Jigfresh's DIY Closet DWC Scrog 650w HID - Hindu Skunk & White Widow- First Grow Ever

Hulk Nugs said:

looking good man, its going to be nice when you can smoke your own nugs not have to spend money on nugs. Do your parents smoke ?? thats chill that you can talk to them about it and show off your hard work to them, i am still trying to get my brother to come over and check it out been trying since the start stupid brother. Didnt you say your going to look into building a extra room?? Iknow you said your not going to grow in there but why not ?? Once you have your first kid on the way then yea take it down or build another room . That be nice to have a full room to move around in you can walk all the way around your grow. Do you have a attic ? or enough room for a shed ? I cant wait to have enough room for a big grow room.

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my parents don't smoke, but they were both hippies. Not sure what my mom thinks about it, but she is always supportive of me, as long as it's all legal, which it is. I am going to build an extra room, but we need the room. Our house is like 575 sq.ft. with 9 cats. We also have a big attic, but it is really hard to get up to, and it's low, plus the cat's love it up there. It's really not resonable up there. I'm just going to go witht the closet, plus one cab to be built later.

One day when I'm in PA and the laws are different, I'll have a farmhouse converted to a grow room, haha. That would be sweet. I'll send pics. You can come viist.

Hulk Nugs said:

Oh yea i was wondering how the taxes are up there, like for your house and land. I was wondering if there more up there then down here? I was wondering how long you have lived up there and do you enjoy it like threw the winter or is there lots of problems with like road closes and snow rock falls, just trying to get a idea of what kinda problems living up there i would come to deal with.

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I have never owned a place before so I can't compare things. But we pay $2,200 per year on a $180,000 house/ property. We've been here 1.5 years. The biggest problems have to do with snow/ ice. Where I'm at I live really close to the 'edge' of the mountain, so I only have to drive less than a mile before I am on a State Route, and those stay open all the time, just get messy a bit when it's really really bad. It really depends on each individual house. I mean some have steep driveways that really suck in ice. Ours is flat. There's some other things, but those are the biggest. Oh, and like our friend she lives in the center of town, and has like 5 miles of twisty, hilly roads to get to the highway. Our mile we have to go is easy. We have a tiny front wheel car and have had that since we got here. We talk about wanting a 4wd, like a subaru. If you had a 4wd and lived in a good spot there's really not much to complain about.

Power stays on. Gas stays on. Water is cold and tasty, but keeps coming. Only had 3 or 4 days our satellite didn't come in. Phones always work, so our internet is always there too. And we get cell reception.

I'm still watching your thread mate ... All seems to be well! Looking very good haha.

Cheers for that rep by the way. Many people are un-chilled round here lol, they must not grow very good weed or something haha

GreenphoeniX said:

, they must not grow very good weed or something haha

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that's what I'm starting to think... good stuff. glad you're still with us.

right on man thanks for the info. Been looking into houses up there.

Hello everyone. I spent quite a bit of time today arranging leaves and a couple branches. I pulled a tiny bit that is getting shaded. It's becoming more apparent that literally nothing below the screen is going to make it. The trichs are multiplying nicely. I really need a magnifying glass to see them. I want to get a good look.

I took some pics, but decided to ask my wife if she would take some for me. She takes much better pics than me. I need to figure out the white balance on her camera though, because everything that didn't use a flash is orange. So you will have to make do with some orange pics today.

The first 4 pics are mine the rest are her.

The final two pics are a comparison of the hindu skunk and the white widow. The hindu skunk is first with the droopier leaves and more hairs, the white widow the one with well defined, pokey leaves, brighter green, with less haris.

very nice man just a sea of nugs or a field of nugs getting bigger and bigger every day. there are only 4 pics so i guess there will be more soon.... lmao wierd nevermind they just came up when i hit send

I totally forgot to mention, on your advice, I hooked up the diy co2 today. I emptied out a big gatorade bottle (into little bottles, I don't like to waste). Anyhow I'm using the big bottle, some RO water, granulated sugar, and bakers active yeast.

I attached some air tubing to it and I am going to try it over one plant for a few days to see if I notice a difference.

I am planning on running it for about 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a day. I'm not sure what temps do with fans off and the door closed, so I'm going to need to experiment.

I know it's producing co2 because I had the bottle set up for about 1 hour sitting in my grow room, with a stopper on the end of the tube. I put it to my ear and heard it hiss out when I opened the valve slightly.

I'll upload some of the pics I took. We'll see if it works.

Some things I have read about co2 that I beleive to be true (there is some crazy stuff people say): the yeast needs to be between 80-100 F to be most actively procucing co2. Once the mixture has been going too long 7-10 days the ethanol levels will start to kill the yeast. One packet of yeast will do per mixture. The plants breath the co2 during the lights on time. There may have been more, I forget.

