Ultimate Lowryder Grow

guitarjon

guitarjon

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This is my grow journal from start to finish. Growing Lowryder #2. Started about 2 months ago and half of my crop is trimmed up. This is my fourth crop. Didn't get to finish my last journal cause I moved to a new location. I started with one light then added the other when the temperature outside started to cool down. Running light 18/6 from babies to harvest. Feel free to ask any questions and enjoy.

Here is my equipment list.

8x4x6.5 Mylar Grow tent
2x1000w Switchable ballast
2x1000w Hortilux bulbs
6" Vortex Fan
6" Insulated ducting
20 lb Co2 tank with regulator
3 inch baby pots
2.5 gallon pots after transplanting
Black Gold Soil (store ran out of roots organic, what I usually use)
Advanced Nutrients: Voodoo Juice, Sensi A&B, Big Bud Powder, B-52, and Overdrive.

I count day 1 as when they first pop out of the soil so in reality when I say day 1 its more like day 3. Here we go.

Day 1-21

Planted 65 LR2 seeds I made a few months ago. Using 3x3 inch baby starter pots til they are old enough to sex. Started feeding half strength Voodoo Juice at about day 10.













 
guitarjon

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Day 20-30

Threw away the males and tranlplanted 29 females. Started feeding Sensi A&B along with b-52 after transplanting. Plants looked healthy but a little stretched at the start. I think it due to the shiny mylar material. Lined the left side of the box with white paper and moved them from the right side to the left after I transplanting all of them. The front 3 rows in the bottom pics are about a week behind from the back ones

Note: Mylar suck for starting baby lowryders, makes them stretch hard.










 
grodrowithme

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so how many is in there 27? and how many did you start with? where did you get the beans? do yo ever keep a male and do a run and polinate your females to get beans? it sure beats ordering them at 40 to 80 bucks for 5 fems or 10 reg that gets expensive. seeing as how you cant clone them.?. just wondering you have more than anyone else ive seen run on here just wondered about your strain and were the beans came from.

is this your first try? if not what is you usual yield per plant and the total from all plants say the 27 you have now?

i will be starting my autoflower journey in a month or so!!! ill take all the advice i can get.

thanks for the help ahead of time sorry about all the ?s but you seem to be serious about it.
 
guitarjon

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Day 30 - 40

All plants look are fully flowering. Feeding Sensi A&B still long with b-52 once week. Have 29 plants. Have a c02 boost bucket because I didn't fill my tank yet. Will tie some of the side branches down a little so they can receive better lighting. Very light tying though don't wanna stress your plants out.







 
grodrowithme

grodrowithme

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if you grew them in a D.W.C. set-up wouldnt they double size and yield? seeing as how dwc grs about 8to10 times faster that soil made sense figured i would ask?
 
guitarjon

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Day 50 - Harvest ( I know i skipped days 40-50 I forgot to take pics)

Started feeding Big Bud at day 40 and fed Overdrive at about day 50. Hooked up my 20 lb c02 tank and regulator at day 40. Plants are rock hard, buds look super nice with tons of crystals but yield looks like its gonna be lower than I expected. I'm pretty sure these are a bad batch of seeds i made and I wasn't running the correct amount of c02 the entire time. This crop and my last crop seemed very unstable from my first one. Im gonna use my blueberry lowryder seeds next.















 
grodrowithme

grodrowithme

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nicest auto harvest ive ever seen bro +rep to you!! and majiority of your colas all got big fat and rock hard. i cant wait to try that auto bluberry myself. witch strain has been your biggest yielder yet?
 
guitarjon

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Harvest day for the back row of 15. Buds looks super nice and are pretty solid and super sticky. Got only 800 grams wet and weighed out to 190 grams dried after I cut and threw away about 15 grams worth of stems. Hanged dried for about 4 days after trimming and has been curing for about 1 day to this date. Cutting other 14 plants in a few days but they look a little smaller so Im aiming at about 120 grams dried. So basically getting only about 11 ounces off of 1000w. Not too good compared to my first crop of 3.5 pounds off of 2x1000w. Dam bad batch of seeds. Anyways, smoked a blunt today of my bud and it was extremely smoothed for only being in a jar for a day. More of a head high cause I picked them when the triches were all cloudy not amber. Can't wait til its been curing for about 2 weeks.


 
guitarjon

guitarjon

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So I added a few of my buddies lr2 plants cause I had extra room after chopping those 15 plants. Also hooked up my other light and running a Hortilux 1000w Halide bulb. Planted 130 Blueberry Lowyders and 125 have came up so far. I have a feeling this batch of seeds is going to be good. This will be my first attempt at growing the BB Lowryder. I bought a ten pack and did a full seed run with them about 6 months ago and just barely started using them now. Gonna be using same line of Advanced nutrients but this time I'll have a good amount of c02 running the whole time.




 
guitarjon

guitarjon

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MIDGETIZE YOUR TENT!!!

