DillWeed's 2009 summer grow journal: Two Lbs. or Bust! (2x1000 watt HPS in grow tent)

Highhunter said:

Very nice grow buddy! Hope its worth the weight You may want to consider doing a stadium or vert set up in the future. Rock on

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Thanks for stopping in, friend. Tell me more about a stadium or vert set up... sounds interesting to me.

buckd316 said:

are you going to lollipop them? and i was wondering how often do you water them? i had the same trouble with fox farm at the start, the water would just run str8 to the bottom. they way your heading you should hit 2.5lbs easy very nice setup.

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I do plan to lollipop them this week, probably the day before I switch to 12/12. Is that a good time to do it or should it be sooner or later than that?

I water them every other day and each plant gets roughly 1/3 of a gallon of water. I use nutes every other watering. The new Ocean Forest soil is working just fine now like the old stuff, I'm happy to report.

Dill if you are switching to 12/12 this weekend I would prune asap.

You don't want your plant spending its energy repairing itself where it could be producing more hormones and such.

I mean maybe I am being a perfectionist, but I feel it's best to give the plants the least stress as possible right before the 12/12 switch. I have been told by people who know FAR more than me that stress can encourage males.

Get trimmin

Yo Dillweed... I personally have not done one, but if I had the time, money or space It wouldnt even be a question. you my friend look to have all the goods. Stadium is a bit more simple, you can use 2x4's to basically set up bleachers for ur plants. maybe 3 or for levels, this way all ur plants are absorbing the light not just the tops. So you have ur 1000w light hanging in the center with no reflectors. Here is zomd very nice vertical set ups, I found just so you have an Idea www.verticalgreen.org/ showthread.php?t=4

I saw a thread a few weeks ago with a stadium set up that was just DOPE! (cant find it) the one above will work tho! I have heard of growers yeilding around 2 grams per watt with a vert-stadium set... Id look into if I was you

ive always seen people lollipop the 3rd week of flowering, purning now would just cause top growth(not good if you want to keep them short) in the 3rd week it would make the plants just focus on making nugs growth. but i could be wrong just how ive seen it done. also in the 3rd week you can see what lower nugs are developing and which aren't and prune accordenly.

dill the plants look great. they are commin along at a good pace. good job!!

Okay, guys and gals, here's the deal...

The buddy of mine I am going to hook up with some clones is going to come over on Friday and we're going to take just a trim or two from each plant for him to take to his place to be vegged with his other mother plants. I will switch them to 12/12 a day or two after this. Then during the second week of flowering I will do the rest of the lollipop style cutting.

How does that sound?

Your doing great dill. I have heard mixed opinions about the vertical grows. I have seen people with great results and others with the same as a flat garden. Its probably worth a shot if you got the extra time. Do you water your plants a feeding schedule at the same time every day.

Sounds good as long as you lollipop before the budsites really start to set in!

Hey man here's the link to my journal. I originally had it in the organics but i just moved it. I will be posting more picture soon. https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/211884-white-rhino-super-lemon-haze.html

Day 39:
July 10, 2009

The young adults look pretty ready to be flowered to me, as the shortest plant is now 12.5 inches tall. In anticipation of getting ready to switch to 12/12 in a few days, I took four cuttings from each of the four new strains to me (Cheese, Great White Shark, Lemon Skunk and TrainWreck) and hooked up a friend with a cutting of each of those four and about a dozen of the White Widow cuttings as well. I didn't keep any White Widow clones for myself because I have 12 of them growing right now and more seed stock of that strain then you can shake a stick at! Pics attached below as always. Enjoy!

Aren't you using non-fem seeds???

Have you sexed a branch or something? How do you know you aren't cloning males?

bigjesse1922 said:

Aren't you using non-fem seeds???

Have you sexed a branch or something? How do you know you aren't cloning males?

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Everything I'm growing right now that isn't White Widow are from feminized seeds. From the Indica mix pack, remember? Every feminized seed I have used from Greenhouse in the past (20 out of 20) have turned out to be female thus far. All sixteen of the clones in my room are going to be females.

The White Widow clones that I hooked my buddy up with aren't from feminized seeds though, so they can go either way. He took two cuttings from six different plants (12 total) just to be safe.

And I almost just fainted, Jesse! In the most shocking surprise in RIU history, they finally actually let me +Rep you again only after I had to spread it around to 100 other people first!

Lol man I have a bad memory. It's like I smoke weed or some shit...

Well GOOD! I am glad I was wrong. Thanks for the rep+ I still can't give you back your well deserved rep!

I will try and spread it around!

warisnottheanswer said:

lookin good dill! im smokin the last of my wreck right now this shit is rockin! mad i gotta wait 2months before i can smoke some more though lol how u like that chiesal so far?

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Wow, your Wreck turned out real nice and frosty! I cannot wait to try that strain.

And it is really dry where I am right now so no Sour Chiesl, Bubblegum or Power Plant to be had, which are the three strains I can usually find with little to no effort. Hell, you cannot even find BC buds (beasters) in my area right now. Good thing for me I'm still sitting on a couple ounces of the White Widow I grew last time. I hope it will last me until this grow is done, otherwise I'm going to be out of luck because DillWeed will NOT under ANY circumstances smoke any fucking commercial or schwag weed! When the good stuff dries up, I just don't smoke and go to the bar instead, haha!

i wrote chiesal cuz i was multi-tabbin thinkin and gettin some beans from attitude lol i ment how do u like ya cheese so far? And i feel u on the no schwag rule i broke it before my wreck was ready and was pissed!

DillWeed said:

Wow, your Wreck turned out real nice and frosty! I cannot wait to try that strain.

And it is really dry where I am right now so no Sour Chiesl, Bubblegum or Power Plant to be had, which are the three strains I can usually find with little to no effort. Hell, you cannot even find BC buds (beasters) in my area right now. Good thing for me I'm still sitting on a couple ounces of the White Widow I grew last time. I hope it will last me until this grow is done, otherwise I'm going to be out of luck because DillWeed will NOT under ANY circumstances smoke any fucking commercial or schwag weed! When the good stuff dries up, I just don't smoke and go to the bar instead, haha!

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dillweed first off your last grow big band and wihite widdow was F&^%$ing Amazing did you manage to work out what your watt to bud ratio was, there wasa section you talk about a c02 tank i have just tried the use of co2 in flowering and the difference is significant and can recomend!!!!
i can also second to the SAGE that was mentioned near the end of your last gernal, i smoked some of this in amstadam a few years back and it does exactly what the roumers say it very impressive. you mentioned your first grow you went sativa and grew a trea lol if i may if you like the sative high then Ajan haze #3 also from GreenHouse seeds will be perfect in size yeaild but will give you that sativa high. it has genetics of super silver haze, need i say more......
i have just bought the big bang mainly for the medical properties with the high CBD content, would you advice on making hash out of the actual bud of big bang whats the resin content like whats ya thoughts?

anyway sorry for butting in in your new gernal about your old but the last half hour reading after a fat bowl has been sweeeet experence, keep up the good work ++ rep

just finished reading up to hear on this thread and i am signed up and ready for this grow, i am sitting back with a fat one!!!!! +rep and if you can get co2 some say it can double your normal yeild if done correctly.........

peace................

DillWeed said:

DillWeed will NOT under ANY circumstances smoke any fucking commercial or schwag weed! When the good stuff dries up, I just don't smoke and go to the bar instead, haha!

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+Repped again, lmfao.

Glad to see this grow is working out too!
Subbed! Can't wait to see how this turns out!