THELOADEDDRAGON'S Perpetually growing perpetual grow

I'm here brother!

Not much to add, you know more than me!

But I am here, along for the ride! Lurker 2009!

thanks bud.... I just tried to take pics of the work in progress, but with a shitty camera and none of the pics would save! sorry..... Im sure I will get some good pics when its done,

Oh trust me I understand. I have a shitty camera as well and a setup that is hard to move around.

I have to take the plants out to photograph them which is a bitch!

I will have fluorescent side lighting to use..... just turn off the HPS and leave the fluorescents on to take pics

okay.... got enough lumber to finsih framing etc. got enough double sided poly plastic lining to line it in.... fans are good to go

shit..... looks like the flowering room will be operable by the end of the weekend....

only got to take PK cuttings tonight (2 of them).... got too dark to see what I was doing... Sensi Star cuttings tomorrow, and cross my fingers they root! I can get more Sensi Star pretty easily I think.... the PK though...... I really Need for it to root.....

Time to get rid of some Males! ...... and I will try and get pics up this evening so you can see the guts before the gusto.....

One thing people that read my journals or grows should know- its about practicality and damning the man (not spending very much money), not about how pretty everything is.

Thus far I have spent $25 on materials for the flowering room.... lumber included..... the HPS ballast was $100 and came with the exhaust fan ventilation polyplastic and celefane two + years ago.... the bulb is an Eye Hortilux Super HPS $119 and has 800 hrs of use on it (my last indoor grow)..... window A/C was free..... lumber was free..... thus far the only thing I have boughten is new 5 mil reflective poly plastic lining.

The second phase will cost $1500 in new materials.... Im formulating a list I will post it when done

with all that being said I will try to get new pics up tonight of the flowering area,

I decided I just don't have the time/energy/space to keep any males around... I have enough seeds to grow some more and breed later..... so ALL the males are coming out as they are found

ok sexing is already almost done

Twilight
A-nothing yet
B- Female
C- Male, pulled
D- Male, pulled
E- Female

Mauii Skunk
A- Male Pulled
B- Male, pulled
C- Male, pulled
D- Female
E- Looks Female

Widow Cindy
A- Female
C- Nothing, though this is my favorite WC
D- Male, pulled
E- Female

Chemo Cindy
A- Not Sure yet
B- Male, pulled
C- Female
D- Male, pulled
E- Female

so that's 2 females each so far..... 8 females, and 3 unknowns.... the females and looks females plus the one twilight that hasn't shown are all under the 400W MH

the two others that haven't quite shown yet (one WC one CC) are under the fluorescent until they show for sure..... they are with the 2 JH clones and 1 SilverBack clone (if anyone has a link or info about SilverBack I would really appreciate it...... I wonder if I knew the breeder, or at least who it may be named after???)

I will try to post some pics.... if the camera will cooperate...

theloadeddragon said:

I decided I just don't have the time/energy/space to keep any males around... I have enough seeds to grow some more and breed later..... so ALL the males are coming out as they are found

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This is the right decision IMO.

Its just too muich to juggle TLD. You have so much goin on, and pollen is hard to manage on top of it all. Good choice. Not that its beyond your ability....why stress....you have good genes....just clone.

bigjesse1922 said:

This is the right decision IMO.

Its just too muich to juggle TLD. You have so much goin on, and pollen is hard to manage on top of it all. Good choice. Not that its beyond your ability....why stress....you have good genes....just clone.

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Exactly.... thank you,

I am even only going to keep one mother of each strain, .... the other ones are going strait into flower (probably after this weekend), seeing as how the flower room is already almost set up and any clones I have to go in wouldn't be ready till November......

Christmas buds fitting that I would be gifted one plant to harvest of each strain around Christmas.... hehe

hehe what a wierd camera.... it saved the pics..... even the ones from earlier..... but showed older pics as display images.... shrugs

hehe had to stop cuz it was too late to run the saw or be banging the hammer around waking the babies up .... four more solid hours into it and it will be ready for touch up and test run,

half of those ladies currently under the 400W MH are going strait under the 1000W

I will add in a 400W HPS special just so it doesn't mess up the rest of my flowering schedule..... Christmas Buds.....

Nice explanation on the sexing with the ABC's.

Which one is this?

Looking good. I built a similar framework to that as well. Its all in my journal. We have a used construction supply store in town, some of the stuff is even knew. I bought my fans and the wood for under 20 bucks. Im about 10 bucks in on poly as well. Not to shabby. I need to get velcro and some small moulding to make it completely light proof but it does the job and contains most of the light. I like your style of growing, Can't wait to see what you have in the bag

What were the strains that got you the 2.5-3 lbs? That was definitely hydro wasn't it? I would love to see how you do it and try, Is the stadium type flowering room the way to go? I want to do what you do

scribed !!!

slabhead said:

Nice explanation on the sexing with the ABC's.

Which one is this?

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That is the Widow Cindy C...... cant you tell why I like her? (well I suppose it still could be a him )

wonderblunder said:

What were the strains that got you the 2.5-3 lbs? That was definitely hydro wasn't it? I would love to see how you do it and try, Is the stadium type flowering room the way to go? I want to do what you do

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lets see that last indoor grow was 26 Purple Kush plants SOG in Ebb & Flow using coco coir in 1 gal pots (should have stuck to soil on those), surrounded on the shelves by 18 plants in soil mixes in 5 gal pots (half Purple Kush half Sensi Star).... in a way it was like a stadium grow, because of the pot size the 5 gallons were about 4 inches higher than the plants in the table..... If I had vegged for another week or two, I may have hit the three lb mark, but as it was I think I got something like 1100 grams..... and I forgot (Im sorry) I did have fluorescent side lighting in there in the amount of 240 watts (40W 4' tube fluorescents)

I got about 3/4 oz avg per plant in the hydro table, and a little bit more than an oz avg per plant on the sides if I remember correctly (was a while ago, sorry if I am a little off on the numbers) .... its all in the journal there

oh and one thing that you should know bout my last indoor grow..... I wasn't able to update with pics very much because I lost my internet... but if you look at the last pics I posted of the plants while they were still alive.... (just shy of week 4 in flower)....... they (the buds) Doubled in size after that....... man I wish I had gotten some pics of that......

see Im getting some work done

notice the drain.... gravity

Im getting there.... tomorrow night I think it will be ready to house some plants

ok some things are going to change from my original plans...... the DWC isn't going to start until the second run..... so there is only one drain spot for the moment...... Ima put plants in that were started from seed tomorrow just to get things moving...... one thing at a time....

what does dwc stand for?

deep water culture

Thanks for your reply. Im excited to see this new room you got going. I like the drain idea. Are you gonna use Poly on the floor to get the water down the drain? Looking good. I am thinking about building a shelf around 3 sides of my flower room, and put a row of plants in 1 gallon pots on them? I think that ould maximize space without taking any light from the rest of the flowering plants. What you think?