Newbie - 600W HPS - 3'x2' Closet Grow

[shanza93]

First and formost I would like to welcome my self and welcome you all to my grow
This is my first grow and I am new to 420, I'm after opinions, help and advice if this isn't to much to ask then please pull up a comfortable place to sit "doesn't have to be a chair" and keep your bong handy,

Ok here goes:
Strain... Strawberry blue feminized "wos"
Light...hps 600w digital ballast and dual spectrom 96'000 lumens
Temp...between 28-32 degrees C

Excuse my lack of punctuation and I am pretty much fighting my sleep here and useing a blackberry mobile device, I will update tommorow via my pc I just want to get something put together

It all starts may 5, when I succesfully germinated 5 seeds, strawberry blue a strain from world of seeds, I was useing 6 30w cfl 2700k throughout my entire veg peg period as I hadn't entirely thought out nderestimated what was ahead although this never bothered me, the cfl's did quiet a good job on my laddies, just took a while ... Ok so now I'm over done. Sofa lock I shal update tommorow but for now I leave you with a link to my new album in the makeing

 

[shanza93]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

OK thank you for so many views i know i have not left anything that deserves a reply,
2/5/14 was when they 5 started sprouting from the soil

i then re-potted in to 10-15 litre pots with the best soil i could find from the nearest garden centre (packaging read it would feed plants for up to 3 month)
while re-potting i broke the stem on one little laddie which i attempted to keep going as long as i could but it just wasn't getting the nutrients from the tap root you will be able to see by the photos

i left my remaining 4 to veg in under cfl for 6 weeks 2 days and changed the light sequence to 12/12
took a while but the cfl's done the trick maybe not the best but a good effort.

it took a remaining 3 weeks 2 days before i noticed a white hair on the 10th july yeyyyy my bday i know there late but wow they must have just been waiting for a gift to me.
but while doing so i also found a hermi , i found pollen sacks with a phew white hairs here and there nothing like the rest so i binned her and fed her to my rabbit mwahahaha

once i seen the pistils i new it was a good time to start looking at a new lighting system and possibly expanding the space i called a phew people managed to get and in-line fan with duct and a carbon filter for £30 and i 600w ballast and shade for £50 i then bought a new bulb for £20 , a little DIY later and i actually made a new cupboard 3ft x 2f maybe 4ft tall ,
i have the in-line fan pulling fresh air from outside in to the grow and in to a pipe which i welded and cut at work to resemble a cool tube with no glass, works a treat i must admit, i then have an overly sized fan to pull all air through tube and over bulb to cool it and take heat+any oder and push it through the carbon filter that is outside my grow

now to end this comment buy adding i have just found my first sugar leaves, trichomes forming on the smaller leaves closest to to bud sites there is not enough to grab a phot just yet , please enjoy i will be back to up date i have many more photos in gallery

 

[shanza93]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

What Strain is it? strawberry blue feminzed
Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages? 25% indica 75% sativa
How Many Plants? 3 flowering
Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stageflowering
If in Vegetative Stage... How Long? all together 9 weeks 6 days
If in Flowering Stage... How Long? 3 weeks 1 day
Indoor or Outdoor? indoor
Soil or Hydro? soil
If Soil... What is in your Mix? shop bought not sure proved good
If Soil... What Size Pot? 3 gallon
Size (Wattage) of Light? How Many? 600w hps
Is it Air Cooled? yes
Temperature of Room/Cabinet? 30-32 celcious
RH of Room/Cabinet? not sure
PH of Medium or Reservoir?
Any Pests? no
How Often are you Watering? water once every 2 days and flowering nutrients every 3 waters
Type and Strength of Fertilizers used? will comment
Size or Square Footage of Room? 3x2x4

 

[shanza93]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

i would like help with mr skinny he is not like the other 2 i think ii may have over defoliated during veg

...shocked this plant at some, other than that the soil has a gravel base and top with not much soil and she is requiring much more water than the rest , it is the one in middle in bottom photo

 

[shanza93]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

well start of the day for my girls, here is a video of my grow, enjoy
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would also like to ask about mrs skinny does everything seem ok to you guys ?

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

HI Shanza93!

If you ask a moderator to move this to your grow journal on the Journals' thread, they can do that for you. That will get all this hard work you did here to the right place.

Just click on the little triangle on one of your posts here and write in the "report post" box what you would like them to do.

Hope that helps!

 

[shanza93]

Re: newbie,600w hps 3ftx2ft closet grow, in progress

Thankyou cannafan

HI Shanza93!

If you ask a moderator to move this to your grow journal on the Journals' thread, they can do that for you. That will get all this hard work you did here to the right place.

Just click on the little triangle on one of your posts here and write in the "report post" box what you would like them to do.

Hope that helps!

 

[shanza93]

Yey now in the correct place I can relax and just update ya'll

 

[Lady Cannafan]

 

[shanza93]

11:10 uk. Time , timer Has been on since 8:00 and I havnt seen my babys properly since I started this thread. Nearly time for a wake and bake and to do that I have to step inside my shed while I can sit smoke and check out my plants see you guys soon for an update

 

[shanza93]

been busy today , finally gotten mrs skinny repotted in nutrient free organic soil, i am looking for advice about how long my mrs skinny will be in shock for , here are some before and afters the leafes perked straight back up once back under hps

and progress on the grow

 

[shanza93]

 

[shanza93]

Mrs skinny seems to be doing really good today and nowt grown taller then her fellow plant in the last 2 days , I must be so something right atleast, after reptting and rewatering with no ferts she seems pirked up and starting to blow up no sighns of stress . But my smallest little cool dude is looking weird But brilliant , not sure what is going all the seed are from the same place ? The biggest in the middle was fimmed at the top and has. Main colas at the top but there also groing branches !

 

[shanza93]

Damb ... Wish I could get some people to talk , I'd love to know if everything seems to be fine as this is my first I don't want to kill these girls just a heads up would be good

 

[David Bowman]

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