First grow journal cannalope and ?

Mr. Leafy

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Hell yeah man that's why I am so excited about my grow box now I don't have to wait 4 months to get another harvest so no matter what the yeild is I should have plenty to smoke without worrying about running out and I can give out a little to some close friends who have their liscenses to get new lights a tri meter and a R/O system.
That's good Karma PD! I have a few friends that are in the same situation. I will pass some on too. Ya have to give a little to get a little, don't care what your religion or faith may be, it just works that way.

I think you and I operate on the same wave length!

Peace!
 

Pipe Dream

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Yeah my friend's gonna sign me as his caregiver, I wanted to wait until I was sure i could grow some before trying to get his licsense so now I will be able to go 6 and 6 insteads of just 3 so that's gonna help out a lot. I'm going to give him the small little bagseed, afterall it's his seed lol. Than from here on out I will give him some plants every harvest and I can more easily have clones available also I can utilized my lights better cuz there's so much wasted light right now. I finished up most of the box today I drilled ventilation holes and got some more light hooked up. I also started my new journal on the dope it's the second link in my sig subscribe and stay tuned. :bigjoint:
 

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ievolution

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nice pipe dream your plants lookin healthy. i usually go into some1s grow journal and i see some sort of def. so thanks for not letting me down!
 

Pipe Dream

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I see you here and there,sorry took so long to get in here. Everythings lookin fantastic. I'm down with helpin the homies too. I call it floating. Seems like I always have at least one homie that I'll (Float) whenever I got it like that. Here's my baby if interested. https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/312273-fun-grow-hindu-kush.html

I'm subbed in. Again,good lookin grow. Good luck.
Whattup yes the homies need to be helped. I don't have a lot of friends these days I burned those bridges long ago, but back in the day I woulda done anything for my homies because that's what they are for. He has his license though so we both win and i wouldn't have him buying weed from the dispensaries it's rediculous. A friend with weed is a friend indeed:mrgreen:I'll check your grow out.

Thanks evo, especially coming from you that's a compliment. I have probably never overfertilized in my life because that was one of the most common mistake for most growers so I was always afraid to apply it. Most of my grows have been miracle grow soil only with a little bit of fertilizing at the end. They never fattened up and were definately difficient looking back. This time someone in my thread, I need to go find out who, said plants need all the fertilizer they can get in veg or something to that extent so my first fertilizer application the colomian in the back was a little burned but I kept applying the fertilizer because of it's size and she has been no worse for the wear. I followed along with a recommendation from the rev in skunk magazine and their is a ton of POM in the soil and I have been adding big bloom since the 3rd week in high concentrations and they love it.
 

Pipe Dream

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OK...today is the 3rd week of flowering so i figured I'd put up some pics. You may have seen my post in my other journal and had some setbacks on the new seeds but will be restarting soon. Anyways, go read it if your interested in finding out what happened.

Not really much to add I will topdress with more POM next week and will continue watering with 2 tablesppons of BB every watering since I got some feedback from foxfarm about how much to use with my soil mixture. They got ferted today.


Pics
1.My veg box is really looking crowded
2.Cannalope haze momma
Sprouts in back left from right
3.Romulan and querkle
4.The Dope and Mikado
5.Cannolope I have clone of
6.Cannolope i don't have clone of :(
7.This was a tray that we inherited from my wifes father who died of cancer. When I found it I liked it and I have had it in my growroom since I put everything together about a year ago. It's a good luck charm. Those are some small shoots on the bottoms that weren't reciving light.
 

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IgrowUgrow

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Sorry man its been a while since I checked in, I have been really busy lately. I havent even updated my journal but that is mainly because I am tired of updating it LOL. Your babies are looking not so much like babies anymore, great job so far man.
 

Pipe Dream

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Thanks for stoppin in everybody sorry no recent updates but I don't have a camera right now and seems like not much has changed but it has.

First of all, it turns out the heat kicks on sometimes in the middle of the day I'm gonna try to find out when so I can catch it before it heats the house up to 70 degrees like it has been. I can't figure out how to change it it so the next option is to catch it and override it before it gets hot. Sucks because by the time the lights go off it has been 85 degrees in the spare bedroom because of the way the heat gets trapped in the room and than i close it all off and hope everything survives the night. So I have been fighting heat for this last week and I don't even know the temps in the flower room because I've been so worried about the babies and only have the one thermometer. Doesn't really do any good when I can't drop the temps anyways since it's been so damn hot outside on top of my heater problem. I have fixed the fans more in both areas and I'm hoping that it will do the trick it seems to be helping already though, I never realized CFLS were so HOT! It's rediculous I'm thinking about just putting one big CFL at the top and hopefully it should be enough light for them to grow strong:I really don't need really strong light and I'm going to try to get them under the 400 watt as much as possible during the day when I'm here. Right now I have 1 querkle in excellent shape(it sprouted with some purple in the leaves seems to be all green now though), 1 dope seed in good shape, 1 mikado in okay shape with some mutant leaves, a romulan freak I don't even know what is going to happen with it-perhaps heat messed it up, and my clone rooted today:) The thing is I have a mother plant now and I got the clone of it now but the plant in flower is pretty unimpressive. It may be because the way I topped it and stunted it and that's why it was so small going into flower but it was the last one to show sex, and the pistils were very tiny and it's only budding at the top even though it's probably not even a foot tall the tops have buds but even the next node down have no buds whatsover and I'm sure they recieve decent light. Might just phase it out of the garden in the future. It was stinky as a seedling so i expected better from it. I also germed some more dope seeds and have some sprouts again I'm going to continue my other journal now.

