Mohican's 2012 Indoor Malawi Grow

Positivity

Positivity

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Yeah..I grew some monsters in my waterfarm. My dj short blueberry went from slow grower to mental growth rates..big buds. I swear it smelled..tasted watered down though. Probably my fault more than anything..I think high quality hydro is harder to master than organics.

I just drilled the top bucket and put a big airstone in the res...big ol rootball!! Sounds similar

Never saw Scotty's grow..I'll take a look. I did run floranova in it though..makes it easy. I'd like to try veg n bloom next time

I'd actually like to see if I can pull quality stuff with hydro under my new lighting...see if lighting is the main factor
 
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PetFlora

PetFlora

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Mohican said:
Yes I have. He has done some amazing things :) How are you doing?
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Pretty well, thanks

Have you seen my thread DIY Mini-Me Flood and Drain? Originally I was top feeding, but now it's an actual Mini F & D. It's fabulous for a single plant and easily expanded

I have a sweet Blueberry Cheesecake reveg with ~ 3 weeks left to go under the BML SPYDR. She's easily twice as full than when I originally grew her. I never thought it could do so. I had left her outside to die, but heavy summer rains kept her alive, but barely. She became my test subject for my Mini Me 1.0. The only real difference is going from top feed to Mini F & D. I'm guessing > 250gms at harvest, where she originally produced 110ish

Gearing up for more Amare Technologies panel testing.

I went from a DIY tent frame to 2 new bigger actual tents upstairs, with a new tent coming for downstairs.

I have 10 babies under a Solar Spec 260 upstairs. They are breaking out beyond the 260s coverage, but I can't move them just now

I have 2 x 150s sitting in a box at the moment. They were intended for a 2 year old tent that crashed due to crappy plastic corner connectors fatiguing under < 15 pounds of weight, so probably a good thing that happened before crashing into vegging plants

More tents= more plants= more nutes = more water = more work
 
PetFlora

PetFlora

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Hydro can rock, but as I found out from lots of 'professional tokers', who rank my Big Mex (grown under the SPYDR) among the best they've had

So... no substitute for a light system that puts out ~ > 1000 umoles across the canopy
 
Mohican

Mohican

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What happened to day 77? I do not know!

OK - I am getting ready to flip to 12/12. I have started by changing the lights to 16/8. I will keep changing by 2 hours till I reach 12/12. I put the screen back in and I will keep LSTing until I think she has filled in enough.

Day 78 Top Natural:




Day 78 Angle Natural:




The clone/top is showing nice big root nubs at 2 weeks since topping.


Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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I hung some more black plastic to keep my 12/12 dark cycle truly dark. I usually go out to see her at night so now I need to make sure I go out there only when the lights are on. Changed the timer to 14/10.

No new pictures of my girl but I do have one of my favorite pictures from FlowaMasta's grow:




Pretty awesome!


I cant wait to see what my Sativa does in this grow setup!

Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Here is a picture of Mr Goo, which I planted from seed last August and harvested in October:




The bugs really loved her!
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Been leaving her mostly alone except for res maintenance. I keep trying to figure out how to get stuff in the right places in the screen.

Top with LED on and flash:




Angle no lights flash:




Side after some under screen clipping:




I am in 12/12 - OMG!!!!

Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Hi All,

I am always fiddling with my setup and I felt like she needed more light so I added two 2700K CFLs and a UV CFL.

pH 5.8
ppm 1040


Day 5 Flower Top:




Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Hi All,
She is drinking water but the nutes and pH have not changed.

pH 5.8
ppm 1040


Day 6 with lights:






After I get some camera advice from FlowaMasta I will take some Macro shots of the tips.


Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Here are the clone shots:


Clone day 20 - Outside for 4 days:




Clone day 22 - Outside for 6 days:





I also planted a tiny clone that was showing really big roots for such a tiny clipping. I will post pictures later.


Cheers,
Mo
 
Mohican

Mohican

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Happy Cinco De Mayo everybody! Lick the salt, drink the Cuervo 1800 shot, bite the lime...yum :)

So many chores today. Moved the screen up, moved the lights up, topped off the res, added a weird mix of nutes, aired out the steamy room, and installed my UVB CFL.

I took some pictures but my camera has had too many shots...or was that me? Anyway, I forgot to change the ISO setting from 3200 from my moon shots last night and ended up with some grainy pictures. Sorry...hic


I need to go out and take some tonight with the tripod if it is not too drunk/buzzed hehe


Here is a shot of my micro clone to see what happens. It had some great roots coming out of the RW:




Top View Natural:




Screen before I moved it:




Screen after I moved it:




New UVB Tropical light:




I am going outside now to howl at the moon!


Cheers,
Mo
 
PetFlora

PetFlora

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Very interesting photo with the wooden barrel and seemingly antique trowel

Color correct it and enter it in a show, or contest

I can see it on the cover of mj mags,and/or horticulture...

Seems like I read somewhere that copper is not a good idea when carrying acidic solutions

Keep a close eye on this.:weed:
 
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Mohican

Mohican

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All kinds of stuff going on today! Last night I went outside to look at my organic nutes so I could tell Flowa what brand I was using and I took a look at my citrus tree that is getting ravaged by something. It had earwigs everywhere! I need to figure out how to get rid of them.

OK - back to today.

Big Clone:
She continues to improve in appearance and vigor. She lost some fan leaves during the shock and is having a hard time getting reved up from just the tiny tip leaves. There are a few big fan leaves left and now ones are coming in so it won't be long. I am brewing some organic tea and I put the compost in my cheapo 220 micron bubble bag, dropped it in the 5 gallons of rainwater (what should the pH of tea be?), dropped in my little bubbler and it is happily brewing away.


Top before clone:




Clone:






Little Clone:
She is in a big barrel and the soil needed a good soaking so she got submerged in the process and covered with mud. I cleaned her off and we will see how she does. I hope the tea will help her explode.





Mother ScrOG:
She is growing OK. I feel like she is not going nuts like she should. I am going to change my nute measurements to EC instead of ppm. Here is what I added:

  • Sensi A,B - 3 ml each
  • 1 ml superthrive
  • 40 ml H2O2
  • 30 ml Flora Nova Bloom
  • 2 gallons of water

EC 1.9
pH 5.4

I just went in and moved some more heads and she seems to be liking the boost in nutes and the low pH!

Here are some pics from earlier:

Long exposure with just room light





With flash





Section of screen with flash





Tip macro (for FlowaMasta)





Now to plot my revenge against the earwigs!



Cheers,
Mo
 
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