skoondawg
Well-Known Member
2 x South African Bag Seed SWAZI // SCROG 250HPS + 200W CFL Closet Grow // Organic //
Hey guys!
Not new to the 420mag forums, been doing hours and hours of reading and research over the past year or so. Finally decided to post my current grow.
Currently 25 days into flower
Strain: Probably a mix - leaves do look thin so maybe leaning more towards sativa?
Seed: Outdoor SWAZI bag seed
Light: 250W MH (veg) & HPS (flower) & +- 200W CFL (2700k +6400k)
Box: 3.6ft x 1.7ft x 3.6ft
Hood: Stainless Steel hood with high reflectivity
Temp: 22-27 deg Celsius
Humidity: varies between 40-60%
Pots: 2 x 15L Plastic tupperware containers sealed with black tape
Medium: Potting soil mixed with perlite, vermiculite, worm castings, bone meal, diamaticious earth, epsom salts, turbo grow rock dust, fine dolomite lime.
Water with ph'ed (6.5) water and added Kelpak every water during veg, Added blackstrap molasses to my water once flowering started, add kelpak now and then.
Struggle to get seeds down in Southern Africa, and only my second grow so wanting to just learn and improve with each grow - therefore stuck to just bag seeds. Fortunately have managed to get some cool strains through contacts -sour diesel, chiesel, lsd, black domino, a kush strain etc - exciting, will be used for a perpetual grow in the following year.
Anyway back to the grow:
Germinated a bunch of seeds using the paper towel method, planted into solo cups once tap root showed, lightly watered, covered with plastic wrap to raise humidity and off we went.
Sprouted a couple days later - 20 October. At that point in time i had two 85w 6400K CFL's raised above the seedlings. Growth was slow as it is with cfl. Kept the lights close.
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3 weeks in and i got a 250w MH which i installed into my hood, kept the two 85watt suspended on either side of the MH bulb because i felt adequate light wouldn't reach to both sides of the cab so i figured supplemental lighting would help?
Transplanted two healthiest solo cup plants into big 15l containers, another two were planted into more or less 1 gallon pots. Both the 1 gallon plants showed signs quite early. One male and one female. The two big containers - one looked lanky and stretched and i assumed it to be male - a couple days later i spotted a ballsack/male preflower and culled it - replacing it with the female from the 1 gallon pot. The other big pot turned out to be female too - YAY
Still risk of hermie with these seeds so holding thumbs.
Suffered from an iron deficiency (can be seen in the photos) which was due to lock out as my soil ph was too high. I corrected and the plants recovered in 2 weeks or so. I had a manual ph test kit which showed my tap water to be ph 7. Turns out the ph is actually 9,2 (tested with ph pen I got myself). Therefore this grow has been over shadowed by ph fluctuations.. hopefully doesn't hurt my yield too much..
Installed the screen and tucked for the next week and a half (prior to the screen i had topped once and lst down the main branches down with gardening wire - the screen is quite low on the plants because of that and because my height is limited).
Switched to 12/12 on the 1st of December, kept the MH bulb on for the first 12 days of flower to minimise stretch, then replaced with 250W HPS. Kept the two 85W 6400K CFL for a week then decided there was too much blue, and they were blocking a lot of the light from the HPS bulb. I removed them. Added 20 W CFL all around the HPS bulb instead [SEE IMAGES]
5 days into flower:
13 days into flower:
19 days in flower:
with the HPS off:
23 days in:
Latest pics are about 25 days into flower - turned the HPS off (leaving the +-240w of CFLS on) for a moment to take pics:
ANyone know what problem im having? It looks a bit like manganese defeciency?
Watering every 2 days, these girls are real thirsty, and are currently going quite nicely. Hoping they fatten up considerably but you never know with these unknown genetics.. might be let me down but will be positive as they look good.
Please feel free to give any tips or pointers. My first proper grow and hoping to get some nice yield and bud as well as good practice for the next round of better genetics.
