Sanford and son's grow - MOVIN ON UPPP

dertmagert said:

picked up another one of those same fans today at walmart on the clearance rack for $3.50!! im gonna hook it to my exhaust somehow.. BIGMIKE u have the same one.. u got any ideas on how to use this to draw air out of the enclosure?

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hole saw a 4" hole in the lid of the washer and one in the lower corner. intake / exhaust, have the fan pulling from the top with a DIY vent.

be creative, those temps must come down. maybe run your lights at night.

so after topping it i started the plants on nutes the next day.. then this thing proceeded to show vigorous new growth ( the bagseed knucklehead ) .. im a bit confused as to why this new growth appears to be bud.. there are no hairs and no pollen sacks but it seems to me to look like bud? maybe im just high.. this IS my first go around indoors.. ive grown lots of plants outdoors with much success ( didnt really pay too much attention to them up close like this so it may be a normal thing that i just didnt notice before) but none of the other plants in the chamber have growth like this.. anyway.. if anyone has comments please leave them..

alright. that does it. im tired of looking at this sickly bastard.. ::YOINK:: see ya. .

i have reason to believe that this hideous excuse for a plant had nutrient lockout due to PH problems.. am i going to have to shell out a hundred bucks on a truncheon or can i get by with the manual test solutions? tick tick tick tick

ok well i got the whole temp thing worked out.. i cut a large hole in the back ( the size of a fan i have .. about 6 inches ) and i put the fan directly in the hole and duct taped it... its workin great.. the temps in the chamber are now a steady 85 with the lights on... ((pics below))

yesterday when i checked them they all looked very thirsty and i noticed that the leaves on a couple were really yellow and had dull spots on them.. looks like i might have spilled some water with nutes on them during feeding.. i fed them yesterday and today they look a lot better, besides the yellowing... anybody have suggestions or possible reasons for the yellowing??\\


i also took a clone to give it a whirl.. i cut it on saturday using the rooting powder and have been misting it 4 - 5 times a day (whenever i see it looks dry in there ).. i covered it with a soda bottle to keep in humidity.. is this any good? i also used green plastic to maybe aid in filtering the light a bit ( i had some seedlings just curl up...


oh and my buddy gave me a couple seeds that were out of this crypto he had.. it was killer smoke.. dont know the strain but ill take free dank seeds anyday.. he gave me 9 ... 5 of which i germinated and 2 cracked the same day.. theres a pic of one of them coming out to play ( with his helmet head on )...


note: im 30 days in and they cant be any taller than 10 inches.. im wondering if they are stunted?


anyway heres the pics.. please leave comments..











see the fan in the back????





Will this "humidity dome" work?






Sittin' Sidewaayzz




























See the spot in the middle of the middle finger? and see the yellow? whats up with that?

heres the one with the spot in the middle of the finger... it didnt post last time

anybody know whats up with that yellowing?

day 34


alls lookin well... i have topped/cloned a second plant.. this came about as an accident.. i was LSTing my babies and one of them snapped... so i made an emergency incision at 45 degrees, scarred the stem, soaked in water, coated in rooting powder, then placed it in a starter cup... the clone i cut last weekend is losing a bit of its dark green color.. ive read that this is normal as the plant is focusing its energy on developing roots// we'll see.... after these first two clones im going to see how they come out.. if they dont root im going to try a different method...

this is a duplicate of a post i made at another location.. thought it would fit here..


So today i started ripping out the interior of my future flowering chamber (previously my vocal recording booth) .. I am going to installing all the hardware that i have picked up for it but i need a little help with the reflector..
i was given this 430 watt hps for free .. but the reflector it comes with has no ventilation system.. how would i modify this so that i could pull air from a filter, to the light, then to the fan and out...
i would imagine i would have to seal the light with glass somehow.. and then cut holes in either end to hook duct adapters to.. but im a major pot head and when i start thinking about it my mind just gets all fizzy and starts to cramp and then i get a weird craving for hot dogs and chocolate chip cookies.. oh yeah i was saying, if anybody has done something like this or has come across a DIY post it would be greatly appreciated if u could lend a hand..
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---- "the booth"


