Beansly's 2011 Spring Indoor Grow

Maybe, if you care, you might have noticed I give a lot of advise here but I don't have any pic of my op. The only reason for that is cause I lost my digicam somewhere and never found it. So I decided to give in and use the shitty cam on my laptop. Bare with me, they are bad quality, but you'll get the point.

Specs:
-Growing in 3 gallon grow bags with a mixture of MG organic, FF Happy Frog, and perlite.
-400 watt HPS ballast
-Grow Bright MH conversion bulb for veg, Grow Bright HPS/w enhanced blue spectrum for flower
-High Yield Lighting "Easy Cool 6" air cooled hood w/ 170cfm in-line fan
-R/O water
-Veg nutes were FF Grow big & Alaska Fish fertilizer
-Flower nutes are Advanced Nutrients Connoisseur for base nutrient and House and Garden additives.
H&G Multizyme
H&G Top Booster
H&G Bud XL
H&G Drip Clean
H&G Roots Excellurator
H&G Magic Green
Mad Mad pH up
Gen. Hydroponics pH down
SuperThrive
Western States b-1
Botanicare Cal/Mag+
Molasses
-Strains are Barney's Farm Pineapple Chunk, Delicious Seeds Northern Light Blue and Sugar Black Rose, and Female Seeds White Widow x Big Bud
-They've been in flower for 24 days and growing for 68 days
-Hanna pH/ppm testers
-Temps between 69 degrees and 88 degrees F, RH is around 27% +/- 5%ish
-pH of the soil is 6.5
Did I miss anything?

First plant is Female Seed's White Widow x Big Bud

Barney's Farm - Pineapple Chunk

Delicious Seeds - Northern Light Blue

Delicious Seeds - Sugar Black Rose

And a few shots of the canopy, in the closet

And finally, a Delicious Seeds Il Diavolo auto I harvested yesterday (96g wet w/stems)

Beanz

Looks good,when ya gonna get some bigger lights?

taint said:

Looks good,when ya gonna get some bigger lights?

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Thanks for the compliment, means a lot considering this is my first serious indoor attempt.
Hell why am I lying, it's bigger than any outdoor grow I've ever attempted.
I really wanted a 600 watt, but the closet is only 2'6" x 2'7" so I didn't know if it was gonna be ok. As it is the temperatures get high in the summer and right now the temp is only like 82F in Vegas and my closet wants to hit 90F badly... but I really with I had bought 600w.
Do you think with a bigger inline fan(mine is only 170/cfu right now) I could lower there temp more?
I dont want to add an a/c yet cause then I'd need temp regulator control that would turn the a/c on/off once it gets to a certain temp.
I think they sell them at homdepot for like $30, idk.
I guess if I get a decent harvest and make some money it wont be an issue. I'm happy to buy stuff for my garden! lol

I've use a 170 on a 600 without probs but yer space is way small.
I just cut a hole through the drywall in the ceiling and drew the air through the glassed in hood and up into the attic.
I've found that for me removing the heat was easier and cheaper than trying to manage it.

taint said:

I've use a 170 on a 600 without probs but yer space is way small.
I just cut a hole through the drywall in the ceiling and drew the air through the glassed in hood and up into the attic.
I've found that for me removing the heat was easier and cheaper than trying to manage it.

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Yeah the space is tiny for the size of the plants.
I was supposed to do a scrog, but I decided to do a cycle growing
them out with vertical restriction so I could test the space.
I now know that if I grow normally, I can only fit 3, 3 1/2 - 4ft plants (max comfortably).
I don't know how many I could fit in a SOG. I guess as many one gallon grow bags I
could fit in the space. Also I wanted to try the affects of FIM and topping and compare.
Basically a test run of the room so I get used to it's characteristics.

I used the shake from the Il Diavolo harvest to make so cannabutter today. Generally you use an ounce of sugar leaf per pound of butter, that's a 1/4 per stick. My brownies call for less than a stick of butter, so I think I'll be ok with only 13 g of shake.
I threw it all in a pot, weed, water and butter, and brought to a boil.
Then I brought the range to low and simmered for two hours.
Strained through a colander and a metal strainer, and threw in the freezer.
I'm waiting for it to harden now.

