First Grow - Fem Snow White

Day 20 - 11th March 2007

So, I have had to give up 4 of my plants due to being stupid and starting off too many! DOH!! I just don't have the space or light for 10, so I am down to 6 plants now.

The 4 I gave up have gone to a good home though where they will be well looked after and get to live under a 600W HPS. It will be interesting to see how they do, I'll keep you updated on them as well when I can.

My remaing six babies have been re-potted now and I think they are looking good so far. No nutes or anything yet, just some nice PH'd water when needed. I was thinking of giving them some light nutes in the next week or so.

I now have 2 x 125W (blue spec) envirolites as well, so I got a bit more light and the plants are loving it.

Anyway....here's some pics....

Day 24 from seed

Went away for a couple of days for work. Just got back and plants are still doing great. Growth seems to just be getting quiker now, but maybe that's just cos I've not seem them for 2 days. They grow a lot slower when you look at them every 5 mins!!

They've just had their first feeding with some half strength nutes (BioBizz Organic), I hope they like it!

Anyway, as always.....here's some more pics....bit boring I know! I can't wait till I'm posting pics of my buds!! (if I don't kill them before them!)

there beautiful and I know what ya mean about looking at them when ur home...what kind of lights do you have on these? I just got my 400 HPS...and they love it...now its really fun to watch

They are lookin' perfectly healthy. You're doin' great for your first grow, keep it up. Keep us posted.

Thanks muu232, I'll keep you all up to date on how my grow progresses.

Yo Carrolle, I'm currently running 2 x 125W blue spec envirolites. Which seem to be great for veg. I had planned to use the red spec envirolites for flower, but I am seriously considering creating a new bigger flowering space and getting a 400W HPS for it. I know it's the way to go. Then I can veg and flower plants at the same time! That will be SWEET!!!!

they look beautiful snow white! i would say go with the 400w hps for flowering and even possibly stick that 125w envirolite in with it! u will be amazed!

Cheers spliffwhiffer, yeah, I really want these plants to produce loads of nice big buds for me (but don't we all!!), so I'm planning my flowering space now. Def gonna get a 400W HPS and will also include my red spec envirolite bulb in there as well. I'll keep the blue envirolites for my veg cupboard tho.

I'm thinking of vegging them for another couple more weeks before flowering. That gives me 2 weekends to buy what I need and get the flowering space ready and there's quite a bit I need to do for that.

Picture update - Day 28....

Day 31 - 22nd March 2007

It's going slow but steady, as long as they're healthy I don't really care....they've been fed at half strength twice now. I will up their feed a bit for the next one. I'm watering as needed, I was using a moisture meter, but I don't like to poke the sensor through the roots every day incase of damage, so now I know what the pots should feel like when dry, I mostly just judge when water is needed by the weight...

Anyway, here's some more pics.....

Good job man, they are looking very nice.

Claytronics said:

Good job man, they are looking very nice.

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Cheers dude...I'm very pleased with the start they have made in life so far Just hope I can get them to finish as nice!

theyr looking amazing man. Good choice with the 400w iv got one to hope all goes well, happy growing.

Look good.I have been watching the nvirobulb vegging guys and pretty impressed. I usually use my 1000 watt mh for veg but I think it overkill sometimes and have been thinking doing the envirolight like yours for veg and then using my 2 1000 watt hps for flowering since Id have saved the money off not using the mh..They looking real good keeep it up

Cheers for the support guys. It's great to share my grow with you all.

I'm well happy with my 2 x 125W envirolites so far, but I can't comment on any other light yet as this is my first grow. I did see a good post on here where someone did a comparison on vegging under MH, HPS and CFL. HPS actually looked pretty shit compared to CFL. Also, controlling the heat with CFLs is well easy, I just got a couple of regular PC fans running in my cupboard and that keeps the temp around 28 deg. I've been meaning to add another exhaust fan to try and take this down a touch, but the plants seem to be doing ok anyway.....and I need to start thinking about how I'm going to vent my flowering space when I get the 400W HPS going! Can't wait to flower the girls (I hope!), 2 more weeks I reckon.

Check out the design for my forthcoming flowering space. Yes, I am generally very bored at work and this little drawing has passed the time nicely. Just need to actually build it now. Construction starts this weekend!

very cool man, quick question when u ordered the seeds was it difficult getting them or easy?
And great looking plants im thinking of buying some what type of climate are u in im here in south florida u think it would grow well here?

SnowWhite said:

Check out the design for my forthcoming flowering space. Yes, I am generally very bored at work and this little drawing has passed the time nicely. Just need to actually build it now. Construction starts this weekend!

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Looks really cool. Wish I could have a set up like that.

ismokeidrink said:

very cool man, quick question when u ordered the seeds was it difficult getting them or easy?
And great looking plants im thinking of buying some what type of climate are u in im here in south florida u think it would grow well here?

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Thanks man. It's very easy to get seeds mate. I got them from Nirvana, but there are plenty of other great places online that are reliable and discreet.

I'm in the UK so it's quite cold here now, but growing indoors you create the correct enviroment so it doesn't really matter where you live. I guess you are thinking of growing outdoors though, Florida's nice and sunny I'm sure you'll be fine. Till hurricane season at least! But seriously, there are loads of different strains out there that do well in different climates and are better for outdoor growth etc, do a bit of research and I'm sure you'll find something to suit man. Good luck!

Claytronics said:

Looks really cool. Wish I could have a set up like that.

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Cheers mate, I can't wait to have it all built. Lots to get done, but I'll post pics once it's ready.

Day 33 - 24th March

Made a start on building my flowering space today, still got lots to do though, but I need it finished real soon! As you can see from the follwing pics, my plants are starting to fight for space in my small (getting smaller) cupboard.

All walls, ceiling and floor have been lined with insulation and boarded up. Hopefully I should have it all finished by next weekend and will post some pics of the plants in their new home. Until then, here is my work in progress....