2x600 hps ebb & flow. Chronic, Grapegod, and Bluecheese. Single cola SOG.

[firsttimeARE]

When I sent out on this journey I figured it was going to take about 1 year of full time growing to start to get the hang of it. It has been about one year now, and I'm just now getting the hang of it. My buddy asked me what was taking so long with my grows, and I had to explain to him that even when stuff is going good you're only going to get like 4 crops a year (if you do a normal type grow). It's just gonna take time, and tons of frustration man. I have wanted to give up a lot in the past few months. I'm sure I will second guess myself plenty more times to come as well. Just try to work through it.

Not to mention I have a full time job, so I don't have time to research 100% of my time off.

I hear ya about the time-frame, I work full time too and was doing some research on holiday down time at work, but we're busy again so i'm busting ass. I figured with soil starting out i'd have a harvest in like 6 months, given some time for mess ups. My buddy gave me some helpful advice from the start and showed me his routine at his house, but I had bug issues, I know from the soil as I haven't seen another one since September.

But i'm about 4.5 months into it(3 months hydro) and I'm now thinking more towards year mark for first harvest. I'm hoping for these 3 attitude freebies to do well, but i'm doubtful of my abilities thus far. I'm learning and making forward progress, the times when progress is slow makes me want to quit, but learning new techniques and ideas makes me excited again to try. The failure brings back the want to give up, but looking at how much I put into it and the thought of unreliable people and the bad meds that they give or the good meds that are like half a weeks pay an oz makes me keep going. And I just think it'd be a cool skill to have the ability to grow my own vegetables and other plants with the knowledge from it.

 

[hornedfrog2000]

I don't think I will be keeping Chronic. It just takes too long to flower. It is way too airy. I'm so indecisive. I need a quick flowering heaving yielding Indy. Hoping this grape god has a good showing.

 

[firsttimeARE]

I'm hoping WoS Med - Northern Lights x Big Bud and WoS Legends - Afghan Kush Special produce some nice colas.

Once I get good at growing where i'm 100% confident I won't kill plants i'm going to get http://www.cannabis-seeds-bank.co.uk/the-doggies-nuts-seeds-big-bud-1-feminized/prod_1062.html Doggies Nuts Big Bud. Wicked expensive, but IDGAF.

 

[Someguy15]

I'm hoping WoS Med - Northern Lights x Big Bud and WoS Legends - Afghan Kush Special produce some nice colas.

Once I get good at growing where i'm 100% confident I won't kill plants i'm going to get http://www.cannabis-seeds-bank.co.uk/the-doggies-nuts-seeds-big-bud-1-feminized/prod_1062.html Doggies Nuts Big Bud. Wicked expensive, but IDGAF.

The Afgan Kush makes some awesome colas....in like 50 days too. I got some pics in my album if you want I can dig them up for you. As for the doggies nuts, I would save ur $$$. Esp big bud. Tends to be leafy imo, whats it matter if it yields a extra few ounces of mid-grade weed ya know? Just my opinion tho...and the big bud genetics r everywhere.

 

[firsttimeARE]

The Afgan Kush makes some awesome colas....in like 50 days too. I got some pics in my album if you want I can dig them up for you. As for the doggies nuts, I would save ur $$$. Esp big bud. Tends to be leafy imo, whats it matter if it yields a extra few ounces of mid-grade weed ya know? Just my opinion tho...and the big bud genetics r everywhere.

Yeah you had said the afghan was good, my friend grew it, but it was his first grow so the colas didn't come out great.

Pictures would be cool, if you don't mind. You got the special right and not the landrace?

Thanks for the heads up on the big bud. The picture makes the cola look huge and beefy not leafy. You sure do know a lot about strains too.

 

[Someguy15]

Yeah you had said the afghan was good, my friend grew it, but it was his first grow so the colas didn't come out great.

Pictures would be cool, if you don't mind. You got the special right and not the landrace?

Thanks for the heads up on the big bud. The picture makes the cola look huge and beefy not leafy. You sure do know a lot about strains too.

Been smokin em for like 15 years lol...growing well only a few but I'm constantly researching new strains... I know which strains are by which breeders for the most part. Sometimes they are everywhere tho, like the Sour Diesel explosion lately. OG18 and a million other strains with it in it.

WoS - Afgan Kush...And yes this is the special, not the landrace. These were grown under 1600w. A Dual Arc hortilux super blue and a 600w hortilux hps.

 

[firsttimeARE]

Been smokin em for like 15 years lol...growing well only a few but I'm constantly researching new strains... I know which strains are by which breeders for the most part. Sometimes they are everywhere tho, like the Sour Diesel explosion lately. OG18 and a million other strains with it in it.

WoS - Afgan Kush...And yes this is the special, not the landrace. These were grown under 1600w. A Dual Arc hortilux super blue and a 600w hortilux hps.
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I think my friend had grown the landrace. But the buds you posted look similar except you pulled later than he did, his hairs(they called pistils?)looked paler, infact that was a characteristic that I had for it was the pale hairs and long finger buds with thick stems in the middle, I hated it, pulled 2g+ of stems out of the half he sold me. Yours looks a bit beefier than his was, but 1000w more will do that haha.

