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 dsotm
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 First grow log: Clones from bagseed in homemade Ebb and Flow 
#295489 - 10/11/09 05:57 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is my first grow log and first hydro grow. I am growing two Ice and two Bubblegum seeds from www.marijuana-seeds.nl. ; They are gonna be living in a homemade Ebb and Flow. I made one small modification to the system and that is add an air pump and stone by running the air line through the overfill port. I'm still waiting on my light to come in: 400w Lumatek ballast with a Sun System air cooled hood and a Phillips Son Agro 430w HPS bulb. Until the light comes in I am using 220w of mixed CFL's. For fertilizers I have a Botanicare Triflex sample pack with Liquid Karma that I got for free. I will probably use Technaflora once this is gone. Only thing else I really need is a TDS/ppm meter and a tent.
10/11/09
Not much is going on yet. I germinated the seeds on the 9th and 3 have fully sprouted and the last one is poking out.
  
And here is my second flush of Penis Envy starting to come up.
Edited 1/30 to change title from Ice and Bubblegum. They were all males and now I have clones that came from bagseed.
Edited by dsotm (01/30/10 07:52 AM)
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 Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#297592 - 10/15/09 09:50 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Here is an updated shot from today. Still nothing too exciting. One of my ICE plants seems to have stretched a little and is a bit top heavy. Should I support it up with a toothpick or something until it gets stronger?
More updates soon.
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dsotm
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: Dr. Siekadellyk]
#300143 - 10/19/09 11:05 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Day 9
These plants are growing very quick. It looks like they might be getting nute burn slightly. I just got my TDS tester in and the ppm is reading at 470. PH all I have is drops and it is somewhere between 5.5 and 6.0. It's hard to match up the colors unless you have a good white light to use. All comments and suggestions are welcome.
Bubblegum
Ice
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dsotm
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#301745 - 10/22/09 09:48 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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10/22/09 Day 12
I think the nute burn I thought I had is actually a deficiency, not sure from what. I changed the reservoir out for the first time last night. I added Botanicare Triflex Base, Grow, Liquid Karma and Sweet at half strength. PPM is at 700 and the PH is between 5.5 and 6. I also increased the floods to every 3 hours instead of every 6.
    
Edited by dsotm (10/22/09 10:01 AM)
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#303699 - 10/25/09 06:06 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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15 Days old. They have really started to take off now that I have the nutes figured out. My ballast should be here this week and then I can put the 400w HPS on them. I'm probably going to start flowering by next weekend depending on how fast they grow.
Ice on the left, Bubblegum on the right:
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Bubblegum:
  
Edited by dsotm (10/25/09 06:15 PM)
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#308364 - 11/02/09 05:24 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quick update. Two showed male preflowers and were pulled. I still have one Ice and one Bubblegum left. It looks like there are female preflowers starting to show up but I can't tell for sure yet and to small for a picture. I'll probably switch to 12/12 on Wednesday when I change out the reservoir. Here is a few pics from today.
     
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: Dr. Siekadellyk]
#312431 - 11/08/09 03:42 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Update time. Not to much going on with the plants, they are getting noticeably bigger every day. I switched the lights to 12/12 Wednesday at midnight. No definite signs of sex yet. I still see what looks like female preflowers forming, but can't tell for sure yet.
My ballast finally came in yesterday so I scrapped the CFL's and finally have my HPS up now. I also picked up a tent on Friday. Should have planned a little better though, the tent has holes for 4" ducting and my reflector is for 6". I still need to get an in line fan and will probably need a filter too pretty soon.
 
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#330799 - 12/13/09 04:57 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is a pic of the bubblegum male right before I chopped him down. He got to a decent size and would have had a decent yield had it been a female. Oh well... My new grow is going great.
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dsotm
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#330801 - 12/13/09 05:12 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is my current grow. I have 5 clones and one from seed. The clones were originally from a lone seed found in a QP of what was called purple nurple. Who knows what it really is, but it is very tasty with a nice heady, almost trippy buzz. The one from seed is also bag seed, but I don't remember what from.
I did 15 days veg on the clones and the seedling was up for less then a week before I flipped the lights. I might have let them get a little too big for this table. I have a 4 gallon reservoir and they are already drinking a gallon a day, could be a problem later on.
Now for some pics:
The first one is the day I got the clones and the last pic is from this morning before the lights came on, day 9 of flowering. All the others are in between somewhere, I didn't keep track of dates.
     
