some of the plastic in the corner where if light were to shine through it wouldn't reach my plants, it worked for the most part, when the lights came on I checked the temp and it was five degrees higher, making it 65 degrees.

Could I get away with it being 65 f during lights off until I can get the digital heater? I'm so baking having to keep the temps up in my room, I feel like it's still mid summer, so hopefully it wont be but a couple more days.


Advise is quite welcome and is much appreciated!

Day #5 flowering,


Well I did another light test with the curtain lifted and it showed light appearing through, slight bit of light but light nontheless, so last night I had to close the curtains tight and placed a heater toward the closet doors, today when the lights turned on I checked the temp, it was 70 and the humidity 70, HOOAH! I'm thinking that's about right, what do you all think?


Even though the temp/hum is about right I'm still thinking about putting in a digital heater but hoping for more advise, I can't keep heating my room just to keep the closets temps up, It's not so much the electricity bill, its just so damn miserable being over 80 degrees all the time.


Ok here are a few updated pics, I still can't take a picture worth a crap but I hope you will get the jest of it, in the top cola section there's not much going on, however in the side branches there's some action, is this normal for the side branches to develop sooner? sounds logical as they are before the main cola.


I'm noticing since the temps were up during lights out that the stems/branches are a lot less purple

I can't wait for about another week they should really be forming by then, this is soo fun, was kinda frightening to put them into flowering at first but they seem to be doing well and now it's pure excitement.


There she is looking happy under the lights,

I want to gently kiss her neck, tell her I love her and fondle her all over. (smell the perfume, its smelling good)


Comments Please, Advise and Opinions are good too!

can't wait to see that bush in another 6 weeks... she'll be a monster by then! are you sure you didn't cram like three plants into that bucket? lol, jk

you asked what a dehumidifier was... i laughed, but then i thought "hmmm, i guess they don't really use those things in humboldt" lol
it's just an appliance that people put in damp areas, like basements on the east coast, to reduce the humidity, fills up with water, condensed right out of the air, then you dump it and start over. it's a necessity over here!

about your brother's ionizer thing, i just picked up an ionizer at goodwill for cheap to use as an experiment... it doesn't dehumidify, but it is supposed to help scrub odors out of the air... haven't hooked it up yet to see if it really works as well as i need it to, but i am going to plug it in just outside of my grow room door to see if it keeps the smell of 6 week old buds under control- the smell isn't too too bad just yet, but it is definitely starting to increase, and from everything i have read, it's probably gonna get pretty skunky by the end

looking good.

Lol I know huh, thanks for the comments, she was the runt of the litter but as soon as I put her in the 3 gallon bucket and fed her some MG she started growing mad, I was feeding the stunted smaller plants MG to try and get the plants around the same height but No... she wanted to grow out not up.

Iv'e never had to use a dehumidifier before, but come to think of it I think my sister has one in her house, I think because of the fireplace and wood stove, I'm not sure but it's like what you described, ad water then it blows out air.

I'm not real concern with the odor as I don't have anything to hide and I enjoy the smell (stronger the better) but let us know how that ionizer works for smell, people are always asking.

What is a GOODWILL, where can I find one, is that like a costcos or sams club?


Thanks party for the comment and stopping by.


An Update for you all,


I just got done euthanizing two more males, these guys were just sitting in my room under normal circumstances for over a week with very little water and they are looking better than a couple of me girls. Strange, maybe I should set a couple girls out in me room.

I tried to capture some shots of the early male private parts, for the future newbie, they didn't turn out that great but hope they can help.

For those of you who like stories,

Since I have been doing research here on this site I've noticed tons of questions about male plants and what they can be good for, I would normally agree .. Good For Nothing! but they say that you can make tea or ganja butter, so I said what the heck but I had this idea to just take all the preflowers roll em up and smoke them, I did just that.

These male flowers have a decent high when smoked, surprised the shit out of me, I've smoked males before and barley received a head change but I smoke a hole joint of these male preflowers and got more high then some female shake that I have. It's funny though, It was a good feeling smoking something that I actually grew even though it was an immature male.

I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL I'M ABLE TO DO THAT WITH THE GIRLS!!!

They're starting to look nice. Cant' wait to see how big the harvest is.

And to answer your question: Goodwill is a not-for-profit thrift store that sells donated items at very low prices. They have a lot of locations, but I'm not sure if they have them up in Humboldt. I got a like-new bed from Goodwill for only $100 (mattress and box spring). They kick ass.

O I C, like a salvation army, I think they are nonprofit organization as well or at least a percentage of it goes to donations.


Thanks for the info and stopping by.


I need to go out for the day and won't be home to check the temps when lights come on at 4:00pm, Bummer, however I should get what I need for heating and cloning, I need to get this cloning down as I have no more seeds, this is my only chance to get something going and all the clones that I've attempted are dying.

There are a lot of decent tuts out for cloning but not all have images and are full detailed as in how to prepare cloning trays/rock wool, peat pellets, or what to do after cloning, such as environment, conditions, domes, lights, temps etc., I need to find a full blown cloning tut with images.

If I can ever get this cloning down, I will create a full blown tut myself!


I'll post what supplies I end up with later tonight or tomorrow.

Well shit I didn't make it to the hydro shop but I did make it to the dollar store and found some really useful small stacking crates, good for lifting individual plants, stacking shelves, household items etc. they also stack in two different positions.

I bought two cases of them 12 in each case, I would of gotten more if they had them, I'm going to keep checking back for more, they are just soo useful for a lot of things.

I will be heading for the hydro shop tomorrow around 11:00am to insure I make it there on time, I plan on getting everything needed for cloning, including tent/dome, I read somewhere that you can use floral foam for cloning, is this true? if so they have lots at the dollar store, I could possibly save a couple of bucks, what's the best, easy and for sure way to clone? Input needed by 11:00am tomorrow, highly unlikely but worth a shot.

This is the foam from the dollar store, will this work in replace of rock wool, or would I'd be better off with rock wool or peat plugs/pellets?

Please advise!

I think those are used more for decor, they are too hard for roots to penitrate. They poke the flowers stem thru those and as you know the stem is very hard. I no expert but i dont think those would work for you...

Keep the update comming, your girls are beautiful.....

Yea, I don't know about that stuff, not sure it would work. Rockwool is super cheap at the hydro shop anyway.