georgeisabamf
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It's only a temporary solution man. Obviously I know this
Georgeisabamf's 2nd Grow. More Legit!
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georgeisabamf
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Yeah man it sucks, I've been looking for emergency blankets damn near everywhere with no luck.
I'm still out of town, but am heading home late tomorrow just for the night. Will get pics of progress
I'm still out of town, but am heading home late tomorrow just for the night. Will get pics of progress
georgeisabamf
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can't wait to see my plants tonight! I still have roughly 6-7 hours before I'll be getting to my apartment. But shit, it's exciting.
georgeisabamf
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Update for yall. Came home to nothing but progress. These guys are looking lush and beautiful. So great to see them growing quickly without problems thus far. I am contemplating adding some Seabiard guano with an NPK of 10-10-2 to boost the vegetative phase. I plan to grab a 150w HPS before I even contemplate flowering. Not sure if these pictures really show size that well, but believe me, they are growing quite well:
My clones are doing well. The larger one is growing well, the smaller one is now back on track after I transplanted her. Any suggestions are appreciated.
My clones are doing well. The larger one is growing well, the smaller one is now back on track after I transplanted her. Any suggestions are appreciated.
georgeisabamf
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Honestly I only did it in order to block some of the light from hitting the soil while gone. I figured it may help to keep the soil moist for longer. Dunno how effective it is though.
So listen, got a question. Should I use a mixture of seabird guano with an NPK of 10-10-2, for the rest of the veg cycle (as far as base nute is concerned). OR should I run standard FF Big Bloom (soil) and not use the guano?
Either one is fine to use. I don't want to burn them. But I don't want to veg them for a long ass time so I want them to get a quick and smooth boost before flower happens.
Any suggestions?
georgeisabamf
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So not much progress thus far. But I snapped some pictures this morning. Last night I fed them with a slightly less than recommended dose of Seabird Guano. With my last grow, this stuff worked amazing for the later veg weeks. So we'll see how it does.
I am out of town, yet again, though I will be returning in another 1-2 weeks. I'm worried shit might go wrong as that is a long time without being fed. If I ever get the chance I'll try to run home for the day just to take care of them and shit. I just hope that if I can't, they don't die while I am away. This is why there is tinfoil covering the soil. So that HOPEFULLY, the soil will stay moist for a bit longer since the light isn't beaming directly on it.
pics:
You guys should really start asking questions or giving me advice or criticism or something. I feel like no one ever posts here. I know the plants are still young, but shit, no one even answers my damn questions!!
I am out of town, yet again, though I will be returning in another 1-2 weeks. I'm worried shit might go wrong as that is a long time without being fed. If I ever get the chance I'll try to run home for the day just to take care of them and shit. I just hope that if I can't, they don't die while I am away. This is why there is tinfoil covering the soil. So that HOPEFULLY, the soil will stay moist for a bit longer since the light isn't beaming directly on it.
pics:
You guys should really start asking questions or giving me advice or criticism or something. I feel like no one ever posts here. I know the plants are still young, but shit, no one even answers my damn questions!!
georgeisabamf
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It's been roughly 16 days since my last update and I figured I'd get something new up and not let this die haha.
Really to be honest nothing astounding is happening (sometimes I hate the veg cycle, generally want to yawn and fall asleep throughout it). My plants are doing rather nice. I've been having to leave them without watering for 4-5 day periods a couple of times now, which I really hate. Whenever I come back from being gone I have to prune off some dead leaves and generally don't see fast growth at all. This is more than likely why I am not impressed with this update but here it is anyhow.
Everything is being fed with small amounts of LK, cal mag, and seabird guano (guano used in water every 10 days or so). My feed reads right at 6.5. Haven't bothered checking run off anytime lately. All the dying, yellowing, and other physical defects are either due to lack of water (from being out of town so much) and/or burns from my light bulb (damn light system fell on top of these puppies overnight
) So I'm sure my ph and feed are fine as I do not feed them heavily at all. Oh yeah, and my crappier looking of the two clones died during the light incident, and the other suffered quite a bit of burning on the leaves which I trimmed leaving the clone to look like next to nothing . No biggie though! I have some seedlings looking good right now to replace said clone.
