RageMonkey's Phototron & homeade bubbler experiment Northern Lights

[Ms.Fox]

^ Great! I can't wait!

 

[RageMonkey]

Happy Holidays everyone! I trust you all found presents on your trees instead of under them. =)

Box shot.

Main cola bent over...

I can hear the Angels calling us....

Ho Ho Ho....

So excited I couldn't keep the camera in focus...

Behold, a Christmas miracle... Frosted leaves and all...

A winter paradise...

Happy Holidays to all my 420 friends!!!!

 

[Ms.Fox]

Nice! Those buds are fattening up very nicely. ;-)

 

[RageMonkey]

Nice! Those buds are fattening up very nicely. ;-)

The top 2/3 of the plant is pretty much solid flowers. As far as i can tell, there apears to be 3 colas forming at the top of the chamber. Probably because they are all forced to be the same height.

 

[RageMonkey]

pics from today. coming into the home stretch 12 days til harvest

this shot came out better than I anticipated

seems to have gotten alot harder to get shots that aren't blurry. The autofocus on my camera is just pissing me off today.

Nice thick stem.... hmmmmm....

 

[chaosridden]

looks pretty wild in there. I'll smoke to this.

 

[Ms.Fox]

Unbelievable! Buds look tasty!

 

[pan4gold49]

Nice

I like the phototron

pan4

 

[fineas]

Hey Rage,
I can just sniff those lovely floral aromas from here. Wonderbar maan.
From your experiment with this kind of system how do you think using lateral flourescents in 4 corners of a space (Mine is 6x5 ft *8ft high) with a 400w HPS from above? ( I have this area curtained off w/panda to enclose the plant structure which is 3x3) Looks like those lats are giving the girl the light she needs. In your experience you think this is viable for a few plants? Do you think adding lateral lighting to my grow space will make my plants bushier and more full of flowers? I really would like your opinion cause your grow came out very succesful & nice despite the space and heat problems you had. Rage dude you did a fine job.

 

[RageMonkey]

Hey Rage,
I can just sniff those lovely floral aromas from here. Wonderbar maan.
From your experiment with this kind of system how do you think using lateral flourescents in 4 corners of a space (Mine is 6x5 ft *8ft high) with a 400w HPS from above? ( I have this area curtained off w/panda to enclose the plant structure which is 3x3) Looks like those lats are giving the girl the light she needs. In your experience you think this is viable for a few plants? Do you think adding lateral lighting to my grow space will make my plants bushier and more full of flowers? I really would like your opinion cause your grow came out very succesful & nice despite the space and heat problems you had. Rage dude you did a fine job.

How many watts are you going to use for side lighting? Sidelighing normally produces taller/stringier plants. However, if you were to grow a plan under a 400w MH during veg then switch it to a 400w HPS with abou 200 - 300w of 3000k fluorescent side lighting, you would get more budding in he bottom 2/3 of the plant.

 

[RageMonkey]

So here's the deal. Tomorrow I will take photos, then it's time to chop down my xmas tree. I'm going to get you some nice photos of the harvest and I've a got a postage scale ready to measure the wet yield.

Also, yesterday, we took 2.5g off a lower branch and vaped it. This shit is a really strong indica. No chem tastes at all. I can't wait to figure out the final wet yield weight.

Anyone want to take a guess at how big the root ball will be when she's finally revealed?

 

[four20friend]

I am curious as to your yeild as well, you packed her in that phototron nice.

 

[moonmist3207]

whats the size of the phototron?

 

[Harry Red]

Looking forward to seeing pix of your tron busting harvest my friend!!



Harry

 

[RageMonkey]

whats the size of the phototron?

It's a phototron 8, so it's 21" x 51"

 

[Ms.Fox]

Hmmmmm.... My guess on the root ball size is about 8"x8"... Lol. Just a guess.

Congrats on the harvest! I can't wait to see pics!

 

[RageMonkey]

Ok and the numbers are in. The wet weight was 1 lbs 6.4 oz. Tada!!!!!!!!!!

That's pretty rediculous considering this is a phototron.

Now for the harvest images:

Aproaching the enemy with cat-like stealthy precision...

Popped off her panel....

Here's my Marijuana rape kit....

One last look before hack and slash....

A beautiful thick stem... what a shame to have to defile it...

3 side panels removed... and like a cute little veal cow she springs forth from her cage, oblivious to the fate that awaits her...

1 beautiful chopped stem...

Thrown to the floor... No one can help you now...

Yeeha! Yeeha! Ariba! Ariba!

Onto the cutting table... 2 white trash bags laid out

Here's the start of 2 hours of metidulous trimming and manicuring

Here's the pile of clipping left over from the harvest...

Look! there's a 6 quart stainless steel bowl heaping with buds...

Exciting, huh?

Side shot of the buds. According to my scale the buds weigh 1 lbs 6.4 oz wet...

Here I've laid the buds on a 20" x 20" box fan which is on medium and is blowing down. the fan is sitting on two 1.5" spacers to provide room for exhaust from the bottom. These buds will be turned daily for about a week until they are ready for curing...

This is a cheap easy way to dry your buds while maintaining excellent airflow; In about a week I'll give you guys some shots of the curing process and I'll take another weight measurement so we can see how much water is lost due to drying.

 

[Ms.Fox]

Great job! The buds look nice. It's been real fun watchin this grow. ;-)

 

[RageMonkey]

Oh and before I forget. Here are two shots of the root ball. BTW, that netpot is a 6" net pot. That should give to an idea of size. The 2.5 gallon DWC bucket was 2/3 full of roots. Those blue things are my two bubble wands which are getting tossed with this rootball.

 

[RageMonkey]

Great job! The buds look nice. It's been real fun watchin this grow. ;-)

Honestly I can't believe this phototron produced this much... Pyroponics should send me an award. This kind of yield is unheard of for a phototron.