First grow, Alaskan Ice, AK48, PPP, 400w mh/hps, FF Soil

This is my first grow and I've decided to start a journal. Quick run-down of setup:

-400 watt MH for veg, 400 HPS for flower
-5' x 5' x 6'H room wrapped in Mylar
-Fox Farm Ocean Forest Soil
-3 gallon pots
-Fox Farm Nutes 3 pack
-All plants started from seed
-18/6 light schedule

Strains:
2 - GH Femanized Alaskan Ice
2 - PPP
4 - Nirvana AK48
2- Angel Dust


12/24/2009:
put seeds in paper towl

12/26/2009:
all seeds cracked, put seeds in small pots in soil and covered and put under 2 fluorescents.


12/29/2009:
seeds sprouted out of soil



12/31/2009:
first leaves opened and put under 400w MH misting/watering daily.

illl be following this as im begining my 400watt HId grow, mh for veg hps for flowering, im interested in seeing how many plants can be grown under a 400w

1/5/2010:
second leaf set started and added more soil to help with the stretch. Some of them stretched a little and feel over some.


1/8/2010:
new leaf sets started.


1/9/2010:
growing decent

1/10/2010:
transplanted all plants into their final 3 gallon pots


1/11/2010:
watered plants no nutes

1/16/2010:
growth finally started again after transplant, added a 2 - 32w fluorescents shop light for added light because not all plants were within the recommended 18" distance from light.


1/19/2010:
growth is really taking off, still haven't used any nutes yet. The AK48's lead the pack as far as growth speed.

1/19/2010:
Topped half of the plants from each strain above the 2nd node per Uncle Bens method. Before Pic.


AK48 before:


AK48 after:


PPP before:


PPP Ice after:


Angel dust before:


angel dust after:

1/21/2010:
growth on topped plants start again


1/23/2010:
watered plants with fox farm nutes at 1/4 strength, first nutes.

1/24/2010:
more growth


1/27/2010:
watered plants no nutes, pic after watering

1/28/2010:


1/31/2010:
watered, this time with 1/2 strength nutes, saw preflowers on two of the plants! looks like 2 of the AK48 are female.


2/1/2010:
saw two more preflowers on one PPP and one angel dust and it looks like they are female! So far so good!

2/2/2010:
grow baby grow

2/3/2010:








2/4/2010:
watered again with no nutes. starting 24 hours of dark and then starting 12/12 cycle.

Those girls are looking lush my friend. Topping is perfectly executed + rep for helpfull pics bro

2/5/2010:
Begin 12/12 light cycle and switched out 400w MH with 400w HPS bulb. Picture is before bulb switch.



2/7/2010:
watered with 1/2 strength nutes including bloom nutes. Did 1/2 strength grow big, full strength big bloom, and 1/2 strength tiger bloom. Tallest plants (untopped) are 15" tall and most of the topped ones are 12-13" tall. So far every one that I see preflowers on are females. I have this one that is real skinny and tall and lanky on the front far right of the picture that might possibly be a male but no preflowers yet.





HTG Supply 6" inline fan with growbright carbon filter, also running the HTG fan controller. Odor went away instantly and temps are maintained much better, have fan on low. Stays a nice 75 degrees day and about 62-65 at night. Humidity is alright at around 30-40%.

still no preflowers on the feminized Alaskan Ice's but they are looking really good and doing better then the AK48's now. One of them has a more sativa phenom (untopped one) and the other has more of a indica phenom (topped.)
Here is a pic of the untopped Alaskan ice with thinner leaves and standing 15" tall:



Here is a pic of the topped Alaskan ice with thicker fatter leaves. 4 main colas, and standing 14" tall:

nice grow, would you mind telling me what your feeding schedule was like for the first 4 weeks? im currently growing a hashplant haze and its only 8 days old and looks healthy but is very small. i am thinking i overfed it with nutes during the initial watering. i followed the FF feeding schedule of 2 Tbls of Big bloom with a gallon of water. A few days later I just gave it clean water.

thanks.

del taco lover said:

nice grow, would you mind telling me what your feeding schedule was like for the first 4 weeks? im currently growing a hashplant haze and its only 8 days old and looks healthy but is very small. i am thinking i overfed it with nutes during the initial watering. i followed the FF feeding schedule of 2 Tbls of Big bloom with a gallon of water. A few days later I just gave it clean water.

thanks.

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I didn't start using nutes until the 3 - 4 week and only used 1/4 of the recommended amount the first time. It's all above in my posts. I used ff soil which has enough nutes in it to last that long from the start.

Looking like a pretty good veg. I would distant them out a bit if you can to allow more air flow between plants and better side node growth. do you have a final female count?

They look nice man keep it upp! I wanna see the end

ru8fru said:

Looking like a pretty good veg. I would distant them out a bit if you can to allow more air flow between plants and better side node growth. do you have a final female count?

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I did distant them out a little bit tonight but not much since I'm trying to keep the distance optimal for a 400 watt hps which is around 22". I'm thinking 9 plants are too much for a 400 watt hps. I just checked them all tonight and 9 out of the 10 are females! One Ak48 looks like it has balls. The only ones that still don't have preflowers are the two Alaskan ice but they are feminzed seeds so hopefully they are female. I thought about half would be male and some might not germinate so that's why I went with 10 plants to start. I'm not complaining though. . Just have to make do with space the best I can.

thats a good turn around. If you are really trying to expect some massive yield I would get more light. Im doing 10 right now and using 1600w's in flower. If you think its male ditch it, if ur not sure take a pic and post it and ill try to tell you. You onto bloom nutes? what lvls?

ru8fru said:

thats a good turn around. If you are really trying to expect some massive yield I would get more light. Im doing 10 right now and using 1600w's in flower. If you think its male ditch it, if ur not sure take a pic and post it and ill try to tell you. You onto bloom nutes? what lvls?

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I'm not too worried about getting a massive yield or anything. As long as I get a decent amount from each I'll be happy. How much do you think I'll get dried per plant? I did start bloom ferts and only did half strength. Next feeding I'll do full.

just one 400w hps for nine plants right? what kind of bulb? hood? Its hard to say but thats fairly low wattage for that many plants. I assume maybe halfoz-oz per plant dried weight.

Can you post updates of the alaskan ice through the grow as well? I have the strain and want to see if I should grow it.