(No offense to any midgets on the forums growing)

Today me and my buddy did the best thing I could of ever done for my grow. When I was first looking for grow tents all of the big ones were big in height as well and I couldn't find any short ones for my lowryders. So finally my friend and I cut the poles 2 feet shorter to make my box smaller. I know can run less c02 cause of the smaller area and the light seems to be way brighter. Also it doesn't make my grow room look as crazy with that huge 6.5 ft tall box. Now only 4.5 ft tall. Box seems to be a few degrees cooler now too. We cut the fabric all the way around then cut the poles. Then zip tied the side walls to the top poles for support cause we eliminated the top zipper that goes all the way around. we then cut the top off and put it on kind of like a hat. Worked better than expected. Will take better pics later. This is a must do if you are growing lowryders in a tent like this.

 
guitarjon

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grodrowithme said:
so how many is in there 27? and how many did you start with? where did you get the beans? do yo ever keep a male and do a run and polinate your females to get beans? it sure beats ordering them at 40 to 80 bucks for 5 fems or 10 reg that gets expensive. seeing as how you cant clone them.?. just wondering you have more than anyone else ive seen run on here just wondered about your strain and were the beans came from.

is this your first try? if not what is you usual yield per plant and the total from all plants say the 27 you have now?

i will be starting my autoflower journey in a month or so!!! ill take all the advice i can get.

thanks for the help ahead of time sorry about all the ?s but you seem to be serious about it.
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29 plants. Started with about 100 seeds but these seeds suck so only like 65 came up. Yes I do do seed runs from time to time when I need to. This is my 4th crop. First crop grew about 48 plants under 2x1000w and got 3.5 pounds dried. And I was only using the foxfarm line now im using advanced nutes. Got kind of lucky on my first try you could say.

grodrowithme said:
if you grew them in a D.W.C. set-up wouldnt they double size and yield? seeing as how dwc grs about 8to10 times faster that soil made sense figured i would ask?
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Never looked into a dwc set up. Not sure what it even is. I stick with soil cause it's what i started with and I wanna master it before I move onto hydro. If i can get 3.5 pounds off of 2x1000w lights in2 months in dirt, then Im gonna stick with it. My goal is to hit that number with these blueberrys.
 
guitarjon

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My journal is now up to date. Im gonna keep posting and my goal is to make this the ultimate lowryder grow journal.
 
kushykushkushy

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im definitely subscribed to this. i got some blueryder and diesel ryder goin with some fem aks. 16 total under 1000 watts. i also have 30 fem diesel and hindu kush autos ready to plant wen these joint docs show sex in another week. im thinkin now i should grab more seeds for my sog. i have a 4x4x7 tent. wut do u think is a good number of autos in that size tent under a 600 hps an 400 hps
 

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grodrowithme

grodrowithme

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guitarjon said:
MIDGETIZE YOUR TENT!!!

(No offense to any midgets on the forums growing)

Today me and my buddy did the best thing I could of ever done for my grow. When I was first looking for grow tents all of the big ones were big in height as well and I couldn't find any short ones for my lowryders. So finally my friend and I cut the poles 2 feet shorter to make my box smaller. I know can run less c02 cause of the smaller area and the light seems to be way brighter. Also it doesn't make my grow room look as crazy with that huge 6.5 ft tall box. Now only 4.5 ft tall. Box seems to be a few degrees cooler now too. We cut the fabric all the way around then cut the poles. Then zip tied the side walls to the top poles for support cause we eliminated the top zipper that goes all the way around. we then cut the top off and put it on kind of like a hat. Worked better than expected. Will take better pics later. This is a must do if you are growing lowryders in a tent like this.

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so what are the measurments on the box im wanting to build me one specificly for autos and the tall tents are just to tall
 
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