First Grow - Trainwreck

[obxgardener]

Good to see another quality grow. + rep!

[insane420]

Thanks everyone again for + rep ! This site is full of some awesome people !

Here is the latest update with the clones. The growth is great and no signs of stress at this point. However, I think I am going to pickup a light mover instead of moving my 2nd 600watt light into the tent. Reading through the forums about Electricity and Heat issues, I want to keep my monthly bill reasonable. I also made my first mistake on feeding the mother plant, I followed the foxfarm feeding schedule to the letter, and it was a bit too hot for her. Some of the big fan leaves are showing it. I will try to get pics up of the nute burn later this evening. I am switching to a less aggressive schedule and will only feed with nutes once a week. Sound Reasonable? Aside from the burning, the mother is still doing great and Jack Frost paid her a visit the last couple days

Anyway, here are a few pics of the clones that I put into flower yesterday:







Light Shot with Carbon Filter:




As always, any and all input is welcomed and appreciated.

Insane420

[Sky Rocket]

Looking good man. What made you go with trainwreck? Is it your favorite strain?

[insane420]

Sky Rocket - I chose this strain primarily because of seed cost and flower time. I also watched the GHS youtube video and Franco cracked me up to the point where I just had to order them.

Ok - now I need some help on making sure I am diagnosing the problem I am having with the mother in bloom. I have been feeding her per the FF schedule and I have to adjust the PH of the mixture up to 7.5 - 8.0 so that the run off measures around 6.1. This week I have backed off the every other feeding and going to once a week. I haven't seen any new growth impacted, but the big fan leaves were looking bad. Here are the pics at day 29:




Other than the fan leaves, she is looking good:






insane420

[McBudz]

Do I see an ebb and grow in your tent? Why the soil?

Mix some pulverised dolomite lime in with your soil to help sweeten up and keep your ph stable around 6.5

Setup looks great, nice and clean.

Most nutrients out there are a bit hot when run per the label. GH Flora series for hydro has been awesome though. I follow to the letter and have had not one issue. If you go ebb and grow I recommend GH flora series for sure.

For the mom just feed ro water for a week or so the feed down 25% on the strength.

[insane420]

Originally Posted by McBudz

Do I see an ebb and grow in your tent? Why the soil?

Mix some pulverised dolomite lime in with your soil to help sweeten up and keep your ph stable around 6.5

I have the system, and I plan on firing it up on my next grow. The temps have been so hot around here I wasn't sure I could keep the water temp in check until the cooler months. I am stoked to try it out after this grow. With the dolomite lime, what's the best way to get it mixed in with the soil at this stage in bloom?

Thanks !

insane420

[McBudz]

Originally Posted by insane420

I have the system, and I plan on firing it up on my next grow. The temps have been so hot around here I wasn't sure I could keep the water temp in check until the cooler months. I am stoked to try it out after this grow. With the dolomite lime, what's the best way to get it mixed in with the soil at this stage in bloom?

Thanks !

insane420

Mix it into the top layer as much as you can and water will help bring it down into the soil. And use a bis ass basting syringe to shoot it down into the root zone. Mix it up in some water. Just don't go too nuts make small adjustments

If you can I would keep your res outside of the tent when its time for that. it will help keep the temps down. I never had any issue with a hot room and the res. But keeping it out of the tent will help plus more room for plants. It help that its not dwc... the roots get air when the sites drain. There is always a chiller too..

[blacken]

hey nice cola
that thing is plump

[DVSmofo]

i have used FF for the last 3 years. i feed them half of what the FF schedule says. it seems to work good, have never had any ph or nute lock problems.

[insane420]

Here is an update - day 10 of flower. Plants are shooting up and I trimmed up a bit of the lower portions of each plant. The mother is doing better, but the nute burn damage is done and I will have to ride it out till she finishes.

Pics





Mother





The pics of the mother don't really show it, but most of the buds are rock hard and super frosty. I had to use bamboo stakes in places to tie up the buds that were forcing the branches to fall over !


insane420

[The Butcher]

nice update bro. I'm posted and suscribed!!

[MidWestBuds]

Nice grow setup Im really excited to see how well this strain turns out. Keep up the good work.

[cigo]

my first grow was TW too... when you will smoke some buds of it you will be suprised of this nice stone with celebrate effect, and how strong is it.! good luck last picture of main-bud[mini-cola] looks good when i mean mini it means short ... but it is fat-as* bud!
Good luck!

[ConqueringLOJ]

Insane420,
I'm comin to the show a bit late, but I'll be watching closely from now on. You've got a really nice setup going!!..2 600watters in the 4x8 tent is exactly what I am going to be starting up in the next few weeks. I'm very interested to see how your grow progresses!

Great pick with the Trainwreck by the way, and I'm glad to hear that your life partner is doing well with her recovery. I'll be checking in as this grow progresses for sure!

Alohaz

[mesrone.]

+reps man! Some great looking ladies you have here. I think someone commented on this already, but an awesome setup you have as well. Super clean and fresh. makes everything look so much healthier and happy.