anyways, the plants in flower are doing okay but there is a lot of yellowing and dieing going on at the bottoms of them. I think the temperatures and not enough light penetration might be the problem but I am going to add some more bloom fertilizer and I might add some grow fertilizer too because the colombian still has at least another 4 weeks probably 6. Some of the pistils are starting to change already and again I'm sure it's from heat stress. No worries they still look good and healthy and I'm doing everything I can to fix it but every grow I ever had has suffered from these kind of problems because closets just suck like that and I don't want to drill through walls. One day I hope to have a perfect controllable garden but that is in the future and this is what I got now. I think my friend has a 1000 watt HPS maybe I could borrow it the problem is he lives so far away.

I'll get some pics sometime soon.
 

GODFREY1

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I got the same problem. With heat,cold and humidity. I don't have a thermometer yet. And I like you honestly don't want one. Don't really have any way to do anything about it at the moment,so I don't wanna know.. Figure I'm doin a tropical grow. Lol. Hot and humid during the day cold at night. I should have got some Maui smoke. Good luck.
 

MrSoloDolo

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Thanks for stoppin in everybody sorry no recent updates but I don't have a camera right now and seems like not much has changed but it has.

I never realized CFLS were so HOT! It's rediculous
Hey PD- I know what you mean. Just last week when it was still cold here (like 50) the closet temp was about 78. Now that it has warmed up outside (like 75) the closet is now HOT- it's jumped to 85 degrees the last time I checked :-?
I put in another fan, opened up a window in that room and I left the closet doors ajar... hopefully all of that can lower the temp- BUT shit, summer hasn't even started yet- so I am worried about how hot it will get.
I have 8 x 32w (aka 8x100w) CFLs plus my LED and for sure the CFLs are soooo much hotter than the LED. It sucks bro- I thought the CFLs would run cooler... oh well.

Hopefully you can get your heater problem fixed and that will help.
How many fans do you have in your closet?
 

Pipe Dream

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Wow PD Nice grow.
From the looks of it you pretty much have ur shit down. I cant wait till ur harvest's.:joint:
You and me both. To tell you the truth I have no idea what I'm doing, I only know what I'm supposed to be doing:)
I got the same problem. With heat,cold and humidity. I don't have a thermometer yet. And I like you honestly don't want one. Don't really have any way to do anything about it at the moment,so I don't wanna know.. Figure I'm doin a tropical grow. Lol. Hot and humid during the day cold at night. I should have got some Maui smoke. Good luck.
Yeah it sucks when you know that it's too hot but there's nuthing you can do about it:neutral: Your gonna need to get one sooner or later you would be surprised how hot it can actually get and you can't do ANYTHING at all w/out it because it's impossible to see what's helping and what's not. The position of the fans can change everything. Got mine for like 12 bucks and it measures two seperate spots so you can measure the air at the bulb and incoming air or w/e. If I didn't pick one up I would probably have some dead plants. I have grown crops in a closet that was 90 degrees almost always but not ideal. Plus i used to have one I figured it might turn up but never did. I'll find it when I don't need it.
Hey PD- I know what you mean. Just last week when it was still cold here (like 50) the closet temp was about 78. Now that it has warmed up outside (like 75) the closet is now HOT- it's jumped to 85 degrees the last time I checked :-?
I put in another fan, opened up a window in that room and I left the closet doors ajar... hopefully all of that can lower the temp- BUT shit, summer hasn't even started yet- so I am worried about how hot it will get.
I have 8 x 32w (aka 8x100w) CFLs plus my LED and for sure the CFLs are soooo much hotter than the LED. It sucks bro- I thought the CFLs would run cooler... oh well.

