My Growitup Greenhouse Grow 2010

Hey i discovered spider mites at week three of flower on my indoor garden and didn't want to use chemicals so I went with these preditors "Mesoseiulus longipes" because they can survive in low humidity and five weeks later I'v just had a nice harvest with very very minimal mite damage... I actually didn't see one single mite throughout the whole trimming process! just a thought.



this is the site I ordered them from http://www.naturescontrol.com/mite.html#tt

wow great job bro. now you have all you need. lol pretty cool huh? my cabnets are full here as well. With my outside grow finnishing up, just adds more to the pile. lol

looking awesome cruzer! looking forward to this grow. hydro outdoors in a greenhouse is something I don't see to often.

True dat^^^

gumball said:

just dont get to carried away, you cant nuke the whole neighborhood! it would be nice, but costly, and the neighbors may dislike that more than the smell.

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Yea well, Im a patient man but if someone complains because of the smell of insecticide then I'm done.
In other words fuck'em.

whodatnation said:

Hey i discovered spider mites at week three of flower on my indoor garden and didn't want to use chemicals so I went with these preditors "Mesoseiulus longipes" because they can survive in low humidity and five weeks later I'v just had a nice harvest with very very minimal mite damage... I actually didn't see one single mite throughout the whole trimming process! just a thought.

this is the site I ordered them from http://www.naturescontrol.com/mite.html#tt

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And a good thought at that, I plan on being more aggressive this spring cause I know the spidermite females are here. Ladybugs just didnt survive so I plant on other predators. Its still a bit cold for any of them to survive the nights now but this spring I wanna get a jump on them with some predator mites. Thanks for the link, they got Mantis eggs available in December. I wanna raise some. Good idea, keep them coming.

cutman said:

wow great job bro. now you have all you need. lol pretty cool huh? my cabnets are full here as well. With my outside grow finnishing up, just adds more to the pile. lol

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Hell ya bro, throw another log on the pile! Yea, I like the variety.

Dr. Greenhorn said:

looking awesome cruzer! looking forward to this grow. hydro outdoors in a greenhouse is something I don't see to often.

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Yea I hear ya, This afteroon removed the shade to give them there first taste of sunlight.
Very Cool. I pulled up a chair and twisted one up.

whodatnation said:

True dat^^^

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I didn't really know if plants needed watering at night or not. Well I found out for sure.
Last night the last thing I did was move the power cord to the water timer. I plugged it in a socket that was controlled by the wall switch and the switch was off all night. I checked on them this morning before the sun got to them and they looked fine, after about an hour I checked again and they were all drooping. I immediately hung the shade back up. Then I looked inside and saw it was dry. I got the water going again and within 10 minutes they were happy again.

I got one in the sun and gonna check it in a while. If its fine I will remove the shade again.
One things for sure, the dam things need water when they got light.

Really digging the setup with the hydro in there cruzer. Love watching the next evolution of your grows.

Cool. Thanks for following along.

Here is where the next evolution begins.
Got my small cab prepped for germination.





Got the temps and humidity just right.
Upper is under the dome temp next is temp inside the rooter cube and last is humidity.




Silver Jack in the smart pot on the right.




I'll take the growing tips all around leaving most of the existing branches on the plant to flower out in the green house. Once I veg the cuttings they will also go in the green house. Mainly sativa it will take a while longer to flower.


Im using a Sunblaze T5 HO 24" 4 bulb light thats about 100 watts supplemented by a vanity light with four 23 watt cfls.



I reversed the chrome trim on the vanity light to make a mini reflector.



Heres a shot of the girls before the sun hit them this morning.




What I am trying to achieve with the girls in soil is a humidity in the root zone.
You can see I got it here. Gotta play with the watering cycle a bit more on the others.





I figure I can go ahead and start taking some cuttings from them today to flower in my large cab.

