Humboldt's Growing Adventures! Up & Away!

Since things are doing well with my CFL grow I decided to start a journal, rather than keep posting in the newbie section.


I'm a Total No0b! and I'm about two months in veg, I have six healthy plants (from bagseed) and a handful that I'm trying to nurse back to life (keep alive) I just found out today that I'm a proud father of a baby girl, that's one out of six so far, hoping for at least one more so I can get this show started, I plan to start the flowering cycle within a week.

I'm going to keep this as short as possible, what I'm going to do is only post pictures in the the next couple of threads or so .. updates up to now, I don't feel like writing details to each picture or experience and let's face it you don't want to be reading all day or night either, so if you have any questions, suggestions, comments or just want to hang out and see what I will be able to do using cfl's and with what I got.

I'm also keeping video updates, see following link,

http://www.bratcat.net/bratcat/pot/videos/humboldts_videos


Ok here we go, I'm going to cram as many pictures as I can in this thread, the ones that won't fit, I will start another thread shortly after this or keep you in suspense for another week, lmao j/k I plan to update frequently, so stick around.
First set of pictures,

To Be Continued!

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments please post away the more the merrier.

More Pictures!

To Be Continued!

I should be able to post the rest in one more thread.

Ok this should be the end of the pictures for now,

Ok that's the end of the road for now, any questions, comments, suggestions are very welcome.

More Updates to come!

HOOAH!! I got another bitch, two out of six hoping to get at least one more, then I can start cloning/flowering, the funny thing is she's my youngest/smallest and not as healthy as the other girl or suspected males but yet she's growing hair like a Hippie on Reggae On The River, any ideas as to why she's maturing faster then the older and healthier ones?








I'm soo freaking happy, just about time to start cloning and flowering, that's where all the fun comes in and most of the worries leave, however Iv'e never cloned before therefore I'm a bit nervous but I'm going to practice on the males before hand.

HOOAH!!

Congrats! Good luck with them secse ladies.

kinda tight for cfl's humboldt,im using them to veg right now and im happy with them thus far and im feeling better about it now that ive seen yours,im moving them to a 400w hps for flower.looking nice humboldt.........ras

Thanks guys,

I forgot to post some pictures of the rest of my plants (see attachments) I now have 18 plants total, I germinated too many seeds without having enough lighting and proper potting containers witch led to root bound, also I over watered them at first not really knowing what I was doing but I'm getting a better idea when to water, I had to put the best looking plants in the bigger buckets and the rest are in my ghetto nursery that desperately needs to be redone, however the plants are making a dramatic turn for better.

Since the plants in my nursery went through a lot, they are stretched and stunted, I was thinking of cloning a few branches of my healthy girls and if they actually start growing I'll ditch the twelve in my nursery to make room for definite girls.

Note: I will be practicing cloning on the males, phew!

How does that sound any better ideas, does anybody want some stretched and stunted plants? lmao

Please do not say I over watered as I just watered before taking the pictures.

Any flowers showing up yet?

Ok Humboldt,
I just got do reading your thread and J. u asked a ? about the different types of light and I don't think you got an answer. From what I have read the daylight cfls are the best for vegging, and the soft white a few cool white are good for flow. I was able to get a daylight 65/500w flood system for $9 at costco. It came with the bulb and houseing w/a plastic lid which helps with heat. The box says it has like 6300lum, but when I look up the Man. on line they say it put off 9000 lum. humm its 420 be right back. Ok thats better. always good to think with a clear head.
I saw the little yellow/brown spots, they don't look like much. mabe a little nut burn in that area. But your plants look good. what r u using to test you ph? that could be the issue aswell.
Take a look at My J. I have added a lot more pics. they have now been flow for 10 days and you can see the little buds poping up.
GLG
Logan.

Nah no flowers only pre and some pussy hairs and I'm pretty sure some balls, I'm really in no big hurry now that everything is going well, I now want to sex them before I start flowering also I want them to get as big as possible.

Originally I started with 17, I had hopes to get at least six girls from that, well to make a longer story shorter, I screwed up in the begging (left me with six decent plants) then my hopes were to get at least 3 girls out of the six, after seeing more male figures I then crossed my fingers for at least one girl, I want to be able to clone as I have no more seeds, so far I'm lucky to have two girls, the rest are looking male but I'm still going to give them a lil longer, I should be starting the flowering process by this weekend .. Cross my fingers .. my plants are getting big, have a look, the three last images are of course my sweet hearts!


All Plants Male and Female,

My Baby Girls,

Ok Humboldt,

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I just got do reading your thread and J. u asked a ? about the different types of light and I don't think you got an answer. From what I have read the daylight cfls are the best for vegging, and the soft white a few cool white are good for flow. I was able to get a daylight 65/500w flood system for $9 at costco. It came with the bulb and houseing w/a plastic lid which helps with heat. The box says it has like 6300lum, but when I look up the Man. on line they say it put off 9000 lum. humm its 420 be right back. Ok thats better. always good to think with a clear head.
I saw the little yellow/brown spots, they don't look like much. mabe a little nut burn in that area. But your plants look good. what r u using to test you ph? that could be the issue aswell.
Take a look at My J. I have added a lot more pics. they have now been flow for 10 days and you can see the little buds poping up.
GLG
Logan.

