Cory and trevor
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The set-up:
SOIL: I make my own soil using an old ed rosenthal recipe it's pretty close to sub's supersoil but way less hot and needs food by flower time. it consists of 1 part vermiculite, 1part perlite, 1 part peat moss 4 parts top soil (I just get the shit from lowes or home deopt-right now it's planter's pride organic) Amendments are a tablespoon each of: dolomite lime, blood meal, bone meal, jamaican guano and peruvian guano per 4 gallon container. no amendments to the soil mix until the last transplant about 3 weeks before flowering. I feed loosely following the fox farms full line soil schedule. about 50-75% strength. I feed week 3 to anything in the 4 gallon pots in veg. I feed nothing to the younger ones in veg just RO water before they go to the big pots.
CLONE/CUTTINGS: I use a Turbo Kloner 24 site set up for cuttings/clones. 4 x 4" 40w flouros sit above it mostly for light for me not them as this is where I do the bulk of my work. the kloner gets water only so far but my Ice plant doesn't respond as well( they root like hell while the others go nuts) so the next run, with the ice only, I will be using some olivia's gel when I cut them to see if I can get a better response.
in the kloner is the last ice cut strugglin to root. the small pots are barely 1 week out of the kloner. 3 on the far left are ice. closest to us in the second row from the left is an AK-48 cut, behind that is a bubblelicious cut and then 3 behind those are all Acid cuts. all same age, cut on 7-8-12
The vegetative:
Once the plants root up nice in the small pots (1-3 weeks usually) they get tossed in some 4 gallon pots (that's an estimated size btw) for 3 weeks to finish rooting in the new container and prepare to flower. At that point I begin to feed weeks 3 on the FF schedule to them for 3 weeks. sometimes I use week 2 then week 3 but mostly it's week 3 for 3 weeks until they are ready to flower. For light I use a 400 watt conversion from HPS to MH set-up. The soil was discussed above. the clone and veg areas are inches from each other taking about half the total size of the room. The other half is my storage and work table and drying tent. I say that because temps and hum are measure on the same meter for both areas. the temps, even in this michigan weather have been 68-82 deg F and 38-70% RH.
starting in the back row from left to right: mothers for ACID, AK-48, ICE. second row: mother for White Widow then cuts to flower: Acid, AK-48, AK-48. Front row: AK-48, Acid, Acid, White Widow. Varying ages in that line up.
The whole grow operates on a 3 week interval perpetual grow. I do anywhere from 2-5 plants per 3 week rotation. All 3 strains (ice, ak-48 and acid) flower 9 weeks. Bubblelicious (which I just keep for no good reason, it sucks) is more like a 10 weeker when I did it....now I just hold it in veg to say I have 4 strains instead of just 3 LOL.
More pics of the veg area:
The Flower:
Lights: I use 2, 1000 watt switchable balasts and lights. right now I'm trying a progression from MH to HPS as they move through the flower stage. I prob will change that to just HPS in both once I have to buy bulbs in a few months but for now I got both kinds and want to see if I can cut some stretch and get the buds stacking better with some MH for the first bit in flower. The mix is nice for everyone in the flower room too I think but I can't compare til I try it with all HPS 2K watts. I use a window vented dehum/ac unit to keep it cool and dry in the flower room. I split my room (flower and veg) using a few layers of thick panda plastic and I use a double zipper entrance. 2 standing osc fans about 12" dia move air around. A series of 4, 6" inline duct fans push air from out of the room across the bulbs and back out the room. the room itslef is vented for air exchange with 2, 6" inline fans one in and one out running 24/7. The flower room was just expanded from 1K to 2K and it's not full yet. the MH in flower is pretty much unnecessary at the moment as I destroyed so many plants premature due to some prick bastard breeder selling me bunk HERM females that I didn't catch spraying their love juice on my ladies until it was far too late to save anything close to a sensimilla crop. The temps range from 67-80 deg F and hum is 30-65% RH. The timers are individual which could present a problem but haven't yet. I don't fire both lights at the same time, the power draw is close to my limit so the MH is on 11 and off 13 while the HPS is 12/12. the times on the timers are checked daily along with the temp and hum. I feed Fox Farms at 50-75% strength in flower every other watering (weekly one water and one feed) I do week 4 thru week 11/12 and flush with sledge hammer until they are ready to harvest-usually only 2-5 days of flush.
Yes I know the yellow light blows but I didn't have time to put them under the pretty light to take photos today. in picture 2 I will name the strains from left to right front row first then second row. Acid, ak-48, bubblelicious next row left to right is acid ak-48 and acid again. first row is 3 weeks younger then the back row. each row reps a 3 week interval. I will up that to 4 the n5 plants per interval since I'm way under plant count and have the extra space and watts-as stated above a seed explosion happened and jacks me up so I'm rebuilding.
The journey:
I'm actually following 3 ice plants through the process on here. They were cut 7-8-12 and rooted. they were transplanted the first time (T1 from here on out) on 7-21-12.
Their names are ice 3, 4 and 5. Not a new plant or strain just a new record keeping system. This should take about 4 months to get to the final smok report for these plants should everything go well. Vacation coming up so right away on my first journal I'm trusting someone to water them for me within the first week of the journal! I haven't left this system in over 2 years for more then 2 days so wish me luck! When I return I will come up off some better flower room pics and update the journal plus shoot some more of the room like my neat-o ghetto zipper door and collection of organic shit. literally it's shit and a big collection at that, at least I think so....for shit.