Peace.
Skoondawg
Hey guys!
Not new to the 420mag forums, been doing hours and hours of reading and research over the past year or so. Finally decided to post my current grow.
Currently 25 days into flower
Strain: Probably a mix - leaves do look thin so maybe leaning more towards sativa?
Seed: Outdoor SWAZI bag seed
Light: 250W MH (veg) & HPS (flower) & +- 200W CFL (2700k +6400k)
Box: 3.6ft x 1.7ft x 3.6ft
Hood: Stainless Steel hood with high reflectivity
Temp: 22-27 deg Celsius
Humidity: varies between 40-60%
Pots: 2 x 15L Plastic tupperware containers sealed with black tape
Medium: Potting soil mixed with perlite, vermiculite, worm castings, bone meal, diamaticious earth, epsom salts, turbo grow rock dust, fine dolomite lime.
Water with ph'ed (6.5) water and added Kelpak every water during veg, Added blackstrap molasses to my water once flowering started, add kelpak now and then.
Struggle to get seeds down in Southern Africa, and only my second grow so wanting to just learn and improve with each grow - therefore stuck to just bag seeds. Fortunately have managed to get some cool strains through contacts -sour diesel, chiesel, lsd, black domino, a kush strain etc - exciting, will be used for a perpetual grow in the following year.
Anyway back to the grow:
Germinated a bunch of seeds using the paper towel method, planted into solo cups once tap root showed, lightly watered, covered with plastic wrap to raise humidity and off we went.
Sprouted a couple days later - 20 October. At that point in time i had two 85w 6400K CFL's raised above the seedlings. Growth was slow as it is with cfl. Kept the lights close.
[url='https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/IMAG25763.jpg']
3 weeks in and i got a 250w MH which i installed into my hood, kept the two 85watt suspended on either side of the MH bulb because i felt adequate light wouldn't reach to both sides of the cab so i figured supplemental lighting would help?
Transplanted two healthiest solo cup plants into big 15l containers, another two were planted into more or less 1 gallon pots. Both the 1 gallon plants showed signs quite early. One male and one female. The two big containers - one looked lanky and stretched and i assumed it to be male - a couple days later i spotted a ballsack/male preflower and culled it - replacing it with the female from the 1 gallon pot. The other big pot turned out to be female too - YAY
Still risk of hermie with these seeds so holding thumbs.
Suffered from an iron deficiency (can be seen in the photos) which was due to lock out as my soil ph was too high. I corrected and the plants recovered in 2 weeks or so. I had a manual ph test kit which showed my tap water to be ph 7. Turns out the ph is actually 9,2 (tested with ph pen I got myself). Therefore this grow has been over shadowed by ph fluctuations.. hopefully doesn't hurt my yield too much..
Installed the screen and tucked for the next week and a half (prior to the screen i had topped once and lst down the main branches down with gardening wire - the screen is quite low on the plants because of that and because my height is limited).
Switched to 12/12 on the 1st of December, kept the MH bulb on for the first 12 days of flower to minimise stretch, then replaced with 250W HPS. Kept the two 85W 6400K CFL for a week then decided there was too much blue, and they were blocking a lot of the light from the HPS bulb. I removed them. Added 20 W CFL all around the HPS bulb instead [SEE IMAGES]
5 days into flower:
13 days into flower:
19 days in flower:
with the HPS off:
23 days in:
Latest pics are about 25 days into flower - turned the HPS off (leaving the +-240w of CFLS on) for a moment to take pics:
ANyone know what problem im having? It looks a bit like manganese defeciency?
Watering every 2 days, these girls are real thirsty, and are currently going quite nicely. Hoping they fatten up considerably but you never know with these unknown genetics.. might be let me down but will be positive as they look good.
Please feel free to give any tips or pointers. My first proper grow and hoping to get some nice yield and bud as well as good practice for the next round of better genetics.
Peace.
Skoondawg
