Powertech Grows

I don’t think my flower tents will ever be totally empty again, so I thought it was time to start a thread for my continued growing moving forward. Quick little recap of my previous growing, as I will no longer be posting to those threads. It’s been a little less than a year since I started growing. I guess I got kind of hooked. I started with a 3x3 tent and an AGLEX2000 from Amazon, and a clone I got from somebody, I still don’t know the genetics of. When I got the clone it had started flowering and it was only the beginning of summer. It was a very stressful first grow, with almost every problem you can think of. Got it in a 1 gal, transplanted to 5 gal, then to 20 gal reduced to about 15 gal. I got 4 Spider Farmer SF-1000’s about a week after switching to flower, and it went into a bigger tent, 4.5x4.5x7. Was very happy in the end, at 713g trimmed and dried. Pics are the day I got the plant, somewhere around when I switched to flower (2 angles), and the day before harvest.

Feel free to comment, and suggestions are always very appreciated if feasible.

My second grow. These were seeds I had got from my two favorite strains I had been getting from my supplier. In a year almost never got a seed, so I think they were from him making seeds and he missed some flower...score for me. This grow was also a big learning lesson, but did not have nearly the problems in the beginning like my first grow. I have a lot of tweaking the amounts of nutes, when to water....all that stuff. These had about half the Veg time also. Pics are a couple days from Germination, just before installing the screen, just after the flip, and a few days before harvest I think. Less weight than first grow, but 2 strains, and wow...quality is above top shelf. Last pic is some of the Ice Cream Cake

After my first couple grows, it was time to expand....and I'm still in process of that. My third grow, I decided to finally buy some seed. I chose Seedsman because they have one of the biggest selections, some of the cheapest prices, some of the best freebies, and pretty much the only bad thing people say about them is their shipping takes a long time. I'm hooked and it would take convincing, or some US seedbanks to come down in price, most are trying to get rich off a few seeds. I call those people selfish pricks, and choose to stay far far away from them. I got all this for what one pack costs at some of these places

It was time to build some lights. First got some strips from Arrow, then got the rest from Cutter. I love Cutter, just remember to ask about stock before ordering. I'm still not done, but waiting for some lights to get here from China before I finish building. When the lights get here, I can then combine the other lights again, and once again have 1240Watts in there. The new lights are listed at 220Watts ea x4 but use a 240W mean well driver so...anyway here are the lights I have for the build (not shown are the UVB strips because they deserve their own post later), and the frame they will go on.

Fast forward to everything growing now. Starting with the 4.5x4.5x7 tent I will call Flower Tent 1. It has 4 plants, all from seed from seedsman. Originally it had a Blue OG from G13, but it turned out to be a male...real bummer because I could not get the other 4 from the pack to pop when I was told to try them before anything could be done. I need to contact them again and see whats up. Something had to have been wrong with the seeds because I germinated a bunch of others in the same tray of starters as the 4 that didn't pop. Everything I have gotten from seedsman has been great so far. I have deviated a bit from nute amount used but for most part it is fairly accurate.

Flower Tent 1
Top left - White Widow - Seedsman
Top right (replaced the Blue OG so is a ways behind and I left in a 1 gal pot...wanted to experiment) - Bubblegummer - Female Seeds
Bottom Left - Alaskan Purple - Seedsman
Bottom Right - Blueberry - 00

5 gal fabric pots - Bubblegummer in 1 gal plastic
Black Gold Soil
Veg - Grow More 30-10-10
Flower - Grow More 0-50-30
Botanicare - CalMag - 2-0-0
DynaGro - ProTeKt Silica - 0-0-3
Great White - Every other water
Molasses - Every Other Water - opposite great white
Mykos during transplant

Flower Tent 2

5x5x8
20 gal fabric pots
same nutes as Flower Tent 1

Current pic
Top right - Dr Grinspoon
Top Left - Super Skunk
Bottom Left - Blue Champagne

Well these got weeded out a lot throughout their life. Many of their sisters are no longer with us or are in new homes. They started in the veg tent at 9 strong, and the Blue Champagne was not one of them. These were flipped one week ago, and are currently under the AGLEX2000 and 2 SF1000's. I know they need more light, but they are on the way just shipping takes forever right now, 880W of Chinese qb's with actual meanwell drivers, then the AGLEX will go back in the veg tent, and the SF's will go back in Flower Tent 1. So yes not nearly enough light at the moment but no other options.

Looks great, man! I love seeing people do better and better with each grow.

Veg tent
3x3x6
usually 1 gal plastic pots, sometimes a 5 gal in there for a short time

Currently have some Blue Champagne clones from the Blue Champagne in Flower Tent 2. Unsure of source other than a dispensary in the Bay Area, i'll find out from person I got it from
There is one Remo Chemo by DinaFem - I follow urbanremo on youtube
One Cookie Kush from Barney's Farm
The bigger girl is a Pineapple Crack from seed I got from same source as first plant I grew almost a year ago. At least I know the whole strain this time.
It looks like they will have about 3-4 weeks in here still. Some of the Blue Champagne will be going to other homes once they are healthy.....damn fungus gnats got me again....that makes every single grow now...fuckers. Neem seems to kill them but still pisses me off.

Flower Tent 2 - 9 days since the flip

I am glad I have the 8 ft tall tent lol

One of my new lights just arrived. It is an Archibald 220W, sitting next to one of my existing SF1000’s. Dimming pot installed, all plug and play. The aluminum plate they use is thicker than the SF1000’s as well

Flower Tent 2 - 18 days since flip I think

Here is some of the White Widow

All the Archibald lights are up. Have one SF-1000 in there as well, I'm only using 3 on the light I'm building

I'm working on the ventilation right now...lol

Flower tent 2 - 23 days from flip

Everything has been harvested in Flower Tent 1. Finally almost finished the light I have been building. Still some wiring to do but for all the white working. Moved plants around, going to veg in the flower tent since it is empty, and lets me move thing along. Seedlings moves into veg tent from seed/clone tents. Next will be cuttings from pineapple crack in a couple weeks. Hoping now that they are moved, they can breath better and finally fully recover from the gnats

Seed/Clone tent: empty

Veg tent: 4 Blueberry, 2 Super Critical CBD, 1 Bubblegummer, 5 that are a cookie or ice cream cake that was from same seeds I used on my second grow.

Flower Tent 1: 1 Pineapple Crack that was from seed I got from a friend, 1 Cookie Kush, 9 Blue Champagne I cut from the blue champagne currently in flower

Flower Tent 2: no change

Update on the 3 tents I have in service, Veg tent, Flower Tent 1 being used in veg at the moment, and flower tent 2. Gonna ask for help on the twisted growth on some. Havent had gnats in a long time, maybe some just didn't grow out of it?

Plants in Veg

A couple of the 1 gal should get picked up today by a friend. I need the space, and never planned on this many of the clones I started making it this far. I will take clones before I flower again, but I can safely get rid of a bunch as they are all the same (other than the Pinapple Crack and the Cookie Kush). One other I have from seed from my veg tent got moved in too.

The Pineapple Crack was doing horrible, so I trimmed her up a bunch, took off a lot that was unhealthy. She seems to have perked up since and new growth looking better

I must have a Herm somewhere, foxtailing bad damnit. I can't find any nanners like I see in pics, and def no balls. Second grow in a row with seeds....2 different tents so the pollen staying behind from last grow isn't the issue

I have resorted to using the drying tent as a temp veg tent, things are blowing up. I need a bigger veg tent, or just another one. A 2x2 space and a 3x3....maybe time for a 5x5. Gonna wait though as I’m looking at a 10x10 for flowering then I could just use the current flower tents for veg