Thundercat's Groooooooow

You`re growing power skunk? That is one of the strains I want in my next grow, so i`ts gonna be interesting to see how she will grow.
And I saw some mushrooms. Those are some kind of amanitas?

Hey dsn thanks for stopping by man. The mushrooms are several varieties of Cubensis. The power skunk is doing pretty well, very strong sativa characteristics. You'll be able to see them in the pics here in a bit.

What's up man, where are those pics?

I read through the last few pages, I think they'll be alright it's just a slight burn... If you're planning on cloning, you really want them on a low feeding schedule. The more itrogen that's built up wihin the plant will keep it from rooting fast.

It will live off the built up N instead of sprouting roots searching for sustanance.



Once you have that TDS meter the guesswork will be over, but a reminder, organic solids don't show up on EC/TDS readings, so a organic reading of 800 is really more like 1200... Approximately 2/3rds shows up.

And yeah, your tap water sucks... Might want to get a simple inline media filter.

And your #s of 2pounds... Maybe man, if it all goes well, 2 pounds from 1000W is what the pros get, so don't shoot for the stars.


Good luck bro.

I will have the pics up soon, I've been running around for the last couple hours.

I've accepted that I prolly won't get the 2 lbs, but I'm also not counting on that from just one harvest, I'm gonna try to get sort of 2 harvests, mostly just staggered. I'm gonna flower as many clones as I can, and then a month later flower the mothers after I take a set of clones for future mothers. I got my 400w today, so that will really help I think, they will be under that with in a couple hours from now. If all goes well they I will be able to take the first set of clones by monday. Then another 2 weeks hopefully the second set. Once the clones show roots in the starter plugs I'm gonna put them into 1 gallon grow bags, 1 week veg and then into flower. I figure they will take atleast a week to change over and this should give them time to grow a bit more. We'll see I gotta get that far first. I'll post up the pics in a few thanks MHM.

Fimm them to fuck,give them air to the roots and use leaf removal for maximum light coverage from top to bottom and there is no reason why you wont as long as you have at least 2 x 400 watt lamps

Ditto, aim high! No pun inteneded

You never know what you can achieve until you try.

natmoon said:

Fimm them to fuck,give them air to the roots and use leaf removal for maximum light coverage from top to bottom and there is no reason why you wont as long as you have at least 2 x 400 watt lamps

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Oh I'm gonna try thats for sure. They are all turning into some nice plants, The mh light is up, and they seem happy. I've got it about 18 inchs above them with a fan blowing over the top. They have been under it for about 3 hours, and are looking good. I took the glass off the hood until I get fans and ducting for it. I also spread them out a bit to allow better light coverage now that I have the light to cover with! The mothers that get put into 5 gallon grow bags will be getting air to the roots, the clones won't be, it would just be to big a pain in the ass to do all of them. I'm gonna do a 70/30 mixture of the organic potting soil, and perlite with just a few water crystals this time. My gf is taking the pics as we speak, so they will be up shortly. I'm also supposedly about to get a bag of new york diesel, it better be good, I'm paying enough for it.

Oh and natmoon, I'm gonna be vegging with a 400mh, and flowering with a 1000w hps, and then adding the mh for the end of flower as well. I'm hoping for the best, and I think this MH is gonna make a world of differance. I've also been removing anything that has been blocking light to the lower growth, to try to get it to really bush out.

Thundercat said:

Oh and natmoon, I'm gonna be vegging with a 400mh, and flowering with a 1000w hps, and then adding the mh for the end of flower as well. I'm hoping for the best, and I think this MH is gonna make a world of differance. I've also been removing anything that has been blocking light to the lower growth, to try to get it to really bush out.

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Yeah man sounds great,much more light than i have got.
Using both spectrum's will also enhance growth and final strength imo.
I cant wait to see how it turns out for you,aerating root systems is an old method,my way was just a bit different and cheap and easy.
I use leaf removal as well because i think that the plants don't require as many indoors and because the buds swell all the way down then and you don't end up with big tops on stalks with some popcorn at the bottom.
Best of luck anyway dude,i will be watching

Gorgeous as always Natmoon, I hope mine turn out just like them!!

