First closet grow

AcidFB

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Hello. Thanks to this site and Jorge's grow bible I have managed to coddle together the know how to get a small closet grow underway. The whole setup cost me a bit of dough but the rewards will *hopefully* outweigh the costs.

I started from 4 clones of B52, I'm pretty sure, which is a Big Bud variety.
I use a 600w Solarmax HPS to cover a 4'x4'x6'h flower room, which has a [FONT=Bitstream Vera Sans, sans-serif]568 m[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]³[/FONT]/hr intake[/FONT] fan and a [FONT=Bitstream Vera Sans, sans-serif]268 m[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]³[/FONT]/hr[/FONT] outake fan. The cool thing is that the ducting from the exhaust runs down to the 4'x4'x2'h veg/clone cab providing its airflow and a little wall exhaust for the air to exit. The veg cab has a couple of t8 fluros (cool whites/biolux) as well as some grunty CFL's for side lighting.

I have only recently started taking pictures (as a means to check trichomes as I'm too budge to find a decent microscope) so please excuse the gap of about 6-8 weeks (basically vege cycle and early flowering).

I currently have 3 girls at six weeks flower, 1 at five weeks, 4 at two weeks, and 4 in vege state until the 4 late flowering are harvested.

Here is the shots from basically day 1 - were some sad looking clones
 

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AcidFB

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Skip about 8 weeks, lol. In this time I had managed to get a full-on vege garden going (read tomato, lettuce, beans etc!) as well as looking after the girls indoors.

I had been watering 2l distilled water /w 5ml growzilla during veg stage, and moved to 2l distilled water /w 5mb budzilla come flowertime. No spidermites or any nasties though I did encounter some little white crawlie things which are still present... little figs I think turn into flying insects, possibly. No obvious harm done. I added some yellow and blue sticky traps a month or so ago and that has worked a treat. Moved to MegaYield fowering formula 1 week ago at a ratio of 5ml per litre water.

Some more pics taken NYE, approx 4 week flower.
 

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AcidFB

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here are some pics at 5 weeks flower, I can notice the buds are starting to swell which is very nice. I would like some feedback if possible on whether they look ok (right size etc) for the length of time. Note they have been LST'd slightly, my next 4 have been LST'd much more vigorously which will be interesting to see the difference (see pic1).
 

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AcidFB

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Yeah Im hoping they double in size over the last two weeks which would be sweet. Gotta put in some TLC to get the THC loving :D
 
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