There's a Black Dog in my Jardin: mc130p's horticultural adventure

Well, I topped the Liberty Haze today...Desert Diesel is a little slower, so she'll get topped probably in 2 days. The Lost Coast OG is still coming along just fine, and the 1024 is also doing well. I think I can only veg them until the end of the month, so I am thinking of adding CO2 early in order to get as much growth as I can in the remaining time. Anyone have any thoughts?


Figure 1. The current status of the garden. Temperatures range from 76-80 F (Johnson A419 Temp. Controller), average RH is ~20%, with 24/0 lighting under the BD240U. The strains depicted above are listed going clockwise, and starting in the first quadrant: 1024, L.C. OG, Desert Diesel, Liberty Haze. The 1024 and Liberty Haze have been topped at the first node. (lol, just having fun)

Hey everyone,

I topped the Desert Diesel today...I accidentally chopped off a bit of a single bladed fan leaf below, oops! She should be alright though. The other girls are all doing well and still growing:

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a decent week.

Everyone is still alive and growing. I topped the 1024 again today The other girls are working on their first leaves after topping them, so if it's not too close to the 1'st, I'll top them again as well. A couple days ago I decreased the lighting to 20/4, and began feeding 1/2 strength 8-8-8 with Cal-Mag+ at 0.5 mL/L.

Hey everyone, the girls are still doing well I don't know if there will be enough time to top the others again, and the Lost Coast OG for the first time. It's okay though. Here's a current pic of the girls(sex verified on 3/4 plants):

Hey everyone, I hope your week is going well so far. So, it looks like I had the light way too close to the little plants. It was only about 12 inches above the plants, so I raised it to 19 inches the other day. They seem to like it. I guess that's why they were growing so slowly though. It sucks I wasted so much time, oh well I guess. Here's the girls today:

Well, it's good to see some normal growth rates out of the girls I think things will still be on track for the 1 April flip to 12/12, though I might give it until the second or the third day of the month.

The girls are still coming along Here's a better pic for once:

Growing nice

Thanks foreverflyhi. The girls are still growing well, I'll be going to 12/12 in two days. Here's a current pic:

Hey everyone! I don't know about you, but I think the site looks really good and I'm glad it's back up! The girls are doing great...I'll post a new pic tonight

Here's a pic of the girls in 12/12 since Friday

I upgraded my phresh filter from the 4x12 inch model to the 6x16 inch 400 cfm size and it made a nice increase in the air flow through my tent when I'm venting heat. After using the 4x8 and the 4x12 in my minifridge, and the 4x12 and 6x16 in the tent, I've got to say that there's really no point buying anything smaller than the 6x16. The 4x8 has horrible air flow; it is way too small and the 4x12, while it has decent flow, won't last very long due to its small size.

Here's a quick snapshot of the girls:


front right: 1024
front left: Desert Diesel
rear right: Liberty Haze
rear left: Lost Coast OG

Hey MC, what up? Are you happy with your growth? It's tough to see from the pix and I am not familiar with those strains, but seems a little slow from what looks like a pretty good vegging spectrum. I guess the training slows them down a bit I'm just kinda surprised they're not growing at a faster rate? Still look healthy as all hell, maybe a little more nodal length than I like, but again probably training and/or strain. And I'll be keeping my eye on that 1024 btw. I keep seeing that strain/name everywhere now but know fuck all about them.

Best of Luck bro!

Hey FranJan, thanks for stopping by. You're right, the growth was slow, but it's my fault. I had the light way too close to the girls for most of the veg period and they only had about a week or so of happiness. I was busy and it took me too long to notice how slowly things were going. I wish someone like you had been around earlier, lol. Now they're just finishing the stretch since I put them in flower. I couldn't wait any longer since it will be getting hot soon...I'm already worried I started too late, tbh. I am happy with the growth rates now though, they seem to be growing pretty rapidly to me. If you compare the 31'st of March with a week later, there is a significant increase in growth rate.

At least for me, it seems like I learn things the best by screwing them up, lol. Everything else that's going well is probably the result of screwing up that aspect of the grow, haha.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to trying the 1024. I have heard little about it, but people say good things, so we'll see. The Liberty Haze I grew last time was phenomenal; I hope this time I havea similar phenotype

I'll get some better pics of the individual plants for you guys on the next post.

Hey everyone, I hope things are going well for you all. The girls are doing well, here's a pic from last night:

nice bruv...How big are your pots?

Thanks man They are 6 inch diameter, I think. Haha, I've been using those same pots for two years now...

You do well out of them....no need to change.