Beanz

Since the pics are such poor quality I'm only putting up a few. There's not much to show anyways. All of them are in week 5 of flower tomorrow.
Pineapple Chunk


Sugar Black Rose


Northern Light Blue


White Widow x Big Bud


And here's a picture of my bong n' shit
Beanz

Damn Beansly, I see you like growing Tall ass Trees...hahahhhhaa
They all look GREAT!
Are you making any Hash?

very nice Beans! that WWxBB looks like an oak tree sapling lol

Shadydude said:

Damn Beansly, I see you like growing Tall ass Trees...hahahhhhaa
They all look GREAT!
Are you making any Hash?

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Shit man, I didn't have a choice with the pineapple chunk. She just grew and grew and wouldn't stop! There's a product by Humboldt's Own called Bushmaster. Supposedly it stops vertical growth like immediately. I don't like to add weird hormones to my plants but I might have to get it next time.
Believeit or not i actually got lucky with the p.chunk pheno I got. If I would got the thin leaf, sativa pheno, that's bitch would have grown 6ft tall I shit you not.
If you look at some of the p.chunk grows online, there's a lot of people complaining that Barney's lied and that this plant is NOT indica dominant because of how tall it grows. But what people don't really realize is that indicas grow on average 4-5ft tall. Indicas don't grow 3ft tall normally. They are bred to be short that way by breeders. Outdoors, left unchecked, indicas get about 5 ft tall, but don't usually grow over 6ft.

You know I gotta make some hash!
I'm gonna try anyways. I gotta get the bubble bags, I've heard of people making some decent hash with pantyhose tho (wha???) I know.
But I think after I spent all this money on a grow op, I might as well spend the extra $100 or so on a 1 gallon 8 bag set. I only got four plants
though, and I wanna make hash from each one individually. Imagine that shit. Upside-down Pineapple cake hash, Widow Maker hash, Black sugar candy melt and Northern full melt Blue (...OK...the names need work, but you get the point).
Probably I'm gonna have to mix up all the shake to get a decent hash ball.
I 'ppretiate the compliments too.

Dizzle Frost said:

very nice Beans! that WWxBB looks like an oak tree sapling lol

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That plant responded really well to topping. It healed within hours and already had new growth the next day. Both terminal bud grew a bunch of side branches that make it look like Siamese twin plants attached at the hip. It really liked being topped and now it looks a little like a scrog with two big kolas. I'm hoping they put on weight in the next month. I saw a video where the dude that grew them ended up with hand grenades and shit. Check it out. It's the same plant I'm growing, but I don't know what kind of light or nutrients he used;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vn2UIgTju8
I tell you.. if this plant yeilds as good as big bud is supposed to, and is as powerful as white widow is supposed to be, this could be a keeper easily.
I just wish Mr. Nice would do the same. They've got the original Big Bud (which is actually a clone only strain) and the original White Widow. It's a no brainer, I wonder why they haven't done it.

Thanks for stopping in guys.

Well, still not too much to update today. Especially since I don't have a digicam, I can't even post pics of my side projects and little "experiments." For the most part the burn from the Connoisseur has settled down, either cause they're more used to it now or because they're hungrier. According to the AN calculator the ppm's this during weeks 3,4 and 5 of flower should be 1180, and that's where it's at. Next week I'm raising the ppm's to 1240 as per advised by advanced nutrients (I use their calculator because I'm using Connoisseur as a base and frankly, I trust them).
My pride and joy is still the pineapple chunk. The leaves on that plant are so damn vibrant green is like reflective. Not even the tips or fringes are burned. I've never grown a plant so green. Either it's happy with all the food I'm giving it, or it wants MORE. I think it wants more..hehehe
So I'll give it more.
I added H&G's Top Booster to the WWxBB, Sugar Black Rose and Northern Light Blue. I didn't give it to the Pineapple Chunk because your supposed to only give it to the plant in it's last four weeks of life, because supposedly, it signals to the plant that it's gonna die soon, so the plant responds by making more flowers and more resin. I think the P.Chunk is gonna go a week or two longer than the rest.
So, we'll see.

I took the time to try and take some better pics. They're not much better, but you can see a little bit of the frost thats on them. I posted a bunch more P.Chunks because she's the star of my growroom. ;P

Pineapple Chunk


Sugar Black Rose


Northern Light Blue


White Widow x Big Bud


And a few closet shots


Beanz

Im curious to see what the stone is like on the those to....ive always been leary of bigbud strains due to potency....but i guess theres a few good ones i should relook. thanks for the heads up!

plants lookin good bro, always nice to see another LV local growin the dizzank

yea there hooked up them especially like them big bud and widdows they look mint...keep coming back 2 this didnt know bout this thread..yea lad good work...