Also, beforehand, the pictures suck and don't show much of anything. I snapped them super quickly and had to run out of town right after yet again. However, this should be the last time I have to leave my babies, thank god! I should be returning home on Sunday where I can finally stay home and give these girls some love.
Pictures:
The seedlings (pictured above) are growing out at far as bushiness is concerned. But their vertical growth is lacking. I'm assuming at this point it seems most of the plants are at least of indica dominant genetics (with a few exceptions). The fan leaves are generally wide and the plants are stubby for the most part though. Not sure when I should start flowering though. My babies all sit at anywhere from 5"-10" tall at the moment and it has been roughly 35 days since I threw the seeds into germination. However a friend of mine thinks that my plants are going to stretch big time to the point of where if I let them veg out for any longer, they won't have enough room during flower. Though I don't know how true this is.
Also I don't want to hold off on flowering for to long just because the 1 gallon smart pots they are in are probably going to be their final homes as I don't plan to transplant these guys again unless absolutely needed.
Can anyone help me with that? Anyone have any suggestions as to when I should put them in flower given the above mentioned circumstances?
I am in no rush to flower them if they will have the room they need in the long run to veg out longer. But I do need advice.
ALSO, I went top crazy while checking up on them yesterday. I probably topped each plant 4-8 times so I will at least give them veg time to establish these tops and see how they grow out.
Also another random thing I crafted out of boredom figured I'd post. Me and a friend yesterday dug out my two pumps I have laying around (one is submersible, the other an aquarium pump) and I ended up deciding to make a simple coco-noir hydro set up for future use, or for use for something at some point. It was basically just a fun project to give us shit to do on a boring day.
Anyhow, minus the pumps, the entire system cost only about 15 dollars to put together which isn't bad for a 6-site hydro system, and it works in a rather cool and unique method. (ill explain more about this at the bottom).
Pictures (sorry for the poop lighting, am getting better pictures up in an hour or so with better camera)-
Top view-
le bottom view-
Shitty ass paint picture I made to show the mechanics, though it's rather simple.
So as the picture shows, there is a fountain pump in the reservoir that recirculates water through a large tube that ends up running back into the res. Six small tubes (the ones I used are the size used for drip feed systems) are connected to the main tube and all of these smaller tubes run to their own net pot.
The net pots I used are the smallest ones they sell, which I filled each with some coco-noir. Each feed line will sit in it's respectable pot and I will program a timer to turn the pump on and feed them from the top down periodically throughout the day.
The thing is though, the system is also basically a DWC system as well because since the pots are filled with coco, rather than just submerging the pots in the water inside the reservoir. I am using this top feed system until the roots mature and grow downwards into the water. That is when the system will run as essentially a DWC system and I might even stop feeding the plants from the top at that point.
Now I just need either 6 seeds for this guy. Or I can attempt to transplant my current babies into it later on (though I'm worried it might hurt them..)
Anyhow, thanks for reading my rambling for anyone that did which is probably next to nobody.
I do need advice on various issues so if someone would be kind enough to read this post and help me out I'd appreciate it.
Really to be honest nothing astounding is happening (sometimes I hate the veg cycle, generally want to yawn and fall asleep throughout it). My plants are doing rather nice. I've been having to leave them without watering for 4-5 day periods a couple of times now, which I really hate. Whenever I come back from being gone I have to prune off some dead leaves and generally don't see fast growth at all. This is more than likely why I am not impressed with this update but here it is anyhow.
Everything is being fed with small amounts of LK, cal mag, and seabird guano (guano used in water every 10 days or so). My feed reads right at 6.5. Haven't bothered checking run off anytime lately. All the dying, yellowing, and other physical defects are either due to lack of water (from being out of town so much) and/or burns from my light bulb (damn light system fell on top of these puppies overnight
) So I'm sure my ph and feed are fine as I do not feed them heavily at all. Oh yeah, and my crappier looking of the two clones died during the light incident, and the other suffered quite a bit of burning on the leaves which I trimmed leaving the clone to look like next to nothing . No biggie though! I have some seedlings looking good right now to replace said clone.Also, beforehand, the pictures suck and don't show much of anything. I snapped them super quickly and had to run out of town right after yet again. However, this should be the last time I have to leave my babies, thank god! I should be returning home on Sunday where I can finally stay home and give these girls some love.
