First DWC, LST, Attic grow using 1000 watt HPS and 400 watt MH

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Alright here's my set up:

Grow room: Insulated attic grow room(5x6x5ft) with smaller veg. room.

Grow type: hydroponic DWC

Strains: 2 Unknown family strain(some sort of Kush), Church, Armageddon, others coming soon.

Lighting: 400 watt MH for veg. and air-cooled 1000 watt HPS for flower.

Intake: 500 CFM inline duct fan

Cooling: 8000 btu portable ac w/ outtake

Outtake: through ac

Nutrients: Advanced Nutrients Sensi 2-part w/ 5 other AN additives.

Water: Distilled w/ cal/mag

I am currently at the end of the 2nd week of flower for my two big plants but I have pictures of most stages.

Any comments are welcome!

Here's Square One:

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Week 3.5 of Veg.:

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Week 4.5 of Veg.:

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Week 1 of Flower:

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Week 2 of Flower:

dsam · Aug 7, 2011

great looking plants!!! super healthy looking root system!

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

dsam said:
great looking plants!!! super healthy looking root system!

Thanks man! This is my first DWC grow so its nice to know Im doing good!

DinafemHashPlant · Aug 7, 2011

Looking good bro...Im moving to mich here soon to be a caregiver...Beginning of october..

dsam · Aug 7, 2011

yeah absolutely man... great job! cant wait to see some fat dank buds on these girls!

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

DinafemHashPlant said:
Looking good bro...Im moving to mich here soon to be a caregiver...Beginning of october..

Thanks! If you haven't already Id suggest getting very familiar with the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act, its so vague at the moment and really leaves a lot of gray areas for people to get screwed over. Its really hard to NOT break that law, its just being smart and how often your breaking it. I really expect changes to the MMMA soon.

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

dsam said:
cant wait to see some fat dank buds on these girls!

Hearing this makes me even more impatient than I already am!

m420p · Aug 7, 2011

Week 3 of 12/12:

The smaller plants are two that I have in soil but they are sorta experiments as far as nutes and soil goes.

Lord Dangly Bits · Aug 21, 2011

m420p said:
Hearing this makes me even more impatient than I already am!

Impatient is the leading killer of MJ plants.

Never give your plants to much Love. Treat them more like a Booty Call. They will put out more and better. :hump:

m420p · Aug 21, 2011

Almost forgot about this thread lol. Might as well update, pics kinda suck because they are under HPS, more pics in my signature.
This is Day 34 of Flower but they started to bud a little late. Went from 18/6 Veg. to 12/12 and took 10+ days to get white hairs. I didn't give it 24-36 hours of darkness before starting 12/12 like some suggest. Anyone have suggestions on how long you think they will take till harvest? I plan on getting a microscope for the trichs but I was hoping to know somewhat so I know when to flush, etc. I was hoping 8 weeks from start of 12/12 but I think it might be 9 or 10

Lord Dangly Bits · Aug 22, 2011

When I buy seeds I always add 25% to the time the seed company says it will be harvestible. When they give you that length of time, that is from mature clones under perfect conditions. New growers see that their strain should be harvestible in 9 weeks. So at 5 weeks they subcontionly (spl) freak the hell out and start to try and force their plants to meet this time frame, while in fact slowing it down or killing them.
After you learn exactly what a strain likes and does not like. You can do it in your sleep. And then crush that other time frame. I have a 6 plant crop of Nirvanna ICE that is about the 5th crop from this mother. When I flip them to flowering, they start exploding with buds pretty well within 7-10 days. See they are already showing sex and all before I cut them. Nirvanna says that this ICE strain should be 8-10 weeks. The first crop I did was about 11.5 weeks, Now I have a crop that has been in flower for about 7 weeks, and it is already fully swelled and at about 25% amber. But I still have some left from the last 6 plants. So I am going to see what couche lock feels with this ICE.
Well time for me to get to bed before I face plant into the screen. :eyesmoke:

m420p · Aug 22, 2011

Lord Dangly Bits said:
When I buy seeds I always add 25% to the time the seed company says it will be harvestible. When they give you that length of time, that is from mature clones under perfect conditions. New growers see that their strain should be harvestible in 9 weeks. So at 5 weeks they subcontionly (spl) freak the hell out and start to try and force their plants to meet this time frame, while in fact slowing it down or killing them.
After you learn exactly what a strain likes and does not like. You can do it in your sleep. And then crush that other time frame. I have a 6 plant crop of Nirvanna ICE that is about the 5th crop from this mother. When I flip them to flowering, they start exploding with buds pretty well within 7-10 days. See they are already showing sex and all before I cut them. Nirvanna says that this ICE strain should be 8-10 weeks. The first crop I did was about 11.5 weeks, Now I have a crop that has been in flower for about 7 weeks, and it is already fully swelled and at about 25% amber. But I still have some left from the last 6 plants. So I am going to see what couche lock feels with this ICE.
Well time for me to get to bed before I face plant into the screen.

Thanks for the info my friend, very helpful! Heres some rep. if its worth anything lol

burrr · Aug 22, 2011

Nice looking grow my friend. I think you might be giving your girls a little to much Nitrogen in the nute mix, and that's what is causing the delayed budding. i'm of the opinion that the 24 hours dark is a myth, and that dropping the level of N and raising the PK is the way to speed up the transition to flower.

m420p · Aug 22, 2011

burrr said:
Nice looking grow my friend. I think you might be giving your girls a little to much Nitrogen in the nute mix, and that's what is causing the delayed budding. i'm of the opinion that the 24 hours dark is a myth, and that dropping the level of N and raising the PK is the way to speed up the transition to flower.

Thanks! I appreciate your thoughts but I always thought that excess N would cause the plants to bee a very dark green. Since I switched to 12/12 I have been on my bloom nutes that have a N-P-K of 1%-5%-6% and if anything my plants are light green with a tad of yellowing at the top(not really noticeable).

burrr · Aug 22, 2011

Your bloom nute ratios sound good. I couldn't really judge the level of greeness under the hps, they just seem to be real leafy for day 34. I'm looking forward to more pics, maybe you could take a few with a flash after the lights go out.

m420p · Aug 22, 2011

burrr said:
Your bloom nute ratios sound good. I couldn't really judge the level of greeness under the hps, they just seem to be real leafy for day 34. I'm looking forward to more pics, maybe you could take a few with a flash after the lights go out.

Ya, pics in HPS suck, I have some pics in my profile journal in the dark from almost a week ago but I will add some new ones on this thread in about two or three days.

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