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#129622 - 10/06/08 05:18 PM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey all.
Nothing special, 5 seeds from bag of some decent weed came across recently; planted in peat pods and three days later 2" sprouts. Will include basic pictures soon.
STEP 1: Seedling
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Went to the Depot of Homes & purchased those jiffy caps (peat pods) which i think are great to start off w/ your seeds. A neat trick is taking a matchbox, removing the rough side (strike pad) & gluing it on the inside of the box. place seeds inside and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. This can help thin the edge of the seed allowing for more water penetration.
Subjected such seeds in peat pods, added warm water & closed the lid and watch it create its own greenhouse effect.. OOOooOOooo.... AaaaaAaaaahhh... then into rockwool
Step 2: Vegetation
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(1) 85W CFL + (2) 32W T8 = for right now, just to get the seedlings started on they're journey to eventual happiness. Cups holding seedlings in special box w/ reflective material so enough light bounces around. Expect veggie stage in a week
Steps to COME!
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The actual "vegetation" period will last about two - three weeks + 6-7 expected flowering times.
Flowering Stage : HPS 400W. I have included my closet plans in a separate thread of this forum.
Thanks for viewing, check back for updates ... probably just weekly or randomly to answer any questions or to respond to comments to better my grow. It's been a while since I've had such luck 
and the last time i grew weed it looked like this... in my bing (mini bong)
Edited by t0ad (11/22/08 07:32 PM)
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 Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#149433 - 11/22/08 07:28 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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bump had to restart and this is my new "old" log; this will find completion lol
Edited by t0ad (11/22/08 07:36 PM)
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#149639 - 11/23/08 07:19 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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FurrowedBrow said:
how old are those seedlings? And Good luck!
about a week i am sure; i need a damn calendar X:
i just setup the tub w/ water... put the airstones in... just waiting to see these things progress... new to rockwool.
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Edited by t0ad (11/25/08 07:50 PM)
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#151892 - 11/26/08 05:55 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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here's some more pics . . . moved into the tank and operating now... hoping to boost growth this way providing moisture & oxygen to roots below.
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Edited by t0ad (11/26/08 06:10 PM)
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: CookieMonster]
#152596 - 11/28/08 05:05 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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CookieMonster said:
Stupid question from a newbie, but what is inside the monotub?
Looking good so far!
a waste of space at the moment... not planning on using it... "yet" but it may change... gonna have to screen these bad girls ... i hope girls, lol i dun wanna go from 5 plants to 1 fem D: damn unknown bagseed!!
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Edited by t0ad (11/28/08 05:07 AM)
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: jazzcatcf]
#153361 - 11/30/08 08:36 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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online 8-) feminized if i remember correctly are when a light/enviromentally stressed plant turns hermy it pollinates itself, has to be a female first on the gene pool though.
or spend $$$ online. If I get more males than fems in this run again I'm sticking to fem seeds
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#154492 - 12/02/08 08:24 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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i feel like i had stunted they're growth and they have finally reverted back to normal growth. This is about . . . two weeks old? From here is the actual veggie stage now i have 2-3 sets of norm leaves & i had started juicin' them 2-3 days ago, and they are doing much happier since. I came home from work and it smelled like weed in my grow room  new growth is expanding in size and a lush green. So far, so good!
looking at a week and a half ago (11/22 when i updated the 1st post as my restart date) to now, they have grown exponentially, so i don't feel as if i have dangered their health too bad.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#156669 - 12/06/08 05:26 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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just an update. After changing the tea mix the plants have been reacting very positively.
i'd say a week and a half and i'm going to start to put 12/12. plants should have increased in size about 4x by then since this is the period of rapid growth... I am going to purchase some mylar, clean the top of the tub & mylar the surface to reflect light up as I only have a 400W HPS. I am going to be building my grown screen soon to help w/ reflectivity & light disbursement. For now anyway. I have a lot of extra cash coming to me in the next few weeks so i'll be making a way to get the odor to be displaced when it comes to the ripening stage. . . . assuming i have at least one femm out of the now 4 plants. I removed one, it was suffering an failing on life support and I Felt that even if it survived I wouldn't want to smoke its bud if it were a femm, bad genes at that point.