Pictures:
The seedlings (pictured above) are growing out at far as bushiness is concerned. But their vertical growth is lacking. I'm assuming at this point it seems most of the plants are at least of indica dominant genetics (with a few exceptions). The fan leaves are generally wide and the plants are stubby for the most part though. Not sure when I should start flowering though. My babies all sit at anywhere from 5"-10" tall at the moment and it has been roughly 35 days since I threw the seeds into germination. However a friend of mine thinks that my plants are going to stretch big time to the point of where if I let them veg out for any longer, they won't have enough room during flower. Though I don't know how true this is.
Also I don't want to hold off on flowering for to long just because the 1 gallon smart pots they are in are probably going to be their final homes as I don't plan to transplant these guys again unless absolutely needed.
Can anyone help me with that? Anyone have any suggestions as to when I should put them in flower given the above mentioned circumstances?
I am in no rush to flower them if they will have the room they need in the long run to veg out longer. But I do need advice.
ALSO, I went top crazy while checking up on them yesterday. I probably topped each plant 4-8 times so I will at least give them veg time to establish these tops and see how they grow out.
Also another random thing I crafted out of boredom figured I'd post. Me and a friend yesterday dug out my two pumps I have laying around (one is submersible, the other an aquarium pump) and I ended up deciding to make a simple coco-noir hydro set up for future use, or for use for something at some point. It was basically just a fun project to give us shit to do on a boring day.
Anyhow, minus the pumps, the entire system cost only about 15 dollars to put together which isn't bad for a 6-site hydro system, and it works in a rather cool and unique method. (ill explain more about this at the bottom).
Pictures (sorry for the poop lighting, am getting better pictures up in an hour or so with better camera)-
Top view-
le bottom view-
Shitty ass paint picture I made to show the mechanics, though it's rather simple.
So as the picture shows, there is a fountain pump in the reservoir that recirculates water through a large tube that ends up running back into the res. Six small tubes (the ones I used are the size used for drip feed systems) are connected to the main tube and all of these smaller tubes run to their own net pot.
The net pots I used are the smallest ones they sell, which I filled each with some coco-noir. Each feed line will sit in it's respectable pot and I will program a timer to turn the pump on and feed them from the top down periodically throughout the day.
The thing is though, the system is also basically a DWC system as well because since the pots are filled with coco, rather than just submerging the pots in the water inside the reservoir. I am using this top feed system until the roots mature and grow downwards into the water. That is when the system will run as essentially a DWC system and I might even stop feeding the plants from the top at that point.
Now I just need either 6 seeds for this guy. Or I can attempt to transplant my current babies into it later on (though I'm worried it might hurt them..)
Anyhow, thanks for reading my rambling for anyone that did which is probably next to nobody.
I do need advice on various issues so if someone would be kind enough to read this post and help me out I'd appreciate it.
henry's tokin'
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Hey dude as far as the smart pots go.. When I bought mine the man who sold it to me, who was very well informed on plants, said the roots can grow through the pot. Alot of people plant the pots in the ground & they eventually grow into the ground. So i'm sure you wouldn't have to transplant it again but if anything just stick the smart pot into a bigger 3 gallon pot with soil in it. That way the roots have more room. Btw sorry to hear that your lights fell on your girls. That sucks that you had to be gone for so long. But at least you're gonna be able to be with them for the rest of the ride. Good luck bro.
georgeisabamf
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Yeah man I've heard bad stories of such things happening to.
I really hope I'm not in the same boat. I'm not sure I can afford to transplant these babies into bigger pots just due to size constraints at the moment.Do you think that 1 gallon pots won't be large enough for these guys to finish in? I don't plan to veg them for any more than another 2-4 weeks but I'm not sure if not transplanting them would be bad. Ha, I should just put them in that new hydro set up I made and see how they work. Though I don't know if I want to risk a transplant like that or what.
georgeisabamf
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Also, I am contemplating making my own Co2 generator tonight. Anyone think that's worth my while? I hear amazing things but it seems so easy it cant help that much, can it?
Edit: Though I guess every little bit helps of course
Edit: Though I guess every little bit helps of course