MrHowardMarks' experienced grower journal.

Nice tent

thanx, thats where there are 11 mr. Nice G13 HashpIants growing at 2 weeks presentIy.

As promised, here's a bunch of pics of my equipment. Now nobody can call bullshit on me anymore.

the ceiling shots are of the IR-blocker

The carbon filter weighs 125 pounds (I was curious so I sat it on the scale, heavy motherfucker.)

Also pics of juvenile plants and seedlings.

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WO,,,,,definateIy top notch setup, prossionaI grower for sure. wow.

MrHowardMarks said:

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My seedling mix;
50% perlite
40% sphagnum moss
10% peat moss

Planting and watering; after the seed pops open, I plant in a 16oz solo cup with 4 holes cut in the bottom for drainage. I fill the cup with the soiless mix, and water the hell out of it with plain pHed water. Give it a good rinse. Then let the excess drain off.
I plant the seed a cm from the top of the soil line, taproot down, and put a little of the mix over it.

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MHM--Sounds like a very interesting grow and I look forward to learning some new tricks and gaining some new ideas. I use the same seedling medium mix but I add 1/2 teaspoon of dolomite lime to each cup and work into the soil before the first watering since the peat is so acidic. A couple of tricks with 16oz plastic cups that I have found to work great is 1. Only fill the cup with 4 1/2 inches of soil(The watering method you use will pack it down to 4 inches which some believe to be the magical depth for the tap root to grow and produce more females than males). Then after a week or two you can fill in around the stem to give good support without the need of stalking-Then only time I usually find the need to stalk is in week 4 of flowering. Another fun trick that works well if you have the extra time is the double cup method with the inner cup being clear--You can get a really "CLEAR" idea of how your root-system is growing and the effects of your feeds. Anyway---look forward to your posts.

Insightful post, I've used clear cups once, but had a lot of algae growth, good idea putting it inside another cup, too late now, but a good tip indeed

I was going to use some dolomite lime, but couldn't find it, and time was of the essence. I don't normally use it for bloom, because the nutrient ph handles the acidity level of the soil.

I started out with the bone/blood method back a long time ago when I was 16 growing outside for the first time with the guidance of Mel Frank's Marijuana Growers Guide, old school.

MrHowardMarks said:

Insightful post, I've used clear cups once, but had a lot of algae growth, good idea putting it inside another cup, too late now, but a good tip indeed

I was going to use some dolomite lime, but couldn't find it, and time was of the essence. I don't normally use it for bloom, because the nutrient ph handles the acidity level of the soil.

I started out with the bone/blood method back a long time ago when I was 16 growing outside for the first time with the guidance of Mel Frank's Marijuana Growers Guide, old school.

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mj growers guide that was my first book THE BIBLE
after grow your own stone

MrHowardMarks said:

Here's a couple better pics of her, and two I just took, if you broke in my house, she'd run and get a toy to play with.

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A pic of the twins----one on the right 102 pounds.

MrHowardMarks said:

Insightful post, I've used clear cups once, but had a lot of algae growth, good idea putting it inside another cup, too late now, but a good tip indeed

I was going to use some dolomite lime, but couldn't find it, and time was of the essence. I don't normally use it for bloom, because the nutrient ph handles the acidity level of the soil.

I started out with the bone/blood method back a long time ago when I was 16 growing outside for the first time with the guidance of Mel Frank's Marijuana Growers Guide, old school.

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I did the blood/bone meal for a long time until everyone went crazy about mad cow disease and shit

Nice looking dogs

The one on the right looks like my dog's mother, her father was a 145# brindle.

She a mix of the two, a light brindle pattern with more fawn than usual for a brindle. She weighs 95#.

MAD COWS!!!! I remember that, it was right around the time I stopped using bone and blood too, that was like '96-'97 right?

Sounds about right---I don't want to hijack your thread just saw your boxer and wanted to post a quick pic of my kids. Anyway sound like your going to have a nice room when all things are said and done-it seems that things take at least three time what you think they will. It's fun thou and it's just part of us I guess---I would still grow even if I didn't smoke---I just love the plant and have since I was 13. I grew 1 male up in a attic in a closet----I would jump up and grab the attic access hole and pull myself up in there for hours---I didn't even know what 12/12 lighting was or even male/female plants-I remember the phototron just came out in HighTimes---My sister ratted me out and I had to dump the plant---I was sooo pissed---but that was the start of something else---that was the summer of 84'. Time flys...

Time flies, that it does, and whoever thinks marijuana causes memory loss is retarded, because I remember those days like they were yesterday!

Yeah I forgot how long seedlings take to grow...

Howie,
U usin just one centrifugal fan to aircool all of those HIDs?? is that enough air goin on to cool them all to the point where u can get them nice n close to your girls???

Im askin cuz i was planning on using my old growbox as a veg chamber until they got mature enough to move them into my tent n blast some HID light onto them, n im still definitely gonna use it for veg so i can do a perpetual grow on the constant, but for my 1st grow with good chronic from seed, i wanna have my MH on them for as long as possible before i force flower. once i start my cloning ill use the veg chamber, but for thisone, the sooner i can move them bitches in, the better.

so is the one enough to cool them all??


OOOO also,i wanned to ask someone this, and since your pretty knowlageable i may as well ask you - Is there anyway i can retrofit my ballast somehow so i can hook up two seperate bulbs n reflectors to it? like, lets say i have my 600w ballast - is there any way i could hook up two reflectors to it, each with 250w bulbs, and then maybe a hookup for a 100w HID that i could just hang in the middle of the plants??

No, you can't retrofit a ballast to operate that way.

You can run two lights off one ballast in seperate 12/12 rooms, I ran 12 ballasts on 24 hoods seperated into two seperate rooms.

To do this; you need 2 two-way switches. You run the power through them both, and only have one switch on at a time, the leads from either switch go to a seperate hood. There is a automatic version with a built in timer that costs a lot of money compared to two common household switches.

It was a bitch having to manually switch the lights every 12 hours.

--Yeah that one centrifuge fan vents all the hoods, pulling air through 3 and 3 then "t" into the fan.

It's a really high CFM fan, I'll check the numbers and let you know, but it was the biggest I could find.

It's the CanFan 150, the link doesn't work...

It pulls 900 CFM of filtered air.

Pretty powerful.

It sounds like a jet engine when it starts up.

The other centrifugial fan is a Sunleaves windtunnel, it runs 480 CFM of ambient intake air, and the squirrel cage is for pulling excess air out of the main return in the house's HVAC.

Good job brother----hope your room goes up quick----going to subscribe to this thread--------.

Thanks man, I should have everything setup and operational in the next week or two, but it'll be a while before I start blooming.

I'm thinking a harvest probably right around the new year, hopefully earlier. But I'm guessing it's going to take another month before I'll have all the clones I'll need.

Sounds like a nice christmas

MrHowardMarks said:

Thanks man, I should have everything setup and operational in the next week or two, but it'll be a while before I start blooming.

I'm thinking a harvest probably right around the new year, hopefully earlier. But I'm guessing it's going to take another month before I'll have all the clones I'll need.

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since you have many grows under your belt i am sure your patience will be rewarded bro...luck to you