Here are the pictures that I've been promising all day, lol.



































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Looking good man. The plants are gunna love that MH!

Most of those fimms look like they are in the perfect places to me.
Pics are great quality,plants look nice and healthy.
Hopefully other people watching this grow will realise that my methods are cool and work for anyone that can follow simple instructions and get big yields.
Best of luck dude and thanks for trying some my way

For sure Nat, I hope they turn out half as nice as yours, and I appreciate the tips. Thanks for stoppin by the thread too. I know you tend to be kinda busy. When they went to sleep they seemed very happy!!! The timer tipped over at some point after the light went out, and I noticed a few minutes later that the light was turning back on. I fixed the timer, and I'm hoping it didn't mess up the light.

they are looking good !!!

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Gorgeous as always Natmoon, I hope mine turn out just like them!!

Here are the pictures that I've been promising all day, lol.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/thundercat_420
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coming along very nicely man ! , you could even put a couple in to flower if you want now ... time flies !

I have thought about it, but I'm gonna stick with the plan and clone them all first. I want to sex them before I transplant them if I can. So I don't end up transplanting a male into a 5 gallon bag. They have already made a noticable change since the addition of the mh. So my light seemed to come on fine today, I guess the accidental start up last night didn't hurt it.

Well things are still looking good. They havn't really jumped off as much as I would have hoped from the change over to MH, but its only been a day and a half. They are looking happy though, and I havn't noticed any more burn since the other day when I flushed with the distilled water! Woo hoo, I guess it was just my tap water causeing the problem. So I gave them aother light watering last night, with just distilled water at a 6.0 ph to lower the soil ph a bit. Now I'll leave them till sunday or monday, and hopfully be able to clone them. I started getting my basement ready today to set up the tent, and the MH down there. I'm gonna cover the windows completely, they are glass block so I don't think you will even be able to tell from outside. It will just look black. I'm gonna set up the tent with the ventalation , and my 1000w for flowering, and just set up the 400w in the corner outside the tent. I'll take some pics once its set up, prolly sunday. Latta guys TC

Thundercat said:

Well things are still looking good. They havn't really jumped off as much as I would have hoped from the change over to MH, but its only been a day and a half. They are looking happy though, and I havn't noticed any more burn since the other day when I flushed with the distilled water! Woo hoo, I guess it was just my tap water causeing the problem. So I gave them aother light watering last night, with just distilled water at a 6.0 ph to lower the soil ph a bit. Now I'll leave them till sunday or monday, and hopfully be able to clone them. I started getting my basement ready today to set up the tent, and the MH down there. I'm gonna cover the windows completely, they are glass block so I don't think you will even be able to tell from outside. It will just look black. I'm gonna set up the tent with the ventalation , and my 1000w for flowering, and just set up the 400w in the corner outside the tent. I'll take some pics once its set up, prolly sunday. Latta guys TC

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What a variety. I cant wait to see your basement set up man.

I started working on it today, but ran out of duct tape, when I was covering the windows. I'm gonna finish that tomorrow, and move the MH down there. Untill I see how much extra panda film I'm gonna have I'm not gonna put any up for the veg plants. If I need to I'll get more, but I am gonna sue it for the tent first. I put up a small piece in my closet where I'm gonna keep the clones under my CFL light. I think I'm gonna throw together a simple bubble cloner, I havn't decided yet.

I honestly think they could really use some nutes now that I got this water problem fixed. The new growth looks good, but is very light green. I'm prolly gonna feed them tonight, at 1/4 strength with the big bloom. Just cus thats what the chart says to give them the first week of growth, then if all goes well I'll be able to clone on monday(not sure yet if this will be able to happen) like I planned, and I can start them on the regular nute regiman this week. I was also thinking the big bloom might help relieve some of the stress from cloning them. Several of them are really starting to take the shape I was going for. both of the older PP look great, and the WW is also looking awesome. I have to say the power skunks are decent little plants, but I don't think that they respond well to the trimming, and training I've been doing. I have decided that I'm only gonna take one set of clones off them. i was looking at my time frame, and its not looking great for being able to take two batchs of clones off each plant, and still haveing big enough plants to get some weight.