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: Inverted]
#333413 - 12/18/09 09:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Update: Flowering day 14
Things are coming along nicely with the hydro. My two potted plants seem to have a nitrogen deficiency and are little over watered, but otherwise coming right along.
       
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: phantom]
#336996 - 12/27/09 11:29 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Flowering Day 23
I have no complaints other then my house is starting to smell like marijuana potpourri. I need to get a carbon filter before the smell gets out of hand. I raised the ppm to 1100 on Friday when I changed the reservoir and the plants seem to be happy. The plant that I started from seed showed it's sex last week sometime and it's a female!! I took a few pics right before and after the lights cut on.
       
Edited by dsotm (12/27/09 11:42 AM)
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#339721 - 01/03/10 06:08 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Flowering Day 30:
Everything is coming along just fine, except the plants are way too big for this ebb and flow I made. They are now getting top heavy and falling over when the table floods. I think I have kinda fixed this by adding hooks and weights to keep the pots in place. The reservoir is starting to become a pain in the ass to change too with them getting so big. On a plus note it looks like I'm going to get a bigger harvest then I had planned.
The only other problem I am having is the pH seems to be rising a lot. When I mix my nutes (FloraNova Bloom and liquid KoolBloom) the pH is perfect at 5.8 mixing with tap water. The next day it rises to over 6.5. I have to lower it almost every day. I know it goes up as the plants use the nutes, but the ppm maybe goes down by 100 - 150 at the most. Not sure if it's normal or me just worrying, but that seems like a big jump. The plants seem to be very healthy and growing quickly.
Here's today's pics:
      
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#339954 - 01/04/10 10:45 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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 Oh baby
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dsotm
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#344923 - 01/10/10 11:35 AM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Day 37:
Things are still coming along nicely. The buds seem to have started to bulk up nicely since I changed the reservoir on Thursday. Still using FloraNova bloom and liquid KoolBloom. I just ordered some dry KoolBloom and FloraNectar which I will start using next reservoir change.
Here is a few pictures from right before and after lights on today.
         
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#350970 - 01/20/10 07:39 PM (15 years, 3 months ago) |
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Flowering day 46:
I took these pictures yesterday and didn't get time to upload them. I added some dry KoolBloom and FloraNectar to my mix last week. I plan on using it again tomorrow when I change the reservoir and then next week start flushing. They are getting pretty close. I'm thinking they will be done in less then 2 weeks. The trichomes seem to be about 70/30, cloudy/clear, with a few amber starting to show up.
        
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#354272 - 01/27/10 07:23 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Flowering Day 54:
There getting close and very colorful. I turned off the light to get some good pictures to show the color. The HPS makes everything look yellow and orange.
I was planning on starting to flush tomorrow, but not sure I want to start that now or wait a few days. The trichomes look to be about 80/20 cloudy/amber. I don't really see any clear trichs, but it's a little hard to tell. Almost all the hairs have turned orange and receded except for some new growth on the main cola's.
Enjoy the pictures..
     
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#355204 - 01/29/10 10:54 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks FB!!
Here's a few more I just took.
   
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: Inbred_gimp]
#356083 - 01/31/10 05:02 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Harvested the main cola and two branches off of one plant today. Going to let the rest go on for longer.
Total wet weight is 101.5 grams.
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#356506 - 02/01/10 04:42 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
dsotm said:
Thanks FB!!
Here's a few more I just took.
That first picture is epic. Get the lighting just a little brighter and even and that's POTM
Awesome strain man, and great job. They look very healthy
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Re: First grow log: Ice and Bubblegum in homemade Ebb and Flow [Re: dsotm]
#356624 - 02/01/10 09:43 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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You got it man, I usually see more swollen calyxs and amber trichs on the inner bud surface. I'm pretty positive that is the first material to grow and it just expands outwards. You know what i'm saying I'm just tired and don't feel like elaborating.
Try using an LED flashlight and not using the flash, you will need a tripod or extreme steadiness but the quality will be much clearer consistently.
This was just with flashlight in a dark room.
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