I'm Ready- Blue OG, White Lavender, OG #18, and Sour Kush.

Bakatare666 said:

I hear ya man, I had 3 idiots next door yesterday afternoon cutting the yard and some trees, and I think they may have seen my plants, so I slept with just the screen door closed last night, and had to sleep on my right side due to the shoulder holster on my left side, not to mention the Mossy by the door.

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Damn bro! I hate that shit to! Having to sleep with 1 eye open! Had to do it many of nights! Lol

hbbum said:

My biggest security concern is making sure my kids cannot get access, and keeping bugs out.

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Yup, you've got to keep the pests under control or they will take over. Bugs too.

Bakatare666 said:

I hear ya man, I had 3 idiots next door yesterday afternoon cutting the yard and some trees, and I think they may have seen my plants, so I slept with just the screen door closed last night, and had to sleep on my right side due to the shoulder holster on my left side, not to mention the Mossy by the door.

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~Dankster~420 said:

Damn bro! I hate that shit to! Having to sleep with 1 eye open! Had to do it many of nights! Lol

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Security duty. Who knew gardening could be like this? Better to be safe and protect your babies, bastards will look for an opportunity.

mycomaster said:

My thermostat went out and wont turn on in auto anymore and it got hot in my house and with the oscilating fan on the girls in a closet basicly, were just fine. I already have a new thermo and am about to go install it, thank you public education system for those shop class skills.

I leave my in-line off until my girls start to grow flowers, but my room is cool at night, and I don't have to worry about smell.

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Thermostat, nice to have the skills to fix things around the house.

I'm going to set the fan to kick on and off with the lights. That will save some a/c until the plants get into flower. With the lights off, it's 74 in the closet and I think they will get enough air in there. I have a small oscillating fan going 24-7 and the fresh air intakes are open.

Damn skippy bro!

It sounds like you have it all worked out bro. I just leave my in-line off until I need it going when I have some flowers to worry about molding or whatever. Otherwise I just have an oscilating fan going 24/7 like you. I find that that works out fine to keep all the girls happy as can be. I have a ton of oscilating fans I've picked up over the years and I found a great one at wal-mart for $23 and it can be wall mounted and everything and is pretty nice actually, has 3 speeds and is sturdy and I think it will last quite a long time. It's a holmes and it's pretty nice and wall mountable, I just thought it was a good deal considering how much you pay at a hydro store for something similar. It's only a 8-9 inch fan, but it puts out more air than a 12 inch one I have and is alot more sturdy and better built. I have some babies that popped over night, Bubblegummer, Cinderella99, and Skunk#11. I put a L.A. Chocolat in the soil on 6-4 so I'll check it tomorrow and see. It usually only takes 3 days for me to get a pop. Peace out everyone.

I can tell the difference in the Roots Organic potting soil and the organic bagged soil I bought at the hardware store for the seedlings. Night and day difference. The RO is loose and no big chunks of anything. Two knuckles down the soil is cool and moist but not wet. I like it.

Is it a good idea not to add any bottled nutes with this RO soil until I see a deficiency?

Seem like it would have enough going on and would not need extra feeding.

RO Potting Soil list of ingredients: A truly exceptional ready-to-use coco fiber-based potting soil. We begin with a base of the highest quality coco fiber/Coir on the plant which is repeatedly washed for an incredibly low EC, and composted for over twenty-four months, and is specially blended with extra long fibers. This soil is amended with only the highest quality organic ingredients including bat guano, premium earth worm castings, fish bone meal, feather meal, green sand, mycorrihzae, glacial rock dust, soybean meal, humic acid, and many more. Already blended with correct proportions of perlite and pumice for excellent drainage and a vigorous root system.

Can't find the list of ingredients online for the Buddha Grow, but the bottle lists bat guano, worm castings, soy protein hydrolysate, kelp extract, molasses, and yucca extract.

New leaves are looking green and pointing up.

You do not want to add nutes for a few weeks, RO is decent. I made the mistake of doing it. Don't do it.

^^^ I think the RO potting soil has way more going on than the RO Buddha Grow list of ingredients. So maybe when the plants are bigger and showing signs of being hungry I can start adding the liquid nutes to the watering schedule?

I've read where a lot of growers don't add anything to the soil, just transplanting with new soil provides enough nutrients. Plus maybe one or two teas along the way. That would be great if I could get away with that. I am lazy by nature.

Root's Organic soil is great for seedlings(when there's no bugs) and will provide food for a couple of weeks easy. I think a tea wouldn't hurt, but I wouldn't go farther than that really. I use alot of R.O. soil for a base for my super soils, works really nice. I still add a little perlite for drainage when I start seedlings, but other than that I think it's a pretty good mix for babies as long as you don't go and start feeding them. It also holds just about the right amount of water for small roots so you don't have to water alot either. I like your new avatar Prosperian, that's pretty bad @$$. Peace out everyone.

