Gastanker's 600+w Organic UV Grow

mrorganics said:

haha I have the entire GO line because it came in a box for 30$ and im not comfortable using the actual organics since its my second grow ever. and man im so jealous you live in cali I wish I could move there, Im actually planning to in the future, a few harvests and I might quit my job pack all my sit into a Uhaul and go.

Click to expand...

Line ups are a great way to go when starting. I just passed my soil ecology class with an A and think my professor might get pissy at me if he found out I wasn't doing it the hard way

California is amazing but don't come here thinking you'll grow a ton of legal pot and make a fortune. Lbs here are going for $2k and lower and it still isn't legal to grow in quantity. Power costs are sky high atm as well and the nanny state aspect is a bit much. I'm thinking I might need to relocate to Oregon soon - follow all the true hippies (not many actually left in California).

I was curious as to what material you covered your tent with as well as what you used to connect that material to the frame and to otehr pieces of the covering it self.

middle84 said:

I was curious as to what material you covered your tent with as well as what you used to connect that material to the frame and to otehr pieces of the covering it self.

Click to expand...

Thanks for stopping by.

That is a tent I bought on ebay for $95. The tent comes with potmetal supports which can hold my hood and filter but not those floro light banks. Those panels are super heavy duty hospital grade and each weigh ~85 lbs so I built a 2x4 frame inside the tent to hold them up.

Old pic but should give you an idea:

New ballast comes tomorrow along with repotting into final containers. I am thinking of throwing some coco into my final mix instead of pure Happy Frog.

Plants are looking ok, not great but pushing along. One looks like it recieved a bit of overwatering but that could be the extreme low temps it has been. Fimmed the two Chocolope today.

Here are pics of the bunch along with the tiny 1x1 temp grow chamber.

Geeking out. Here's my tent:



Numbers are in footcandles

Nice how'd you make that pic, your lookin good man can't wait to see our tents side by side in a couple months

mrorganics said:

Nice how'd you make that pic, your lookin good man can't wait to see our tents side by side in a couple months

Click to expand...

I can't wait either - serisouly it is driving me mad waiting till my tent is full. Pictures were generated with DIALux. This is a free program that seems to be the industry standard when it comes to calculating lighting - most all major light manufactueres produce plugins for this program so that you can download exact lighting specs for most all standard lamps.

It is a free program and a ton of fun to dick around with.

nice man, just waiting for branches and nodes is driving me crazy, I plan on transplanting next weekend and flipping the week after to sex a week and bring em back, how do you know when you have a nice rootball in a solo cup??

mrorganics said:

nice man, just waiting for branches and nodes is driving me crazy, I plan on transplanting next weekend and flipping the week after to sex a week and bring em back, how do you know when you have a nice rootball in a solo cup??

Click to expand...

Flip it over and look of course.

Place fingers on either side of plant.


Flip it over and then squeeze the sides of the container gently. Once free lift off the container.



Once you are done replace the container and flip it back over. This little guy is showing roots but still needs some time before repotting.

Found a tiny bat skull in my fertilizer. You know thats organic

lol. thats cool. open up a bag of ferts and find a skull. at least u know they use they real product

So there was a snow storm and my power was out for ~48 hours. Temps in the plants room dropped to 51 and my can was stuck.

I now have power and dug my car out. Picked up my ballast today and get the tent set-up. Repotted most of the plants, the two large ones were ready along with half of the smaller ones but a few had some time to go. I repotted them anyways because I might not be able to get back up here for a couple days - another snow storm is coming in.

I moved the pannels in and dropped my light a bit (flipped it the other way as well). I have the light set to 400w which puts canopy temps at 71. Loving the Lumatek, cant hear it at all and bright as hell.


See those roots? I treated the two differently but forgot to document I want to say one got superthrive and the other didn't.

Thanks for the help Ill be sure to post here if I have anymore questions. Great grow journals, can't wait to see this Chocolope grow out. "Super paranoia high" I'm not even sure I would count that as a good thing lol. Good luck on the grow.

Rasta Viking said:

Thanks for the help Ill be sure to post here if I have anymore questions. Great grow journals, can't wait to see this Chocolope grow out. "Super paranoia high" I'm not even sure I would count that as a good thing lol. Good luck on the grow.

Click to expand...

Yeah...I hope it doesn't give me a paranoid high. When I had it before I remember it being quite relaxing. Either way I'm sure it will be an amazing grow.

Ask any questions you might have, I like to be helpful. I would recommend going through that CFL grow of mine a bit. I learned a ton and documented most of it with lots of pictures.

I definitely did check out your CFL grow and read it through its entirety, great journal I learned a lot. Especially helps because we have the same dimensions.

Put in a drip system today. 550 gph pump in a 35 gallon garbage can connected to a header and then the separate lines. Also grabbed a 7day digital timer that goes down to 1 min off 1 min on. This is really just incase I need to leave town but if it works well (will be running it next couple weeks to test) I might incorporate it more often.

Also decided to run my light venting back into my tent. Was worried about low ambient temps but high canopy temps so I'm pulling through the hood, and then running the venting back into the tent at the bottom. This way it distributes the heat and also provides some immediate air circulation on the plants.


Top dressed the 2 larger plants with bone 6-9-0 bone meal (not suluable) and 10-3-1 bat guano (5% soluable N). So in reality I am giving them an immediate 5-0-0 and a slow release 11-12-1. Hoping I time it right for that P to realease durring flower. Will be watering with a guano tea with cal and mg added - I bubble this in a bottle for several days before diluting and adding to the res.

Was just looking at the dates and there is only a week difference between the big two and the smaller plants. That's crazy, talk about weeds.

Damn I hope mine get that big in a week, good luck man.

Gastanker said:

Found a tiny bat skull in my fertilizer. You know thats organic

Click to expand...

wow tanker thats 2 kewl i used to collect skulls i had a monkey skull and was quite expensive

hammer6913 said:

wow tanker thats 2 kewl i used to collect skulls i had a monkey skull and was quite expensive

Click to expand...

Awesome. My aunt has a very extensive skull collection which I quite admire. Monkey skulls are cool - I was in India and around Asia and no longer have any fondness for the dirty animals. Really really obnoxious.

I'm just loving my bat guano. None of this unidentifiable ground up dust. My guano is 95% whole distinguishable pellets along with all types of little beetles and often small bones. I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of the rest of it was insect pellets which is just as good. It is exactly what was scooped from the floor of a cave with no processing and nothing added.