I hope to at least get 1 or 2 of these four. Last time i had 3 plants were all males, so, i was not happy.
Has anyone ever used the product ONA? Odor Neutralizing Agent... it's a gel that is supposed to help mask up other smells
Edited by t0ad (12/06/08 05:43 PM)
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#160925 - 12/12/08 05:22 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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so I have switched over to my hps light (24hrs), it has an agromax bulb with supposed +30% blue spectrum. But how much blue is that as these are reddish lights??? 30% of standard can still mean squat! Still have my 85w CFL on to just add to the mix. Hoping to get these guys to stretch, dont want to vegg them much longer than a week or so. keepen'em short & gonna make a small screen for them. I figured, hey, i'll switch to the more intense, lumenated light for a week and a half and the plant will start to think about node production and onto preflowering we go!
found a MH-to-HPS conversion bulb online $32 super excited (hooray 1000bulbs.com), asked for it for xmas from my old lady lol we can see where my priorities are better bud growth and a stronger veg stage. Been happy with CFLs but fiending for MH. gonna pick up some flowering nutes & other things this weekend.
well, hopefully right after work would have to make it to the hydro shop before 6 which can be done. Next paycheck as it gets into the flowering stage I am going to get the soluble tri-pack from FF which is Open Sesame, Cha Ching & Beastie Bloomz along with a standard treatment of Big Bloom & Tiger Bloom. Im gonna have some sexy ladies!
I hope i get at least 2 / 4 females. I'd hope and love for them all!! but, realistic I deserve at least 2 females from the last time god flipped me off and gave me 3 males. You would figure at least one would be female, and i was sure that it was! until i saw two...then three staminates on one node bundled together and eventually extend outward freaking balls!!!!!
will take pictures tomorrow, the babies have doubled in size.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#161742 - 12/13/08 09:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've begun to notice nodes or primordial staminates on the plants (pre flowers) --- I am actually unhappy at this stage that this has occurred, i feel it may be due to some unwanted stress the plants have had. They seem to be flourishing now, but i have begun to notice possible zinc deficiencies & a leaf with necrotic scars. I contribute this all to ph irregularity; this problem is fixed, though, so i dont fear the worse. I come home and a plant had wilted, gave him a big boost of nutes from the top and was set; i get i need to get some sprayers in the tub afterall, was hoping to not have to.
Plants have the feeding roots established in the tub now, this may be my biggest issue yet but as i had said, problem solved.
I have seen a big issue with zinc absorption this entire time, my new leaves come out curled up and twisted but as they grow out they turn to normal. I have noticed nitrogen deficiencies as well mainly starting with the oldest leaves first, which can be related to a lack of zinc, as zinc is vital for nitrogen absorption. I had this problem once before and i had corrected it, but i guess I will have to recalculate the formula inside the tub. Zinc doesn't appear to be on the thin side of any spectrum, so i dont see why zinc would have that issue and the rest of my plant be a bright green.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#161767 - 12/13/08 12:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i just went ahead and ph balanced everything. The excitement im having right now is endless, i only bought ph UP as i had ph Down already, and without a ph meter / drops / strips i was afraid to burn my plants to death, so, i had found a solution and i expect a full recovery within days.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#162013 - 12/13/08 05:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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FurrowedBrow said:
NICE! I am eager to see the difference a week of HID produces. So you're going to use one 1,000 watt bulb? Keep up the good work my friend!
400w Agromax HPS +30% blue spectrum . . . 
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#162024 - 12/13/08 05:25 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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this is day three of the HPS light... adjusted pH to perfecto 6.0 today & reformulated the mixture with more big bloom & a heavy top water dose. Tomorrow I am letting it dry (THE ROCKWOOL) and then I will flush w/ pH adjusted water. I feel happy to be able to offer pH balance to my plants. I hope to see this leaf fringing to cease within the next two days as the plants adjust.
