4x4 Full tent, 1000W First Grow

Edwardo Ruffian

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Hello All,

I started this round on 11/30/17, germinated 9 bag seeds in between two paper towels in a zip lock bag and sitting on a heat mat. All seeds popped within 1.5 days and were planted tap root down in ffof (Fox Farm Ocean Forest) in a seedling tray with humidity dome, watered in with RO water ph'ed to 6.6. After another day or two 6/9 seedlings broke through the soil and humidity dome was removed a few days after that. This grow was started using a 25w actual blurple LED panel but quickly decided to swap that out for my MH. I dimmed the ballast to 600W and hung at its highest setting for the tent (approx. 60"). I know it's a waste of light, but the room needs heated anyway and this way I can dial in the tent, this being my first grow and all. I'm doing veg and flower in the same tent this first run, but I'll be using a veg tent for future grows and t5-HO fixtures for light. My current grow started and will finish in a tent 4'x4'x80" standard uni-zipper mylar grow tent. Due to this grow coinciding with winter I opted for a 4" 200cfm exhaust fan for the sealed MH fixture and am using a desk fan on top of the tent to pull out enough air for ventilation. With low humidity in my area the tent utilizes a cold mist humidifier to keep the humididty up, for the lights a small heater.

I've made plenty of mistakes in the first week, including... transplanting too early, having the MH light too close, and overwatering at least once. Having said all that I've managed to keep all 6 seedlings alive the first week and have continual growth, either above or below the soil.

This is week 1 for information and pics, there are 11 weeks of pics and daily notes.

Go check out my journal for more pics and info...https://growdiaries.com/diaries/5296-full-tent-indica-hybrid-first-grow/week/26433
 

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Edwardo Ruffian

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Little picture update. Maintaining my feed at 10ml/gal Tiger Bloom, 10ml/gal Big Bloom, 2tsp blackstrap molasses, 1ml/gal Cal-Mag. The ladies seem to be happy, yellowing and losing under canopy vegetation I think that's to be expected though as they don't get much light, and by then it's pretty weak like at that. 20180214_075745_HDR.jpg 20180214_075750.jpg 20180214_075756.jpg 20180214_075836.jpg 20180214_075847.jpg 20180214_075856.jpg 20180214_075909.jpg 20180214_075927.jpg 20180214_075935.jpg 20180214_075947.jpg
 

Edwardo Ruffian

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Alrighty guys, girls, and zimzers we are starting week 12 from seed and we are 32 days since first sign of pistils. I am now feeding full flowering nutrients (Fox Farm Tiger Bloom) and the girls seem to really like it, I've seen no evidence of leaf tip burn, to avoid burn in an all soil grow I'm increasing the nutrient concentration gradually, waiting at least 3-waterings before increasing from last watering. I've only had to stake up 2-3 top cola's, as the plant they are on is in front and doesn't' have as much support from surrounding plants. Although these plants were grown from seeds form the same bud, the different phenotypes are generating vastly different smells. I try to bump and move the plants as little as possible, every time I move anything the air is filled with a musky greasy and sometimes fruity pungent odor!
**As a side note, I would like to point out that I have done almost no defoliation, the under canopy you see has developed naturally due to the plants dropping fan leaves as necessary. I have done some pruning of lower flowering branches, but these branches contained no fan leaves, only resource draining under canopy bud sites and branches.**

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Edwardo Ruffian

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jesus those things look delicious!!! what are you taking the photos on? crystal clear
Thank you much! taking these photos with a Canon EOS Rebel T5i. I shoot in RAW with the HPS then edit in Photoshop to correct the color, it gets pretty close to natural, but everything always ends up lighter than in real life. I've thought about offering to edit others photos, because honestly its so easy and they look so much better than the yellow washed out HPS,MH,LED pictures I see so often. Maybe I'll figure out a free program that people can use and make a tutorial on how to color/white balance etc. their photos. Thanks for taking a look, i'll keep posting updates here every so often, but my grow diaries journal has about 20-30 of these quality pictures every day.
 

MidWestMayhem

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Amazing looking grow so far, hope to match that when mine gets to that stage in a couple months :)

Quick question mate, have you flushed these plants at all?
 

Edwardo Ruffian

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Amazing looking grow so far, hope to match that when mine gets to that stage in a couple months :)

Quick question mate, have you flushed these plants at all?
I have not flushed these plants at all. They've been at 12/12 for only 44 days now. I'm going to post an update to this thread. I wanted to post my dairy here on RIU but the diary section of this forum is severly lacking in features that make it easy to use. feel free to check out my diary over on Grow Diaries .com. https://growdiaries.com/diaries/5296-full-tent-indica-hybrid-first-grow
 

Edwardo Ruffian

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Hello Folks,

Just updating this thread with current photo's. I think seed production is finishing and hopefully these ladies will be finishing up in the next 2-3 weeks. I've got lots of clear left and only a bit of cloudy. I've spotted 1 or 2 amber trichs on one plant so lots of maturing to do. enjoy the pictures...
 

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Edwardo Ruffian

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Wow they look great, you really have that tent nice and stuffed :bigjoint:

btw you can set a custom white balance in your camera and have it adjust the color automatically. here's a little guide i found for your camera: http://www.dummies.com/photography/cameras/canon-camera/how-to-create-a-custom-white-balance-setting-on-the-rebel-t5i/

I don't use a proper reference card, I just use a regular old sheet of printer paper
Thank you for the link, I'm checking it out now... its really not too hard in photoshop, I have a saved conversion setting. Takes about 3 minutes, but i'll take a look at that guide since I take pictures with different lighting and it will prob help. much appreciated.
 

Edwardo Ruffian

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Wow they look great, you really have that tent nice and stuffed :bigjoint:

btw you can set a custom white balance in your camera and have it adjust the color automatically. here's a little guide i found for your camera: http://www.dummies.com/photography/cameras/canon-camera/how-to-create-a-custom-white-balance-setting-on-the-rebel-t5i/

I don't use a proper reference card, I just use a regular old sheet of printer paper
I also just did a major defoliation, even though I swore to myself I wouldn't. From here on out I don't plan to do that, but as you noticed my tent is super full. I started with bagseed so figured that at least a few of the 6 plants I started with would be male, but to my dismay all 6 showed pistils. Too bad for me though one had a bad case of the pollensackitis, and hulked out on me forcing me to remove it. For 6 weeks veg 6 or even 5 plants is too much for a 4'x4' tent, unless they are all very sativa dominant or pure sativa.
 
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