Maxi's K.C. Brains KC33 Fun-Grow

maxivenezuela

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Hey People,

allow me to introduce my self a little before starting with the facts about my grow. My first name is Max, peps usually call me "Maxi".
I'm from Germany, but I live in Venezuela... I've got a little Low budget and Mc-Gyver Style Grow equip, but I guess it will work out, how ever I did my best.
I'm new at this, I just have grown some plants from seeds that I pulled out of cheep Colombian weed, and how I didnt know what I was doing, it didnt went so well, Plants are still alive but flowering fucking slow, this Plants wont give me Big Buds, I messed up to much^^
But I started to love the Plants, and met lots of nice peps on a small German Grow Comunity, I even got moderator there, so now I know at least most of the facts, so now It's time to grow for real!

So now becouse I need to practise English I'll start a Grow Journal in this Forum, not just the German one where I'm Moderator...

So now, the Grow:
on 10-02-2008 I received a package from Holland, after 3 weeks my seeds finally arrived. First I was a little angry 'couse they sent me KC33 instead of KC36 seeds, so I just will try to grow those... I got some Sensi Seeds Skunk#1 too but they are for a further Grow after the KC33, I'll stil not use them.

The same day, I've put 5 seeds into a paper towel to geminate, and 5 seeds directly in soil, just to try out whats working better, the ones in Soil for shure have it nice and wet all the time, so there shouldn't be any problem to germinate just in soil.
From the 5 in the paper towel today 2 was put in soil, the little root was already out, I hope tomorrow the others are out too. K.C. Brains are cheep seeds, usually 8 of 10 should germinate, we will see, if I get 3 or more Girls out of the ten seeds it's fine for me. 4-5 female plants would be perfect.

The Light, and the other equip:
105W+55W+55W 6400K CFL for starting, I'll try to let them grow till 40cm with this Setup on 18/6 with a cheep timer, and an 12V car fan at an old computer power source. How my fat never or fucking slow flowering plants(I've just messed to much up and the seeds was crap anyway like I told before) still are in my selfmade bloom room, they will have to grow behind a shelf for the next few weeks.
The soil is from a gardener, here they just sell soil mixed by gardeners, theres no Brands here that sell soil... anyway one of the seeds is in by my self mixed soil, just for fun^^

I've got some bio fertilizer for growing period, some cows close here provide it to me for free^^
For flowering I've got a NPK mix 12-28-24 and some other ingredents then just NPK...
For flowering period, plants will be in my selfmade Growroom, its made with things I got in a hardwarestore and has further:

1. a timer,
2. a 400W HPS,(with a big aluminium pizzaplate as reflector, and a 500W 220V adaptor 'couse we have 110V here and all the HPS equip is 220V)
3. a 45W Fan(inside),
4. a 25W Fan(pulling air out at top, temp. is fine with the 400W HPS)

so now a few images...

The Seeds(and if you take a look on original size you can reed the big CFL's specifications, 105W 6400k, the others are 55W)


lots of rubish^^ most of the Equip


Lights for growing period and seeds, the skunks I save up for later, 215W CFL Power^^


Seeds germinating, today two of five was put in soil, other five seeds for was put direclty in soil, they will germinate too :P


testrun for the lights and the little fan, inside of my new "growroom"


I should open a Paintshop, a Paintshop Pro^^


yeah my new growroom, for the moment I put my messed up plants from crap seeds in there and my flowering eqip(HPS, Big fan...)


What does this Look like^^


exactly^^ this and the above pictures are from today, in the white 4 cups are Seeds germinating directly in soil from the gardener, in the small cup wich is not a bought one for plants. there's one seed in soil mixed by my self, the brown 2 has the first 2 seeds wich was germinating in the towel, I hope tomorrow there will be more of them, from the 3 seeds that are still germinating in the paper towel in still empty brown cups... I'll find anything reflecting for on top of the CFL's the next few days, and the littele Fan is already in there, so it wont get too hot or to less fresh aire inside this very small growroom.


That's all for today folks, I'll try to update as often as I can.

FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS OR JUST WRITE ANY COMMENT^^
 

maxivenezuela

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Ok here the only news for today, the third seed of five in the paper towel germinated, I could see the little root, so now it is in soil... 2 left in the towels, I hape at least one more of them will germinate, about the other 5 seeds wich I put in soil from beginning, I still don't know anything.

picture of today, still nothing out of soil...
 

maxivenezuela

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wtf is wrong with my grow... The three germinated Seeds are still not out of soil, the two seeds left in the paper towels(everytime wet) still did not germinate, and about the 5 seeds germinating directly in soil I don't know anything :( :( I'm getting very worried :(

can anybody tell me whats wrong? My fucking first real grow, with real seeds, but my stupid hermi seeds pulled out of my weed seems to be much more easy to grow :( Help me save my grow plz^^
 

maxivenezuela

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still nothing out of soil... still two seeds wich I guess never will germinate in the paper towels... I guess I screwed up :(
 

maxivenezuela

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So still no good news, still nothing out of soil, but, number 4 of the 5 Seeds I had in the paper tower germinated, after 8 days^^
So KC Seeds at least don't have a bad germination rate...

A few minutes ago, I have put it in soil, soil just out of my garden, just to try, maybe like this it will be out of soil soon, maybe the soil I got from the gardener Sucks, I dont know but wtf lets just hope the seeds are just a littel slow and they will get out of soil soon...

here's a picture^^
 

maxivenezuela

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none of the kc33 is growing, not even one fucking plant got out of soil, fuck, I really messed something up or maybe the KC Seeds are really really bad^^ I'll try tomorrow with some skunk#1 from sensi I guess^^
 

maxivenezuela

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If somebody ist interestet, I'll go on with this thread couse I could save one of the KC33, its growing now, and I have made it to start growing my Skunk#1 all are out of Soil, if somebody is interested tell me so, 'couse if not, I don't see a reason to do the work uploading and posting the Images and my stupid blablabla....
 

maxivenezuela

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It's fucking late and I'm bored, so even if nobody is looking at it or giving me any advice. or just a stupid comment(you're wellcome to do it), I'll go on with this senseless journal^^

here's whats happend the last few days:

One of the KC33 seeds in the Paper Towels never germinatet.

The geminatet seeds in the paper towels that I had put in soil all died, theres no real reason I could tell you, but it happend, I was searching for them in the soil, and they were all fucking dead.

Searching for the other seeds wich was suppoused to germinate directly in soil, I found some of them germinatet but dead an 2 of them like I'had put them in Soil, they had never germinated.

So I put the two I picked out of soil after about 3 weeks, and the one out of the paper towel(3weeks in there too) that never germinatet in a cup with soil, even I'f I didn't think it was going to grow anything, I just did't want to give up hope^^

Anyway the same day I put my Skunk#1 from Sensi seeds in a little bowl of water....



Some of the Skunks after 16h in water already opened up a littel bit, but still I put them beetween plates an toilet paper.



2 Days Later, I opend up the seald plates, I had seald them for safety with plastic so water can't vaporize, and I was fucking surprised. All seeds had already 0,5-5cm long and healthy roots. So I put them all into soil.



This soil bye the way was all cooked in my microwave oven, 4 lasagne glass bowls full every bowl 1 complete hour, just for safety, to kill everything in it.


After puting them in soil fortunatly I remebered the cup with the 3 never geminated KC33 and I almost couldn't beleve it, there was a KC33 out of soil. Yeah I'm so lucky!

From the 10 planted Skunk#1 9 are growing aswell^^ Fuck am I lucky^^

So heres a Picture of today, they are now 6 days under the CFL's for growing! Yeah finally this grow will rock!

I have just 8 1L cups for the Moment, so 2 Cups(for schure they have holes in the bottom) are not meant for Plants, but WTF^^
The biggest one ist the KC33, 2th from right in the front line!

I love all my little Plants, but for shure the KC33 is very special to me, and it looks very graet anyway!
 

maxivenezuela

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One week pased, and I have good news!

The KC33 is growing very very very nice^^
8 of the 9 Skunk#1 are growing, just one is kind of dead, but wtf, all the others are growing and everyday danger gets less for them, so my grow imho is going OK.

In the beginning the air was kind of too dry, and maybe temperature was not too good, but this problems are fixed since sunday.

here's the overview:


that's the KC33:

and one of my Skunk#1, not all are that pretty but wtf:


Any questions, comments, or hints? Feel free to post it here!!!
 