^^^ Thanks, I was playing around in photoshop the first of the year and created the pickup as a joke on a thread. Peeps liked it, so I used it as an avatar. Thought I'd bring it back as a change from my smokin' Boba Fett.

So, I will just hold off on bottled nutes for a couple weeks and see how things develop. Thanks for the input on the new soil. So nice to look over at my remote temp gauge on my desk and see 78 degrees in closet. It was worth all the work and $.

Nothing better than having a favorable outcome to a project you worked on and dropped some coin on. I just got my veg area up and running, granted I just hung a fixture and threw in some fans but I'll be customizing the area as I go to suit my needs. I had to put in a new thermostat last night cause the old one stopped working in auto and would not kick on only off when it go to where I had set it. Oh the quality of products nowadays. 78 sounds about right. I think your girls are gonna be happy with that, and with the Xplant get ready for some growth. Peace out.

Look who's at it again! Glad to see you're starting another grow, mine is just about wrapping up and although the results weren't as great as I had hoped, it's still awesome and I've learned so much. I'm very much looking forward to my second grow. I'll be checking in here, loved your last thread and I'm sure this one will be even better. Take care man.

Steve- Yup, I can't stay away from the garden. I'm starting to think my first grow was easier than my second. Maybe because I didn't start posting on RIU until after the 4th week of veg. By then I had my act together, kinda.

I've struggled a little with warmer temps and new seedling cups. I figure I'm a week behind on growth, but things are tightening up. I have a new soil, new containers, new ventilation system, and 6 new strains to manage. So in a way, it's all new too me. But I guess that how we learn and improve.

Good to see your post. Send me some pics if you got them and let me know when you start up again.

prosperian said:

Steve- Yup, I can't stay away from the garden. I'm starting to think my first grow was easier than my second. Maybe because I didn't start posting on RIU until after the 4th week of veg. By then I had my act together, kinda.

I've struggled a little with warmer temps and new seedling cups. I figure I'm a week behind on growth, but things are tightening up. I have a new soil, new containers, new ventilation system, and 6 new strains to manage. So in a way, it's all new too me. But I guess that how we learn and improve.

Good to see your post. Send me some pics if you got them and let me know when you start up again.

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Struggling with temps here as well unfortunately. I just ordered a high power 120mm CP fan 140 CFM, but my temps are pushing 90's regularly. Definitely has had impact on the girls and I wish I had realized how badly my temps were out of wack. Hopefully the CP fan will help, my current one is 47 CFM so it's almost 3x the airflow. How a 4" inline fan can't keep a 18 cubic foot area cool is beyond me. Numerous problems have plagued me but there is some nice bud coming along despite them! I regret starting with autos, and as such will be starting from clone! I'll likely be growing Northern Lights x Skunk #1, Amnesia Mystery, and most likely one of my OG clones... Got two different seeds from two different "OG Kush" pickups from my friend, they look totally different from each other lol! Waiting for my clones to perk up before I post some pics, just cut them about 4 days ago and they're not taking as good as I'd hoped. I too will be using lots of new things on my next grow!

77 degrees and 43% RH. Looking pretty good in there this morning. Yea!


Some are growing faster than others after the transplant. But overall they're getting bigger and greener.



Geopots 1-gal 3 weeks of slow growth, but they are starting to take off with the adjustments this week.



How many fans do you own? Tried a couple others to change airflow, it worked.
Pans of h2o to bring up humidity in the room.



Angled the light fixture for better air movement in the closet. Seems to help.

looking good Bro

but damn you guys spam too much hard to keep up ..

and Im lazy too also why I like to mix my own soil mix, for seedling and veg/bloom, so I only really feed em in flowering/at the end and mostly with molasses and some dry Bat guano as a top dressing, the nice pheno I have going now is in my own SS and have had 3 smaller top dressings now plus some molasses and Epsom salt in the water not much more, in veg I only use a little kelp/root booster in the start and a few drops of super thrive when I repot (now I have it) and agin, some epsom salt, my plants like Mg I also have some alge liquid nutrients, but only if I see a deficiency or maybe when I have big plants close to getting ready for 12/12

lazy stoner, thanks for checking in

Lol, this thread is pretty long, but hopefully it's a good read and entertaining at the least.

I'm showing 8 pages, but that's because I have my RIU page view setting on extended post count.

Line up

1- Blue OG
2- White Lavender
3- OG #18
4- Sour Kush
5- Diesel (Auto)
6- Mystery Seed

Hi guys thought I'd update with a few pics. It's been just under 30 days since I started this grow.

The tiny plant is the auto diesel, bigger, but slower than the rest. Haven't added any nutes just water. Later

Looks nice Pros. What type of water do you use?

prosperian said:

Hi guys thought I'd update with a few pics. It's been just under 30 days since I started this grow.

The tiny plant is the auto diesel, bigger, but slower than the rest. Haven't added any nutes just water. Later

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Coming along nice man!!