Large MMJ grow operation using various strains

Seaghost

Active Member
Hello, its been a few months since posting up here because me and another person were in discussion concerning starting our own MMJ large scale grow. Now that prop 19 failed in Cali we are moving forward.

The grow is starting with OG Kush, Chem Dog, and White Rhino. We will also be adding White Widow, P91 and MK Ultra within the next several weeks. Eventually we will concentrate our MMJ grow on P91 and MK Ultra only with OG Kush and White Widow being grown for personal use and seeds.

We are starting off using standard 3 step low cost nutes switching over in 2 phases to House and Garden nutes. We will be using 2' x 2' trays having 2 per cycle running 4 - 6 cycles. After the first cycle is complete we should be using only House and Garden nutes with standard flood and drain.

After cycle 2 is complete we will then start introducing bucket systems starting with one set of 8 then increasing them until all flood tables are gone. By this point we anticipate running 6 brains with 8 buckets each.

After that there are more plans to increase the grow eventually to 80 plants with 5 cycles of 16 plants each but time will tell.

The setup is in a 10' x 10'6" room with a small closet for veg and clone. We will have a 50 gal drum in the middle to refresh the reservoirs from. The trays will be set up in pairs using a single reservoir with 4 plants in 1 tray and 5 in the other. Lighting will be supplied by 1000w Lumatek E ballasts using cool tubes with forced air cooling. The veg room uses 2 daisy chain-able sun systems 2' by 4 T5 HO putting out 16000 total lumen.

I will edit this first post from time to time as our equipment changes. Posts will include all information a person would need to follow our system and obtain hopefully large crops once we switch to the buckets including full equipment and nutrient information.

Feel free to pm me with any questions :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Nov 5th 1200pm OG Kush seed sprouted, 1pm planted in pot with FoxFarm Ocean
Nov 5th 4pm 2 White Rhino seeds sprouted, waiting to plant in pot


Note: When both are up and out of the soil I will post pics
 

Seaghost

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Pics dammit!
LOL Okay, here are the ones planted here at the house, enjoy!

I still have no pics of the clones but they will be coming soon.

These are sitting under a 24 sun blaze that puts out 8k lumen.

Also as an experiment we will be starting from seed 3 White Widow female auto-flowering strains to test their viability. We expect to do this within the next 2 or 3 days.

Also as a note the germination method we use is taking the seeds and putting them in a paper towel that's moistened. Then we put them in plastic bags left open for air flow under our lights. So far we have a 100% success rate which is probably more luck than skill. Also of note we buy our seeds from Attitude Seed Bank since they have a great return policy and the best stealth shipping.

Peace out :weed:White Rhino Day 1.jpgOG Kush Day 2.jpgWhite Rhino 2 day 1.jpg
 

Seaghost

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Nov 7th, 4pm, all 3 are now sprouted.

They are still curved over so I will probably wait until tomorrow to take pics, all 3 look healthy.
 

Seaghost

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Here are the pictures of the sprouts at 26 hours, temps running 78 humidity 46%:weed:

White Rhino 2 26 hours top.jpgWhite Rhino 2 26 hours side.jpgWhite Rhino 1 26 hours top.jpgOG Kush 26 hours side.jpgOG Kush 26 hours top.jpg

Another update tomorrow, hopefully with pics of the clones.

Peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Rhino #2 is still looking puny so I have started germination on a G-13 to replace her with. Hopefully I will have time tonight to post pics, till then peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Hello, here are 3 new pics of the current ones planted. Our clones got screwed up so we are starting over on them tomorrow night. I will be pulling the puny Rhino by tomorrow also. More pics then :weed:

White Rhino 2 55 hours.jpgOG Kush 55 hours.jpgWhite Rhino 1 55 hours.jpg
 

Seaghost

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Its been a couple days since I have had time to catch up my journal and lots has happened. Unfortunately we lost our grow space so had to make new arrangements and downsize for the first one. We now have a 4' x 11' 6" walk-in closet so much smaller space but doable for a 3 stage grow.

Currently we use the front 26" of the closet for clone/veg but soon we will set that in the back of the closet. In its place will be a 2 x 4 tray then along the walls will be 3 3x3 trays, each with their own reservoirs. We will be running a 400 HPS in the veg chamber along with the T5 HO. We have ordered a new Lumatek 1000w e ballast using a cool tube to go with our current 1k light using magnetic ballast.

Thursday night we cloned 16 chem dawgs and they are now in the clone chamber. Tonight I trimmed most of the fan leaves off and tomorrow I will replace the water in tray with fresh.

Tonight I planted the G13 in soil to make into another mother. The OG Kush and White Rhino are doing good, showing really nice growth. Under the scope they both look very nice with lots of white hairs. I will wait a few days to post more pics so that you can see some nice growth. Also we will be topping the OG Kush and G13 using Uncle Bens method to try to attain 4 copulas and using the tops we recover we plan to make new mothers.

I started germinating 5 Northern Lights autoflower seeds that I got from Nirvana via Attitude 28 hours ago. I checked 2 hours ago and all 5 had nice 1/8" tails so tomorrow they will be put into the clone unit to go to the tables to grow. Tonight we started germinating 3 more of the White Rhino which will also go to the clone unit before the tables.

