BigSlim's First Grow Nothing Fancy Yet - 2010

[Propa Gator]

Nice bud from a good Bud, Slim.
Those hooded CFLs are neatly deployed. Learn what you need to know, with them.
Don't lose your shoplight, soon you'll want to maintain moms and cut/root clones.
My 'nursery' has just two four-footers w/ four high CRI tubes, 128w total over 8 sq ft.
I like white light, as do my girls.

 

[BigSlim]

thanks blue yea i plan to get a few more once i get paid and that box is big enough i can put a second power strip in there jus gotta move the one over a bit


PG it was nice had a very fruity smell and taste and hit ya like a ton of bricks def not somethin to smoke if you have a busy day lol

as for the shop light it will be awhile b4 i have the room to do mothers and clones and my girls love the cfl so much more lol im not tossin the light jus getin outa this closet lol

 

[Propa Gator]

jus getin outa this closet lol

In my life, growing's always been about the real estate;
the most important and expensive componet of an indoor garden

 

[BigSlim]

lol true that

i now have 3 26w cfl in the new box

 

[herbsnbuds]

Looking good Slim. Nice nug... looks tasty!!

Light box is pretty cool...

 

[BigSlim]

took a few more pics today

she still shootin out sets of 3

and the runt lol

my plan is to start flowering next weekend as i get paid next thursday i can buy my timer and a couple more lights for em

 

[Barry Manilow]

They look great Slim! How's the job working out?

 

[BigSlim]

thanks man its goin pretty good only thing i dont like bout it is i work from 4pm-1am but all in all its good

 

[Barry Manilow]

Yeah that sux. I work a lot of 2-10's and 3-11's, that's bad enough.

 

[Planter]

plant are lookin good big. flowering is goin to be so exciting, good luck mate!!

 

[BigSlim]

thanks staffy yea i look forward to it aswell

i think i will make another light box to cover the oldest plant as she is already wider than that reflector which im pretty sure is a 10" lol

 

[BigSlim]

got bored took a few pics

 

[herbsnbuds]

Looking good there bro

 

[j4s2u0]

looking good!

 

[BigSlim]

thanks guys

 

[Barry Manilow]

Slim for a rookie you're doing awesome! Keep up the great job.

 

[BigSlim]

thanks blue yea i figured out jus gotta be patient and dont rush things lol

 

[BigSlim]

ok quick update and a few pics

so the miracle grow fert was a bad idea after i used it i baegan getin cal/mag def in both plants on a couple leaves so i flushed and got some of that osmocote plus i been readin bout and the problem appears to be fixed these ladies are getin big now i will begin flowering this weekend once ive bought my timer

now for the pics

first the oldest she has spread big as the box i built for the light lol

now for my short bush lol

u can jus barely see in the last pic the def i had

 

[herbsnbuds]

Sweet bro. Very nice

 

[Barry Manilow]

Hey BigSlim how's it going? My first grow was MG too and I had terrible cal/mag problems, but I also was using the wrong stuff to ph down, had all kinds of crap going wrong.

Are you checking your ph? I think you'll be real happy with soil and oc+, all you have to do is water ph'd around 6.8.

I think your plants look great, is the big girl actually growing into the light?

Don't know if you're familiar with supercropping but it works great, it's a fancy name for breaking the stem and it looks like it would work great for you.

All I do is break the stem, a good 8 inches at least from the top. I don't mean bend it, I mean break it so the part after the break falls over. It's kind of like chopping a tree, aim the break so it ends up in a good spot away from other branches if you can. Within a day or so it will have turned back to the light and started growing again. It will buy you some space.

I've probably done it 20 times and never lost a branch, it works really well. The biggest problem is making sure you break it enough, if you don't in about 3 days it will look like you didn't do anything.

Here's a pic of the break when I supercropped the bagseed 5 days ago

I took this next pic yesterday. The horizontal stem is the main cola that I broke... and you can see it curves back upwards to form the bud in the pic.

It's a nice tool to have in the arsenal when you're trying to keep them short.