Grape Stomper x OG and a Blue Himalaya 600w Tent Grow

Viagro said:

I'd give it molasses to chelate the lockup problems. Easy on the nutes.

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Yeah I might do that. Next water I'll probably stick to around 600ppm until they get back up to size than I'll begin to kick it up. I'm not quite sure about molasses yet and will have to look up how to use it.

lorax101 said:

Yeah I might do that. Next water I'll probably stick to around 600ppm until they get back up to size than I'll begin to kick it up. I'm not quite sure about molasses yet and will have to look up how to use it.

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Just add it to water @ 1tsp - 1 tbsp per gal. It helps roots function (when chem fertilizers have locked up nutes) through chelation. Go easy on the nutes..

Viagro said:

Just add it to water @ 1tsp - 1 tbsp per gal. It helps roots function (when chem fertilizers have locked up nutes) through chelation. Go easy on the nutes..

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Alright sounds good, I'll do that the next time I water.

A question for anyone who may know, should I water to keep the soil wet or should I let it get dry before watering again. I'm guessing the former as I read that you are supposed to water about once a week once the roots hit the bottom of the bucket.

Well checked on them today and all looks well. Don't think I need to water them again yet. Though the question still stands, do I water them a little more frequently right now or should I just hold off until the need it?

I will snap some pics when I wake up in the morning, just before it's lights out for them.

3-23-2011
Well I checked on them today and found that the ducting from my inline fan to the cool tube got pulled off so the room was a little hotter than usual. Other than that nothing really to note other than they took the topping quite well and I have yet to water again since the transplant, I will probably water again tomorrow.

lorax101 said:

Alright sounds good, I'll do that the next time I water.

A question for anyone who may know, should I water to keep the soil wet or should I let it get dry before watering again. I'm guessing the former as I read that you are supposed to water about once a week once the roots hit the bottom of the bucket.

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You seem to be overwatering. Don't water until the leaves begin reaching for the light. Let it dry between waterings, but not so much the medium separates from the side of the pot. Molasses will cure your lockout problems, and rebalance things in terms of nutrient uptake. Less is more when feeding small plants. Patience, let the plants do the work and they will, don't force it.

edit: You mentioned a strong smell? How does the BH smell. I want to grow some, and I'm here to try to gain insight into that strain. If it's too stinky, I won't be able to grow it.

Now I'm getting real curious about your Grape Stomper X OG. I'm hoping it's the stinkier, though, LOL

Viagro said:

edit: You mentioned a strong smell? How does the BH smell. I want to grow some, and I'm here to try to gain insight into that strain. If it's too stinky, I won't be able to grow it.

Now I'm getting real curious about your Grape Stomper X OG. I'm hoping it's the stinkier, though, LOL

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Yeah the smell from the BH is not strong compared to the smell of the Grape Stomper x OG. I'll wait until they are reaching towards the light to water again and I will for sure use the molasses. I'll also go with less nutes than I have been using and go from there. I also haven't been babying the BH like I have the Grape StomperOG, I've been kinda using it as a test plant to try out stuff before I do it to future plants. Plus I am new to this method as the last few times I grew I was using DWC and CFL lights so this is a little different than what I'm used to.

Thanks for cluing me in. Blue Himalaya, being an auto, won't take as kindly to being fed as your other girls. It will probably do best with minimal feeding, if fed at all (other than molasses, and maybe magnesium (Epsom salt)).

edit: Isn't a Lorax a Dr Seuss critter?

Yeah, all the other plants I've grown have been autos and I would very rarily hit them with the hard nutes until the were flowering pretty heavily. Just got some snowryder done and it is curing, both water and jar methods.
Yeah, the Lorax is from the Dr. Seuss book by the same name, little guy goes about saving the trees.

3-27-2011
Not much new to note. Fed them 600ppm yesterday, they seem to be getting a little too hot so I put another fan in there. I noticed that when it started smelling in there and I put in the carbon filter that really killed how much air the fan was pushing through, I was wondering if I should put the carbon filter after the inline fan or before it. When I say after I mean outside the room after the air gets pushed through the hood.

3-29-2011
They are really starting to grow now. Temps are better now, around 75 to 77 and overall they are doing wonderfully. I will be putting them into flower when they are about a foot tall. I will also most likely do some lst.
Thoughts?

3-31-2011
Everything is going great right now. I will be going up to around 800ppm for the next watering which the will most likely receive in about a day or two. I added some group pics this time as it gives a better impression of the size. They are staying quite short which is good but I'm getting a little anxious to start flowering so I can see the sex. I'm unsure as to why but the smell has been getting out quite a bit recently. I was also curious why the carbon filter seems to have a plastic wrap around the underneath of the outside fabric like material. If anyone knows please let me know as I've tried looking this up to no avail.

They are getting fuller now. I'm going to water today. I have a question though. How come my house still smells skunky? Does it have something to do with the plasticy stuff that is on the carbon filter. I tried removing it but couldn't figure out how. Will post pictures tomorrow.

4-4-2011
Watered the Grape Stomper x OG last night with 750ppm nutes and hit the blue himalaya with 400ppm of some flowering nutes. Was a crazy week with school and work so I didn't have the time to dedicate to lst them. I wish I could have but they are still looking beautiful.

I used to top-off my fifi's at 5 nods but I found getting them to 7-10 nodes or more sometimes(if ya got the room) it'll give ya better yeild. The bottoms I usually trim for clones IF they are not gonna amnt to much anyway! I also use a 3GAL. for these monsters too. Generally I stay with a SQ.2 GAL. pot. Great for limited space too.

damn man those are some beautiful looking plants very nice

fasteddy714 said:

I used to top-off my fifi's at 5 nods but I found getting them to 7-10 nodes or more sometimes(if ya got the room) it'll give ya better yeild. The bottoms I usually trim for clones IF they are not gonna amnt to much anyway! I also use a 3GAL. for these monsters too. Generally I stay with a SQ.2 GAL. pot. Great for limited space too.

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Yeah, I wish I would have been able to find some square pots but these 3 gallon ones are okay, if the majority of them are females I will really be running out of space. I wish I had the time to trim the bottoms for clones but I will probably do that next run. I have four more Grape Stomper x OG seeds and this is kinda my trial run.

jhod58vw said:

damn man those are some beautiful looking plants very nice

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Thanks man, your grow is looking pretty damn good too. I like what you do with CFL.

I'm unsure, but tonight after work I think I'm going to supercrop them, bending over the taller branches to help get the smaller ones to grow up. Hopefully creating an even canopy

4-6-2011
Just got done supercropping, I gently pushed in the sides of the stem on two main stems from each plant, than I bent them over to create a more even canopy and also facilitate more growth. I will supercrop once more next week and put them into flower the 15th or 16th. Before the supercrop they were around 9-10 inches tall. After the supercropping my fingers smell like a fingered a skunks ass, just an fyi.
The BH is scheduled to finish up on the 24th 60-65 days from seed. It is not quite as big as I thought it would get, but that is most likely because I have not given it the attention it deserves. I treated it like a freebie but either way I should get some quality smoke from it.

They recovered pretty quick from the supercropping, I'm wondering if I did not do it hard enough.