I hope tomorrow that I will have time to take some pics while I am flushing the clone unit and if so I will post them.

Till then peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Hello, just a quick update. All 5 of the Northern Lights have sprouted now and I will be putting them into the cloner tonight. We also started germination on 3 more White Rhino seeds which will also be moved to the cloner as soon as they are ready, probably tomorrow night.

The G13 poked its head up out of the soil at approx 4am this morning and so far its looking very good. The OG is growing very quickly, out pacing the White Rhino by double. I will probably try to post pics tomorrow if I have time.

Peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Here you go, the latest pics from tonight. You will notice that the OG has really exploded in growth with the White Rhino following close behind. I was a little worried about the G13 since it grew so high so fast but now the stalk is starting to buff up and the growth is going into the foliage as you can see by the pics.

The clones are only doing so so but the 5 Northern Lights and 3 White Rhinos are doing really well with great root development so far.

Monday we are picking up more equipment and the conversion of the closet will go into full swing. We will be using a Lumatek 1000w digital e ballast dialed in at 400w to start our chem dawgs into their veg cycle, hopefully by Friday, that is our target date.

Till then peace out :weed:

OG Kush 17 days.jpgOG Kush 17 days 2.jpgWhite Rhino 17 days.jpgG13 6 days.jpgOverall day 17.jpg
 

Seaghost

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Today we finally got our 1k Lumatek E ballast in along with a cool tube hood. We also picked up our first tray, a 2' x 4' black one which we will be setting with clones or our seedlings on Friday.

Most of our clones did not survive due to the length of time they were cut from the mother until we got them in our cloner. We have 3 that might make it but if not we are going to use our seedlings for the first grow if we are unable to locate some clones on Friday.

Tonight we hooked up the 400 watt light for supplemental lighting and some heat, getting very cold here at night. I also took a pic of the new 1k light running at 600 watts which is attached.

You will notice in the overall pics I have hooked up an air pump to our clone tray for some extra O2. We also purchased a single WaterFarm pack for our G13 soon to be mother. Since we figure on a 3 or 4 month turnover on mothers we figured these were the best option. Some soil will still be done as I will want to test some strains from time to time before committing to them.

Pics of 400 watt hung and overalls
Overall with 400 watt extra light.jpgOverall day 21.jpgOverall with 600 watt light.jpg

Pics of 1k ballast and cool tube
Lumatek 1k watt E ballast.jpgCool Tube Hood with 1k watt light.jpg

Peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Hello, it has been a busy weekend for our operation. We started off by setting the 1st tray on Friday afternoon and so far the seedlings are liking the change. After doing some organization in our closet I also transplanted the 3 in soil into their final pots of 3 gallon in size.

We hope to take clones of the OG and G13 on the 10th for setting on the last tray on the 24th of December. If we can get 8 viable clones from the G13 we will use those in the final tray.

Here are the pics, enjoy :bigjoint:

Overall clones day 2 veg.jpgFront left 2 day 2 veg.jpgFront right 2 day 2 veg.jpgBack left 2 day 2 veg.jpgBack right 2 day 2 veg.jpgOg Kush 24 days.jpgWhite Rhino 24 days.jpgG13 16 days.jpg

Peace out :weed:
 

kcobr

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Can anyone help on different grow times for following......
Matanaskua-Alaskan Thunder--------Bubbleberry (know that one)
Cindy 99=================S. Silver haze
Juliet------------------------------------Dank
Chem Dawg
Sour Diesal
Durbin Poison
Thai Strain------Appreciate ANY help, or direction to correct website, Thanks!!!
Am in 5th week of flowering, was a bubblegum, berry kind of grower in past......
 

Seaghost

Active Member
Can anyone help on different grow times for following......
Matanaskua-Alaskan Thunder--------Bubbleberry (know that one)
Cindy 99=================S. Silver haze
Juliet------------------------------------Dank
Chem Dawg
Sour Diesal
Durbin Poison
Thai Strain------Appreciate ANY help, or direction to correct website, Thanks!!!
Am in 5th week of flowering, was a bubblegum, berry kind of grower in past......
I usually check attitude seed bank and look at the different strains up there to get a general idea. Another option if you have an android mobile phone is to use the app MMJ encyclopedia, it is full of information like that.

On another note grow pics will be uploaded later this evening :clap:

HTH peace out :weed:
 

Seaghost

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Hello, as promised here are the latest pics and updates. The OG is looking a little stressed because I flushed her earlier today, she was starting to show nitrogen lock. After I transplanted the 3 into their new pots their growth really took off, with the exception of the OG. She still grew but the White Rhino came within an inch before she started growing again.

As you can see the seedlings are really loving the light and nutes, most are over 3" tall now and are starting to spread a little. On Friday we will be flushing the reservoir and switching them to full strength so next week we should see some really good growth. I will also be taking 2 clones so as to start a new mother in the Waterfarm we have.

We changed our plans again :roll: and have decided to delay the next tray until we set the 3rd. By that time we will have enough clones for one tray of OG and another of G13. Then after the first tray is cropped we plan on starting another G13 with House and Garden nutes.

Here are the pics, enjoy :bigjoint:

Og Kush 29 days.jpgWhite Rhino 29 days.jpgG13 21 days.jpgOverall clones day 7 veg.jpg
 
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