K1Ng5p4d3's Cardboard Box Grow (hehe)

Alright everyone. Im startin this grow journal late as fuck, as im already well into my second month of growing. Ill start with pics from the beginning as best as i can, cuz i delete my old pics from photobucket, and then from my desktop so i dont clutter shit up - but i got shit in my recycle bin still, so lets see what i can salvage:

I started out pretty fuckin humble:
Bagseed(germed 5, but ended up plantin 3)
2 CFL lamps (100w one blue n one on the redder side)
1CFL in the ceiling fixture (also reddish)
MG potting soil
no nutes
3 tiny ass putty buckets

heres pics of my setup:

GHETTO box - carboard n duct tape baby!! space is 4 1/2' long x 3 1/2' tall:


The lights: pic 1 is myblue CFL, 2 is my redder cfl, n 3 is the cfl in my ceiling:






Here they are 3 days after i potted them:






Here are the next ones i can find, which are about a week n a half into veg, maybe a lil more:

The Runt:


Middle Gal:


Star of the Class:


Heres some pics that i found from the two n a half week point, but i could only find side views of these, so here they are, just a quick three:







Ima split this up into a couple posts so that it dont fuck up, so ill be right back

gimme a couple cuz it takes fuckin forever to load all these god damn pics back onto photobucket - god damn fuckin fucks... ill be back soon though

Ok, back, and well start where we left off, this is Just over 3 weeks old - I finally decided that the lil pots were too small, so still trying to go as cheap as humanly possible, i went n snagged some Folgers Economy Size cans, washed um out, and transplanted my babies. I had some nute burn from the MG time release balls, so i went out and got some run of the mill potting soil, but kept the MG around the roots so i didnt fuck shit up too much.

Here we go -

1st well do the helicopter view of my babies:
Big gurl:


middle kid:


runt:


At this point the stems were still pretty puny, so i threw an oscalating fan into the box to strengthen things up a bit - here are shots of the puny ass stems:
Big gurl:


middle:


runt:


at this point the plants all have right around 6-8 nodes. Here are some pics of the burn i was talkin about earlier:








Ok, that does it for this photoshoot. Next post will be shortly, with pics of them just over a month old, recovering from the burn fairly well and lookin a hell of alot better ...

Ok, back again. This is just over a month old. They are all three recovering from the nute burn nicely, and i have begun to tie them down. Not doin LST really, but more or less just tyeing as i feel like tyeing to keep them nice n short, and theyre behaving themselves pretty fuckin nicely. This is just after i watered, and did a little bit of foliar feeding. At this point im using Schultz plant food at 1/2 strength I left some of the damaged leaves on cuz some of them were fan leaves and i aint cuttin them until they fuckin shrivel up n die, lol.

Here we go:

Heres a couple of my big plant, tied up somewhat and transplanted:






middle plant:






N the Runt with her legs spread:




- they are all on the road to recovery at this point from the nute burn, but after a few days i realized that they stopped growing. I took one out of its pot gently, and it was root bound, i have no fuckin idea how it got rootbound that fast, lol.

Next round, is last week, be back soon

Ok, here is last week. I said fuck it, and finally gave in and went out to wal mart to pick up some supplies. I picked up a 4 foot bar light fixture that hangs from a chain, along with two plant n aquarium bulbs to add in with my other lighting. Also, picked up three 1 1/4 gallon pots, along with some new nutes (colorburst - i think its 24-18-12). Got home, set up all the lighting and cleared out the entire upper shelf in my closet. After that i transplanted into the bigger pots.


Pics - Left side of closet (opening in my box wasn't big enough to span the whole space)


Right side:


Still have the bulb in the ceiling too.

Big gurl - topped once the week before, retied


a view of the ties:


middle plant (topped once in this pic):

side view with ties:


Runt(also topped once in this pic n tied down):


Side view:


Tied down:


-- Still showing no sex yet, i had them in 12/12 for a couple days, but when i seen that they werent stretching at all, and i decided to transplant, i figured i would just let them veg for a little longer - so i put them on 24/0 for a day n then back to 18/6. literally right after i took these pics, i decided to top the two smaller plants and leave the biggest as a sort of Control for the experiment to see the difference in how the nuggets progress during flowering.

My next post is my latest pics that i took today.

This is my last set of pics for probably about a week unless something drastic happens...

Apparently when i decided to top the two smallest plants, it was way too soon after the transplant, and they ended up going into shock. So it stunted their growth for 4 days, and now everything is finally starting to recover, and a lot of new growth is happenin. I think ill leave them in veg for another week, and then ill throw them back into 12/12 to flower finally.

Pics:

Big plant:




not sexin yet or anything:



middle plant:




no sex:


And the Runt - im Actually the most impressed with this one. Before i topped it again, there was absolutely next to no growth at all in the branches. I topped the plant n the second she came out of shock, it just started blowin up all over the place. it went from 4 or 5 potential busdites to somethin like 25 potentials. I seriously cant wait to see what this ones gonna look like when it stretches and gets full with foliage, n eventually nugglets..

Runt:









Like i said, no sex yet, nor am i expecting them to show any yet. Ill be throwing them into flowering as soon as the two smaller ones fill in a little more, even though the biggest one is ready to start flowering now, ill let it wait a lil longer, no problemo.

I appreciate you guys stickin with me through this, and all the advise everyone has been giving me. Ill be sure to keep updating this any time new developments happen, and ill take pics somethin like once or twice a week. At any rate guys, thanks alot, and enjoy!!

Damn, that is a shit load of pictures lol. Looks very good though. Don't really know what else to say, it's hard to find the words amidst all the pics lol.

stealthy bra
keep that up.
lots of pics

thanks guys, i figured i got all my pics mostly still, may as well post them all in one thread n make it official. N sorry for the HUGE pics, im usin photobucket n i dont know how to make them fuckers into thumbs, lol.

I don't understand why people use photobucket. Can't you just upload them from your computer as attachments?

man im the stupidest fuckin idiot known to man. Excuse me while i delete everything from photobucket and attach shit from my pc. I didnt even see the option man. When i first came on here i asked somoene how to post pics in here and they told me to use fuckin photobucket. god damnit!!!

-thanks man, i really do appreciate that shit

Haha no problem man. I just assumed you wanted to post them all that big.

nope. My piece-o-chit laptop aint lettin me boot up pics straight from my pc. Everytime i try to it sez Internet explorer cant load webpage. Fuckin cocksuckin fuckin fucks. Thanks for the advice anyways man, ill keep tryin everytime i post new pics tho. Once again, sorry about the HUGE pics, at least you can REALLY see whats goin on with the plants tho, lol

Yeah, and at least we're on a new page now so it won't take forever to load lol

K1ing you flowering in that spot?

yeah i got to for now man. If i ABSOLUTELY need extra space, i can move my closet around and use some of the bottom part, but as long as i keep tieing i think ill have just enough room as long as i flower reallllll soon.
Any Advice??

cool grow do ya thing on them.
Hope you get some good bud

u think im gonna run outta room here though?? I know that its hella fuckin makeshift, but i kinda did everything spur of the moment.

you will get double the height some say triple but I've never seen it..
Maybe with sativa 3x is possible,
but indica dom like you got i doubt anything about a lil over 2x height.
u will just have to LST her if so.

how much space you got left now?

almost two feet heightwise. The plants themselves if they were untied and stretched out are all about a foot, and tied down theyre somethin like 8 inches right now