Those nugs are looking lovely! Keep it up.

right on man i am using the same bottle crazy i need to change out my co2 its been in there over two weeks ...... i put up a air tubing around my room three walls put some small holes in it then hook up my co2 just not sure it gets all the way around the room to all the holes or if it just comes out of the first two or three ya know ..... still saving up money for a new 250 ballast and co2 setup

Hulk Nugs said:

not sure it gets all the way around the room to all the holes or if it just comes out of the first two or three ya know ..... still saving up money for a new 250 ballast and co2 setup

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I was wondering the same thing, if it would get around. So what I did was this.... I made my bottle totally airtight with the goop around the hole. I have a valve, so I can shut it off all night, building up pressure. I made the holes in the tubing super small with the little pin in the pics, so I figure if I don't poke too many holes, I think the pressure will stay in the tubing, so that there is 'equal' pressure to the length of the tube.

I don't know if I mentioned, but I am only going to put the co2 over one plant for a few days, to see if I notice it different from the others.

Thanks again for telling me to do it, or reminding me or whatever. I'll save you one of the super nugs from the co2 plant,

I need moe Cal-Mag... also need more DM Potash+. So while I am at the hydroponics store I'm going to get some Gravity, and either GH FloraNectar or B'Cuzz Flavor. It's getting to be the 2nd month of flowering soon and I'm going to pump these babies up a little, and sweeten the deal some too.

Any suggestions on different Flower Hardeners and Sweeteners would be appreciated.

And don't worry, I'll be SUPER careful with the Gravity. I am going to be sure not to ruin everything to get some heavier nugs.

very nice i hope that co2 works good cuz ill make one of those for my grow so keep us posted and keep up the good work

love the jump ahead points idea subscribed

jigfresh said:

I don't know if I mentioned, but I am only going to put the co2 over one plant for a few days, to see if I notice it different from the others.

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hey man i have been reading and it would be better if you wrapped the tubing around the base of the plant so the co2 goes up into the plant, i believe co2 raises and not falls but not to sure. Just checked out the pics and wanted to throw my 2cents in.

Hulk Nugs said:

hey man i have been reading and it would be better if you wrapped the tubing around the base of the plant so the co2 goes up into the plant, i believe co2 raises and not falls but not to sure. Just checked out the pics and wanted to throw my 2cents in.

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Actually, the CO2 molecule is heavier than air as air is made up of mostly N2 molecules. Since the plant absorbs CO2 through it's leaves, you want to put the CO2 above the plant so it falls down into the canopy. Otherwise, it will never absorb the CO2.

dirtystacks said:

Actually, the CO2 molecule is heavier than air as air is made up of mostly N2 molecules. Since the plant absorbs CO2 through it's leaves, you want to put the CO2 above the plant so it falls down into the canopy. Otherwise, it will never absorb the CO2.

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hell yea thanks for the tip man, i hate when i give out false info, that means my grow never got co2 then. good to know for the next one.

well, it got CO2, but not effectively. your fans moved it around, off the lower part of your grow. my son likes to run tubeing thru his plants, at stem at 24" and looped around and laced at 7 Ft too.


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Where I'm at I live really close to the 'edge' of the mountain, so I only have to drive less than a mile before I am on a State Route, and those stay open all the time, just get messy a bit when it's really really bad. It really depends on each individual house. I mean some have steep driveways that really suck in ice.(unquote)


sounds like you are up here by me. i was around when you started your grow, great job. i bought a home,and moved, so i been offline for last 7 weeks. just got my 4x4 hydro-hut up, with a1000w HPS, air cooled. we are going to set up a 4x8 hydrohut for flowering, in same bedroom. put the2 together, like a L. got a few going, NL#5xHaze, and sour-bubble, bahia blackhead, hashberry, now i need to get a camera, mine isnt working, and the 1st few months,after you buy, is sooo costly. this needs fixing, this 1 replaced. a camera is in the lower priortys at this time.

Hey everybody. First off shouts to all who have stopped by lately: Iamtreehigh, [email protected] (which is a 2 for one, not only is it a screen name, but also an email), overmyhead, dirtystacks, thor369, and my brother in growing Hulk Nugs. Thanks to all for the support and advise.

Today was one of the last sprayings the girls will get. I raised the light as always and gave them a good bath. I think 2 more sprayings, unless the buds gets too dense before then. I don't want no mold.

A few posts back is my DIY co2. I have that going, and I feel like I can tell the difference already, however I feel like that is just optimistic eyes. I think I may try to weave the co2 line around the screen, right beneath the screen, like against the screen on the bottom. I know it's heavier, but I feel like leaving it on top would cut out light and i don't want to go messing up and melting airline onto some buds. So I figure screen level is alright. I think the air might be raising slightly due to heat, you know that whole heat rises thing. I'm not sure about that though. I figure I can't hurt anything and I only spent $10 or something, so whatever.

What I have been doing with the co2 is to lay it like the picture over the plants, turn off the fans circulating air, turn off the room exhaust, and close the door. Also, I have the co2 shut off till I do these other things, I turn the valve on and close the door, for 30-40 minutes. By then I figure the co2 pressure that has built up has been released, and also the temps rise slightly to around 85. Once I open the door they cool of right away, to around 75 or so. 71 below the canopy. Water still 64. It's so funny I don't have the slightest idea what temperature it is outside, but I know exactly the temp of every section of my grow room. Oh, also the yeast mix is kept up with the ballasts to keep it hot. It stays around 90 f.

Trichs are still marching in.