My First Grow, super noob, could use some help!

bijna

bijna

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This is week three. the two on the left were transplanted two days later. and the one on the bottom right was transplanted 1 day later.
 
mrCRC420

mrCRC420

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haha, dude, ur crazy. that's maybe the craziest setup i've ever seen. it seems to be working out well for you though. Make sure you're checking the max/min on your thermostat b/c spikes can be a bitch! I hope you have something as awesome for a flowering chamber
 
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kingkush

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get them out of that box. bag seed take outside. if u find a girl clone that bia then go inside but not in the box. try a clear box with t5s
 
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kingkush

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use sunshade reflectors for car for mylar and shop lights long four ft tube work best they are only 8 dollars at wallmart i use 4 and its better than and hps grow i have done so far. easy simple super effective and super cheap. but go outside with bagseed
 
bijna

bijna

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KingKush you got some weird ideas, florescent shop lights will never work as well as an HPS, Mylar is much more reflective than those car things, and I can't plant my plants outside, I live IN chicago. Whats a clear box? And as for "Why the box?" Well I would like to keep my grow are self contained, as well as keeping in the smell and keeping out the light.
 
bijna

bijna

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Just been doing the same shit.
Added the top part of the box because the lights were starting to burn the plants. I also stopped LSTing because the plants are soooooooo bushy already. I did some timming to let light get to the more important nodes under the foliage. I also think I'm dealing with a few different strains here. Some of the leaves are most definitely indica, but others have thin leaves and seem like they might be a cross but more sativa dominant. I guess we'll see. Still can't figure out the pre-flowering thing, so I don't know what the plants will be so I don't want to transplant them. I'm going out of town this week, so I'll have a friend take care of them, and when I get back I'm going to start 12/12.

So here are some pics:
1: plantsss
2: the extreme bushiness
3: inside of top
4:new box
5: trimmings
 

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dew-b

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bijna said:
Okay, I got a lot of my information off of this forum. Funny enough I had the tub idea before I even started looking. This grow is going to be just bagseed for my first try because I dont want to ruin some exspensive shit. I've got some good seeds on the way for my next batch, provided this one goes well. I'm at about day 5, from when I started germinating the seeds. I chose a method which I learned at the cannabis college in amsterdam to germinate. Just put the seeds into a cup of water and look everyday for the little root things. So I did that and put my seeds into some miracle grow dirt with perlite and peat moss in it as well as some kind of fertilizer. It says it will grow plants twice as big.. we'll see. For the first pot I used these thing called peat pots which are supposed to stimulate root growth and can be planted directly into the next pot. As for the light, I've got a GE 50 watt plant light, which I guess is supposed to have more blues. It's in one of those shop light holders from inside the tub. On day five, in one of my pots I've got sprouts that are about 3 to 4 inches high with their first leaves coming in. I was running a light schedule of 20/4 but I think I'm going to be switching it to 24/0 today based on some stuff I read last night. Anybody know when I should switch to the 18/6? I'm going to be doing LST to maximize my yield in my space. Right now I'm just using one tub so that I can have the lights closer, but once they get high I'm going to stack two tub on top of each other and add more lights. I built my scrubber a little while ago and it went well. Instead of using the activated carbon I used Premium Fresh Step Crystals Cat Litter, which supposedly locks in odor up to 5X longer. We'll see.. I still haven't gotten a fan, because I live in a major american city, have no car and home depot and lowes are a little far from me. So I've been getting all my supplies from a small Ace Hardware store. Right now I'm running into a problem with a lot of condensation in my box, I guess due to the lack of ventilation. I was thinking about using the computer fans like I've seen a lot of people doing. But I wasn't really sure where or which I should get, maybe someone has a suggestion? Also, I know there's a tutorial for hooking those fans up to a regular wall plug, but I can't find it so if someone could also shoot me a link to that, it'd be cool.

Well that's about all I've got for now, any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated, since I don't really want to tell anyone else I know about this, you guys are my only real source of advice!

Thanks, Jeff

And for some reason I can only attach two pics.. is this norm?
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switch to 18/6 asp it helps promote good root develment i had a plant on 18/6 the entire veg cycle. had to get emergy surgy. was in the hospital for 2 weeks my plant looked great with no watering for that time. when you have a good root system your plant uses water more efishently. checkthrough the grow faq for how to wire up a pc fan. as far as what fan to use if you have an old computer take the fan out of there
 
bijna

bijna

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dew-b said:
switch to 18/6 asp it helps promote good root develment i had a plant on 18/6 the entire veg cycle. had to get emergy surgy. was in the hospital for 2 weeks my plant looked great with no watering for that time. when you have a good root system your plant uses water more efishently. checkthrough the grow faq for how to wire up a pc fan. as far as what fan to use if you have an old computer take the fan out of there
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Well, I don't have to worry about the roots too much, because I can see them and they're hella strong. Also, I've had a ventilation system for quiteeee some time now, like after the first few days.
 
bijna

bijna

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Well, something has apparently gone wrong and the people looking after my plants are retarded maybe. But they called me last night while I was just really really high, and were all worrying me about my plants having splotches and shit. Then I started asking them some questions, and apparently the MAX temperature in the box was 114! So I don't know whats happened, because I never had a problem with temps. I had them take out two light bulbs, and make sure all the fans were in order. I'm going to have them give me an update tomorrow.

Here are the shitty camera phone pics they sent me:
 

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bijna

bijna

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OMFG!
I just got a call from the ringer in my apartment complex, a friend told me that the cops were in my apartment and they were arresting people.
(I'm out of town for the week)
I don't know the whole story yet, since it's still happening and I haven't been able to talk to anyone who is in the apartment. But from what I hear, two plain clothes cops came to my building in an unmarked car. The people I left in charge of my apartment, were apparently smoking, and the cops just came in because I guess the smelt it. Then they apparently searched the apartment and found my rubbermaids. They also found a note that I wrote for instructions for caring for the plants. They then arrested the girl who was "in charge" of the apartment for cultivation. And now she's in jail. So I don't know what's really going down, and I'm really really worried.

I'm supposed to go back home on Sunday, but now I'm worried they might be looking for me? I checked NORML and in my state more than 5 plants is a felony, and I had 6. So now my friend is in jail and I don't know if I have a home to go home to. Will the cops notify my landlords, will they evict me? Am I going to get arrested when I get back home and go into my apartment? If I come forward at her court date and say that they were my plants, will I get charged and they'll acquit her? She was taking care of them, so I wonder if that actually counts as cultivation, and me coming forward would just get both of us in trouble? Are they going to look up my lease and arrest me anyways?

If anyone knows anything, please, omg tell me what I should do!
 
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