This is my first grow, let me know what you all think

I have been researching growing both online and through a farmer for the past few months and have finally gotten together the resources to get my own grow going. Due to complications with being able to upload pictures, I just started my journal now even though I started just over four weeks ago.

I am vegging 5 indica plants from clone under a 400w light. I'm growing God's Gift, Master Kush, Kushberry (DNA Genetics), Skywalker OG, and Tahoe OG (Cali Connection). I built my grow tent out of PVC pipe and black white poly, making a space of 5' x 2' and 5' tall (over the next two days I am extending the height to 6' 4" so I can veg taller and longer). My ballast's chord is long enough for me to keep it far from my tent so heat isn't a problem right now, but I do have an oscillating fan inside and am in the process of getting 2 - 4" ventilation fans built (one intake, one exhaust). Everything is doing great right now and I plan on extending my tent out another three feet to make it 5' x 5' x 6' and add another 400w or do 2 - 600w lights so I can flower a total of 16, but that's still a couple months down the road.....

So far I am 30 days into veg and I plan on vegging for another 12 days to total 5 weeks. For the past two days I have been super cropping all of my girls and they have responded well to it. This was my first time experimenting with super cropping, I accidentally topped my Skywalker! But that was the only mistake I made when super cropping, everything else turned out fine and I didn't damage any other branch. Although I am bummed that I topped my Skywalker because it was looking awesome, I will take it as a learning tool for next time.

Soon I will have pictures posted from day 3 to present day which is day 30.

Nutrients I'm using:
Advanced Nutrients Sensi Grow Parts A & B
Bontanicare CalMag
Bontanicare Silica Blast
Great White
Superthrive

you sure this is your first grow?

diowk said:

you sure this is your first grow?

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Ha ha for real!!
Sounds great man. So CAN you upload pics now? I'd like to see what this looks like.

Sounds like you've done your research. Time to put it to good use!

I have lost my chord to plug my camera into my computer and its some special one that came with Panasonic that I can't get in stores (been out looking for the past hour) so I can't upload my pictures! I need to find an alternative method or find the chord so I can show you all! This is very frustrating, but I will find a way.

Anyway, I said I was on day 30 yesterday when I was really on day 24, presently its day 25 during week 4 of veg. Sorry for that mistake.

Ok -- I think I'm an idiot. I've been using 4mL of Sensi Grow per gallon of water (20 mL total for 5 gallons), but I just noticed that the directions say to use 4mL per LITER of water. Should I be using 16mL per gallon?! If I have been underfeeding that severe, I'm surprised my girls are doing so well.

thetraveler said:

Ok -- I think I'm an idiot. I've been using 4mL of Sensi Grow per gallon of water (20 mL total for 5 gallons), but I just noticed that the directions say to use 4mL per LITER of water. Should I be using 16mL per gallon?! If I have been underfeeding that severe, I'm surprised my girls are doing so well.

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Underfeeding is WAY better than over feeding. Now all you gotta do is increase the dosage. I wouldn't go full strength right away cause you don't wanna burn 'em but I think you can probably do more than 4 mL per gallon. lol

Thanks. I'm going to increase the dosage to 10 mL per gallon to be on the safe side. For the most part, my girls are about 20 inches and very bushy so they should be able to handle it.

Cool man hope you can get that camera cable soon I'd like to see what you're working with.

Sounds great man im starting to do my first grow too!!

I have a web cam connected to my laptop so I was able to take some (shitty) pictures and get them uploaded, just to show how they look at present day which is day 27. They are still recovering from supercropping, but I think they are recovering just fine.

I have recorded a video of my 35th day which is today. I super cropped everything just one week ago and I think everything has recovered nicely and is doing great. Let me know what you think!

[video=youtube;PXx9NLL_66g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXx9NLL_66g[/video]

This weekend is my last weekend of veg. I'm flushing tomorrow and then putting it into 32 hours of darkness Sunday morning starting at 6am. I will take a new movie and a few more pictures tomorrow before I turn the lights off to get one last look before its in flower. Everything is doing great right now, all of the girls are around 2 feet tall excluding the Tahoe, which is 16" and an indica OG so it grows even shorter and bushier than other indicas.

Well its been a while since I updated, so I decided it was time.

Its now the first day of Week 2 of the flowering phase. Budding has shown starting after the first day of flower and now is looking very nice and healthy. The God's Gift especially has the most bud development so far. Everything is looking very nice and healthy, I'm very satisfied with the results I am getting so far with the nutrients I'm using.

This is what I am using for the Flowering Nutrients:
From Advanced Nutrients:
Sensi Bloom Parts A & B
Bud Blood (used first week)
Big Bud (starting tomorrow, wasn't able to get to hydro store to buy it today)
Bud Candy

From Bontanicare:
Cal Mag
Silica Blast

Here is a video that I just took of all the girls. I didn't realize that I didn't get much footage of the Tahoe OG til the end, next time I will make sure to get everything filmed long enough.

[video=youtube;m53RnIi8h5U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53RnIi8h5U[/video]

What a beautiful jungle you have growing there. Just beautiful! How long into flowering did u start seeing sex? Like definitive sex? I'm looking forward to knowing whether or not all my hard work was for anything in the end.

Thanks. I actually started from clones that I got from a reliable source so I knew going into it they would all show signs of being female. As early as the second day when the light came back on I noticed flowering on the God's Gift. So within the first 72 hours I saw noticeable budding on all five plants. I also used Bud Blood to kind of jump start the budding process so it could take a couple days longer for you to see definite signs of being female.

Looking good. Did you go for x2 600w bulbs. That is what I'm running and i'd like to compare results. You are about 3 weeks ahead of me, but my hybrid plants will end about the same time.

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medicalmary said:

Looking good. Did you go for x2 600w bulbs. That is what I'm running and i'd like to compare results.

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I only have one 400w HPS, used MH during veg. I want to build a second tent that's bigger with a 600w in it though. How many do you have under your 2 - 600w lights?

Today is the beginning of week 3 in Flower so I decided to update with a new video. Again, because its a web cam the quality suffers but I think it does it justice.

The nugs are starting to fatten even more and the smell is getting stronger and much more strain-unique. This is definitely exciting as I can see my work is paying off.

What do you all think?

[video=youtube;P83SMoiGjG8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83SMoiGjG8[/video]

EDIT: disregard the music of the video, its a joke between a few friends.

Here is another video, now in week 4. Things are starting to get covered in crystals and the smell is intensifying. I'd say let me know what you all think but I'm pretty sure I'm posting them and I'm the only one who watches them hahaha. Anyways, here is this:

[video=youtube;PTl-a9Egctg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTl-a9Egctg[/video]