You know so much with only a few years growing? Wow.

 

[zildgin]

Hornedfrog
Do you think it was the chronic or the bluecheese that was the culprit in the smell. I am useing chronic only and am in my 4th week. I have to beat them up pretty good to get a smell out of them at this point. I would be disapointed to have them start to wreak in the next few weeks. And I need to be proactive in this smell issue. IE carbon filter of my own.

 

[marmarb]

casey jones is known to be a high yielding indy i went with the white russian from ss over it though hope that decision doesnt come back to bite me in the ass

 

[hellraizer30]

Man the casey jones is beaster bro i think i would of takin it over WR

 

[marmarb]

Man the casey jones is beaster bro i think i would of takin it over WR

yeah im thinking about ordering a pack this week i dont want to have two many strains that would put me at 4 and i wanna just get the strains i have down now dialed in i went with the wR because they were out of ak47 and its ak47xww so i figured it would be the next best thing seen a sog with 11 plants yield a lb no veg under 600 i think i can do better lol

 

[hornedfrog2000]

Hornedfrog
Do you think it was the chronic or the bluecheese that was the culprit in the smell. I am useing chronic only and am in my 4th week. I have to beat them up pretty good to get a smell out of them at this point. I would be disapointed to have them start to wreak in the next few weeks. And I need to be proactive in this smell issue. IE carbon filter of my own.

It was poor filtration. The Chronic is supposed to be low odor. They both didn't seem to be overly stinky.

 

[hornedfrog2000]

Ended up with just about 1lb dry :O Way better than I expected towards the end there. I think I could up that to 1.5lbs maybe more with some practice (not sure if i will continue the sog though... Surprisingly the Blue cheese was probably more impressive than the chronic. I might just hang on to that. I'm expecting similar results from the Grape god too...

 

[hornedfrog2000]

Going to be ordering 2 more 600 ballasts, and an 8x8 tent here. New filters etc. Also 4x 600w hortilux eye bulbs. Anyone know anything about these light controllers http://www.dxhydro.com/ ? scroll to the bottom and look at the one for $99. It's the DX-4 converter/controller, whatever.

 

[Someguy15]

Going to be ordering 2 more 600 ballasts, and an 8x8 tent here. New filters etc. Also 4x 600w hortilux eye bulbs. Anyone know anything about these light controllers http://www.dxhydro.com/ ? scroll to the bottom and look at the one for $99. It's the DX-4 converter/controller, whatever.

I always just used separate timers lol never figured it really mattered if each was a few minutes off of the other? idk... don't see the point on spending big bucks to have them all on one timer. Plus then u get a surge when it flips on, unless you have digital ballasts like the Solis Tek with sequential start.

 

[hornedfrog2000]

I always just used separate timers lol never figured it really mattered if each was a few minutes off of the other? idk... don't see the point on spending big bucks to have them all on one timer. Plus then u get a surge when it flips on, unless you have digital ballasts like the Solis Tek with sequential start.

I have lumatek lk600s. I'm pretty sure they have a protection where it starts it up at a lower amp so it doesn't surge or whatever.

It's not a timer though, this is so I can plug my ballasts into a dryer plug. It converts 120v to 240v. So I could run up to 7k on it if I want. That way I don't need an electrician to come in and hard wire something up for me. Plus that guy makes this stuff, and can make all sorts of custom things. Seriously take a look he has a lot of really cool stuff.

 

[Someguy15]

I have lumatek lk600s. I'm pretty sure they have a protection where it starts it up at a lower amp so it doesn't surge or whatever.

It's not a timer though, this is so I can plug my ballasts into a dryer plug. It converts 120v to 240v. So I could run up to 7k on it if I want. That way I don't need an electrician to come in and hard wire something up for me. Plus that guy makes this stuff, and can make all sorts of custom things. Seriously take a look he has a lot of really cool stuff.

Ah, gotcha. I actually need my dryer so I just pulled cords from various circuits to balance the load lol. But I see the purpose now...

 

[hornedfrog2000]

Ah, gotcha. I actually need my dryer so I just pulled cords from various circuits to balance the load lol. But I see the purpose now...

You can still use your dryer, you just gotta unplug the system, or buy the controller that you can just plug the dryer into it also. It really is pretty cool.

 

[tenthirty]

Going to be ordering 2 more 600 ballasts, and an 8x8 tent here. New filters etc. Also 4x 600w hortilux eye bulbs. Anyone know anything about these light controllers http://www.dxhydro.com/ ? scroll to the bottom and look at the one for $99. It's the DX-4 converter/controller, whatever.

I have one of the DX hydro boxes. Service is great, box is well made. He will custom make whatever you want.

 

[hellraizer30]

Shitty thing about the pwer company is if your pulling off a phaze and not on b there still charging you for the use on b
Another way they fuck you! So ballacing off a daul pole 240 breaker then to 120 on balanced loads on a/b your geting your
Moneys worth