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wow the ones in hydro def grew alot since bein out der

Nice update curz,

Gotta love it inside, outside, plants growing every where. Did a great job at setting it all up!!

Are you going to lower that tube as they get taller?

Hey Cruzer, any idea where I can get some Casey Jones clones or seeds? I want to get a good jump on spring this year. BTW, I'm legal!!

rastadred22 said:

wow the ones in hydro def grew alot since bein out der

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No man, I just raised them to get better sun. They got there size in the veg cabinet.

Hulk Nugs said:

Nice update curz,

Gotta love it inside, outside, plants growing every where. Did a great job at setting it all up!!

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Yea, Ya gotta, I really got into it. We got the Veg Machine thing going on indoor and flower in green house.
I get like 6 months of 12/12 out there.

WWShadow said:

Are you going to lower that tube as they get taller?

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Yea, Thats the idea.

potpimp said:

Hey Cruzer, any idea where I can get some Casey Jones clones or seeds? I want to get a good jump on spring this year. BTW, I'm legal!!

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Congrats on the legal thing. Gotta do it.
I don't know man, I can check around but yea, thats a hell of a jump on spring!












They did great. No more shade.

As they grow I will lower the tube. The res is about a foot tall so I can go down that far.
They look kinda stretchy compared to the skunk. I want to make a screen for support and tie it to the rope about 2 foot above the tube. Only way I can think of supporting them.


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Last night I got the cuttings I wanted from Silver Jack.
I used some Clonex gel and solution. Its about a year old and the gel was kinda watery but I think it will still work.
Took five off the side shoots and the top.





I'll give her a week or two then out to the green house. The clones I will veg in here.













I didn't have room for a full size propagator and super dome so I got a cake pan with a lid.

No direct lighting for 48 hours, root zone temps high 70's


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Great idea with the cake pan and lid. I use something real similar that I got from Food Lion when I bought one of their rotisserie chickens. lol Yay for hardening them off that fast and giving them non shaded sun!

Yea there is lots of every day stuff you can use for growing.
Every time I walk down an isle in a store I look and think "ya know, I can use that for..." Got growing on the brain I guess.

Ya, the girls in the sun. I love it.
I still got the hydro in grow nutes. I wanted to make the move as comfortable as possible. PPMs shot up from 600 to 800 today so they are not using them correctly. Temp was a bit high (72°) PH was high too so I topped it off, cooled the hydro res down to 600 ppm at 68° and pH 5.9 Maybe they just need flower nutes. I'll change out to flower nutes tomorrow. Its nice to have my own r/o water now. No more trips the the Water store.

cruzer101 said:

Every time I walk down an isle in a store I look and think "ya know, I can use that for..." Got growing on the brain I guess.

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We are twins, separated at birth. Looks like another incredible grow this year!

Ha! you too huh?

Thanks man, Yea, I think its cool seeing them side by side and all.
We will see what works better, I like the ease of transplanting the hydro and how fast it grows but those girls in soil have thicker stalks that can make for thicker buds.

The last couple days we had 80° daytime highs and mid 50"s at night. This is November, WTF?
I changed the timer on the rope light to 30 on 30 off during the night.

Swapped out the hydro res to flower nutes, 600ppm pH 5.9 and got my web cam on them.
Now I can check on them from my desktop.The clones got over heated, it was 92° when I checked and it had been at least 12 hours. They were all laying over, looking dead. I cooled them off this morning and kept them at the right temp all day and bingo! They look fine. These baby's look like they are all gonna root.






Finally got over to my bud's house. The guy who removed all the fan leaves in his back yard grow this year.
Well, I tried it and as expected its average bud at best. Too bad. Live and learn. He had some mold issues on larger colas. We got it squared away though.

Things seem under control, the Headband's new growth is a little lighter green then usual but she is turning.
One of the Hindu kush Skunk (the one in the middle) is either not a Hindu Kush Skunk or a very dominate Sativa phenotype.

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