I have added some STICKER/PENETRATOR & Big Bloom to a spray bottle to juice up the plants to get rid of the stress asap. Plants an hour later have already perked up a lot.
DWC ftw
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: t0ad]
#162160 - 12/13/08 08:59 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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that last pic shows ow I topped one of the plants, FIM style. It split four ways, expecting 4 new main colas
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. [Re: Ben18]
#162738 - 12/14/08 05:32 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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after a closer examination, i think i may have good luck this time. I think i may have only one male, but we will see. I am thinking of moving up 12/12 as because these plant had progressed incredibly maturity wise switching under, or should I keep 24/0 and keep'em vegging??? I read that males can show even through 24/0 . . .
decisions decisions... if i go into flowering now, i tink they will max out @ 3' tall. Where i lack in height may come from bushiness, it has a lot of vegetative growth that may catch up in height and i am hoping the one I topped is a female. I think it will be. I am so far hoping 3/1 from the way the preflowers appear, but until im 1 1/2 weeks into 12/12 or till i can tell its a male (check everyday twice a day at this point) i will have some snipping todo. Not looking to breed right now just get some homegrown weed!
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Edited by t0ad (12/14/08 05:35 PM)
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t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. Updatedddddddd [Re: Ben18]
#162844 - 12/14/08 08:02 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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thanks
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. Updatedddddddd [Re: Dr. Penguin]
#163208 - 12/15/08 06:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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judging from the pre flowers i think so far a 50% sex rate! two of the plants' preflower are very swollen and pointy. one has the damned little balls..... the other one i can't tell yet they arent profound. I have to get some tiger bloom asap and change over the nutrient level - They are much much happier now and have begun to really grow. Another week at this level and I will be very happy. Last two days I've only top fed them ph-adjusted water, hoping to clean up any salt buildup that may be on the rockwool from weeks of nutrient abuse . . .
plants seem to get plenty of nutrients from the concoction below, a mixture of grow big, big bloom, fish oil & MagiCal. Easing off on the nitrogen as my plants seem to got a little dark, so im flushing accordingly.
All in all so far so good, at least happy w/ a possible 2 / 4 ratio, both same plant type also. Hoping for a third, it looks promising but the preflowers are not developed so I will wait it out, flower for two weeks and make the final discretion.
Adding the HPS light has stretched these babies out, glad that I switched over. I have seen very lengthy growth through the plant, some main stems are trying to come from the bottom.
The one I fear a male is the one that I Topped.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. Updatedddddddd [Re: CookieMonster]
#164043 - 12/16/08 05:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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CookieMonster said:
Good work! So you have already switched to flowering? Can you post some pictures of the difference between male plants and female plants in your bunch?
no not flowering but preflowering, its hard to tell the difference but there is a difference, but its always best to be sure.
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. Updatedddddddd [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#164194 - 12/16/08 07:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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not sure what that is
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Re: t0ad's adventure in gardening... a grow journal. Updatedddddddd [Re: t0ad]
#164614 - 12/17/08 07:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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starting 12/12 today, keeping them small. They are preflower'd up which is the only reason im flowering now. I did wanna keep'em short i suppose! Friday I am going to buy the bloom nutes and start changing the flavor of the nute mix.
I love fox farm products, my plants are always so happy using them I think I may stick w/ Tiger Bloom & Big Bloom. Next grow is goin to be the professional grow, this is "god damn i need some weed and im broke so lets grow weed instead" idea. I have been using big bloom + grow big recently + fish oil and the plants have been very happy. I think the red light pushed them into maturity faster, even though there was 24/0.
I am almost certain i have 2 for 2 male/female ratio, which I can deal with for now until I prove it. I can see very strong differences between preflowers.
i'll take pictures tomorrow.
My biggest complaint, is one of the suspected females feeding roots still have not come out of the cup, and the size difference between the plants are noticeable. So I feel i am forced to top feed until it happens, not sure why it hasn't as some of the plants root systems have become very advanced. I think the next grow, i will use shorter cups to allow roots to grow into the water sooner. I think this would dramatically improve things as once i had noticed feeder roots, the plants exploded in size.
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