Thundercat's Groooooooow

Ok guys, so I've been around for a couple months. I've been enjoying all of your grows, and planning my own newest grow. I've finally managed to get to the point I can start up. I recently got some genetics from a friend, and I thank you. Yesterday, and today I picked-up the better part of my supplies. I'm gonna post some pics of the early stages. I'll be adding more over the next few days, as I put this all together.


The Setup- I'm am going to be using a DIY tent, that will be 8'L x 6'H x 5'W. This tent will be made from 3/4" pvc for the frame, 6mil heavy duty plastic, and once i pick some up, I will cover the inside of the plastic with mylar, or some other highly reflective coating. I will also be building a seperate veg box, which will be mostly for clones, until they are a couple weeks old. For now, I am going to use the main tent for veg until I need the second location. I have a 1000w HPS lamp which I will be using, mostly for flowering, but I may veg under it for a period of time. I have also built a DIY light that will be used for my clones, and possibly for a mother plant or 2. This light is made from 8, 20-26w CFL bulbs. The reflector is made from a sheet of cardboard which I spray painted with chrome paint. It didn't really get very reflective, so once I get my mylar, I will be lineing the reflector with that.

I'll be running a box fan on low around the plants to start with, hopefully strengthening them. I'm going to be purchasing a carbon filter, and an exhaust fan, just havn't gotten there yet. I would also like to get a vented hood for my 1000w light, or perhaps a cooltube.

I'm still in the air about my planting technique. I am using a soil mix, part organic topsoil, part perlite, part vermiculite, a touch of water crystals, and I may also get some orgainc bonemeal to boost the phospate and nitrogen levels.( if I missed anything important in my soil mix let me know guys) What I'm in the air about is, I've been planning on useing Natmoon's airbasket technique, but I just havn't gotten around to getting those supplies yet. I've got to look and see what kind of price I can find, cus I dropped alot of money at lowes today. I may just use some growbags just havn't made up my mind yet.

Well that is long enough for the setup, I hope you guys all enjoy my grow as much as I have yours. Please contribute, I only have a few grows under my belt, and still have alot to learn. Thanks guys,

Thundercat

The Plan- Ok now for the plan, and then the pics. I currently have 6 premium seeds, and about 20 seeds from a plant I grew outdoors this past summer. My plan is to germ all the seeds this week. I will be planting the 6 good seeds and vegging for about 4 weeks. The strains are 2 power skunk, 3 thai skunk, and one seed that is either a durban poison, or a super silver haze. There was apparently a mix up, and I don't know what that one is until it gets goin. All of these strains are wither pure sativas, or sativa dominant plants, so I don't think I am going to need to veg for very long. Obviously this does mean they will have to flower for a long ass time. I am only going to try to keep them short, with less veg time, and by scroging atleast part of them. Like I said before this is all still about learning for me.

I will be taking clones from all the plants at about 3 weeks to determine sex. This will be my first attempt at cloning so wish me luck here guys. Once I find out that they are all girls(fingers crossed), I will be using the 2 strongest plants to take another set of clones off of. The other 2-4 plants will be getting put into a scrog system. I am going to build independant scrog nets above each plant, similar to Jollygreengiants grow. The screens will be 2.5' square, and attached to the individual pots, or baskets depending which route I take. I am going to also put some the clones in to flower after only a short period of veg. I prolly won't scrog the clones, but rather sog them, or maybe do 2-4 more in scrog once the first are done, not really sure yet.

As I mentioned, I will also be cracking about 20 seeds from my outdoor plant. The genetics are unknown, it was just some good bag seed, but the thought is that I can crack them, and put them into 12/12 once they get 3-4 nodes. That will hopefully give us somthing to burn until the 10-12 week sativas are done. Atleast in theory. Well guys, I'm not sure if I left anything out, but if I did and you wanna know, just ask. Thanks guys now for a couple early pics.

Ok so the first one is of the part of my basement I will be using to grow. then I have a couple of the light I built, and will be using for my mothers and clones. I will also include some pics of my beans, and some supply pictures. I can't wait to show you guys some bud porn!!
















I know they aren't anything great to look at I just wanted to start things off from the beginning. Hope you guys stick with me, thanks! Thundercat

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hey looks good bud...i will be watching..if you need any advice or help shoot me a pm...well i was goona say...to save you some time..if you were in my neck of the woods i coould shoot you some fem clones..lol i have 35 PK mums vegging to fill up the next staduim... good look...

Niiiice!! You have a GR8 area to work with, always helps.....

your off to a great start TC, cant wait to see how this grow turns out. you got MORE than enough know how to make this an awesome grow, n now you got some premiums to grow with dude, im definitely *scribed*.

N as far as your reflective material goes, you can go to wal mart n pick yourself up some shit thats JUST like that reflectex material they sell at HTGsupply -- you know those reflectors they use for car windshields?? its the same typa shit as the refletex stuff. I think it might be a little pricey, but if your in a hurry to get started, n all your waitin on is pots n the reflective material, then go pick some of those up man, n line your hood n your room with them. Hope that helped a little bit

N that homemade hood is the shit bro - i wish i thought of doin some shit like that when i was growin up top. Looks like a prefabbed hood man, dont look ghettofied at all. props for that. if i can +rep u i will, lemme see if i can.

So yeah man, im tuned in for the long haul, lets see what you can do bro. Make them bitches spew resin for us

it sounds great thundercat..thanks for the name drop

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Sounds great! I'm in tune and can't wait to see more.

subscribed looks cool

Good shit dawg, I'll be watching. Good luck man!

Thanks for stopping in guys, I can't wait to get off and running. I was starting to put my tent together last night, and realized I grabbed one fitting that was the wrong size, lol. So I have to run over to lowes today and exchange it. Once I get her set up, I'll post some more pics.

So my gf came up with a great idea for the mylar situation. Gift wrap, I know they sell highly reflective gift wrap, and I bet at this time of the year, it might even be on sale. So I'm gonna go try to find myself a bunch of rolls of silver giftwrap, I think it should work great. I might also pick up a rubbermaid container that I can mix my soul in, and then be able to store the extra until I need more.

So you liked the reflector King, it was just a single piece of cardboard, took me about 10 minutes including the paint. I did it at work, the kd I was working with thought I was making a light to go over the pool table I want to buy, lol.

JG thanks for the rep as always man, I really enjoyed your grow, I hopesince you are done for a bit, that you enjoy mine. I'll try to put on a good show for everyone.

I'll get some pictures up later if I make it to the store today, and start putting things together. Talk to you guys then!!

Thanks for stopping buy smokedatkush, love the avatar. Thats what my last grow was K.C. 36!!

Thundercat said:

Thanks for stopping buy smokedatkush, love the avatar. Thats what my last grow was K.C. 36!!

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Yeah man, I wish I had harvested my KC36, heard it was some good smoke. Oh well, i got 2 Blueberry Skunk and 2 NL x Skunk goin now. Hopefully I'll harvest this time

Thats sweet man, so you got your card? Are you gonna journal them again?

Thundercats Groooooooow! I like that

Ya it just came to me lol!

Ok guys here are a couple pics of the tent before I put the plastic on it. I still need to get to lowes and get one more fitting to finish it, and I need to get the mylar before I plastic it. But this will give you an idea on the size and shape of what I'm doing.

Sorry the one picture is sideways, just turn your head to the right lol.

In the first pic... are those umm... those clear icy looking blocks around your floor vent?