SOIL: I make my own soil using an old ed rosenthal recipe it's pretty close to sub's supersoil but way less hot and needs food by flower time. it consists of 1 part vermiculite, 1part perlite, 1 part peat moss 4 parts top soil (I just get the shit from lowes or home deopt-right now it's planter's pride organic) Amendments are a tablespoon each of: dolomite lime, blood meal, bone meal, jamaican guano and peruvian guano per 4 gallon container. no amendments to the soil mix until the last transplant about 3 weeks before flowering. I feed loosely following the fox farms full line soil schedule. about 50-75% strength. I feed week 3 to anything in the 4 gallon pots in veg. I feed nothing to the younger ones in veg just RO water before they go to the big pots.
CLONE/CUTTINGS: I use a Turbo Kloner 24 site set up for cuttings/clones. 4 x 4" 40w flouros sit above it mostly for light for me not them as this is where I do the bulk of my work. the kloner gets water only so far but my Ice plant doesn't respond as well( they root like hell while the others go nuts) so the next run, with the ice only, I will be using some olivia's gel when I cut them to see if I can get a better response.
in the kloner is the last ice cut strugglin to root. the small pots are barely 1 week out of the kloner. 3 on the far left are ice. closest to us in the second row from the left is an AK-48 cut, behind that is a bubblelicious cut and then 3 behind those are all Acid cuts. all same age, cut on 7-8-12The vegetative:
Once the plants root up nice in the small pots (1-3 weeks usually) they get tossed in some 4 gallon pots (that's an estimated size btw) for 3 weeks to finish rooting in the new container and prepare to flower. At that point I begin to feed weeks 3 on the FF schedule to them for 3 weeks. sometimes I use week 2 then week 3 but mostly it's week 3 for 3 weeks until they are ready to flower. For light I use a 400 watt conversion from HPS to MH set-up. The soil was discussed above. the clone and veg areas are inches from each other taking about half the total size of the room. The other half is my storage and work table and drying tent. I say that because temps and hum are measure on the same meter for both areas. the temps, even in this michigan weather have been 68-82 deg F and 38-70% RH.
starting in the back row from left to right: mothers for ACID, AK-48, ICE. second row: mother for White Widow then cuts to flower: Acid, AK-48, AK-48. Front row: AK-48, Acid, Acid, White Widow. Varying ages in that line up.The whole grow operates on a 3 week interval perpetual grow. I do anywhere from 2-5 plants per 3 week rotation. All 3 strains (ice, ak-48 and acid) flower 9 weeks. Bubblelicious (which I just keep for no good reason, it sucks) is more like a 10 weeker when I did it....now I just hold it in veg to say I have 4 strains instead of just 3 LOL.
More pics of the veg area:
The Flower:
Lights: I use 2, 1000 watt switchable balasts and lights. right now I'm trying a progression from MH to HPS as they move through the flower stage. I prob will change that to just HPS in both once I have to buy bulbs in a few months but for now I got both kinds and want to see if I can cut some stretch and get the buds stacking better with some MH for the first bit in flower. The mix is nice for everyone in the flower room too I think but I can't compare til I try it with all HPS 2K watts. I use a window vented dehum/ac unit to keep it cool and dry in the flower room. I split my room (flower and veg) using a few layers of thick panda plastic and I use a double zipper entrance. 2 standing osc fans about 12" dia move air around. A series of 4, 6" inline duct fans push air from out of the room across the bulbs and back out the room. the room itslef is vented for air exchange with 2, 6" inline fans one in and one out running 24/7. The flower room was just expanded from 1K to 2K and it's not full yet. the MH in flower is pretty much unnecessary at the moment as I destroyed so many plants premature due to some prick bastard breeder selling me bunk HERM females that I didn't catch spraying their love juice on my ladies until it was far too late to save anything close to a sensimilla crop. The temps range from 67-80 deg F and hum is 30-65% RH. The timers are individual which could present a problem but haven't yet. I don't fire both lights at the same time, the power draw is close to my limit so the MH is on 11 and off 13 while the HPS is 12/12. the times on the timers are checked daily along with the temp and hum. I feed Fox Farms at 50-75% strength in flower every other watering (weekly one water and one feed) I do week 4 thru week 11/12 and flush with sledge hammer until they are ready to harvest-usually only 2-5 days of flush.
Yes I know the yellow light blows but I didn't have time to put them under the pretty light to take photos today. in picture 2 I will name the strains from left to right front row first then second row. Acid, ak-48, bubblelicious next row left to right is acid ak-48 and acid again. first row is 3 weeks younger then the back row. each row reps a 3 week interval. I will up that to 4 the n5 plants per interval since I'm way under plant count and have the extra space and watts-as stated above a seed explosion happened and jacks me up so I'm rebuilding.
The journey:
I'm actually following 3 ice plants through the process on here. They were cut 7-8-12 and rooted. they were transplanted the first time (T1 from here on out) on 7-21-12.
Their names are ice 3, 4 and 5. Not a new plant or strain just a new record keeping system. This should take about 4 months to get to the final smok report for these plants should everything go well. Vacation coming up so right away on my first journal I'm trusting someone to water them for me within the first week of the journal! I haven't left this system in over 2 years for more then 2 days so wish me luck! When I return I will come up off some better flower room pics and update the journal plus shoot some more of the room like my neat-o ghetto zipper door and collection of organic shit. literally it's shit and a big collection at that, at least I think so....for shit.
