TheNaturalist
Active Member
Hey everyone!
I am new to ROI and on day 47 (started 2/2/12) of my first ScrOG grow. I will catch you all up to speed in this post and then keep a regular journal starting just in time for the bud porn
. I noticed a rule in the sticky's not to post in someone's journal unless asked 
well please feel free to post here! If it weren't for other peoples advise I wouldn't know a thing about growing so i'm not going to start turning it down now! Im scared to post in other peoples journals now, but if you think I would find your grow interesting then go ahead and invite me and ill come check it out. Anyways. heres the info on my setup:
Tent: GL 80 (2.5 x 2.5 x 5.9)
Light: 400 watt MH/HPS cool tube
Ventilation: 400 CFM inline fan w/ carbon filter
Genetics: 707 Headband (2 clones)
Soil: FFOF
Nutes: BioBiz (Grow + Bloom), Neptune's Harvest (fish+kelp mix), Blackstrap Molasses, CalMag supplement
Pesticide: Organic Cedar Oil
And heres some pics, im not sure what date each one was taken but they will take you from the start up through today:
Full shot of tent
Air is pulled through carbon filter and then pushed through cool tube and out the top of tent. I now know that its inefficient to push air and the fan should be at the very end so it pulls air through the whole system but 400 CFM is enough to replace the air in my tent every 10 seconds so i'm not too worried, ill fix it before my next grow.
The headband clones are in the pots. Ignore the other 2 clones, I got them first and cooked them my first night when my ventilation system broke...
I did LST from the beginning to get them ready to ScrOG
More LST.
Heres the roots when I transplanted from 1 gal pots to 3 gal pots.
Final LST before putting the screen on.
I built the screen myself by making a wood frame with a nail every 2.5 inches and running string around them. This way I have a much tighter screen then if I had used a fabric net.
Above shot as the girls filled in the screen. At this point I began gradually thinning out the growth under the screen that wasnt getting any light as well as leafs above the screen that were blocking light to nodes. I always tuck first, then cut a leaf in half if I cant tuck it, and only completely remove the leaf if I have to.
This was at about 4 and a half weeks. You can see by the change in color that this is where I switched from MH to HPS and flipped the lights from 20/4 to 12/12. This was about 4 days after I switched to flower i think so the stretching was already starting. I continued to slowly thin out the growth under the screen.
This picture is from today! The girls have been starting to show buds for about 3 days now, it has been so excited! Now I have cleared out all of the leafs and small nodes that were under the screen for extra ventilation and so that they don't draw energy away from the growth above the screen that is actually receiving light. I did this slowly over a few weeks as to not stunt the growth of the plant or cause it to hermi.
I believe in letting the soil get good and dry between every watering. I started out giving them a half a gallon each every 3rd day, and now recently since they have started drinking a lot more I now give them a half a gallon every other day. I gave them molasses every watering since the begining. About 2 weeks in I started giving them a tiny amount (2ml per gallon) of BioGrow every other watering and have worked my way up to 10ml per gallon of BioGrow, 10 ml per gallon of BioBloom (since 12/12), and 5 ml of Cal Mag supplement every other watering. I got a free sample of Neptunes Harvest which I really like but dont have much of so I use it every 3rd fertilization instead of biobiz.
I think that pretty much sums up my grow to this point... stay tuned for some buds!
The Naturalist
I am new to ROI and on day 47 (started 2/2/12) of my first ScrOG grow. I will catch you all up to speed in this post and then keep a regular journal starting just in time for the bud porn
. I noticed a rule in the sticky's not to post in someone's journal unless asked well please feel free to post here! If it weren't for other peoples advise I wouldn't know a thing about growing so i'm not going to start turning it down now! Im scared to post in other peoples journals now, but if you think I would find your grow interesting then go ahead and invite me and ill come check it out. Anyways. heres the info on my setup:Tent: GL 80 (2.5 x 2.5 x 5.9)
Light: 400 watt MH/HPS cool tube
Ventilation: 400 CFM inline fan w/ carbon filter
Genetics: 707 Headband (2 clones)
Soil: FFOF
Nutes: BioBiz (Grow + Bloom), Neptune's Harvest (fish+kelp mix), Blackstrap Molasses, CalMag supplement
Pesticide: Organic Cedar Oil
And heres some pics, im not sure what date each one was taken but they will take you from the start up through today:
Full shot of tent
Air is pulled through carbon filter and then pushed through cool tube and out the top of tent. I now know that its inefficient to push air and the fan should be at the very end so it pulls air through the whole system but 400 CFM is enough to replace the air in my tent every 10 seconds so i'm not too worried, ill fix it before my next grow.
The headband clones are in the pots. Ignore the other 2 clones, I got them first and cooked them my first night when my ventilation system broke...
I did LST from the beginning to get them ready to ScrOG
More LST.
Heres the roots when I transplanted from 1 gal pots to 3 gal pots.
Final LST before putting the screen on.
I built the screen myself by making a wood frame with a nail every 2.5 inches and running string around them. This way I have a much tighter screen then if I had used a fabric net.
Above shot as the girls filled in the screen. At this point I began gradually thinning out the growth under the screen that wasnt getting any light as well as leafs above the screen that were blocking light to nodes. I always tuck first, then cut a leaf in half if I cant tuck it, and only completely remove the leaf if I have to.
This was at about 4 and a half weeks. You can see by the change in color that this is where I switched from MH to HPS and flipped the lights from 20/4 to 12/12. This was about 4 days after I switched to flower i think so the stretching was already starting. I continued to slowly thin out the growth under the screen.
This picture is from today! The girls have been starting to show buds for about 3 days now, it has been so excited! Now I have cleared out all of the leafs and small nodes that were under the screen for extra ventilation and so that they don't draw energy away from the growth above the screen that is actually receiving light. I did this slowly over a few weeks as to not stunt the growth of the plant or cause it to hermi.
I believe in letting the soil get good and dry between every watering. I started out giving them a half a gallon each every 3rd day, and now recently since they have started drinking a lot more I now give them a half a gallon every other day. I gave them molasses every watering since the begining. About 2 weeks in I started giving them a tiny amount (2ml per gallon) of BioGrow every other watering and have worked my way up to 10ml per gallon of BioGrow, 10 ml per gallon of BioBloom (since 12/12), and 5 ml of Cal Mag supplement every other watering. I got a free sample of Neptunes Harvest which I really like but dont have much of so I use it every 3rd fertilization instead of biobiz.
I think that pretty much sums up my grow to this point... stay tuned for some buds!
The Naturalist 
Im only a few weeks ahead of you in flower so yours will be there soon!
