First Time Closet Grow - July 2009

[fuuji0019]

Sounding good - When i went away for a weekend while growing i had to get a mate to help out with my babies lol, so glad for that.

You'll be suprised, they can bounce back pretty well sometimes. Looking forward to the pics

[mtnbiker2288]

first off, I am extremely sorry that its been so long since my last post and everything.

second, Ive had a little bit of delayed growth since the little girls were soooooo wilted when I came back from indianapolis... =( but they've bounced back quite nicely. I am so impressed with this plants resilience to overcome the odds!

so a few things have happened since I've left off about 2 weeks ago. first of all i topped the oldest girl a few days ago just for sh*ts and giggles. haha (i like to experiment) and i also tried my hand at some LST'ing so the second one actually caught up in growth to the older one. pretty cool if you ask me! haha

anyways. heres some pics of the two girls!


older one on the right, younger on the left =)



the LST'ed one not tied up anymore...



the older one



this is the older one who was topped... i tied down a few of the top branches to get more light to the center tip that i cut because (obviously) i hoping for 2 more more grow tips to come out of this!



some of the new growth on the underside of the older one =)



this is the younger one who was LST'ed a little bit, she looked a little odd but im sure she'll grow out of it as they seem to do.




other than that, I've been blasting them with full nutes of 18-18-21 watering solution every other watering and a foliage feeding of the same for about 2 weeks now and after next week I'm going to flush them to try and avoid nute-lock.

buuuuuut this NEWB is going to bed. =) night

[mtnbiker2288]

so not much new other than my topped plant has 2 new grow tips that are doing extremely well and a lot of growth right along the stem! the only weird thing is that 1 of the new grow tips is bigger than the other? haha no idea. anyways. heres a few quick pics!


both my babies


trying my hand at some LST'ing =)


growth tip on LST'ed girl


the older girl!


2 grow tips!! =)


haha thanks for checkin it out!

[mtnbiker2288]

PS. I bought a new little 70 watt HPS that's meant for an outside light and rigged it up with a GHETTO reflector and am hanging it using Ethernet cords. haha. The only problem is that it throws quite a bit of heat for such a low wattage. I don't know how you guys do it with those big 400 and 600 watters!


yes it is made with clothes hangers and aluminum foil.... haha I'm poor.



my super powerful 70 watter! haha ;-)

[Ms.Fox]

Just to let you know foil can cause you to get hot spots on your plants. Flat white paint would be better. If you can get your hands on some emergency blankets aka space blanket, or first aid blanket for $2-$3 from walmart that would work good for your home made set up. ;-)

[dfw-guy]

^Ms. Fox is absolutely right. I'll bet that if you replaced the foil your temps will be lower
It's a nice ghetto system though, very creative w/ the coat hangers.

[mtnbiker2288]

thanks Ms. Fox and dfw! ill look into that!

and nice signature dfw- avenged sevenfold is amazing, one of the best bands ive seen live in a long time

[LiveTour]

I like the effort you've put into your reflector for sure. IMO if your going to add reflective material it should only be mylar, yet due to the fact of its high cost it might not be an option for you. As the others said the foil is a bad idea, it's retaining too much heat. A for effort though keep researching the "cheap set ups" on here and you'll see what most are running with. Good Luck!

[mtnbiker2288]

hey everybody! okay so its been about 6 weeks, and my plants should be ALOT bigger I think, but I've had a few setbacks and i just finally have enough lumens and everything to make the plants actually grow. haha. so they're finally taking off!

I've also repotted both plants into bigger 10 inch pots and they seem to love it. the second one also has started a little more LST'ing to get some of those bottom bud sights up a little higher.

so without further a due, here some pics!

quick pic of the girls


#1 has 2 main colas now!



a little bit of LSTing


and again


I think that's it for now. I'm trying to decide when I should turn them to 12/12 light schedule.... I dunno how big I want them to get, This really is only a practice run until I start my PPP or my Afghan x Mazar. any ideas?

[daydrimin]

Hello, mtnbiker I think you are doing a decent job here whatsoever! Good luck. As for reflectors I think if you have a nice vent heat could not be a problem regarding my experience so far (hot spots though I think cant be avoided, but from the other hand I am not sure how serious are they). In my case I am not at my home country so along with the expenses issue I had the prob that I cant really equip a nice workshop and tool set since I had to live behind everything bought here, but constructing something different from foil with something handy stays an alternative!
About the nutes you said that you are using time releasing soil and foliage feeding, and soluble nutes in the watering. Since I had done the same (I am not sure about the soil though - everything is written in japanese ) and I end up with yellowing and spots on the lower leaves! Probably my mistake was also that I did not use the 3/4 or 1/2 of the nutes instructions I have just used the lowest described. Seems that your nutes are not so rich in N which is needed in veg also.

In summary, when I flashed the soil and let a reasonable dry period for the plants they responded with joy!

Keep us posted and good luck!

[mtnbiker2288]

daydrimin, I started off my nutes with a 1/4 strength then moved to 1/2 strength, then threw in a feeding with full strength and my girls handled it just fine. Ive had some yellowing of the lower leaves earlier in the grow, but since I've started with the full strength nutes that hasn't been a problem yet. so hopefully its just a deficiency thats not a prob anymore. haha

[bigman151]

Hey congrats on the girls im a newb by the way if didn't solve that problem with the reflector u can use helium balloons they are basically mylar when in side out thats the only in put I got hope it helps good luck I,ll be watching

[number1]

gotta give you a rep for the reflector

[mtnbiker2288]

haha thanks daydrimin, bigman, and number1! glad to have you watch, and thanks for the info!

[number1]

youve topped one of yr girls man, when i done it on my last grow i crapped myself (Lol). I see youve got a double stem girl i had a w/rhino like that n it gave me the best bud out of 7plants. it was very nice infact that i smoked it all in two days (1oz).
Are thinking of topping in the flower stage aswell coz theres two ways of doing it but i can only remember 1 ill see if i can find out somewhere.
ps nice grow how tall are they