as you can see i removed all of the sound proofing paneling but theres still some insulation to rip out.. this booth is constructed out of 2 x 4 frame and drywall.. it stands freely with its own four walls ( not connected to any structural walls ) .it is also on a 6" base raising it off of the cold cement floor... interior dimensions are about 7' high.. 4.5' deep.. 3' wide.. (havent measured but will)..
i plan on putting 2 10 gallon rubbermaid containers that have 2 fabricated dividers in them to create 3 - 3.33 gal sections to house one plant each giving a total of 6 plants under a 430watt hps

------- the lamp

heres the lamp.. any help with venting this would be great

/\ that is tha ugliest plant i have ever seen... fa real...

Ser0 Products said:

/\ that is tha ugliest plant i have ever seen... fa real...

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haha.. yeah.. i dont know what the fuck happened to it.. it just started spazzing out.. it got pulled..

ok... its been a little over a month.. the yellowing has gotten a whole lot better.. all i did was feed them more often.. twice a week got them fillin out nicely.. got some pics for yall.. let me know how they're doin...




Oh yeah.. i found out today by accident how well my cloninig method worked.... while i was adjusting something in the veg chamber i knocked over the first clone i took.. i took it a little over a week ago.. it was in one of them blue cups.. well the soil was pretty dry and when it fell upside down it was all over the floor.. i thought i'd definately lost that plant.. but to my amazement when i turned it upright, just about an inch of dry soil on the top poured out and the rest of it was held tightly together by a huge root mass... the whole cup was filled with roots in about ten days.. i immediately transplanted it and in 8 hours after a thorough watering it looks to be liking its new home.. theres pics below..




heres the next one,. should be ready in about 5 more days





here's how they are doin at 38? days...
(check out the lst )


uhh.. lil blurry.. sorry







































look at that S in the stem... bbbbbeautiful..














man.. i think they're ready to hit the flowering room.. a couple more clones and ill choose a mother...


alright.. thats it for now.. leave comments/suggestions guys.. peace

im still working on the flowering room.. thinking about what to use as a reflective liner.. cant find any white visquene .. im thinkin about using this stuff i got from home depot before .. . its like 1" thick styrofoam sheets that have foil on the outsides... it would be easy as hell to put up and if i remember corectly its cheap as dirt.. what do you guys think?

nic enice.. very nice.. how many nodes are thier on those bad lil bitches

you know what... i think im going to take the time right now to go count... thats what im gonna do.. im gonna smoke a fatty and go count... ::in the count's (sesame street) voice:: One leafy node site, two leafy node site......................

shit man.. i dont even know.. the LSTing makes it kinda hard to count ( i twisted the branches all around to find light.. ) i took one of the ones i didnt top but just trained ( one of the ones with the "s" stem) and i counted my way up the main stalk.. there's 9 of them on the main stalk.. theyre evenly about 1 inch apart .. thats not including all the other brances that have now emerged from below thanks to tying down the tops..

looks good, whats the temps been like now? looks like you got this grow under control.......good job.

update:

i went in to check on my babies and i found this three headed seedling in there! yay!
what fun this will be monitoring the growth of a mutant..
3 headed big bang fem seedling ( Pics )
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thanks Masta ( the little wavin black man )

yeah i managed to fix the exhaust system and now im running at no higher than 85...
today i have a Low of 77 and a high of 81... WAY better than 90-100... they are filling out SO nicely.. its taking a little longer than i expected but im in no hurry.. im just happy that they look so healthy.. for my first time ever using Nutes im pretty impressed with the simplicity and results

she looks hella stretched man!! save her! go get something to hold her skinny ass up lol

lol.. nah // not stretched.. the soil just got low from watering.. it compressed ya know? i think not enough perlite.. will add more next time.. i topped it off with fresh soil and now she looks like a Brick,,,, Houuuseee.. she mighty mighty.. she lettin it all hang out