Hopefully you can get your heater problem fixed and that will help.
How many fans do you have in your closet?
Yeah it sux ass I figured that with 30cfm exhaust fans in a 4 cubic foot box I would be more than good but it doesn't work that way I guess. It's not the lights but the ballasts that get really hot and it's jnot able to dissapait, add incoming air that's already 80 degrees and your SOL. The problem is that the rest of the house is open so the air is pretty much the same throughout the house but when I close the door the hot air gets trapped and the rest of the house is say 65 degrees and it's 72 degrees in the bedroom. Than the heater is heating the rest of the house to 70 and the hot air is just pumpin in to the smaller room. I try to cover up the vent but it's not really helping. All I can do is moniter it for now until I can come up with a better solution-ideally I would have a grow tent and than the whole room could be left open without worrying about light entering the flowering room. I just don't have 400$ to buy a tent and a good fan. I went in there last night before lights off and it was only 96 degrees FUCK! I wonder if fire will mess up the plant's flowering cycle? I just flicked my bic, saw the temps and stumbled through the darkness turned off some of the CFLs and rechecked temp dropped to 87 and I left. So yeah can only run a couple lights 3 at the most. I think a bigger CFL would help just gotta spend some more $. Any suggestions would be great! Maybe I need to get a big ass light and have the ballast outside of the box with the light on the inside. IDK I'll figure out something where there's a will there's a way right? If I could just move the box somewhere else it would help but really don't have a lot of free space in my little place. For my fans I have 3. On the first page you can see the exhaust fan I use and than I got the other 2 oscillating fans. The one I finally got hung upside down in the corner so that it blows the hot air from under the bulbs but the damn fan doesn't want to oscillate now just stays blowing towards the door. In all honety though I have been thinking that this is probably the best option anyway as it just blows air from the back of the closet towards the front and will still help get some of the 250's heat out still. Than the other fan I have kind of broinging in cooler air and blowing it to the back of the closet I still have some experimenting to do to see what works best been busy with the other box's temps tho.

I said in my last post that I was pretty unimpressed with the bagseed and now that i got 2 clones of it I'm thinking about possibly planting them outdoors somewhere I have no clue where but perhaps a friend can help. I could harden them off here and than take them to the spot. Could also add some more clones in the near future. My head never stops thinking...sometimes it's annoying when your still up at 2am thinking about shit like this lol. So as promised here's the pics.

pic 1 check out my lights think I got too much? lol
pic 2 seedlings in flower room
pic 3 the mutant romulan:twisted:
pic 4 is the moms and dad
The rest are pretty self explainatory. Happy Fri. Can't believe it's really been 5 weeks of flowering is that right? The 6 weeks of veg felt like an eternity, I guess having 2 rooms makes the time so much more manageable since your getting twice as much done.
 

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Pipe Dream

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No okay today is the end of the 4th week. I was starting to be like WTF I forgot to add more fertilizer. The fertilizer lasts about a month so that's probably why the yellowing they have been in the soil for a while probably 6 weeks so I will just top dress the pots with more fertilizer before I water next time. That's basically how I was able to grow plants in miracle grow and never add nutes just repot in soil and your good for 2 months by the time the fertilizer is used up you would be flushing anyways.
 

GODFREY1

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Yeah. Two spaces helps like a champ. I got a dumb idea for my heat problem though. We have one small window AC unit in the front room window. During summer when I have real problems I'm going to get a 50' piece of 4" collapsable dryer vent pipe. During the day at it's hottest times most of the house is at work. I plan on securing the one end of the pipe in the tent. Than stretch the pipe through the room,than through the house(only 25' or so) to the AC unit at the window. That way I can blow straight cold air into the tent every once in a while when I need it. At least till I can figure out somethin better that should suffice.
 

MrSoloDolo

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I think moving the ballast outside the closet would help a ton- but not sure how you can do that though. I don't think your bic light will interrupt the cycle, I read that a small amount like 1 minute or less of light was OK- but if you have to get in there to use a Green light- the green spectrum does not interrupt their dark time.

That Romulan is hilarious! I wonder if they all looked fucked up as babies and then grow normal later or if that one is genetically "special" LOL~~
 

Pipe Dream

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I think moving the ballast outside the closet would help a ton- but not sure how you can do that though. I don't think your bic light will interrupt the cycle, I read that a small amount like 1 minute or less of light was OK- but if you have to get in there to use a Green light- the green spectrum does not interrupt their dark time.

That Romulan is hilarious! I wonder if they all looked fucked up as babies and then grow normal later or if that one is genetically "special" LOL~~

It's just the built in ballasts of the cfls that's causing the heat so maybe if I could get that part out or something IDK. I think that the high temperature caused the romulan to develop like that it looked normal until I started having issues and my last rom didn't look like that at all. It's also the smallest of the seedlings that were planted at the time but it's starting to grow pretty normally I think.Yesterday sucked since I had to leave for the day and wasn't able to moniter the heat and the power went out....again. Just sitting here playing xbox and there is like an explosion outside and all my power was out so they sat in the dark for a few hours right after I fertilized. Today the colombian was showing some sign of nute burn so hopefully it doesn't get too bad or maybe the power outage might be to blame. Anyways, other than that everything looks fine the seedlings are developing and the flowering plants look like they are budding fast.
 
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