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Yeah I know I ask a lot of things that never get answered, I don't sweat it though, I've gottin a lot of help from these forums a lot of it is from the hours I've been spending in the facts as well as reading threads/journals, Rollitup has become my second home and I guess I can't expect to get every question answered but then again there comes some one as yourself that surprizes the hell out of me.


I've been using 26w cool whites this hole veg lol and since nobody answered my question until now, I just planned on adding some day lights come flowering just to make sure. I was thinking like every other socket and I hope them to be higher wattage, does that sound fair enough? however 9$ at costos (great deal) I was about to pay thirty 4 bucks for a similar light, how has it been working for ya? I have a costco near me and for 30 more bucks I could probably create a pretty decent flowering light fixture,

Any ideas on how I could go about using two of those costco's lights and using my current fixture/lights?

Also I had already fingered out the yellowing spots issue, I was in fact over watering them, right now I have one five gallon bucket and six one gallon jugs filled with water at all times in my bathroom, with lids off of course and I used a strip out of a hot tub kit to test the ph, it's color coded it's so cool.

Hey H.
Here are some pics of the light system that I was talking about.
I can't tell how well it works because I only used it for a few weeks. What I can tell you is that it is very bright for the bulb, I also like the fact that it has a cover over the light and that it is made for outside. I got two and plan to put them side by side and install them on a board that I can adjust up and down. Hope this helps. If you have any questions just ask.

Thanks Logan, yup those are exactly what I amost paid 34 bucks for, good thing I didn't, do you think they sell those at costco's all the time or is it one of those things they have once in awhile?


Ok guys I went ahead and cloned one of my male plants today, however this is just an experiment as I don't have any rock wool or rootone yet, I have four males to practice on lol


I got the idea from the following picture,

I'm trying one in straight water and the other with MG, I'm thinking the MG is going to kill it but who know's it just may do better than only water, I took after pics, check them out.

LOOKS LIKE GREEN SPIDERS LMAO!!

One question, being that the clones are in water, would it still be a good idea to keep the tops wet by spraying them once in awhile?

Hey H.
I only have seen them for the past few months, but I was never really looking for them. you know what I mean?
As for the clone? I know they like Humidity. I don't understand just putting them in water when they don't have roots to drink it, that is why you spray the leafs. I'm not that good at making clones, I have killed the past 12 clones. If you find out let me know.
GLG

Rgr thanks Logan, I was informed of the same thing in another thread, so I fixed my clones up a bit I also topped and cloning it, check them out.

Its hard to tell what they look like, but they don't look dead. Thats a good thing. Are you sure that they are males? Off that, I was just looking at one of my plants up close and I think one might be a herm. mabe from stress or heat. I don't know if it is but one side of the nod has a hair and the other side has a little round something. I will take a pic later. The both are flow. and were clones(female). I think I rather it be a herm. so I can get some good seeds from the plants. 12 days in flow and I can all ready smell them. It would cool if you send a scratch and sniff pic. Talk to later.
GLG

hello humboldt,
nice grow, i am jealous. do you mind answering a couple questions? thought you had to put plant into flowering stage for about a week before telling sex? i like you want to clone and not waste time cloning males. from reading yur post it seems you left your plants in veg till they showed pre-flowers. how long did that take? also how tall are your plants?

damn those girls are bushing out with those cfls. good job. cant wait to see what they look like flowering.

Thanks for the comments guys, I can't wait for the flowering either, I'm still shooting to start this weekend, if everything goes well.


party5 I don't know the exact date but it's been just over two months also I'm not completely sure about a couple of the male plants but I will let them veg/ longer in a separate room, speaking of I just removed the males and put them in the veg/clone room, they where cramping up my girls, needed to give them a breather, I had too many plants in that little space and not enough fresh are/oxygen for them all and the clones seem to be doing well check them out.


The clones,

They seem to be staying alive and the one in the green somewhat clear cup seems to be doing something as far as rooting, the tip of the stem where I cut/slices they are starting to spread apart and looks like something starting to come out, it's kind of hard to see and I'm afraid to open the others to look at them, I will just keep them going and if the one that I can see if roots actually take off then I will check the other as long as they continue to look healthy



Newly arranged grow rooms, First my girls and some stretched and stunted plants and I still need to get something to lift them closer to the lights, I was thinking small square hollow bricks that I can stack accordingly.

Males and clones,

It's been pretty stressful keeping these plants alive with what little I know and with what I've been working with, it's been fun though and if I make it through this round the next should be much easier.

lookin really good man, are you changing the clone water at all? I hear it really helps
to change it daily, but i've never done it that way so who knows