Tcm19277

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hey nice grow il be tagging along :mrgreen:
ive been thinking of some kc brains for my next grow so interested to see the KC33 :hump:
looks good ;-)

:peace:
 

maxivenezuela

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hey nice grow il be tagging along :mrgreen:
ive been thinking of some kc brains for my next grow so interested to see the KC33 :hump:
looks good ;-)

:peace:
Thanks, unfortunatly I messed up 9 of 10 KC33 or maybe something was wrong with them. What ever happend to them usually KC seeds are OK, don't worry about that... If you are growing indoors maybe KC36 would be the better choice.
Anyway my only KC33 growing makes me very happy, it's much more pretty then all my skunk#1 I hope it will turn out Female!


Here's a little Update:

All Plants are Growing well, I have one or maybe more Krippels but wtf :D

Download here all pictures in original size of 5MPX in a very nice quality!

My grow is looking like this now:


Here the KC33, finaly it got a nice 1.3Liters cup, now it is growing even better and the leafs are getting more nice and green then before!
 

maxivenezuela

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Today just a few pictures and one question:

Why are the two plants I everytime put directly under the big 105w(525W Replace^^) CFL everytime streching more than the others? The DNA? The Others Under the 55W(275W replace) CFL's and between any CFL aren't streching at all!





















 

maxivenezuela

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[align=center]Day 23 Growing[/align]

Yesterday finally I put some white plastic for better reflection on the front and back walls!

Can anyone Tell me whats wrong with this plant? The leafs look strange, I'm not talking about the one with the double finger...



Not as nice and green than the other Skunks, but wtf:



Yesterday first I thougt this plant needs more nutrition, but then I realized it was in fucking DRY SOIL, and if not with water with what should the plant get nuts out of the soil..



This one looks kind of funny^^



My one and only K.C. 33



What should I tell you about this one...



And another one:



This is "Jesus" I hope Jesus is a girl^^
She got her name 'couse she was dead and a few days later she resuscitated. It's a miracle *gg*



This plant will probably never see the light of my 400W HPS
It's a Cripple, and 'couse of this and some other reasons will get a nice place outdoors soon...
The Venezuelan weather should be fine for this cripple even in december...



The last Skunk#1



The panorama:
 

maxivenezuela

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WOW all your plants look sooooo healthy keep it up cant wait to see where this one goes.
Thank's
Yeah the most of them are healthy but a little streched, I Improved the equip a little yesterday so I hope they will not strech any more...
I have got a 400W HPS in a 1m*1,2m*1,9m for flowering later on.
When you will see my reflector made from an aluminum pizza plate and a big lasagne form, you probably will lough a lot...
I couldn't get a real reflector in this communist mess here, and for my CFL's you see the rubish I used, they just are to big for normal house reflectors, and there is no way to get anything for those here, that kind of sucks.
 

soberstoner

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Looking good Max.
I just stumbled across your journal. I have some skunk #1 seeds for my next grow and I will be watching your grow for inspiration. Your cripple plant might end up pretty nice. My runt of my current grow is now one of my best plants. Keep up the good work.
 

maxivenezuela

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Looking good Max.
I just stumbled across your journal. I have some skunk #1 seeds for my next grow and I will be watching your grow for inspiration. Your cripple plant might end up pretty nice. My runt of my current grow is now one of my best plants. Keep up the good work.
Thank's I hope it will look much better soon^^
 

maxivenezuela

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Day 24

How I didn't like the streching of my Plants at all, even if they alrady had stoped streching, I followed the advise of a friend who has lots of indoor expirience...

Look what I did:


















This is no N-Deficit, this plant had it to dry for a while...






MY KC33!



The Crippel:



JESUS^^
 

dontpanic

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nice man will be cool to watch those and see how they will grow tied town like that..isnt that called like lst or somthing?
 

maxivenezuela

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nice man will be cool to watch those and see how they will grow tied town like that..isnt that called like lst or somthing?
Thank's +rep ^^

I don't know how to call it, unless you wanna know in Spanish or German :mrgreen:
I'm not that good with English :blsmoke:

There are lot's of different ways to tie them down for lot's of different reasons.

I'll do this temporary for the moment, till I replant them and put them under the HPS for flowering...
The Idea is that they get more light in the lower parts so they get more branches and already existing branches grow faster...
Anyway they will adjust the leafes and the heads to the light again, I guess today or tomorrow they will have done so...

When they are flowering and they start streching to much again or if I just get very few girls so there might stay unused space, I'll tie them down again for very different reasons then now and not untie them 'till harvest, but let's wait how they will do...
 
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