Mohican's 2012 Indoor Malawi Grow

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #41

Well she is really starting to stretch! Looks a little scraggley! I wonder if I should top her?

Asked Uncle Ben where to top her:




Day 62:



Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #42

Here are the seeds I got from Attitude:

Product: Holy Smoke Seeds Mulanje Gold Regular
Options: Reg Seeds Per Pack - 12 Seeds
Quantity: 1

Product: UFO#1 CH9 Female Seeds Afghan Haze 33
Quantity: 1

Product: FREE Holy Smoke 2 x Malawi Gold Reg
2 x Mozambique Poison Reg
2 x Mulanje Gold Reg
Quantity: 1

Pics:








Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #43

She is still growing fine and I defintely want to top her. Then I can get a clone for outside and I can spread the mother out more under the screen of green!

Day 63 LED light only:




Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #44

OK - Here goes!

Clone tool area:




Before:




After:




Mother:




Top/Clone:




That was tense! Now I need to make a cloner big enough for the top/clone!


Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #45

Figured out a way to get that big clone setup in a dome. Put two clear totes together and clamped them together with big clips:


Cloner:





Here is how I light the clone - I put two 5500K CFLs in socket plugs and plugged those in a power bar. I placed the power bar on the top of the cloner with the lights facing up (tried it sideways but the lights were too hot for the plastic IMO). Then I covered the lights with a blue tote.


Cloner with lights:







The clone/top is upright and not a bit wilty!



Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #46

All I needed was a little table!




Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #47

Two more shower curtain rods and I have a support for my screen:






Top view:





Side view:





Clone:




Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #48

While I was cleaning out my cupboard for the grow I came accross this:








It is so much better when you have one of these! hehe

I think I should hook my fans up to it.


Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #49

Not enough growth for screen yet so I will LST until it is ready:






Put clone/top outside in the shade to start getting it accustomed to the sun.

Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #50

She is really using up the res water fast now. I think I will need to add a second res to make it easier to deal with the water during flower and ScrOG.


Day 70:




Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #51

This whole second res idea got me thinking about having a shelf instead of a table. This way I can slide the second res under the first one. I need to add some plumbing to the top res so I can transfer the water:


Bulkhead:







Drilling holes:




Installation:




Cupboard with shelf:




New plumbing:





I cleaned everything while I had the tote apart. Cleaned the sprinkler heads, pipes, filters, pumps, airstones and tubing... Everything works like new!


Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #52

She loves the new system! I can add water every day easily and check the nutes and add nutes - this is great.


Day 74 Top View:




pH 5.4
ppm 1000 Flora Nova Bloom (Scottyballs method)


Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #53

OK - some of the gurus on RIU said I might get algae from using clear tubing so I went with an upgrade. Plants like copper and my whole house uses copper plumbing so I custom built some copper pipes for my baby.



New plumbing:




Whole system:





Day 76 growth:





Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #54

I love these big fan leaves - they are huge!


Leaf Macro:




Cheers,
Mo

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #55

Well I have much more growth now and several heads. I think it is time to put the Kessil to the test. What do you think?


Kessil H350 Magenta LED:




Cheers,
Mo

 

PetFlora

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Oct 5, 2014

• #56

Nice report

Have you seen CaptainMorgans household led grow (Cree bubs) on riu? It's about a year old

Really amazing

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #57

Yes I have. He has done some amazing things How are you doing?

 

Positivity

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Oct 5, 2014

• #58

Damn mo..you been busy! Making me want to play with my waterfarm again. If I had a big space I'd have all kind of stuff going on..one day. Dreaming of a 4 x 4 now that I've got all this DIY led power

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #59

I want to build a dedicated grow shed with all of the goodies including CO2. I want to be able to have high humidity without worrying about messing up the room. I also want to be able to run electrical and air ducting without making any modifications to my house.

 

Mohican

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Oct 5, 2014

• #60

Did you ever see Scottyballs grow with the waterfarm? All he used was a slightly modified WF (bigger air pump and better water ring) and GH Flora Nova Bloom (Lucas Formula) and he grew pound plants consistently!